Illustration Sketchbooks 2/3

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.5: Free Association

Dan Woodward

Feb 2, 20201 min read

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.4: Interpretation and Communication

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Research task 3.4: Creating your own version of reality

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,...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.3 Illustrative drawings

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Research task 3.2 & 3.3: Reporting and Documenting

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.2 Working with external visual impetus - people

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Research task 3.1: A reportage case study

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!)...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.1: Understanding viewpoints

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:...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 3.0: Observation & topography. Where to draw. What to draw.

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...

Reflections - Illustration Sketchbooks Assignment 2

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Research 3.0: Building a Tool Kit

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Assignment 2: Happy Accidents

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Research 2.2: Christoph Niemann and Saul Steinberg

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.6: Pareidolia

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.5: Drawing with objects: A journey scrapbook

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.4 Drawing with teabags

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.3: Blind contour drawing

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.2: Investigating a process

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...

Illustration Sketchbooks - Research 2.1: Lucy Austin

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....

Illustration Sketchbooks - Exercise 2.1: Limited Line Drawings

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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