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.

6th Grade Lunch Bag 13

Last week was mis-labeled as #11, so I am back on the right track with illustration #13 for the year:

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This week finds that Sara has made it out of the social studies books and into the realm of science.  Sara has found a little ball of energy that has broken free from the text books and needs to return to its point of origin.  She has to determine what kind of energy it is first, potential, kinetic, chemical, thermal, electric, mechanical, or nuclear so she can take care of the little guy.  She is surrounded with things that use or make energy.

Col-Erase Pencil, Pitt Pens, Copic Markers, white gel pens, oil pastels.

Summer Lunchbag

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

Pre Spring Break Lunch Bag

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This week's lunch bag is a simple one that is just a Sara character because of the short week before spring break. I went with muted colors surrounded by a dark ink wash and white oil pastels.

Craft Paper (lunch bag), col-erase pencil, pitt pens, ink wash, white gel pens, oil pastels.

5th Grade Lunch Bag 23 - Dry Erase Elves!

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This week we find that the distraction that Sara's Mom saw last week came from the Dry Erase Elves of the Science Wing lifting the marker board that they live behind.  The are in charge of maintaining the ink levels and brush quality of the markers in their realm.

Craft paper (lunch bag), col-erase pencil, copic markers, sharpie marker, calligrapher's ink, and oil pastels

Lunch Bag 20

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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 014

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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 006 Color

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The bag with the color added, way too much hatching, it took longer to hatch than it did to draw or render the bag.