The document discusses 12 image development strategies that can be used in the planning and sketching process to create images. The strategies are selection, viewpoint, juxtaposition, simplification, positive/negative space, elaboration, distortion, personification, magnification, fragmentation, metamorphosis, and multiplication. Using these strategies gives direction and can help minimize mistakes when developing images.
2. What are “Image Development
Strategies”?
Strategies that help you to create an image
They are part of your planning/sketching process.
There are many of them, and you can use more than one
strategy in an image.
Picking your design strategy is like planning your route
before you set off on a trip. It will give you direction, and
minimize blunders along the way.
3. 1. Selection
- Use a viewfinder to
isolate a specific
view/area
- Use natural framing
devices like windows,
mirrors, etc, to enclose
drawings
- Select part of the
composition and
emphasize it using color,
or other details.
5. 2. Viewpoint
-Use your point of view
as a way to make your
images unique
- Place yourself in a way
that gives you a
different/unique view of
your subject (ie: Bird’s
eye view, Worm’s eye
view)
7. 3. Juxtaposition
- Joining two unlikely
images together
- Split and re-arrange
images
-Combine images
- Superimpose (layer)
one image onto another
so that two images are
visible at once.
15. 7. Distortion
-Use reflections from
various surfaces
- Exaggerate selected
features of your subject
- Change the scale
(size)
-- Draw the subject
without looking at it too
closely
