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Graphic Fiction - Exercise 4.1: True Stories
I had had some experience creating educational comics before, having created one for a client as part of my day job. However, creating...
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Dan Woodward
May 26, 20216 min read
Graphic Fiction - Assignment 3: Nine Panel Grid
I write this learning log after one of the most frustrating sections of my OCA studies. My assignment will be almost two months late....
Dan Woodward
May 13, 20215 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 3.6: Extreme Style
In this exercise, I needed to select two candidates from the following list of artists with a more extreme style, and then consider the...
Dan Woodward
May 10, 20218 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.6: Exercises in Style
This exercise has taxed me more than any other I've done in my OCA modules to date. Writing this, I am both relieved and exhausted. The...
Dan Woodward
Apr 22, 20214 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 3.5: 'Silent' Comics
For this research task I was asked to research two of the following: Frans Masereel, Passionate Journey and My Book of Hours (1919) Lynd...
Dan Woodward
Apr 17, 20216 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.5: Speaking in Pictures
Following on from Exercise 3.4, this time I was taking text and creating images from it. However this time the text was going to be song...
Dan Woodward
Apr 11, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.4: Adapting Text
This exercise takes a text of my choice and adapts it to a graphic format. Choosing my text was harder than I had expected. Since my son...
Dan Woodward
Apr 1, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.3: Point of View
This exercise ended up being trickier than I had first hoped as multiple mishaps occurred. In writing this exercise up, I have decided to...
Dan Woodward
Mar 20, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 3.1: "The Spirit"
This research task was to consider an issue of the Will Eisner comic "The Spirit" that was shown in the coursebook and then consider...
Dan Woodward
Mar 20, 20215 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 3.1: Starting A Story
The brief was simple for this exercise: every time I watched a film or TV show, I had to sketch the opening scene. For this exercise, I...
Dan Woodward
Mar 15, 20217 min read
Reflections - Graphic Fiction Pt 1 & 2
I realised when submitting the second assignment that I hadn't done my usual process of reflecting on my assignments. So I've waited for...
Dan Woodward
Feb 22, 20217 min read
Graphic Fiction - Assignment 2: Time & Place, ‘Four Seasons in One Page’
For this second assignment, I had the opportunity to pull together aspects of the things I had learned through the exercises of this...
Dan Woodward
Feb 19, 202112 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 2.6: Visual conventions for time and place
Introduction After completing exercise 2.4, which was frustratingly similar to an exercise from another OCA module. I was disheartened to...
Dan Woodward
Feb 18, 20217 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.5: Black, White & Colour
I sit here writing up this exercise feeling like I've been ten rounds in the ring with a heavyweight boxer! It's really beaten me up! In...
Dan Woodward
Feb 17, 20216 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.4: Finding Reference
When I first read the brief for this exercise I got the strangest feeling of déjà vu: where had I seen this before? That's right - Key...
Dan Woodward
Jan 31, 20215 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.3: Character Sketches
Strap in, because this exercise is a big one! So, for this exercise, our job is to visualise a number of characters based on well-known...
Dan Woodward
Jan 24, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 2.2: Turning Pictures into Words
The second exercise is research-focused and explores the one-panel 'gag' cartoon still popularised in satirical publications, political...
Dan Woodward
Jan 24, 20217 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 2.1: Wordplay
This exercise seemed like a really fun way to start section two and would allow me to start to explore some of the relationships between...
Dan Woodward
Jan 10, 202113 min read
Graphic Fiction - Assignment 1: You Are A Character!
For this first assignment, the end result was to create a self-portrait in homage to the self-portraits made by sequential artists over...
Dan Woodward
Jan 2, 20212 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercises 1.3 & 1.4: Filling a Page
For Exercise 1.3, I was tasked with splitting an A3 page into a grid with 8 panels. I found creating panels with a 1cm gap a little...
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