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Dan Woodward
Dec 5, 20245 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
Nov 24, 20247 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 11, 20244 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
Oct 30, 20243 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 23, 20245 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 16, 20249 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 3, 20245 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
Sep 11, 20243 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, 20242 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
Jun 2, 20244 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
Mar 29, 20243 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 28, 20242 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 24, 20246 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 19, 20243 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 19, 20245 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
Oct 20, 20234 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
Aug 27, 20232 min read
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.5: A rose by any other name
For this exercise I didn't find any suitable plants in the house, and cuttings I took from plants outside proved difficult to draw. So I...


Dan Woodward
Aug 21, 20236 min read
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.4: Architectural illustration
In this exercise, I explored aspects of architectural illustration. The task specifically asked me to create an illustration that "shows...


Dan Woodward
Aug 4, 20233 min read
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.6: There and back again
For this exercise I was tasked with documenting a journey, focusing on the beginning, middle and return. I had been wondering how to do...


Dan Woodward
Jul 17, 20239 min read
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.3: Everyday Fashion
For this exercise I was tasked to draw a range of people in different clothes, varying my attention to sometimes draw the whole outfit...
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