Volume 5 is *almost* ready!
I’ve been busy with tying up putting volume 5 of Lloyd and the Bear together with the cover for issue #20, some bits and bobs plus the main cover for the book.
The volume cover itself stayed pretty much with my initial plan although there were a few changes as I went along.
The first change was the interior shot on the back. I had initially stuck with the same size of box as for volume 1 but the only image I could find that had a link to the volume title didn’t even have Lloyd, Bear or their ship in it(!) As it turned out I had so much text to put on the back cover that I needed a smaller image and hey, I found one that worked (I’m telling myself it was meant to be!)!
Then came the front cover and I’d put everything together and was about to colour it when I realised I’d missed Limel Lum (the orange dude) who’s kinda important as he’s been cropping up in various issues since pretty much the start!
Another change was that Grizzle’s cloak was originally purple as in issue #16 but as everything around him was also purple I switched it up by making it green. And hey, he sure looks like he’s been shopping at the same cloak store as Doctor Doom, yeah?
So after all that and having finished the colouring I realised I wasn’t happy with Bear looking up rather than facing out of the cover. My initial idea was to have a real movie-esque hero pose but it looked weird with Lloyd looking out the way and but not Bear so I changed it.
I’m really happy with how this came out – oddly enough I think my favourite thing is the colour of the Shoal’s cape on the back cover and how it creates a nice space for the ‘previously’ text.
So what’s next? I’ve just finished the bonus strip for this volume which I was going to keep secret but kinda want to talk about (as I can’t keep my mouth zipped!) so I’ll post about that soon and then I need to get to colouring issue #20 which is going to be a big one!
More soon for sure! Bear hugs!
PS. With Grizzle’s change of cloak I went back and corrected it in issue #19 where he crops up but left him with a purple cloak back in issue #16. Hey, he can have more than one cloak, right?
