Illustration Friday: Hat

Initial Ideas

• Tophat
• The man who mistook his wife for a hat
• Cat in a hat
• Magicians hat
• Indian hat
• Uniform hats
• Head dress
• Flat cap
• Hat blowing away
• Posh hat
• Wooly hat

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Hat is such a broad theme that can be applied to any context supposedly. I developed my strongest four ideas which were, 'fat cat in a hat', 'hat blowing away', 'oversized hat', and 'magicians hat'. I would have liked to have spent a longer amount of time developing a more complex image for example the magicians hat and the rabbit, yet I was so worried about the deadlines for my other responsive briefs not being completed that I tried to complete this weeks response as quickly as possible.

Reference Imagery

As I was rushing, I din't use any reference imagery (which may be considered a good or a bad thing?)This encouraged me to use my imagination to a higher level- which I suppose I should be doing more often with the more practice I do.

Process

Admittedly, I've kind of been losing interest a little in these last  few weeks of illustration Friday, so I have become rather complacent on the development of my digital skills. As well, due to shortage of time, I couldn't experiment to my full capacity, so I utilised the skills with photoshop brushes I have gained over the past weeks to unite with the concept of 'fat cat in a hat' to create this light hearted response.

Evaluation

My response is mediocre I guess. Like I said earlier, towards the end of this ten weeks I started to run out of steam alongside worrying about the other briefs I have to complete for responsive. In hindsight, I wouldn't have been able to create a digital painting to this standard ten weeks ago, so that is an achievement for me. Again, the concepts seem to be my strongest points of my image making process; I still need to work on my visual application skills to match these, ultimately making the outcome more successful and effective.