SILHOUETTE!

SILHOUETTE ;

Definition : A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is basically featureless, and the whole is typically presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic media.

NOW, I know silhouette is based on a solid shape of a single colour (black) and etc etc. And i know i have to follow according to the meaning. But instead of following the meaning, i have decided to present my PERSONAL silhouette with '' COLOURS'' . I mean why not? It shows more of the dark scenes, the ''DETAILS'' and also it illustrates the meaning/story of the whole silhouette. Furthermore, I love to play with colours and details because it really defines the whole picture. 

 I picked out one scene from SILENT HILL 2 : REVELATION because this scene shows the darkest, evil, scary , important scene throughout the movie. I combine my favourite and inspirational characters into 1 scene,  Which were : 

BUNNY

LAKESIDE AMUSEMENT PARK ( SCENE)

THE GUARDIAN ( pyramid head)

NURSE

MANNEQUIN LIKE MONSTER

MANNEQUIN LIKE MONSTER

GUARDIAN

NURSE

BUNNY

LAKESIDE AMUSEMENT PARK 

SO yeah, i used my imagination and ideas of combining from THIS MOVIE. 

HERE GOES MY SILHOUETTE! 

(close up ) 

As you can see, the LAKESIDE AMUSEMENT PARK is the background and the it shows the meaning of the whole picture. It is at dark and bloody. Besides that,  My favourite characters portrays the story as well. 

I hope you understand the whole concept of this picture. 

:D!

MOVIE TIME!

SILENT HILL (2)  : REVELATION 

Basically, Silent Hill is the name of the town in the series. The town is a bit secluded and small. It has the same layout and same key locations in every iteration, but everyone sees the town just a little different. In each of the games the main characters find themselves (willing or not) exploring the town and find it abandoned and filled with horrors. The particular dangers are different for each visitor, and they are always strange. This isn’t just a “zombie town”.

The film opens with a nightmare; a teenage girl, Heather Manson, is running away from men in black cloaks in Lakeside Amusement park , but wakes up when she encounters a dark ''doppleganger'' of herself who sets her on fire on the carousal. 

Her father, Christopher Da Silva comforts her, but is soon stabbed through the chest and killed by a monster with discs in its head, known as the Missionary.  Heather then awakens again, and realizes that she was still dreaming, and has been suffering nightmares that have been getting increasingly intense.

The next morning, it is revealed that Heather is a grown up Sharon Da Silva, and that both Sharon and Chris have adopted new aliases, Harry and Heather Mason, in order to hide from '' THE ORDER''  the cult. Chris has given Sharon strict orders to never visit Silent Hill. It is also revealed that Rose de silva is still trapped in Silent Hill, and in order to free her adopted daughter from the realm of the town, Rose located the Seal of metatron — although in order to do so, she sacrificed herself.

(Rose de silva)

(Seal of metatron)

 In doing this, Sharon lost many of her memories, is suffering from amnesia, and has forgotten the events that transpired in the first film. Instead, in order to keep his adopted daughter safe and give her a normal life, Chris has told Sharon that her adopted mother died in a car crash on the outskirts of Silent Hill, and that her nightmares are simply dreams. It is Heather's birthday, and Chris gives her a white vest as a present. The two embrace, and Heather leaves for her first day at a new school.

 On the way to school, Heather is confronted by a detective, who knows her true name is Sharon, and wants to speak to her. Heather refuses to speak with him, and during class, she reveals that she's been moving from town to town and school to school constantly for the past 6 years, and refuses to befriend any of the other students who ridicule her. After school, Heather begins to hallucinate an armless monster, and a vision of a little girl being teased by her classmates. Heather runs into Vincent cooper , who is also a new student at the school, but she rebuffs his advances.

Vincent reveals that he has feelings for Heather, and that he is a member of the Order who was born and raised in Silent Hill's alternate reality. He warns her to stay away from Silent Hill, but Heather causes the inn to shift to the Otherworld. Vincent is then kidnapped by the Missionary, and Heather is knocked unconscious. When she wakes, she finds herself in the Fog World.

She enters Silent Hill and meets Alessa's mother. She tells Heather that she is the manifestation of the good side of Alessa's soul, and that Alessa's rage controls Silent Hill. Heather tries to get Dahlia to tell her where Christopher is, but the Sirens go off and Dahlia urges Heather to take shelter and run as the world peels away around them. Heather then meets Suki,  a young woman who was dragged into the Otherworld when she got lost in Silent Hill. Heather tries to save Suki from a mannequin -like monster, but Suki is dragged away and killed.

