Clone Trooper on Starbucks Lunch Bag - 2011

That Clone found a nice hiding spot behind that branch on the Starbucks bag. Third day of camp, if I recollect correctly. Before I cracked out he full-color spectrum of Sharpie markers and erasable pencil crayons!

Battle Droids Lunch Bag - 2011

Lets just say I liked the concept and my early sketch of this one, but the final artwork... is not on my favorites list. The Sharpie marker bled pretty bad on these cheapie paper bags. So, visually it was not as satisfying. And the drawing was done later in the evening... in a panic! There, there, there was a horrible fire! A flood! My car ran out of gas! I didn't have money for cab fare! It wasn't my fau-l-l-l-l-t!
Yeah, I've got caveats galore for this one. Except for the sandwich inside. The sandwich was magnificent!

Mace Windu Lunch Bag - 2011

Not one of my fav's, but at least I tried to do something other than a Clone guy. I think this was from the second week of camp. Probably the first attempt using the white-out tape to get some ultra white in the light saber.
Supplies:
Pencil
Sharpie Markers
Crayola Erasable Pencil Crayons
White-Out Tape
Clone Wars Sticker Book for reference

Oily Clone Catches the LEGO Droid Lunch Bag - 2011

Another 2-parter lunch bag concept from the imagination of my son.

Can you tell he's watched a lot of Tom and Jerry and Tex Avery cartoons?
To make it a little less violent, I at least added the Droid saying he was going to 'hunt' Clones. So... like... he had it comin', right?! That Clone just saved a bunch of his Clone brothers. Way to go LEGO Clone guy!
Can you tell I've watched a lot of Warner Brothers...and Tex Avery and Tom and Jerry cartoons?

...Well I have.

LEGO Darth Maul Lunch Bag - 2011

Last days of camp and I hadn't done a LEGO guy in a while, so I just picked Darth Maul. I don't even know why. I guess it was his time.
In the last weeks I had found a better white pencil crayon and two shades of gray, and an old red Prismacolor. I used my white-out tape trick for the light saber blade again.
I wish I hadn't been so tired when I did his idiotic dialogue.  But... I was so... (yawn)... tired.

Arc Trooper Lunch Bag (yellow) - 2011

After the Ahsoka Tano lunch bag failure the first week of camp, I then did two days of these ARC Troopers to make up for it. First day was Commander Colt and the next day was this guy.  Strictly colored Sharpies and my son's white pencil crayon.  A little wonky, but decent enough to store a sandwich.

Captain Rex's New Helmet Lunch Bag - 2011

I wanted to surprise my son with something new - Captain Rex's new look for Season 4 of the Clone Wars series. The only reference I could get was glimpses of Rex on the season preview video on the Star Wars website. It felt like the old days of VHS tapes - trying to pause it at the exact right moment to catch the frame I needed. I got enough out of it for a lunch bag drawing.
Looks like Rex is the only Clone to keep this shape of visor, and I like it! The boys liked it too.

Star Wars+Camp Mash-Up Lunch Bag - 2011

The last STAR WARS Lunch Bag of summer 2011!
This being the last lunch bag for the summer, I decided to put my son and his camp counselor/van driver, Eric into this little mash-up scene from "Star Wars: A New Hope."
In an attempt at not insulting the camp, or the camp van I chose the scene when Luke Skywalker see's the Millenium Falcon for the first time and says "What a piece of junk!" Of course, in my version he's not critiquing the vehicle he will actually be traveling in, he's still insulting the Millenium Falcon. Chewie looks distressed by the comment. Poor Chewie.
Of course, Eric's line's a riff on Han Solo's reply "She'll make .5 past light speed..."
In our case, you get: 55mph on the 210 Pasadena Freeway. The freeway they rode on every day of camp.

JABBA loves PB&J Lunch Bag - 2011

Pressed for time, this may have been the fastest lunchbag I did. Start to finish 25 mins.  Originally, I wrote a whole ton of faux-Huttese dialogue for Jabba that would have included side-by-side translations,  but it would have taken up way too much space. I pared it back to this, and replaced 'and' with a made up word so that it might sound more Hutt'ish.  Later on that day, I thought of what could have been the heading for this bag: "Star Wars: Return of the Jelly...(and Peanut Butter)"

There actually was a triple-decker peanut butter and jelly sandwich inside the bag this day, that I'm sure Jabba would have loved.

