Dan Woodward
Graphic Fiction - Research 4.2: “The True Story of Leopold and Loeb”
In this research task, I had to review the titular comic, and answer the following questions: How does the style and narrative treat the...
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Dan Woodward
Jun 18, 20212 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 4.1: Life Stories
Educational comics have been an area of interest for me for a while. I have been working on how to bring comics into my consultancy work...
Dan Woodward
May 13, 20215 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 3.6: Extreme Style
In this exercise, I needed to select two candidates from the following list of artists with a more extreme style, and then consider the...
Dan Woodward
Apr 22, 20214 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 3.5: 'Silent' Comics
For this research task I was asked to research two of the following: Frans Masereel, Passionate Journey and My Book of Hours (1919) Lynd...
Dan Woodward
Mar 20, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 3.1: "The Spirit"
This research task was to consider an issue of the Will Eisner comic "The Spirit" that was shown in the coursebook and then consider...
Dan Woodward
Feb 19, 202112 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 2.6: Visual conventions for time and place
Introduction After completing exercise 2.4, which was frustratingly similar to an exercise from another OCA module. I was disheartened to...
Dan Woodward
Jan 24, 20213 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 2.2: Turning Pictures into Words
The second exercise is research-focused and explores the one-panel 'gag' cartoon still popularised in satirical publications, political...
Dan Woodward
Dec 31, 20203 min read
Graphic Fiction - Exercise 1.2: Action & Reaction
Exercise For the first part of this exercise, I had to create a 2-panel strip from 2, 12cm squares. These squares were meant to depict an...
Dan Woodward
Dec 17, 20209 min read
Graphic Fiction - Research 1.1: The History of Comics
So the real start of this module begins with delving a little into the history of comics, and initial exposure to some of the variety...
Dan Woodward
Apr 29, 20204 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Research 5.0: Visual Language
"Trying to reflect and comprehend the world through what we see and not through what one has to say with words, engages the mind in a...
Dan Woodward
Mar 19, 20204 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Research 4.3: Story Structures
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." - George Box Nigel Watt’s Eight Point Arc This research task introduced me to Watts'...
Dan Woodward
Feb 14, 20202 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Research task 4.1: Top ten Visual Diaries
In research exercise 4.0 I was introduced to the use of sketchbooks as "Visual Diaries". For this exercise, I was asked to research as...
Dan Woodward
Feb 3, 20202 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Research task 3.5: visual research
For this research exercise, I was tasked with reading an article by Pam Smy, and her work in illustrating the character Lob, the Green...
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 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 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 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 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 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
Oct 17, 20196 min read
Illustration Sketchbooks - Research 2.0: Sophie Peanut
For this research exercise, I was tasked to look into the work of Sophie Peanut. Her work is developed from doing quite rapid sketches,...
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