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Amy
@justalittleamy.bsky.social
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Illustrator, comic artist, animator. Aims: work in the animation industry, help folks get their ideas made, and more. <3 Based in the UK.

Living with brain tumour. Please be patient <3
#animation | #illustration | #ConceptArt | #BackgroundArt |
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I got the matte PLA to work :D This printed really well with hardly any supports and they snapped off so clean! I might try printing in a slightly different orientation to get a better finish on the topline of the head and nose, but otherwise I am delighted :D #NomadSculpt #BambuLab #3DPrint
Close up photo of a 3D print being held in someone’s gentle grip. The 3D print is a cartoon stylised greyhound bust.
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Tried a more stylistic dog this evening. I’m still not quite there for making what is in my mind’s eye…but I’m getting there :) And still having fun with it. #NomadSculpt #3DSculpting #3DModelling
Screenshot from Nomad Sculpt on iPad, the work in progress is a dog’s head. The style of the sculpt is a little more cartoony or animated.
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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And the finished dog :3 Its lovely to just chip away at sculpts, tweaking and improving in increments and then seeing it come together.

This ended up *less* stylised than I actually intended, because I got swept up in details instead of shapes. But I learned a lot for the next sculpt. #NomadSculpt
Screenshot from Nomad Sculpt on iPad. The complete sculpt is a dog’s head, a scruffy terrier or sheepdog type, with exaggerated moustache hair and eyebrow/fringe hair that covers the dogs eyes.
November 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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More #NomadSculpt practice. I made a reference and then kinda departed from it lol #3DModelling #3DSculpting
Screenshot of Nomad Sculpt on iPad. The work in progress sculpt is a cartoon stylised dog with moustache and exaggerated fringe.
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Had some more practice in Nomad Sculpt :3 I am very much looking forward to trying more complex animals and eventually human-oid shapes. #NomadSculpt #3dSculpt
Screenshot from Nomad Sculpt on iPad. Shows a tadpole-like aquatic fantasy creature with 6 six legs being sculpted in a red-clay material.
November 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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The Steve Harrington of the 1800’s (aka sir George Hayter).
Photo of a self-portrait print by Sir George Hayter, taken at National Portrait Gallery London.
October 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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I updated the lil bat. Hopefully the mouth and fangs will print better on the next pass, plus I gave him some teeny tiny lil eyebrows and a lil grin :) #NomadSculpt #3DSculpt #3DPrint
A screenshot from Nomad Sculpt on iPad, showing just the head of a cartoon bat. They are smiling.
October 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Lil bat has been printed in nice eSun ‘chameleon’ filament. Black base with a pretty blue-green shimmer.

He is actually printed as two pieces, my first time setting up a model for construction after print :D I’m getting there.
#3Dprint #3Dsculpt #NomadSculpt #BambuLab
Photo of a 3D printed cartoon bat, the material is shiny black PLA with bits of glitter in it so it is extra shiny
October 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I am looking forward to reaching dizzying heights of sculpting knowledge in Nomad Sculpt. For now, you can see my silly attempts.

This lil guy will be thrown at the 3D printer later :)
#NomadSculpt #3DModel #3DPrint
Screen capture from an ipad showing Nomad Sculpt interface. The sculpt in the middle is a little cartoon bat in a red-clay colour.
October 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Trying to break out of my comfort zone of lined backgrounds and just paint/scribble/use texture. I really like these shrubs. #WIP #illustration
screenshot of a digital painting showing a shallow gorge in a forest. Brightly coloured. Ash trees in the background. Shrubs. Brushstokes have texture to them.
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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My first time travelling via London at the tail end of summer but the height of a Bank Holiday weekend. Its…quite the experience, lol
Photograph of St Pancras station in London full of crowds of people
August 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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My lovely heron friend was at the park again today, looking very poised in the sunshine :) #CityCentreWild
Photo of a grey heron stood on rock slabs that line the edge of a small pond. Based in a city centre park.
August 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Somehow its always startling to see certain animals in a city centre park. I always thought herons were these rather elusive birds that I had only seen in wild spaces as a child. #CityCentreWild
A photo of a lovely grey heron perched on the wood siding of a small pond in a city centre park
August 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I shared this in a discord server with some friends and it boggled their mind when I said every book was hand drawn xD Yes, there probably are more efficient things i could have done...but my mind was settled on 'draw all the things' today. #BackgroundDesign #illustration #WIP
Black and white line-art illustration, work in progress. Interior of a library, viewpoint is looking down an aisle towards a more open part of the library. The bookcases directly in front are short, whilst other bookcases in view are taller.
July 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Had some fun playing with soft, dreamy textures and some painterly strokes and such. I think I need to go find some specific paintings/photos to do some studies to round out what my brain is trying to do.

