Unearthed Idols of Pop Culture

I'm working on a series of these, big giant statues of characters and people whose work I enjoy being excavated and repelled down by little figures with ropes and tools. You have to look closely to see them but they're there crawling around like little doozers on the massive statues.

Here are the drawings without digital color:

This idea started with me doing the next image, which is just a character of my own creation. I liked the idea of it and thought I could do various already established characters in the same way.