Regrets, I have a few…

Jan26
by on January 26, 2018 at 11:29 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but sometimes I really wish I’d given Lloyd a four letter name.

It just balances out better against Bear and although I could always shrink Lloyd’s name when using it in a title it then looks super skinny.

Haven’t looked again at the logo I put together yesterday I couldn’t help (#standard) to tinker with it and match it up with the main logo used on the book but now I have the worry that it’s not overly clear!

What do you think? Do you prefer one over the other?

And hey, notice I don’t talk about wishing I had made Bear’s name bigger? Ooh! Now imagine LLoyd and the BBear! Erm…..

Okay, more soon! Bear hugs!

New logo?

Jan25
by on January 25, 2018 at 10:01 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

I’ve been working on a new logo for a promotional piece that I’ll be using at conventions but I have to admit that I’m really, really liking it!

Kind of like enough to be using in other things including maybe even the cover? I don’t know, but I’m buzzing with how it’s turned out.

The thing is, it reminded me of an old logo I once tried using on the book covers!

New and old!

So yeah, that’s the new logo on the left (the colours are a work in progress) and then the old one on the right. There’s some similarities there, right?

More soon! Bear hugs!

PS. I know, I know! Comic Sans… and on the cover no less!!! What was I thinking?!?

And it ends not with a bang but a PLINK!

Jan23
by on January 23, 2018 at 11:24 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

When putting together the penultimate page of issue #12 – which is also the last scene in the issue where Bear talks – I had a very clear vision of what I wanted the update to be.

The thing is, as I put it together I realised I could use the same sound effect that I’d used back in the scene with Constable Shuffable showing the guys his safe room. I don’t know why, but I’m really happy to have done this!

Plink!

Now sure, you could argue it should be more of a clicking noise but hey, I REALLY WANTED TO USE THE ‘PLINK!’ NOISE AGAIN!!!

More soon! Bear hugs!

PS. This sure is a different page from the original, right?

I just can’t let it go!

Jan21
by on January 21, 2018 at 1:18 pm
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

I showed you the other day a page from the updated issue #12 that I’d updating twice. Well, I’ve gone back and made even MORE changes to it!

You see, I felt that the sergeant (the main guy here) had lost his distinct voice but the issue was that in making him sound like he should it meant he was using words that younger readers might not get! The solution? Have the other officer – who is very much the comedy character of the two of them – explain the word!

Explaining

You know, I might be using this trick a lot more… And hey, do you think I can promote this book as being educational now?

Anyways, this is absolutely the last time I’m going to update this page! Honest!

More soon! Bear hugs!

Oops x 2!

Jan18
by on January 18, 2018 at 11:09 am
Posted In: Lloyd and the Bear

So I’m still continuing with updating issue #12 and working on some pages when I look back at what I’ve done and realise that there’s something that I messed up with in the original book that I AGAIN managed to mess up when I updated it!

See, in the original comic you never see any non-robotic U.S.P.D. officers bar for the two main guys. Now, that was kinda okay in the original story but absolutely needed to be explained (for reasons) in the updated version!

And did I do that?

No.

That is until I picked up on it yesterday morning and now updated the updated page!

Updated updated!

I dunno, it kinda just slipped past me but I felt the need to post about it after fixing the issue.

Originally this page was a piece about Lloyd and Bear being a team as I wanted to show how the two guys have changed during this first overall arc. But hey! We know this already! I’ve banged on about it enough!

So yeah, happy with the new page!

More soon! Bear hugs!