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Assignment 5: Application and Context
Brief Choose one of the three options below, generating a new sketchbook based on the suggested themes, and producing a final reflective...

Abbie Vidler
Sep 16, 202310 min read


Exercise: Constructing a Visual Journal
Brief Find a way to assemble what you’ve now gathered to make a visual journal that is a memory store of the exercises and activities you...

Abbie Vidler
Aug 26, 20233 min read


Exercise: Making Connections
Brief So far you have been reflecting on your reactions to what you have done so far on the course. Following on from this copy/print off...

Abbie Vidler
Aug 24, 20233 min read


Exercise: Making an action plan- Visually
Brief Make an action list from your observations. A simple way to do this is to think about the outcomes you would like to achieve in...

Abbie Vidler
Aug 22, 20232 min read


Research Task: Visual Language
This research task is to research an artist and look into their techniques, style, influence and everything in between. I decided to...

Abbie Vidler
Aug 19, 20232 min read


Exercise: Taking Stock
This exercise is to reflect on my sketchbooks and learning, as well as to think about what I want for my future sketchbooks and my last...

Abbie Vidler
Aug 19, 20231 min read


Assignment 4: Building Stories
Brief Before you begin, it will be useful to remind yourself of your reflections on the exercises you’ve completed so far. Go back to the...

Abbie Vidler
Aug 19, 202311 min read
Research Task: Story Structures
We consume stories everyday and for this research task I had to explore some of the story structures, by doing this I will be able to...

Abbie Vidler
Aug 8, 20234 min read


Exercise: Using basic narrative structure
Brief ‘A beginning, a middle and an end’ is perhaps the first story structure most people encounter. Whilst this is a very basic story...

Abbie Vidler
Aug 7, 20234 min read


Exercise: Conversations with pictures- Interpretation
Brief Working with the principle of the ‘suppose-we-make-it-different’ approach outlined with the painting of Camille Monet on a bench...

Abbie Vidler
Aug 5, 20232 min read


Exercise: Story-boarding
Brief For this task you will need a minimum of 15 minutes of recorded film or TV drama footage. It could be your favourite soap, part of...

Abbie Vidler
Aug 4, 20236 min read


Research Task: Storyboards (Brandon J Wallace)
I was unable to find anything for Brandon J Wallace, and looking into other students approach to this research task it may seem that...

Abbie Vidler
Jul 30, 20234 min read


Exercise: Description and Depiction
Brief In this exercise you will consider how words play off against pictures, moving more firmly towards interpretation, message and...

Abbie Vidler
Jul 29, 20234 min read


Exercise: Fill it up!
Brief The first part of this exercise considers how techniques to fill the page can help to overcome being too precious about the...

Abbie Vidler
Jul 25, 20235 min read


Research Task: Visual Diaries (4:0) & Top Ten Visual Diaries (4:1)
For this section of my coursework, I will be approaching my sketchbook as a visual diary and to approach illustrations with the visual...

Abbie Vidler
Jul 14, 20239 min read


Assignment 3: Illustrative people and places
Brief Your exercises and research tasks have given you an opportunity to visually explore places and what people do within them. You have...

Abbie Vidler
Jun 28, 202311 min read


Exercise: Free Association
Brief This final exercise is an entirely playful one. For this you simply need to make sure you have your sketchbook with you when you...

Abbie Vidler
Jun 15, 20232 min read


Research Task: Visual Research
Visual research is a great way to build up a better illustration, and as I go through this part of the course-- and with the previous...

Abbie Vidler
Jun 13, 20233 min read


Exercise: Interpretation and Communication; suppose we make it different?
Brief This exercise will take you through a process of working with external content and will continue to build awareness of, and...

Abbie Vidler
Jun 12, 20238 min read


Research Task: Creating your own version of reality
For this research task, I was to look at other artist's sketchbook and see how they approach their day-to-day drawings as well as their...

Abbie Vidler
Jun 9, 20235 min read
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