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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.4: Pixelated images
For this exercise, I was asked to create a series of illustrations that explored my relationship to digital technologies. I am of the...

Dan Woodward
Oct 3, 20245 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.5: Street Art
I completed this exercise out of order, so that I could respond to the brief as practically as possible. Given that made things...

Dan Woodward
Sep 11, 20243 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.2: World Affairs
I struggled with this exercise. On paper, it made a lot of sense and seemed straightforward. However, I was also suffering a lot from...

Dan Woodward
Sep 11, 20242 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.1: Caricature and character
Barry Fantoni’s portraits of 70s and 80s television celebrities, while exaggerating facial features and expressions for comic effect, are...

Dan Woodward
Jun 2, 20244 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.5: Animal Farm
For this exercise I was tasked to create some character design for an anthropromorphic character, making sure to show them in a variety...

Dan Woodward
Mar 29, 20243 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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