Implied lines are a powerful tool to help direct the viewers gaze to the intended subject in an image. The eye will tend to complete any unfinished lines and this tendency is used in the picture below.
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| Sketching |
The pencils, scribbling, sharpener and sharpening all point to the drawn eye, which becomes the subject of the image, even though it covers a very small part of the image.
Another type of implied line is a sight line, this occurs when there is one or more subject with eyes in an image. The viewer will tend to follow where those eyes are looking, therefore if they are gazing out of the frame we will wonder what they are looking at, or if they are gazing within the frame we will follow the sight lines to that object. Implied and sight lines are examples of the Gestalt Law of Good Continuation which states that the mind will continue lines beyond there end.( Freeman,M. 2007 )
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| Reading |
There are three sight lines in the above image, one from the girl on the left to the woman, one from the woman down to the magazine and one out of the the picture from the face on the front of the magazine. The final eyeline is the strongest, as we are most attracted to a direct gaze.
Ref: Freeman,M.2007.The Photographers Eye.ILEX.Lewes.
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