DAN WOODWARD

For this exercise, after reflecting on the coursework content on documenting & reflecting on work, and creating good work habits, I was...

When I started my OCA degree in 2018, I was using a desk in our spare bedroom, normally allocated for my PC. As I started to build up...

For this exercise, I was a little surprised, as I already had a good idea about what subject I wanted to use. My little nod to The...

I had a little bit of experience going into this exercise, as I had to use photos as a backup for Exercise 3.3. For this exercise,...

This exercise was actually already very familiar for me, as I had elected to create a comic for Assignment 4 of Illustration Sketchbooks....

Exercise 5.1: Reviewing your own work For this exercise, I went back through my work over this unit and selected pieces that spoke to me....

I hated this exercise. It was far too ambiguous and open-ended. And honestly, my day-to-day involves me sitting for hours in one room....

For this exercise, the task was to create a two-page comic narrative of an event (either news or domestic). The upside of being overdue...

For this exercise, I was to create a full-body caricature of a famous person. Usually starting something like this would be difficult...

For this exercise the task was to create an image of a fantastical or futuristic world on a large scale (A3 or larger) based around four...

For this exercise, I was tasked with creating a superhero (it didn't need to be a serious mainstream hero). The end result needed to be a...

For this exercise, I had to invent a character based on these prompts: Young Detective Space Kid Animal Character I needed to sketch up...

I had had some experience creating educational comics before, having created one for a client as part of my day job. However, creating...

This exercise has taxed me more than any other I've done in my OCA modules to date. Writing this, I am both relieved and exhausted. The...

Following on from Exercise 3.4, this time I was taking text and creating images from it. However this time the text was going to be song...

This exercise takes a text of my choice and adapts it to a graphic format. Choosing my text was harder than I had expected. Since my son...

This exercise ended up being trickier than I had first hoped as multiple mishaps occurred. In writing this exercise up, I have decided to...

After selecting my chosen sketch in Exercise 3.1 I got started with this exercise. My sketch was not really good enough to simply copy...

The brief was simple for this exercise: every time I watched a film or TV show, I had to sketch the opening scene. For this exercise, I...

I sit here writing up this exercise feeling like I've been ten rounds in the ring with a heavyweight boxer! It's really beaten me up! In...