Dan Woodward
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.1: Wordplay
This exercise seemed like a really fun way to start section two and would allow me to start to explore some of the relationships between...
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Dan Woodward
Jan 2, 20212 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercises 1.3 & 1.4: Filling a Page
For Exercise 1.3, I was tasked with splitting an A3 page into a grid with 8 panels. I found creating panels with a 1cm gap a little...
Dan Woodward
Dec 31, 20203 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 1.2: Action & Reaction
Exercise For the first part of this exercise, I had to create a 2-panel strip from 2, 12cm squares. These squares were meant to depict an...
Dan Woodward
Dec 29, 20204 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 1.1: Drawing from History
For this exercise, I was tasked with choosing one of the artists that I had researched in the History of Comics task. I am approaching...
Dan Woodward
Dec 3, 20205 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 0.4: Managing your Time
There is a certain irony of spending a day writing a blog post about managing your time because you have had so much to do that day and...
Dan Woodward
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 0.3: Analysing and reflecting
This is the first post of the Graphic Fiction module. In this brief exercise I get used to applying visual analysis to the comics I read.
Dan Woodward
May 4, 20203 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 5.3: Constructing a Visual Journal
From the point of reading through what I had to do through section five, this exercise was definitely the one I had the most problems...
Dan Woodward
May 3, 20205 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 5.2: Making connections
For this exercise there are two parts: Use techniques like SCAMPER to composite images Create collections of the composites to create...
Dan Woodward
May 1, 20202 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 5.1: Making an action plan, visually
I like to work visually, and a large part of my professional work involves helping people to visualise their work. For this exercise, I...
Dan Woodward
Apr 28, 20206 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 5.0: Taking Stock
The exercises for section five are actively reflective in nature. Going through the coursework it seems that they build on each other,...
Dan Woodward
Mar 19, 20205 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 4.4: Using basic narrative structure
This exercise had three parts, each showing elements of transition and how they are used to tell stories. Each part is designed to help...
Dan Woodward
Mar 18, 20202 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 4.3: Conversations with Pictures (Interpretation)
Wow, so this exercise was a good deal of fun! To start with, I had to review my sketchbooks and add in dialogue to the characters. The...
Dan Woodward
Mar 15, 20202 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 4.2: Storyboarding
For Research 4.2 I looked into the work of Brandon J Wallace and the way he created storyboards from TV in order to understand framing,...
Dan Woodward
Mar 15, 20202 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 4.1: Description and Depiction
I found the prospect for this exercise really intriguing. For this exercise, I had to go to an interesting location and then depict it in...
Dan Woodward
Feb 16, 20203 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 4.0: Fill it up - FAST!
For this exercise, I had to fill up an entire sketchbook in one sitting! To make it a little bit less daunting, my instructions told me...
Dan Woodward
Feb 2, 20201 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.5: Free Association
I have long been a fan of doodling, and it can be found in a lot of my workbooks amongst other scribbles and visualisations. I enjoyed...
Dan Woodward
Feb 2, 20205 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.4: Interpretation and Communication
When I am working, I am well-known by my colleagues for re-iterating that I don't mind if I or others fail. I only mind if we fail to...
Dan Woodward
Jan 26, 20207 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.3 Illustrative drawings
This exercise was about combining sketches and aspects of photo reference into illustrative images that stand in their own context to...
Dan Woodward
Jan 21, 20205 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.2 Working with external visual impetus - people
The aim of this task was to introduce me to observing the figure. Rather than return to the route from my earlier exercises, I decided to...
Dan Woodward
Jan 18, 20202 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.1: Understanding viewpoints
For this exercise, I was to do the route again. This time I was to use a camera to capture aspects of the route. This is what I captured:...
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