Okay, so the title is a bit of a misnomer since all of the movement that is conveyed through a picture is conveyed through illusion because of the nature of taking something that is three dimensional and trying to recast it into a two dimensional setting. But when I say illusion, this time what I am referring to is an optical illusion.Optical illusions such as the ones that you see on different kaleidoscopic creations are illusions that can do a number of different things, but one of the things that they almost always do is convey motion of some kind. Whether that motion is wholly different from what the picture is actually doing or whether that motion is an implied afterthought, the whole purpose of an optical illusion is to make you see something that isn’t there and therefore in a sense almost by definition lends itself to motion in some way.

The main problem with optical illusions is that they are difficult to draw and for that reason are not good starting points for people that would like to work with movement. These in fact should be the last things you tackle in your quest to add movement to your designs simply because creating a perfect optical illusion can take more time for an inexperienced designer than the end result is often worth.

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