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@jpivot.bsky.social
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its me, pivot. this is my art account i draw (occasionally) and play video games (frequently) and watch wrestling (sometimes) and post (rarely) you can also find me here: jpivot.tumblr.com pivsketch.tumblr.com

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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#deadlock clicking and dragging on him mario 64 title screen style. turning him green. all in service of drawing more cute abramses
pastel-style digital drawing of abrams from deadlock from the shoulders up. a mouse cursor is pulling at his cheek and he looks cartoonishly distressed about itpastel-style digital drawing of abrams from deadlock from the shoulders up. he is green instead of blue. he is looking at his hands in shock and disgust. an interrobang is floating next to him
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#deadlock i hired a detective for information o the next deadlock patch and i havent heard from him lately. help
a missing person poster of abrams from deadlock. it says "have you seen this man? last seen wearing giant blue trenchcoat while investigating the whereabouts of the next deadlock patch. if you have any information, please contact..." and the rest of the page is torn away
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
grabbing and shaking and wiggling them #PHM
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
playing with my tuoys #TAGCEN
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
my hair grew out so i asked my friend to give me a buzzcut. i wanted to know the shape of my head and see exactly where my patch of gray hair was (shockingly right in the middle). i now look like if a baby was also 34 years old
doodles of me before and after getting a buzzcut. im wearing a hat wearily and my hair sticks out the sides like an animal crossing character (cringe). im wearing a trash bag over my body and saying "fuck my shit upppp" and my friend is holding an electric shaver and saying "ok". and a colored drawing of me in my visibly millennial outfit: hl2 hat, nine inch nails shirt, fish crossbody bag, cargo pants. lol
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
picked up veadotube full cuz I had a dire need to make a wiggleable guy. im no streamer but! ☝️ I do have the puppeteer's spirit
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
brush testing w/ mcginnis #deadlock
a colored bust of mcginnis from deadlock, made with a digital oil pastel brush
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
the resistance's most average courier, metthew hammock. and the local surgeon, sammy
an illustration of a half life 2 rebel with a goatee and green clothing holding a supply crate under his arm and grinningmetthew is dragging sammy who is apologizing for losing consciousness. metthew is mildly freaking out and saying "lets apologize later!" as a headcrab zombie takes notice of them. theres also miscellaneous doodles of metthew sitting on a supply crate looking grumpy, sammy standing, metthew gesturing
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
quick study type thing. its da lash baybeeeee #deadlock
drawing of lash flexing his gun-wielding arm and tapping his elbow and a screenshot of his model in the same pose
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
yellow and blue (and a bit of magenta) #deadlock
an illustration of dynamo from deadlock holding up his index finger drawn with a combination of yellow, blue, and magenta. and another illustration of jacob lash from deadlock grinning in just yellow and blue
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
some two color palette doodles
various two color drawings. waist-up gordon freeman in purple and red, taggart laughing with his arm around an embarrassed basil in blue and yellow, and younger-taggart and younger-basil talking in purple and yellow
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Mobius Digital Games @mobiusdigitalgames.com · 29/05/2026
Happy 7th birthday, Outer Wilds! 🚀🧡 Fun fact: Hearthians need to call Riebeck over to count to 7
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
gordon freeman taking his explosive bug for a walk #TomodachiLife
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
made a discord event for the next hl2vrai stream and then made a banner image for it #hl2vrai
gordon freeman is lying facedown on the ground. a spotlight shines upon him. xar, stain, christopher, and father grigori are dancing around him
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
watched a stream of pokemon yellow the other day. i love the sprites in that game
a redraw of sprites from pokemon yellow of rattata and blastoise with the originals for comparison
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
after like, ten whole years, i have finally gotten around to downloading fontforge to fix a critical error in my old custom font (it didn't have apostrophes or quotes). while i was in there i also fixed some vertical alignment issues that have always sliiiightly bothered me
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
watching it #hl2vrai
