Exercises 5/7

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.2 Working with external visual impetus - people

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.1: Understanding viewpoints

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:...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.0: Observation & topography. Where to draw. What to draw.

Dan Woodward

Jan 18, 20202 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.0: Observation & topography. Where to draw. What to draw.

I needed to post off a sketchbook as part of the Sketchbook Circle I am in, so I decided to use the walk between my house and the Post...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.6: Pareidolia

Dan Woodward

Dec 15, 20192 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.6: Pareidolia

This task was to explore the phenomenon of pareidolia - seeing faces in patterns and inanimate objects. I often see faces in quite...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.5: Drawing with objects: A journey scrapbook

Dan Woodward

Dec 14, 20192 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.5: Drawing with objects: A journey scrapbook

This exercise has taken me a while - I have been out on many journeys, collected many bits and bobs and for one reason or another, all of...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.4 Drawing with teabags

Dan Woodward

Dec 14, 20192 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.4 Drawing with teabags

For this exercise, I was tasked with experimenting with unusual tools for making marks. So, I had a walk around the house and chose the...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.3: Blind contour drawing

Dan Woodward

Dec 14, 20191 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.3: Blind contour drawing

I remembered that I did some blind contour drawing as part of a course I did a few years ago at City Lit in London: Going back to that...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.2: Investigating a process

Dan Woodward

Dec 14, 20193 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.2: Investigating a process

The last research exercise showed me how a medium can be used completely differently between two different artists. For this exercise, I...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.1: Limited Line Drawings

Dan Woodward

Dec 14, 20193 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.1: Limited Line Drawings

In learning how to use watercolour and ink, I am fascinated by images others produce that seem to make the most out of incomplete...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.0: Rapid Sketches

Dan Woodward

Dec 14, 20191 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.0: Rapid Sketches

As part of my focus on looking at trees, I had some dried leaves to hand. So I set them up on my desk and used them as a still life for...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 1.3: How personal do you want your sketchbook to be?

Dan Woodward

Sep 8, 20194 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 1.3: How personal do you want your sketchbook to be?

I get into full experimentation mode to discover how I can hide information in my sketchbooks!

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 1.2: Making Mistakes - working fast & cutting work up

Dan Woodward

Sep 7, 20194 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 1.2: Making Mistakes - working fast & cutting work up

As my relationship with my sketchbooks has evolved during my OCA studies, I have learnt to be less precious about them. Especially my...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 1.1: What is your relationship with your sketchbook?

Dan Woodward

Aug 29, 20193 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 1.1: What is your relationship with your sketchbook?

Getting to notice where I am at with my relationships with sketchbooks, so I can evolve and move forward.

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 1.0: What sort of sketchbook should I use?

Dan Woodward

Aug 15, 20194 min read

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 1.0: What sort of sketchbook should I use?

Thinking about the qualities of the sketchbooks I would use for this module.

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.7 - Educational Strip

Dan Woodward

Jul 28, 20195 min read

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.7 - Educational Strip

How to help teens tackle puberty using sequential illustration and a little bit of empathy!

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.6 - Working For Children

Dan Woodward

Jul 28, 20195 min read

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.6 - Working For Children

Stepping into the unforgiving world of children's illustration

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.5 - Packaging

Dan Woodward

Jul 28, 20195 min read

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.5 - Packaging

Putting extinct animals onto the packaging of kids biscuits!

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.4 - Text & Image

Dan Woodward

Jul 9, 20193 min read

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.4 - Text & Image

Getting to grips with using typography to express the characteristics of words.

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.3 - Travel Guides

Dan Woodward

Jul 8, 20194 min read

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.3 - Travel Guides

Creating a book jacket for a travel guide, thinking about how to make your own fonts and how you incorporate that in a page layout.

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.2 - Editorial Illustration

Dan Woodward

Jul 8, 20194 min read

Illustration 1, Exercise 5.2 - Editorial Illustration

Extra, extra read all about it! Creating an illustration to amplify the message of a newspaper article

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