PAREIDOLIA PARADIGM, KEITH LARSEN DRAWINGS IN ILLUSTRATION CHARACTER DESIGNS

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reach the visual awareness of pareidolia, a neuropsychological disorder, on hallucinations and illusions on objects. In particular, it is to raise awareness, guide and evaluate artists and designers who have this ailment in visual design applications. It is to contribute to the visual design field by removing this situation from the psychology of the disease. Keith Larsen's drawings are the interpretation of an object that does not actually exist by a stimulus or brain in an image. In short, it is an analogy to something that does not have an object. The artist reflects this mental state with his drawings. In fact, it is visual illusions and hallucination perception that do not exist in the object. The main subject of the study is Larsen's transformation of this object into a postsimulation interpretative interpretation and the viewer noticing (awareness) of this awareness. The aim is to use pareidolia as an artistic means of expression. It is an effort to interpret the objects that the brain sees for the first time by comparing it to what has been learned before, even though there is no relationship between them. This interpretation is important in terms of contributing to the illustration designs. Illustrations, which are a product of graphic design, are used as an auxiliary element in every field where the visual field is reached, in books, magazines, on the Internet, in packaging, in cartoons, in short, in every field that the eye reaches. In conclusion, pareidolia is the reality of perceiving an object visually differently and likening it to something it is not. Based on this fact, illustrators conveyed illustrative visuals to the audience by revealing the awareness of environmental objects, as well as their perceptual imagination. Paraidolic-analogous analyzes have been made on these illustrative representations.