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notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
Abi Armstrong
@notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
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Writer & Artist | YA, Fantasy | AuDHD | 26

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Looking for illustrations for your book, or print-ready painted scenes of your latest work? I would love to help!

✨Digital oil paintings, with gorgeous lighting overlays and highlights ✨

#DVArt #Comms #WFH #YA #A #ND #LGBT
Two people on opposites sides of an apartment bedroom, looking like they have just finished an argument and are now bereft. Two people. One kneeling beside the other, who is covered in overgrown flowers and lying down.
October 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
Stylised book covers, painted like oils with bold, blended lighting, giving a dreamlike feel. Can be expanded to be wrap-around covers, and as detailed as required. These are concepts and example works.

#DVArt #Comms #WFH #YA #A #ND #LGBT #mdzs #fanart #bookcovers
A trapeze, covered in flowers and flowing satin, confetti falling in the background. Two people huddled around a campfire, backdropped by snowy mountains and a bright moon. A person sits in a shadowed corner, watching a great being from behind a pane of glass. Two people wearing red robes, holding each other. Candles lit in the background.
October 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
Stylised, wrap-around book covers, with a selected three-shade palette to suit the novel and give a sense of unity across text. Imagery is selected to demonstrate themes. These are three concept designs, drawn with Procreate.

#DVArt #WFH #YA #A #ND #LGBT
Lady Chatterly's Lover Killing Floor Beloved
October 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
Digital oil paintings, portrait and full body. I love working on the different light and moods in these pieces, especially the way the colours catch in the hair.

#DVArt #Comms #WFH #YA #A #ND #CI
A person playing a piano and singing, soft lighting. A person smoking, wearing a blazer and tie, lit by smoke and a red light. A witch-like Maleficent character, wielding green magic, wearing a long dress. A portrait of a person, lit in blue and pink lighting.
October 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
Self-taught oil painter, self-taught digital painter. I love doing these paintings that show the characters inner feelings. In these square paintings, the characters are sitting by some sort of window, reflecting, with the light pouring in.

#DVArt #Comms #WFH #YA #A #ND #LGBT
Person sitting with crossed legs, covering their face, sitting against a snowy and abstract backdrop. Person sitting with their head in their hands against a red and abstract backdrop. Person sitting with their head in their hands, against a pink, abstract, and snowy backdrop. Person sitting and looking introspectively out into a teal and green abstract backdrop.
October 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
last year, I had the wonderful opportunity of doing an art exchange with some extremely talented people, including @sora2396.bsky.social and @sharowolet.bsky.social 💙
April 17, 2024 at 4:17 PM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
Lan Wangji being gorgeous 💙 happy late birthday

#mdzs #lanwangji
April 17, 2024 at 4:14 PM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
This piece was created as part of a sketch challenge! wei ying in thought <3

#mdzs #weiying
April 17, 2024 at 4:12 PM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
kittens !! 💜💙🧡 this is one of my most favourite pieces to date - it was so complex and took so long, but I'm really happy with the finished piece
April 17, 2024 at 4:11 PM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
Here is a collection of the artwork I produced for this fic 🧡 (I may or may not have some pieces in the works, so keep an eye out 👀)

archiveofourown.org/works/478762...
April 17, 2024 at 4:08 PM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
last summer, I participated in the BBB (bottomji big bang), and was partnered with the incredible anaphoricae for "fear you won't fall"!

this fic wrecked me in all the good ways <3 please go read and give it all the love!!

archiveofourown.org/works/47876248

💙🎪♥️
April 17, 2024 at 4:06 PM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
for my undergraduate dissertation, I wrote primarily about Maleficent and feminism, and have ever since absolutely loved this notion of her not being the villain but very misunderstood. here's some art!

#maleficent
April 16, 2024 at 9:51 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
!Bunji!

As part of Lan Wangji's birthday event in 2022, @alliandra.bsky.social wrote this incredible fic "of curses and cottontails", and I was honoured to design some art for it!

archiveofourown.org/works/36589456

This was so much fun to make - thank you!
April 16, 2024 at 9:45 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
an art frenzy over the festive holidays meant i could finally completed this dodie concert painting ! (thank you dodie i love your music)

#dodie
April 16, 2024 at 9:39 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
I loved adding this slightly fantastical element to lan wangji's ribbon in this piece

#mdzs
April 16, 2024 at 9:37 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
two years ago, I wrote my masters dissertation on comparisons between Romeo and Juliet adaptations. This was the cover art I made for it 💙
April 16, 2024 at 9:34 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
A modern day wei wuxian? casually wearing lwj's ribbon? this was a draw this in your style piece, and i had so much fun making it! <3

#mdzs #modernwwx
April 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
This dragonji came to life in November, in the middle of a self-care break - he is the glowiest painting I have ever

#lanwangji #dragonji
April 16, 2024 at 9:29 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
This is just a cute scene I painted after watching "my neighbour totoro" for the first time ever 🍃
April 16, 2024 at 9:27 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
!angsty modern au wangxian!

I painted this almost two years ago after reading "show me a quiver, give me tonight" by @skstarlight.bsky.social

Hands down, still one of my favourite fics of all time (not available on AO3 anymore, but I will always love <3 )

#mdzs
April 16, 2024 at 9:26 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
could not get this out of my head -- so here's a (rushed) wwx painting <3

(is he on his way to rail his husband? quite possibly)

#mdzs #weiwuxian
April 15, 2024 at 10:44 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
Whilst I was writing my "Walking Disasters" fic, I really wanted art and music to be as intertwined with my process as much as it is in the story. Here are a few drawings I did of Lan Wangji during my year of writing 💙

You can find these within the chapters: archiveofourown.org/works/444692...
April 15, 2024 at 10:42 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
here are a few light studies that I was working on last summer - I really wanted to delve a bit deeper into different colours and contouring 💙💜♥️🧡

#artstudy #light #oilpainting
April 15, 2024 at 10:38 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
when I read "students of song and seeds" by
@dizzidreams.bsky.social I was blown away, and this scene couldn't escape my mind

thank you for writing such a beautiful story!

you can find it here: archiveofourown.org/works/355059...
April 15, 2024 at 10:35 AM
notnotnerdygirl.bsky.social
These are some of the earliest iterations of my digital art and progressed into a series of angsty-oil-painting style portraits. I love them all deeply 💙 I present: jin guangyao, jiang cheng, jiang yanli, and lan wangji

#mdzs
April 15, 2024 at 10:33 AM