Bearrito Publishing

Happy days! All the line work and writing has been done for issue #17! (okay, kinda. See in the PS’s…)

But I can finally show an example of how the book is going to play out!

So as mentioned before, this issue is a collection of short stories told by different people and from their own individual perspectives.

In between those short stories is a series of one panel responses with others who are also being interviewed (as it’s all for a documentary). The responses go from giving you a feeling of what adventures Lloyd and Bear have had, to those by friends (and enemies) that they (and we) have met before, and also some absolutely absurd stories in-between!

Do you want to see an example? Please?

When it comes to the colouring stage I’ll be adding in backgrounds but hopefully this page not only gives you an idea of what I’m up to but also gets you excited about the book! It’s been an interesting one to put together and really pushed me (I think I’ve mentioned that before..?)

I’ll be posting more pages to this issue as time goes on including the finished short stories.

As for the colouring stage? I’m going to put that on hold for a bit as I want to get back to drawing more Fenton Hud (which as per usual, I’m really missing! Seriously, whatever book I’m not on I start to miss after a few weeks!)

More soon! Bear hugs!

PS. I’ve yet to start on the final page of this book. I wanted to wait until everything was put together so I could fully work out the closing message. And man! I need to speak about how this issue has changed from it’s early planning! Soon! I promise!

(And yeah, I could have waited to post about this book once it was finally finished but I really wanted to post something and knew I was going to be moving back to Fenton Hud sooooo……..)

It’s been a while since I’ve posted but I’m still busy working on issue #17 of Lloyd and the Bear!

As mentioned the short stories are done but I still need to come up with alien designs for the pages between the short stories. To be honest, I thought I was done until I realised I need another eight! Seriously, I thought I was done and even had a couple to spare! Oops! But yeah, design an alien, add a speech bubble with a story or joke or some such, it’s a push! Once done I’ll have 54(ish) new designs. Whew!

BUT I was super excited to do one of the panels where a character was going to introduce one of the short stories and found myself getting up early to working on it. I needed to create an alien to introduce the Ninja Turtles-esque short story I’d done and decided to go back and use a character I created when I was a kid – a (gadget) snail!

So back when I was a kid, and heavily influenced by Inspector Gadget, I came up with the idea of a snail with lasers from it’s antenna (I didn’t realise that that was actually a snail’s eyes when I was a kid) and had wings that popped out and other things which I totally can’t(!) that fought crows and the like. I don’t think I even got passed making one book (and I’m being generous saying book…)

But yeah, I had thought about bringing these guys in anyways (without the gadgets) at some point but really don’t know if it’ll happen so figured why not at least have them in a couple of panels?

And hey, this post probably doesn’t mean much but I really wanted to mention it.

Now I’ve got to get back and come up with eight more alien designs! Eek!

More soon! Bear hugs!

PS. I realise now that the antenna on a snails head is it’s eyes but young me didn’t know that and I wanted to stick with the original design. Check old me doing research!

Oh man this was a journey! I kept spotting mistakes and things I’d missed on these panels up to the last minute but I hope the end product works!

So yeah, this is my final short story (I seriously doubt there will be an extra page for this) for LatB issue #17 but rather than an ending this now opens a lot of doors for my work on the rest of the book! But hey, first let me show you the two Mignola-eque pages that is my nod and massive appreciation to Mike Mignola’s work (in my kinda style).

So there’s was a few updates to my first Hell-Lloyd-Bear panel and the full page itself.

Firstly I changed the doorway in that original panel as my big thing was that although I wanted to give this story a Mignola type look it still had to have design elements from LatB itself and them Shoal likes curved doors. Well, except docking bays…. um…..

Secondly (and I only noticed this after I’d thought I’d finished the second page) I’d missed icky Bear-goblin out of all but that first panel so had to go back and add him back in!

I kinda feel the crazy amount of lines on the Demon-Shoal is seriously NOT Mignola but I have a reason why I went down that road which I’ll post soon(ish?)

So, where does this leave us? Well, I now get to sort out which story goes where in the book and work on the wording for each story. I also have a TON of aliens to design for the panels between the shorts (see how on that second page – and previews I’ve shown before – there’s an empty panel? I need to design/lob an alien for panels like that)

And yeah, then I get to post about it and give you guys a clearer idea of what’s going on in this issue!

Also! I get to post my designs along the way AND (hopefully) some more thoughts on what I’ve done!

I’m seriously excited about this!

More soon! Bear hugs!