{"id":692,"date":"2012-02-27T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatelusiveline.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/27\/blood-and-biscuits"},"modified":"2022-01-13T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T12:31:42","slug":"blood-and-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/blood-and-biscuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood and Biscuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/howard-583x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/howard-583x1024.jpg 583w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/howard-171x300.jpg 171w, http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/howard.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Gosh, doesn\u2019t time fly when you\u2019re not updating your blog? I\u2019ve been busy drawing, both sketching out new characters (see here) and working on the final illustrations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Dan-Dead-Quicksilver-Thomas-Taylor\/dp\/1408154129\">Dan and the Dead<\/a>. My new blog banner is a spin off from that, if you\u2019re curious.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway, after so much writing over the last year, it feels good to go back to mostly drawing. And once again I\u2019m struck by one enormous difference between the two activities.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">I need silence to write. If possible, I also need to be alone in the house. There\u2019s absolutely no question of listening to music. The only sound should be the scrape of dry fingertips on the keyboard and the steady drip drip drip of blood as it sweats out of my forehead (it\u2019s probably just as well I\u2019m on my own).<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drawing, on the other hand, is next to impossible for me if I <em>don\u2019t<\/em> have music. And if you want to phone me while I\u2019m sketching, then fine, go ahead &#8212; I can hold the phone in my left hand and chunter for hours while my right hand carries on. In fact, just pop round. You can stay and listen to the radio with me, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/ahistoryoftheworld\/\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b007d6hr\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00rtf9n\/Another_Case_of_Milton_Jones_Series_4_Celebrity_Weatherman\/\">this<\/a>, and then we can chat as the coffee-break kettle steams and hopefully agree that the one thing that really puts the \u2018great\u2019 in Great Britain is the wonderful, inestimable, sanity-saving BBC. I\u2019m sure they had illustrators in mind when they invented it.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The phrase \u2018back to the drawing board\u2019 normally has negative connotations. 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