Dan Woodward
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.5: Animal Farm
For this exercise I was tasked to create some character design for an anthropromorphic character, making sure to show them in a variety...
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Dan Woodward
Mar 282 min read
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.4: Flick-books and animated gifs
For this exercise, I was asked to put together small animations based on the idea of action movies using flipbooks or software. My first...
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
Mar 246 min read
Responding to a Brief - Research 3.6: Interesting Sequential Illustration.
For this research task, I was asked to pick examples of work I find interesting in sequential illustration. While I was completing the...
Dan Woodward
Mar 193 min read
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.3: Girl Meets Boy
For this exercise, I had to create a one-page comic that followed the general premise of girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl wins the...
Dan Woodward
Mar 195 min read
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.2: Once Upon a Time
In this exercise, I had to create a series of black-and-white illustrations for a popular fairy story or folk tale. I had just introduced...
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 20, 20234 min read
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.1: You are what you eat.
I thought this exercise would be relatively simple. On first reading the exercise text seemed to be fairly self-explanatory. However, as...
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
Sep 11, 20236 min read
Responding to a Brief - Assignment 2: A Sense of Place
Introduction Another assignment, and overdue again! I am getting tired of things tripping up my planning and putting my schedule back....
Dan Woodward
Aug 27, 20232 min read
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.5: A rose by any other name
For this exercise I didn't find any suitable plants in the house, and cuttings I took from plants outside proved difficult to draw. So I...
Dan Woodward
Aug 21, 20236 min read
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.4: Architectural illustration
In this exercise, I explored aspects of architectural illustration. The task specifically asked me to create an illustration that "shows...
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, 20233 min read
Responding to a Brief - Exercise 2.6: There and back again
For this exercise I was tasked with documenting a journey, focusing on the beginning, middle and return. I had been wondering how to do...
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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