But I still really like these :) #EnvironmentArt #illustration
Digital illustration, soft dreamy painterly style landscape of a meadow with bright flowers in the foreground, and a slightly imposing hill in the midground. Digital illustration, dreamy soft painterly landscape of a meadow. On top of the slight incline is a moss covered waystone.
May 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I shouldn't be trying to animate when its so warm, my brain is fuzzy. Anyways, revisited and then totally re-made a dino walk cycle I've been practicing.

I know what I wanted to do, then did something different, but still like the result anyway xD He's got a determined stride. #animation #dinosaur
April 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I feel like I've been working on basic thumbnail characters and backgrounds for ages, needed to check that I can still draw faces xD Always looking to improve, I need to sit down with the Proko timer and practice some stuff. #sketches #characters
digital sketch, a collection of headshots of a variety of characters. mixed ages and races, variety of expressions.
April 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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This is the finished version of a sketch I posted some time ago. Happy with a lot of things, a bit indecisive about a few others. It sounds weird to say this but I finally feel like I'm getting more comfortable with leaving paint strokes visible, being more messy, etc. #EnvironmentArt
digital illustration of a dreamy, blamy scene, inspired by Halong Bay. In the distance are limestone moutains and rock protusions, covered in dense foliage. in the midground and to the right edge of the scene is a floating house with an additional small platform kept afloat by empty barrels. in the foreground is a wooden floating dock, with deveral canoes moored to it. everything is rendered in an animation-style colour and shading, with an emphasis on blue-green tones.
April 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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This feels like a nice, resolved scene. A few of my recent pieces have felt a little fuzzy (I might have been too soft in the shadows) so I aimed to keep the shadows deeper and with more defined edges for this one. Happy :) #EnvironmentArt #animation #illustration
Digital illustration, scenic. A coastal scene, a slip of pebble-beach can be seen with some gentle waves coming in. Scattered in view are several stone monolith cliffs, the tops covered in moss and grass. Further in the background are more stone cliffs at sea. Flying between them are the silhouettes of pterosaurs. Everything rendered in an animated, cartoon-show style with strong shapes and defined shadows.
April 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The finished scene will have a lot more wow factor, but I still really like this stage too. I think I'm getting better and more confident in setting up a scene. #sketch #illustration #BackgroundArt
WIP, lineart only, a scenic illustration inspired by Halong Bay, with limestone mountains and cliffs covered in lush vegetation in the background. In the foreground are a floating house and a floating jetty with several canoes moored at it.
April 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Look. These are so soft on paper. Gonna have so much fun using these for drawing on the go.
Photo of four uni Pin ink pens on a marbled table. The pens are in softer grey tones instead of black.
April 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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I feel like I've done a lot of messy, dirty urban environments recently. Becoming a specialist in 'brown' xD #DigitalArt #environment #BackgroundArt
digital illustration, an urban setting, a partially derelict city. its the back of a building, where various piles of junk and discarded items have built up over the years. the pile of junk included corrugated metal, boxes, drinks can, newspapers and more. there is also a dilapidated sofa in a teal colour, and a very worn and stained blue rug on the ground.
April 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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It's #PortfolioDay once more and alas I have no full portfolio to share, as I am busy making new things and falling foul of perfectionism, lol. But for now, I hope you enjoy this sample of environment concepts :)
didigtal illustration, a vibrant coral reef under water. closest to the viewer is lots of thick, green kelp and sea grass, and a giant clam. in the mid-ground is pink anenome and bright blue brain coral. in the furthest distance is just the shadows and hint of more coral reef. digital illustration, the interior of a derelict lab. closest to the viewer are three large cylinders. one is broken, the other two are partially filled with green liquid. in the midground is an equipment room, with a window. you can see some of the now-quiet equipment through the window. digital illusration, a dank junkyard. very brown. closest to the viewer is the interior of a smashed car (as if the viewer is perched on the drivers seat looking out to the junkyard). in the distance are various bits of junk, like paper piles, old toys, scrap metal, an old classical fridge and a jeep car. digital illustration, a bedroom interior. it is very brightly lit with natural sunlight with a large sun patch in one corner of the room. closest to the viewer is the chest of drawers, partially open, and a bed with clothing and a blanket strewn on it. other items in the room include a wardrobe with a built-in mirror, a writing desk, and a book case that fits snugly in the corner.
April 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Looking through some of the short animation exercises from my MA and I am still proud of this. Considering I had *zero* experience of animating anything at the time, I was chuffed to get a nice feeling of weight and force. #animation
April 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I did not go through a traditional route into animation, and I am lacking first hand experience of even the basic exercises. So I am speed-running through them over the next few weeks lol. I'd eventually like to blog about this somewhere. In case its useful. #animation #AnimationFundamentals
March 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM