Draw. Work by hand.
When producing an RVJ the most crucial part of it is drawing and working by hand, it enables you to connect physically between you eye, hand and brain and helps you think directly onto the page. Getting your ideas from out of your head down on paper visually, helps with the development of your work, especially for an illustrator. The aim for an illustrator is to use their creative way of thinking onto paper to describe a situation in images and drawings rather than in words. Drawing is also a key thing into problem solving, it’s easier to see what may be missing from an idea or problem when it’s visually drawn in front of you rather than in words.
Leonardo Di Vinci is a good example for this. He used to draw the individual parts of machines to get a better understanding on how they all fitted together and how engines and machines worked. This was his way of solving a problem and getting a better understanding of something he was unsure of.
Develop visual language.
Ideas and making notes don’t have to be just textual language there’s many ways in which you can develop your visual language to communicate your ideas with someone. Organising your text and images in a visual way can also help make something a lot easier to understand.
Tony Buzan is a good example and source of inspiration for the development of visual language. He creates mind maps using both text and image to solve problems and investigate situations and makes connections in these maps more visible and understandable to the audience.
Here is a really good example of this, and as you can see he has used images and also colour to indicate what he is investigating, which is life cycles. As you can see the images are a lot stronger than the words and you don’t even need to look at the words to understand what he is focusing on. This is good development of visual language.
http://www.sthelena.vic.edu.au/libraryonline/research&bibliographies.htm#MIND%20MAPS%20CONSIST%20OF
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