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jpivot.bsky.social
pivot
@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:
https://jpivot.tumblr.com/
https://pivsketch.tumblr.com/
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jpivot.bsky.social
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)
February 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
February 1, 2026 at 10:21 AM
jpivot.bsky.social
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)
January 18, 2026 at 8:14 PM
jpivot.bsky.social
hello i am at magfest. consider wandering into the marketplace and purchase some of my friend's destiny wares
adulture.bsky.social 又甜又圆太太 @adulture.bsky.social · Jan 8
hi me and my helper @jpivot.bsky.social are at magfest island N! i dont remember my number 🥹
me magfest marketplace table, its a lot of destiny
January 8, 2026 at 7:31 PM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM
jpivot.bsky.social
testing some brushes out with gordon the freeman
digital drawing of gordon freeman from half life 2. black/gray/white ink-esque style
December 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
jpivot.bsky.social
my homunculus
a photo of a small polymer clay figure of a featureless person on top of some aluminum foil clay figure in a toaster oven
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
jpivot.bsky.social
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..."
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 AM
jpivot.bsky.social
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"
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
jpivot.bsky.social
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"
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
jpivot.bsky.social
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.
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
November 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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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
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
October 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
October 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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
October 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
September 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
jpivot.bsky.social
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"
September 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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!"
September 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
September 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
July 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
jpivot.bsky.social
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
July 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM