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Visual Exploration - Exercise 3.3: Big
I really wanted to choose option three for this exercise: a large-scale landscape painting. However, I still experienced massive...

Dan Woodward
Jun 7, 20223 min read
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Visual Explortion - Exercise 3.1: Fast
For this exercise, the section gets going by throwing you into trying to create quickly and instinctively. I was pleased that the...

Dan Woodward
Mar 6, 20222 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.7: Composing Pictures
For this exercise, given that the text allowed for the possibility of creating digital collages, I thought it would be fruitless to find...

Dan Woodward
Feb 20, 20222 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.6: 'Cut-Ups'
This was a surprisingly fun exercise. I had bought two popular tabloid papers on the previous weekend and started as the exercise...

Dan Woodward
Feb 17, 20222 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.5: Word Processing
This exercise seemed to be very similar in structure to Exercise 2.3, so I decided to take a similar approach in my execution. I followed...

Dan Woodward
Feb 16, 20222 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.4: Word Associations
Introduction This exercise was incredibly frustrating. It was like kryptonite to my ADHD brain. At first, it seems simple and derivative...

Dan Woodward
Feb 12, 202210 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.3: Words to Pictures
It's taken me months to write up this experiment. While I started it in December, much disruption took hold over the new year, and I...

Dan Woodward
Feb 12, 20222 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.2: Multi-Dimensional Thinking
For this exercise, the task was to use random dots on a page to develop shapes and then volumes by using the shapes as vertices. I...

Dan Woodward
Dec 15, 20214 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.1: Getting Into ‘The Zones
To start this section looking into visual approaches, the coursebook introduced the idea of the comfort zone. This exercise tasked me to...

Dan Woodward
Dec 8, 20214 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 1.2: Good Working Habits
For this exercise, after reflecting on the coursework content on documenting & reflecting on work, and creating good work habits, I was...

Dan Woodward
Nov 16, 20219 min read
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Visual Exploration - Exercise 1.1: Thinking about your Workspace
When I started my OCA degree in 2018, I was using a desk in our spare bedroom, normally allocated for my PC. As I started to build up...

Dan Woodward
Nov 11, 20219 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 5.3: Create an Artwork
For this exercise, I was a little surprised, as I already had a good idea about what subject I wanted to use. My little nod to The...

Dan Woodward
Sep 1, 20215 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 5.4: Shoot a Photo Story
I had a little bit of experience going into this exercise, as I had to use photos as a backup for Exercise 3.3. For this exercise,...

Dan Woodward
Aug 31, 20213 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 5.2: Make a Mini-Comic
This exercise was actually already very familiar for me, as I had elected to create a comic for Assignment 4 of Illustration Sketchbooks....

Dan Woodward
Aug 14, 20212 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 5.1, Research 5.1 & 5.2
Exercise 5.1: Reviewing your own work For this exercise, I went back through my work over this unit and selected pieces that spoke to me....

Dan Woodward
Aug 12, 20213 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.7: A Day in the Life
I hated this exercise. It was far too ambiguous and open-ended. And honestly, my day-to-day involves me sitting for hours in one room....

Dan Woodward
Aug 2, 20212 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.6: Documenting an Event
For this exercise, the task was to create a two-page comic narrative of an event (either news or domestic). The upside of being overdue...

Dan Woodward
Aug 1, 20215 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.5: Caricature
For this exercise, I was to create a full-body caricature of a famous person. Usually starting something like this would be difficult...

Dan Woodward
Jul 22, 20214 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.4: Future Worlds
For this exercise the task was to create an image of a fantastical or futuristic world on a large scale (A3 or larger) based around four...

Dan Woodward
Jul 16, 20213 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.3: Create a Superhero
For this exercise, I was tasked with creating a superhero (it didn't need to be a serious mainstream hero). The end result needed to be a...

Dan Woodward
Jul 9, 20218 min read
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