Drawing out relationships: how to analyze participant-produced drawings for studies of relationships

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ABSTRACT This article discusses the methodology underlying visual productive methods, particularly drawings. Despite the increase in the use of such creative methods, there is not yet a standard set of recommendations for how researchers might code the resulting artifacts as data. Using examples from a longitudinal research project that incorporated drawings as method, I build upon seminal existing work on isolated codes and incorporate other aspects of visual data (representations, proportions, repetitive action, and positioning and interacting) in this demonstration of codable features. This article concretizes best practices for how researchers can code drawings, particularly for the study of relationships.