a drawing. "guy who has never opened a push door before" and its gordon freeman trying to push a door open without pushing on the push bar
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
the king of all bandits and his singular henchman: bandit-bandit #TAGCEN
bandit-bandit has his hands on his hips and is looking at salazar lying facedown on the ground. hes labeled "dead". next panel bandit says "if my boss is dead, what do i do with all this prize money? return it...?" salazar lifts himself up yelling "im alive im alive"
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
remlings can get so tanky... curse you rem #deadlock
pencil sketch of lash from deadlock punching a candle trooper while frustratingly yelling "why! won't!! you!!! die!!!!!!". the trooper has a rem helper perched on its shoulder and is under the effects of Healing Tempopencil sketch of lash from deadlock doing a ground strike on rem, who is flung into the air
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
it took so long but i finally put together my hourly comics from last week (i just needed to arrange them but i got busy...) #hourlycomicday #hourlycomicday2026
a comic. ?? am: annoying dog on my bed... well, as long as he doesnt bother me (i am sleeping). 8am: dog is bothering me >:( 9am: woken up by a repeating noise? too sleepy to identify what it is. (sound was "dog barking") bigger dog wants to go outside and is barking. i am sleepy and let him out. i'll feed the dogs since im up. then i tumble back to bed. 10am: sleepily discussing plans about our multiplayer factorio game. my friend says "nuclear power!" i go back to sleep. zzz. the dog is back again. 11am: dad phone call. he is also being accosted by dog (the dog is sleeping on his chest). 12pm: okay time to actually start my day. eating leftovers. doing the dishes... scrub the water bottles or else!!! 1pm: cleaning my messy desk! i stand with my hands on my hips next to a messy desk. still 1pm: vacuuming my floor (dog fur on it). then got tired and laid down in bed again. stuff from my desk is on my bed. 2-6pm: lets play deadlock!!! the games were awful... our team got so gamer mad at us. i am sad mcginnis and my friend is sad rem. 6-8pm: watched rush hour (1998) with friends. what if i watched police story again... 8pm-12am: factorio!! replacing steel furnaces with electric furnaces. organizing conveyor belts. crashing my car into every tree & pipeline
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
art from 2021: group photo! #halflife
a drawing of 3 half life characters taking a group photo. gordon freeman (standing in the hev suit, smiling), alyx vance (holding up their hand as bunny ears behind gordon's head, winking), and barney calhoun (also holding up their hand as bunny ears behind gordon's head)
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
quick miscellanea before bed
black and white sketches on a gray background. afterburner-era basil, two black women, a scruffy guy w/ long-ish hair squinting, taggart, and a worried scientist gordon freeman thinking about gman
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
what theyre into #TAGCEN
taggart blushing while looking upwards and thinking about a short haired woman with ear/nose piercings and painted nails (labeled alt chicks). basil rubbing the back of his head and looking downwards thinking about a bearded guy in a leather jacket holding a motorcycle helmet (labeled thick motorcycle dudes). chip crossing his arms and confidently imagining a buff flexing man and a buff woman. a guy in the background is smugly grinning after blowing a heart. its afterburner btw. (labeled: muscles in general. and... well...). samson standing and staring off into the distance, pleased. hes thinking about himself, who is looking at the viewer. behind him is a cheering crowd. (labeled: yep)
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
hello i am at magfest. consider wandering into the marketplace and purchase some of my friend's destiny wares
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
my month to month art summary retrospective thing for 2025! i once again achieved my general goal, which was to draw at least 1 thing per month.
pivot's 2025 summary of art. january: my oc samson. feb: my ocs salazar and bandit bandit. march: aew's hangman page and mjf. april: hl2 barney calhoun. may: hl2 barney calhoun. june: lash from deadlock. july: my friend saph's oc whos name i forgot. august: pencil sketch of hangman page. sept: abrams from deadlock. oct: my oc samson. nov: my oc chip. dec: hl2 gordon freeman
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
testing some brushes out with gordon the freeman
digital drawing of gordon freeman from half life 2. black/gray/white ink-esque style
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
my homunculus
a photo of a small polymer clay figure of a featureless person on top of some aluminum foilclay figure in a toaster oven
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
got a new art tool: the classical dip pen nib. im learning how to use it. and how to ruin it. apparently.
pen and ink drawing of me sitting in a computer chair holding a small object and saying "aw frick my 2 dollar dip pen nib is rusty" with another drawing of me shedding a single tear mournfully saying "i was starting to understand it, too..."
