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Team ASpec
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Hey there! We're a duo of Canadian artists ( @makiokuta and @armatages ) who have been working conventions together for 10+ years. Check here for convention appearances, store updates, and new merch!
https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ASpecIllustration
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Team ASpec @teamaspec.bsky.social · Sep 15
We'll be at Edmonton Expo Sept 19-21 at the Edmonton Expo Center!
Come see us at table A500

Here's a look at the prints we'll have - see the second post for our stickers and bookmarks.

#FanExpo #EdmontonExpo #CANartist #ArtistAlley #Convention
An graphic announcing our attendance at Edmonton Expo. The banner at the top reads: teamASpec at Edmonton Expo! Sept 19-21 at the Edmonton Expo Center, Table A500 A graphic shows the vendor hall layout, with our table circled, alongside a collection of our new merch! A catalogue of our 11x17 foil prints we will have at the convention. Includes the following fandoms: Reboot, Spirited Away, Sailor Moon, Guilty Gear Strive, FFXIV, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Danganronpa, Stein's Gate, and Promare. A catalogue of our 11x17 prints we will have at the convention. Includes the following fandoms: Life Series, Freiren, Guilty Gear Strive, Arcane, FFXIV, danganronpa, Hatsune Miku, and Dungeon Meshi. A catalogue of our 6x9 foil and regular prints we will have at the convention. Includes the following fandoms: A set of original, element themed prints, Pokemon, Hatsune Miku, and Arcane.
teamaspec.bsky.social
We'll be at Edmonton Expo Sept 19-21 at the Edmonton Expo Center!
Come see us at table A500

Here's a look at the prints we'll have - see the second post for our stickers and bookmarks.

#FanExpo #EdmontonExpo #CANartist #ArtistAlley #Convention
An graphic announcing our attendance at Edmonton Expo. The banner at the top reads: teamASpec at Edmonton Expo! Sept 19-21 at the Edmonton Expo Center, Table A500 A graphic shows the vendor hall layout, with our table circled, alongside a collection of our new merch! A catalogue of our 11x17 foil prints we will have at the convention. Includes the following fandoms: Reboot, Spirited Away, Sailor Moon, Guilty Gear Strive, FFXIV, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Danganronpa, Stein's Gate, and Promare. A catalogue of our 11x17 prints we will have at the convention. Includes the following fandoms: Life Series, Freiren, Guilty Gear Strive, Arcane, FFXIV, danganronpa, Hatsune Miku, and Dungeon Meshi. A catalogue of our 6x9 foil and regular prints we will have at the convention. Includes the following fandoms: A set of original, element themed prints, Pokemon, Hatsune Miku, and Arcane.
September 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
teamaspec.bsky.social
Did you miss out on the Life Series print at Fanexpo in Toronto last month?
It's now available in our online store!
ASpecIllustration.etsy.com/ca/listing/4361758135/

#LifeSeriesFanart #ThirdLife #Grian #gtwScar #Shop #SmallBusiness
An advertisement showcasing a print featuring Grian, Scar, and the ghosts of the Life Series cast. Grian is shown walking towards a setting sun, with the ghosts circling it. Scar lays defeated at the front with a smile.
September 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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The Miku print I did as a collab with @armatages.bsky.social is up on the online store now! I had a lot of fun working with this composition. Available in 2 sizes!
ASpecIllustration.etsy.com/ca/listing/4362134172/

#MKart #HatsuneMiku #Shop #SmallBusiness
An illustration of Miku. The left shows three close up panels of her, the first her eye, then her shoulder, then her hand. To the right she is posed, singing, with her eyes closed and head down. She's stepping forward with one foot, the other raised, and clasping her hands together in front. Her pigtails flutter upwards. A spiral of music dances around her in a pastel rainbow.
September 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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And if you're into magical girls, we still have bookmarks left. Limited quantities on some designs.
ASpecIllustration.etsy.com/ca/listing/1685080850/
A fanned out array of bookmarks featuring characters from magical girl series including sailor moon, princess tutu, madoka magica, and cardcaptor sakura. A fanned out array of bookmarks featuring characters from magical girl series including sailor moon, princess tutu, madoka magica, and utena.
September 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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makiokuta.bsky.social
More store updates! The Madoka print I made is also up in the store!
ASpecIllustration.etsy.com/ca/listing/4362119935/

