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Responding to a Brief - Assignment 4: You are here
I have been in somewhat of a crisis. My mental health has been at rock bottom and it's left me at times considering very dark thoughts...
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Dan Woodward
Mar 295 min read
Responding to a Brief - Assignment 3: A Graphic Short Story
I actually finished this assignment on time, in November. It's hard to imagine that now, these months later. Revisiting it again to write...
Dan Woodward
Sep 11, 20236 min read
Responding to a Brief - Assignment 2: A Sense of Place
Introduction Another assignment, and overdue again! I am getting tired of things tripping up my planning and putting my schedule back....
Dan Woodward
Jun 11, 20239 min read
Responding to a Brief - Assignment One: Invisible Cities
Introduction Finishing this assignment took me much longer than I had anticipated. I think all-in-all I have put about 50-60 hours into...
Dan Woodward
Feb 8, 20234 min read
Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 4)
For my third and final image, I wanted to take a more traditional approach, and really latch on to my feedback to create a separation...
Dan Woodward
Feb 8, 20239 min read
Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 3)
For this second image, I decided to delve into the realm of 3D. I studied closely two books by James Gurney [2,3] to explore not just the...
Dan Woodward
Feb 8, 20234 min read
Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 2)
This post will cover my work for the first image of the assignment. For this image, I decided to start by reviewing an approach I had...
Dan Woodward
Feb 8, 20235 min read
Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 1)
It wasn't easy to know how to approach this final assignment. When I had originally read through the coursebook, I had a rough map of the...
Dan Woodward
Oct 31, 202214 min read
Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part Three)
So after all my exploratory work, I felt I had a good bearing on what I wanted to produce, and how I might create it. I looked back over...
Dan Woodward
Oct 18, 20228 min read
Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part Two)
To start with, I needed a pseudonym. I had been mulling over different options in the weeks running up to the assignment. I liked a lot...
Dan Woodward
Oct 18, 20225 min read
Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part One)
Assignment Four is a new experience for me. For all of my other coursework, there has always been a series of exercises to introduce...
Dan Woodward
Aug 31, 202211 min read
Visual Exploration - Assignment 3: Movement
I almost thought that I would never finish this assignment. There have been a number of times when I felt that this section might make me...
Dan Woodward
Feb 21, 20221 min read
Visual Exploration - Assignment Two: Presenting Your Work
I am used to sharing my work, having produced videos of my work for Illustration Sketchbooks, so this was not really outside of my...
Dan Woodward
Nov 26, 20212 min read
Visual Exploration - Assignment 1: Flowing & Playing
For this first assignment, the brief asked me to pick from one of three different approaches. I decided to take the Illustration option....
Dan Woodward
Sep 22, 20218 min read
Graphic Fiction - Assignment 5: Your Graphic Fiction
So, another stressful piece of work, which I will try my best to interrogate and unpack as part of this write-up. Having finished the...
Dan Woodward
Aug 7, 202111 min read
Graphic Fiction - Assignment 4: Cover Versions
I've been looking forward to this assignment, and I think that I have made a lot of progress throughout this section, so it will be...
Dan Woodward
May 26, 20216 min read
Graphic Fiction - Assignment 3: Nine Panel Grid
I write this learning log after one of the most frustrating sections of my OCA studies. My assignment will be almost two months late....
Dan Woodward
Feb 22, 20217 min read
Graphic Fiction - Assignment 2: Time & Place, ‘Four Seasons in One Page’
For this second assignment, I had the opportunity to pull together aspects of the things I had learned through the exercises of this...
Dan Woodward
Jan 10, 202113 min read
Graphic Fiction - Assignment 1: You Are A Character!
For this first assignment, the end result was to create a self-portrait in homage to the self-portraits made by sequential artists over...
Dan Woodward
Jul 1, 202014 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Assignment Five: Application and Context
Deciding Which Option So here I am the final assignment of the unit. There have been moments when I was not sure if I was going to make...
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