iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"to be a woman is to perform" Pearl (2022, starring mia goth) x Oshi no Ko (2023) was feeling weird and unhinged this week and aimed to do a study that fit the mood. art details: watercolour, ink, and paint marker on paper. 4x6” #pearlmovie #oshinoko #イラスト #halloween #watercolor

watercolour illustration of the character Pearl, from the film Pearl. She smiles in an unnatural way with tears streaming down her cheeks. Her eyes are huge, anime styled, and shiny with stars in them, like the anime Oshi no Ko.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Sometimes, in our time of AI and constant and ongoing enshittification etc etc etc, I wonder why I bother making and sharing things at all. Then I remind myself I'm human and that it's reflex kinda like sneezing, and it just happens I guess achoo [ #art details: watercolour on paper, 2.5x3.5" ]

Closeup watercolor illustration of three watery eyes and an overexaggerated mouth

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

oversharing.jpg art details: watercolour, paint marker, and ink on paper. 4.5x6.5" #contemporaryart #pleasebepatient #watercolor #illustration #oversharing

watercolour illustration of a person bleeding through their underwear. text on the image says, "please be patient. im currently experiencing horrific menstrual and/or bowel issues"

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

trans rights or else art details: watercolour and gouache on paper. 7.5x5.5

watercolour illustration of three gundams, one holds a trans flag. text on the image says "trans rights or else"

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Eli @ Blooming Kitsune 🌸🦊 @wagamamapuu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The lovely folks at Packaged Food Gourmet and their fam are going through some especially rough times. F cancer. If you can, check out some of their fun food videos, sub to the channel, give some likes, share their stuff, anything. They're good people and amazing friends. youtu.be/09VqAGuVSgY?...

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A difficult update...

YouTube video by Packaged Food Gourmet

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

pov: you're playing video games with me, a humanities prof art details: watercolour, ink, and paint marker on paper, 4.5x6" #sicksword #watercolor #painting #minecraft #vibes

watercolour illustration of a hand holding up a minecraft sword. text written on the image says, "sick sword!! but I can't shake the settler colonial vibes of this whole place..."

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

climate crisis (hot take, i know) art details: watercolour on paper, 8.5x12" #contemporaryart #watercolor #watercolour #fireseason #🔥

watercolour illustration of several cartoon-like flames. text on the image says, "everything is on fire. this is bad. but maybe... we can improve things somewhat."

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

me and the pals ♡ art details: watercolour and paint marker on paper, 4.5x6" #contemporaryart #painting #cuteart #littleguys #art #noAI

watercolour illustration of 4 small toy-like creatures: a bunny, frog, seal, and duck. text on the image says, "me and the pals going out to f *** sh ** up"

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

hello, this weekend I decided to be a crow at shambhala music festival

Amber wears a crow mask, miniskirt, stretch mesh shirt, and a big backpack. A good star balloon is wrapped around her arm and backpack. Text on the image says: "Sunday rave attire. Giver & collector of trinkets"

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

irwin sailor moon dolls (1996) watercolour, gouache, and pencil on paper. 7.5x10" i've had these dolls and figures for 30yrs. they're messy & loved. frizzy, matted hair. weirdly painted pupils and smooshed faces. i braided their hair so many times (which is why the central doll's hair sticks out)

watercolour painting of sailor moon dolls. the dolls overlap in unusual ways, with arms and legs sticking out, and parts obscured

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

bunnies with periwinkle and buttercups (invasive species) art details: watercolour, ink, and paint marker on paper. 7.5x8" #contemporaryart #cuteart #bunnies #nanaimo #vancouverisland

illustration of two bunnies surrounded by flowers with the text: "just invasive little guys"

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

john wick with cats for hands prepares to fight the cops art details: watercolour, gouache, pencil, and ink on paper. 7.5x11"

watercolour illustration of john wick but he has cats instead of hands.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

