Filling in viola0u0’s art improvement meme found here

Gosh the thing is I started art over 10 years before this meme started haha

I think I have a slow improvement going on and it’s a lot of fanart ;D

I need to do more original stuff but fanart has been so fun to do…

And I’m still with a much smaller audience compared to a lot of my peers :’)

I’m really not a popular online artist – the grass is always greener on the other side though.

Ah finally did this Mar10 day timelapse too

I did post this at the day but didn’t manage to make the video for it at the time 🙁

Leonie rambles about…

Some of my 2003 and 2004 high school assignments

I’m still bummed that I lost my painting of a Dingo mother and pup from 2000 🙁

Anyhoo these came out of my wardrobe. I was forced to take things out from it due to a rat intruder there. Had to disinfect (attempt to) and threw these out since they took too much room so I took these photos for prosperity…

Gosh so much things to throw out. Lots of old things to disinfect too. How do I do paper stuff??? Ahhhhh

Leonie rambles about…

• Accented Cinema’s The Cinematic Themes and Visuals of Ancient China Part 4
  • the corruption and refusing to change really repeats itself hm
• Official MV by Suisei with mix of 2D and real people?? and 2snack’s skit
• Kamen Rider Wizard all transformations – what is this goofy ridiculousness
  • PULEASE
• 【MV】HELP!! – Kobo Kanaeru
• Anna Akana (mature): My #1 solution for self doubt
  • definitely not what I expected wow
• Cowbell! Louie Zong
• first time watch of the Iron Giant movie – no wonder it’s so good!!
• cover – Ginger Root – Loretta [YM2151 + SegaPCM] by MegaBaz
• Nintendo has no plans to use genAI in game development (Game World Observer by Evgeny Obedkov)
• The world’s biggest AI models were trained using images of Australian kids, and their families had no idea (Ange Lavoipierre at abc.net.au)
• Emissions soaring due to Google’s genAI
• The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron (Adam Conover)
• Yoko and The Beatles (Lindsay Ellis documentary)
  • there are definitely a few youtube commenters bashing Yoko still
  • also reflecting how Lindsay’s struggles with fame and leaving social media

Standard Cantonese vs Vietnamese Cantonese (viet canto!! That’s how to call it!)

• I remember “sik mo” vs “sik m’sik” (you want to eat or no) or “jung m’jung yi” vs “jung yi mo” (do you like it or no)
• I didn’t know “faan tsehh” (return home) was vietnamese cantonese only
• have I been saying black colour (huc sik) wrong all this time???
• for hotel I’m used to 酒店 (jaohw deem) but I have heard of 客棧 (hahk jaan) before
• all the others is ???? I don’t know about them – I’m more used to HK/TVB shows so I learned from that mostly
• my mind is blown given how much I got used to how my Vietnamese Cantonese parents speak
• I didn’t know there was a subreddit for Cantonese :0!!

Why I don’t know if I want to stream anymore – awful ai art tool that’s going to hurt artists (wasabi) and another awful tool for ai art

• this is why I’m indecisive, thinking of chickening out of streaming
  • at least if it’s a timelapse, I posted it first :S
• I think I’ll still try to stream so I can focus and get studies done maybe??
  • (these thieves/scammers/grifters care more about the end polished result and pretending they actually did it without genAI – not the process of studying )
  • I need to practice talking to people in small amounts though :’)
• sketches and timelapses aren’t safe and can be faked and it’s just saddening
  • timelapses have a lot way to go as it has yet to handle specifics and consistency
• I’m mixed on this as I try to balance enjoying the art process and then also sharing results I’m happy about
• Why I Hate Instagram and Tiktok As an Artist (artbymadeleiine)
  • I don’t want to do short form either – youtube doesn’t like my timelapses much anyway
  • it doesn’t feel valuable yeah – it is fast food content after all
  • I don’t watch much short form content either so it’s not worth it for me either since I don’t care for most trends

Personal update where Leonie is fed up and tired

I am so exhausted from the ongoing and stressful declutter, cleaning, figuring out where to put what, conflicts, not being able to access supplies, someone who blames others and sabotages efforts because he hoards and keeps a lot of trash that we throw out (AGH!!) and being on edge with mice troubles. There’s so much stuff and there’s some things I’m not sure. Am stressing out if can disinfect things (like paper stacks and books!! How?!) properly and I can’t keep procrastinating forever :’)

Apparently it may take 1 to 3 months and that’s with professional help nooooooo

On edge and anxious with the small noises and creaks fearing that it’s around too :<
I feel like we’re in tower/home defense…

And I smell musky smell in the past few days…I’m scared, frustrated, anxious, fed up and tired. Are they in the walls? There are so many things I can’t move anyway…is there a dead mouse in the walls??? My own room smells…I want to cry inside…

And I haven’t been productive…a lot of zoning out from exhaustion and trying to recover from all the added chores of cleaning, washing, helping with lots of things bit by bit, struggling to do normal chores, too much trash and getting limited on what to eat and where to be. And someone sabotaging efforts by being a jerk and stuffing up trash efforts along the way :<

At least I finished posting old work at Cara. But annoying that it’s capped at 50 pieces so I can’t see old work at the moment. Edit: ah I can see them all now! Yay!

I need to slowly get back to art and learning but there’s so much to juggle…

Just feeling behind on my plans and venting because it got ruined by rat/mice troubles taking up a lot of my free time in the past several weeks…it’s still ongoing. I wanted to relax after my bday and after the whole health thing but no :’)

I do feel grateful and lucky to be alive! Anyhoo I have to take things in stride.

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