STAR WARS LUNCH-BAGS: SUMMER 2016 SEASON -- Thumbs Up BB-8 and Baby BB-8

First day of camp, 2016 - FORCE AWAKENS was still fresh in our brains.  So the boys each got a BB-8 lunch-bag. Kyle got "Thumbs up for camp!" and Wes got what he asked for: He asked for a "Baby BB-8" and I threw in the little "Baby 8" crying in the background.

Baby BB-8 and a baby 8

BB-8 says "Thumbs Up for Camp!

LUNCH BAGS OF THE 2015 SUMMER LUNCH BAG SEASON

The first day of camp, and a First Order Snowtrooper  lunch bag, inspired by the first images available to the public in Vanity Fair Magazine.  

The Force Awakens a Stormtrooper: Thought up this one while we were flying back from Disney World, Florida.  Once I committed to the dialogue there was no going back.  It's almost right.  There are always things I would do differently if I were to do it again.  

It's always good to throw in a Boba Fett lunch bag from time to time. 

You can tell when work is busy - I draw more head and shoulder shots. 

JEDI had a lot of cool stuff, including the awesome Biker Scouts.  I love that Biker Scout  design!  Way to go Nilo Rodis-Jamero!  

I was down to my last brown bag and had to pull into service a white gift bag.  Would have drawn some guides on the large trooper helmet to keep it all inline,  but I was rushing to get 'er done quick so I could get back to my storyboard work.  The kids don't care.  They still thought it looked cool.

I got back to doing a couple more Silhouette bags.  I did a few days of these the summer before and I thought they looked pretty neat so why not do a few more.  It cut down on the amount of detail I needed to draw and looks pretty cool. 

It may sound like the JAWA's say "Hooteenie!",  but I found out later, there's no 'H'.  Just, "Ooteenie!"  Embarrassed I was, to not know that.

Just a silly little Darth Vader. 

I think I did this Governor Tarkin lunch bag because I rarely ever, ever draw the human characters.  Peter Cushing was so good as Tarkin.  I drew him then came up with his thought balloon dialogue afterward.  

A Deathstar.  Thank you roll of blue tape for providing the circle. 

Some of the days I only did the boys's names on their bags.  These ones took a little longer to execute than other 'name' bags.  Their Grandma kept these two for her wall. 

X-WING as an 'E'

Y-WING as a 'Y'.  Makes sense.

I always thought the Taun-Tauns sounded like Donald Duck.  So, I finally put them together. 

This DARTH VADER lunch bag smelled a great deal like Sharpie when it was done. I was never told if the sandwich and other items tasted like SHARPIE that day. 

I guess I just wanted to draw a JAWA this day. 

Sometimes, I have to resort to using Starbucks bags.  JABBA seemed to like that logo... a lot. 

Another Starbucks bag.  Only did  a name, but gave it some flair by adding a Deathstar to the top of Kyle's 'K'.  He didn't feel as cheated this day. 

I bought a bunch of brown craft bags at a local craft store.  Different paper than the ones I had been using before.  This paper wasn't as absorbent.  It was shinier.  But they worked well enough to do "Wicket the Ewok" posing with a Biker Scout helmet.

I hadn't ever done a protocol droid that wasn't shiny, golden C-3PO.  So I looked up a couple of these guys on the Wookiepedia.  I had no idea they had backstories.  But they do.  R-3PO is apparently moody. 

Didn't get into any personality  traits with K-3PO.  Just a made a sandwich joke with him. 

Kyle made this droid at Disneyland.  I think he called him MEXI-D2.  So for him,  I put his Astromech droid on his lunch bag. 

A quick ol' Yoda bag. 

I don't know where this idea came from in my brain. I think I had done a little doodle in my sketchbook of this set-up of this cartoony Darth Vader in his cartoony Tie-Advanced Tie-Fighter.  Then I felt like poking a little fun at The Phantom Menace.  Who know's why?

When in doubt, do a Wookie lunch bag.

 

Last bag of the Summer.  I think I started it, went to bed around 3, got up at 5am and completed it some time around 7am.  The last bag is always a gift to the head counselor and always has a caricature of the counselors, the camp kids and my sons in some classic Star Wars setup.  This year I chose the Falcon cockpit. My other son Wesley didn't want a Star Wars bag.  He wanted his to look like a Kentucky Fried Chicken box, but instead of the Colonel, it was caricatures of him and his two counsellors.  

                                               

4-LOM, Royal Guard and Sandtrooper - Drawings for Charity

"4-LOM and Friend"

"Emperor's Royal Guard"

"Lookin' for a couple of Droids"

Before the images were cut to the proper size of 4"x6"

I created these three little STAR WARS color sketches on my usual lunch bag paper for the local Burbank non-profit, "Arts for All", which promotes art in the local schools. These were sold in the "Secret Artist" show. The 'secret' part of this is that the drawings are signed on the back, so the buyer can't see who's work they are buying. Every piece in the show is the same standard size and each is sold for $40. So, somebody out there has them - whoever you are. I arrived an hour after the start of the art sale and they were gone. So, I never got to see them displayed. But, I learned a lesson, pay the extra $40 bucks to get in early, otherwise, it's pretty slim pickin's when the show opens to general admission.

DARTH (what rhymes with) MAUL series Lunch Bags - 2014

 

I started this new series of of 'rhyming' lunch bags with DARTH MAUL. Eventually I would have run out of rhyming words, but I kept it going for a few days till I had to change it up and do something else. For a moment, I felt a little like Dr. Suess.

This one is "Darth Fall" and.. 

"Darth Ball" and...

 "Darth Small" and..

 "Darth Tall" and...

"Darth Wall" and...

I never got to the rest.

AT-AT and R2-D2 (Attack of the Silhouette Series Lunch Bags) - Summer 2014

 

AT-AT for the oldest and R2 for the youngest. Once I came up with the silhouette concept I was able to get to bed a little earlier. It was fun to do. I would have carried on doing more of them, but I didn't want the boys to get bored.