Sketch o’the Week- Ronnie James Dio!

SotW is back for 2025 (although I did this one at the end of 2024). I’m going back to both my “Classic Rock” series and my hard rock roots with this week’s sketch of the late heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio. As a kid I was a real metalhead, listening to bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, AC/DC and the like. I liked Rainbow with Dio on lead vocals, but it was when he took over as the vocalist for Black Sabbath that I became a big fan. It was always hard to believe that big voice came out of that little guy (Dio was 5’4”). Ozzy Osbourne will always be THE lead singer of Black Sabbath IMO, but the two Dio albums, “Heaven and Hell” and “Mob Rules”, were terrific in their own right.

Every once and a while I share the full length video of me drawing my SotW on YouTube. Paid subscribers get private access to these videos every week, but this time everyone gets to see: