Lunar New Year of the Horse timelapse compilation for

• Mythic Hero Lyn pt 1
• Okami Celestial Brush God of the Wind
• Mythic Hero Lyn pt 2 (this art piece)

Thank you for watching!
Yes I posted this late because of the other art challenge months of March, April, May and June.

Just note Youtube isn’t really my main focus as much as I try to juggle it.
Youtube has been pretty dead in terms of growth for me for years and I don’t feel like I can thrive here. I’m less keen on making more timelapses especially when I don’t have the capacity nor interest to change how I do videos. I think I have one more video to post in the coming months before I just focus on art learning and art making instead of making much youtube timelapses.
Or I’m just reassuring myself that I should move on…

As usual I’m more active at my discord server, blog, cara and I will still post at my community tab! I don’t know about bluesky because it has its problems.
I ramble more at my blog / discord since it’s just a struggle and demoralising to be on social media now :’)

Uma Lyn on the grass

I’ve adapted a pose from a Krenz lecture. Trying to practice and apply things to personal art and fanart!

I did this in February and then art challenge months took over and so I held off from posting this until now….

So technically I need to get back to studies and application after I’m done with my discord emotes.

Digressing – this is my last “year of the horse” related art!

I ran out of steam and I am not trying to become a horse artist haha

Leonie rambles about…

Trying to keep this short ahhhh

• the ongoing stressful family situation has some happenings
  • because it’s always stressful and demoralising when dealing with someone who’s self centred and sees the worst in everything and people
• didn’t really do the big effort house cleaning in recent weeks
  • ongoing thing when we feel able to :<
  • I guess I’ll just have to ignore it until there’s energy to chip away at it….
• work has been intense
  • as usual I work more when I finally get into the zone, then I take some longer breaks to make up for it
    • alas that is how I work so I should stop feeling guilty about it UGH
  • I do strive to stop working when it’s not work hours but probably not enough –
    • need to be more strict with myself
    • I find that I work longer anyway when I work in office sometimes
  • the juggling continues and team work and communication are important
• original mulan poem vs disney animation film comparison video (Accented Cinema)
• i’m the main character / adult swim short with 3 songs and louie zong
• analysis on vibes, aesthetics, OST, atmosphere Ocarina of Time game
• how to get by if you must be low on sleep – banking sleep??
• just talking about food
  • tried some okay rice balls (they’re not cheap and are unhealthy though)
  • tried a big tonkatsu meal the other day
  • tried some very good Korean winter pastry Boong-eo-ppang (their take on taiyaki)
    • I like the gooey inside and crispy outside with sweet condensed milk sauce
    • it’s just terribly messy and sticky and frustrating to clean up haha
  • I don’t regularly eat out with an actual meal so I’m mentioning food okay!! 😛
  • Oh also got to try a blackcurrant and lychee tart baked by a kind coworker – super delicious!
  • tummy discomfort a tiny bit some days ago
    • always have to be wary if it’s the new food I try and whenver I get gassy ;P
  • cramps in the past week and it’s not even period time
    • but it’s not around anymore so ughhh
• watching fatal frame 2 remake
• Starfox seems great –
  • I watched the normal ending and true ending
  • but there’s lots more I didn’t see along the way – just like the original game/s
• watching Road to Empress 2 to continue the fmv period Cdrama
  • I like the alternative 4 hour-ish story that’s not about palace harem drama with the tsundere “bad boy” or rather “outcasted insecure handsome sheep” love interest (though it’s just 20% of the game)
  • but hey the harem survival drama got all those twists and turns (and what I’m in the middle of)
• on the other hand, I blocked myself from vertical C dramas
  • but I tend to peep at a few channels anyway…and ignore my own block for a minute
    • and check comments if there’s something good or if it’s just slop
    • and avoid entirely if it’s genAi because you only know if you check if they disclose it, from comments or watch it to check
  • look I just want some comfort romance sometimes (of course with real people/actors)
• sad that I need buffer time with context switching/ transitions
  • I need so much buffer time
  • so the art habit advice of “1 hour a day” doesn’t work well for me
  • especially when I need 1 hour buffer to transition to a task or mode in the first place
    • at that point I’d rather work in longer time chunks to make it worth it
    • I wish I can context switch better
  • sometimes I do manage to switch quickly to art and back
    • this is when I don’t need to (over)think what I’m supposed to do, learn and understand
    • and if I’m just executing or doing a study
  • my mental mindset is a barrier here I guess because I don’t want to constantly switch modes and optimise every minute
    • its exhausting and you lose your sense of self if you’re always stressed about staying on schedule all the time and all day even when you’re not working….
    • I tend do things at my slow pace and I need to remember and consider that
• watched this podcast art talk and it solidified that I don’t want to be a concept artist/illustrator for someone else on a constant basis
  • if it’s at someone else’s pace, it gets too stressful for me to pump out concepts and fully done illustrations within a week…how?? It becomes an intense, draining performance
  • I keep wondering what I don’t mind doing over and over and over if someone keeps asking for revisions/iterations??
    • (i’d rather not lose my morale and joy in art where possible though and get the brief as clear as possible in the first place)
    • it’ll still be character illustration / character related I think if I had to do something over and over and over!
    • I’m not fast with Blender though because every single thing needs composition and lighting to be composed/planned, if not custom
    • I’m not keen on highly rendered pieces either – I’m a lineart/drawer person ;P
• it was inspiring to read that “as long as you’re creating what you enjoy, then don’t overthink it, you’re good and doing what you want – so keep going”
  • it helps me a bit with my existential dread with art
  • I would think having a plan and direction helps too but I’m too indecisive for that
  • I go for what interests me the most right now :’)
  • I feel like I enjoy supporting other’s big projects and I just want to work on smaller scale, personal pieces and studies in my own time
    • …I don’t want to stress about project and business management
• Wondering if I should do Art Fight next year
  • since I can just join without any OCs!!
  • But at the same time I want to draw what I want so I’ll see how I feel next year
  • …probably not doing it since it’s really a OC art request month
• super appreciate kind peeps and artists and 1 to 1 chats because it’s rare :’D
  • sometimes it doesn’t happen nor work out

