Saturday, December 31, 2011

Happy New Year!

To everyone, I hope that you have a safe and Happy New Year!

-Mike

Monday, December 26, 2011

Harry Potter and Hagrid

It is the day after Christmas and I am working away on a roof plan for a project deadline next week.  The kids are still out of school, so no bags for a little while.  Regardless, I have been working at another Harry Potter composition.  This is taken from when Hagrid takes Harry to see the dragons prior to the first task in the Goblet of Fire.  It is still black and white, but I will post the finished image when it is done!  I hope that everyone has had a Merry Christmas and are looking forward to a great 2012!



Monday, December 19, 2011

Harry Potter - Tonks in the Alley



This is another piece of Harry Potter fan art, Tonks is working between Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley, packing a loaded wand and light dung bomb.  This was a little over ambitious and I will probably try tackling it again in the future once I get better at composition.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Christmas - We Three Kings

Another Christmas Lunch bag.  This one based on the carol, "We Three Kings"

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Harry Potter - Luna Lovegood


Stepping away from the Christmas theme is a quick doodle from a sketchbook of Luna Lovegood.  One of the better Harry Potter characters I feel.  Have a great day!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Merry Christmas

It took a little longer to get done this year than last, but I hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas!



Friday, December 9, 2011

Christmas Dad

The Dad from this year's Christmas Card.  Now we have to get composing!

Monday, December 5, 2011

1930's Christmas

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After Thanksgiving I switch over to Christmas themed bags taken from Christmas Carols, this one is the "Little Drummer Boy", interpreted as a 1930's Christmas.  The insert described to my daughter the idea that there isn't enough money for presents and all that people could exchange are the gifts that they could make themselves and some small treats such as oranges or nuts.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Hagrid

While waiting for the computer to churn I doodled this out, I hope to turn it into something down the road

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Cypress Trees

These are some cypress trees that I sketched over the Thanksgiving Weekend

Friday, November 25, 2011

Friday, November 18, 2011

Minotaur

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This is an image from my son's story.  This story includes dragons, wizards, elves, and now a Minotaur.  He gets a sketch card which is a little 2 1/2" x 3 1/2 strathmore board card and the story is written on a piece of paper the same size and they are put into a little envelope in his lunch box.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Lunch Bag #10

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Sara is working on a big magical production

Monday, November 14, 2011

Lunch Bag 9

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Here is the 9th bag in the series, Sara is helping a friend practice her act on the flying trapeze!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Batman

This is a sketch from the summer where I decided to try my hand at some superheroes.  I did a few of them and moved on, it may be time to get back to the fold.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Deep in the cave

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Here is this week's bag for Sara's Field Trip to Mammoth Cave.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Happy Halloween

I am very late today with the post, this is the final composition with the characters all together.  Out doing a little trick or treating!

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Wicked Witch

This is the last of my Halloween characters for this year, my goal is to get them all composed into a single image by next Monday, but if not at least they are all rendered.  I have to move on to the rest of the Christmas Cards next!

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Ghost Trick or Treater

Keeping with the Halloween theme we have a ghost heading out for the night.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Frankenstein, trick or treating

With the kids on Fall Break I thought that I would try my hand at some Halloween drawings, so that is how this Frankenstein appeared.  It was fun to try something a little different, so I started some additional Halloween images.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Sketches




Just a couple of quick sketches to update the site a quick sketch of Sara's Mom and a little robot sketched on a post-it note.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Christmas Card Starts


I realize that it is October, but drawing takes time, so here we are starting the Christmas Card, with the Mom all wrapped up in presents.


Christmas Mom Work in Progress

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Fall Break

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Here is this week's bag, more of just a Fall Break bag than a continuation of the story.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Batman Sketch Card


This is a sketchcard that I did for a friend's son, I had to practice before I sent it out, I hadn't drawn Batman before I tried my hand at this one.  He's okay, just need to work a little more on him and also the watercoloring!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Village Voice Blog

Last month we got a mention from the Lunch Bag Dad on his blog and traffic increased here (Thanks again!) from that mention someone at the the Village Voice picked up the page and included it here:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2011/09/love_your_kids.php

So again, Thank You!