GONK Droid Lunch Bag - 2011

Second last lunch bag of camp, and I chose to make it a Gonk Droid. Or Power Droid.  Whichever you prefer.  These walking droids left a lasting impression on me from the first time I saw "Star Wars".  And I loved my Kenner Star Wars Power Droid action figure back in the day.  So, why not a lunch bag?  I gave it a bumper sticker to acknowledge my son's camp group. He dug it.

LEGO Jar-Jar vs. Clone Lunch Bag - 2011

 

My son asked me to draw this up.  I thought it was a little violent. But then I figured "They're legos You can just rebuild them!" I think I rushed this one a little.

Wookies Love Oranges Lunch Bag - 2011

I chose to draw Chewbacca one night, and then as I was drawing his muzzle, the shape of it made me think of when we stuff an orange in our mouths and then smile. It's a fun breakfast-time endeavor. And that became the joke, "Wookies Love Oranges."

... and sandwiches.

Death Star vs. Starbucks Logo Lunch Bag - 2011

Sometimes we use whatever paper bags are available, and these Starbucks bags are perfect. I had been thinking of using the logo as a planet, and when I sat down to make the lunch bag I thought of the Death Star. Then I drew two word balloons and using my big-ass black magic marker I blacked it all in. This was supposed to have simplified things for me by restricting myself to two lines of dialogue. It hand-cuffed me. And I was stuck trying to figure out who was talking and what they were saying. I left it blank till the next morning and in a mad dash before my kid left for camp I wrote the silly dialogue between Governor Tarkin and Darth Vader, based on a true story, though the names were changed... ...And nobody blew up the Starbucks logo.

Ahsoka Tano (the hated lunch bag) - 2011

 

My son took one look at this lunch bag, the first week of camp, and his face contorted as if I'd told him to clean out the cat-box. Then he said: "Why'd you draw her?"

As it ended up, he was embarrassed to take this lunch bag to camp because it had a girl character on it. I had figured, she's from Clone Wars. She's a Jedi! It'll be cool! I went out of my way to draw her looking tough and mean so there'd be no question, this was not a girlie "Barbie" drawing. Then I thought I'd make a sandwich joke out of her name, too, "Tona Sandwich", like "Tuna sandwich".. Ha ha ha- .......

Bottom line, he hated it.  Daddy Failed. Then he "Force" choked me.

LEGO Clone Hijinks Lunch Bag - 2011

Don't know where this idea came from, but it popped into my head and I drew it. The LEGO guys are always fun to mess around with. I wasn't sure if the idea was going to read, but it made a four year-old laugh and he couldn't even read the dialogue. So, I guess it worked well enough.

The Empire gets hungry Lunch Bag - 2011

The silliness continues aboard the Tantive IV, Princess Leia's starship from the opening moments of "Star Wars".  I've been reading the "Making of Star Wars" book, which is fantastic, btw, and this scene got stuck in my head. And thus, it evolved into this lunch bag.

LEGO "Barf" Trooper Lunch Bag -2011

I was kidding around with the boys one day, after having done a "Barc Trooper" and an "Arf Trooper" lunch bags and I made this "What if..." joke.  And they kept rolling with it. Barf jokes, they love 'em! A day or so later, it was requested I draw it up. Gross, but at least it was LEGO Troopers.

IG-8-Yer-Lunch Lunch Bag - 2011

I think I was looking for something other than Clones to draw so I thought of this guy: the predecessor to Bounty Hunter, IG-88. Turns out, he was pretty fun to draw. I did flourish it with some silver Prisma Color, 'cause I could. Though, I did have to explain to the kids that he's talking in a droid language, but that the word 'sandwich' has been translated for us.  They got it... I think. What's the droid really saying about sandwiches?.... One wonders.

Star Wars Stick People Lunch Bag (luke, droids) - 2011

This is my new favorite. I wanted to draw Star Wars in a different style, to mix it up and keep it interesting and fun for myself (and maybe for the kids, too). So, I started doodling these stick people. First it was Han and Chewie. Han was completely a stick-man, no real body. Chewie brought in more defined head and body shapes and then I started playing around with Luke and the Droids and this is where it ended up - not completely sticks, and not completely dimensional. Since I used dialogue from the film, I felt I had to make Princess Leia say something silly, and "Wobbly Kenobbly" is what came out. I also broke down and used some Prismacolor pencil crayons to increase my available color palate.

