Voxel chibi Leonie lying down on a huge lined notepad. Both are on a field of grass and surrounded by flowers. She’s slowing down, zoning out from overstimulating things and looking up into the sky and reflecting, overthinking and daydreaming about things.

Lost in thought when things get overwhelming

Just gotta breathe and slow down.

Enjoying and appreciating the moment.

And then eventually hyperfocus and tackle things head on.

Doing your best.

Can’t do everything…!!

So many things to juggle!! Ahhhh

Trying to not let stress, overthinking, insecurities, loneliness and anxieties get to me too much!!

I feel like if I’m frustrated/determined and on a roll, I procrastinate a bit and then try to work and push through it. Otherwise I won’t force myself and busy myself with something else.

I don’t want to leave myself not enough time to do things too!! I’d rather work on things early and give myself leeway to take breaks too…

To be a workaholic and get carried away or not…I tend to work too long :S

Trying to not get too overwhelmed with life, work, art, recreation and things…

Triple beanies for winter 🧊

Chibi Leonie wearing 3 beanies to stay warm during winter without heating :’D Also dressed with a scarf and multi layered clothing!
Yes this is how I survive winter on my side of the world…

It’s annoying when one of the beanies doesn’t fit your XL head and wants to slip off…

Leonie rambles about…

• I won’t play Silksong as that’s not my cup of tea – happy for other people though
  • I can’t get over the fact that the devs don’t know what Jira is according to their interview…
• watched Ne Zha the first movie finally (spoiler ramble)
  • it went on for too long with the action sequences – lost in the sauce
    • like that magical scroll intermission didn’t need to exist during the climax
    • a lot of being taken out of the movie’s story pacing and waiting for the sequence to end…
  • It hits emotional moments (father’s truth flashback reveal)
    • and a few silly moments though (disguises)
  • character motivations are mostly clear but I don’t have any favourite characters
  • some of the slapstick humour is not my cup of tea
    • the gross humour too
  • NeZha (impish and evil and creepy looking) and some other character designs are very unappealing to me
    • I get why he’s evil looking
    • (judging by appearances alone is bad and overcoming your “fate” message)
    • still the design is unappealing
    • not that Ne Zha as a character had too much room to diverge from what he’s supposed to wear based on other media depictions of him with that iconic hairstyle and red clothing
  • Ao dragon 3 year old guy aged up fast
    • I had to remember they’re all mentally kids being told what they should do + with expectations put upon them
    • still he speaks and looks like adult
    • I know it’s magical “grow up fast” beings due to the “chaos pill” being split into two but still…they’re both kids!! It’s hard to see them as equals at times when he physically doesn’t look like a kid and has an adult man voice
    • felt like they had to make the dragon kid an adult looking being anyway so there’s a consistently conventionally attractive/handsome/pretty character to fight
    • or am I supposed to treat him as an adult when he doesn’t feel like he matured too much either compared to Ne Zha
    • they both learned how to communicate and learn language though
    • is this friendship, brotherhood or something more??
  • why is the “hot guy powered up NeZha” version used a lot in the promo art with these movies
    • it’s like they know kid/gremlin version of him is not appealing…
  • why don’t they both look like kids and then both power up in adult form?
    • I guess dragon people are never in their human kid form except when they hatch???
  • it’s an alright movie just not something I’d watch again
  • not sure when I’ll watch the sequel which is apparently better
• playing slowly through the start of Donkey Kong Bonanza
  • Pauline saying obvious things and not wanting to sing to an audience
  • why do they do gibberish and english lyrics??? It’s non committal…
  • I grinded too much gold during the tutorial area and it became a chore playing it that way
    • trying to dig and smash everything is tedious and not fun
  • I do enjoy it as long as I just destroy things to collect things!
  • not bothered completing everything if it’s not fun/frustrating – I don’t want to collect nor complete everything
  • I haven’t played any of the DK games so I don’t have the nostalgia from the previous games and references to them
  • I’m just in the first sublevel of the 3rd layer so far
• when you overlook the big picture, get too ambitious, cram a lot in and get lost in the weeds as I tend to do…oof
  • so I appreciate helpful and timely feedback for the bigger picture :0
• I wish I could attend theatre/musical productions but they’re not cheap and at night…
  • going with someone would be great so there’s someone to discuss things too…

Okay still not at the stage to make regular drawing a habit but…it’s still an ongoing goal :’) I end up just doing what and when I can…one day…

Striving to keep art fun but then I also need to treat it seriously for studying – the slow juggling….

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