Not Waving |
Richard Bell's Wild West Yorkshire nature diary, Friday, 12th October, 2007 |
WHAT
A WEEK it’s been; here I am in the waiting room a swelling on my index
finger (luckily not my drawing hand!) and the car is going to have to go back
to the garage for the second time in a week because yesterday, as I turned
the ignition to set off back from Wellfield Quarry, smoke started rising from
the hazard light switch!
It’s so long since I used hand signals that I had to go online and look at the Highway Code to refresh my memory but the first time that I signalled left – by waving my right arm in a small circle – the man coming the other way over Horbury Bridge thought that I was waving at him!
Trying not
to lose contact with my work, I start a little storyboard of my 64 page drawing
booklet as I wait to see the doctor but I decide later to use
the dummy book I’ve made from thin cartridge paper as my rough. When
you’re doing a storyboard you tend to think in terms of sequences, as
in a movie, but when I’m working on the dummy I realise that page after
page on one subject is too much and that I need to intersperse the ‘how
to’ sections with some double-page spreads of artwork to add an element
of surprise.