Dan Woodward
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...
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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 28, 20205 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Research task 3.4: Creating your own version of reality
I started this research at an opportune time, having just listened to the latest podcast from Dan Berry. He was interviewing Joana Mori,...
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 22, 20205 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Research task 3.2 & 3.3: Reporting and Documenting
I really enjoyed researching the list of artists provided in this exercise. I was really surprised by the variety of technique as well as...
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, 20204 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Research task 3.1: A reportage case study
I'm coming to this research task after undertaking some of the practical exercises. So I am less 'cold' in my experience (however brief!)...
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
Jan 6, 20204 min read
Reflections - Illustration Sketchbooks Assignment 2
I'll be honest, I have really struggled with this section. I can't say that there has been one part that I have really enjoyed. My first...
Dan Woodward
Jan 6, 20202 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Research 3.0: Building a Tool Kit
I was lucky to have been on holiday during August, at the start of my studies for this module. I wanted to sketch while on holiday, so...
Dan Woodward
Dec 22, 20194 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Assignment 2: Happy Accidents
I think this might have been one of my most challenging assignments to date. It felt very awkward and frustrating. This whole section has...
Dan Woodward
Dec 18, 20194 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Research 2.2: Christoph Niemann and Saul Steinberg
I have come at this research exercise from the point of view of using objects as a way of narrowing and constraining my focus when...
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, 20192 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Research 2.1: Lucy Austin
This post will be a little lighter on text, as I decided to conduct my research in my sketchbook, so captured a lot of my thoughts there....
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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