iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My design team at Xbox is going to participate in our own video-game centric version of Inktober; if anyone needs inspiration

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Kendra P @hagofbolding.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

new cryptid just dropped

A doodle of the famous short spined raccoon Jimothy

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The beeest part of waking up, is Windows 11 just restarting your computer for an update with no warning, and losing an hour of Photoshop work.

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Would like to remind everyone of the best sequence of panels of all time

Panel 1: fish man asks, “is that a monkey?”

Panel 2: hellboy yells, “HES GOT A GUN!”

Panel 3: a monkey shoots a gun

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

It’s so funny to sit down with the assumption “oh sure I could find my fav 9 games,” and then you’re just staring at the wall internally debating if the amount of Halo 2 and 3 you played in college means you have to pick them over smash bros.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Sometimes I am allowed to pitch very silly themes or ideas at Xbox, and it's always fun when they land well.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

One of the many illustrations I've gotten to make this year for Xbox, this one is for the fantasy collection. All I ever want in a Co-Op game is the ability ride out with my buds into battle while we all look spectacular.

A snapshot of the Xbox Game Pass menu, with a large design for Fantasy games featuring a series of knights with different banners riding out together.

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S Sunstrum @ssunstrum.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It's #portfolioday I'm S Sunstrum, and I draw characters and mecha that communicate things about the world that made them. I am currently looking for commissions, illustration and concept design work.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Mulduck is the semi-coherent party warlock, whose patron speaks to them in dreams where every character is Mulduck and can only say the words "Mulduck" like in "Being John Malkovich"

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Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I sketch almost exclusively in ballpoint pen nowadays, and it's still my medium of choice for plein air studies:

Plein air sketch of Balanced Rock at Bryce Canyon, drawn in ballpoint in a moleskine, held up in front of the subject.

Plein air sketch of the Swasey Hotel in Bodie, CA, drawn in ballpoint in a moleskine, held up in front of the subject.

Plein air sketch ofsome hoodoos near the rim of Bryce Canyon, drawn in ballpoint in a moleskine, held up in front of the subject.

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kris anka @kristaferanka.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

"feel the wrath of the goddess"

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Kejun.work @kejun.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hi I'm a character concept artist in LA. Nice to meet yall

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Eva Eskelinen @evelmiina.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Hi new people. I’m Eva and I mainly post my own fantasy drawings and paintings.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Welcome to all the Japanese artists fleeing Twitters AI button! You are in good company ❤️

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

“You keep talking about the emperors will-“ “HE IS THE HAMMER, THE SHEILD, THE TRUTH THAT GUIDES US AGAINST AGAINST THE XENO AND THE HERETIC” “Do you… want Taco Bell?” “THE EMPEROR DEMANDS IT”

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

There's always one joke character in any DnD campaign, and in mine it's a Cleric named Quulahir, (said together it sounds like "clerical error,") who is an ex-accountant that wanted to see the world.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy (oh no)

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I don't share much in the way of personal doodles, but here's Clovis, a goliath pirate and member of the sporadic DnD game I host with my college buds. Been experimenting with drawing them in an animated Phil Bourassa type style.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I'll have a bit to share about fun design work for this episode in a couple days after people have had a chance to watch it! For now let me leave you with a cutout of @briamgilbert.bsky.social I made for the episode's user flow.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

An episode of Game Changer I had the honor of working on comes out tonight!!!

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

By accident I decided to read Sarah Wynn-William’s “Careless People,” and @jasonschreier.bsky.social “Play Nice” in the same month, not realizing I was essentially going to be hearing about both sides to one of the worst power couples in recent memory.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Sometimes when I’m having a hard day I just look at the dumb T-shirts I’ve made with friends over the years on TKO and realize I’m also an idiot who has a lot of fun.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Posting some older work, this was a baby onesie I illustrated for some parents at Xbox. Fun opportunity to pitch silly illustrations I would never normally get to make

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Xbox marketing asked me to put together some box art for this collection, and I jumped at the chance to remake some oldschool pixel art. Lot's of looking at @mossmouth.bsky.social and @snakepixel.art tutorials and pixel discussions.

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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 16/04/2025

The Intrepid Heroes return for a new season of Dimension 20, arriving on @dropout.tv starting June 4th! Prepare to go upward, skyward - nay, Cloudward Ho! ☁️ #CloudwardHo

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

That moment you realize you illustrated 3 of the 6 images on the ol Xbox

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I have made CHEESE BOYS

A photo of a sculpture made of colored Sculpey Clay. The sculpture is based on the Richard Scarry drawing of 6 mice riding in a car made out of a triangle block of yellow Swiss cheese. The little happy mice poke their heads out of the holes in the cheese. It's really cute imo, he popped off when he drew this one. The entire sculpture is about three inches long and fits in the artist's hand.

The original drawing by Richard Scarry. It has words under it that read "Have you ever seen a cheese car on the highway?" No Richard, I haven't, but I would cry from joy if I did.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Another illustration, this was for a fantasy collection on Game Pass. I’m glad it got people talking but I do feel bad I got peoples hopes up one of the games had a horse-sized duck.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Had a blast working with @gamechangershow.bsky.social cast on an episode of season 7, and am excited to see it in motion April 7th!

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𓃫 yocholol 𓃫 @yocholol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

hiii everyone it’s my birthday today! it would mean a lot if you could share this post so i maybe i could get some commissions or gfm donations (link below ❤️) tyy

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Big @amongus.innersloth.com fan, (and of course a Jojo fan,) so it was fun to get the creative freedom to illustrate this Game Pass advert for Anime Month.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

One of the MANY shitty parts of AI slop, (on top of it being an ethically bankrupt tool built on stolen work being used to replace artists,) is that it finally allows the far right access to propaganda designs no artist would ever make and they’d never pay for.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I still get to work on game pass marketing between Year in Review and other projects, glad to see people still dig my terrible humor.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Oh god 1.) Chrono Trigger 2.) Marvel vs Capcom 2 3.) Capcom vs SNK2 4.) Myth II Soul Blighter 5.) Breath of Fire III

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025?

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

One of the things I designed that worked out as well as I had hoped was tying some elements to player console colors

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I'm grateful to have gotten the opportunity to design Year In Review for @xbox.com this year. A really fun project where we added more data, but also more personalization features! Shoutouts to all the PM and dev work that went into this!

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Sometimes I get to do full illustrations for Xbox which is a blast, here is an old Akira callout.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The 20th anniversary background was one of the most intimidating to work on up front. It was a net-new project I had to build from scratch, and it had to tie in to the controller it came with. Ultimately I went back to the organic-tech feeling the original Xbox gave me, of being inside the console.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The making of the 360 background was interesting. Made using a library of 360 assets which was super fun to comb through, the software for making dynamic backgrounds is pretty limited in terms of layers, so finding a way to make something that is subtle out of the loudest Xbox era was tricky.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Back when I started working for Xbox I was tasked with creating keyart for what would become the "Original" dynamic background. This was supposed to harken back to the original Xbox. While the final version was built by a dev team, this static version still lives on the PC app.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

It's been awhile since I've done much digital painting, so why not jump in the deep end and make it all at sunset.

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

In the last four years I met my partner, got married; bought a house and now have a kiddo. As scared as I am for the future of our country and just climate change in general, it’s been an amazing journey in terms of creating the little family I wasn’t sure I’d ever have. Just keep swimming

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