Image Development Strategies

1. Abstraction: Create your vision of a city that never sleeps.  After sketching a cityscape, experiment with the play of shapes, patterns and lines found in the city.  You can introduce different point of view and reduce areas to geometric shapes and patterns.

2. 2.Animation: Repeat an image of a figure in action by repeating it in various stages on an activity.
   

3. 3.Distortion: Scan an image into the scanner.  Stretch, fish eye, bend and compress your image and print different versions.  Collage them to create a dream-like interpretation.
   

4. 4.Elaboration: Create your vision of a tattoo that fits either your face or hand. Include patterns, textures, and embellishments, include elements that suggest your culture, interests, history and personality.
   

5. 5.Juxtaposition: Create a drawing that expresses opposite feelings and combines contradictory elements.
   

6. 6.Magnification: With a viewfinder, select a small significant section of a photo of yourself as a young child.  Enlarge it in a detailed drawing in order to give significance and insight into an aspect of who you are.
   

7. 7.Metamorphosis: Create a design which depicts pain or sorrow and then turns into feelings of renewal or joy. or Draw a fruit in a cycle of decomposition and renewed growth, and as a metaphor for transformation.
   

8. 8.Multiplication: Repeat an image of a person, a tree or landscape and change colors, textures and tone to suggest various seasons, moods or times of day.
   

9. 9.Reversals: Choose a portrait.  Simplify the image into black and white.  Eliminate any grey.  Reverse this image into the opposite of black and white.  Make the blacks white and the whites black on the second self portrait.   Put the two portraits side by side.
   

10. 10.Simplification: Select a photo of an individual who is expressing an emotion.  Using a fine felt tip pen, flatten the image in black and white, eliminating all grey tones and detail.
    

11. 11.Viewpoint: With a magnifying glass in front of your face take a photograph of yourself. Take the photo over a number of times using a bird’s eye, worm’s eye and normal human point of view. Collage the photographs all together, some larger, some smaller and draw multi media on top.
    

12. 12.Fragmentation: Create an image of friendship reconstructed from reduced and enlarged xerox copies of your own portrait and those of your friends.