How to cleanup a scanned image of pencils drawn on paper using Krita's tools.

This post was also published on my substack at Facial Expression of Rage - A Caricature

In a comic sketch facial expressions are one of the toughest things to get right. But the expression is key to story telling. Today I was sketching a few facial expressions from references as part of regular practice. I ended up with a nice little caricature of one of Jim Carrey’s exaggerated expressions. I liked it so much I though I’d share it with you.

Here’s the reference expression first… I found it on Pinterest. Jim Carrey's Expressions. Notice the eyebrows, the …

This post was also published on my substack at Squished Potato

My son and I were walking to the school bus pick-up point a few days ago. And my son noticed a funny shaped thing on the path. It looked really strange and he asked me what it was. It was a flattened, squished potato and we wondered how it got there. I made up a plausible but totally imaginary scenario and drew a one-page comic about this. Check it out…

Squished Potato (One-page Comic)

Hope you liked it. Have a great weekend!

This post was also published on my substack at The Art Noob: A Trip to Calicut(Kozhikode), Kerala - Part II

Before the details are lost from memory I want to jot down the thoughts on the rest of the trip to Calicut.

A lone boat in Kadalundi

We took an afternoon trip to Kappad Beach close to Calicut.It is a nicely maintained quiet beach, but you have to pay a fee to get in. However the clean beach is worth it. And the fee keeps the crowd to a minimum. We spent most of the time in the water …

litpd is a simple literate programming tool built on markdown. It uses pandoc and some lua code to build both a readable and runnable version of the same program from one markdown document. The litpd program is itself written as a literate program.

The first beta version of litpd is out. This release contains several bug-fixes, and a significant change to support linux and macos using litpd.sh (bash script).

Also new is a new github pages website which is the entire litpd program as its own standalone website. See it here https://abhishekmishra.github.io/litpd/.

This is the …

Gothic art style photo of Vikram and Baitaal using Sora

A Wealth Simulator using random multiplicative dynamics to study ergodicity or lack thereof.