CJ Gladback

@cjgladback.bsky.social

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she/her Digital 3D and fiber artist who loves explanation and context, figuring out what I'll sustainably post on a short form site again. Find me on tumblr, twitch, and other places: https://linktr.ee/cjgladback

A darkened office with a crate and computer backlit by a large misty yellow glowing window. A military officer addresses a scientist. Officer: Progress? Scientist: Sir. We've successfully increased the subject's body mass by over five thousand percent. Officer: That's promising.
A dark red wood spindle wrapped in plied yarn, primarily pink with pops of teal and green.
A reddish wooden Russian style supported spindle with a metal tip, wrapped in a teal singles with many splashes of other vibrant colors and white.
A smiling woman with brown braided hair and a green floral short sleeved button up shirt, standing in front of a light green knit fabric covered rectangular arch with the sign Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival and many silk flowers and yarn-crafted butterflies attached.
A baby sheep with curly dark brown wool, eating grass while a hand reaches out to pet it. The lamb's body is about two hand-lengths long.
Photo of a pleased woman wearing a dark blue knit cardigan with all-over ribbing, raglan seams, a small shawl collar, tan-and-brown buttons down the front, and a diamond cross-hatched pattern in a band on each upper arm as well as in a rectangular panel on the upper back. The sleeves each transition from roomy at the elbow and down the majority of the forearm to fitted 1x1 ribbing for several inches before and over the wrist.
A two-frame gif from photos of a wooden tabletop from above with a narrow twisted skein of blue yarn and two tiny balls of the same yarn on either side of a single knit fingerless glove; the second frame shows a hand wearing the glove in the same position. A swath of brioche rib angles across the majority of the hand to cover from the wrist to the thumb, index, and middle finger. The ring and pinkie fingers, a wedge below them wrapping the outer edge of the hand, and the wrist and hem over the thumb’s knuckle are all 1x1 rib, more elastic and less squishy than the brioche rib but otherwise visually similar.
A square of knit fabric, mint green with bright orange lettering of a curly cursive "Yes," followed by small caps "even them."
A white foam disk kumihimo loom with many bobbins hanging from it. Each of sixteen strands originates from a flat clear flexible bobbin hanging from the perimeter of the disk and the finished braid is hanging through the middle, starting to fill a larger purple plastic bobbin, held up with a green binder clip pinning the most recently completed braid to one of the loops wrapped around the bobbin.
Scrivener screenshot of plans and calculations resulting in a small chart of lengths to cut for each of five colors of cord. If we say 18ft and venetian red is the four-cord one and the wraps at the ends... per side 18 x 2 = 36ft = 432in; 432in + 4in = 436in; 436in + 2.5in = 438.5 = 36'6.5" OR 436in + 12in = 448in = 37'4" A simple chart shows Venetian Red is 4 strands from 1 x 74 feet 8 inches and 1 x 73 feet 1 inch. Each of the next four colors, Red, Wine, Blue, and Yellow, is 3 strands from 1 x 73 feet 1 inch and 1 x 36 feet 6.5 inches.
A round woven kumihimo cord on a backdrop of red knitted fabric panels that were seamed together with single crochet. The cord is curved with one end a small macrame loop inserted into the larger starting loop to make it a bracelet. The body of the braid is yellow triangles pointing the opposite direction of blue triangles on a ground of variegated reds.
Red knit fabric, with crocheted seams and a silver crochet hook working in the far edge.
A short piece of kumihimo (tubular woven) braid from a single vibrant blue color, a simple macrame loop at one end and a knot at the other, photographed on a wooden table.
Photo of a small, long-haired, grizzled dog asleep on a pillow on a soft couch in a spot of afternoon sun.
A gif of a 3D scene in progress recreating a corner of a game environment concept by Christopher Kondylis. The scene is an inked painting of a broken down short dock outside a stone building, several boards from the end of the dock fallen into shallow water with cattails and steps down from the dock to a grassy patch with a bucket. The newest step of the 3D process includes all the structural wood, stone walls, bricks up the corner of the building, the bucket, a treasure chest partly obscured behind the dock, and a brick-colored tiled roof that was cutaway in the concept. None of the water, plant life, moss, or discoloration is represented yet.
A normal map, bright periwinkle with pink and green defining how the surface should angle away from the camera. It shows weathered, strong wood grain, a large patch at the top followed by two wide strips, one narrow one, and four blocks of end grain along the bottom edge.
A greybox blockout in Blender of a building with an exit onto a rectangular platform with incomplete handrails and steps down.
Extremely rough color sketch of a figure with blobby digital ink colors and scribbly labels. "Comfort zone: high-waisted stretchy jeans, tech college machine shop shirt, flannel" An arrow points to the lumpy top of the braided hair, "mussed from first time wearing a winter coat in at least a year." Another arrow points to the jeans' knees, "spilled coffee on these last time I tried to be clothed." A final arrow points out the tied shoes, "left the house."
