My fanart of the Fire (uni)Horse character with credit to artist Ruby!

Featuring horses of Crossy Road/Castle games!

** = I made this character for Crossy Road at the time

• Fire Uni/horse
• Sea horse in a water bubble **
• Unicuz
• Baby Pony **
• Horse
• Honse (one variation)
• Castle’s Rival Horse
• Pony **
• Carousel Horse **
• Theme park unihorse plushie **
• Equestrian horse **

Drawing toony horses again. The last time I drew some of them over here.

Timelapse will happen when I have enough for a compilation next month ;P

Leonie rambles about…

• On giving creative critique How to Give and Receive (Art) Critique
  • Critique, how does it work?
• This is How You Can Survive Toxic People (Explained)
  • toxic with family and stress at home at times
  • am surviving with quiet resilience
  • yeah I shift away from shallow stuff with people with hyper-vigilance
  • valuing peace over drama (it’s called post traumatic growth???)
    • picking battles and so I tend to not speak up as I default to survival mode
  • I’m still surviving right now with boundaries
    • not fully healing completely always managing
    • they’re always nitpicking and blaming every little thing and making it about your self worth
• Inside the Mind of Toxic People (The Dark Tetrad)
  • cut people out if they’re disrespecting boundaries
    • I’ve done it to most but not the one who’s still in my life ;P
  • protect your light
    • stepping back instead of wasting time arguing for my peace and sanity
    • it’s an endless, emotionally draining void of trying to be “good enough”
    • and they just want to be in the right, assuming the worst of others and not actually caring about others
    • yet accuse others of selfishness, laziness, uselessness, worthlessness, rudeness, black heartedness, etc
  • people are not a transaction!!
• How to Handle Toxic People Without a Fight (4 Psychology-Based Hacks)
  • they just want control and not connection
  • they don’t want to be fixed and they just want to win and be “right”
  • it’s just hard to detach though
  • being a boring rock is the approach (or ignore)
    • it’s not easy when they’re great at pushing your buttons and wearing you down…

Leonie’s personal ramble

• apparently my main website reached 10K views after so many years?? I got a notification
  • how did that happen – it’s probably my art appearing in image searches maybe
• I think I’m back to 4-6 views on my last two blog posts – back to reality 😛
  • huh why did the views spike happen though
  • didn’t do anything different
• Creature Kitchen is such a wonderfully wholesome cooking sim game 😀
• striving to be more conscious with wearing sunscreen and figuring out skin care
  • I am overwhelmed by all the skin care products and hair care products
    • just focused on cleaning, serums, moisturiser and most importantly sunscreen
    • only started serums and trying out facial cleanser again
      • avoided these and other products because I felt like too much of a luxury…
      • just wanted to focus on skin care and stopping it there
    • maybe I don’t need facial cleanser as I have a gentle bar soap
      • (but maybe it makes skin very dry though)
  • I am a newbie so I don’t know what things do :’D
    • spent a lot of time looking at reviews on things
    • because product formulas change
    • or you realise a company wasn’t cruelty free with animals 🙁
    • end up looking what parabens is due to the whole “paraben-free” thing
    • you pick your battles because you have sensitive skin
    • sometimes it’s way out of your price range too
    • there’s too many brands so I don’t know what’s good
    • usually stick with what I’m familiar with or what works for me as a start?
  • am glad I don’t bother with makeup
    • too much work, expenses and another thing to keep up
  • it’s so expensive!! I don’t want to spend too much
  • especially when I have eczema to take care of – only gentle and fragrance free stuff
    • apparently aloe vera santiser is the way to go
      • but it’s not cheap either and not affordable in the long run…
      • I want clean hands too!!
    • but I am so used to cheaper hand soap
      • shall focus on aloe vera hand soap so it’s not harsh on my eczema prone sensitive skin??
      • hope that’s how it works ;P
      • (don’t look for me for advice with this)
• juggling with work and health and other things as usual wah
  • I’m strained one side of my jaw muscle for instance for a long while…
  • trying to not misalign it when I sleep 🙁
  • dentist will probably tell me I need to “fix my stress”
  • I really need to do a longer bedtime winddown to relax??
    • but I don’t really leave myself much time to do that aside from some brief stretching…
• I am exhausted and icky from walking under the sun
  • also currently suffering from terrible stinging, painful eczema on my hands
  • the dishwashing glove I changed into felt like putting my already flared up hand in salt….
    • it stung so bad while washing dishes…
    • I have to wear cotton gloves inside from tomorrow onwards to protect my poor hurting hands
    • I wish I didn’t have to hand wash dishes but it’s my role in my situation and I’m not the only one with banged up skin on my hands…
  • it’s been over two months, I hope it heals soon now that I got some stronger ointment ;'(
  • I feel like going outside makes it rough too since I have to deal with doing outside things with my hands
• been looking out for discord alternatives but I’ll keep waiting as most things are still WIP
  • I feel discord will still be used by the majority – just no NSFW nor artistic nudity
  • I don’t pay for nitro anyway
  • I mean I’m age gated for months already and it’s fine for now… ;P
  • Discord as a company is already not great due to its focus on shareholders now
• am still torn on whether I should do my discord emotes because of how conflicting it is
  • I guess I can still do them for self satisfaction?? Hmmm
• I am still slowly playing Donkey Kong Bananza
  • I will finish it in the coming month I hope!
• Still don’t know how to best juggle study with my fanart sketches backlog
  • I do think I need to focus on studies after I finish the emotes though
  • I will have to mix in study with fanart sometimes as long as the study/learning is a huge factor
  • there are some sketches I am ditching because I don’t feel strongly about the character or game anymore to do fanart for it :’)
    • time and effort is precious after all
• at the moment I’m mostly getting good enough sleep :’D
  • less than 7 hours or 7 hours or a bit over 7 hours
    • it was mostly under 7 hours though in the past week :’)
  • it’s much better than previous years, January and early Feb though where I never got 7 hours sleep…
  • have to keep fighting on this one as a night owl
    • because I tend to get carried away if I don’t watch out for bedtime
    • making a conscious effort :<
• whelp decided to still post to bluesky because autoposting makes the art preview not look great…

Okay catch you around in the next one! Thanks for reading!

I need to finish up here so I can finish other things AND sleep enough tonight too! ;P

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