Dan Woodward
Responding to a Brief - Research 2.2: Fashion Illustration 1950-1990
The 'Golden Age' of fashion illustration where it peaked in its breadth of use in modern media was the first quarter of the 20th century...
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Dan Woodward
Jun 15, 20236 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 2.1: Courtroom Dramas
For this exercise, I was tasked to look into the quick-paced reportage of courtroom sketch artists, specifically Franklin McMahon. His...
Dan Woodward
May 30, 20234 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 1.4: Flat surface design
In this research task, I needed to find examples of illustrators who have made designs for flat surfaces and explore how they play with...
Dan Woodward
May 15, 20231 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 1.3: Visual Language
Throughout my degree, I have collected visual references and imagery. I have never really been one to keep visual diaries or grab files,...
Dan Woodward
May 15, 20235 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 1.2: My own work
For this research point, I was asked to review my own work in order to identify work that best reflects a personal voice. I store all of...
Dan Woodward
May 14, 202317 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 1.1: Who’s out there and what are they doing?
For this research task, I have been asked to familiarise myself with what is going on in the industry at the moment and to pick out...
Dan Woodward
Jun 16, 20229 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 3.4: Paper Toys
For this research task, I was asked to find examples of artists that use 'paper models' in their work, document examples and think about...
Dan Woodward
Jun 15, 20227 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 3.3: Large Scale Image-Making
This research task first started by asking me to view this overview of the Embodied Experience of Drawing conference of 2018: Love how...
Dan Woodward
Jun 1, 20227 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 3.2: Slow TV / Fast & Slow Art
Slow TV The first research task was to search for and document examples of "Slow TV". The notion of Slow TV was a little confusing to me....
Dan Woodward
Feb 21, 20225 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 2.7: Collage Approaches
The essay referenced in the course text was interesting. The first artistic movement it referred to was one that I was not familiar with...
Dan Woodward
Feb 13, 20226 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 2.4: Process Artists
Agnes Martin After researching the work and process of Agnes Martin, what I take away most from the experience is the way her work...
Dan Woodward
Jan 3, 20224 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 2.2: Visual Dynamics
"A line is a dot that went for a walk." - Paul Klee This is one of my favourite quotes and one I often draw on when people remark on...
Dan Woodward
Nov 23, 202110 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 1.3: Flow and Play
Some Definitions For this research task, I will be basing my reading and assumptions on these definitions for the states described in the...
Dan Woodward
Nov 15, 20215 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 1.2: 365 projects
I found this research task a little confusing. It was hard to understand if the learning objective was about using a project to instil a...
Dan Woodward
Nov 7, 20215 min read
Visual Exploration - Research Task 1.1: Where do good ideas come from?
For this initial research task, there were a number of quotes from other OCA students as well as a video called ‘Where Good Ideas Come...
Dan Woodward
Sep 1, 20212 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 5.3: The Art of Comics
For this exercise, I had to read the introduction to ‘The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach’ (Meskin & Cook, 2012) and then write...
Dan Woodward
Aug 12, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 5.1, Research 5.1 & 5.2
Exercise 5.1: Reviewing your own work For this exercise, I went back through my work over this unit and selected pieces that spoke to me....
Dan Woodward
Aug 3, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 4.7: Autobiographical Comics
My responses to the provided comic "Nature Boy" by Daniel Clowes: Does the nine-panel grid create a rhythm and structure to the story?...
Dan Woodward
Jul 24, 20217 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 4.5: Funny Pictures
For almost eight years I lived and grew up in Saudi Arabia. We’d also come back to the UK from time to time for holidays and visiting...
Dan Woodward
Jul 12, 20216 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 4.3: Superheroes
For this research task I selected three of the four recommended collections: Batman, by Denny O'Neill and Neal Adams Watchmen, by Alan...
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