Thursday, November 29, 2012

Sand People

Tusken Raider belongs to Lucasfilm and eventually Disney
This week's sketch card for my son's lunch.  Tusken Raider on Bristol Board sketch card with copic markers and dark sepia pitt pens.

Silent Night Lunch Bag

All images and text copyright 2012 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

After Thanksgiving I change from the normal lunch bags with the story to bags that have illustrations from Christmas Carols, some are contemporary and some are traditional.  This is the first one with the information about the song.  I had thought about "Silent Night" for several years but had trouble trying to figure out an image that would work on the bag until I remembered the second stanza.

The bag is a traditional bag with col-erase pencil, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, Calligrapher's ink, white gel pens and oil pastels

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

2012 Christmas Sara

All images and text copyright 2012 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions
Here we have the illustration for the Sara character for our Christmas Card.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Christmas Card Work


All images and text copyright 2012 - Michael Smith Doodle Bag Productions
It is that time of year when the best laid plans come crashing around me.  I have been working on the Christmas Card off and on since July and am now just getting to finishing it up.  This year I wanted to set us up like we were on the cover of a Christmas album.  The top image is the back of the card, Santa has visited the house and dropped his cell phone while the dogs look at it receiving a call or text.  The bottom image is Sara's Mom in her Christmas outfit.  More to come soon I hope!

Monday, November 19, 2012

Sara's Lunch Bag 016 - 5th grade

All images and text copyright 2012 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions
This week the real villain appears, the Gym Rat has been encroaching in on the Locker Gnomes territory.

Kraft Paper (lunch bag) pitt pens, copic markers, oil pastels and calligrapher's ink.

Darth Vader

Darth Vader copyright Lucasfilm (Disney soon)
A Darth Vader sketch card for my son's lunch.  2.5" x 3.5" Bristol Board with Copic Markers and calligrapher's ink.

Star Trek Girl

Star Trek copyright Paramount
This is another warm up drawing, sticking my toes into the Star Trek world this time, with an another old background thrown in for good measure.

Monday, November 12, 2012

Batgirl

Batgirl Copyright DC Comics and respective Rights Holders
This started as a warm up sketch for working on the Christmas Cards, then I decided it was also a warm up for the digital colors.  Then I just had to finish the darn thing.  I grabbed an old computer study model I had done as the background image to finish it up or else this thing would have kept going.

Boba Fett Sketch Card

Boba Fett - copyright LucasFilm and other respective rights holders
This is a sketch card I did for my son's lunch, 2.5"x3.5" bristol board with copic markers.

Lunch Bag 014

All images and text copyright 2012 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions
This past week's lunch bag for my daughter, I tried using dark sepia pens for the line work, but it kind of washed everything out I think.  She has caught her parachute on an outcropping of debris and is trying to get down as the Locker Gnome looks on in panic.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

R2-D2

Copyright by Lucasfilm (and now Disney)
This week's sketch card for my son's lunch.

Lunch Bag 013

All images and Text Copyright 2012 - Michael Smith Doodle Bag Productions
This week finds Sara caught up in her parachute as she tries to follow the Locker Gnome.