How to Draw Impossible Illusions

This is a demo of how to draw M.C. Escher's impossible cube. It's a pretty cool design we're sure you have seen before. This is a rough demonstration of how to draw this incredible illusion.

Draw it your self! with pen and paper, in the best style of M.C. Escher. Amazing three-dimensional impossible object. Takes only 2 minutes and produces this illusion object.

Have you seen the impossible triangle and wondered how it was created? This video will show you how to draw an impossible triangle using Microsoft Paint. Draw an impossible triangle in MS Paint. Click through to watch this video on tricklife.com

This is a short instructional video showing you the easiest way to draw an impossible triangle. Follow along with the demonstrator to capture the lines to sketch this physical enigma. Just because it can't exist, doesn't mean you can't render it. Watch this video tutorial and ...more

The impossible two circle proposition is a common bet among friends. How is it possible to draw one circle inside another without even lifting your pen off the page? This video will show you how.

How does it feel when you draw? What do you want to draw? Watch this instructional drawing video to begin drawing optical illusions. Draw a photograph to begin understanding the optical illusion of depth.

Optical illusions don't require fancy techniques; this one relies entirely in the details. Gather up a pen/pencil, paper, and a pair of scissors. Draw a parallelogram to be used as the template for both tabletops in this sketch. By varied angling, leg lengths, and color, the t ...more

Ever thought it was hard or impossible to draw the manga characters with emotions? Minicustom, a very skilled manga sketcher, will take you through all the steps to create your dream manga character using modern sketching techniques to create authentic professional looking man ...more

The nose is one of the many challenging facets of drawing the human face realistically, and its central location makes it impossible to hide your mistakes. This video will demonstrate for and explain to you, the budding artist, how to draw a good-looking nose in pencil. Step- ...more

Drawing cylinders, like drawing circles, is easy stuff. But drawing perfect cylinders, minutely calibrated edges and angles and all, is often impossible unless you have the right method and the right tools. Rather than lazily sketching your way to a mediocre cylinder, why not ...more

Designing a tattoo sleeve is a challenging and important task for any tattoo artist or recipient, as they are huge, expensive, nearly impossible to hide and, like all tattoos, with you forever. This four-part video demonstrates the sketching and inking of a sleeve design with ...more

See what you can do to impress your friends with a hammer and a ruler. This magic illusion is sure to impress your friends. Watch the hammer hooked to the foot-long plastic ruler dangle and balance from the edge of a countertop. Next, see the the reveal of the illusion, which ...more

It's time to discover how fun art and drawing is! Learn how to draw young lady or old hag illusion. Drawing is a way of creating and expressing ourselves, and therefore the result is always beautiful. Drawingnow.com brings you step-by-step drawing tutorials on many different ...more

At first glance, this drawing looks like nothing special, just an odd design of lines, but then you notice the two bolded lines. They look like they are different sizes, but are they? No! They are the exact same length. Tricky… very tricky. To learn how to create this optical ...more

Watch this video to learn how to draw backgrounds for anime and manga. "Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley presents a tutorial on how to draw and color backgrounds for a manga-style illustration. The emphasis is on using color and linework to create the illusion of depth.

Red Bull isn't the only thing that gives you wings. In fact, you can don a pair of wings yourself by painting on winged cat liner on your eyelids. Winged liner is a coveted makeup look because it helps to lengthen and enlarge small eyes, make close set eyes appear farther apar ...more

Illustrator Michael Weisner takes us through the steps on how to draw realistic people. Needed:PaperDrawing Utensils 1. Draw the Head using sharp lines, in a vaguely oval shape 2. Fill out the neck and torso and shade using overlapping lines to create the illusion of 3 dimensi ...more

This is an excellent kids tutorial to draw a koi fish easy and simply using a Adobe Photoshop. The artist shows you how to hand draw the body, add the fins and other features of the fish. Then you create guidelines to make a perfect pattern of scales on the fish. Next he start ...more

This trick is super cool and looks a lot like those found in popular video games. In this tutorial, get a step by step on a jumping illusion that looks like you weighlessly propelled yourself using only water. This trick will take a lot of practice but once you've mastered it, ...more

This is one water bomb that's more postmodern art than scary - though fun - splashy summertime weapon. Using intricate tessellated origami folds and a drawn-on grid you'll learn how to create this interesting shape. The resulting shape can be modified; you can scrunch it toge ...more

