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Arlen Pringle

@arlenpringle.bsky.social
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Designer working on Xbox things. Former Valve workshop artist/ IQVIA medical design. He/Him

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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Temu was always the black sheep of the family.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hell in metas case they have multiple teams that their entire job is to just think up future ideas and feed them into the AI machine, so all these devs are now not coding at all and just feeding the ai beast.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well and the alternative is just as bad; which is companies like Meta or Amazon forcing their devs to vibe code 80 percent of their work, so your job just becomes reviewing trash.
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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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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Honestly I felt the boob shot in Spider-Man Brand New Day was tasteful
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For me it’s frustrating because what he’s scratching at, is that wealth inequality is so bad now that even unremarkable white men are impacted. Everyone else has been impacted the entirety of America’s history.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Some of the recent-ish work I’ve been helping with at Xbox, although feels hard to celebrate anything with the reality of the actions and news of recent months. news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
news.xbox.com
Celebrating 25 Years of Play: New Community Designs, XBOX Updates, FanFest Tour Dates, and More
Today, we’re sharing more XBOX 25th anniversary details: community-created designs, curated Game Pass collections, the full FanFest Tour schedule, and more.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Even when good news hits it feels like when Mickey/Donald/Goofy were trying to live off one bean and ghostly thin slices of bread. Just tiny drops of hope is a daily morass of corruption and decay.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I feel like no matter how much we consciously realize the constraints of toxic masculinity; if you’re born a male you never fully escape the pressure to be a stoic rock sometimes. But I say screw the rock and be the dancing sponge we all also deserve in the friend group.
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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 · 18/07/2026
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Tim Robinson's Concerned & Freaking Out Reaction
ALT: Tim Robinson's Concerned & Freaking Out Reaction
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
That is 100 percent the cup
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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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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is like when racist or homophobic people like the X-men. Did… did you not get the allegory? It was right there. Literally the whole thing.
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Irma Squirma 👻 🐛 @eckslibris.northsky.social · 04/07/2026
My founding fathers
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Sesame Street ABC Characters
Alt: Sesame Street muppets all saying Aaaahhhhhh together
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Please tell me this includes Vyper.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
When “equally sexy” just means all the fantasies are male fantasies.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The art style is so cohesive, the multi layers really add a wonderful depth, and the dark edges of the world and architecture always hint to more. It constantly reminded me of Tim Burton or Mike Mignola while being its own thing entirely.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Everytime I manage to rewatch an episode I am reminded how much of a specific unmatched vibe it has.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Bugs with guns
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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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Dliok ・ᴥ・VGen Comms open! @dliok.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Clovers ☘️ #illustration #markers #art #bird #birdart
A small Chercan is among many clovers
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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 · 23/02/2026
I can hear the Hidden King start of match music already
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We called that pooping “AC Slater” style
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
also the rate that people get the memes.
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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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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Honestly it’s going to suck for so many different trades and hobbyists, it seems like the plan is “we don’t care data centers pay our bills now.”
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Claire Hummel 🔜 Lightbox Expo @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 · 23/11/2025
Now my park brochure also is telling me to praise the emperor, is that normal?
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I miss things like art boards that PS has but it’s wild how much Clip Studio has grown and improved in ways that PS hasn’t
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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 · 20/10/2025
It’s one of those books where you know Zuckerberg and co are terrible; but reading it all still makes it so much worse. The part where he wants be “lightly mobbed,” the Sheryl bed situation, all of Joel, and of course; then knowing Onstagram targets depressed people and denying it.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The ol “a room we probably should have used earlier,” trick.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
More like bye-water
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It’s wild to think that just 10 years ago citing Wikipedia would get you an eye roll, and now we have people saying “I asked the lying slop bot what the truth was,” unironically
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I assume between sessions of buying the dip, they grab all the home interior stuff that is so expensive I don’t know how an average American ever affords it for their 5th house.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Yeah one stat I just heard is that as of now the top 10 percent of America accounts for 50 percent of all spending. Which is a very succinct way of showing how screwed we are.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Just did this too; I honestly believed I wouldn’t see any overlap and then found 10+ artists I admired constantly liking his rhetoric… such a bummer
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Great talking to you over the drawing sessions. Hell of a drawing.
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Arlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Same!
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