What is a silhouette?

Silhouette usually refers to some portraits with black edges, which are often shadows obtained by polishing paper.

Specifically, silhouette is a pattern formed by cutting out the outline of a person or object with a certain precision with black or other tools such as paper, razor and scissors, and placing it on a white background opposite to the light source to produce intricate shadows and lines.

It is roughly similar to a black "negative" or a clean and concise shadow of an object, which is quite decorative and can directly show the characteristics of silhouette.

In history, silhouette has been widely used in portrait description, scene display, artistic creation and other fields, especially in some low-tech handicraft fields, such as home decoration, small handicrafts and so on. This technique is still very popular today.

Manufacturing method:

First, prepare a piece of black or dark paper, pencil, ruler and scissors. Then draw the pattern that needs silhouette on the white paper. You can find suitable templates online or in books, or design and draw your own patterns.

Then smooth the black paper, put the white paper on the black paper and align it. Pat the pattern on black paper with a pencil, and then carefully cut it along the edge of the pattern with scissors.

Then gently lift the silhouette and paste it on the white backing paper. Decorations can be added, the length of materials can be adjusted, and the wrong parts can be re-made as needed. Finally, stick the silhouette on the wall or other refreshing background with light reflection, and you can enjoy its amazing performance.