Life's a happy song...

Holy moley, I finished it!  Sooo, it didn’t turn out exactly how I’d planned (when does it ever?) but I’m still pretty pleased with it. 

 I had originally planned NOT to use black outlines, but when I started pencilling in all the little pi-rats, well, they were just too small to work without the outlining.  I suppose if this piece was much, much larger, or maybe in a different medium, I could figure it out.  But in the end, I decided “screw it”, because otherwise I was just fiddling and experimenting and afraid to actually commit anything to paper.  I finally decided that it was better to do the best I could, even if it wasn’t *exactly perfect*, rather than just never finish it at all.  And since I’m about to move again, I wanted to finish this before the move or else I was afraid I wouldn’t touch it again for a long, long time.

This was inspired by a Disneyland ride that never happened (alas and woe), featuring a described scene similar to this.  This piece is an attempt to mimic the look of retro sci-fi movie posters.  I’m reasonably pleased with how close I got, considering it’s my first attempt, and despite the black outlines (which give it more of a comic book feel, I think).  

Rizzo turned out too dark, but I’m pretty happy with the lighting on the pigs’ faces.  The scanning is questionable - this piece looks better in person.  Plus, I had to scan it in 4 pieces and put it back together in Photoshop.

This is 100% hand done (including the lettering, which was either totally hand-drawn or else traced by hand from a computer print-out) in Copic marker on 14 x 17 inch smooth bristol board.  

Dude. Are you telling me there was going to be a Pigs in Space RIDE?! Man, oh man, that is like the best and worst birthday present ever. XD

but this is BEAU-itful. Yay for Rizzo getting a big part! LOL.