OLDASS VIDEOS

Looking at the Ringling kid's animation assignments makes me feel woefully inadequate. But here are all the animations I've done. All two of 'em. Yeeeah.

The Happiest Dolphin from Adele Hawkins on Vimeo.

Fuck yeah art camp. This assignment and the stupid little dolphin it wrought are the reasons why I'm saddling myself with a ton of debt to hopefully, maybe, make animation my career.

Poor Peep from Adele Hawkins on Vimeo.

This was unreasonably last minute, and working on it was the only time I was ever able to successfully pull a legit all-nighter. Can you say shitty filming job? But anyway. Damn, I can't wait to get better at this nonsense.

But really, I need to log the fuck off and do my job.

Page one of Tiger Days, written by Ila Coltas. I'm taking way too long, and I shoddily slapped together a second page, but instead of looking sparse and clean it just looked poorly drawn, lazy and half-assed. It's daunting to do a comic when I don't think I can adequately draw in the first place, and I feel like some of these drawings even could be more realistic but... AUGH. I'm taking my dad's advice and Frank Frazetta-ing it. It's what everyone else does.

I sound freaked out, but really, life is pretty awesome.

facebook status

"In addition to feeling like a nervous wreck, I had to throw down six bucks, which was heart breaking enough by itself." And that was my reaction to getting high for the first time.

Seven people "liked" it on facebook, anyway.

Page uno draft

Why is it so difficult to work up motivation to work? I think having a tablet and scanner at my disposal should make everything easier.

the greatest thing

I'm pretty sure this is the greatest thing I've ever drawn.

aRRRRRRT part dos

What do you mean there's more?! By the way, I suck at photographing art, and at formatting images with the text in the blog. I feel like everyone else knows something I don't. Anyway.













More still lifes! This was earlier in the winter semester. I struggle with rendering in charcoal, guys. I can draw forms, but using charcoal to give them depth is something that I have yet to grasp. Anyway, this bitch features a hipster shoe, a mason jar, and a sweet potato, so I guess it's a'ight.














This is a locking caribeaner, which Mozilla firefox has no idea how to spell, and neither do I. Also, I am scads better at typing than I used to be! Holy moley.















One day I'll get better at documenting work, I swear.















My mom totally gave me a dead, frozen squirrel to use as a reference for this. I love my mom.
















Another piece for the same assignment as the squirrel. This was retarded and last minute.




















This was an attempt to redeem myself for the retardedness of the mummy cat debacle. And that was drawing two, guys. Actual art school should be way more intense, but it was still a good semester. Really good. I feel like I got out slightly more often and did a few more things than I did first semester. I love college.

aRRRRRRT

HOLY SHIT GUAIZ I GOT A LEGIT ILLUSTRATION JOB. I'M ILLUSTRATING A COMIC ABOUT A GIRL WHO HUNTS TIGERS. AUGH. AND I WON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT RENT THIS SUMMER BECAUSE I'M GETTING A SWEET DOWN-PAYMENT. YESSSSSS.

I love this life. I love other aspects of this life, too, but back to the point. While I was at school I DID generate some art, if of dubious quality.






This is one half of a late figure drawing assignment from the fall. So many hours! I remember just poring over this in my dorm in late november, and I was frustrated with one of the guys in my life at the time. Funny story, for my final portfolio I ended up just giving him a sketch book and I totes got an A. Not gonna happen EVER again XD I was obsessed with Useful Chamber by The Dirty Projectors while I was working on this.











This is the other half of that drawing, sans the photoshopping.












I should be working instead of this blog. Anyway, this was my last minute drawing final, which brazenly features my roommate's face. Not proud of it, and when I tried to do the Byzantine thing it just wound up being Baroque. Those are speech bubbles, and the sketch looks way better. Oh well.













Yay, shitty photoshop jobs! During our intro to figure the model didn't show up, so
Reedy (our professor) made us circle up into groups to draw each other's portraits. I knew the drill, having taken figure the previous semester. This was my best likeness.















Oil pastels! Working on this during class with the actual still life was, for some reason, not working for me, but working from a photograph did. It took forever for me to overcome my fear of covering the paper with oil.







Let's see if I properly resized these bitches.