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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!

Revisiting issue #17

on January 24, 2026 at 11:19 am

Okay, so having finished issue #19 of Lloyd and the Bear you’d think I’d go and finish up issue #20 next right? Right?!? Yeah…. no. So one afternoon I went back and had a look at issue #17. Like, for no reason other than just aimlessly having a look but the ‘Ninja Turtle’ short story bugged me.

I wasn’t a fan of the writing and I realised the sound effects looked a bit naff too. It was the first short I’d done for this book and it just felt different. I thought I’d made my peace with it at the time arguing that the sound effects more fitted my own look and the writing was supposed to be a bit rough but y’know, the sound effects just didn’t work and the writing was actually rough rather than just ‘supposed to be’ so it was time to go back and make some changes.

And yeah, this took longer than planned as I didn’t have many pages that didn’t have the speech bubbles on them and I hadn’t kept the colour scheme either so I had to be creative with what new writing I did to at least fit it in – or be larger – than the existing speech bubbles!

So first of all, here’s the original and updated pages;

I spent a week on this making changes and then changing the changes and then changing the changed changes (you get the idea!). The opening panel was supposed to be a cute nod to what I was doing here with a Ninja Turtles-esque story but it just didn’t feel right. I had moved on to saying ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Extraterrestrials’ but that just came off stupid so I pulled back and made the snail sound more like a fanboy.

The writing at the end of page 3 and in to page 4 wasn’t working for me either. It just felt clunky and also, how did the snail know so much about what happened in the sewers?!? So yeah, more changes.

Now I did originally have sound effects (which I’ve since deleted… oops) but they were all super smooth and blocky and nothing like those in the original TMNT so I went back and messed them up a bit.

I’m much happier with how it looks now (even though as typing this I went back and updated the ‘Doof’ effect as I’d missed that originally as I was going through these pages) and now officially closing the door to this issue.

Issue #20 sound effects here I come!

More soon! Bear hugs!

PS. Adding the bandana to the snail was a real 3am-and-not-being-able-to-sleep idea that I put together the next morning. I admit, it looks kinda weird but hey, it’s a talking snail so what you gonna do?!?

New project!

on December 30, 2025 at 10:41 am

Because if juggling work with Lloyd and the Bear books and Fenton Hud comics isn’t enough I had an idea for a new story! I have zero time to do it all but I really want to get the first five pages out so today I started actually putting some work in to it!

I’m keeping quiet on what it’s about but this is the layout/title of one of the pages.

Sorry for being so mysterious but I’m torn between really wanting to keep quiet about this but at the same time wanting to say something!

Promise, promise, promise there’ll be more soon!

Bear hugs!

PS. Just realised I’m even being mysterious about which page this is from. Geez…

This was a tough one!

on October 14, 2025 at 9:42 am

Okay, so like I said this was a tough page to write!

Not only with having to deal with death but the purpose of this page and where it was going. Anyhoo, I should really show the page I’m talking about!

With the old saying ‘write about what you know’ I tried going with my own feelings and how I’m dealing with the passing of a really good friend but I realised that I was writing this like Fenton hadn’t been to visit Cuddles in an age and in my mind I figure he’s been there A LOT (or at least when he’s able to).

And the purpose of this page was not only to note the loss of Cuddles but also have Fenton looking for, and admitting he needed, help. But early takes came off like Fenton was there ONLY to get help. Then further attempts went kinda dark as I realised that we’re talking about finding Heston who had killed Cuddles in the previous issue (oh man, so many spoilers here if you haven’t read issue #3 yet – but then hey, why haven’t you?).

So yeah, I was trying to get the tone right and show that Fenton was missing Cuddles and to push the story along while not getting bogged down or making anyone look bad (and by anyone I mean Fenton). And like I said I found this page really tough but I think I got it right… Right?

Anyways, more soon including some long overdue Lloyd and the Bear updates!

Bear hugs!

I’m still here!

on September 27, 2025 at 1:36 pm

Okay, I’ve not posted in an age but I’m still here and I’ve been busy! Honest!

Issue #19 and #20 are now drawn and lettered and the shading worked out. I then switched over to Fenton Hud and worked on issue #4 and having got #13 pages in (13? Unlucky for some?) I realised I needed to take a step back as I work out the next few pages (I know where it’s going but really need to lay it out) so I’m back to doing the colouring on LatB.

Back when I started on issue #1 of the book I had some sketches of the main characters (some of which you can see in Volume #1 of the trade!) but when it came to colouring I had a sheet with each characters name and then the different colours beneath it.

Which… was fine but not 100% great as I still had to look at old panels to work out which colour block went where. Oh! Let me show you what some of it looked like!

So yeah, a whole page of these blocks? Not great. Also, over time I made slight changes to the characters looks (slight…. okay, in some cases A LOT) but with that as well I’d be looking back at old panels and seeing characters look different in some cases and this just confused me (and maybe even incorrectly draw new panels)!

I made the decision to go and sketch out each character fresh (their sized a bit dodgy but go with it!) and then actually point out the which colour goes where…

There’s going to be more pages as I bring in other characters and locations but this should really help me with getting the pages coloured quickly (and hopefully I’ll remember to post more of these panels as I go along!)

Soooo…… more soon! Bear hugs!

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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!