DAN WOODWARD

While I was due to go to a concert in the end, I decided not to use that event for this exercise. I wanted to be fully present for my...

When I started this unit I saw it as a welcome opportunity to get back to using my sketchbooks to draw from life. During and after the...

I've had to tackle perspective a number of times over the course of my studies, and it is something I enjoy yet am slightly obsessive...

For this exercise, I needed to explore colour palettes. Specifically the challenge of using a limited palette. As I was writing out...

This was another fun exercise that I was pleased to complete at the start of this module, it really managed to get me back in the swing...

I was looking forward to this exercise. When I read the brief it seemed like a really good way for me to let go of some of my...

Reading through this exercise I noticed that my 10 selected images did not fit well with the exercise brief. Indeed, one of my chosen...

The main reflection I have as I complete this exercise is just how 'bitty' this module seems to have been. Looking back it feels...

Usually, I do a separate reflection post after I have received formative feedback from my tutor. This, time - it's actually the first...

For this exercise, I again altered my approach in order to make progress. Initially, I wanted to explore the idea of small through option...

For this exercise, I had to change direction due to the destruction of my studio space. Originally, I had decided to choose Option 1 -...

I really wanted to choose option three for this exercise: a large-scale landscape painting. However, I still experienced massive...

For this exercise, the section gets going by throwing you into trying to create quickly and instinctively. I was pleased that the...

For this exercise, given that the text allowed for the possibility of creating digital collages, I thought it would be fruitless to find...

This was a surprisingly fun exercise. I had bought two popular tabloid papers on the previous weekend and started as the exercise...

This exercise seemed to be very similar in structure to Exercise 2.3, so I decided to take a similar approach in my execution. I followed...

Introduction This exercise was incredibly frustrating. It was like kryptonite to my ADHD brain. At first, it seems simple and derivative...

It's taken me months to write up this experiment. While I started it in December, much disruption took hold over the new year, and I...

For this exercise, the task was to use random dots on a page to develop shapes and then volumes by using the shapes as vertices. I...

To start this section looking into visual approaches, the coursebook introduced the idea of the comfort zone. This exercise tasked me to...