IG-88 and 3PO (The silhouette series) Lunch Bags - Summer 2014

There was a week where I did mostly these silhouette lunch bags. The object or character just needed a place that light came out of to make it effective. I found these were much quicker to do for the obvious fact that I didn't have to draw all the details. I went through a lot more black Sharpies though.

 

He's kind of intimidating, I have to say.

 I have no idea why I didn't do this 3PO bag the same night I did R2. ???

Perhaps I was just tired. Or it was the marker fumes.

SAND PEOPLE (Or, Tusken Raiders) Lunch Bags - Summer 2014

I have no idea where this idea came from... it just sort of popped in there when I decided to create two different STAR WARS Sand People bags. You gotta figure, the Banthas had to start out small and kind of cute, right?  See, the Sand People aren't all bad!?!

The Tusken Raider 'sand' joke. I doodled it and I thought it was mildy funny. Well, funny enough for a 10 year-old. So, a lunch bag it became.

The sketches that led to the bag.

First Day of Camp 2014 - Stanley Cup Winning Kings! Lunch Bags

The first day of Tom Sawyer Camp 2014 was two days after our LA Kings won the Stanley Cup! So, in honor of that historic 2nd cup win in 3 years, I did these two bags that connect: Captain Dustin Brown and Defenseman Drew Doughty. I threw in the little Star Wars heads at the bottom for good measure. I don't know why the kids didn't realize the bags connected until later that day (even though they were sitting on the dining room table that way when they woke up in the morning.) Busy nights ahead, but the first two bags are done.

Camp-Bus Trench Run 'split-bag' Mural - Day 30 - Last day of camp 2013!

 

The last day of camp!!! I've made it a habit to make the last bag of the summer as a keeper for the head counselor. It usually involves a caricature of the counselors and maybe something to do with camp life, and the camp vans. This year, since I had to do two of bags, I thought it would be fun to do this split-bag mural. The two connect to make one cool image but are still separate all-in-one comic panels when apart. I came up with the idea earlier in the day and did a couple doodles of it. I liked how the finished bags turned out. I hope the counselors liked 'em, too!

Clone trooper Birthday Bag + The Comb Wars - Day 29 - 2013

 

On this day it was one of the boys junior counselor's birthday. So I made the Clone Trooper bag to be given to him like a Birthday card. Which is why there's a guy reflected in the trooper's eye lens - it's Conor the j.c..

Following in my bizarro-mode, I came up with "The Comb Wars" idea for the other bag. It got a laugh or two. Possibly a chuckle.

Luke Pancake + 501st Phone Trooper - Day 28 - 2013

 

Okay, nobody gets my bizarro Luke Pancake bag. And I mean, nobody. I just thought the boys, especially the younger one, would find it funny 'cause it was a pancake speaking the words of Luke Skywalker. The butter is gone, there's an empty jug of syrup, a plate of crumbs and something burning in the toaster - There's nothing left for him there now. Amazingly, the little guy really, really loved... even if he didn't get what the joke was.

They both loved the 501st Phone Trooper. It was fun to draw. It might actually work too.



 

Cave Troll + LEGO Jek 14 - Day 26 - 2013

(Tiger the cat, for scale)

One boy, the youngest, asked for a Cave Troll, I assumed from Lord of the Rings, but he may have meant from "Harry Potter". Regardless, I did the one I thought he meant and he thought it was pretty funny. For the other bag I chose a new LEGO Star Wars character from the "Yoda Chronicles" - Jek-14. My oldest boy had just bought this new LEGO set at Comic-Con and couldn't wait to build it.