Heather then goes to Brookhaven where she meets the grandfather of Vincent and the former leader of the Order. Leonard tells Heather that the Seal of Metatron reveals the "true nature of things" and that he has the other half, and shifts into a monster when she gives her half to him and completes it. Heather is able to remove the Seal from Leonard's body, killing him, and she goes to locate Vincent. 

She finds him in a room full of demonic nurses , who have just finished killing two members of the Order. She saves him, and the two go to Lakeside Amusement Park to find Chris.

At the park, Vincent kisses Heather and then distracts the sect of the Order. Heather makes her way to the carousel, where she meets Dark Alessa, the manifestation of the dark side of Alessa's soul. Dark Alessa morphs into Memory of Alessa, a darkened version of Heather. She tells Heather that they are one, and that she is a demon because she is the darkness of the soul. Heather and Alessa merge and become one person again, making Heather a complete incarnation of Alessa.

Heather finds the sanctuary beneath the amusement park, and tries to free her father. There, she is confronted by Claudia Wold , the new priestess of the Order and the mother of Vincent. Heather gives Claudia the Seal of Metatron. Because it reveals the true nature of one's self, Claudia transforms into the Missionary — at this point, it becomes clear that Claudia was the being who murdered Douglas, her pawn, and kidnapped Vincent in Jacks Inn. When Claudia attacks Heather, Pyramid Head , Alessa's "guardian and executioner", goes to Heather's defense, killing Claudia.

(claudia wold)

(Guardian)

Upon returning to the entrance of Silent Hill, Vincent notices that the ashes have stopped falling, and Heather speculates that things will change, though Chris corrects her, claiming that it is still a town of lost souls. Chris, Vincent and Heather leave Silent Hill together, but Chris stops and turns back, saying that he must find Rose. He then disappears into the fog which disappears along with him, and Heather and Vincent return to reality.

So, after all the explanation of this movie and from what i think, i really love horror movie. IMMA BIG FAN. Even with the screaming and shouting, i never fail to stop watching HORROR movies. Otherwise, i don't really think '' SILENT HILL'' is a typical horror movie . Silent Hill is mostly a psychological & supernatural horror movie with a hint of surrealism. Personally, I think that the mystery shrouding the town is what keeps the viewer in suspense and glued to their seats. I admit that the curiosity of exactly what the term 'THE DARKNESS IS COMING' is what grips me and even after watching the 2nd installment, I am still puzzled about why that even happens, especially the part where the walls begin to peel away. It's as if the walls and doors are burnt and peeled away to reveal the truth & the ugliness/dark side of Silent Hill. It really amazed me that so many scenes that caught my attention . Especially the '' NURSE''. The nurse is my favourite among all because of their attacks and movement. Their movement and attacks were so unique and never seen in any horror movies before. 

This movie '' SILENT HILL RELEVATION'' had given me an idea for my SILHOUETTE. In conclusion, there are many inspiring scenes to help portray them in Silhouette. So, wait for my upcoming post of my personal Silhouette! :D

TATA :)

HERE IS THE TRAILER : 

TESSSSSSSSSELATION

TESS TESS TESSELLATION. 

WELL, basically the big word '' TESSELLATION' is the process of creating a two-dimensional plane using the repetition of a geometric shape with no overlaps and no gaps. Generalisations to higher dimensions are also possible. Tessellations frequently appeared in the art of MC ESHER, who was inspired by studying the Moorish use of symmetry in the Alhambra tiles during a visit in 1922. Tessellations are seen throughout art history, from ancient architecture to modern art. 

Where as we are asked to include Gestalt principles inside which are : 

SIMILARITY 

PROXIMITY

CLOSURE

FIGURE AND GROUND 

ALIGNMENT 

CONTINUITY 

Gestalt is a psychology term which means "unified whole". It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organise visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied. 

All i can say is, Tessellation consist of  PATTERNS. PATTERNS ARE MY THING. I am in love with patterns. Everywhere i go, i see patterns. People even have their own significant pattern ( personality and characteristics ) How about clothing? Clothing have their own specific pattern as well. And a lot more VARITIES of PATTERNS we can see around us. A simple pattern can be fit perfectly together like 'doin the math' that it doesn't make it JUST a pattern anymore, in fact this takes patterns and math to a whole new level , anywhere you go and anywhere you stand, you'll definitely see patterns. There are too many different kinds of TESSELLATION. 

