Leonie's Art Blog

StudyPost 32 / Sienna and Tera and lots of figure studies for Kimodameshi 2025, Days 7 to 11!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 March 2025 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost No Comments Tagged with ArtChallenge, artisticnudityfiguredrawing, DrawingChallenge, figure drawing, figuredrawing, Kimo5, Kimodameshi2023, leonieyue, photostudies, photoStudy, reflection, Sienna, sketch, sketchbook, studies, study, studyPost, Tera, Timelapse

❧ Reflecting on motivation and art dailies
❧ personal update

StudyPost 31 / Kimodameshi 7 [2025] Days 1 to 6

By leonieyue Posted on 10 March 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost No Comments Tagged with ace, alloromanticAce, alonewithcompany, anxious, ArtChallenge, autistic, autisticThings, DemiromanticAce, DrawingChallenge, EmotionallyDistant, figure drawing, figuredrawing, guarded, Kimo, Kimo5, Kimodameshi2023, leonieyue, mirroring, photostudies, photoStudy, portraitStudy, reflection, romance, romanticFiction, sketch, studies, study, studyPost, yearningLoveFantasyReality

❧ Reflecting on this art challenge & about guys yearning
❧ personal update

❄️Snow Miku 2026 / Happiness Patisserie! 🎀 Having a try like a slow, small turtle ❤️💛 Happy Miku day! 💙🤍

By leonieyue Posted on 10 March 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection No Comments Tagged with character design, character development, character illustration, CharacterDesign, characterdesignThoughts, complexFeelings, costume, costumeDesign, FeelingLikeAfraud, hatsunemiku, hurtFeelings, leonieyue, mikuday, MikuDay2025, mixedFeelings, notgoodenoughFeelings, personal update, processingFeelings, sittingwithfeelings, SnowMiku, SnowMiku2026Patisserie, ミクの日, ミクの日2025, 初音ミク, 雪ミク2026

My challenges with this project and personal update about feelings & stress.

✨Lots of Zeldas! 👍The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom!!

By leonieyue Posted on 19 February 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse No Comments Tagged with conflictAvoidance, coworkerFriendshipsHard, deadpan, drama, emotionalDrama, emotionalExpectations, emotionallyMutual, expectationsProjections, fanart, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, friendshipGuilt, ghosting, Illustration, incompatible, leonieyue, LettingGo, lowEnergy, lowMood, ManagingStress, mutuallyInterested, overthinking, personal update, personalupdate, quiet, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, restingPoutFace, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, sleepy, stress, structureAndRoutine

A subtitled timelapse & little personal update about stress & social capacity!

Atamifuji 熱海富士 💪Sumo wrestler studies!

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost No Comments Tagged with Atamifuji, characterdesignThoughts, fanart, Illustration, leonieyue, personal update, sumo, sumoStudies, SumoWrestlerStudy, SumoWrestling

❧ rambling about character designing
❧ personal update

🏴‍☠️ Drawing Majima from memory🦜 [Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii] 🗡️

By leonieyue Posted on 11 February 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Sketches, Traditional No Comments Tagged with ballpointPen, fanart, GoroMajima, Illustration, leonieyue, LikeADragonSeries, Majima, MajimaPirateYakuza, memorySketches, pen, pen sketch, portrait, portraits, sketch, yakuza, YakuzaGameSeries

Little sketchy post ;P

🧝‍♀️The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom!!🪄

By leonieyue Posted on 11 February 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Photos, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with fanart, gameThoughts, Illustration, Legend of Zelda, legendofzelda, LegendOfZeldaEchoesOfWisdom, leonieyue, Link, Princess Zelda, reflection, Timelapse, Zelda

❧ reflecting & subtitled timelapse
❧ reflecting on this game (spoilers)
❧ personal update & more!

💧 Void watching where I work [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 9]

By leonieyue Posted on 5 February 2025 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with BeingMisunderstood, communication, expectations, expectationsProjections, ezcema, flawed, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, invisibleExpectations, learning, learningJourney, learningProcess, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, mindgames, overthinking, reflection, reflective, s, scapegoat, scaryConversations, slowingdown, summer, teamwork, TextChatCommunication, unspokenExpectations, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ reflecting on this
❧ personal update & more!

🐍Happy Lunar New Year of the Snake 2025 featuring Nuregami 濡神, God of Water & 11 baby snake gods! 🌊 Okami Lunar New Year Project 🧧

By leonieyue Posted on 28 January 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with babysnakes, BeingMisunderstood, CareerPredictions, Chinese New Year, communication, compatibility, conflictAvoidance, courage, creativity, despair, diet, DragonPredictions, eczema, EmotionallyAvoidant, encouragement, energy, EnergyConserving, energyConservingMode, energyLevels, environmentSwitching, existential, existentialEmptiness, fanart, fatigue, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, freezeUp, friendshipCompatibility, friendships, frugal, grump, health, hyperawareOfPeople, hyperfocus, Illustration, imposterSyndrome, insecurity, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, limbo, love, LoveAndKindness, lovebombing, LoveHesitator, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, lowrisktaker, Lunar New Year, managingWorkload, misunderstandings, Nuregami, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, openOfficeEnvironments, opportunities, overthinking, patience, peopleManagement, recognition, relationshipsAreNotEverything, romantic, RomanticProjection, satisfaction, selfdoubt, selfLove, sensoryOverload, snake, socialEnergy, stingyFrugalHermit, teamwork, trialAndError, tunnelVision, waterPowers, watersprout, WhatIsLove, WoodSnake, writtencommunication, YearOfSnake, zodiacAnimals, zodiacPredictions

❧ subtitled art process timelapse!
❧ reflecting on my dragon predictions
❧ personal update

🌸🐍Happy Lunar New Year of the Wood Snake 🌳Crossy Road fanart!