#MKart#MadokaMagica #PuellaMagiMadokaMagica #MagicalGirl #shop #SmallBusiness
An illustration featuring Madoka and Homura from Madoka Magica. Madoka is in her goddess form and lifting upwards, a hand reaching with minimal effort towards Homura. Her dress is billowing out against a matching starry background. Homura is below her, falling away and desperately reaching for Madoka's hand. Her braids are unravelling. The text "You are my Best Friend..." runs along the background panel of stars.
September 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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My Bridget print is now in the online store! Sadly, due to supply shortage, I wasn't able to get the foiling on here, but I still think it's a cute print~~ Available as 11x17 and 5x7
ASpecIllustration.etsy.com/ca/listing/4361760449/

#shop #MKart #CanArtist #smallBusiness #GuiltyGearStrive #GGStrive
Bridget from Guilty Gear Strive is jumping in the air, attacking with her yoyo that spirals around her and towards the viewer with a rainbow path. (This rainbow will be printed in foil) Both her pose and her expression are filled with energy, happiness, and clairvoyance, mirrored in the wide open blue sky behind her, with soft white clouds underlit by pink drifting carefree.
September 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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My geese are now in the online store! Go forth and obtain my angry geese children. (ships anywhere but US atm)
ASpecillustration.etsy.com/ca/listing/4362104371/

#shop #MKart #CanArtist #smallBusiness
A photo of a 3x3 matte sticker of four Canadian Geese angrily ripping and biting apart the letters A and I. Feathers and chunks of letters are flying in the destruction. Truly poetic.
September 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
teamaspec.bsky.social
The online store is now closed. I'll announce when it reopens!
See you at Fan Expo Canada!! <3

#shop
August 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I have to make a post tagged #shop to test something, so...
Check out the guilty gear prints I made? Available in our store and at our table at Fan Expo Canada!
ASpecIllustration.etsy.com
A red foil print featuring Baiken from Guilty Gear. A red foil print featuring Testament from Guilty Gear. A red foil print featuring Bedman? and Delilah from Guilty Gear.
August 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
teamaspec.bsky.social
We'll be at Fan Expo Canada in Toronto this August 21-24!
Come see us at table M12

Here's a look at the prints we'll have - see the second post for our stickers and bookmarks.

#FanExpoCanada #CANartist
An graphic announcing our attendance at Fan Expo Canada in Toronto. The banner at the top reads: teamASpec at Fan Expo! Aug 21-24 at the MTCC South Building, Table M12 A graphic shows the vendor hall layout, with our table circled, alongside a collection of our new merch! A catalogue of our 11x17 foil prints we will have at the convention. Includes the following fandoms: Reboot, Spirited Away, Sailor Moon, Guilty Gear Strive, FFXIV, Kiki's Delivery Service, Arcane, Princess Mononoke, Danganronpa, and Promare. A catalogue of our 11x17 prints we will have at the convention. Includes the following fandoms: Life Series, Freiren, Guilty Gear Strive, Arcane, FFXIV, danganronpa, Hatsune Miku, and Dungeon Meshi. A catalogue of our 6x9 foil and regular prints we will have at the convention. Includes the following fandoms: A set of original, element themed prints, Pokemon, Hatsune Miku, and Arcane.
August 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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the sun

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new print because a lot of very lovely people liked my life series stuff at toronto comicon and asked for more so, i decided to go with the classic and what got me into the life series and hermitcraft in the first place

( #grianfanart #gtwsfanart #lifeseries #thirdlife #desertduo )
July 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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fun fact, basically redid all the background details afterwards to make it almost readable for the actual sticker 🙃

also went through every stage of grief working on jayce's incredibly stupid coat. why is everything in this fucking show so overdesigned goddamn
August 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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armatages.bsky.social
wanted to do a very indulgent sticker design for the hell of it. aiming for the prototypical postcanon experience, pfft.

#jayvik #viktorarcane #jaycetalis #arcanefanart
August 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
teamaspec.bsky.social
The online store will be going into vacay mode at the end of the week for a con. With the removal of the de minimis exemption, it's unlikely we will be able to continue selling to the US when we reopen. If you want anything from our store, please order this week.
ASpecIllustration.etsy.com
ASpecIllustration.etsy.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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With the impending removal of the de minimis exemption, I created a starter pack and list for Canadian creators who sell online. If you're a buyer looking for fellow Canadians to shop from, check it out. If you'd like to be added, let me know!
go.bsky.app/L7b8pdr
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#CANartist
August 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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A new print collab between @armatages.bsky.social and @makiokuta.bsky.social featuring Hastune Miku! This will debut at Pretty Heroes this weekend.

