Research 2/4

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 2.3: Architectural Illustrators

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 2.2: Fashion Illustration 1950-1990

Dan Woodward

Jul 17, 20233 min read

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 2.1: Courtroom Dramas

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 1.4: Flat surface design

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 1.3: Visual Language

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,...

Responding to a Brief - Research 1.2: My own work

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 1.1: Who’s out there and what are they doing?

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...

Visual Exploration - Research 3.4: Paper Toys

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...

Visual Exploration - Research 3.3: Large Scale Image-Making

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...

Visual Exploration - Research 3.2: Slow TV / Fast & Slow Art

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....

Visual Exploration - Research 2.7: Collage Approaches

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...

Visual Exploration - Research 2.4: Process Artists

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...

Visual Exploration - Research 2.2: Visual Dynamics

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...

Visual Exploration - Research 1.3: Flow and Play

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...

Visual Exploration - Research 1.2: 365 projects

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...

Visual Exploration - Research Task 1.1: Where do good ideas come from?

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...

Graphic Fiction - Research 5.3: The Art of Comics

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...

Graphic Fiction - Exercise 5.1, Research 5.1 & 5.2

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....

Graphic Fiction - Research 4.7: Autobiographical Comics

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?...

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