My favourite Zelda game (I answered this years ago here too)

I won’t explain why because these are my gut feelings and I’m super biased

• Link’s Awakening DX and then the remake
• The Windwaker,
• Minish Cap,
• Oracle of Ages,
• Spirit Tracks,
• A Link between Worlds,
• A Link to the Past,
• Skyward Sword,
• Majora’s Mask,
• Phantom Hourglass and Oracle of Seasons
  • they are good and alright
• Echoes of Wisdom
  • was fine and I loved playing as Zelda but could have been way better,
• Four Swords Adventures,
• Triforce Heroes
• yes I played Twilight Princess twice and also the original Ocarina of Time and Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
  • but they’re not my favourites
  • BotW/TotK burnt me out from open world games
  • I spent several hundreds of hours in each :<
  • I did enjoy it before I burnt out on them and I dread the overwhelm I feel with those games

My other favourite games in no order:

• Mario related
  • Mario Odyssey,
  • Super Mario Galaxy,
  • Super Mario Land 3,
  • Mario Sunshine,
  • Luigi’s Mansion 3,
  • Super Mario 3D world,
  • the early Mario & Luigi RPG games
  • Bowser’s Inside Story
• Pikmin 4
• the Ace Attorney series + Miles Edgeworth games
• Splatoon games
  • though I’ve fallen out of them because I’m not a competitive player
  • nor do I like Salmon Run that much
• Tetris games / currently just Tetris99
• Kirby games (not listing them all out too haha)
• Portal games,
• Picross games (from Jupiter),
• the original Spyro trilogy (more 2 and 3),
• Ape Escape,
• Pokemon Red & Gold
• and probably more I don’t remember

Watched the Legend of Hei 2

• I prefer the first movie more….
• pacing is so bad like a webtoon comic
  • well turns out it was originally a webtoon comic and here they’re just doing their own thing but still with the drawn out webtoon pacing
• they indulged in cool fight animation sequences so much that I dissociated a lot
  • I didn’t care as much at times wanted things to move along
• it’s a messy message where they try to show complex perspectives and everyone has their own view point with spirit demons vs humans and war
• why is nezha the only chinese god deity in here where there’s so many others not included??
  • it felt like because nezha movies are popular so they got to have him here too
• why is the backstory of luoye at the end of the movie?? It doesn’t make sense with pacing!!
  • it could have been at the climax of her fighting to give better context on why she fights
• it felt illogical to “coexist” by giving anti demon/spirit weapons to humans that could kill spirits…
  • i guess it reflects how real life countries are hoarding weapons
• there are a few good moments like:
  • the gaming slice of life moments
  • where the western military guy called Neza the “strongest guild member” because of the shirt
  • and some character interactions
• the post credit moment was weird. Did a chicken get killed?

I still rambled a bunch!! It’s cold so I have been finding it hard to focus and do art in my own time :’)

I focused more on exercising, clothes layering, hot food and tea to keep warm at least…

Striving to sleep better but not quite consistent so I should I do the sleep banking idea?? Probably not as I don’t want to budget my sleep hours too!! And it means I have to sleep longer on other days. Gah I don’t know…

Anyhoo trying to keep the spreading winter plague at bay (I am the stubborn one that keeps wearing facemasks) and shall keep doing my best juggling!

Thank youuu!! Catch you around!

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