#HatsuneMiku #Vocaloid #FanArt #Art
An illustration of Miku. The left shows three close up panels of her, the first her eye, then her shoulder, then her hand. To the right she is posed, singing, with her eyes closed and head down. She's stepping forward with one foot, the other raised, and clasping her hands together in front. Her pigtails flutter upwards. A spiral of music dances around her in a pastel rainbow.
July 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
teamaspec.bsky.social
A new print! We will debut this at Pretty Heroes this weekend!
July 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
teamaspec.bsky.social
We'll be at Pretty Heroes convention this coming weekend at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre! Stop by and visit us at Table A40! We have a few new prints that I'll be sharing soon ^^

#TorontoConvention #ArtistAlley #PrettyHeroes2025 #PrettyHeroes #CANartist #Convention
An advertisement for Team ASpec at Pretty Heroes! The banner says the date, July 19-20 in Toronto, and our table location Table A40. A new Miku print drawn by the two of us is featured on the advertisement.
July 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Did you know we have cool Ghibli prints? Look at me being topical (like two days late) I'm soooooo good at this social media stuff.
aspecillustration.etsy.com

#Art #ArtPrint #Ghibli #SpiritedAway #KikisDeliveryService #PrincessMononoke #FoilPrint #SmallBusiness #BSNM #CANartist
An advertisement for a gold foil print featuring chihiro and no face from spirited away. An advertisement for a gold foil print featuring the forest spirit from princess mononoke. an advertisement for a red foil print featuring kiki and jiji from kiki's delivery service. The word 'soaring' is printed at the bottom. A close up photo of the no face print showing the gold foil stamping and soft touch lamination.
April 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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armatages.bsky.social
and if anyone's interested, you can grab these for your next reread at our etsy store yeup

www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1...
March 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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armatages.bsky.social
fell way the fuck in love with the locked tomb book series and since me and maki are having fun making bookmarks for cons at @teamaspec.bsky.social i thought hey, let’s make bookmarks of these characters from.. like.. actual books.

#thelockedtomb #tltfanart #gideontheninth #harrowtheninth #bsnm
bookmark designs of gideon nav flexing in front of canaan house and harrowhark nonagesimus doing some necromancy in space
March 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Store Update: We've added our earth and water original designs to the store! The 6 original prints are also available as bookmarks. (low quantity on the 'Up' design)

#OriginalCharacter #BSNM #CANartist #SmallBusiness #Art
A pair of prints featuring original character designs themed on light and fire, up and down. The text reads "Foil Mini Print" A pair of prints featuring original character designs themed on blood and space. The text reads "Foil Mini Print" A pair of prints featuring original character designs themed on earth and water. The text reads "Foil Mini Print" A sticker featuring an original character themed on space. The text reads 4"x4" Vinyl Sticker, Matte Finish
March 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
teamaspec.bsky.social
Store Update: Our new magical girl bookmarks have been added to the store alongside our first set of designs!

aspecillustration.etsy.com/listing/1685...

#Art #SmallBusiness #CANartist #BSNM #Fanart #AnimeArt #MadokaMagika #SailorMoon #Utena #CardCaptorSakura #MagicalGirl #Anime
A series of bookmarks fanned out on a rippled purple-grey blanket with white flowers. A series of bookmarks fanned out on a rippled purple-grey blanket with white flowers.
March 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Here's a few more items just because. Randomly selected based on "I'm proud of them"

ASpecIllustration.etsy.com

#MKart #BSNM #CANartist #FFXIV #GuiltyGear #GGStrive
An advertisement for a holo foil print of Hydaelyn from FFXIV. The words on the print read "Well come and well met, my brave little spark" referencing the song Flow from the game. An advertisement for a 4" vinyl sticker featuring our original Space themed character. An advertisement for a 11x17 print featuring Bedman and Delilah from Guilty Gear Strive. The text on the print reads "On the Border of the Circle", referencing their song in game. A pair of mini foil prints featuring original characters based on Light and Fire.
March 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
teamaspec.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who stopped by the table at Toronto Comicon! We're restocking some items, but the online store is open again! Missed the convention? Here are some of our popular sellers that we still have in stock!

ASpecIllustration.etsy.com

#CanArtist #BSNM #Arcane #TTRPG #DnD #SpiritedAway
An advertisement showing a print featuring Viktor and Jayce from Arcane through several pivotal moments of their journey together in the story. A pair of stickers featuring Viktor and Jayce from Arcane. Each sticker features one half of the quote "in all timelines | in all possibilities" A series of holographic stickers themed on various spells and abilities from dungeons and dragons, D&D. An advertisement for a gold foil print featuring No Face from Spirited Away spilling gold coins to Chihiro who is seen from behind.
March 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM