Lloyd and the Bear

I love, love, LOVE telling the stories of Lloyd and the Bear (and all the gubbins that goes with it) but I really like to push myself and want to try something different that’s not set in the LatB universe.

I have an idea, I know what the main characters look like and a few things about them, I’ve worked out the main character’s name, I’ve a concept and a rough working title but what I don’t have if a definitive look for the artwork.

You see, I’m pretty good at doing different styles of art and I don’t want to do the same look as LatB so I’m left with a lot of choices but also at the same time I don’t want something that’s heavily detailed as I don’t want this to take me away from LatB!

So back on Saturday, inspired by Small Press day, I started sketching out the main characters and here’s what I’ve come up with so far!

I’m really happy with this but have SO MUCH MORE work to do and will be sure to update you guys as I get on with this – plus create a new avatar just for these posts(!)

And hey, going back to Lloyd and the Bear news I’ve been (slowly) busy with updating the final pages of issue #13 while also preparing for MCM Manchester (which isn’t that far away now!)

So as always, busy! More soon!

Bear hugs!

Okay, so this week’s been a bit of a busy one with various projects on the go that all ended up me going to the cinema to see the movie of a parody that I had just completed! Can you guess which one?

Yeah… 

So yeah, this would be my third Spidey related parody and it came about while I was at MCM London and got thinking of how much I was looking forward to seeing Far From Home and realised that hey, there’s a pun to be had there!

After doing the logo it came down to the design for Spider-Bear and I’m going to be honest, I wasn’t totally done with saying goodbye to the previous parody print that I’d done so just moved that positioning of Bear over to the new print. I was going to redesign the costume but I found that it just got too messy with the black strips and additional lines (which totally works in the movie but personally on print I felt it didn’t work) And hey, I also added the Spider-Bear symbol to Bear’s (or is that Peter Pawker’s) chest which I TOTALLY missed last time around!

But that’s not all I’ve been up to this week as I was trying out working on a Civil Paw parody but only got as far as the logo as I couldn’t quite commit to the picture itself. Hopefully I’ll get a stronger idea and come back to this one as I loved the movie it’s inspired from and chuffed to bits with the pun.

And along with all that I’ve been busy with doing the sound effects for issue #13 of the book! Here’s an old panel and the updated one with the new colouring and sound effects (plus a bit of moving Bear about so he’s more centred!)

What do you think?

So yeah, it’s been a crazy busy week along with starting a new day job (which I’m super happy with!)

I’ve actually still to get four pages of issue #13 totally re-done but I also really want to get another print done in time for MCM Manchester!

Choices!

And with that… Bear hugs and more soon!

PS. How good was Spider-man FFH? I preferred Homecoming but the film totally felt like a nice ending to Avengers End Game!