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Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 1.2: Making Mistakes - working fast & cutting work up
As my relationship with my sketchbooks has evolved during my OCA studies, I have learnt to be less precious about them. Especially my...

Dan Woodward
Sep 7, 20194 min read
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Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 1.1: What is your relationship with your sketchbook?
Getting to notice where I am at with my relationships with sketchbooks, so I can evolve and move forward.

Dan Woodward
Aug 29, 20193 min read
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Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 1.0: What sort of sketchbook should I use?
Thinking about the qualities of the sketchbooks I would use for this module.

Dan Woodward
Aug 15, 20194 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 5.7 - Educational Strip
How to help teens tackle puberty using sequential illustration and a little bit of empathy!

Dan Woodward
Jul 28, 20195 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 5.6 - Working For Children
Stepping into the unforgiving world of children's illustration

Dan Woodward
Jul 28, 20195 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 5.5 - Packaging
Putting extinct animals onto the packaging of kids biscuits!

Dan Woodward
Jul 28, 20195 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 5.4 - Text & Image
Getting to grips with using typography to express the characteristics of words.

Dan Woodward
Jul 9, 20193 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 5.3 - Travel Guides
Creating a book jacket for a travel guide, thinking about how to make your own fonts and how you incorporate that in a page layout.

Dan Woodward
Jul 8, 20194 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 5.2 - Editorial Illustration
Extra, extra read all about it! Creating an illustration to amplify the message of a newspaper article

Dan Woodward
Jul 8, 20194 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 5.1 - Your Own Work
Ok, so for this exercise I might have skipped ahead a bit... I actually noted this exercise while I was completing earlier sections. I...

Dan Woodward
May 24, 20194 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 4.7 - Character Development
The objective of this exercise is to take some first steps into character design and development. This is something that has always...

Dan Woodward
May 5, 20193 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 4.6 - Visual Distorion
The exercise starts off by telling you that it's designed to push you through a deliberate process. Well it did that, and really pushed...

Dan Woodward
May 3, 20196 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 4.5 - A Tattoo
This exercise was really enjoyable! The task was to create a tattoo for a male friend around the theme of "Mother". The catch was it also...

Dan Woodward
May 2, 20198 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 4.4 - A Menu Card
For this exercise the challenge was to create an illustration that would be used on a menu card, but also - if suitable - could be used...

Dan Woodward
May 2, 20194 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 4.3 - A Children's Book Cover
For this exercise, I was tasked with something that I was quite apprehensive of - creating a children's book cover. I have always...

Dan Woodward
May 1, 20193 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 4.2 - Museum Posters
The objective of this exercise was to create colour visual for three museum posters, and then prepare finished artwork for at least one...

Dan Woodward
Apr 29, 20195 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 4.1 - Identifying tools and materials
The aim of this exercise is to explore a selection of illustrators that use a particular medium and see how they use their preferred...

Dan Woodward
Apr 5, 201910 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 3.8 - Making a Mockup
For this exercise I had to make a mockup of a book cover. It sounds easy enough, right? Well I thought so at first, but soon came to find...

Dan Woodward
Mar 16, 20194 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 3.7 - Client Visuals
The aim of this exercise was to take 2 finished illustrations, then distil the essence of their language on paper at a size double the...

Dan Woodward
Mar 16, 20194 min read
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Illustration 1, Exercise 3.6 - Viewpoint
The objective of this exercise was to start from the following possible themes: Festival, The morning after, Summertime, & Workshop. I...

Dan Woodward
Mar 14, 20192 min read
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