Visual Exploration

Dan Woodward

May 2, 20234 min read

Visual Exploration - Module Reflections

It's been some weeks now since I completed my Critical Review assignment. I'm in the early stages of my next module, and the different...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 4)

Dan Woodward

Feb 8, 20234 min read

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 4)

For my third and final image, I wanted to take a more traditional approach, and really latch on to my feedback to create a separation...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 3)

Dan Woodward

Feb 8, 20239 min read

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 3)

For this second image, I decided to delve into the realm of 3D. I studied closely two books by James Gurney [2,3] to explore not just the...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 2)

Dan Woodward

Feb 8, 20234 min read

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 2)

This post will cover my work for the first image of the assignment. For this image, I decided to start by reviewing an approach I had...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 1)

Dan Woodward

Feb 8, 20235 min read

Visual Exploration - Assignment 5: Rethinking and Realising (Part 1)

It wasn't easy to know how to approach this final assignment. When I had originally read through the coursebook, I had a rough map of the...

Visual Exploration - Exercise 5.3: Creating Connections

Dan Woodward

Jan 11, 20232 min read

Visual Exploration - Exercise 5.3: Creating Connections

Reading through this exercise I noticed that my 10 selected images did not fit well with the exercise brief. Indeed, one of my chosen...

Visual Exploration - Exercise 5.2: Creative Audit

Dan Woodward

Dec 19, 20222 min read

Visual Exploration - Exercise 5.2: Creative Audit

The main reflection I have as I complete this exercise is just how 'bitty' this module seems to have been. Looking back it feels...

Visual Exploration - Exercise 5.1: Reflection on Part Four

Dan Woodward

Dec 19, 20226 min read

Visual Exploration - Exercise 5.1: Reflection on Part Four

Usually, I do a separate reflection post after I have received formative feedback from my tutor. This, time - it's actually the first...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part Three)

Dan Woodward

Oct 31, 202214 min read

Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part Three)

So after all my exploratory work, I felt I had a good bearing on what I wanted to produce, and how I might create it. I looked back over...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part Two)

Dan Woodward

Oct 18, 20228 min read

Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part Two)

To start with, I needed a pseudonym. I had been mulling over different options in the weeks running up to the assignment. I liked a lot...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part One)

Dan Woodward

Oct 18, 20225 min read

Visual Exploration - Assignment 4: Themed Project (Part One)

Assignment Four is a new experience for me. For all of my other coursework, there has always been a series of exercises to introduce...

Reflections - Visual Exploration Section Three

Dan Woodward

Sep 8, 20224 min read

Reflections - Visual Exploration Section Three

Section Three confuses me. When I first read the course book I was convinced I would finish in a matter of weeks. I'm now writing this...

Visual Exploration - Assignment 3: Movement

Dan Woodward

Aug 31, 202211 min read

Visual Exploration - Assignment 3: Movement

I almost thought that I would never finish this assignment. There have been a number of times when I felt that this section might make me...

Visual Exploration - Exercise 3.4: Small

Dan Woodward

Jul 5, 20225 min read

Visual Exploration - Exercise 3.4: Small

For this exercise, I again altered my approach in order to make progress. Initially, I wanted to explore the idea of small through option...

Dan Woodward

Jul 5, 20225 min read

Visual Exploration - Exercise 3.2: Slow

For this exercise, I had to change direction due to the destruction of my studio space. Originally, I had decided to choose Option 1 -...

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...

Dan Woodward

Jun 7, 20223 min read

Visual Exploration - Exercise 3.3: Big

I really wanted to choose option three for this exercise: a large-scale landscape painting. However, I still experienced massive...

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....

Dan Woodward

Mar 6, 20222 min read

Visual Explortion - Exercise 3.1: Fast

For this exercise, the section gets going by throwing you into trying to create quickly and instinctively. I was pleased that the...

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