In James Jeans' 2009 illustration, "Wave II", the name itself already suggests implied movement. Sinuous curves occur repeatedly throughout the piece from the border itself to fishnet and waters. Curves are well-known to movement as it represents gradual changes from left to right, or top to bottom. Examples of these are sound waves; birds' wings when they are flying; a flag flapping in the wind; and a dolphin's movement as it jumps out of the water back into the water. Another suggestion of movement in Jean's piece is the line direction that is going outwards from a central point. While the boy is the central point, let the eye follow boy's arms to the fish net lines as it protrudes out of the border, left and right. The waves at the bottom helps suggest this action. However, the waves at the top of the fishnet points back at the fishnet down to the boy as if there is a circulatory movement, helping contain the picture within its border boundaries.
This is an illustrated piece done by James Jean called "Dancers". There is implied motion in this design because of the diagonal position the characters are at. They are not vertical which suggests stillness in comparison to a fixated tree. From the waist-up, they are horizontal, but from the waist-down they are vertical. With this split position of having vertical and horizontal poses suggests movement. In reality, one has to move to that pose from vertical to horizontal. In addition, Jean's energetic, erratic lines implies more movement.
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