Two ends of a crocheted bookmark based on a paper lantern plant--one is a dimensional, 5-sided orange construction, wider at the top with ridges at the joining of each side that taper down to a point at the bottom. The other end of a green crochet chain hangs a lacy green leaf, visually about the same size as the orange bauble but only one curved piece.
A pan of disarrayed golden brown edged, apple filled, triangular cut, rolled scones on parchment paper. A quarter of the pan is conspicuously empty, nine scones remaining.
A 3D rendered image of a stylized tiger, seen from above as it lays on its back with its paws relaxed in the air. It is laying on a surface covered by various kinds of paper airplanes, folded different ways and in a variety of bright reds, oranges, and pinks. The tiger’s eyes are closed, its tail curved into the air closer to the camera between its rear feet, and it is loosely holding a bright blue stuffed toy tiger to its chest. The tiny toy tiger has buttons for eyes and the traditional three-cross-beamed Chinese character 王 on its forehead in felt.
Progress of a digital drawing on a narrow vertical canvas, still only a sketch at its most complete form. The picture is three characters from the Starkid Hatchetfield series, one (Ethan Green) wearing a leather jacket and supporting another (Hannah Foster) with a large overshirt and backwards baseball cap, foot on his shoulder as she climbs a trellis to the third (Lex Foster) wearing an oversized denim jacket with a hood, leaning out of a window at the top of the composition. The initial sketch layers included the words "do as I say" at the top and "not as I do" at the bottom, and notes of color for different sections: a blue light shining from the direction Hannah is looking, white wood on the trellis and window frame, and green vines tangling around Ethan's legs and arm he's braced against the wall.
A messy digital cartoon of a person crushed under a large rock on hard ground. The rock is labeled: Heard good things about "recovery" and "health" and sporadically feel like death The hard place is labeled: Actually have something to say on stream because complaints are something, right? In small print: more to the point, what if I take time off and only feel worse the next day? The person's feet are the only thing emerging from under the boulder, but they are face-down wear green pants and blue socks with orange heels and toes. The signature is cjgladback, same as the poster's username.
A 9x13 pan full of a dozen apple cinnamon rolls, fresh from the oven with glistening buttery dark brown filling.
A black graphic on a white background, resembling a five-sided simple spiderweb especially on the outside where it is concentric rounded pentagons with spokes at each corner. Toward the center it becomes a network of plus signs or lowercase T shapes, some joined at the bottom to form V shapes. This is actually a crochet chart in progress.
An edit of Whimsical Stitchery's first photo of a colorful yarn progression, with rectangular snippets of each yarn ball arranged in two rows across the top. The cream yarn is backing each row, with small pieces of it spacing the other colors. The top row is maroon, purple, rose, taupe, yellow, sage, pale blue, black, and emerald. It's labeled with "med" for medium on each end, with "warm" above the maroon and "cool" above the emerald, "dark" labeling the purple and black just in from each and "symmetrical" over the central gradient with a pop of brighter yellow in the middle. The lower row is yellow, purple, maroon, rose, taupe, sage, pale blue, black, and emerald. The yellow and emerald are each marked "vibrant" with the central gradient marked "smooth." At the bottom of the image is a rough drawing of a sword, its blade simply shaded in grey. There's a bright shine streak across the middle of the blade, with a short gradient down to the darkest tones on either side of it before the remainder of the blade is medium tones away from the shine.
Four photos panning over crocheted objects on a wood table for a stereoscopic view of progressive prototypes of the "Alkekengi Bookmark" by @cjgladback, a design with a conical orange lace bauble, wider at the top, on the end of a long green crochet chain with a lacy green leaf on the other end. Leftmost is No 1, with a fairly shapeless bag of a bauble and a tiny leaf. No 2 is not pictured. No 3's bauble has prominent ridges between five pieces and is very squat, pumpkin-like; its leaf with an extra row of lace and curved. No 4 has no green attached, even more squat than the previous, but its five sides are held taut between the ridges in the middle. Next are two individual sides of the baubles, with unevenly ruffled edges, labeled "narrower!" The final prototype, No 5, is the narrowest, with taut sides at the apex between the ridges, its leaf the same curved shape as No 3's.
A photo of a crocheted orange structure on top of a ball of green crochet thread. The orange piece is a central pentagon attached along each edge to the centers of five leaf shapes, giving it a double layered ring of five petals.
Photo of the packed space on a desk in front of a laptop, with two balls of crochet thread, orange and green, a pair of scissors, and two fidget toys as well as several small, orange crocheted pieces. One of the pieces is a pentagon while the rest are five lacy arrowhead shapes, each with two open plastic lock-shaped stitch markers, one slid through each side.
A multicolor scribbled diagram on a white background; the pattern is circles and various T shapes radiating from the center, starting with a red round, then orange, olive, green, and the outside of sky blue. The symbols are nonstandard and hand drawn but indicate crochet chains and single, half double, double, and treble crochet stitches in the round.
