While vector images are certainly important to every graphic designer, they do not represent the whole story. Vector images breakdown when you try to use them for things that are continuous and for that reason something else is needed. You need something that has an inherently continuous design and that something is a raster image.
Raster [...]

Here is the last in my instalment of the creation of motion in pictures. Like any other work of art in drama or music, paintings and graphics have a rhythm to them. Whether a person that created it knows it or not is another question entirely, but in their theoretical forms these things [...]

We’ve done such a great job giving ourselves a crash course in many of the elements of graphic design that are absolutely important to understand, so for a couple of posts let’s take a break and consider some of the image types that you will be working with in your graphic design career. One [...]

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 [...]

There are three distinct ways that you can use outlining techniques in order to create a sense of movement in the graphics that you create.
The first way is through the use of fuzzy outlines when you are creating the particular graphic design. When an object is moving extremely quickly, our eyes tend to look at [...]