iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just watched all of Eva through for the first time, got to that scene in EoE and had a just straight “Wtf” moment lol

Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m using just different sizes of Copic pens tbh, larger lines and bigger spaces using the “Brush” one and going all the way down to 003mm

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Lisa Holling @artholling.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fybe Update! Not only am I a vendor but now a trusted vendor! This shows to customers they have done additional checks and approval that I don’t support ai, I make as much as I can by hand and all these ideas come from my head. Check out Fybe for the additional blue badge! Support handmade! 💖💖💖

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Most of the inking phase is in before I go to actual paint

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I started another painting on this long weekend, but it’s ~4x the size of the previous two (22x36 versus 8x10) so it’s going to take a second- I’m a lot happier with this one so far

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s not perfect, but it’s a vast improvement from the last painting that’s all we can hope for, on to the next one with lessons learned

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I started another watercolor, will update when it’s done. Need to fix up some color bleed areas, wasn’t paying attention and there’s some light inconsistencies but it’s a major improvement from the last one!

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s not like- the best but I painted for the first time in over a decade and if you squint it actually looks like something so I’ll take that as a net positive. (But no fr it’s been nice to do something not on a computer again I may paint more who knows)

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I saved this to send it to you but then realized only after it was you who posted it

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Isn’t Blizzard, CDPR, Rockstar, Harmonix, and several others in Mass? I know 3 of them are, because I interviewed for them in 2023-2024

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I credit this as getting me into art/film, I love his work so much.

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I hate plastic so much, tbh P4 feels like the only one worth a damn anymore. Git is useless for large projects, plastic is unusable period, p4 has problems but it at least is functional lol

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I was wondering what you meant by that when you said that a little bit ago but I just thought you had hot dogs on the brain for bit lmfao

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Lisa Holling @artholling.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

You can find cool pendants in my store like this one! Helm weave and resin flower from Samantha’s garden.

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Haha it still even took me a minute tbh. Also hope you’ve been well!

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Imma be so real, I never noticed lmfao

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Lisa Holling @artholling.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Here’s a close up at one of the necklaces on my store! It issues a Japanese 12-2 weave with deep red stones!

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Nina Marotta ☢️💙 @mrschief7.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

hey just got laid off, who needs a remote game designer

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Two of my closest friends use ChatGPT so much and it’s like watching a car crash in real time as the person I know they were slowly deteriorate into a weird husk. It’s actually super depression that no amount of intervention seems to get them to realize it either.

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Every single time without fail I see your dog I think it’s a picture of mine I forgot I took

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

It’s how I was taught and it’s how I textured until I finally bought Substance in 2021 haha

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Ingnoring the mixamo character I have for reading, I may have went crazier with scale tests in unreal. First person to guess how far away that mountain is wins a prize (the prize is being right)

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

What’s happenin I finally was able to get back into this account

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I genuinely never thought I would get anywhere close to 100, let alone almost 1000 subs

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

youtu.be/m-t8FBX98ow?... Another new video; this time about what artistic realism is, how it pertains to video games, and how developers trick players into think it’s realism

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What Exactly is Realism? (and How Video Games Trick You)

YouTube video by VertexLock

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

youtu.be/uO-2zCQLzSg?... New video on some tips to enhance your game scenes (More beginner friendly tips, branching out later into more intermediate and advanced tutorials and videos)

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4 Simple Tricks to Better Environment Art!

YouTube video by VertexLock

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I’m an artist- we just ignore that (jokes aside I’m fixing that; it’s angry about shadows right now.)

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Doing some crazy unreal scale tests. The scene is something over 400square miles, all done procedurally (All assets are placeholder for right now while I refine things) All 400 square miles or so are traversable and populated with assets

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It crashed immediately after hitting 128 because it ran out of space, good luck when you do haha

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I love watching my ram creep up from 20FPs to 128gigs when converting an unreal scene to world partition over the course of an hour…

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Nearly every movie you’ve seen uses outside the US support studios. How the hell do you even enforce a tarrif

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I’m getting random job-rejection emails from jobs I didn’t even apply to at 3am like it’s some sort of ghost, what the hell

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Wait- republicans honest to god put up a bill to repeal OSHA on the anniversary date of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?! You’ve got to be kidding

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I was asked what the most helpful thing I learned in college was (in terms of my career): Take a Modern Art class. It will fundamentally change how you view art, color, light and the process of creating art. (This usually ranges from the 1860’s realism to the 1980’s Neo-Expressionism)

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If Build a Bear made an actually decent build a bear plush they would make so much money I alone would buy 3

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I can’t put this damn game down. I’m 25 hours deep and still mesmerized by how good it looks

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This is such a cool glitch it might as well be a feature, somehow broke the game so that the “Ink” filter didn’t go away when I left photo mode. Even in the menus too

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Environment artist tip: Figuring out themes, forms, and styles of a place before you stylize it will always give you a drastically better result than creating a style first and trying to make something fit it. Figure out the why,when, how first- then you can change it

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Unreal nerds; why can’t I used a blueprint actor inside a tool? Why can’t I use a spline tool inside of a blueprint? WHY this would make life so much easier

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I saw a 15 second clip of Assassins Creed shadows where they were just riding through the mountains of Japan- That clip was so gorgeous I immediately went to my PS5 and bought the game.

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I’m seeing a massive increase of people going after companies/recruiters on LinkedIn because they didn’t get a job- They’re just doing their jobs man, the industry sucks right now- I get it. But that isn’t the way things are going to get better

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Full stop WWE2k25 is the best wrestling game in 20 years. This game is bonkers

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Jake L. Provo @jleedesign.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

You miss a toll in NY you get to wait on for phone for over TWO HOURS to pay it. What the actual hell NY??

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