Author: harishankar

  • Woman with flowing hair

    Woman with flowing hair

    Portrait after a very long time. Painted from imagination on my iPad with the Sketchbook app.

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  • Orange hour

    Orange hour

    Another landscape in Sketchbook on my iPad.

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  • Hillscape

    Hillscape

    Yet another landscape painted in Sketchbook on my iPad. Totally from imagination, no references used.

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  • Yet another rural landscape

    Yet another rural landscape

    Another rural landscape painted from imagination. Painted using Sketchbook on iPad. Yes I am getting back to digital painting.

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  • Just a random portrait

    Just a random portrait

    Just a random portrait after a long time painted fully from imagination. Painted in Sketchbook on my iPad.

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  • Tree in countryside

    Tree in countryside

    After a long time I’ve finally created a new digital painting. This one was done using Sketchbook on my iPad with Apple Pencil. I initially started with the tree and then expanded the countryside around it, purely from imagination. No references used.

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  • Are news paywalls still relevant in 2022?

    Are news paywalls still relevant in 2022?

    Or perhaps the question should be “were they ever relevant at any point of time?” Recently I was checking for news about the ongoing political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka and came across a couple of articles that were behind paywalls. Needlessly to say I simply went on to click other links. In this…

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  • The mystery of the missing camera

    The mystery of the missing camera

    It’s been a while since I’ve paid attention to the photography gear scene, but these days it appears that there are very few affordable, and more importantly newly released enthusiast/prosumer interchangeable lens cameras available on the market (at least here in India). The least expensive DSLR camera I found was the rather underwhelming Canon EOS…

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  • How to design and print business cards cheaply at home using LibreOffice

    How to design and print business cards cheaply at home using LibreOffice

    Another video tutorial, this one on how to design and print business cards cheaply at home using LibreOffice Draw and Writer. Creating video tutorials like this with more editing work is something different that I am trying out. I edited and finalized everything on kdenlive which is an excellent Open Source non-linear video editor on…

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