A one-sheet, eight-page zine layout of How to Use Chopsticks; once folded, the back would have chopstick points and the text "by CJ Gladback," the front would have How to Use Chopsticks over two lines, and the inner cover would have the graphic of a splash and "without too much mess." Three pages with illustrations of chopsticks, hands, and food and instructions would be followed by a sparse spread of the final advice "but most of all, do what feels comfortable and eat well!" underlined by one more pair of orange chopsticks across the center line, with a tiny illustration of "(and maybe knit a scarf)" in the bottom right corner.
A title page reads “How to Use Chopsticks” in all caps. The words “without too much mess” are between two straight, orange lines, which start with round points at the left, evoking chopsticks, and end in flared shapes of a silhouetted splash on the right. Below the lower line are the words “by CJ Gladback.” All the text is in black, the background is white but appears light orange due to a repeating geometric watermark pattern of CJ’s logo in orange overlaid on the whole image; her handle on most sites is included once on each of the following spreads: @cjgladback​
An animated gif ad for a free emote, showing the same image in four sizes, both as a single frame and a short sequence. The image is the face of a dark, long-haired cat with her mouth open and tongue out, vocalizing. She's wearing a red hat with natural white fur trim and pompom, and above her are mint green music notes made of fish skeletons--the skull and spine with just a couple ribs attached near the end as flags for the eighth notes. In the animation the cat is unmoving but the music notes bob across the top from left to right, materializing then turning and shrinking away at the start and end of their paths. "Hark! a Free Emote, Animated & Static, sized for Twitch & Discord, credit @cjgladback, download from ko-fi.com/cjgladback"
"Suffix: Hey; @cjgladback." A grid of nine of the same Twitch emote, three copies of three sizes, over a large version of the same emote. The image is a semi-realistic digital illustration of a dark, long haired cat head meowing toward the left in three-quarters view with its mouth wide open to show the tongue. A magenta exclamation point floats in front of the cat, and on closer inspection the exclamation point is a simplified fish. The top row of emotes is only over the background image, the next row over a strip of black, the last over a strip of white.
A looping animation of a static landscape, drawn in the digital equivalent of ink with no transparency on a brown paper texture, and moving water in bright blue-greens. The landscape is a dark lighthouse and pine trees on a cliff that's pockmarked with caves. The water of the lake rises starting from the left with a massive splash from the wave. All the lines indicating the water are animated on every frame, which mostly conceals what might be something large moving from left to right in the deep before the lake levels drain again, starting from the right. With both the wave and the draining, water pours into and out of the cliffside's caves. The animation loops.
In front of a yellow orange background, a 3D rendered plastic cup, sealed with a clear film, slides into view from the left, the milk tea inside sloshing. The film inflates and then separates into a large and small bubble as if blown from a wand, which wobble as they rise out of frame. A blue-green straw drops into the film, splitting it; the whole cup leans to the right so the top of the straw is out of frame and the milk tea level lowers while it and dark boba flow up through the straw. The cup is set flat again and slides out of frame to the right before the loop repeats.
Ten colorful square thumbnail sketches, nine in the lower right corner and one alone in the upper left. Each has a set of initials under it: KC, WP, JD, HS, CR, AS, AG, RM, LA, and WC. The solo sketch is a red hat on the top of a rock ledge with the tops of trees around it. The grid from left to right, top to bottom, is: a brown interior with a ladder in the foreground and a kettle on a kitchen counter by a sink; a bright purple and pink lit group of store shelves with streamers and paper sphere decorations in the foreground; a switchbacking path with a handrail up to an overlook above segmented farmland; a view of a wooden airship steering wheel with the blue dirigible balloon above; a top-down view of a red semicircular restaurant booth with two chairs on the outside of the circular table, pizza boxes and a salt and pepper shaker on the table; a wingback chair with a guitar in the corner behind it, beside a short bookcase with a tripod lamp on top and a window; an interconnected system of stone platforms and bridges in a massive cavern lit by lanterns; a swooshing scene of a car with luggage on top following a curving road with powerlines and colorful clouds; and a primarily pink-lit house seen from the road with several other houses translucently stacked into the sky above it.
A 3D animated loop of a caterpillar knitting its own cocoon in front of a sun-dappled copse of trees. The hornworm is light green with large wrinkles across its back, four shiny dark eyes set low and wide in its face, and light colored mouth parts and legs. Its legs are just visible through the top stitches of the fuzzy yarn, purling left-handed. Its cocoon is rounded at the bottom and has seven stripes of various thickness. The yarn has fine hairs on it and its color blocks are variations of blue and plum until the most recent rows, which are bright orange. The whole pupa is hanging from two orange strands of yarn; they periodically twang from released tension during the knitting-driven rotation. The yarn fuzz and randomized stitch colors on the pupa cross-fade every four seconds as the pupa rotates. Each active stitch on the needles, while in motion to form a new stitch, is without fuzz; this is the only part of the looped animation that pops in and out.
Four craggy pieces of baked pie dough in an open, clear plastic container, folded upward and pinched along the top around filling like a dumpling.