UPDATE!: This drawing has been scrapped in favor of a newer version, which you can see by CLICKING HERE!
OK, so it's fairly infrequently that I post works in progress and beg for suggestions, but I'm doing it now.
I desperately want this to be the most awesome Pigs in Space fan art ever, because I am seriously thinking of taking a wild chance and attempting to submit some of my Muppet art to Disney, just because why the heck not? So even if you're not a Muppet fan, even if you have no idea what "Pigs in Space" even is (and if that's the case, I suggest you watch this!, starting 25 seconds in), PLEASE, if you love me at all, please take a moment to offer constructive criticism/feedback/thoughts/suggestions/etc. on this very rough sketch.
Some closer up/better sketches of the characters:
I might have Link's legs too muscular and Miss Piggy too skinny... not sure yet. I want to make sure I don't, because I love that she's a full-figured female star.
The idea is to look like some old retro sci-fi movie poster or comic book cover. I don't know if the characters should be larger, popping out of the frame more, or if the lettering is OK how it is or if it should be smaller and/or more contained. Is the lettering dwarfing the characters? Does it work how it is? Notice any glaring anatomy failures? (like Piggy's boobs... hmmm, not sure about them) Any other glaring (or subtle) failures? I'll probably end up removing the pig head/lightning bolt logo that's currently sketched in the upper right corner, because it seems unnecessary and too cluttered. I kind of want some sort of intergalactic foe for them to be shooting their laser pistols at, but I don't know what, or where in the composition, or how much of the foe to show, or if that will distract too much from our intrepid porcine protagonists. Maybe it's not necessary.
The drawing was inspired by this write up by a blogger named Jim Hill describing a totally amazing planned Muppet Disneyworld ride that, alas, never came into being due to Jim Henson's untimely death. The scene describes rat space pirates (pi-rats, get it? LOL!) as the enemy, but that feels too complicated for this picture to me.... or maybe I'm just being a wuss. From the article: "So picture -- on one side of the soundstage -- a full-sized version of the U.S.S. Swinetrek. Link Hogthrob, Dr. Julius Strangepork and Piggy -- all dressed in spacesuits & wearing clear plastic helmets -- stand on the exterior of their spaceship, laser pistols blazing away. On the other side of the soundstage ... Well, picture a space-going Spanish Galleon. Covered with rats who are dressed as -- well -- space pirates. Striped bandanas tied around their heads, cutlasses in their teeth. Also with laser pistols a-blazing. Our theater car goes right through the thick of the battle. With laser blasts flying all over the place, rats swinging on ropes -- just out of reach over our heads -- as the rodents try to board the Swinetrek. It's a wild, wild scene."
Reading about what could have been - the merging of Muppets and Disney rides - two of my very favorite things on this green earth - literally makes my chest hurt. I mean, I love "MuppetVision 3D", but this would have been SO GREAT. SO GREAT. Sigh.
ANYWAY. PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS DRAWING. Tell me what sucks and what doesn't!