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Practice & Research - Exercise 0.4: Reflective Commentary
For this exercise, I was asked to produce my first reflective commentary, an opportunity to revisit key learning moments, project...
Dan Woodward
Mar 82 min read


Practice & Research - Exercise 0.3: Your Project Plan
I was able to talk through the overall idea of a project plan with my Tutor as part of our initial 'meet and greet' session. The...
Dan Woodward
Mar 72 min read


Practice & Research - Exercise 0.2: Create a Glossary
For this exercise, it was suggested to build a glossary that will help me build up a reference for things like academic terms, unpack...
Dan Woodward
Mar 73 min read


Practice & Research - Exercise 0.1: Thinking about your Research & Practice
Starting the final level of the degree is both exciting and a little overwhelming. I am moving from a legacy curriculum approach to one...
Dan Woodward
Mar 74 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 5.3: Presenting yourself
For this exercise, I was asked to reflect on the work I have produced during this course, choosing pieces that express who I am as an...
Dan Woodward
Dec 5, 20245 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 5.2: What's your working process?
Introduction Over the past 15 years my 'day job' has been working with teams and organisations to manage and improve delivery and...
Dan Woodward
Nov 24, 20247 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 5.1: Writing a rationale
For this exercise, I was asked to go back to the three briefs in the first research task . I was then tasked to think about how I would...
Dan Woodward
Nov 11, 20244 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.3: Self Publishing
This exercise was completed out of turn from others. Given I have had mental health struggles I have not completed much personal work in...
Dan Woodward
Oct 30, 20243 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.7: Contemporary ceramics
For this exercise, I was asked to create illustrations for contemporary ceramics that drew on the visual history and symbolism of...
Dan Woodward
Oct 23, 20245 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.6: Paper Circus
For this exercise, I was tasked to create a poster to advertise a circus coming to town, with all the relevant information available to...
Dan Woodward
Oct 16, 20249 min read

Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.4: Pixelated images
For this exercise, I was asked to create a series of illustrations that explored my relationship to digital technologies. I am of the...
Dan Woodward
Oct 3, 20245 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.5: Street Art
I completed this exercise out of order, so that I could respond to the brief as practically as possible. Given that made things...
Dan Woodward
Sep 11, 20243 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.2: World Affairs
I struggled with this exercise. On paper, it made a lot of sense and seemed straightforward. However, I was also suffering a lot from...
Dan Woodward
Sep 11, 20242 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.1: Caricature and character
Barry Fantoni’s portraits of 70s and 80s television celebrities, while exaggerating facial features and expressions for comic effect, are...
Dan Woodward
Jun 2, 20244 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.5: Animal Farm
For this exercise I was tasked to create some character design for an anthropromorphic character, making sure to show them in a variety...
Dan Woodward
Mar 29, 20243 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.4: Flick-books and animated gifs
For this exercise, I was asked to put together small animations based on the idea of action movies using flipbooks or software. My first...
Dan Woodward
Mar 28, 20242 min read


Responding to a Brief - Research 3.6: Interesting Sequential Illustration.
For this research task, I was asked to pick examples of work I find interesting in sequential illustration. While I was completing the...
Dan Woodward
Mar 24, 20246 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.3: Girl Meets Boy
For this exercise, I had to create a one-page comic that followed the general premise of girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl wins the...
Dan Woodward
Mar 20, 20243 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.2: Once Upon a Time
In this exercise, I had to create a series of black-and-white illustrations for a popular fairy story or folk tale. I had just introduced...
Dan Woodward
Mar 19, 20245 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.1: You are what you eat.
I thought this exercise would be relatively simple. On first reading the exercise text seemed to be fairly self-explanatory. However, as...
Dan Woodward
Oct 20, 20234 min read
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