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

Summer Lunchbag

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

This is a quick bag done for a Father's Day issue of the Tennessean.

Twi'lek Jedi Sketchcard

Jedi Knight's are property of Lucasfilm

This week's sketch card for my son's lunch, a twi'lek Jedi on Strathmore Mixed Media board with copic markers and prismacolor pens.

Lunch Bag 27 - The return of the Gnome

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

This week we have the first appearance of Sara's Dad and Taylor has been rescued from the morass of the geometry swamp.  The Locker Gnome returns only to find that he has been evicted by the Gym Rat.

Craft paper (lunch bag), col erase pencils, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white gel pen, oil pastels.

5th Grade Bag #21

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This week Sara finds that the Gym Rat is moving his sports equipment into the Locker Gnome's storage facility. The Rat claims that the Gnome doesn't need as much space anymore since the kids are all using electronic devices instead of books. The electronics are harder to sneak out of lockers and don't take as much room anyway.

Darth Maul is owned by Lucasfilm

This week's sketch card for my son is Darth Maul from the most recent set of Star Wars movies.  It is a black card and prismacolors.

Lunch Bag 20

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

This week's bag finds Sara showing her Mom where she had fallen into the Locker Gnome's world.  On the way they have to pass through the gym and Sara points out all of the things that the Gym Rat wants to put into the Gnome's storage facility.

This was done on Craft Paper (lunch bag), with col-erase pencils, black pitt pens, Copic Markers, white gel pens, prismacolor pencils, and oil pastels.

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.

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.

Sara and a Locker Gnome #16

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

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.

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

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

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.

Lunch bag sneak peak

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The colors are going down on this week's lunch bag.  The illustration is from the Christmas Carol "I'll be home for Christmas"

Kraft paper, pitt pens, copic markers (so far)

Silent Night Lunch Bag

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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

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.

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.

Lunch Bag 013

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This week finds Sara caught up in her parachute as she tries to follow the Locker Gnome.