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![Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.2 Working with external visual impetus - people](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e7adb0_21d35650f68d48bd947597a888c11bb5~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/e7adb0_21d35650f68d48bd947597a888c11bb5~mv2.webp)
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...
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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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![Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.0: Observation & topography. Where to draw. What to draw.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e7adb0_6a92cb8d02ff4ac4a5eecf441fc07ff2~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/e7adb0_6a92cb8d02ff4ac4a5eecf441fc07ff2~mv2.webp)
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...
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![Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.6: Pareidolia](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e7adb0_9153d66bcfd54841ae170aaa6d10d196~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/e7adb0_9153d66bcfd54841ae170aaa6d10d196~mv2.webp)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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![Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.2: Investigating a process](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e7adb0_0b5585fba11743ea846a41d28131f21a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/e7adb0_0b5585fba11743ea846a41d28131f21a~mv2.webp)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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!
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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...
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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.
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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.
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![Illustration 1, Exercise 5.7 - Educational Strip](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e7adb0_5c256e782336473a95870024f753aa62~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/e7adb0_5c256e782336473a95870024f753aa62~mv2.webp)
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!
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![Illustration 1, Exercise 5.6 - Working For Children](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e7adb0_b8e6405c57b34e26b98911640ce35f89~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/e7adb0_b8e6405c57b34e26b98911640ce35f89~mv2.webp)
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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![Illustration 1, Exercise 5.5 - Packaging](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e7adb0_5c800962f54c4f189c4deae43262452f~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/e7adb0_5c800962f54c4f189c4deae43262452f~mv2.webp)
Dan Woodward
Jul 28, 20195 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 5.5 - Packaging
Putting extinct animals onto the packaging of kids biscuits!
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![Illustration 1, Exercise 5.4 - Text & Image](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e7adb0_a717dc1da0234ff8a52290350f3f5671~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/e7adb0_a717dc1da0234ff8a52290350f3f5671~mv2.webp)
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.
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![Illustration 1, Exercise 5.3 - Travel Guides](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e7adb0_0e5a1bad24434d24b55721f5f908bee8~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/e7adb0_0e5a1bad24434d24b55721f5f908bee8~mv2.webp)
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.
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![Illustration 1, Exercise 5.2 - Editorial Illustration](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e7adb0_b92f5ef017da4a559f652bf91366bd9d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/e7adb0_b92f5ef017da4a559f652bf91366bd9d~mv2.webp)
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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