say whut?

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

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

power girl, the teaser

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

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

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

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

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

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

 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

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.