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Responding to a Brief - Assignment 5: Self-directed project

Dan Woodward

20 hours ago19 min read

Responding to a Brief - Assignment 5: Self-directed project

So here we are, Assignment Five - typically where everything comes together. For this module's final assignment, the task was very...

Responding to a Brief - Assignment 4: You are here

Dan Woodward

Nov 76 min read

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...

Responding to a Brief - Assignment 3: A Graphic Short Story

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...

Responding to a Brief - Assignment 2: A Sense of Place

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....

Responding to a Brief - Assignment One: Invisible Cities

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...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 4)

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...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 3)

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...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 2)

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...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 1)

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...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part Three)

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...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part Two)

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...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part One)

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...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 3: Movement

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...

Visual Exploration - Assignment Two: Presenting Your Work

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...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 1: Flowing & Playing

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....

Graphic Fiction - Assignment 5: Your Graphic Fiction

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...

Graphic Fiction - Assignment 4: Cover Versions

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...

Graphic Fiction - Assignment 3: Nine Panel Grid

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....

Graphic Fiction - Assignment 2: Time & Place, ‘Four Seasons in One Page’

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...

Graphic Fiction - Assignment 1: You Are A Character!

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...

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