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!

Wait, am I productively procrastinating?!?

Feb02
by on February 2, 2020 at 5:53 pm
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

Oh man, something occurred to me today and it’s that I’m procrastinating with finishing this book!

I posted yesterday how I’ve started going back and making further changes and I realise that in part I’m procrastinating as I don’t want to get started on a full final page that I want to redo.

And yeah, I’m going in and making changes like this!

But although I’m procrastinating I’m being productive! I mean, I realised that Rizos was holding her staff in the wrong hand so I fixed that and then I realised that she couldn’t then be pointing at Selop if she was holding her staff so I had to fix that.

And yeah, on the next page Rizos is holding the staff in her left hand so it had to get there so why not update/fix the issue now?

So I’m procrastinating but it’s useful procrastination. Is that a thing?

More soon! Bear hugs!

Hey! It’s these guys again!

Feb02
by on February 2, 2020 at 8:27 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

I know, I know, I’ve talked about these guys before but I had something to add and that’s down to my now colouring them!

You see, I’ve done a bit of an update on all their clothing since last time and when it came to working out what look to give each character I had a bit of a brainwave on one of the looks!

So the stripe/line effect on the clothes was originally how I wanted the Shoal’s skin to look with the lines (but not the colour scheme which would have remained with the pink and purple)!

But although I really liked the design but it proved way too difficult to run across the skin from panel to panel so I had to abandon it. Dang it!

I guess it looks kinda like the skin of a slug, yeah?

But yeah, I was real happy to have thought of adding a wee nod to my early designs in to these two pages!

More soon!

Bear hugs!

I’m not hitting a wall! No sir, I’m removing it!

Feb01
by on February 1, 2020 at 6:03 pm
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

With my bad luck this week (which went on in to this morning) it’s taking me a stupid amount of time to get issue #14 finished and it’s beginning to get a bit tedious!

I’ve already updated the pages and gone through my first run of colouring but now I’m finding there’s panels that really need fixing that I passed on my first update! Like… this!

Like, why did I put a wall on the third left of the screen? Well yes, I just wanted something in the background that wouldn’t take you away from Lloyd’s speach bubble but a wall? And so close up it just looked like a block? And like, there’s not even a wall that close to the characters!

So yeah, things like this are putting me further and further back. 

Especially as originally I put in a bunch of aliens in the background on my first attempt at updating this only to then feel that I’d done that on the previous page so went with a blank background instead.

I need to finish this book before I go crazy!

But yes, wall is gone. And although I’m also hitting a mental wall I’m going to smash through it and get this book done! Dang it!

More updates to follow!!!

Bear hugs!

The week of bluh.

Feb01
by on February 1, 2020 at 7:30 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

I had taken a stab at this post a few days ago but it came off a bit whiney so I’m doing a redo.

Okay, so the art package that I use sadly stopped working last weekend and although I was annoyed at first as I had work to do I seem to have gone through a bit of a journey.

So I use Paintshop Pro 7.04 and yes it’s old but it does what I need and that’s great but for some reason since the weekend I found some of the features that I use would make it close. I mean, it would freeze for a bit but then close. Floomp. I tried to run a repair, fix permissions and even reinstall (and on another PC as well to compare it) but it was not to be.

And I felt sad because I LOVED this package and have been using it for an absolute age. But I realised that it was time to move on and trial the latest version of Paintshop and get my head around the new features but more importantly get the basics back that I know and love from 7.04. And this took a few days, which meant a few days of not doing any artwork. And that felt horrible.

Here’s the thing, whenever anyone compliments my work I don’t quite get it. In part it’s because I don’t take compliments well (and there’s a bit of old school Britishness stiff upper lip mixed in to that) but I also think that it’s not a big deal. Like, I’ve been drawing for as long as I remember so it’s just a part of my life. Like breathing or talking to yourself when there’s no one else around (we all do that, yeah?)

So here I was not only being unable to do any artwork but also not sure if I’d be able to carry on with my LatB project as I had been (with the style I use) and it really got me down.

BUT I got on with it and I’m currently getting my head around the new art package. There’s lots of cool things in there to discover but for now I’m getting to do the things I need to do. The more important thing though is that I’ve realised my self-worth from my time away from doing art and that I should appreciate what I can do.

It’s a thing, and it’s cool, and I’m all newly proud of that!

Is there a moral to this story?

Keep working hard? Appreciate what you do? Don’t admit that you talk to yourself?

I don’t know, but I’m oddly happy with how things worked out! I mean, I have to now go and pay for said art package but hey, I’m feeling better about myself so that’s cool.

This week has been a bit poo and I really just wanted to share my story so I hope that’s okay.

More soon!

Bear hugs!

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!