Dan Woodward
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...
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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
Dan Woodward
Jul 28, 20195 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 5.5 - Packaging
Putting extinct animals onto the packaging of kids biscuits!
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.
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.
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
Dan Woodward
May 24, 20194 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 5.1 - Your Own Work
Ok, so for this exercise I might have skipped ahead a bit... I actually noted this exercise while I was completing earlier sections. I...
Dan Woodward
May 5, 20193 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 4.7 - Character Development
The objective of this exercise is to take some first steps into character design and development. This is something that has always...
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