Dan Woodward
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 5.3: Create an Artwork
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...
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Dan Woodward
Aug 31, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 5.4: Shoot a Photo Story
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,...
Dan Woodward
Aug 14, 20212 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 5.2: Make a Mini-Comic
This exercise was actually already very familiar for me, as I had elected to create a comic for Assignment 4 of Illustration Sketchbooks....
Dan Woodward
Aug 12, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 5.1, Research 5.1 & 5.2
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....
Dan Woodward
Aug 2, 20212 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.7: A Day in the Life
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....
Dan Woodward
Aug 1, 20215 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.6: Documenting an Event
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...
Dan Woodward
Jul 22, 20214 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.5: Caricature
For this exercise, I was to create a full-body caricature of a famous person. Usually starting something like this would be difficult...
Dan Woodward
Jul 16, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.4: Future Worlds
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...
Dan Woodward
Jul 9, 20218 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.3: Create a Superhero
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...
Dan Woodward
Jul 2, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.2: Create a Children’s Comic Character
For this exercise, I had to invent a character based on these prompts: Young Detective Space Kid Animal Character I needed to sketch up...
Dan Woodward
Jun 13, 20215 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.1: True Stories
I had had some experience creating educational comics before, having created one for a client as part of my day job. However, creating...
Dan Woodward
May 10, 20218 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.6: Exercises in Style
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...
Dan Woodward
Apr 17, 20216 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.5: Speaking in Pictures
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...
Dan Woodward
Apr 11, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.4: Adapting Text
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...
Dan Woodward
Apr 1, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.3: Point of View
This exercise ended up being trickier than I had first hoped as multiple mishaps occurred. In writing this exercise up, I have decided to...
Dan Woodward
Mar 21, 20212 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.2: Introducing your character
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...
Dan Woodward
Mar 20, 20215 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.1: Starting A Story
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...
Dan Woodward
Feb 18, 20217 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.5: Black, White & Colour
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...
Dan Woodward
Feb 17, 20216 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.4: Finding Reference
When I first read the brief for this exercise I got the strangest feeling of déjà vu: where had I seen this before? That's right - Key...
Dan Woodward
Jan 31, 20215 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.3: Character Sketches
Strap in, because this exercise is a big one! So, for this exercise, our job is to visualise a number of characters based on well-known...
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