Let me show you examples of TESSELLATION . 

For this project, Mr Charles have given us to explore and incorporate GESTALT PRINCIPLES ( as i mentioned it above) in our TESSELLATION.  This project is quite challenging as there so many types of  techniques. Tessellations do not have GAPS, OVERLAPS and are SYMMETRICAL. Some have the sense of DYNAMIC/STATIC principles.  

Sooo, here are my own version of TESSELLATIONS that includes Gestalt principles. 

FIGURE & GROUND

PROXIMITY 

'' Look into it for few seconds, can u see an illusion''?? 

SIMILARITY 

( Elevator )

CLOSURE

''WOLVES'' 

CONTINUITY 

The continuation from left to right. 

ALIGNMENT 

Conclusion, it has been  a really tough project yet challenging too. But it was interesting and i could play around with so many patterns and colours. In Latin, tessella is a small cubical piece of clay, stone or glass. The word "tessella" means "small square" . It corresponds with the everyday term tiling which refers to applications of tessellations, often made of  glazed clay.

Anyways, signing OFF! xoxo

CUT CUT , PAPER CUT ;

HELLO ONCE AGAIN!   Yup another blog post about PAPER CUT. Mr Charles insist on giving us  this assignment to understand the concept behind it. This is another task that we have to do is to make pieces of paper cut designs and artworks to paste it on the mounting board . I have chose and designed my own personal PAPER CUTS to represent each and every principle. You can see the forms, shapes and all kinds of designs that i will show you throughout this post. 

First up, ASYMMETRICAL BALANCE :

placement of non-identical forms to either side of a balancing point in such a way that the two sides seem to be of the same visual weight..

SYMMETRICAL BALANCE ;

 Symmetrical balance is mirror image balance. If you draw a line down the centre of the page, all the objects on one side of the screen are mirrored on the other side (they may not be identical objects, but they are similar in terms of numbers of objects, colours and other elements. Sometimes they are completely identical (often seen in architecture).

theme : Squirrels 

REPETITION AND RHYTHM :

Rhythm in design is also called repetition . Rhythm allows your designs to develop an internal consistency that makes it easier for people to understand. Once the brain recognises the pattern in the rhythm it can relax and understand the whole design. Repetition rarely occurs on its own and so it imbues a sense of order onto the design. And because of this, repetition attracts attention and prompts people to investigate further.

UNITY AND VARIETY :

Unity is the feeling that everything fits together.  It is a feeling of oneness.  The opposite of unity is disunity, a feeling of disorder.  In art, unity is often achieved by the repetition of a shape, a color or another visual element.  Another method is simplicity.  Simplicity is the use of one major color, kind of shape or element to unify a work.

Variety is often said to be the spice of life.”  In art, variety is like a spice.  A totally unified work is likely to be boring if it has no variety.  Variety is the use of contrasting elements to make something interesting.   The contrast, or difference, may be subtle, such as a slight change in texture or color within an area.  It may be more obvious, such as a sharp difference in the materials, sizes of shapes, color or lighting.  Just as we appreciate unity and variety in nature, we seem to want unity and variety in our lives - and in our art.

DYNAMIC ;

Dynamic composition on the other hand, uses many diagonal lines. Diagonals are somewhat unsettling, which results in a sense of movement, energy, excitement that generates from a dynamic composition. 

STATIC ;

Lacking in movement, action, or change, esp. in a way viewed as undesirable or uninteresting.

DOMINANCE ;

Dominance is about the focus given to a part of a work of art. It also helps to create unity as the eye is attracted to a key point then led around the image by pictorial elements. Dominance can be created by contrasting pictorial elements such as line, shape, tone, texture, direction, size or color.

SCALE AND PROPORTION ;

Scale refers to overall size and proportion refers to relative size. Scale and proportion principles help the viewer organize an image and they can be used to create or minimize points of emphasis. If an object is out-of-scale or oddly proportioned, then it will create a point of emphasis. Also, large scale objects create obvious visual weight. We automatically perceive larger objects as closer and more important than smaller objects.

Proportion also pertains to the design of objects and their placement in the frame. For example, having the focal point dead-center is usually not very interesting, it is usually better placed along one of the “thirds”. The ancient Greeks studied mathematics and that it was the controlling force of the universe.

THATS ALL FOR NOW ;D It was one hectic and tiring project but I HAD FUN! :)