Welcome to "Jones Town"

Now the whole entire idea of "Jones Town" happened a LONG time ago.  Back when  was in high school. From time to time I'd stop drawing and try picking it up during the day after school or on some days off from work. So one day I was just brain storming some ideas. Now this was back when "The Walking Dead" was a brand new show and starting getting huge. So zombies were a really big deal and popular. So I remember seeing a twitter post about an artist turning all these Disney Princesses into zombies and I was like, thats cool.. I wanna do that. So I wanted to think about something that hasn't been done or that would be cool for someone to just be going through google one day and see some iconic character everyone should know. So funny enough I look over and see a can of Hawaiian Punch I had earlier to drink and was like, Okay.

So I started drawing the Hawaiian Punch guy. After I drew him out I started to change aspects of his hands and feet but the big thing to this entire picture was gonna be his face. That needed changing up. So I played around with some things and ended up with a finished picture within little over an hour. I'm pretty sure I used some crappy almost construction paper material and like crayons to color him. So it's safe to say I wasn't planning on doing a better version of this at all. 

It was only until recently I was going through my emailed and I had apparently taken a picture of this little guy and thought to my self... man I would love to redo this. So I opened it up in Illustrator and re-did all the line work. Once that was done I got the line work printed out on an 11x14 piece of paper. 11x14 is my favorite size because its not huge but it big enough to hang on a wall comfortably. 

Now, I named this piece "Jones Town" because of, well, Jonestown. <--- click to read

If anyone know anything about Jonestown, it was a place ran by a cult leader named Jim Jones. I won't get TOO into the story but Jim Jones ended up killing all his followers because he didn't wanna die alone, simply by spiking the "Punch" during a gathering. I felt this would work out well because after all, my picture was based off the Hawaiian Punch guy who has been zombified and came back from the dead after drinking some really bad punch.

I honestly couldn't be happier with the outcome of how things turned out. With only like an hour or two here and there to add a little more to the picture each time I can say it's taken me long enough to finish this guy but I'm happy I did it.

So here is the comparison of the original and the new rendition of "Jones Town", Thank you!