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Sulcalibur is the garden where it all gets planted.","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.bsky.app\u002Fimg\u002Favatar\u002Fplain\u002Fdid:plc:cf676cpnyxhrxctrsusddklr\u002Fbafkreibbdzsdxwnxqq3ffvfle3g4gzdpygnm43ihdfx6jugz7xoman7pdm",[12,15,18],{"label":13,"url":14},"\u002Fnow - current focus","\u002Fnow",{"label":16,"url":17},"\u002Fuses - gear & tools","\u002Fuses",{"label":19,"url":20},"\u002Fhello - say hi","\u002Fhello","An occasional newsletter — new essays, photos, and whatever's on the shelf. No noise, ever.","Letters from the hillside",[24,28],{"label":25,"link":26,"style":27},"Start reading!","\u002Fwriting","primary",{"label":29,"link":30,"style":31},"The photo shelf","\u002Fphotos","secondary","Long-form writing, photography and the small live signals of a life spent in RPG towns, quiet hills, and the space between.","A personal digital garden · 物語の庭","Stories, pixels & warm places.",{},"site","XKRgspXnyC_8pwiKfVrqxKDeMGdjmYvhbe7GTuHf204",{"temp":39,"desc":39,"source":40},null,"none",{"error":42,"games":43},"Steam not configured",[],[],{"komga":39,"audiobookshelf":39},{"microposts":47},[48],{"_id":49,"_path":50,"content":51,"bluesky_url":49,"bluesky_status":52,"created_at":53},"https:\u002F\u002Fbsky.app\u002Fprofile\u002Fsulcalibur.com\u002Fpost\u002F3mqi4xduglk2i","","Working on getting my #blog redesigned and resurfaced, do people even look at and even read blogs anymore? Thinking it's more of a personal thing now like a #journal rather than something people actually share to get views. Either way, I'm not fussed, it's still happening :)","posted","2026-07-12T21:33:47.454Z",{"photos":55},[],{"featuredMain":57,"featuredSub":74,"latestThree":89,"popularPicks":124,"latestEight":140},{"_id":58,"_path":59,"title":60,"slug":61,"content":62,"excerpt":63,"status":64,"published_at":65,"tags":39,"categories":66,"post_type":70,"bg_color":39,"text_color":39,"color_mode":71,"featured_image":72,"featured_image_alt":39,"author":73},"2671ea67-e921-4d45-8c4f-0f5911b57917","\u002Fwriting\u002Ftest-mcp-integration","Test Blog Post - MCP Integration","test-mcp-integration","This is a test blog post created to verify the Directus MCP integration is working properly. The MCP agent has been successfully integrated with the Opencode setup.","Testing the MCP agent integration with Directus CMS","published","2025-10-25T16:09:21.531Z",[67],{"name":68,"slug":69},"Technology","technology","featured","both","\u002Fapi\u002Fdirectus\u002Fasset\u002F0a800382-a77e-4f04-9098-ad4520cca02f",{"first_name":8,"last_name":39},{"_id":75,"_path":76,"title":77,"slug":78,"content":79,"excerpt":80,"status":64,"published_at":81,"tags":39,"categories":82,"post_type":86,"bg_color":39,"text_color":39,"color_mode":71,"featured_image":39,"featured_image_alt":39,"author":87},"cd7bf3d0-5fb7-4d59-83a8-ca89a5a6b4af","\u002Fwriting\u002Fthe-big-payback","The Big Payback","the-big-payback","As a web\u002Fapp designer and developer, I am a clichéd type. At times a joke if you will. I understand this as I sit in the local coffee shop with my Macbook drinking my flat white with \"hipster\" hair, thick rimmed glasses and red trousers. I know what I am and I'm comfortable with that. Over the years I have been expected to rise to this type and be like my peers. Latest MacBooks, iPads, iPhones, Moleskine pads and all the other typical cruft. Again, I'm cool with that, I like that stuff, I do. The trouble is, what if you are in that group but your income isn't reflective of it.\n\nNow imagine that scenario after years and years of studying, working and persevering. You work your butt off trying to remain on top of the ever-changing techniques that everyone expects you to know every tiny detail about. It's achievable I know, but something has to give. Me, I have a family. A wife and four sons. I can't spend every hour perfecting my design or code methods. These things take time and before you know it, you have spent a month learning something to install it into a design only to be told something else has taken over and is better.\n\nChoosing your tools and techniques becomes more of a skill than actually learning them. It comes with wisdom and practice. Learning from mistakes is imperative for survival, also not getting caught out with trends and fads is vital. I understand that knowing the latest methods is important, but it is not essential, not at least until others have tested it. Let others be the test subjects and don't risk your business and time until you know for sure it will benefit you.\n\nThe reason for this post is obvious. I'm talking from experience. Whilst I see people in my industry burning themselves out trying to work an eighty hour week to be on top of their game they loose sight of everything else around them. I say this talking about myself, to be honest rather than speculate about others.