eglads | erin gladstone

kara zor-el

2012-02-11T16:01:00.000-05:00

Clearly the cutest of all the Kryptonians.

best worst anime ever

2012-01-27T23:50:00.000-05:00

It's gotta be High School of the Dead. It's just so full of fan service I cannot take it seriously. But as bad as it is, it's so good, so addictively good you just keep watching and watching it until you run out of episodes.

And then you draw fanart, because hey, it's Fanart Friday!

tough chicks n' mohawks

2012-01-12T20:55:00.000-05:00

First post of 2012. This year won't suck; I can feel it in my bones.

wonder woman

2011-11-01T00:52:00.000-04:00

After watching all of the Young Justice that's out yet, I drifted back into classic Justice League, circa 2000, to get my DC fix. This show is where I learned most of my knowledge about DC, combined with what I had gleamed from the 90s Batman and Superman series'. It's the same with XMEN and Marvel. Pretty much 70% of my mainstream comics knowledge is from cartoons. because they were so much more accessible than comics for me.

ANYWAY, I've been rewatching Justice League and it's been reminding how much I love the characters in that series. Hopefully that means you'll be seeing some more Leaguers soon. And some Young Justice too because that show is just TOO GOOD.

the vampire queen

2011-09-29T23:58:00.000-04:00

So, I made an art. More like FINISHED an art that I started MONTHS ago, but whatever, I will take it. Victory, ERIN.

In my defense, my computer was in the shop for two and a half weeks.

So... yeah...

concept art

2011-08-29T19:55:00.000-04:00

So, a long time ago, in galaxy far, far away, I took a concept art class. Here's a smattering of what survived.

spin

2011-08-29T19:27:00.000-04:00

Because I am so very forgetful, I just now realized I never posted some of the finished pages from Senior Project, so here they are now.

will the wonders never cease?

2011-08-26T21:02:00.001-04:00

That's right, IT'S FRIDAY. AND I'M POSTING.

WHAT

I know, I'm scaring my myself.

Anyway, I'm trying to get back into Fanart Friday, and what better way than with some Dragon Ball Z, specifically Bulma, one of my personal faves. This summer's been weird as it's been my first OUT of school so it's taking some adjusting. But rest assured I have not forgotten about this website.

If the lack of posts is driving you NUTS, head on over to my tumblr, which is seeing a lot more action, as I'm keeping this blog as more of a finished goods site, and using the tumblr for more sketches and hijinks. Because hell, I love hijinks. Just love saying it.

WAIT A MINUTE, DOC

2011-08-15T01:00:00.003-04:00

Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?

Let's pretend it's two days ago and this falls under fanart Friday okay? OKAY? OKAY?!?!?! Phew, thanks guys, you are such kind internet bros. To reward you for being so awesome, I'll try to get this blog thing rolling again. I have some things already completed so it shouldn't be too hard. Expect some more fanart and comic pages soon!

But you know me, internet, I am promising nothing.

awwwww yeah

2011-05-18T13:29:00.000-04:00

Kicking ass, nerd style. I am making css/html my bitch today.

Also, have some art. Colors to follow when Photoshop isn't a crashing-all-the-time jerk.

okay

2011-05-04T21:51:00.000-04:00

So I've slipped a bit on the fanart Friday, but Senior Project's been killing me. Accept these pages as a peace offering. And expect an update this Friday.

star wars

2011-04-18T09:58:00.000-04:00

Last Friday night, in between thumbnailing and pencilling like a madman, I made this.

Fanart Friday is a little late this time, we lost our internet this weekend. We also lost what little cable we have so we resorted to movies, namely Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. It's a good replacement. Too bad this looks nothing like Carrie Fisher or Harrison Ford. :[

context

2011-04-09T00:18:00.000-04:00

This needs some.

So Marvel's decided Blank Panther has gotten boring and updated him to American Panther. Seriously - not making this shit up. So now that Marvel has decided America is a color, everybody over at the Temple took a shot at some hero updates. I chose Emma Frost, the formerly White Queen. Now she's the American Queen. YOU'RE WELCOME FOR THE AMAZING NEW CHARACTER, MARVEL.

You should go check out the other ones though, they're pretty wicked.

she's got me dancing

2011-04-04T23:31:00.000-04:00

Another in progress sketch, you'll see more of this soon!

power girl

2011-04-01T23:48:00.002-04:00

It's fanart Friday again and here's the Power Girl I promised you.

say whut?

