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Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.2: World Affairs

Dan Woodward

Sep 112 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...

Responding to a Brief - Exercise 4.1: Caricature and character

Dan Woodward

Jun 24 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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 4.3: Caricature

Dan Woodward

Apr 274 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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 4.2: Satirical Illustration

Dan Woodward

Apr 233 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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 4.1: Social Media

Dan Woodward

Apr 205 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...

Responding to a Brief - Assignment 3: A Graphic Short Story

Dan Woodward

Mar 295 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...

Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.5: Animal Farm

Dan Woodward

Mar 293 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...

Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.4: Flick-books and animated gifs

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 3.8: Animation Styles

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 3.7: Animation & Illusion

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 3.6: Interesting Sequential Illustration.

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...

Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.3: Girl Meets Boy

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...

Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.2: Once Upon a Time

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 3.5: Deconstructing Narratives

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 3.4: Definitive Illustrators

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 3.3: Typography & Images

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 3.2: The Metamorphosis

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...

Responding to a Brief - Exercise 3.1: You are what you eat.

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...

Responding to a Brief - Research 3.1: Denotation and Connotation

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...

Responding to a Brief - Assignment 2: A Sense of Place

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....

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