woo scratching is still fun

Recently I've been trying to get back to shape - that very first drawing assignment in Cody's class "What is the negative space of an object?" This would be cheating, as it is filled in instead of negative spaced, and was formed by outlining, but hey you can't draw with the side of your charcoal in photoshop.
Looking at this now that it's posted, I see much more depth than at first intended or thought out.
I would call this an abstract of rock and roll, as I witnessed during a summer working as a stagehand working in jacksonville's britt festival, setting up and spotlighting many bands and artists who fit the 'has been' catagory but still draw a large crowd of people Mile's age who like to sit on a lawn and drink wine with their rock and roll. Ok not really but both things do happen, just usually not at the same time. And I don't think you're old Miles, just older than me :)
So. Rock and roll bands of today that were big 2 decades ago. What preformance elements work well for them? Big and Loud come to mind: hence the huge mouth. Wild, non-conformist styles: hence the green and strange growth of hair. Props (walls of amplifiers, anyone?): the bone handled mic (kinda).
The flames also began as scribbles, but became an added spectacle (read: ooh, ahh, shiny) part of the rock and roll experience. We never had pyrotechnics at the Britt, but we did have a confetti cannon or two.
I notice the lowest level of flames is so non-spiky that it kinda looks like a crowd.
Finaly, the orientation of the figure: one of the biggest things is for the star to jump off of something (amplifier, piano)... the crowds love it, at least the first 10 times. So wild crazy jumping is a plus and represented here.

What can I do better, take further? Well, all of it. Try having a real human screaming into the mic, or just a huge head. The 'environment' could go further, actually have more than a huge speaker to suggest this is a stage. more detail is my primary direction it seems.