DAN WOODWARD

I had had some experience creating educational comics before, having created one for a client as part of my day job. However, creating...

I write this learning log after one of the most frustrating sections of my OCA studies. My assignment will be almost two months late....

In this exercise, I needed to select two candidates from the following list of artists with a more extreme style, and then consider the...

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...

For this research task I was asked to research two of the following: Frans Masereel, Passionate Journey and My Book of Hours (1919) Lynd...

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...

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...

This exercise ended up being trickier than I had first hoped as multiple mishaps occurred. In writing this exercise up, I have decided to...

This research task was to consider an issue of the Will Eisner comic "The Spirit" that was shown in the coursebook and then consider...

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...

I realised when submitting the second assignment that I hadn't done my usual process of reflecting on my assignments. So I've waited for...

For this second assignment, I had the opportunity to pull together aspects of the things I had learned through the exercises of this...

Introduction After completing exercise 2.4, which was frustratingly similar to an exercise from another OCA module. I was disheartened to...

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...

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...

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...

The second exercise is research-focused and explores the one-panel 'gag' cartoon still popularised in satirical publications, political...

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...

For this first assignment, the end result was to create a self-portrait in homage to the self-portraits made by sequential artists over...

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...