How to make a silhouette by hand

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1, the shadow image with obvious shape and no tonal details is called silhouette. Generally speaking, it is a dark theme on a bright background. The expressive force of silhouette depends on the sharp outline of image action. Silhouette is not conducive to expressing details and texture.

2. A form of paper cutting. Use scissors and black paper (or heavy colored paper) to cut out the typical outer contour of people, animals or other objects without internal structure. Express the image through the shadow modeling. It was originally made in silhouette, which is said to be one of the royal works of art in the royal court of Europe. In order to record their royal ability, the royal family used various painting methods, and court artists also created silhouettes to meet their requirements. Silhouette art was introduced to China in 1928.

3. Writing skills, cut a small piece of a big event or thing to describe it. The function of this description is to see the big from the small, and its philosophical basis is to know the whole from the local.

Lin Qingxuan's Silhouette of Darkness

Walking in the new park, I saw a "silhouette" middle-aged man.

His stall is small and his tools are simple. He only has a pair of scissors and a few sheets of paper, but his silhouette skills are very skilled. He can cut a person's image on paper in just three or two minutes, and most of them are cool. Look carefully, there are only two or three lines in his silhouette, and a person's five senses jump out of those three or three lines.

It was a cold winter afternoon, and even in the park, there were few people. Occasionally, passers-by looked at the silhouette booth curiously and then left silently. It won't be long before someone asks him to take a silhouette with the mentality of trying, because a photo with 20 yuan is much cheaper than a failed photo in a photo studio.

I sat in the iron chair opposite the silhouette and saw that his business was dull, so I thought he was a lonely man on the earth. He used scissors and paper to capture the expressions on people's faces all day, but those people washed away from him like a river, and he had almost nothing except the profile of some celebrities he put on the bookshelf as samples.

Go forward, and I'll let the silhouette cut my side face. When he was working, I said faintly, "Business is bad?" Imagine it, but it caused a long list of complaints in silhouette. He said that since the popularization of photography, the business of silhouette can hardly go on, because photography is color, so it is true and clear; The silhouette is black and white, with only a few small lines.

He said: "When people rely too much on photos, the world loses some imaginable beauty. No matter how naive a person is, standing in front of the camera will become hypocritical and uncomfortable. Therefore, photography often only leaves a person's image, but can't really have a person's appearance; Silhouettes are not like this. They only capture the spirit and pay little attention to the image. " I think the lonely silhouette has a profound truth, especially the photos taken by people sitting in the light of the studio.

7. He quickly cut off my shadow. I looked at my dark silhouette and thought that "shadow" was strange, with a kind of melancholy that I couldn't believe, because his mouth was closed and his brow was deep. I asked the silhouette, and he said, "I just saw you sitting in the chair opposite. I think you are a melancholy person." You know that to cut out a person's image, technology is of course important, and observation is more important. "

Today, the silhouette artist has been engaged in the silhouette industry for 20 years and has been living a wandering life. He used to take pictures of tourists in tourist areas all over the country, and later the tourist areas were replaced by photographers. He has to sell his skills from one town to another. His feeling is not just life, but "the more places I go, the more people I see, the more mature my silhouette technique is and I capture the most vivid faces of people."

As a silhouette artist, his greatest interest is observation. At first, he observed people. Later, when business was slow, I began to ponder over nature, cut flowers, birds and trees, and cut mountains and rivers.

Attending "Isn't that the same as paper cutting?" I said.

○ 1 1 "Silhouette is a kind of paper cutting. The difference is that paper-cutting is exquisite and colorful, and it is China's realistic painting; The silhouette is simple, only black and white, just like freehand brushwork. "

12 I asked him to cut a shadow called "darkness" because he boasted that everything could be cut out.

○ 13 The silhouetter cut out a small first quarter moon and some shining stars with black paper and scissors. He told me: "There was no moon and stars in the real darkness, but there is no real darkness in the world. We can always see a glimmer of light in the corner. Without light, darkness is not darkness. "

○ 14 When I left the silhouette, I couldn't help recalling what he said over and over again. Because of the contrast of light, darkness is terrible. If there is no light, what is terrible about darkness? The question is, how can a person keep the desire for light in the darkest moment?

○ 15 Now this silhouette called "Darkness" is on my desk, and the stars and the moon are sparsely buried in black paper, as if they don't care much. Perhaps so, "light" does not shine for a specific object, but everyone with a heart can pursue it.

○ 16 Later, I went to the park several times to look for the silhouette man, but there was no trace of him. I know that he continues to live a wandering life in a corner, capturing the souls of people, whether bright or dark. Maybe he forgot to cut my shadow long ago. It doesn't matter at all. The important thing is that we met in a leisurely afternoon. He told me with twenty years of wandering: "The world! Even if no one cares about silhouette.