How do you make a plastic bottle sit on top of a Rubik's Cube without a Rubik's Cube? It may seem like a brain teaser, but it's more like something you would see in an Escher drawing. An optical illusion. A three-dimensional world trapped in a two-dimensional image, which is ...more

Learning how to draw is a very much about learning how to see. Watch this instructional drawing video to begin to draw the illusion of depth on a flat surface. Most people can see perfectly fine and understand the concept of depth in space. However, drawing becomes tricky when ...more

Watch this instructional drawing video to draw objects in space. You can draw three dimensional objects if you can create the illusion of depth within a space. If the page is a space, how can you make a series of points appear as though they are floating within that open space ...more

Kipkay demonstrates how to make a penrose triangle, an impossible object, out of paper. This is a very well known optical illusion in three dimensions. Make a penrose triangle. Click through to watch this video on videojug.com

In this tutorial, we learn how to draw eyebrows and eye lashes. First, sketch out the basic shape of the eyebrow. Cross edge with a 2B pencil, then blend it in to lighten in and act as a skin tone. Then, draw the actual hair with a B pencil, going upwards with the pencil strok ...more

In this video, we learn how to draw people in motion. Start off by drawing a shoulder and an arm. After this, draw the body, then continue down to draw the legs. Next, draw the head on the body and draw the second body dancing with the first one. Draw the clothes on then add d ...more

First, make the chin of the skull by drawing out a slight sharp curve facing downwards. Then, make the forehead and the upper part of the skull by drawing huge slight curves. Draw a circle on the spot where the eye socket should be. Draw a curve at the side of the circle to gi ...more

We are shown how to draw a Halloween cat in a several easy steps. First A large circle is drawn. Then in the middle a cat is drawn with an arching back, tail held high. After the cat is completed the background around the cat is filled in with black, giving a silhouette illusi ...more

Watch this two part instructional drawing video to draw the illusion of motion. You can draw lines to appear as though they are moving through space based on their thickness and directional flow. Learn to draw gestures by drawing decisive lines that operate in relation to each ...more

This simple video tutorial teaches you how to create an animation of basic shapes transforming from one shape to another when using Flash. The tutorial handles drawing basic shapes, such as squares and rectangles and resizing and transforming them one by one. Then, through t ...more

Apply foundation in a shade close to your natural skin color or slightly darker. Make sure it is even and smooth. It is very important to remember when sculpting your face with makeup that highlight creates the illusion of an area coming out, while shadow causes it to recede. ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a beautiful unicorn. Start by outlining the unicorn, using circles to show where the head and joints are. Draw long lines for the legs and the tail. Then, draw on the point for the head and start to add in the details of the body. As you ...more

The job of a magician is to make the impossible look possible. They challenge the senses and bend reality. So join magician Ryan Oakes as he shows you a simple illusion. You will need a handkerchief and some scissors.Sometimes we use materials that require adult supervision... ...more

Learn how to make a three dimensional city from a sheet of paper. Start with a flat drawing of a city scape and a sharp X-acto knife. Cut along each vertical line of each window. Cut along each horizontal line of each window. Be very precise and do not cut past the end of the ...more

Motion can be difficult to capture in drawings; it takes a certain technique to render the impression of a gesture by tricking the eye into moving along with the shape of the sketch. Watch this video drawing tutorial and learn how to create the illusion of movement or motion i ...more

You're standing right in front of us, but your voice sounds like it's coming from over there! Color your friends impressed by learning the fine art of ventriloquism. Step 1 Make sure you have a quiet, secluded, place to practice with a mirror. Step 2 Don’t move your lips. In ...more

Sarah long teaches viewers how to contour their lips. First, you will need lip balm. It should be simply used just to moisturize your lips. Now, take a piece of sandpaper and lightly roll it over your lips. This will exfoliate the lips. You shouldn't do this all the time! (may ...more

Begin by painting your full nails orange. Any orange will work for this design; just keep in mind that more than one coat of nail polish may be needed to get a bold and opaque shade. I did two coats of orange to get the coverage shown in the photograph. Using a liner brush li ...more

Get a leg up on the competition with these wardrobe tips. You Will Need * Petite and vintage clothes * Visually interesting tops * Small prints * Wide-leg pants * Empire or V-neck wrap dresses * Backless shoes and high heels Step 1: Head to the petite department Head to the p ...more