Dan Woodward
Responding to a Brief - Research 5.2: Self-directed Briefs
English painter, printmaker and illustrator Tom Phillips (b. 1937) set a self-directed project for himself based on his interest in...
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Dan Woodward
Nov 86 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 5.1: Analysing Briefs
For this research task I was presented with three briefs from the 2008 Young Creatives Network Student Competition and asked to read and...
Dan Woodward
Oct 201 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 4.4: Self Publishing
Note - I realised after recording that I referred to some of the zines as 'perfect bound' when I meant to say 'saddle stitch' binding.
Dan Woodward
Oct 85 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 4.8: Ceramics Illustrators
Do some research into artists and illustrators who have used ceramics as a surface for their image-making. You might also want to look at...
Dan Woodward
Oct 67 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 4.7: Papercraft Artists
I've done some papercraft in the past, and have enjoyed some aspects of layering, texture and collage. It's not an approach that I have...
Dan Woodward
Oct 43 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 4.6: Site-specific illustration
I was asked to seek out street art near me for this task. As I live out in the country this was not very easy. However, I had looked...
Dan Woodward
Oct 34 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 4.5: Digital Illustration
Can we really say with confidence that the computer will only be a silent partner? Can’t some visionary artist create an illustration...
Dan Woodward
Apr 274 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 4.3: Caricature
For this research task, I was asked to look at contemporary caricature artists and analyse their work to identify the elements that help...
Dan Woodward
Apr 233 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 4.2: Satirical Illustration
For this research task, I was asked to look at the work of William Hogarth, James Gillray, George Cruikshank or other 18th-century...
Dan Woodward
Apr 205 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 4.1: Social Media
At the start of section four, the coursebook introduces the student to the changing face of contemporary illustration. It was clear from...
Dan Woodward
Mar 274 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 3.8: Animation Styles
For this exercise, I was tasked to pick a range of animations and identify how they had been made and to see if I could identify...
Dan Woodward
Mar 242 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 3.7: Animation & Illusion
This research task was to investigate how animation has maintained its connection with the idea of illusion since Athanasius Kircher...
Dan Woodward
Oct 25, 20231 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 3.5: Deconstructing Narratives
This research task seems to mirror and extend an exercise in Section Four of the Illustration Sketchbooks unit. As such, I don't want to...
Dan Woodward
Oct 24, 20235 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 3.4: Definitive Illustrators
Look at some of these examples or find your own. What is it about the illustrations that links so well with the text? Is it simply...
Dan Woodward
Oct 22, 20235 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 3.3: Typography & Images
In this research task, I had to select a range of books and/or magazines that use illustration, taking in and comparing how they use...
Dan Woodward
Oct 22, 20235 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 3.2: The Metamorphosis
For this research task, I was asked to look into the visual interpretations of Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung). I...
Dan Woodward
Oct 7, 20232 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 3.1: Denotation and Connotation
Introduction For this research task I managed to find a high-resolution copy of both images. This allowed me to zoom in closer to take...
Dan Woodward
Aug 8, 20235 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 2.5: Us and Them
Introduction This research task asked me to discover and select a range of images where illustrators have created a sense of 'them and...
Dan Woodward
Aug 4, 20239 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 2.4: Imaging Technologies and Illustration
Introduction When I first went to university as a teenager I went to study medicine. We had the chance to study holistic elective topics...
Dan Woodward
Jul 27, 20235 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 2.3: Architectural Illustrators
For this exercise I needed to look at a range of different architectural illustrators, select examples and outline my observations on...
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