Objective - Subjective

My Objective drawings
Examples of Objective observations of a pair of glasses.

Drawn without any implied characteristics.

My Subjective drawing.
My object of choice is a baseball type cap. This particular cap is mostly cloth the only rigid part is the peak. The list of words that I made whilst contemplating the cap included the following.

• Crumpled
• Creased
• Squashed
• Formless
• Shapeless
• Cotton
• Faded
• Casual
• Wrinkled
• Misshapen
• Headgear
• Malleable
• Convenient
• Comfortable
• Soft
• Round
• Shabby

The word I chose to associate with the object was Casual
To help in creating a moodboard; I first checked the dictionary definition of the word to confirm my understanding of what it meant. The definitions according to Collins English are: Happening by accident or chance; being or seeming unconcerned or apathetic; not premeditated; shallow or superficial; informal article of clothing or footware; occasional;.
Added to which I considered; unintended, not contrived and not by design.
My focus for items to include in the moodboard became casual clothes; creased and crumpled fabrics;.

I included some obviously contrived examples of casual dress as a reference point and contrast. Having cut out the images using a knife; I then decided to just tear roughly round the images indicative of a casual manner.
I believe that creating the moodboard helped me to understand what was totally contrived as opposed to that which didn't appear to be so. It made me think in terms of how I could make my piece casual. I played around with the idea of recreating the texture of the hat, its shadows and high lights, by cutting out dark and light sections from images of crumpled fabric. However I decided to create the image on a piece of paper which I screwed up first as tightly as I could which I then flattened out again.

This gives the image a texture that is intended to mimic the appearance of the fabric. I then intentionally with little care brushed the greenwash over the hat. I found that it then needed some depth and at that point added some grey.
By the way; part the way through the process I dumped the baseball cap in favour of this hat. Although it had more substance than the cap, I considered that it still displayed the same basic attributes as the cap.
I also decided to tear round the hat to leave a random shape surrounding the hat. And then fix it to another sheet of paper to finish. I toyed with the idea of tearing in the shape of the hat but favoured the more casual version.