Monday, October 10, 2011

T-Shirts

This is the shirt as it was printed

This was the original design for the shirt
This is some illustration for a friend's company.  They have an annual client appreciation picnic called The Low Country Boil.  This is this year's shirt I did for them.  Both the original image and the final shirt print.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Harry Potter - Quidditch

I am a bit of a nerd.  If you are reading this, you may have deduced this already.  So I have spent an inordinate amount of time working on this image.  A little Harry Potter composition with some minor characters interacting at the Quidditch World Cup.  Mad Eye Moody and Tonks chasing after Mundungus Fletcher.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Quidditch Illustrated

This is an bit of detail for the background of a composition that I am working on that puts Mad Eye, Tonks, and Mundungus together.  In the  final it is so small that you can really see it, but I like to fill out the details so I am showing it here.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Rapunzel-esque

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This is the 8th bag in this year's lunch story, Sara is now helping a friend who has decided to re-enact a scene from Rapunzel.  The hair is taking over and bows are required!

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Expanded Image

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This is from the Sara and the Problem Puppet story, the original bag image has been expanded and digital color added to flesh out the story.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Mad Eye - Harry Potter


This is part of an overall composition that I am working on that the Tonks image that was posted previously is going to be working with.  I will add other parts as they get further along.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Robot Running

This is an image from the summer, a little robot chasing a Robot Lightning Bug

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Harry Potter WIP

Working on another Harry Potter composition, this is a Tonks image that will figure into the overall picture.  More to come later.

Friday, September 30, 2011

A Swing and a Miss

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I realize that summer is over, but the baseball playoffs have begun, so in celebration I have a little robot working his way up to the show.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Another Dragon

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This another image from my son's story for his lunch on Friday. Needless to say, there are dragons.  I don't know how he feels about the images or story, but I am enjoying drawing some dragons for a change.  I may throw in some surprises down the road though!

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

2011 Bag 7

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Here is Bag 7 in the story Sara and the Talent Trouble.  Sara and her Mom are working on the best way to work through all of the things that are causing them trouble, including her Dad and brother!

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Harry Potter, okay just kidding Hermione

I am still working on this week's bag, so I am pulling some images from the summer where I went through a bit of a Harry Potter phase, this is Hermione asking for the Half Blood Prince's Potion Book from Harry.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Harry Potter, or really Bellatrix



I spent a lot of time this summer doodling out Harry Potter Characters, this is a little bit of Bellatrix.  I like the minor or secondary characters more than the main 3.  This was a warm up sketch that I hit with a little bit of color to feel like I had done more than I really had.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

More Harry Potter...or Tonks really

This is one of the warm up images done before doing the big Tonks image (here: http://doodlebagdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/09/harry-potteragainsort-of.html) some of the things that this drawing had show up in the final image.  It is a hand sketch with Pitt Pen inking and then colors in Photoshop.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Sara's Bag Week 6

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Sara's Mom makes her first appearance on the bag for the year.  She has some work that needs to be done, and it seems like Sara may be the only one that can help her!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Broken hammer

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Another sketch card to continue my son's story for his lunch.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

There Be Dragons

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All images and text copyright 2011 Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions
These are some sketches for my son's lunch, he doesn't want them on the bags anymore, but something a little more discrete.  These sketch cards are 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" and have little envelopes that you can slide them into.  I am writing a story on the back of them that he can read in the short time he has for middle school lunch.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Harry Potter...again...sort of...

Another little Harry Potter Number from the Summer
After I did the Bill Weasley drawing (http://doodlebagdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/07/harry-pottersort-of.html), I decided to tackle another minor character for fun.  This one was of Tonks and her work as an Auror.  This one gave me the opportunity to generate another complex background as well as mess with how to render magic.  In the end I used clips of Hubble telescope images for the magic and spent the rest of the time creating the things that are getting knocked around in the background.  Good fun for a while.


Enjoy.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Week 5 Sara and the Talent Trouble

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Here is the 5th bag in this years series where Sara is working on her guitar, still trying to figure out what she wants to do for the Talent Show

Friday, September 16, 2011

Thanks to someone Else!

I need to say thanks again!  This time to http://www.blipfoto.com/megatonlove who mentioned this blog on her twitter feed!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Thanks!

I wanted to say a big thanks to the Lunchbag Dad, who featured me on his website and twitter feed and for all the folks who stopped by! His site is at:http://lunchbagart.tumblr.com/


Thanks again!

Monday, September 12, 2011

Sara and The Talent Trouble Text - 01

Sara and the Talent Trouble Week 01 text
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Here is Week one's text, it fits inside of the bag and provides a nice hard edge

Sara and the Talent Trouble 03 and 04

Sara and the Talent Trouble Week 03
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Sara and the Talent Trouble Week 04
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Here are weeks three and four where Sara's Dad causes a huge mess and then Sara has to help out her brother to finish his project

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Sara and Talent Trouble 01-02

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All images and Text Copyright 2011 Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

All images and Text Copyright 2011 Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions
Here are the first two bags and a sample of the story insert for the 2011-2012 Lunch Bags