\n\nSo what is the solution then? It's obvious. Stick with what you know and do it amazing. Think of it like a menu. If you are a chef and your restaurant try's to cook everything. Some dishes may be great, some ok, but quite a few just crap. Now imagine learning to cook all those dishes and the equipment and ingredients. That's you with code. That's me with code. It's sometimes better to just concentrate on a couple and make them legendary. Sure experiment now and then and try new things. But don't do it like you have to. That's when the flame of desire to create amazing things will slowly, but surely extinguish. Because when you burn yourself out with all that hard work and effort, there is rarely ever a big payback for all your hard work.","As a web\u002Fapp designer and developer, I am a clichéd type. At times a joke if you will. I understand this as I sit in the local coffee shop with my Macbook drinking my flat white with \"hipster\" hair, thick rimmed glasses and red trousers.","2016-09-04T00:00:00.000Z",[83],{"name":84,"slug":85},"Personal","personal","pinned",{"first_name":88,"last_name":39},"Api",[90,101,113],{"_id":91,"_path":92,"title":93,"slug":94,"content":95,"excerpt":96,"status":64,"published_at":97,"tags":39,"categories":98,"post_type":86,"bg_color":39,"text_color":39,"color_mode":71,"featured_image":39,"featured_image_alt":39,"author":100},"859cc9dd-cb95-4296-9c1d-f5726d5f9f11","\u002Fwriting\u002Fgym-workout-vs-home-workout-1","Gym Workout vs Home Workout (Part 1)","gym-workout-vs-home-workout-1","I joined the gym for the first time earlier this year and it was great. I visited it roughly three times a week with a drop in attendance every now and then when busy. I liked the results and it made me feel better about myself. I never really had a proper plan as such but I had a basic routine.\n\n- Treadmill - 10min (highest incline at a very fast walk)\n- Bike - 10 mins (medium resistance)\n- Seated Fly - 2*15 reps (60k)\n- Seated Fly reverse - 2*15 reps (60k)\n- Lat Pull-down - 2*15 reps (50k)\n- Leg Press - 2*10 reps (250k)\n- Arm curls - 2*10 reps (40k)\n- Hamstring Curl Machine - 10 reps\n- Hammer Strength machine - 2*10 reps (30k)\n- Sauna or Steam Room (10 \u002F 15mins)\n- Shower\n\nThat basically worked for me, raising the bar sometimes if certain areas started feeling easier. I'll be honest, I never researched this and I know many people will tell me where I am going wrong or where I could do better but like I said, it worked and I was just getting into the groove of it all.\n\n## Cancelled Membership\n\nJust recently I cancelled my membership for a few reasons, one being that I was spending too much time as we usually walked there (50 mins) and back (another 50 mins) as we don't drive. So just the journey was taking two hours in total. With the workout and cleaning up another hour and a half. So straight away that is around 4 hours which I could use better.\n\n## Workout at Home\n\nI'm going to look into some workouts using the free weights at home along with using my own body weight. Also, morning runs to build up stamina along with a healthy heart. I will also be a complete nerd about it all and use as many nerdy gadgets and apps as possible because that's how I roll.\n\nAt the moment I am at the planning stage and working out where I am able to substitute certain aspects of my workout with others and what other parts I won't be able to at all. By all means hit me back on Twitter with any recommendations and advice and I will post back in a month or two with how it all worked out (pun intended ^_^).","I joined the gym for the first time earlier this year and it was great. I visited it roughly three times a week with a drop in attendance every now and then when busy. I liked the results and it made me feel better about myself.","2016-09-01T00:00:00.000Z",[99],{"name":84,"slug":85},{"first_name":88,"last_name":39},{"_id":102,"_path":103,"title":104,"slug":105,"content":106,"excerpt":107,"status":64,"published_at":108,"tags":39,"categories":109,"post_type":111,"bg_color":39,"text_color":39,"color_mode":71,"featured_image":39,"featured_image_alt":39,"author":112},"27d72154-defc-402b-9c80-e67090f1ece3","\u002Fwriting\u002Fthat-thing-we-dont-speak-of","That Thing We Don't Speak Of","that-thing-we-dont-speak-of","Right off the bat, let me get something off my chest. I have a lazy eye, a big old wonky donkey eyeball. You know when you watch a movie and the village idiot covered in poo with an eye that just won't behave like the other one. Yeah, I have one of them. It sucks but that's life.\n\nMost people notice and don't care but it has always been there with me for as long as I can remember. This is the first time I am coming clean about it all and actually talking about it in detail.\n\nI wasn't always like this. I have seen photographs of me as a young child and I have super straight eyes although I have no real memory of any of this. Later on, though one started moving inwards. I did have an operation to have it straightened but I think they may have got a little overzealous in tightening and loosening the muscles as it ended up moving outwards. Other than having another operation when I was around ten years of age (which I started to wake up in whilst my eyeball was hanging out) I have not pursued any other form of treatment.