Illustration Friday: Hierarchy

Remember when I said that I wanted to do Illustration Friday every week, even if I only had the time (or patience) for just the sketches?

This week is one of those weeks.

When I sat down to do the Illustration Friday, things didn’t work out as planned! Yet another reminder to do things early, as was my school routine. Anyway, after a long day¹, a battery drain² and a Photoshop options preset-reset³, I can’t bring myself to work on it. I am tired and irritated, and this isn’t a JOB. I’m supposed to enjoy this; its my time, my unwinding thing. I don’t want to take it so seriously, and to be honest… right now, I’d rather sleep.

Anyway, regarding my sketch and concept. Whenever I think of “hierarchy” I think of type. And when I think of my first type class, two years ago, and learning about hierarchy in typography, I remember the famous snippet from our textbook: “If you can’t make it good, make it big. And if you can’t make it big, make it red.” So I did a literal characterization of that.

I like it, so far, and once I kick Photoshop’s ass to go back to doing what it needs to do and how I like it done, I’ll finish it.

PS: Isn’t it funny how you can still be remembered as “the one who drew” amongst former classmates for years and years?

1. Errands, errands, hauling, cleaning, errands, errands, errands.
2. My computer came disconnected from its power source, didn’t tell me and shut itself off. When I hadn’t saved. Need a new battery.
3. After the restart, and re-opening of Photoshop, I discovered all my presets were reset to default. Raaaaaaage. So, to avoid killing everything, I threw in the towel.