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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.2: Create a Children’s Comic Character
For this exercise, I had to invent a character based on these prompts: Young Detective Space Kid Animal Character I needed to sketch up...

Dan Woodward
Jul 2, 20213 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.1: True Stories
I had had some experience creating educational comics before, having created one for a client as part of my day job. However, creating...

Dan Woodward
Jun 13, 20215 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.6: Exercises in Style
This exercise has taxed me more than any other I've done in my OCA modules to date. Writing this, I am both relieved and exhausted. The...

Dan Woodward
May 10, 20218 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.5: Speaking in Pictures
Following on from Exercise 3.4, this time I was taking text and creating images from it. However this time the text was going to be song...

Dan Woodward
Apr 17, 20216 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.4: Adapting Text
This exercise takes a text of my choice and adapts it to a graphic format. Choosing my text was harder than I had expected. Since my son...

Dan Woodward
Apr 11, 20213 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.3: Point of View
This exercise ended up being trickier than I had first hoped as multiple mishaps occurred. In writing this exercise up, I have decided to...

Dan Woodward
Apr 1, 20213 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.2: Introducing your character
After selecting my chosen sketch in Exercise 3.1 I got started with this exercise. My sketch was not really good enough to simply copy...

Dan Woodward
Mar 21, 20212 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.1: Starting A Story
The brief was simple for this exercise: every time I watched a film or TV show, I had to sketch the opening scene. For this exercise, I...

Dan Woodward
Mar 20, 20215 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.5: Black, White & Colour
I sit here writing up this exercise feeling like I've been ten rounds in the ring with a heavyweight boxer! It's really beaten me up! In...

Dan Woodward
Feb 18, 20217 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.4: Finding Reference
When I first read the brief for this exercise I got the strangest feeling of déjà vu: where had I seen this before? That's right - Key...

Dan Woodward
Feb 17, 20216 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.3: Character Sketches
Strap in, because this exercise is a big one! So, for this exercise, our job is to visualise a number of characters based on well-known...

Dan Woodward
Jan 31, 20215 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.1: Wordplay
This exercise seemed like a really fun way to start section two and would allow me to start to explore some of the relationships between...

Dan Woodward
Jan 24, 20217 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercises 1.3 & 1.4: Filling a Page
For Exercise 1.3, I was tasked with splitting an A3 page into a grid with 8 panels. I found creating panels with a 1cm gap a little...

Dan Woodward
Jan 2, 20212 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 1.2: Action & Reaction
Exercise For the first part of this exercise, I had to create a 2-panel strip from 2, 12cm squares. These squares were meant to depict an...

Dan Woodward
Dec 31, 20203 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 1.1: Drawing from History
For this exercise, I was tasked with choosing one of the artists that I had researched in the History of Comics task. I am approaching...

Dan Woodward
Dec 29, 20204 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 0.4: Managing your Time
There is a certain irony of spending a day writing a blog post about managing your time because you have had so much to do that day and...

Dan Woodward
Dec 3, 20205 min read
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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 0.3: Analysing and reflecting
This is the first post of the Graphic Fiction module. In this brief exercise I get used to applying visual analysis to the comics I read.

Dan Woodward
Dec 3, 20202 min read
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Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 5.3: Constructing a Visual Journal
From the point of reading through what I had to do through section five, this exercise was definitely the one I had the most problems...

Dan Woodward
May 4, 20203 min read
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Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 5.2: Making connections
For this exercise there are two parts: Use techniques like SCAMPER to composite images Create collections of the composites to create...

Dan Woodward
May 3, 20205 min read
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Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 5.1: Making an action plan, visually
I like to work visually, and a large part of my professional work involves helping people to visualise their work. For this exercise, I...

Dan Woodward
May 1, 20202 min read
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