\n\nFast forward thirty years and I am now explaining my decision, mainly due to me wondering whether the advancement in medical science would benefit myself and have another, third time is a charm, operation.\n\n## My Left Eye\n\nI am short sighted in my left eye, nothing special about it, just crappy vision at -3.25, nice, simple and easy to sort out with a contact lens or glasses.\n\n## My Right Eye\n\nNow this is the awkward one, the rebel in my head. I'm not short sighted at all in it, in fact, I can pick up amazing detail the trouble is it just doesn't work correctly. If I close my left eye it will instantly straighten and start working (to an extent), although it has a blind spot like if you were to look at a bright light for a few seconds then look away.\n\n## So Why Write This?\n\nThe reason I write this post is because I had before decided to have an operation to correct the lazy eye. Trouble is after a consultation with a specialist they advised me to look further into it and think about it. This is because at present, I only look through one eye, thus so, I have no 3D vision or depth perception. So upon correcting the eye, it may start to work and then my brain will have to deal with 3D vision, which I have been told can take a period of time to adjust to. Anything from three, six or even twelve months. This can also cause headaches and most importantly I work with fine pixel-perfected details in design. Blurred vision could knock me back a year of design.\n\nSo if anyone knows a person or have yourselves experienced something similar, please message me via twitter @sulcalibur for any and all advice on this issue. Thank you.","Right off the bat, let me get something off my chest. I have a lazy eye, a big old wonky donkey eyeball. You know when you watch a movie and the village idiot covered in poo with an eye that just won't behave like the other one.","2016-08-19T00:00:00.000Z",[110],{"name":84,"slug":85},"normal",{"first_name":88,"last_name":39},{"_id":114,"_path":115,"title":116,"slug":117,"content":118,"excerpt":119,"status":64,"published_at":120,"tags":39,"categories":121,"post_type":111,"bg_color":39,"text_color":39,"color_mode":71,"featured_image":39,"featured_image_alt":39,"author":123},"186daf16-e2e0-4633-bfe8-f61d23d7b81c","\u002Fwriting\u002Fpeterboroughs-first-stem-festival","Peterborough's First STEM Festival","peterboroughs-first-stem-festival","A couple of weeks ago was the first ever STEM Festival to be held in Peterborough City. The 1st October 2016. It was an event that I was lucky to be an organiser of and even ran one of the most popular workshops at the event. The Minecraft one of course, folks need their Minecraft fix.\n\nThe event itself was amazing, we had hundreds of people through the doors at the Future Business Center where it was held and numerous speakers and workshops constantly happening throughout the day. There was even the Cosmos Cambridge Science folks there causing all kinds of mayhem.\n\nIt was a wonderful event that had an amazing team on board and felt really worthwhile and motivating. The people at the event were amazing also. Some of the speakers and their topics were truly inspiring and thought provoking whilst still being highly engaging.\n\nI strongly hope to be part of the 2017 Peterborough STEM Festival as it was an honour to be part of something so great with such inspiring people.","A couple of weeks ago was the first ever STEM Festival to be held in Peterborough City. The 1st October 2016. It was an event that I was lucky to be an organiser of and even ran one of the most popular workshops at the event. The Minecraft one of course, folks need their Minecraft fix.","2016-08-12T00:00:00.000Z",[122],{"name":68,"slug":69},{"first_name":88,"last_name":39},[125],{"_id":126,"_path":127,"title":128,"slug":129,"content":130,"excerpt":131,"status":64,"published_at":120,"tags":39,"categories":132,"post_type":134,"bg_color":135,"text_color":136,"color_mode":137,"featured_image":138,"featured_image_alt":39,"author":139},"3b21350d-1cf0-4139-8694-9e0f2e5a85b0","\u002Fwriting\u002Fleaving-london","Goodbye London my Old Friend","leaving-london","\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003Cstrong>From London to Peterborough: A Family’s Journey\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->I was born in North London and grew up there apart from a few times when I moved about 10 minutes drive away from my hometown and just past the M25. Other than that I have always considered myself a Londoner born and bred. I had worked various jobs in and around Central London and even participated in the endurance test every morning and evening, five days a week that is known to most as the commute to work. Nothing will infuriate you more than London trains and the quest to squeeze as many people into them.