I might not have been thinking quite that far when I created these silhouettes for an assignment two years ago, but I think I understood the gist of attempting conveying a character and personality through a silhouette. Shape, angularity, posture, hair, props, actions and more all went into each of these character prompts. We were given the description and the template for the "album pages" and told to portray the characters. Take Aunt Adelaide the fortune teller and compare her to Aunt Reba the hairpiece saleswoman (below). They both have sharp features and almost angular faces, with overall round forms, however they both feel like very different people. Reba looks very prim and proper, possibly prudish because her posture is perfect, and everything from her clothes to her hair is exactly in it's place and fits perfectly - because of this and the position of her fingers she feels very stiff, and thus stuck up. Yet, Reba also feels like she's trying to hard, possibly because of the fact that she's trying on her own wares. Adelaide, on the other hand feels much more laid back and much less put together. This is conveyed through her slouch, the rumples and folds in the clothes that don't seem to fit quite right, and the hair that seems to be not-so-carefully done - another detail is the string the crystal ball is hanging from, which tells you that she's not too honest in her trade.
So even the slightest differences between the silhouettes of different characters can have a huge difference.
That being said, were I to be given this project now, it would likely be done rather differently just from what I've learned between then and now.
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