My #artvsartist grid for 2025! I made a lot more art than I posted online, which is kind of a win, I think? #artvsartist2025

A grid of 9 images: 8 are watercolour and digital drawings of people and characters, including fanart for Minecraft and Digital Circus, surround a picture of Amber in the middle.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year to the like 2 people I know on bluesky 🎉 ✨️ 💛

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Getting into sharing my art process. Here's how my Pomni fanart was made! I don't normally start out with a base drawing, but in this case I did, so I blocked out all the values first. Then, because it's watercolour, I worked from light hued colours to darker ones. #wip #digitalcircus

Photo of the first stage of an incomplete artwork on a desk. Watercolor paint palettes are in the background, a brush is in the foreground.

Photo of the second stage of an incomplete artwork on a desk. Watercolor paint palettes are in the background, a brush is in the foreground.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy (almost) new year! I'm sick (thanks to having 247 roommates), so I'm spending the time setting goals, working on stuff, and sending out postcards. What you up to?? Talk to meeee #nye #nye2025 #wip

several unfinished watercolour illustrations on a desktop

a very blurry snapchat photo of Amber. Caption reads: "I love being alive and every day is a treasure (got illness for the holidays)"

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

sad little clown recently got into this and still don't know how to feel about it beyond: "I, too, see a small shell-shocked clown when looking into the mirror each day" #art #pomni #fanart #digitalcircus #illustration #artist #MyArt #artwork #SupportArtists #HumanArtist

Watercolor illustration of Pomni, a character from the animation The Amazing Digital Circus. She has noodle-like limbs and is holding eyes, with eyes replacing many of the details of her outfit.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Went to a coptic bookmaking workshop. Mine's a little sloppy but it's got spirit

Amber's hand holding a small notebook with a watermelon cover

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The Exhibition Catalogue for MY CRINGE ACADEMIA | 我のイタいアカデミア is now available as a free download~ Find it here: www.ambervisualartist.com #contemporaryart #artist #fanart #fineart #artistduo #visualnovel

Table of contents for the exhibition catalogue.

Exterior and interior views of the installation.

Screenshots of Amber's visual novel, titled Precious Trash: An Artist Talk.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

install day went well but I am oh so tired please come to my art show it's called MY CRINGE ACADEMIA arc.hive artist run centre opens sep 5 @ 7pm runs until sep 21

An art gallery during the installation process with objects scattered everywhere: artworks, tools, etc

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Hi! Please come to my art exhibition MY CRINGE ACADEMIA / 我のイタいアカデミア embraces what you’re not supposed to love or be. It’s art about openly being a terminally online fan (embarrassing), a tourist (ugh), and a gig-worker (sad). Visitors are invited to contribute to a public fanart collection. (1/2)

Poster for the art exhibition "MY CRINGE ACADEMIA / 我のイタいアカデミア" by Amber and Matthew. The poster features art of Sailor Moon saying the word "FANART."

Two screenshots from the visual novel video game "Precious Trash." Text between the two images says, "New work by the two artists includes drawings, figures, found objects, an artist talk as a visual novel, and more. Visitors are invited to contribute to a public fanart collection."

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Please visit if you can. it'll be lots of fun and we can draw fanart together~ ☆ #artist #exhibition #contemporaryart #mycringeacademia

A hand holding up a postcard for an art exhibition called MY CRINGE ACADEMIA. In the background, there is a beach at sunset.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

he has a goblin personality but looks like this

A short haired light coloured Siamese cat curled up on the couch. He gazes at the camera and holds his back leg

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Happy Death Stranding 2 launch to those that celebrate

Hand holding the Collectors Edition box for Death Stranding. The picture is blurry and poor quality

A dark plastic figurine from the Collectors Edition of Death Stranding 2

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Someone on @postcrossing.com sent me a postcard from my favourite arthouse film and I'm simply over the moon. 💌

3 postcards: one is from the 1966 film Daisies, another is from Industrial Museum Chemnitz in Germany, and the other is a museum in Taiwan.

