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on January 14, 2022 at 5:43 pm

Hi there! Welcome to the home of Lloyd and the Bear, Fenton Hud – Member of F.A.C.T, and other odd happenings that come in to my mind!

I’m not great at posting but it’s my intention (and hope) to keep you up to date with my work on all these comics along with any other projects I’ve got going on!

And hey, if you find I’m not posting enough let me know! (I could do with a good nudge every now and again!)

Scroll down to check out my different posts or click on the blog buttons if you’re after a particular topic!

If you’d like to check out some of my work click on Lloyd and the Bear and Fenton Hud then click on the previews section! And if you’re liking what you see then please follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!

Bear hugs!

Living the dream!

on May 10, 2025 at 12:05 pm

Okay, so go with me on this one! I went from doing issue #19 straight in to #20 as it was a two part story and I wanted to hold off doing the colouring for #19 until both books were done.

The big reason for this was in case I came up with something in issue #20 that would contradict #19 and I’ve have to go back and remove a panel that I’d already drawn, lettered and coloured. And good thing as I actually had to go back and change a panel

(Okay, there probably wasn’t a massive need to do this but Im being pig-headed and I really really REALLY wanted to prove myself right and it kinda made sense to do this! Anyways, so here’s the old and updated panel…

Now I know the old panel is a decent establishing shot with the background of some smashed up city buuuut the new panel has a circle thingy in the top right which will totally make sense in issue #20 and I wanted to have that wee bit of connectivity.

(Plus, I’ve done the ship landing shot before. Maybe even more than once…)

More soon! Bear hugs!

PS. I’ve still kept the old panel just on the chance that I need to use it at some point!

Is planning everything?

on March 22, 2025 at 6:01 pm

I mean, yes, yes it is. That being said…..

With issue #20 of Lloyd and the Bear it was my first panel introducing Grizzle’s ship and hey, I PLANNED. THIS. OUT. Like, I have angle shots from the front, side, other side, the interior…. okay, not ones from below or above but still, I planned but when it comes to drawing the first panel it still took tiiiiiime (backgrounds yet to be added later)

Is it just me or is this a thing for everyone?

(I really hope it’s not just me)

Okay, and with that self internalization panic I’m off (sorry, just wanted to share)

More soon! Bear hugs!

Whoops!

on March 11, 2025 at 8:06 am

So there was a time when working on Lloyd and the Bear that I use to go from really loose thumbnails to sketching out individual panels without seeing how the entire page looked until I put it all together (followed by some quick reworking of panels! D’oh!)

I’ve got better at taking my time and planning things out now but I recently lost some of my layout plans… until the other day when they were hidden away in a subfolder on my PC! So I’d already done a panel on one of the pages but wasn’t overly happy with it and then having found the original layout I went back and used that instead!

The top panel made it hard to fit in the speech bubbles I wanted to use and also it just didn’t look that interesting. Even though the new panel isn’t exactly dynamic I figure it flows better from the previous page.

I’ll keep the old panel in the hope of using it later in this issue but as everything if pretty much planned out I don’t think it’ll happen! Ah well!

Okay, on to the next panel of issue #20! More soon!

Bear hugs!

Update!

on March 3, 2025 at 7:30 am

Okay, it’s been a loooooong time since I did an update so here we go with me trying to make the most use of my time by doing a morning post before heading off to the day job!

So on Friday (before being away for the weekend) I finished the last ‘people’ panel of the book with this!

With this issue I’ve been doing things a bit different with first doing all the panels with our heroes and other people in them and then going back to do all the exterior panels AND THEN going back and doing the interior panels (which is why anything I’ve shown on social media lately looks a bit empty)

Why’d I do this? First I was still working on the design of some of the ships that show up in this book but I also wanted to get on and do some work. Secondly, I figured if I kept switching from doing pictures of our heroes and that to doing ships and buildings and what have you that over time people might look a bit different as my style evolves/changes.

So yeah, next ships, buildings and lots of Peow! Peow! Peow! Yay!

More soon! Bear hugs!

Not getting a signal in London is REAL!

on July 25, 2024 at 1:03 pm

Continuing with my commentary on issue #3 of Fenton Hud and I wanted to cover a few things with pages 15 and 16.

So first of all, the phone signal. As I’ve mentioned before I don’t plan the Fenton Hud books and put the story together in small 3 to 4 page scenes. But with this particular plot point I did go back and make a change to the opening pages and have Tabs not able to get a phone reception (originally she was waiting for an important works call which is what got Maya’s attention).

The top row is from page 16 and has Tabs trying to contact Fenton but as he’s at the coffee shop (that Tab was at previously) he’s not getting a phone reception (an annoying real thing in some places in this here London!)

Anyways, she’ll go on to leave him a number of voicemails after she’s seen Cuddles’ body which all happens off panel but ties up to Fenton’s timeline (as he’s running a bit behind) on page 16 with the missed messaged he gets when he leaves the shop.

So yeah, it was a great way to not only tie locations together but also create a running plot point through a good bit of the issue.

Oh, and as for Heston’s disguise and plan to kill Tabs – he was the barista at the coffee shop and if it wasn’t for Maya, Tabitha would have been poisoned. Go Maya!

And that’s me for now but I promise there will be more soon! Bear hugs!

Gibson

PS. Heston had left the coffee store as soon as Tabs got taken away. You can see the other staff being confused where he’s gone in Fenton’s timeline back on page 5! Heston returning to the same location but in a slightly different disguise? That’s ballsy… or messed up – I’ll let you decide!

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