Job: link own representation choices with a purpose/intended audience. Ready: any wanted available idea or start fresh; choose-a-reveal aid optional. Say: “Who is it for? What do you want to show?”
- 0–3: Offer a private art strip, invented puzzle, picture joke, imagined story reader or an own useful/fun purpose. A real audience is optional. Choose self/imagined reader explicitly where useful; do not infer a real audience from a printed field.
- 3–8: Make/direct/select one actual image/word decision for that purpose before writing a plan. Change a clue's size, border, placement or amount of context. If nothing is made, retain a purpose/explanation plan. Begin fresh if earlier work is missing.
- 8–12: Ask what a reader has to see to follow the chosen meaning, and what can remain ambiguous. A purpose is the maker's intention, not an achieved effect. Do not demand one emotion or cultural symbol meaning.
- 12–20: Produce a useful next component: a frame, title, opening detail or intentional empty space, with an available reason. Credit a borrowed supplied idea and distinguish original additions. Select a practical next process—draft, redraw, arrange, edit—rather than a full formal production log.
- 20–25: Prefer/keep/change/stop. Record one actual purpose-linked decision/help; broader audience outcome waits for a real response. Next: produce the final chosen medium, even if small/private/unfinished.