Harry Potter...sort of....

Much like most of the nerd community and others we went to go see the last Harry Potter movie recently.  I have enjoyed the books and the movies were a pleasant glimpse into those worlds.  One of the things that I like about the books is the wealth of secondary and tertiary characters that drift in and out of the stories.  The Weasleys seem to generate a lot of these type of individuals and the brother of Bill Weasley intrigued me.  He plays an important role in the books of interacting with Harry at various times and provides an interesting counterpoint to the rest of the Weasleys in that he is portrayed as "cool" someone who makes his own way in the world and ends up with the prettiest girl in the whole series based on the descriptions.  Anyway, rather than illustrating something that is seen in the books or movies I thought it might be fun to draw him, and draw him while he was working in his job that is first described in the books, as a curse breaker for Gringotts.

Bag and Story

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I have been asked about the weekly story bags, here is the bag and story together before the lunch is packed.  The story is printed on card stock paper and adds some rigidity to the sack so when the lunch is in....

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...the bag stands.

Week 23

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Sara has eluded the dragon!  Wrapping her up in the windows of a school bus!

Twitter

I have made the jump to Twitter where I have been updating with random sketches and in-progress shots, you can find me @doodlebags and follow me there too!

Since it is summer I have been working on updating some of the character designs, below is Sara's Dad ready for the warmer weather!

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Week 22

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The evil characters have made it past Sara and have invaded her school to capture the books that they don't like!

Works in progress

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All text and images copyright Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

All text and images copyright Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

More Robots

All images and text copyright 2011 Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

All images and text copyright 2011 Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

All images and text copyright 2011 Michael Smith - Doodle Bag Productions

Here are a few studies of some robots going about their regular day, one rendered in color and the other in black and white