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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:...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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!


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...


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.


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.


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!


Dan Woodward
Jul 28, 20195 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 5.6 - Working For Children
Stepping into the unforgiving world of children's illustration
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