While emphasis can be quite easily created through the use of contrast or isolation, there are many times when neither of these types of methods will be appropriate. While contrast might be something you can get away with in the case of drawing or imaging different people, there is a much better and stylish way for you to create emphasis when people are in the picture.

This method, known as placement, simply has to do with where you place the figure in the graphic that you create. Because people can easily relate to other people when they see them in paintings and images, what you have a person look at in the image almost automatically becomes the focal point for the entire image. The more people percentage wise in the painting that are looking at the same point, the more that point becomes the focal point for the entire painting.

For example, consider an image with two people in it. In this image, the people are seated at desks on either side of the canvas, staring up at a wall clock that is in between and above them. That wall clock automatically becomes the focal point of image, partially because of its placement at the centre, but more so because of the human gazes that are directed in its direction.

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