\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->In 2012, a time that should have been a proud moment for us Londoners with the Olympics – after all, we had paid enough for it through our elevated council tax – but alas, it wasn’t. This was the year that the looting and riots kicked off around the United Kingdom, mainly in and around London and especially North London, my home. It was a sad time and whilst I was commuting into and from work eating up four hours every day I was leaving my family in the chaos that was our hometown of Enfield. Enough was enough. We started making plans to move our family elsewhere as the gang violence along with knife and gun crime was rising and with four boys this wasn’t something we were willing to risk.\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->Rewind a year from now and we were just in the process of moving to Peterborough. Why Peterborough? So many people from this area have said this to me.\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cblockquote dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->“Why on Earth did you move from London to Peterborough?!?!”\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->Well, the paragraphs above are just scratching the surface of the reasons why we moved \u003C!---->\u003Cstrong>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->out\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->. The reasons for moving \u003C!---->\u003Cstrong>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->in\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C!---->\u003C!----> to Peterborough though were mainly due to the rich history and the cost of living (especially house prices) along with the fact that Peterborough is one of the fastest growing cities in the UK. Jobs are also widely available for the boys and the web \u002F digital community seems a great deal more pleasant also. It also has some stunning architecture along with many modern new builds and seems to have a great deal of focus on the environment also, with many new houses being Eco-buildings. I have never seen so many solar panels on houses in my life and in the distance you can usually see Wind Farms.\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->The Future of Suljam (our Business)\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->In London, we always struggled to get the Suljam business off the ground. Work was too few and far between and money was always an issue especially with the extortionate cost of rent. Networking seems futile at best and every success was usually greeted with a failure or high cost creeping around the corner. Don’t get me wrong, there is a huge amount of success to be found in the big city, I was just growing tired and weary trying to maintain a startup along with providing for a family of six.\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->So upon setting up in Peterborough I instantly checked Meetup for any like minded folks in groups to start making friends. I came across a group called DPiP.\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cblockquote dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->DPiP is about collaborative knowledge sharing and engagement through digital technology. Informal social gatherings for anyone working or interested in the digital content. Monthly meetings held in central Peterborough on the first Wednesday of every month. Non-profit free social event and open to all.\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->This sounded perfect, to top it all it was held in a coffee shop also! To hit the ground running, get noticed and make new friends I even volunteered to perform a talk also in April 2016 which was called:\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cblockquote dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->“The Futile Quest for Perfection” – The best route to finding the “nearest to perfection” in your design – Suleiman Leadbitter\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->From this group of wonderful leaders and its awesome members I have branched out and managed to meet such inspirational people, myself and my family have also participated in a vast number of outstanding workshops and activities including the Raspberry Pi Jam among others. This group has been the truest definition of ‘community’ in the digital field that I have ever encountered. For this I am grateful.\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->The Community\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->Since the Geeks at DPiP have now become used to me and have (sort of) accepted me into their clan I have now become part of the team for the very exciting STEM Festival that they are organising for this Autumn. A huge \u003C!