"Space Bar", process

This week's shirt.woot theme is space. I jotted an idea down in my sketchbook once...about how the star(*) key on the keyboard could hang out at the space bar if it wanted to get drunk. I thought it was kind of funny. Space bar. So, for this space theme I chose to recreate nighthawks as a bar/space ship. a space bar.

After a couple sketches on paper, here's how I started.