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
scheduled a discord event to watch the frankenstein movie with my friends but i didnt know anything about what happens in it so i googled one (1) image of oscar isaac victor frankenstein and drew this banner real quick ⬇
a drawing of victor frankenstein on the right looking mildly annoying saying "of course im making my monster hot otherwise whats the point"
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
saw a cool halftone drawing and was compelled to also make a halftone drawing. chip thinks hes finally gonna have a match with his long lost rival but hes gonna be sooooo mad when he wakes up from his dream #TAGCEN
black and white halftone comic. chip is clenching his fist and laughing in a sinister manner. the next panel hes brushing his hair back and saying "you have no idea how long i've waited for this"
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
can't watch collision today since im at a convention... drew a lil pic of orange cassidy in the meantime #aew
a pencil and marker drawing of a chibi orange cassidy on paper. it has a bright orange background
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
this weekend im helping @adulture.bsky.social and @hexselenas.bsky.social sell things at anime pasadena. if you put me behind a convention table I will start making bespoke signage
picture of a display card with a label that says "destiny 2 bread clip acrylic pins" with some acrylic pins pinned below it. to the side is a drawn diagram of an acrylic pin from the side, showing its pin part.
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
every year we play the pumpkin carving game. heres my yearly outer wilds themed pumpkin
a screenshot from the annual ghost town pumpkin festival by adamgryu of my ghost standing next to an outer wilds themed pumpkin. im wearing a hat covered in pins and i have glasses and a small pointy smile
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Mobius Digital Games @mobiusdigitalgames.com · 01/11/2025
Happy Halloween! 🎃 Thanks @adamgryu.bsky.social for hosting a fun pumpkin festival every year! adamgryu.itch.io/pumpkin-carver
A group photo of a bunch of silly ghosts next to a pumpkin carving
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
jacob lash #deadlock
grayscale sketch of jacob lash grinning and giving a thumbs up to himself. hes surrounded by sparkles and has brass knuckles spelling out LASH
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
doodles of my guysssss #TAGCEN
a collection of drawn colored busts of: basil with his hat, chip (with glasses and with his hair slicked back), taggart with his arms raised up cheering, and samson (startled) and samson again (slightly disheveled, smug)a drawing of taggart excitedly doing the torture rack (or argentine backbreaker) by holding a suffering afterburner up on his shoulders. a smaller drawing of them is in the corner, taggart is asking an annoyed afterburner if he is mad at him
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
i dont use color jitter brushes but i decided to try one out for once. fruits
colored illustrations of an apple, a banana, and some blue grapes
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
the process of removing a spider from the home
drawings of me walking while carrying a spider on a plate but the spider starts rappelling down the plate and i start walking faster while raising plate higher into the air and getting more worried
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
checking if i can still draw proper cylinders. uh oh
a collection of sketched cylinders at various angles alongside two 3d cylinders, used as reference
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
when youre facing off with the enemy faction and have to look really tough #aew
a screenshot from aew dynamite september to remember, sept 17 2025. daniel garcia and kyle o'reilly are facing off forehead-to-forehead on the left while roderick strong and marina shafir are in a standoff staring at each other on the righta black and white line drawing of roderick strong scowling and saying grrrr. there is a thought bubble next to him showing him smiling cutely surrounded by flowers saying "thats my wife :D"
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
studying the blade. how do i draw this man #deadlock
various sketches of lash from deadlock and his big dumb face. one of them is him thinking about bebop and saying "hes stupid!" while ivy is pondering and saying "he seems nice, though!"
