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.