ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY : HAT

The word this week is ‘Hat’. Straight away I wanted to try and do something a little different. Without using some type of Philip Treacy masterpiece I was worried an image of a hat would look pretty boring but I knew the look I wanted to achieve wasn’t going to be as glamorous as that. I decided to make it my aim to create something visually interesting from an image of a plain old hat! I love glitchy things, things you need to look at twice and things you sometimes can’t decide if you like, or how something makes you feel.I wanted something more 90’s, a bit 3D and almost like some of the old rave flyers I remember seeing plastered all over my sisters walls. 

Each week I’m trying to work as quickly and efficiently as possible, I can spend so long doubting what I am creating and so really wanted to nail this and trust my ideas and go with them from the get go! Knowing I wanted to use a baseball cap (I have so many I’ve collected over the years but now wont wear as my hair is too long and i look like a trailer park boy!) I started playing with images of me wearing my old favourite hats (R.I.P.) I started by breaking the image up and re building it. Using the CMYK separations, (so they could be screen printed) I started arranging the image of my hat and hair to create some kind of form, almost an organic lump.

The image is a bit strange and I like that, it looks a little like a flower, or a mouth and has the impression of movement that I love. I can imagine the shape floating and the hair moving as hair would in water. I chose to add some text, keeping it with the idea of it being like a flyer (from what I rememeber were always really text heavy) but wanted to use this to make it a little more contemporary and modern. I really love this illustration, its exactly how I wanted it to look. That can sometimes be the hardest thing getting the ideas from your brain to the screen or page, but this time i feel I did a pretty good job.