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Jun05
Featured Post
by on June 5, 2021 at 3:55 pm
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

Welcome to the home of Lloyd and the Bear, Urp!, Fenton Hub Member of F.A.C.T. and all things Mac & Cheese related!

I’m not great at posting but it’s my intention (and hope) to keep you up to date with my work on Lloyd and the Bear, Fenton Hud, Urp! and any other projects I’m working 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!)

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

And hey, I LOVE Mac & Cheese but with 2020 being what it was I’ve been kind of limited with my venues! In the spirit of wanting businesses to bounce back from *that* year I’m only going to be posting about good experiences I’ve had (be it when eating out, getting delivered, in a pack or even just a recipe I found! Is that okay? (I hope that’s okay).

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

MORE issue #17 stuff!

Sep19
by on September 19, 2021 at 2:35 pm
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

So the next short story has had me working and reworking it A LOT!

I was wanting to go with a Ninja Turtles look – especially the original books – but I found myself struggling with the first page and it wasn’t until I’d finished did I realise what the problem was!

Originally I was hand drawing the page (in some instances making it just look hand drawn) but I realised (eventually) that what I was really coming out with was poor fanart rather than a merging of the original look along with my  own style (like I do with some of my parody prints).

So yeah, second time around was much more my style but hopefully a look and feel of the original Turtles comics (and original cartoon thrown in as well at least with some of the designs)

Y’know, this book is proving a lot tougher to put together than I had imagined but I’m really enjoying the challenges and (hopefully) coming out with results that really work.

I’m really stoked to get working on the next page and will be sure to post updates on here with how I get on!

Bear hugs!

Issue 17 stuff!

Sep05
by on September 5, 2021 at 8:39 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

Okay, so I’ve been busy the last week or so with my new day job (yay!) and also working on issue #17 which is kind of a work in progress.

I think my Fenton Hud book has given me some bad habits as the initial three pages (it was originally two) of this book has got me reworking the idea, design and layout as I went along as I really don’t have a solid plan in place for  this  issue.
It’s been a big messy as I’ve kept changing the idea (plus adding that one page) but I’ve got a stronger vision of what I have planned for this book.

So my initial concept for this issue was different people telling their interpretation of Lloyd and Bear and I was going to use different art styles  to tell the tales so digital, ink, paint, that kind of thing.

As time went on I found myself staying with digital but by using my parody prints as inspiration I would copy other artists styles.

My first ‘story’ I was working on was going to have a transforming robot in it and I straight away went towards manga and specifically Robotech. I realised though that without an artist in mind for this tale it meant that not all the stories would have an ‘artist’ working on them and therefore the overall theme felt disjointed.

But then I thought of the Transformers (duh!) and from there I went with one of my all time favourite – and inspirational – artists, Geoff Senior! So yeah, I’ve looked in to his work in the series and tried to recreate in the above panels.

What do you think?

I have to say this has been a challenge but an enjoyable one – especially as I get to go over and over work from an artist whose work I absolutely love!

So…… who’s next?

I’ll tell you soon! Bear hugs!

Looking back at issue #2 (Part 5)

Aug20
by on August 20, 2021 at 9:32 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

Okay, so looking at this page hurts my eyes.

I mean, I’m really happy with the work I put in to it what with the perspective, all the different alien designs, food designs, background servers going about their business, the signs and how it all connected but yeah, the colours! Ouch!

As time went on I learned to calm the background colours and have only the main characters show in strong colours but in the early days I figured EVERYTHING should be bright. That was…. a mistake.

I also realise I didn’t shade this page so that was lazy! Geez…

Um, please buy my books! I get better!

Honest! Bear hugs!

PS. I did have the whole system of how the restaurant worked planned out. You’d come in and a hover chair would grab you (or your party) and take you to your table. I do think now however just how dangerous this place would be as no one had seatbelts so could easily fall out their chair! And speaking of falling, what if you dropped your food or cutlery and it hit the person beneath you?!? Hmm….

Adverts – Fenton Hud style! (Part 4)

Aug20
by on August 20, 2021 at 7:26 am
Posted In: Fenton Hud

Okay, final advert for issue #1 and it’s all down to when I was a kid and my brother saying that through evolution we’d lose out pinky fingers (wait, have I mentioned this before?)

Ever since he told me that I’ve worked hard to use my pinky whenever I can. Like, these days it’s good for propping up my phone when I hold it to play Pokemon Go! (And yeah, envelope opening was a big thing when I was younger)

Also, I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure sticking your pinky out while having a drink is exercise! That can be tough to do!

And no, I don’t pick my nose with my pinky but yes, that final panel was taken from a photo of myself that I modelled for (I’m a model…?)

AND yes, I realise that although evolution is a thing I am an idiot for worrying that my own finger would disappear!

Okay, more soon! Bear hugs!

PS. Simpsons made a hand evolution joke some years ago. I can’t remember how it goes but it did involve Lisa – I think it was that at some point people would have four fingers and a thumb?

Looking back at issue #2 (Part 4)

Aug19
by on August 19, 2021 at 3:11 pm
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

The communicator! I haven’t used this nearly enough but then our heroes aren’t generally split apart that much.

But yeah, totally saw this as an awesome toy where it would be sold as a pair – so, like, Walkie Talkies. Wait, do kids still care about Walkie Talkies?

Anyways, the idea was that you’d press it and the wee ears would pop out and when using it the eyes and mouth would light up.

I dunno, I thought that would be kind of cool, no?

More soon! Bear hugs!