Experimenting With Techniques of Image Making
Image Making
Mostly Graphic designers, illustrators and artists work with images (illustrations and photographs) and typography (text) to create since it is a dialogue with the world which involves us, as designers and artists, leaving a record of that dialogue for the later generations.
There are two types of images mostly:
Denotative Images
Connotative Images
Denotative Image Making
Images which are the literal representations of their original objects are known as denotative images.
The object that I selected for this process was a paint brush. I experimented with the kind of strokes I used, different materials, different forms to represent the object, various textures, colours and contrasts to create these images to get an idea of the concept and to explore more about it.
Connotative Image Making
An image which builds an idea or a metaphor is considered to be a connotative image. Connotative means an idea or feeling a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning. Connotative images help in giving context to a narrative and are mostly dependant on kind of audience it has to work.
The first image is a combination of a wand and a brush depicting " Art is truly magical"
The second image is that of a clock with it's hands as paintbrushes portraying the idea of 'Art being timeless'
