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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.4: Flick-books and animated gifs
For this exercise, I was asked to put together small animations based on the idea of action movies using flipbooks or software. My first...

Dan Woodward
Mar 28, 20242 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Research 3.6: Interesting Sequential Illustration.
For this research task, I was asked to pick examples of work I find interesting in sequential illustration. While I was completing the...

Dan Woodward
Mar 24, 20246 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.3: Girl Meets Boy
For this exercise, I had to create a one-page comic that followed the general premise of girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl wins the...

Dan Woodward
Mar 19, 20243 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.2: Once Upon a Time
In this exercise, I had to create a series of black-and-white illustrations for a popular fairy story or folk tale. I had just introduced...

Dan Woodward
Mar 19, 20245 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.1: You are what you eat.
I thought this exercise would be relatively simple. On first reading the exercise text seemed to be fairly self-explanatory. However, as...

Dan Woodward
Oct 20, 20234 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.5: A rose by any other name
For this exercise I didn't find any suitable plants in the house, and cuttings I took from plants outside proved difficult to draw. So I...

Dan Woodward
Aug 27, 20232 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.4: Architectural illustration
In this exercise, I explored aspects of architectural illustration. The task specifically asked me to create an illustration that "shows...

Dan Woodward
Aug 21, 20236 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.6: There and back again
For this exercise I was tasked with documenting a journey, focusing on the beginning, middle and return. I had been wondering how to do...

Dan Woodward
Aug 4, 20233 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.3: Everyday Fashion
For this exercise I was tasked to draw a range of people in different clothes, varying my attention to sometimes draw the whole outfit...

Dan Woodward
Jul 17, 20239 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.2: Drawing on Location
While I was due to go to a concert in the end, I decided not to use that event for this exercise. I wanted to be fully present for my...

Dan Woodward
Jul 5, 20232 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.1: Drawing on the familiar
When I started this unit I saw it as a welcome opportunity to get back to using my sketchbooks to draw from life. During and after the...

Dan Woodward
Jul 5, 20234 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 1.4: Visual Depth
I've had to tackle perspective a number of times over the course of my studies, and it is something I enjoy yet am slightly obsessive...

Dan Woodward
May 30, 20232 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 1.3: Less is more
For this exercise, I needed to explore colour palettes. Specifically the challenge of using a limited palette. As I was writing out...

Dan Woodward
May 28, 20235 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 1.2: Mixing and Matching
This was another fun exercise that I was pleased to complete at the start of this module, it really managed to get me back in the swing...

Dan Woodward
May 28, 20237 min read
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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 1.1: Draw, draw and draw again
I was looking forward to this exercise. When I read the brief it seemed like a really good way for me to let go of some of my...

Dan Woodward
May 18, 20233 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 5.3: Creating Connections
Reading through this exercise I noticed that my 10 selected images did not fit well with the exercise brief. Indeed, one of my chosen...

Dan Woodward
Jan 11, 20232 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 5.2: Creative Audit
The main reflection I have as I complete this exercise is just how 'bitty' this module seems to have been. Looking back it feels...

Dan Woodward
Dec 19, 20222 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 5.1: Reflection on Part Four
Usually, I do a separate reflection post after I have received formative feedback from my tutor. This, time - it's actually the first...

Dan Woodward
Dec 19, 20226 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 3.4: Small
For this exercise, I again altered my approach in order to make progress. Initially, I wanted to explore the idea of small through option...

Dan Woodward
Jul 5, 20225 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 3.2: Slow
For this exercise, I had to change direction due to the destruction of my studio space. Originally, I had decided to choose Option 1 -...

Dan Woodward
Jul 5, 20225 min read
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