Jesse Hawley

29 August 2015

science, writing

Bird diversity took flight only after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs

Jesse Hawley

29 August 2015

science, writing

Bird diversity took flight only after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs

DNA was analysed to write out the complete family tree for birds. They found that bird species diversified only once dinosaurs went extinct.

Jesse Hawley

17 August 2015

cartoons & comics

Downtown at the pigeon hospital

Jesse Hawley

17 August 2015

cartoons & comics

A cartoon of the pigeon health care system.

Jesse Hawley

1 August 2015

cartoons & comics, personal

Life alone

Jesse Hawley

1 August 2015

cartoons & comics, personal

I recently moved out by myself after living with my partner for almost all of my adult life. I had an idea that I would be supremely productive. So far so good, actually.

Jesse Hawley

28 July 2015

cartoons & comics, science, commission

CSIRO work — New Horizons comic and Sydney volcanoes diagram

Jesse Hawley

28 July 2015

cartoons & comics, science, commission

CSIRO work — New Horizons comic and Sydney volcanoes diagram

Here are my latest illustrations of great CSIRO research: New Horizons Pluto flyby, and the submarine Sydney volcanoes.

Jesse Hawley

1 July 2015

science, fine art & animation, commission

Slacks Creek oil painting and time-lapse (Work in progress)

Jesse Hawley

1 July 2015

science, fine art & animation, commission

Slacks Creek oil painting and time-lapse (Work in progress)

My next commission is for the Logan City Council in Queensland, who are restoring Slacks Creek, a tributary of Logan River.

Jesse Hawley

17 June 2015

fine art & animation, personal

Oil painting — My earliest, oiliest expeditions

Jesse Hawley

17 June 2015

fine art & animation, personal

Oil painting — My earliest, oiliest expeditions

With a big oil painting project coming up, I had a look through my previous oil artworks. It was helpful to see my earliest attempts to see what I botched, and spark some memories for what I found difficult at the time.

Jesse Hawley

24 May 2015

science, cartoons & comics

Out on a limb

Jesse Hawley

24 May 2015

science, cartoons & comics

A comic about a bat propositioning another bat. There's no significance apart from the influence of The Far Side on my humour.

Jesse Hawley

29 April 2015

science, writing

The scientific method in action

Jesse Hawley

29 April 2015

science, writing

Researchers used a carefully designed experiment to show that anole lizards in Florida evolved in just 15 years to cope with an invading lizard species.

Jesse Hawley

24 March 2015

science, fine art & animation

'Canned Pixels' — Tuna pixel art

Jesse Hawley

24 March 2015

science, fine art & animation

My tuna pixel art for a gallery event about sustainable seafood.

Jesse Hawley

10 March 2015

science, fine art & animation, commission

Speed drawing and animation of the 'Enigma moth'

Jesse Hawley

10 March 2015

science, fine art & animation, commission

Speed drawing and animation of the 'Enigma moth'

I did a time-lapse painting and post production animation of the newly discovered 'Dinosaur' or 'Enigma' moth (Aenigmatinea glatzella).

Jesse Hawley

6 March 2015

science, writing

Beecause I forgot: Bumblebees get their memories mixed up too

Jesse Hawley

6 March 2015

science, writing

Beecause I forgot: Bumblebees get their memories mixed up too

Bumblebees have been shown to misremember traits of desirable stimuli, conflating two familiar traits to pursue an unfamiliar mix.

Jesse Hawley

23 February 2015

fine art & animation, miscellany

Pixel art self-portrait

Jesse Hawley

23 February 2015

fine art & animation, miscellany

A pixelated self-portrait using an iOS app, 'Dots'.

Jesse Hawley

10 February 2015

cartoons & comics

PEZman

Jesse Hawley

10 February 2015

cartoons & comics

PEZman, a cartoon of how a human might appear if they were a PEZ dispenser.

Jesse Hawley

8 February 2015

science, fine art & animation

Arthropod illustrations

Jesse Hawley

8 February 2015

science, fine art & animation

I sat down to draw some arthopods in various media. Beetle larvae, ladybird spider, psyllid, and scales in pen, water colour, and pencils.

Jesse Hawley

3 February 2015

science, cartoons & comics

Red-green colour blindness

Jesse Hawley

3 February 2015

science, cartoons & comics

A comic inspired by a talk I saw by JP Higham from NYU's anthropology department where the colour of monkeys' body parts take advantage of the red-green colour blindness of cats.

Jesse Hawley

18 January 2015

cartoons & comics

Cabanossi farm

Jesse Hawley

18 January 2015

cartoons & comics

Down at the cabanossi farm (cartoon).

Jesse Hawley

18 January 2015

personal, fine art & animation

Rube Goldberg Trip (Animation)

Jesse Hawley

18 January 2015

personal, fine art & animation

One of the first times I went running on a treadmill and what I expected to happen happened.

Jesse Hawley

17 January 2015

science, writing

Missing Mars probe Beagle 2 sniffed out by satellite after 11 year disappearance

Jesse Hawley

17 January 2015

science, writing

Missing Mars probe Beagle 2 sniffed out by satellite after 11 year disappearance

Eleven years after the Beagle 2 spacecraft disappeared on Mars, NASA’s orbiting reconnaissance satellite has snapped photos of what appears to be the Beagle 2’s hull in the dusts of the Red Planet.

Jesse Hawley

9 January 2015

science, cartoons & comics

Gametes

Jesse Hawley

9 January 2015

science, cartoons & comics

A peak inside the marketing world of gametes (cartoon).