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
i updated my copy of csp recently and the ability to rotate the pivot of the free transform gizmo is such a nice feature... no longer will you need to straighten out an angled object to distort it properly... sooooo nice. i recommend getting version 5.0 for this
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
that abrams #deadlock
waist up drawing of abrams from deadlock trying to light his cigarette, but the match goes out too early. and it was his last match. this is so sad. and then another drawing of him standing with the cursed tome
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
quick 1hr color study thing of one of ryan loco's cool hangman photos... i made the darks way more saturated-red than theyre supposed to be tho oopssssssss
painting study of a photo by ryan loco. hangman adam page is standing in a dark alleyway or something with the championship belt on his shoulder. hes looking off to the right. theres bricks out of focus on the background and a vibrant blue light
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
oh nice, clip studio paint has photoshop-style smart objects / file references. (so you can link a .clip canvas inside of another .clip canvas and it automatically updates) its called "file object" btw. i dont use smart objects frequently, but on the rare occasions i did it was very handy
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
colored an old drawing of basil. my guy with problems... #TAGCEN
basil wearing a black tshirt and a baseball cap, with a text box that is a screencap of a reductress article titled "im trying to be less of a bitch, in case you idiots didnt notice". taggart follows up with "i noticed" and basil stammers "oh, uh, good" and then crosses his arms confidently and says "yes, good. thats. what i wanted" while taggart is nodding and saying "yep!" theres another comic panel of basil angrily prodding chip and saying "im trying to be a better person!" and chip (shirtless) is responding with "why? thats stupid and lame as hell"
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
an 8 page comic about samson, who may or may not have something wrong with him (1/2) #TAGCEN
samson holding an ISC wrestling championship belt on his shoulder, leaning into it a bit with a fond smile while looking down at the camera. title text says "samson" in all capscloseup of a wrestling championship belt that says "interstate champion" on it. narration boxes say: "that interstate championship... isn't it beautiful? all that gold is heavier than it looks. for singles competition, its the most prestigious title you can get on this side of the country. every pro wrestling promotion has their own world championship. theyre a dime a dozen. but theres only one isc title, and it isnt beholden to any one company... whoever holds this title, has control over its whole territory."narration: "but nobody stays champion for very long." theres a series of drawings of vibrant orange shadowy silhouettes of various wide-eyed champions, the champion belt standing out. "they say the title is cursed, that it changes people... that its driven every champ mad with power and obsession..." at the bottom is samson looking to the camera and shrugging with a smile, the ISC belt on his shoulder. a speech bubble from him says: "not me, though! i was fine."samson is kicking an opponent in the face in the middle of the ring. narration: "i defended the title for two long years, and i didn't need to be insane or evil to do it. (thats the record for longest isc title reign, by the way.) nothing changed about me."
a white silhouette of a disgruntled samson holding the championship surrounded by dark hatchmarks. "i wasn't even bothered when everyone turned their back on me."
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
recovered enough emotionally to investigate pdf creation for future print attempts. using print-to-pdf was a genius idea i saw in a comment but upon close examination i noticed that it compresses the image a bit, which isnt ideal when it comes to printing art. i want the max amount of quality
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
printed out wip pages of my comic to make sure the size is okay. how much..... can I get done by my deadline (tuesday morning)...........
a photo of me holding up two comic pages (each the size of a quarter-folded piece of 8.5x11 paper). on the left is a trail of tormented shadows leading to samson shrugging, looking amused, with a wrestling belt on his shoulder. "nobody has been champion for very long. they say the title is cursed, that it changes people. that it's driven every champ mad with power and obsession." samson is saying "not me, though! I was fine.". the second comic page has him kicking someone in the face and talking about how he held the title for 2 years (the record) without being insane or evil. theres a white silhouette of him captioned "I wasn't even bothered when everyone turned their back on me"
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pivot @jpivot.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
as much as i like using clip studio paint its kind of annoying i have to use the comic panel features to divide my canvas into equal portions. wish i could just set the grid to be by percentage
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