Dan Woodward
Illustration 1, Exercise 4.6 - Visual Distorion
The exercise starts off by telling you that it's designed to push you through a deliberate process. Well it did that, and really pushed...
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Dan Woodward
May 2, 20198 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 4.5 - A Tattoo
This exercise was really enjoyable! The task was to create a tattoo for a male friend around the theme of "Mother". The catch was it also...
Dan Woodward
May 2, 20194 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 4.4 - A Menu Card
For this exercise the challenge was to create an illustration that would be used on a menu card, but also - if suitable - could be used...
Dan Woodward
May 1, 20193 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 4.3 - A Children's Book Cover
For this exercise, I was tasked with something that I was quite apprehensive of - creating a children's book cover. I have always...
Dan Woodward
Apr 29, 20195 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 4.2 - Museum Posters
The objective of this exercise was to create colour visual for three museum posters, and then prepare finished artwork for at least one...
Dan Woodward
Apr 5, 201910 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 4.1 - Identifying tools and materials
The aim of this exercise is to explore a selection of illustrators that use a particular medium and see how they use their preferred...
Dan Woodward
Mar 16, 20194 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 3.8 - Making a Mockup
For this exercise I had to make a mockup of a book cover. It sounds easy enough, right? Well I thought so at first, but soon came to find...
Dan Woodward
Mar 16, 20194 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 3.7 - Client Visuals
The aim of this exercise was to take 2 finished illustrations, then distil the essence of their language on paper at a size double the...
Dan Woodward
Mar 14, 20192 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 3.6 - Viewpoint
The objective of this exercise was to start from the following possible themes: Festival, The morning after, Summertime, & Workshop. I...
Dan Woodward
Mar 14, 20193 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 3.5 - Giving Instructions
I was very excited to get started on this exercise, but I wasn't immediately sure which topic out of "Making a cup of tea", "Getting to...
Dan Woodward
Mar 10, 20194 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 3.4 - Abstract Illustration
This exercise required me to create abstract artwork in response to instrumental music. I spent an evening listening to different works...
Dan Woodward
Feb 24, 20196 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 3.3 - Image Development
For this exercise, the task was to take an image, and crop it multiple times to create different contexts, images and storytelling. I...
Dan Woodward
Feb 13, 20194 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 3.2 - Reading an Image
This exercise doesn't involve me making anything - boo! But I also read a quote this week that went something along the lines of - "don't...
Dan Woodward
Feb 4, 20193 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 3.1 - Illustrating Visual Space
This exercise made me procrastinate a lot. It seemed straight-forward enough at first, but the more I read it the more I felt confused....
Dan Woodward
Jan 12, 20191 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 2.11 - Visual Metaphors
This exercise seemed a bit different, as there wasn't a final illustration to make. I have been doing sketchnotes and graphic...
Dan Woodward
Jan 12, 20193 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 2.10 - Choosing content
This exercise was to read a passage from The Daffodil Affair and select information from the content to answer three questions from the...
Dan Woodward
Jan 12, 20192 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 2.9 - Using Black & White
I had been dreading this exercise. On the OCA Illustration Discord, I had seen other student seek help, advice and feedback to complete...
Dan Woodward
Jan 12, 20193 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 2.7 & 2.8 - Objective and Subjective drawing
The next two exercises were really interesting. I often approach things from an objective perspective, trying to create accurate and...
Dan Woodward
Jan 12, 20192 min read
Illustration 1, Exercise 2.6 - Exploring drawing and painting
Ok, this post is not going to have a lot of commentary, mostly because I had to make notes in my sketchbooks, and they detail my learning...
Dan Woodward
Jan 12, 20195 min read
Illustration1, Exercise 2.5: Using Reference
For this exercise, the task was to build up a reference set for the 1950's. I noticed something about how previous students had...
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