Sara in the 6th Grade

The past few Lunchbag illustrations as Sara makes her way up Math Mountain.

Robot Dragon Slayer - Episode 13

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith Doodle Bag Productions

This past week's Robot Dragon Slayer finds him pinned down and in trouble!

More 6th Grade Lunch Bags

Still posting the lunch bags still a little behind.

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith Doodle Bag Productions

Sara has been chucked off of her horse and tossed into the book return where she falls down to the bottom only to find her Dad hanging out in front of a giant card catalog.

pitt pens, copic markers, oil pastels and gel pens on brown paper lunch bag.

Legends of the Mechanical Knight

Again it seems that I am behind on the posts, I have also been working on an actual name for this story.  It started out as just the "Robot Dragon Slayer" but that seems a bit limited and not much better than "Working Title".  Regardless, we have finally met a dragon and the story continues:

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith Doodle Bag Productions

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith Doodle Bag Productions 

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith Doodle Bag Productions

The bottom image is the original drawing done for the card.  It is hand drawn on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper and rendered with Copic Markers.  The drawings are then scanned and composed in Photoshop with the text and printed on card stock small enough to fit into the lunch bag.

Cowboy Singer

As part of the fund raising for my daughter's school I was asked to create a lunch bag that could be auctioned off.  This is the bag:

All images and text copyright 2014 Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

Since we are in Nashville, the topic seemed appropriate.

Pitt Pens, copic markers, gel pens and oil pastel on a bag that I think came from a liquor store.  It is a little larger than a regular lunch bag.

6th Grade Lunch Bag - 18

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

This week we find that Sara has returned to Earth from her field trip to the sun to find her brother engulfed in a stack of books.

Col-erase pencil, pitt pens, copic markers, oil pastels and gel pens on a lunch bag.

Robot Dragon Slayer and Shaman

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

This week the Robot Dragon Slayer follows the Shaman deeper into the healing temple while keeping a lookout for a dragon, the dangerous Appalachian Coalsnout which had come down to the city of Terminus.

This is watercolor, Copic Markers, and Pitt Pens on Canson 100lb Bristol board, some post color adjustment.

6th Grade Lunch Bag - 17

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

This week we have Sara on her trip to the sun to return the wayward ball of energy to its original source.  She has exited her craft and the debris that wasn't tied down has started to float out along with her.

Col-Erase Pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, gel pens and oil pastels on a lunch bag.

6th Grade - Lunch Bag 15

All images and text copyright 2014 - Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

This week we return to our normally scheduled programming!  Sara returns to her search for what to do with the energy that she discovered.

Col-Erase pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, Gel pens, oil pastels on a lunch bag.

We Three Kings 2013

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

The last Christmas Lunch bag (and lunch bag) of 2013 is an interpretation of "We Three Kings" represented by homeless men outside of the Stable Inn.  The traditional gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh hinted in the coffee cup, the box that is being carried, and the hat.

Col-Erase pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, oil pastels on kraft paper (lunch bag)

Robot Dragon Slayer meets the Shaman

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

For generations the Shaman had hid in amongst the debris of the Lost Ones, perfecting the spells and following the old rituals, protecting the bastion of healing from the onslaught of the dragons.  Now though, her citadel had been breached by the Robot that stood at the edge of the flickering light of the remaining ancient oracles.  

This is watercolor and Copic Markers on Strathmore board with Pitt Pens and colored pencils. 

6th Grade Lunch Bag 14

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

This week Sara has to figure out what kind of energy it is that has escaped her science books. She is determining whether it is Potential, Kinetic, Mechanical and a couple of others that I have forgotten. She has placed the sphere on a high platform to see if it has potential energy, it has crashed down through the ground and she is looking at it.

Col-Erase Pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white gel pens, oil pastels on a standard lunch bag.

Robot Dragon Slayer episode 4

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

I got the sketch card for my son's lunch done early this week, it helps when he skips a week.

The Robot Dragon Slayer's quest has led him into the Temple of Healing, what the ancients mysteriously referred to as the CeeDeeCee.  After navigating the seemingly endless corridors and bottomless shafts and passing multiple dragon signs, the Robot emerges what appears to be the most sacred spot of the temple, still magically lit only by glowing windows housed in mystical frames that shown on the surfaces of the Robot's dirty armor. 

Pitt Pens, watercolor, copic marker on Strathmore board.

Halloween Lunch Bag

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Thursday is the last day of the week for Sara, AND it is also Halloween, so the normal illustration is replaced with something holiday appropriate.

Col-Erase pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Marker, oil pastels on a standard lunch bag

6th Grade - lunch bag #10

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

We are back in school after fall break! This lunch bag has Sara needing to find a spot to stick all the components of the Egyptian Chapter of the history book so that the water will flow for the Hanging Gardens! She calls upon the Locker Gnome to store the stuff until they are ready for it in Social Studies.

Regular Lunch bag, col-erase pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white gel pen, oil pastels.

Lunchbag #9 of 6th Grade

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

This week Sara discovers that the chapter in her social studies book on Egypt has been storing their stuff in the aqueduct system of the Hanging Gardens. Now she has to figure out a way to clear up the mess.

Col-Erase pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white gel pen, oil pastels on a brown paper bag.

Lunchbag #8 of the 6th Grade

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

This week finds Sara deeper in the hanging gardens trying to find out why the water isn't supplying the plants. We are still going with the braided hair.

Col-erase pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white gel pens, and oil pastels on a typical brown lunch bag.

Dragon Completed

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

Taylor has been asking for a drawing, so we went back to dragons for him this week to get started.

5th Lunch bag of 6th Grade

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

Sara's Mom shows up on this week's lunch bag with a roll of plans to help Sara figure out the best way to deal with the mystery from history.

Craft Paper (lunch bag), col-erase pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white gel pens, oil pastels

Lunchbag 4 for the 6th Grade

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

This week the school books have blocked the school and it looks like the only way that Sara can help her friends is to go through the Social Studies books, and solve a mystery from history.

Kraft paper (lunch bag), col-erase pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white gel pens, oil pastels.