LEGO Star Wars "Tough Talkin' Droid" Lunch Bag - 2011

LEGO Tough Talkin' Droid (Front)

(Back)

The day after I did the first two-parter requested by my son, he then asked for the opposite, where a droid is now surrounded by Clone Troopers. I told him this time I had to put a limit on how many characters I'd draw. We worked out the premise over dinner, and then after he was in bed I got about drawing it up and making up the dialogue. I enjoyed making one of the little Clones do as he was told and throw down his weapon to the dismay of his fellow Clones.

A two-parter!  The Front

 

The Back

Wes asked for this two part lunch bag: A Lego Clone on the front surrounded by thousands of Lego Battle Droids. On the back, he's destroyed them all. I did what I could on the front to simulate the "Thousands" of droids, request. By the time I got to the back I had already invested a chunk of time, so I had to cheat the rest - Cut it back to one character with what could be smudge marks where the Droids had once been. Avoid drawing thousands of broken droid pieces. It worked well enough.

Yoda Interrupted Lunch Bag - 2011

For those who know... YES, I wrote the quote wrong. It should read "For my ally is the Force..." I was rushing. It was late. Once written in Sharpie, there's no going back. Besides that, the reason Grover is interrupting Yoda is an inside joke,  again, for those who know. For those who don't, Yoda and Grover are both voiced and puppeteered by Frank Oz. He's awesome! It came to me, and I thought it would be kind of funny.  The boys just thought it was funny that Grover was there.

Jar-Jar ate my lunch Lunch Bag - 2011

Adults universally hate him, but the kids love this character. Damn you, Jar-Jar! I was in a hurry this night, and had to come up with an idea for a drawing fast, keeping it to just a head, and in record time write the jokey dialogue. As expected, the kids loved it. Success!

LEGO Anikin - Red Clone Helmet - 2011

Here's another request from my son: The Lego Anikin from the "Star Wars Lego: Quest for R2-D2" game. One of the cheat-codes you could use in the game gave your character a Red Clone helmet. And this is the one he wanted. White correction tape for the vibrant white of the light saber (a new trick I've added.)

Clone Commander Colt Lunch Bag - 2011

 

This Commander Colt lunch bag was my apology drawing for doing an Ahsoka Tano lunch bag, which my son apparently was embarrassed to take to camp. I even made her look angry,  so it wasn't even a cutesy, girly drawing.  Didn't matter, it was still a drawing of a girl character. So, he requested a cool Clone Trooper for the next day's drawing and I chose Commander Colt. It was a good choice. Daddy was back in the good books.

BARC Trooper Lunch Bag - 2011

 

I had a nice toy package image of this BARC Trooper, and did my best to translate it onto the paper bag with my palate of Sharpie colors. I liked the composition of this one. My son thought it was cool. I think the camp director kept it and put it on his office wall.

Mandalorian Lunch Bag - 2011

Sandwich joke - always a winner! This was a pretty good one I adapted from a reference picture. Using the Colored Sharpy collection and Crayola Pencil Crayons.

Commando Droid Lunch Bag - 2011

There's the "sandwich" joke. For most of these, I limited myself to using my collection of multi-colored Sharpy markers, Wes's Crayola Erasable pencil crayons, my big-ass black marker and my favorite pen,  Black Uni-Ball Vision (love 'em!).

First lunch bag of the Summer 2011: DARTH VADER

On this day we had a red lunch bag as a canvas. So I did what I could with it, a Sharpy, and a big-ass black magic marker.  I tried not to spend too much time on it, as it was disposable. So, I kept it pretty loose.  The "Sandwich" gag continued on from last summer.

ARF Trooper on his mount Lunch Bag

He wanted an ARF Trooper so that's what he got. Good thing he had the little action figure and walker I could use for reference. Forgot to mention the lunch bags usually contain the word "sandwich" in the dialogue. A running gag from last year. I've slipped up a couple times this summer and done without it.

First Lego Star Wars lunchbag of Summer 2011