Welcome to Bearrito Publishing!

Mar17
Featured Post
by on March 17, 2019 at 8:11 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

Welcome to the home of Lloyd and the Bear, Urp, and all things Mac & Cheese related!

Every weekend I plan to post an update on how I’m getting on with Lloyd and the Bear or what related project I’m currently doing!

I’ll be dropping Urp! strips at random intervals when a thought enters my head. Is Urp me? Um……. maybe (not?)

And hey, I LOVE Mac & Cheese and I’ll be dropping my reviews of new dishes and eateries I come across along with recipes and facts every now and again!

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

Well gosh, I’m lazy!

Jan21
by on January 21, 2020 at 7:49 pm
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

No, I don’t mean my ability to get my weekly update out (which is currently two weeks behind by my reckoning) but more how I noticed that I really made no effort with Rizos’ skin colour first time round with issue #14!

What do I mean? Well you see (I figure clearly to cut corners and speed things up) I gave her the same skin colour as Lloyd! I guess because they’re so rarely in the same panel that I wasn’t worried about them blending together.

Anyways, I’ve gone and done a few updates…

On the left is Rizos from when we first saw her in issue #14 and then her updated look on the right.

This all came about when I realised that I had done a highlight around all of Rizos except for got her skin tone wrong (in that I used the highlight should be her regularly lit colour). I figured the the best call (okay, and maybe a bit lazy?) would be to course correct her skin colour throughout the issue rather than the colour of all her clothes.

But the good thing is that this stopped a nagging tickle I had at the back of my mind that something was amiss and yes, that was that I was using the same colour palette for two of the main characters. Whoops.

As a side note, I can’t help but feel that Rizos’ height has been increased since the updates but that’s all down to the extra body to her hair. I don’t know, I kinda find it funny but also cool how big a difference that’s made!

More very soon!

Bear hugs!

PS. Sorry for the lack of updates. I don’t colour a page at a time but rather groups of four or five so it’s been proving difficult to show you any finished work! That shouldn’t be the case going forward for the next few updates as I near the end of issue #14!

The vegan Mac Factory experience!

Jan14
by on January 14, 2020 at 6:14 pm
Posted In: The Mac Daddy G

It’s Veganuary and The Mac Factory, along with opening up a new store in Putney, has also released a vegan Mac & Cheese!

And hey, I’ve already done a few Mac Factory reviews which have always been positive so I’ve gone and brought along my (much) better half – and 100% vegan – to ensure that this review is 100% impartial!

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New non-LatB idea!

Jan05
by on January 5, 2020 at 6:59 pm
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

And I really need a wee box to the left here to show that it’s different from the other things we’re doing just now! But hey, it’s early days. Like, very early days!

But still, it’s giving me an idea of what I’m capable off and what I need to do going forward and where to improve (Um, all of it?)

And this has been the culmination of my holidays! Erm….

Tomorrow, I’m beginning colouring issue #14 of LatB! Yay! Familiar territory!

More soon! Bear hugs!

Best intentions and all that…

Dec29
by on December 29, 2019 at 7:52 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

So I’m still dragging my feet with my new project and not even done anything with it. I don’t know, I’m scared to even start and at this point I’m only doing character sketches to ensure that I’m happy with everyones look! But yeah, it’s freaking me out!

But hey, artist got to art so I’ve been working on updating the cover to issue #14!

Below we’ve got the original, updated and the UPDATED updated cover (which isn’t quite finished!)

So looking back at the original cover Rizos didn’t even look like she did IN the book(!). I made some changes and corrected things here and there but it still didn’t sit well with me. I mean, I get she’s talking to the reader but the cover is lacking any kind of action and looks stiff as!

The new cover has Rizos in an action pose although I’m totally going to have to redo what she says as she’s taking up so much more space – I have some ideas but it’s certainly a work in progress.

The background will be full of knocked out aliens again but this time totally matching characters from within the book and because of that I want to hold off until I’ve finished colouring the book so I can place the right character in the right spot which will then keep all the colour choices I use balanced. I’m not wanting a massive section of just blue aliens for example which will totally skew your view of the page! It’s bordering on some kind of big mathematical question but I’m sure it’ll be fun putting it all together!

More soon! Bear hugs!

My updates to issue #14 are DONE!

Dec21
by on December 21, 2019 at 12:01 pm
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

I have finally, finally, FINALLY finished updating the pages of issue #14. I say pages as I really want to go and update the cover but all in all, yup, that’s me done!

And this here was my final panel and (yet again) it was adding fingers to one of the lead characters(!)

All in all, not a tough one to do so I was really thankful!

And thinking ahead for what work I’m going to do over the holiday season? Well I’m going to tinker with doing the new cover but I’m really hoping to play around with a completely new concept that I mentioned some time back but never spoke about again (oooh, mystery!). Then in January I’ll come back to doing the colouring for both issues #14 and #15 (which means I actually get to show you full colour panels for a change! Yay!)

And hey, maybe I’ll get back to doing some actual Urp! strips! I’ve really been terrible at keeping up to date with that!

But hey, more soon!

Bear hugs!