  The image of a black hole (BH) consists of direct and secondary images that
depend on the observer position. We investigate the optical appearance of a
Schwarzschild BH in the context of a string cloud to reveal how the BH's
observable characteristics are influenced by the inclination angle, string
cloud parameter, and impact parameter. Following Luminet's work [Astron.
Astrophys. 75, 228 (1979)], we adopt a semi-analytic method to calculate the
total bending angle of the light ray and derive the direct and secondary images
of the Schwarzschild string cloud BH. Our results show that an increase in the
inclination angle leads to a more pronounced separation of the images. We
consider the gravitational redshift and present the redshift distribution of
the direct image while illustrating the flux distribution. We observe that the
direct image exhibits blueshift and redshift simultaneously, and the asymmetry
of the flux distribution increases with the inclination angle. Finally, we
obtain the Schwarzschild string cloud BH image via a numerical simulation,
which provides an approximate illustration of the EHT resolution.
