[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":66},["ShallowReactive",2],{"site-settings":3,"site-weather":38,"blog-post-50-illustrations-over-50-days":41},{"id":4,"camera_roll_header":5,"camera_roll_subheader":6,"extension":7,"footer_bio_name":8,"footer_bio_text":9,"footer_headshot_url":10,"footer_links":11,"footer_newsletter_desc":21,"footer_newsletter_heading":22,"hero_buttons":23,"hero_desc":32,"hero_tagline":33,"hero_title":34,"meta":35,"stem":36,"__hash__":37},"site\u002Fsite.json","From the camera roll","Self-hosted, uncompressed — a little pond of everything I've been looking at.","json","Sul","Writer, photographer, and lifelong resident of RPG towns. 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",{"post":42,"prev":62,"next":39},{"_id":43,"_path":44,"title":45,"slug":46,"content":47,"excerpt":48,"status":49,"published_at":50,"tags":39,"categories":51,"post_type":55,"bg_color":56,"text_color":57,"color_mode":58,"featured_image":59,"featured_image_alt":39,"author":60},"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.","published","2016-07-22T11:00:00.000Z",[52],{"name":53,"slug":54},"Design","design","normal","#FFFFFF","#3F4669","light","\u002Fapi\u002Fdirectus\u002Fasset\u002F1502a400-e88a-4435-b10b-6e365d2ca817",{"first_name":61,"last_name":39},"Api",{"slug":63,"title":64,"published_at":65},"leaving-london","Goodbye London my Old Friend","2016-08-12T00:00:00.000Z",1792366699524]