Silhouette

I've always admired how artist managed to make silhouette into a piece of art. Just from something simple could turn out into something captivating to the human eye.

We were given the task to present a silhouette art; either comic or a scene from a movie that Mr Charles wanted us to watch. I chose to make a silhouette based from a scene from Silent Hill Revelation. Before that let me get started on what makes silhouette art so interesting.

Key point here: minimal. Silhouette art doesn't have to be too detail. Just imagine it to be shadow but the edges are refined. Of course what makes the art so special is also the colour; black over white. This could also relate to the Gestalt Principle: Figure Ground.

Silhouette goes way back. In countries such as Indonesia and Indonesia,Wayang Kulit is a form of a silhouette that can be counted as a performance. It plays around as a shadow puppetry. Shadow Puppetry originated during the Han Dynasty.

I came across Lotte Reiniger's Hansel&Gretel Silhouette animation video and was astounded by it Such a work of art. Lotte was inspired by the Chinese art of silhouette puppetry.

 

 

Silhouette for me is somehow a story telling you're telling to the public. Though simple, the message is there. Like they say, a picture says a thousand words. I could say the same thing to silhouettes.

The scene you're gonna look down there was inspired during the last fighting scene between the characters. This is my own interpretation. Instead doing a comic style or a view, I decided to make a poster of it. The grown-up Heather is fighting her young self who was once trapped in Silent Hill. I put those grills to make it seems like a barrier from 'the other world'. The fire element I've drawn there is to depict the mood and how it's eating the place up.