This is the key marketing art I did / Airport World Trailer here

This Airport update came out on the 18th Sept and it’s currently running until all the characters are available in mid October!

Aside from doing the marketing art above, I did the all the 15 characters and animation.

I did a tiny part of a few props, airport lounge iteration and did the departing plane icon. The other artists did so much wonderful hard work with the world/environment art, marketing animations and leading the art direction! Much thanks and appreciation for the art and rest of the team’s help!!

Also it’s been a lot of wrangling with Blender and there’s always more to learn!

I do feel like a fraud at times as I’m trying to make the process less overwhelming for me each time with practice. And I keep feeling like I’m not practicing enough as I don’t want to rush things and do things consciously and slowly oof. It’s intense working in Blender because there’s lots to remember sometimes and creative work melts my brain at the end of the day :’)

I do have favourite Airport characters but I don’t want to spoil details ;P

I’m posting about this art on its own because I have been sick and trying to recover from covid :’)

Leonie rambles

My LinkedIn post because Melbourne International Games Week is coming around the corner…

I am not sure if I should auto post my blog posts there again as they get tumbleweeds and maybe some impressions over there. I’m not sure if it’s worth my time due to the genAI slop and business/career centric posts. It’s definitely not for my art and personal art blog because they make the art preview small when you post the link :/

I did see a few artists treating it like twitter and they just post art there and I’m just not comfortable/sure there.

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten work directly from LinkedIn but industry peeps do lurk there. A lot of people are promoting where they’d be during MIGW and I’m doing none of that!! I feel like if I were to go to an event it has to be next year now…I’m just wary/careful since getting covid for the first time. And I might have to compromise with my desire for daytime events on a weekday ;P

I was going to go to something but after looking up how public transport is messed up on that day so I opted out (didn’t hear back though). Plus I’m not feeling well enough to push my limits :’) I don’t want to regret pushing myself too far and making my health worse again…I need to let myself heal and rest properly.

Some people have kindly reminded and warned me too! To rest and take it slow!! It’s hard when you’re just trying to do the “normal” things and it drains a lot of energy from you…

Trying to get better from covid, currently 16 days in…

I need to ease myself into art…

Day 7 venting I wrote at the time: I have been sluggish and the head ache, head fog/fatigue didn’t want to go away!! I thought it should clear up when I wake up at day 7 but no!! It doesn’t help that heavy cramps and my period also had to happen at the same time. It was miserable having all sorts of body aches, head aches, having coughing fits and my voice sounding weird due to congestion.

It’s frustrating because my recovery is slower than everyone else around me :/ And I was fearing long covid. And that I ruined it and doomed myself by not resting enough. And my asthma will suffer more because of covid. And I was stressing out over it every morning I still felt head heavy 🙁

Where is my clear, refreshed mind??? Nooooo

Or someone even saying they’re working fine with covid which gave me the wrong impression – when I’m feeling the opposite of that. I worked, felt rundown and struggled to “relax” during the first few days of having covid as I didn’t even know what illness I had.

I had to stop playing and put Donkey Kong Bananza on hold because it is not a chill game :/

Also I still had to do some chores because nobody else would do them (we’re all sick thanks to someone).

Energy is limited and many more things fell to the backlog and I just can’t juggle anymore.

Today/ Day 16: I still wake up with head fatigue and a dull headache (surrounding my whole head). With random dry coughing. And feeling congested when I wake up – have to clear it out after sleep.

I’ve tested covid negative two days ago so I’m not infectious anymore at least!

Playing Miles Edgeworth Investigations 2 slowly in the meantime as that’s more chill. And some picross.

I made sure to lie down to rest my throbbing head when it got bad…

It’s still frustrating but I do feel it ache and brain fog a little less today. So improvements feel super slow. I fear I can’t lie down to nap my heavy head when I do go back to work so I’ll just try to take things slow instead…

I’ve been sleeping more than I usually would and am actually roughly getting 7 to 8 hours sleep due to getting covid! The problem is maintaining this and forcing myself to sleep on time because I’m finding that I have periods of less fatigue at night! And then bedtime is where it all crashes down and my head is heavy again oof

I hope I feel better eventually and that I keep up with sleeping 7 hours per night somehow…!

#TrueRefDT008 Today finally managed to do a figure study since getting covid…

Figure drawing study and hand studies of man leaning on a huge sword, seated awkwardly on a huge white box table. He is just wearing boxers.

Personal rambles & posting schedule

• got reminded that I’m 11 years in the games industry
  • I’m not feeling like an expert though because there’s always more to learn
  • keeping the insecurities and imposter syndrome at bay
    • because I lack in interpersonal connections,
    • I’m not in any close knit friendships, let alone the industry
    • I feel like I’m outcasted/alienated sometimes because I don’t give the “comfortable, entertaining, expressive, interesting and outgoing to be around” aura nor the social/mental energy for that
    • uh I don’t have the clout? I don’t know. Most people won’t reach out to me for help and maybe that’s a good thing and not overwhelming
    • I am a hermit so I don’t have the time mileage to interact with new/ongoing peeps :’)
• I hope to be adventurous with people who I can rely on and vice versa with loyalty …I can dream
  • yes I have trust and abandonment issues
  • I don’t want to control nor manipulate people either
  • I overthink too if that wasn’t obvious already
  • gotta have manage my own adventures instead ;P Can’t rely on much people
• watched some Baby Steps streams and some other games
  • the struggle of being a neurodivergent, isolated, lonely, hopeless, spiraling recluse oof
• busy trying to work slowly
  • being able to work from home (and to not spread the germs) while I slowly recover
  • this is the first time I took several days of sick leave :’D
  • I’m super, super grateful the art and dev team being kind and supportive
    • letting me ease myself into brain intense creative work with not as high pressure/urgent tasks
    • well it’s still intense work though…and there’s also the pressure I put upon myself…
  • a juggle between my headache and fatigue (it creeps back in still and I’m frustrated about it…) and working when I feel able to

Because I haven’t been doing much art as I’m still recovering and just juggling life, chores and work as it is – I won’t do weekly blog posts until I get a good art buffer again. So I’ll keep it roughly 2 art posts a month or roughly every 2 to 3 weeks. I think 3 weeks might be too long but hey I’m trying to not push myself and my health.

I don’t want to burn out if I can help it!! :’) I’ve kept art posting weekly for most of this year so I am allowed to slow down!

I hope this blog post makes sense as my head is aching again and I don’t want to proofread the 3-4th time…

Anyhoo catch you around at my tiny discord server or in the next post!

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