SCOUT TROOPER ZOMBIE - Lunch-bag - 2012

STAR WARS  ZOMBIES Continues...

A request by an 8 year-old (The one who lives in my house) for a "Zombie" Trooper, any kind of "Zombie" Trooper was made. So, I went with the Scout, 'cause they were my favorite from "Return of the Jedi." Plus, I had this idea a couple nights previous about an Endor setting for the Trooper zombies. And so, you get a post-Jedi Scout Trooper who has risen from the dead, with a little, freaked-out Ewok watching from a tree in the background.

Come morning, 8 year-old very happy!

THIS IS LUKE AND LEIA - Lunch-bag - 2012

Another Pilkey-inspired lunch-bag. What can I say? They are just fun to do. And as long as it makes the boys laugh, or smile at the silly drawings, all is worth it. But, before I can tell you that story, I have to tell you this story...
Occasionally, I have to explain the references and pronunciation with a lunch-bag like this, 'cause the boys are more used to watching the Clone Wars show, the Ewok Specials and the LEGO shorts than the original films. I'll have to work on that.

THIS IS DARTH VADER AND CAPT. ANTILLES - Lunch-bag - 2012

The Zalvin boys love Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants,""Super Diaper Baby" and "Ook and Gluk." And I love reading the books to them and doing all the voices. The guy just writes funny stuff, with running gags that get used between all the books he does. Including the one I used for this Pilkey-esque STAR WARS lunch-bag - The "This is (characters' names here)..." gag. First you tell the names of the two characters, and then you follow that with who the character on the left is, and then who the character on the right is, each followed by two descriptive things about the character. Then it ends with "Remember that now."
So, here's the STAR WARS version of that gag, featuring Darth Vader and Captain Antilles from "A NEW HOPE." It takes a little bit of time to come up with the character designs using someone elses drawing style, but I've got plans for more. Best of all, it made my son laugh.
Remember that now.

THE ZOMBIE TROOPER - Lunch-bag - 2012

More brains? Nope. Maybe a PB&J? My son asked for a Zombie Stormtrooper and since he hasn't offered up many requests the last couple weeks, I was obligated. I guess he's at that age where 'Creepy' is cool. We had seen a little maquette of a Zombie Stormtrooper at a local collectibles shop and he never forgot about it. So, I have to give Gentle Giant the credit for this bags' inspiration. I had planned go cartoony with it, once again, and somehow I got myself stuck doing something a little more realistic and running out of time to start over. Because it came out kind'a creepy, almost too creepy, I added the silly protocol droid conversation balloons to take the edge off of it.
This morning, when my son saw the bag I got a "Cool, Dad!"
Son happy!

CLONE CAPT. REX - Lunch-bag - 2012

I wanted to do something cool this day for my son's lunch bag, and I thought it would be neat to do a really close-up view a Clone helmet to show the wear and tear it has received. I really love the design Filoni and his team came up with to keep Rex looking unique from the other Season 4 "REVENGE of the SITH" style Clone helmets - A hybrid of Rex's old helmet and the new ones.  So, I did a sketch of this in my ideas sketchbook using a picture in my son's Clone Wars magazine and a bunch of pictures of Rex I found online. I did my best to extrapolate this view from those images and this is about as close as I can get to making it accurate on the fly. If I had all the time in the world to do these, I would have put a different helmet on the other side like a mirror reflection. Maybe Cody?

SANDTROOPER - Lunch-bag - 2012

I love the Sandtroopers! Out of all the Stormtroopers, these dirty, scuffed-up guys wearing the backpacks and colored shoulder pauldrons, carrying the big laser rifles were just the coolest.  I did this bag the night of 4th of July. I was exhausted after having a busy day prepping the house going to the movies, prepping some more, and then friends and family came over for dinner, drinks, desserts and the fireworks. Many different drink concoctions were had.  I should have drawn a lunch bag on the 3rd, but I had to work that night. So, at 11:15, instead of going directly to sleep like a normal person, I worked on this lunch bag. It was going to be one of my cartoony troopers but some how I ended up going a little more realistic with it.  I was too tired to come up with witty dialogue, so "Sandwich!" is all he got. And then finally... sleep.

BIG WALKING CARPET - Lunch-bag - 2012

I like drawing these cartoony STAR WARS characters. It's just plain fun. And, it speeds up the whole lunch-bag process. I come up with a scenario or quote from one of the films, then doodle in my book, then make lunch-bag. Bing, Bang, Boom! Obligatory 'sandwich' joke included, free of charge. My five year-old asked me what it said, so I read it to him. "It's not very funny, Dad." was his response. Sometimes, I said, it's not the words that are 'funny' it's the drawing that's supposed to be 'funny.'  Yeah, whatever! Write some funnier shit next time! And get me my waffles, would ya!