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Lunar Twilight VA @lunartwilightva.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

pro-Palestine demonstration in front of the GQuuuuuux billboard may be one of the most Gundam things to ever happen

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Did you have an art teacher that told you not to draw anime or cartoons? Were you told that there's nothing to learn, and it's even to your detriment, if you continued to draw like that? What if... what if we did it anyway? Here's some #fanart I've been working on for my exhibition in September. 🎨

Photo of a messy desk with several illustrations in small plastic bags: Nier Automata, Madoka, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tenchi Muyo

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

pickles [ #art details: watercolour on paper, 2.5x3.5" 🎨 ]

Photo of a small piece of paper, the same size and shape as a trading card. The artist has painted many tiny pickles and dots.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

more experiments, made yesterday [ #art details: watercolour on paper, 2.5x3.5" ] #watercolor #artwork #artist #abstract #painting 🎨

Watercolour on paper. A cool coloured abstract composition with large blobby brush strokes.

Watercolour on paper. A warm coloured abstract composition with large blobs of deep purple.

Watercolour on paper. A minimal composition with watery pink.

Watercolour on paper. A chaotic composition with warm colour dragged across it.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Me, sternly lecturing myself in the mirror: no more higher education (unless you're the teacher)

Screen shot of an email with the subject line: "Your degree has been conferred!" The email continues: "congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that your degree has been conferred at our latest senate meeting."

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

playing a particularly challenging version of 'don't drink the paint water' tonight

Photo of an artist's desk with brushes, papers, and watercolour trays. A drink with ice cubes is beside a cup of paint water, both of which are very similar colours

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

advice from one human to another: sometimes it's ok to take up space... even if you're not doing anything [ #art details: watercolour / watercolor on paper, 4x3", 2024 🎨 ]

watercolour illustration of a person in recline with their eyes closed. text on the image says, "sometimes it's ok to take up space... even if you're not doing anything." the paint is blobbed onto the paper, very freeform style

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

my body is an aquarium of microplastics [ # art details: watercolour / watercolor on paper, 2.5x4" ]

watercolour painting or illustration of little blobby characters floating around on a colourful background

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

just granting myself permission to waste paper (spoiler: this is a successful method to trick myself into making things)

Photo of Amber's desk. Small pieces of paper, covered in watercolour paint, cover the surface. Paint palettes and a brush are near the back.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Updated my #digitalgarden! Now the front page is much prettier (and, as a bonus, also more functional)

Screenshot of Amber's website. The background is an abstract painting, full of colour and movement. The body of the site features images for each main section: about, art, journals, publications, video games, watercolor paintings, and so on.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

no brain, only drift~ be free, be jelly~ [ #art details: watercolour / watercolor on paper, approx. 4x4", 2021 ]

a watercolour painting of a large jellyfish. text on the image says, "no brain, only drift... be free... be jelly"

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

fanart trading card, evangelion #1 [ #art details: ink, marker, and watercolor / watercolour on paper. blind contour (drawn without looking). 2.5x3.5" ]

Rough sketch of asuka from evangelion, looking up and away. The illustration is drawn on top of watercolour brush strokes.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

how I use up all of my paper trimmings [ #art details: watercolour / watercolor on paper, 0.25x2" ]

small pieces of paper, each painted and stained with watercolour paint to have different patterns, placed side-by-side

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Got a couple of decent shots this evening~ (I am very much a beginner)

Photo of a target with arrows in it, one of which is the middle-ish area

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

rotten girl's mental mosaic [ #art details: watercolour and marker on paper, 5.5x8" ]

Illustration of a variety of anime characters, all scribbled and distorted. Bits and details of totoro, madoka, kyubey, pokemon, and others mingle together.

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Amber ✨️ @amberartist.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

someone put this sign on my cat

a cat wearing a tiny plastic caution sign that says: cat vomit, caution. Another cat looks on, concerned

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