Image Development Strategies Specific Techniques What are Image

Image Development Strategies (Specific Techniques)

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.

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.

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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)

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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.

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4. Simplification - Omit details from a complicated original view/image -Dissect or fragment an image (take it apart)

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5. Positive/Negative Space -Add/subtract detail from positive or negative space. -Emphasize one over the other - Create ambiguous space

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6. Elaboration - Add extra details like pattern, texture, color, etc.

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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

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8. Personification - Give inanimate subjects living qualities

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9. Magnification -Magnifying/increasing the size of part or all of an image

10. Fragmentation -Detaching part of an image - Taking apart an image

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11. Metamorphosis -Changing the forms of an image from one to another -Changing mediums from one to another (drawing to painting, etc. )

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12. Multiplication -Repeating part of an image -Repeating an entire image

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