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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Advanced painting in Nomad Sculpt

Have been repainting a lot of my old 3d doodles in Nomad Sculpt.
These are some of the ones I have done in the last few days

Today I figured out the workflow to export the models with materials and textures compatible in other programs or platforms like Blender or Sketchfab, heres an example (free download) -

Spider_ Mech PBR by Chaitanya Krishnan on Sketchfab

Its sort of a PBR realism workflow that am getting into after a lot of NPR (which I will still continue).
To begin with Nomad Sculpt's material system is pretty robust, so a lot can be achieved with that if you are willing to put in the time. Previously I would work on the sculpt in Nomad, then move to Procreate for the painting and then get those textures back in Nomad.. This time I decided to figure out the complete workflow within Nomad.

After a lot of searching I found Razum's youtube channel and after a lot of deliberation, I've chosen to invest in a materials pack by Ilya Tulyakov (aka Razum).
Heres what comes in the pack -
Get it at - this link

Backlight of Keyboard not working on Ubuntu?

So one recurring issue I have been having with my Ubuntu setup has been that my generic keyboard's LED backlight doesn't turn on on its own. If your having the same issue, here's my current fix:

In Terminal type:

xset led 3

Note: this doesn't appear to be permanent fix.. I need to do this every time I reboot.

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Painted the old 3D Prints

Had these models printed years back.. theyve just been sitting and gathering dust.. so decided to "update" them.

used standard acrylic paints, and a paintbrush.

Angry Tentacle Guy

Before

After

Alien Centaur

Before

After

oh, and both models are available for free at Thingiverse(incase you have your own printer) and at the Shapeways store, in case you just want to buy one.

via Inaccessible is Accessible http://my.opera.com/chaitanyak/blog/show.dml/108489782

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Use an Ipad as a drawing tablet on Ubuntu

A few days back I decided to quit Windows. I nuked the windows c: drive during installation because I didnt even want to dual boot. And so began the journey to get my usual stuff to work on Ubuntu.

So on windows I had been using Easy Canvas but that was not available on Linux. A quick search turned up Weylus and heres the installation instructions if your looking for a similar solution.

Step 1
Lets use "wget" in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) to download the latest version of the program.


    wget https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus/releases/download/v0.11.2/Weylus_0.11.2_amd64.deb

Once this finishes, proceed with

Step 2
To install it use the following



     sudo apt install ./Weylus_0.11.2_amd64.deb

Step 3
Run the program from apps



Step 4
Set a passcode and click "Start"

Step 5
use your ipad camera to get the link from the QR code.
This will open a tab in your default browser where you can now remotely view and work on this computer. The Apple Pencil's pressure sensitivity just worked for me. 

The lines are a bit jittery.. so I will keep looking for other software or maybe run Easy Canvas with Wine and give that a shot. Will post updates here.