By leonieyue Posted on 24 January 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video No Comments Tagged with bluesky, BlueSkySocial, bodilyPains, Cramps, crossy road, CrossyRoadCharacter, crossyRoadCharacterDesign, CrossyRoadUpdate, discord, DiscordServer, fanart, Illustration, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, LunarNewYear, Majora's Mask, onlineBoundaries, personal update, stalkers, sumoTournaments, WoodSnake, YearOfSnake

❧ about this last Crossy illustrated fanart
❧ a little personal update & more

Midorifuji 翠富士, Ichiyamamoto 一山本, Takayasu 高安 💪 Sumo wrestler studies!

By leonieyue Posted on 21 January 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost No Comments Tagged with anxiety, anxietyFuture, anxious, ArtCareer, ArtCollaboration, bluesky, communicationIssues, CreativeFai, CreativeFailure, CreativePressure, DesireToProveSelfConstantlyExhausting, energy, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, exhaus, existentialDread, fanart, hatsubasho2025, hermit, hermitLeonie, hustlingExhausting, Ichiyamamoto, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, keyboards, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, love, lowEnergy, lowselfEsteem, meditation, Midorifuji, NintendoSwitch2, personal update, portrait, provingOneselfExhausting, relationships, selfdoubt, social media, socialBattery, socialEnergy, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, SplitTentedKeyboards, sumo, sumoStudies, sumoTournaments, SumoWrestlerStudy, SumoWrestling, survivalArtistMode, Takayasu, timesink, WorkDowntime

❧ reflecting on creative failure
❧ personal update
Last week of the sumo hatsubasho is going right now yeahhh

Wishing you all the best Terunofuji 照ノ富士 pt 1 💪Sumo wrestler studies!

By leonieyue Posted on 18 January 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost No Comments Tagged with fanart, hatsubasho2025, Illustration, leonieyue, portrait, sumo, sumoStudies, SumoWrestlerStudy, SumoWrestling, terunofuji, yokozuna, YokozunaTerunofuji

A ramble about Terunofuji

🌙Sleeping on the pink crescent moon🌷 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 8]

By leonieyue Posted on 14 January 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with breathwork, EnergyConserving, energyConservingMode, EnergyDraining, existential, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, existing, fallingAsleep, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hyperawareOfPeople, Illustration, LeonieBlob, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, meditation, nightowl, NotAbleToRelax, openOfficeEnvironments, overstimulated, poisoning, recovery, relax, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, sleep, sleeping, SleepSchedule, sleepy, socialOutsider, solitaryRecoveryMode, stingyFrugalHermit, TaleOfPrincessKaguyaThoughts, TightBudgetHermit, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ on sleep, got slightly poisoned & internet finds
❧ the Tale of Princess Kaguya spoiler thoughts
❧ personal update & why I’m not logging in at bluesky much anymore & crossposting less at Linkedin from now on.

I will post status updates at my discord server instead + I’m active at my blog, youtube & cara! <3

☀️🏖️A Sunny Summer Chrimbus! 🎅⛄⭐ [Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 25 December 2024 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with abandonmentIssues, acquaintanceBoundaries, adultFriendship, beach, comicMangaThoughts, covid19, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, CrossyCrab, CrossyGingerbreadperson, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossySandmanSnowman, CrossySanta, disfigurementdisgustprettyprivilege, distrust, eczema, emotionalDistance, EmotionallyDistant, envious, envy, FearOfMissingOut, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, FriendshipLoyalty, FriendshipReciprocity, FriendshipsAreHard, GoalsPhilosophy, happyholidays, healthUpdate, hermit, hermitLeonie, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, insecurity, judgemental, leftout, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, lossOfRespect, MaleGaze, manga, marketingArt, neverGoodEnough, NintendoSwitch, nintendoswitch2024, notgoodenoughFeelings, onesided, personal update, pikmin4, postingBreak, postingSchedule, preemptiveDistancing, ReciprocityFriendshipCheck, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, sameFaceSyndrome, self comparisons, SelfPressure, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sensorySensitivities, sexyGenderBinary, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, socialGroups, solitary, solitaryRecoveryMode, summer, Timelapse, videogames, youtubevideo

In this blog post:
❧ about the art & speedpaint for summer chrimbus peeps!
❧ envy & internet finds
❧ personal update & 2025 goals

🎄Merry Catmas with Christmas Tree Cat 🐈 Crossy Road update fanart! ❄️

By leonieyue Posted on 22 December 2024 Posted in Collaboration, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with affection, ArtSelfExpression, cat, christmas, ChristmasTree, christmasTreeCat, cleaning, comfort zone, comfortable, Cramps, CreativeBlock, creativeControl, creativeFlow, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyCat, CrossyFanart, crossyroad, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, crushes, decompress, earningTrust, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, executiveFunctionChallenges, fanart, fashionPersonalStyle, focus, happyholidays, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, homebody, homebodylife, homeCleaning, houseCleaning, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, internetf, internetFinds, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, learning, learningProcess, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, love, LoveHesitator, magicalGirl, music, patience, PikminBloom, postingSchedule, productivity, productivityStruggles, safety, stingyFrugalHermit, talent, TightBudgetHermit, Timelapse, trialAndError, trust, whiteCat, zoneOut

In this little blog post:
❧ the art & speedpaint!
❧ personal update, juggling things & internet finds!