Optical Illusions
This week I’m going to dive into some designs I created, and explain the reasoning behind them and what led me to actually creating these. I’m going to begin with three, and add more to this post as time goes by.
Back in secondary school my Maths teacher, Mr Moss used to have several of these hand sketched optical illusion style posters dotted around his classroom. He was a precise guy, no time for doddling on one subject for too long, so it made sense that he had these beautiful bits of art hanging around his ‘office’. His favourite word was ‘tedious’. If we sat on any particular subject within maths for any length of time, he would gesticulate to the room that “This is tedium folks, it’s time to move on!”.
(Two ‘L’ shapes intertwined. Optically the tops of each letter are touching the bottom crossbar of the other, but in reality, there is a gap.)
One of my favourite games growing up on the Sega Mega Drive was a game called Marble Madness. My mother and I used to play this for hours on end. It still amazes me that all those years ago you could get hours of enjoyment out of being able to roll marbles around a maze on a screen.
(This is still one of my favourites because of its simplicity.)
(This one took a bit of time to figure out optically. Sometimes we need to design them from a different angle, so to speak, and then rotate it to its desired destination.)
These illustrations were inspired by both those memories in my life. None of these illusions are unique or original, but I like them and it always intrigues me to figure out the best way to go about building these into vector formats on Adobe Illustrator, so that’s what I did. Maybe at some point I may show how I went about it (once I’ve got it down to a tee, as figuring it out was somewhat annoying for a few of them). Sooner or later I might make these into posters, but for now, I’m just putting these out there for like minded folk to enjoy.