---->\u003Cstrong>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->FREE\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C!---->\u003C!----> Festival encompassing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->The Future\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp dir=\"auto\">\u003C!---->\u003C!---->\u003C!---->We as a family have no idea if we will stay in Peterborough long term but at the moment everything seems to be superb and that is what matters. The positivity that we have encountered has been paramount in us staying and loving our lives here. We are looking forward to the future with the education of our children and the business all growing over the next few years.\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C!---->\u003C\u002Fp>","I was born in North London and grew up there apart from a few times when I moved about 10 minutes drive away from my hometown and just past the M25. Other than that I have always considered myself a Londoner born and bred.",[133],{"name":84,"slug":85},"popular","#143352","#FFFFFF","dark","\u002Fapi\u002Fdirectus\u002Fasset\u002F2bebb9be-c452-491c-8cc1-259bade11c77",{"first_name":8,"last_name":39},[141,145],{"_id":126,"_path":127,"title":128,"slug":129,"content":130,"excerpt":131,"status":64,"published_at":120,"tags":39,"categories":142,"post_type":134,"bg_color":135,"text_color":136,"color_mode":137,"featured_image":138,"featured_image_alt":39,"author":144},[143],{"name":84,"slug":85},{"first_name":8,"last_name":39},{"_id":146,"_path":147,"title":148,"slug":149,"content":150,"excerpt":151,"status":64,"published_at":152,"tags":39,"categories":153,"post_type":111,"bg_color":136,"text_color":157,"color_mode":158,"featured_image":159,"featured_image_alt":39,"author":160},"12a47c0d-407d-4fc0-87de-d19832ffd76d","\u002Fwriting\u002F50-illustrations-over-50-days","50 Illustrations Over 50 Days","50-illustrations-over-50-days","\u003Cp>I recently purchased a wonderful iPad Pro 10.5\" along with the Apple Pencil. With any large purchase I make, I always feel the need to justify why and also push to make it a worthwhile expenditure. My reasoning was simply to get myself back into illustration and painting. I use pens, paints and pads occasionally at the moment but wanted something a little more digital. This was because I wanted to take my web design and development skill set into a more niche and personal area. I have been feeling for some time now that most web design has become stale and distant from its users.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fapi\u002Fdirectus\u002Fasset\u002F4e6b321a-c037-4551-a36b-86ed0dda2972.jpg?width=1200&height=1600\" alt=\"Bewitched\" loading=\"lazy\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I used to have an iPad Mini along with the walnut finished pencil by 53 which whilst a pair of great tools, didn't come close to a good quality ink pen and some decent paper. I also usually carry my tools with me as I ride or walk into town and chill out in a coffee shop getting the creative vibes flowing. Lugging around a ton of pens, pads, paints, etc is just a pain to be honest. An iPad and a single pencil are a great deal lighter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fapi\u002Fdirectus\u002Fasset\u002Faa7d1835-256a-428f-999f-3f1ad88a7682.jpg?width=2048&height=2048\" alt=\"Snow Fox\" loading=\"lazy\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As of today, I have only got the fifth day with four pieces of work submitted. One sadly wasn't finished but I could tell that was turning into a grand illustration and would require a great deal more time. Overs I have pushed through to get to a finished acceptable state; not ideal, but acceptable. This is the reason for my post. I have noticed that coming back fully to illustration after over a decade of dust accumulating on my talent has been hard. I knew that I would get frustrated with myself as the ideas I had wouldn't manifest exactly how I wanted them too but want I didn't account for was the daily pressure and not being able to put in as much time as I would have liked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fapi\u002Fdirectus\u002Fasset\u002F9d576e27-2144-41f8-ac92-cf18380e3701.jpg?width=2048&height=2048\" alt=\"Smalltowncyclewip\" loading=\"lazy\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this, I apologise for my half-arsed submissions. You can follow my progress via my Instagram account, Twitter and Facebook. I welcome and encourage any constructive feedback :)\u003C\u002Fp>","I recently purchased a wonderful iPad Pro 10.5\" along with the Apple Pencil. With any large purchase I make, I always feel the need to justify why and also push to make it a worthwhile expenditure. My reasoning was simply to get myself back into illustration and painting.","2016-07-22T11:00:00.000Z",[154],{"name":155,"slug":156},"Design","design","#3F4669","light","\u002Fapi\u002Fdirectus\u002Fasset\u002F1502a400-e88a-4435-b10b-6e365d2ca817",{"first_name":88,"last_name":39},1792366698681]