2011-03-31T00:12:00.003-04:00

Two posts in a week?! Sheer madness. Enjoy this comic about my awesome food skills.

Also, this is EXACTLY how I eat food, I just throw a handful of whatever I'm eating towards my face and hope a decent amount gets in there.

first of the last

2011-03-28T16:19:00.002-04:00

Today is the first day of my LAST quarter at SCAD. Pretty scary stuff. Fight the fear, Erin!

power girl, the teaser

2011-03-04T22:09:00.000-05:00

This weeks fanart is taking a little bit longer than I'd like, so I'm give you guys a teaser version; just the inks, while I fancy Power Girl up. Expect the colored version here in a couple of days, and another fresh fanart on Friday!

GARY F&CKING OAK

2011-02-26T00:32:00.001-05:00

Yeah, I'm getting my nerd on.

Even as a kid, I didn't know why we were following Ash, I mean, CLEARLY, he's a loser and he sucks at this whole pokemon thing. But Gary, Gary is 10 years old and he has a CAR. And ladies that follow him around and sing his praises all the time. That's the kid I wanna see a show about. Not the one that can't get his shit together. No.

So, I'm gonna try this thing where I post fanart every Friday. And yeah, even though it's 12:30 in the morning so it's TECHNICALLY Saturday, I'm still up, so I'm counting it as Friday. Let's see how well I can follow through this time!

aqua net fer reals

2011-02-08T23:15:00.000-05:00

Rogue's one of the challenges over at the temple of cartoon mojo so I finally stopped being lazy and made it a thing.

Was awesome working on it because it gave me an excuse to watch the original X-men cartoon which is PURE EXCELLENCE. I take all of my cues on X-men behavior through it, so Rogue should have hair larger than a beach ball, Wolverine's facial hair should be thick enough to block attacks from Sabertooth, and Jean Grey should look very, VERY uptight. Also, that theme song is boss. DA NA NA NA NAAAAA NE NA DA NA NA NA NAAAAA NE NA DANA.

Yeah, I phonetically spelled that out. YEAH.

Oh man, there's gonna be a space under this text and there's nothing I can do about it. Whooops. Sorry folks, a web designer I am not.

adventure time

2011-01-05T15:52:00.000-05:00

TRU FAX

This lovely image is for the first page of my sketchbook, to announce to everyone how I feel about LOUDNESS. It's also for the adventure time tumblr, which has some pretty cool art on it. Hopefully by the time you're reading this, my image will be part of it. If not, I want you to come back and read this same post in a day or two. Thanks in advance.

School's starting up again and we've got a gillion editors visiting this quarter. Seriously, a gillion. Or maybe just six. Either way, they're visiting.

ALSO, I have a twitter now? Although, chances are you knew that already because I'm pretty sure everyone reading this knows me in real life. Oh well, I'm telling you twice! Hear more of my ramblings at eglads. I'll try not to bore you.

clearly

2010-12-20T00:37:00.000-05:00

I'm enjoying my break from school.You can tell because I haven't posted anything. But I actually HAVE been making the arts so I'll share with you what I have.

It's always great to draw for fun again after an intense period of structured scribbling. Also, I've got a new sketchbook to destroy and it's so choice. I got to use the same kind for inking class but this time I'm using markers too and it's just lovely. There's still some bleed through the back of the page but I love how the paper takes the markers; it keeps a lot of the stroke and doesn't blend the colors much at all. So expect more colors like these, they're fun and quick, especially now that I've figured out how to work Cara's scanner. Expect some concept work and maquette photos too; it's a busy and artful break!

i wanna see your peacock

2010-11-17T13:47:00.000-05:00

Haven't posted in a while. WHOOPS. Have some doodles to make up for it. I'll have some pages soon, just gotta get through the quarter first! Also, you should go to youtube and look up the peacock chat roulette song. RIGHT NOW.

blacksad

2010-10-18T23:04:00.001-04:00

For one of my last inking exercises I decided to try something crazy and new and go with an ink wash. In honor of that new-fangled insanity, I'm gonna to do something new with the post too! Instead of just showing you the finished product, I'm showing you it all, from the early sketches to the final piece.

The assignment was a Blacksad pin up, if you don't know it, look it up NOW! So firstly I made a bunch of tiny thumbnails to get a scene in my mind. Most of these are no larger than an inch and half tall and they're done as fast as possible. Took me a while to get what I wanted because perspective and I don't always get along so well.

