Lunch Bag 3 for 6th Grade

All images and text copyright 2013 - Michael Smith Doodle Bag Productions

This week finds Sara dodging textbooks as she weaves her way out of the school before all of the information blocks her path to freedom!

Kraft Paper (Lunch Bag) col-erase pencil, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white Gel Pens, oil pastels

Lunch bag 25

All images and text copyright 2013 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

This week's bag is a little departure trying to de-emphasize the background for a change.  Sara and the Dry Erase Elves are searching for the missing elf.

Lunch bag (Craft paper), col-erase pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, prismacolor, gel pen, oil pastels

5th Grade Lunchbag 24

All images and text copyright 2013 - Michael Smith Doodle Bag Productions

We return again to our regularly scheduled programming, Sara returns to school, and she discovers that the Dry Erase Elves are missing one of their members.

Col-Erase Pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, White Gel Pen, Oil Pastels, and prismacolors

Lunch bag #19

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This week's lunchbag finds Sara falling out of the Locker Gnome's world and directly into her Mother's path!

Kraft paper (lunch bag), col-erase pencil, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white prismacolor and gel pens, oil pastels

Lunch Bag #17

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This week's bag finds Sara falling toward the exit.

Kraft Paper (lunch bag), col-erase pencils, pitt pens, copic markers, sharpie markers, white calligrapher's ink, oil pastels.

Stormtrooper

Stormtroopers belong to the Empire and Lucasfilm too

This week's sketch card for my son has a stormtrooper looking for those droids!

Copic Markers on a Bristol Board 3.5"x2.5" in size with copic pens.

Lunch bag 17 - The Escape

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This week's lunch bag is a little early, but Sara and the Locker Gnome are making an escape from the Gym Rat, but their progress is hampered by a collection of gym equipment that they then use to climb out of the basement with.

Craft Paper (lunch bag) col-erase pencils, pitt and sharpie pens, copic markers, gel pen, prismacolor, and oil pastels.

I smell a thief

The Hobbit characters are the property of the respective rights holders

This week's sketch card for my son.  Bilbo meets Smaug.

Sara and a Locker Gnome #16

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First lunch bag of the year finds Sara confronting the debris from the Gym Rat as the Locker Gnome looks on.

Craft paper lunch bag, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, prismacolor, white gel pen, oil pastels

Dash is the property of Pixar and Disney

Copyright 2012 (last one) Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

Copyright 2013 (first one) Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

A few lunch bags done over the break for the children of some friends.

Last Christmas Bag

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

This is the last Christmas Bag of 2012, it is another "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" red bag, it is somewhat successful, but I will need to try and think of a better way to use these guys in the future.

Pitt Pens, Col-Erase Pencils, prismacolor pencils and white gel pens.

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

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

In this week's bag I tried to use a red bag this time with mixed results I think.  I used both prismacolor colored pencils and also copic markers with a sharpie for the black background and an oil pastel over the top of that for a little glow.

2012 Christmas Card Finals

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

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

Here are the final illustrations for our 2012 Christmas Cards. We are depicted on our very own Christmas Album.

Merry Christmas everybody!

Red Lunch Bag Study

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

I am trying to use a red lunch bag this week so I am experimenting with the results.  This is a quick study.

In the Bleak Mid Winter

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This week I tried something a little different and it appears to have generated mixed results. The carol is "In the Bleak Mid-Winter" which is a very somber song and didn't seem to lend itself to a character. I also tried to not use lines to define the image and fell back on the crutch in a couple of places, but I am not skilled enough with the markers it seems to get a good blend yet. It still has some good parts and Sara seems pleased.

Kraft Paper (lunch bag), copic markers, calligrapher's ink, white gel pens

I'll be home for Christmas

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This week's lunch bag for my daughter with the lineart and the insert for the story in place. The Christmas Carol is "I'll be home for Christmas" A soldier in WW2 reads a Christmas Card and dreams of being home for the holidays amid destruction.

Kraft Paper, col-erase pencils, pitt pens, copic markers, prismacolor highlights.

Yoda

Yoda is owned by Lucasfilm (and eventually Disney) and the Force

This week's sketch card for my son's lunch copic markers and pitt pens on Bristol board sketch card.

Christmas Card Taylor

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

Still plugging through the character images for our Christmas Card.  Taylor has been colored and I am on to the dogs!

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

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.