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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.5: Street Art
I completed this exercise out of order, so that I could respond to the brief as practically as possible. Given that made things...
Dan Woodward
Sep 11, 20243 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.2: World Affairs
I struggled with this exercise. On paper, it made a lot of sense and seemed straightforward. However, I was also suffering a lot from...
Dan Woodward
Sep 11, 20242 min read


Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.1: Caricature and character
Barry Fantoni’s portraits of 70s and 80s television celebrities, while exaggerating facial features and expressions for comic effect, are...
Dan Woodward
Jun 2, 20244 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 27, 20244 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 23, 20243 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
Apr 20, 20245 min read


Responding to a Brief - Assignment 3: A Graphic Short Story
I actually finished this assignment on time, in November. It's hard to imagine that now, these months later. Revisiting it again to write...
Dan Woodward
Mar 29, 20245 min read


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...
Dan Woodward
Mar 29, 20243 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 28, 20242 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 27, 20244 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 24, 20242 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 24, 20246 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 20, 20243 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
Mar 19, 20245 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 25, 20231 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 24, 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 22, 20235 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 20, 20234 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
Oct 7, 20232 min read
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