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Realized I should break my silence as we are coming up on the two year mark of my last post. Time sure flies when you’re rushing towards the inevitable heat death of the universe amiright?

SO! Late but not never...

I've had an Instagram account for the past couple of years that I forgot to share with the you, the good people of the tumblr community, because of course I'd forget to tell you guys

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Yup, there it is. Only took all of maybe a minute and two years of procrastinating

Quick Personal Update: While we’re here I've been working for a craft beer distributor which has been keeping me pretty busy and on the side I’ve designing beer labels and album art. The brewery I’ve been designing for is called Twin Elephant Brewing Company [facebook] [instagram]. They pump out some really great liquid. I’ll get you guys some better pictures as soon as I can. I haven't had a lot of time to do much in the ways of painting any portraits or still lifes recently. I'll hopefully upload work here soon when I gain more time. In the mean time feel free to hop on over to my Instagram and if you like what you're seeing give me a follow!

I promise I post more frequently there. Sometimes too frequent.

Catch you on the flipside...

CHEERS!

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Hi, would you mind if we featured your awesome Bill Nye painting on our instagram (@PBSofficial)? Also let us know if you have a handle you want tagged in the picture. Thanks!

I have no idea how long ago this is from but absolutely. As for a handle, idk, my name is Tom Schmitt but @schmittyart works fine for me.

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Some fake beer labels based on pop-culture references

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some sketches for a client.  more information coming after the project is finished

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For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well. 

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you. 

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design. 

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers. 

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like. 

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

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Horror movie poster progress

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A cat never wakes up late, nor does he wake up early, he awakes precisely when he means to

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Breaking in a new sketchbook with #Inktober entry day 1/31

I may or may not be able to keep up with work and all of the commissions I’ve got going on right now. I will try though…

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Was disappointed no one did this yet Did the best I could.  original meme here    original post here

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Drink N’ Draw session last night. I like how this came out. Tattoo design maybe?

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HAPPY SHARK WEEK!!! Have a painting of Quint from Jaws Like it so much you can’t stand not having it hang on your wall? Need something to cheers your Narragansetts to? GOOD NEWS! You can buy prints! INPRNT  |  SOCIETY6

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Quick egg sketch Colored pencil on toned Strathmore paper

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Did some doodling of my friends jam jar she uses for honey. This sketch book is great for colored pencil. I love it haha.

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is the bill nye painting for sale?

Yes it is! Its for sale at 350$

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Tommy?

yes?