The doodle comes from Dave Gray’s old video (Not sure of the source - sorry) But doodle itself was not the interesting thing. Today I discovered that the Whiteboard app has excellent pen tool. I used the Size 10, and I was able to create excellent calligraphy (if I may say so myself 🫣) Normally I add the date and name in some other app, but I could not resist writing the date in calligraphy fashion.
Continue Reading »This is my attempt to create a sketchnote of the session he delivered during the World Sketchnote Week. 1 Looking at other people’s sketchnotes of this session, I realize that I need to do much better. I’ve just reproduced parts of sketches from his session. Drawing Dave’s face was original idea, rest of it seems unconnected ideas. I should have used banners, containers, lettering etc. Next time. I used a different software this time.
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All the (English) words (sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books …) are made up of only 26 alphabets. (Let us leave aside punctuation marks for now 😉)
Similarly, most the (basic) drawing is made up of these 12 basic shapes, hence the visual alphabets.
This English phrase makes it easy to remember
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Continue Reading »First Install Harper using the method appropriate for your OS. Then add the following to languages.toml [language-server.harper-ls] command = "harper-ls" args = ["--stdio"] Restart Helix Editor. Now you should see squiggly lines under incorrectly spelled words. 🎉 In order to see (and possibly choose) the correct spelling, take the cursor on the error and space a (Code actions)
Add the following to your (platform specific 1) config file shell-integration-features = ssh-env, ssh-terminfo Now reload the configuration. The configuration can be reloaded at runtime by pressing ctrl+shift+, (Linux) or cmd+shift+, (macOS). on macOS : $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/com.mitchellh.ghostty/config, and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ghostty/config for Linux if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined, it defaults to $HOME/.config/ghostty/config. ↩︎
The idea comes from the book “The Magic of Thinking BIG” Dr. Schwartz makes a point that just persistence is not enough. Each time you try (and not succeed) learn from it, and change something (experimentation) only this will lead to (eventual) success. I tried to show this visually by having different styles the word Try is drawn in the bottom half (but also wrote experimentation - just to be clear 😄)
Continue Reading »Once upon a time, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) was all rage. How does your product show up in the Search Engine. But now a days, people have stopped using search engine. Instead they prefer to “get the answer” from one of the LLM/GenAI The Search Engines also now have “AI summaries”, so may be AEO can double as SEO 🤷♂️ Software: tldraw.com
This is not shared to showcase my skills 😄 But to remind myself (maybe others 🤷♂️) that sketching/drawing doesn’t have to be a big deal. When I make a mental list of things to buy (aka shopping list) I usually write it down if it is more than 2 items (else I’m bound to forget something) Usually, I write it down as a text (doesn’t everyone ? 🤔) But today, I thought in images.
Continue Reading »I had not planned what to draw today. So I decided to use this time for practice. Here is the reference Few things I noticed today. Having a digital canvas has advantages of being able to zoom in. This came in handy when coloring the hair and t-shirt. While at normal scale (no zoom) I have to fill a tiny portion so as not to worry. But I lose precision.
Continue Reading »This is another one from the same YouTube video I referenced earlier for the Church This time, I wanted to try watercolors in true urban sketching style (Although this isn’t an Urban sketch 😄) Hence, Tayasui Sketches. I chose Water Color Paper to start. Rather than drawing directly as suggested in the video, I did 3 steps. First, I drew a rough sketch using Pencil tool. On a water color paper, it gave me a grainy texture.
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