right?? its such an outlier
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gordon freeman is lying facedown on the ground. a spotlight shines upon him. xar, stain, christopher, and father grigori are dancing around him
made a discord event for the next hl2vrai stream and then made a banner image for it
#hl2vrai
a redraw of sprites from pokemon yellow of rattata and blastoise with the originals for comparison
watched a stream of pokemon yellow the other day. i love the sprites in that game
honestly i eyeballed the baselines and x-heights cuz i didnt know how to set a guide line. what i REALLY should do is properly make a new handwriting font from scratch, but... thats sooooo much work... and its not really a priority...
hmm... figuring out how to add alt glyphs for a non-crossbar capital I would be cool (or maybe I could just edit the lowercase L a bit so it can pull double-duty). Doing character-specific kerning for capital T so the non-tall lowercase letters fit underneath the t-bar would be cool too...
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
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
watching it
#hl2vrai
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"
the king of all bandits and his singular henchman: bandit-bandit
#TAGCEN
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 Tempo
pencil sketch of lash from deadlock doing a ground strike on rem, who is flung into the air
remlings can get so tanky... curse you rem
#deadlock
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
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 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)
art from 2021: group photo!
#halflife
ive been scowling at anatomy textbooks while working on drawings too much lately... gotta let go and just halfass some doodles... for the soul... 🧘
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
quick miscellanea before bed
the timelapse for this is funny because it reveals that i drew a motorcycle like 3 times. and there is zero motorcycle in the final image
closeup screenshot of afterburner in the background grinning smugly after blowing a kiss or heart or something of that nature
if there is 1 thing u should know about chip its that hes still obsessed with some guy who bullied him years ago
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)
what theyre into
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photo of a acrylic charm display where the deadlock charms have been replaced with hand drawn representations on paper labeled sold out. ivy, seven, abrams, haze, and vindicta
the whole set now
a picture of a display board of acrylic charms. next to an ivy charm are sold out signs for seven, abrams, haze, and vindicta with pen depictions of what they were
theyre disappearing...!
drawn sign that says warlock totes sold out with a crude drawing of a warlock tote
sold out signs with a crude depiction of the vindicta and seven acrylic charms they're for
I've been making highly bespoke sold out signs for them as time goes on
it was a really good panel btw!! wow... so many people too...
i think the badges have been sold out for a while, so you'd be additionally prevented from realizing this hypothetical
there's a magfest panel about outer wilds tonight that im gonna wander into. a dev in their midst
hello i am at magfest. consider wandering into the marketplace and purchase some of my friend's destiny wares
month to month art summaries from 2015 all the way to 2024. a mix of fully rendered and colored illustrations and black and white sketches
ive been doing these for so long! heres the previous 10 years, spanning all the way back to 2015. waow
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
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.
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these. didn't like them at first because I didn't understand how to use them properly. but I like scribbling with them
digital drawing of gordon freeman from half life 2. black/gray/white ink-esque style
testing some brushes out with gordon the freeman
tumblr flagged my post... the first image is so warmtoned the stupid ai bot they use for moderation prolly thought it was nude flesh 🙄
I didn't cook these other little guys and they got very very dusty. oops. so i made sure to bake this new one immediately before I forgot
photo of a small clay figure standing on a sculpey box, with an anime face drawn on in pencil
photo of a small clay figure standing next to a kneeling smiski figure
experiment success. ive created a lumpy little guy