Anyway, next step is the detailed thumbnail or rough pencil. It's only about four inches tall on paper. You can see me throwing down perspective lines like it's going out of style.

And the next step is really just an extension of the last - the value study! I took the scan of the thumbnail and printed it out so I could use grey tone markers to figure out the values.

Totally off topic, but is it 'grey' or 'gray'? Firefox thinks it's 'gray' with an 'a' because it's giving me those angry red squiggly lines under 'grey' with 'e'. Which really stinks because I think grey looks WAY classier.

Okay, so here I'm trying to keep the focus on the couple by using more contrast in the foreground.

Also, to be ENTIRELY HONEST, I think I like the tiny value study best. Probably because I love markers way more than ink wash. And that awesome browny hue isn't hurting either.

ANYWAY, from there I moved on to the actual piece, a giant compared to the rest of the work at 11" by 17". And hours later, you get this...

jungle boy

2010-10-13T16:37:00.000-04:00

After posting comics and pokemon, we're going a little bit lazier this week and going with some sketches. It's for my final project in advanced inking. It's about a nomadic hunter and his pet wolf trying to get something to eat. But it's more exciting than that, I promise.

I'll have some more official character designs soon, plus some villager designs too.

pokemans

2010-10-08T19:09:00.000-04:00

Pokemon Portrait Dex is all the rage right now. Oh yeah, I'm cool now.

roller derby

2010-10-01T18:12:00.000-04:00

Here's some of the pages I did for Oni for their roller derby anthalogy Jam! Tales from the World of Roller Derby. Again, I'm just posting my favorites!

mix tape

2010-09-30T18:05:00.000-04:00

Remember when I talked about posting the finished mix tape pages? No? Probably because I said it MONTHS ago. But here's a couple of my favorites.

clap clap

2010-09-28T12:10:00.000-04:00

As promised, here's some Fraggle Rock. HA, two posts in two days. I'm unstoppable.

black and white

2010-09-27T10:58:00.002-04:00

Nothing crazy detailed today - I was hoping to have a pinup I'm working on for my inking class but it's not quite ready. Expect that tomorrow. Unless I hate it. Then it'll never see the light of the internet.

If you recognize the character below, congratulations, you're awesome. If you recognize the group characters beneath that, PLEASE GET OUT OF MY HEAD.

fuckin hipsters

2010-09-21T23:03:00.001-04:00

I felt like coloring so I dug up some old inks from last spring.

In other news, classes have started up again, and I've got two this quarter, Advanced Inking and Self-Promotion. Luckily for you guys (the ~~five~~ ~~couple~~ one ??? of you that are reading this)the Self-Promotion class requires a blog update once a week. That's right - sheer will power or the desire to get popular on the internets won't compel me to update, but grades will.

Eh.

Expect more work on the colors some time in the future - I need more experience with digital coloring. Also I kind of like these lines. Well... the girl at least. The guy might disappear by the next upload.

layouts

2010-08-24T00:05:00.002-04:00

Still futzing with the new layout. Accidentally lost all my links. Blargh. Also, if you were in my Web Comic class, this layout is probably giving you CRAZY deja vu. I stole the color scheme. From myself. It's pretty scandalous.

I am the night!

2010-08-23T16:37:00.003-04:00

So yeah... guess what I've been watching?

More like marathoning. These past two Saturdays have been chock full of 90s anime goodness. Actually, so have the past six or so. But this time it's been YuYu Hakusho and it has been magical. Seriously, I recommend everyone go back to their roots and watch some ridiculous anime. Or other cartoons. Or lame sitcoms. Just regress back to a simpler time.

ALSO, I'm working on a new layout, so that's gonna happen soon. ALSO ALSO, more art soon. So sit tight, kids.

ahahahaha

2010-05-25T18:20:00.004-04:00

Never posting some more. It's just what I do. Maybe I'll get better, maybe I won't. Probably not though. ANYWAY, posting to announce I have web comic. It's pretty killer, but don't worry, it'll get better. LOTS BETTER.

~~Head over to Super Normal and check out my mad html/comic skills.~~ Just kidding... that site's not long for this world.

breaking news bulletin

2010-03-25T10:41:00.004-04:00

Interrupting your previously scheduled program of sequential pages with some nostalgia. Done last quarter for a temple challenge, because Sailor Moon is still awesome no matter how old I get.

not even surprising this time

2010-03-23T15:37:00.005-04:00

HAHAHA, remember when I was all like, "If I post stuff I've already done, I can post ALL THE TIME!" Yeah, that worked out so well. I'm proud of myself. The best part is, it's not even shocking or disappointing anymore, it just feels normal. So here are the thumbs for the mixtape project. Expect the pencils and inks eventually.

not internet slang

2010-02-04T21:06:00.005-05:00

Okay, half way through and it's already crazy. Good crazy though, I assure you. But half way means midterms which means ACTUAL art. Since I'm working on some pages for Viz Storytelling II, I can post all of my progress. Shawn has us working in stages to make sure we don't get off track which means I have a steady supply of art to post.

The first stage is coming up with the basic idea, characters, and some environments. And because I love the 80's, it's a mixtape romance. I'm such a girl. A lot of the environments never made it to pencils, at least in a full state but whatever. I don't do enough environments ANYWAY. Currently, I'm tackling the inks, so technically I could have posted the roughwork, the thumbs, and the pencils. BUT that would have been a crazy long post. Plus, this way I have a bunch of art to slowly upload here. Hehehe... I'm so crafty.

OMG

2010-01-19T17:59:00.004-05:00

EXCUSE MY INTERNET SLANG!

Yeah... I didn't post ANYTHING during break. Or the weeks preceding break. Or the weeks succeeding break. I'm not even surprised anymore. Just disappointed. In myself. How depressing. UGH, let's focus on something else. Like the shit-ton of work I should have to post this quarter. Like a bunch of mini-comics and a sequence or two of finished comic pages. Actually, the above image is the over of my first mini, a collection of work. Also, shit-ton is weird to spell and doesn't look right now matter how I try.

More art soon. I promise.

Okay, I don't promise. I break those. But I will really try!

Hey Look!

2009-10-27T02:02:00.003-04:00

Not only is there a new post today, but also a new layout. Lucky you!

An inking exercise from Visual Storytelling that turned out pretty killer. Proof that I can actually ENJOY inking -- if I do it right. Which brings me to our visiting artists this weekend, Sean Murphy and Matt Bernier. Totally cool people with totally amazing skills. We got to watch Sean ink and it was like... you know, I have no metaphor for what it's like because it was THAT crazy. All I know, is that I both incredibly intimidated and incredibly energized to ink.

ALSO, if you haven't seen Where the Wild Things Are, go change that now. Not that anyone reading this didn't see it with me. Or that any is even reading this at all. Oh internet, you're the only one who hears my ramblings!

Dazzling

2009-09-24T21:36:00.007-04:00

Back in school for another quarter at SCAD. This time it's all SEQA classes so I'll be bursting with art and comic knowledge. I even managed to score another internship -- I am on a roll. This time it's doing some flats for Oni Press, which is pretty killer. But enough of that, I actually posted because I have art. Shocking, I know. The first is just some lines I'm in the business of coloring and the latter some doodles to adorn the door to my apartment. This way, everyone knows how cool my roomie and I are.

Also, Community is one of the funniest shows ever. Go watch it. Now.

002

2009-09-02T22:59:00.005-04:00

When I can't think of title, numbers work well. Despite the fact that this is, indeed, my 3rd post, but 2nd post with actual art so... yeah. This one is just a little something between bigger postings. I'm hoping to have a finished 4 page comic up and an illustration or two before school.
Of course, I haven't yet looked at it on a PC which means the colors are probably heinous, so bare with me. Or you could just get a Mac and we'd all be dandy. I had to look up how to spell 'heinous' still feels off though.

Also, I have reason to believe cheap neighbors are siphoning my wireless signal. It's crazy laggy. Add 'siphon' to the list of things I can say but not spell. Well, can currently spell because I looked it up but will forget in a couple of days.

DUDE, I finally have enough posts for the page to scroll! SCORE!

001

2009-08-04T14:15:00.004-04:00

Gonna try this whole blog thing out ONE MORE TIME. Here's hoping it'll stick better! Hopefully, having a blog will inspire me to make more art and in turn, making more art will inspire me to POST IT on said blog.
Just some marker practice to play around with lighting. And Spork Girl. She's definitely my favorite. Only a month or so til school starts again, so expect some more art soon.

Still Testing

2009-04-03T22:10:00.002-04:00

Expect some new art and a layout soon. Until then, enjoy the black!