Lunch Bag 007

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Sara has entered the realm of the Locker Gnomes and surprised one of them who was in the process of stealing a math book.

Kraft paper lunch bag, col-erase pencil, pitt pens, sharpie marker, copic markers, white prismacolor pencils, white gel pen.

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.

Sara Bag 006 Ink

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This week's bag in process, the inks took a long time for this one, I got to get her into a well lit area soon!

Bag #5 and a friend

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Here are two bags that got produced last week.  The top one is for my daughter to take to school on Friday, she is making her way into the depths of the locker and finding out what is hidden in there.  

The second bag is for her aftercare teacher who wanted to give it to her granddaughter in Colombia.

Both are done with col-erase pencils, copic markers, pitt pens, white gel pens and oil pastels.

4th Lunch Bag of 5th Grade

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Sara and the Leaky Locker is the theme for this year's series of lunch bag's.  I don't think that she has enough time to read a story at lunch, but I like the idea of the character having to deal with the added challenge of dealing a locker.   One that is out in the hall that houses all kinds of random gear and troubles.

Building on the previous year's techniques, the pencils went down as blue col-erase lines on the bag itself, then I inked over them, fleshing out the detail and then layering in the cross hatching for shades and shadows.  The color is done with Copic markers and some sharpie. Finally the white on the character is mainly prismacolor pencil with a little gel pen to give it some punch.  The white mist is added to help "pop" the character using smeared oil pastels.

The 11th Doctor

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This week's sketch card for my son's lunch.  The 11th Doctor Who and his sonic screwdriver.

2.5" x 3.5" illustration board sketch card, sepia pitt pens, Copic markers, oil pastels, and just a little sharpie.  

The size of the cards are a challenge to convey an image that is recognizable on such a small layout.  Then having enough room to blend the marker color.  The lines are also kind of a pain, the Pitt pens take time to dry enough to go back over with the markers.  I have recently experimented with starting with color and treating it more like a painting, but my skill level has not reached that yet!  I was pleased with the tones of the skin and the fact that ever 3/4's of his face is basically recognizable as the character.

2012-2013 lunch bag #3

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