All Hail The Wheelie King

All Hail The Wheelie King!

When I was young I loved to ride my BMX bike. I had a Hutch Trickstar and I rode it every day. I could do wheelies forever. Seriously. For blocks. So I was drawing this guy doing a wheelie and had initially planned to put an Old Skool helmet on him and draw him with his tongue hanging out like a Big Daddy Roth drawing. When I actually named the scan I had done of the rough sketch I'd done I named it "The Wheelie King" and the notion to make the rider look like a playing card King fell into place.