pivot
@jpivot.bsky.social
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its me, pivot i draw (occasionally) and play video games (frequently) and watch wrestling (sometimes) and post (rarely) you can also find me here: https://jpivot.tumblr.com/ https://pivsketch.tumblr.com/
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you can see the apple came from my feeble mindspace. i looked at pictures for the banana and grape
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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
jpivot.bsky.social
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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if im gonna try drawing ellipses like this i should probably start by stepping back down to just doing actual squares in perspective again. feels like 60% of my squares are more rectangular than anything. i lost my eye for even length edges
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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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she looks sooooo gruff and stoic at everyone else but roddy lmao its cute
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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 right a 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"
jpivot.bsky.social
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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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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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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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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also would probably be useful if you were making assets for something, like a dressup game or a vtuber.

i wonder if file objects are static or if theyd play their anim frames while inside of another canvas, like a symbol/motion clip in flash... i dont do animation in csp cuz i only got the pro ver
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personal use case i can think of off the top of my head: a canvas that has separate comic page files linked on it to be able to see them collectively (i dont have ex). when i was working on an 11 page comic a decade ago (oh my god..) i was doing that manually to keep track of progress. for morale
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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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(doing the sketch -> lineart -> color process wasn't that bad! im not usually organized like that)
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o ya i finished these taggarts & basils btw. my guys...! younger and older
#TAGCEN
drawn color portraits of taggart on an orange background. him on his phone, him leaning back while talking, etc. also drawings of him younger with a bandana around his neck, with longer hair and a shaved head colored portrait drawings of basil during his "afterburner" persona years (with orange highlights in his hair) and a drawing of him more modern day scruffy. and a fullbody of him walking in his tagcen-era wrestling gear (a black shirt, a hat, gray tights, kickpads)
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hes a cutie for sure
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chip's struggle. how is he supposed to get proper revenge on basil in these conditions
#TAGCEN
a drawing of chip crying a waterfall of tears while angrily clenching his teeth saying "why is he such a loser now!?" samson is standing next to him rolling his eyes saying "good grief." in the foreground, slightly blurred, is basil and taggart facing away from chip and samson. they are standing next to each other talking. basil looks happy
jpivot.bsky.social
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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i love them too!!! my favorite ocs.................
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if u want to see more drawings of my wrestle guys u can look at my tagcen tag. but theres much more on my tumblr cuz i havent reposted it all on bsky: pivsketch.tumblr.com/tagged/TAGCEN/
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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 caps closeup 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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wait scrap all this. i forgot photopea existed until my friend reminded me