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A giraffe and his boy

An illustration to kick off the summer. Two, please!

I started drawing a buffalo, but I thought it needed something more, hence the cats.

 DFA, where the only justification I need for giant nocturnal floating fish is "it looks cool." This was lots of fun!

Design Lab: drawing furries for homework

Gee whiz, it sure has been awhile! Now I'm a Junior, and already buried by homework, but here's a little somethin' somethin' I did for our Drawing For Animators (DFA) class.

We pulled character designs from silhouettes, scribbles, and photos of textures. It was a neat process for idea generation, definitely hope to do some more of these.

lhawkins silhouette final from Adele Hawkins on Vimeo.

Oh, look! An animation! We do a lot of that here. Silhouette exercise was really fun.

FINALESSSSSSSS

Now that the semester's over, I don't know what to do with free time, so I think it's about time to plug in some bloggin' swag. Whatever that means.


 
Please be Mime from Adele Hawkins on Vimeo.

I even tried to do an actual character sheet, only to go off model in every single frame, and then I decided it wasn't enough to just go off model, so I changed his name too. I'm sure the lack of consistency won't factor in at ALL in the final grade, right?



 Mimes get ALL the invisible girls, geez. Gotta fix a couple parts, but I figured I would post it anyway, because if I son't now it'll just fester on my hard drive and start resenting me. This was a fun story to work out, especially since most of the interaction happens between the mime and an invisible woman, and how are you supposed to get THAT to make sense? I originally pitched something like this for my Sit-Stand animation assignment but I was like "lol too animation and acting heavy". And speaking of

Sit Stand... remember this guy?




 


Or this guy?


 


Perhaps you recognize THIS FELLOW?!?!


 



The president made a special appearance in my sit stand assignment.



 
Abe Lincoln goes to the Theater from Adele Hawkins on Vimeo.



This assignment was crazy and heartbreaking and made me question my life, hope you enjoy it. Next step, figure out what to do this summer.

In this episode, Adele learns what half lights and half tones are. 

Mime cousin Vinny

Everyone else does nice looking character sheets, so I wanted to make one that didn't suck as bad as mine usually do. Say hello to Vincent, everyone. It's pronounced French-ly.

Gee willickers, look at these figures in context!

I wish I could lay down at the foot of a tree... I picked the wrong major for that.

It's almost as if he's sitting on a bench! Unfortunately this is a cropped down version; originally I showed more of the table and there was another cup... that belonged to someone who DIDN'T SHOW UP! Now all he has is that one lonely cup...

(In real life it was a starbucks cup, what do you want from me)

I swear I'll post things from my major... after the semester ends. Until then, all y'all have to settle for awkward studies.

Some recent work from my figure painting class... which I have yet to paint in. But I've enjoyed practicing drawing for longer sessions. When I started this class the only figure experience I had was with gestures, so I wasn't sure how to spend my time. I had another sketchbook with drawings like this, but alas it is le gone. Oh well. 

These might come across as being offensively bright.

So I took a sketch dump...

These were my ideations for simple poly last semester. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I drew the shark and ...troll... thing. Now for sitstand I'm mainly doing Abe Lincoln. I mean, obviously.

These Lincolns were actually too generic looking, so the the end product is going to be a lot more exaggerated than this.

OH AND LOOK, EVEN MORE BIRDS, THIS TIME FOR CONCEPT. PERHAPS THERE IS SOME SORT OF PATTERN HERE, I'M NOT SURE.

I need to stop blogging and actually make pretty things that look nice on blogs, or portfolios.

Rocky

...but no Bullwinkle. This is one of dozens of drawings I made of these german shepherds that I dogsat over break.

Merry Christmas!

Helped out my sister with a secret santa exchange. Originally there was lineart, and then I was like, "...no" and painted the bugger. Merry Christmas!

Finals Galore

lhawkins the theif final from Adele Hawkins on Vimeo.


This final for storyboarding class revolved around typical story of the thief: someone wants a bite of your food. We had to pitch ideas to the class (which was pretty fun in itself); I had other pitches with whales and kittens or whatever, but everyone else was all like, no, do the sun, and I was like, a'ight. This was my favorite final. My classmates and I were supra-fortunate to have one Mr. Paul Downs as our professor. He was extremely inspiring and made everyone want to get better at boarding. We all geeked out when he gave us homework over break.





 lhawkins SP JWT 2 from Adele Hawkins on Vimeo.

I passed CA!

Horrible things

Because I think rigs with eye balls and no other geometry are terrifying and hilarious.

Goat pantomime

lhawkins panto redo 2 from Adele Hawkins on Vimeo.

Welp, here's that there goat again. The best animated part is the end, for sure.

Animal walks

lol walk cycles

I love TA. At Ringling it feels like it's hard to do as well as you'd like in every class, but we try anyway.

Animal walk cycles from Adele Hawkins on Vimeo.


 My first four-legged walk was a horse, which was... very mechanical. I had been drawing horses all summer, so I wanted to try my hand at moving them. Turns out I don't know anything about horse dynamics, but it was still a good time.

For my second cycle, my professor insisted I do something a lot less rigid. I was at a complete loss, so when he suggested otters, I leaped on it. I mean, have you seen otters walk? The S-curves on them are RIDICULOUS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF6ijhSrbBQ <- Too adorable.

The last one is a study for our upcoming character acting assignment. It's in pantomime, so no dialogue, no sound, no fancy camera work. I arbitrarily wanted to do a goat.

MORE MONKEYS AND DOLPHINS

So for story boarding we had to illustrate the different stages of Maimou and the Dolphin, this here being the "resolution." But the first image didn't really ask any questions: it's pretty evident that the monkey's gonna land in the water.

...so this time I made the monkey's fate a bit more uncertain.

Let's be honest though, I'm updating my blog because I'm procrastination. Back to work, monkey!

Revamps

                               As you can no doubt see, I take critique extremely seriously.