Hello, beau artists! I am taking over Teen Art Club this week and we are going to make optical illusion drawings. Optical illusions are works of visual art that fool our eyes into seeing something that isn't there. In this example, there will be a 3D outcome in our drawings, even though we're drawing on a apartment surface in 2D. Drawing these illusions isn't as hard equally information technology may seem. Let's put on some good tunes and get in the zone.

Materials Needed

  • Paper
  • Pencil/Pen
  • Ruler
  • Colored Pencils, Paints, Markers, Etc.

Step one

Place a single dot anywhere on your piece of newspaper. This will act as your vanishing point (the point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective announced to converge).

Step 2

Using your ruler, depict an even number of lines extending outward from the dot to the edges of your paper. Follow all the way around until you have a bit of a circle. (Tip: Endeavor non to leave any large gaps in between each line, as smaller gaps will enhance the illusion's consequence!)

Pace 3

Describe a curved line in betwixt each cavalcade (like a spider'southward spider web). Repeat this until you go to the edge of the paper. Then, in the side by side column, draw a similar curved line in the opposite direction every bit shown below. Repeat all the way around the circle.

(You can run into I initially forgot to include an even amount of lines in this example, which led to a little scrap of improvising!)

Step 4

In a sort-of checkerboard design, fill in every other block in a row or column with ane color. There should not exist whatever two blocks directly to the left/right or above/below each other with the aforementioned color. You can do 2 different colors, or employ one color and leave the other blocks blank (or white).

It doesn't matter what you apply to fill in these blocks, merely mark seems to have a bolder bear on than paints, as we will see toward the end!

Pay shut attention to your pattern! Effort sticking to one row or column at a fourth dimension if y'all start to feel overwhelmed.

It should look something like this in one case everything has been filled in.

Step 5 (Optional)

Retrace the outlines you fabricated in pencil with a pen or thin black marker.

If you used a marking or pen at the beginning, y'all won't take to worry about this footstep. Since I was using paint to colour in the blocks, I decided to save this stride for last then my outline wouldn't get painted over.

The assuming lines go a long way in making this illusion Popular!

Stride 6

Voila! You've completed an optical illusion drawing! If it didn't turn out quite the fashion you wanted, try playing around and using different tools to change the look of your illusion.

For case, an optical illusion drawing that I made with black permanent marker gave the lines a bold wait and assorted the two colors well with each other.

Equally long as you follow the basic instructions of this tutorial, you tin adjust this exercise in a variety of dissimilar ways and create your own wild illusions.

If you lot had fun with this one, look upward more optical illusions online (or bank check out the list below) and encounter what y'all detect. Enjoy drawing and we'll see y'all side by side time!

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Kody is a Youth Librarian at TSCPL who primarily works with teens. He enjoys music, writing, photography, and lots of coffee in his spare time. Don't hesitate to say hello!