🎐 Celestial Brush God of the Divine Wind Kazegami! 🍃

And that battle fan / gunbai-uchiwa on his back!

I can’t believe it’s the last fanart illustration for the Okami Lunar New Year project I’ve been doing.

It’s been TWELVE YEARS of doing this. This is what stubbornness gets you.

I started the project with the sheep/goat and it will be the year of the Sheep in 2027!!

New stuff will probably happen in the Okami sequel but I’m done with this! I am not continuing this project, it is time to move on after 12 years ;P

There were some attempts in trying to draw a horse pose that I liked so I ended up adapting a photo study and didn’t do the pose where he’s sitting down looking silly :’)

I have yet to do more horse studies…do I even want to learn how to draw horses? Hmm….

Timelapse eventually next month or so when there’s enough LNY art for a compilation!

Reflecting on my Dragon 2026 predictions and me not taking it too seriously as per tradition

• sensitive, proud soul striving for excellence who needs to ask for help better
• advice: join a group of decision makers in an area of interest?
  • that could be anything
• remain calm and not rush into things and take your time to understand it
• second half of year is where opportunities will come and focus on goals without getting sidetracked
  • it’s also when more high highs and low lows will happen
  • well I don’t know about this one – I’m wary about the low lows
• focus on what you love doing and excel at
  • keep working hard and improve self even if nothing comes
  • this is the most wishy washy “excel at what you enjoy doing, work hard and not expect anything” advice
• keep on being frugal I guess based on the “watch how you spend, you’ll do ok”
  • yeah keep being on stingy mode always
• chance to meet someone special by starting as friends with the same goals
  • they say that there’s the chance of meeting someone romantically every year but I’m a hermit ;P
  • in an ideal world, doing activities wouldn’t take commuting and drain my limited energy oof
    • I’m already getting tired by just trying to get to the place :’D
  • meeting people is hard work and effort and inconvenient indeed
  • where are likeminded people – they’re hard to find
• eat well and sleep better, balance your workload
  • get proper rest and exercise for more energy at work
  • don’t push your body too far
  • well I am pushing it and trying to manage/tackle this day by day and not get carried away
  • I need to quickly get some sleep right after posting this ahhhhh
  • I want to sleep!!
• intense work happenings
• not looking forward to another sweaty day
  • where my hands struggle to heal from eczema due to marinating in my stinky sweat of my dishwashing gloves

Wow a lot of these are vague life reminders and general life advice that feels obvious!

I am glad I didn’t get a discouraging prediction this year. Though it’s just a bit ominous with the low lows part…

Shall just keep doing my best :’)

What predictions did you get?

(You can easily search it up from the usual 2-3 sites!)

Leonie rambles about…

Okay from here I’ll stick to dot points and no more subheadings because I’m trying to reign my rambling down

• How to actually get smarter (again) – Mina Le
  • book club and reading, or movies, or classes or new hobbies or volunteering
    • learning why you don’t like something and articulating it and debate/discuss
    • I’m not sure I have the time to read
      • I’m already trying to fight off my romance manga addiction ;P
      • well I’m not going to read further now!! I need to just force myself to stay away now
    • I don’t want to burn out like in the past
    • making the “best hobbies/social life” is work and stress
  • writing a diary with no expectations or schedule or aesthetic
    • I am posting it here though ;P
    • I do write whatever and whenever here
    • I try to reign my stream of consciousness ramblings
    • and reflect on things I watch and read
    • I don’t have a private journal to figure out my own voice and philosophy and any topic or struggles
      • I prefer blogging here so it feels less like I’m spiraling to myself :’)
      • here at this blog it’s me rambling to the void and a small handful may or may not read it
  • present with friends, being interested in other people
  • pause, reflect and reset
    • just take it easy, take your time and rest your nervous system
    • just doing nothing for 10-20 minutes is good so you’re not always seeking stimulation
    • it’s hard to make time to decompress…
  • not about consuming and doing more just to not be left behind
    • it’s okay to not know everything
  • as an artist and introvert – having to sell myself as a “service/brand” is also not my strength
    • I value authenticity and honesty and yet you can’t do that completely online for one reason or another (like privacy and safety) and mask some/a lot of yourself
  • sometimes it’s just fatigue and you don’t want to spend anymore mental energy
  • be open to connection with low expectations, be fluid with new people
    • this is hard because when you’re more interested than they are and then you have to
• The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide: How to Build Your Greenhouse
  • hey it’s me, I’m sensitive too
  • I need to do better at microbreaks and recovery
    • I do this by going to the restroom as mentioned last time to decompress, yep
  • I need to remind myself to use my earplugs and new earphones if I need to hear something :<
• had a internet security scare over the past two days :’)
  • I was stressed out and spiraling this morning as well…
  • felt like part of my weekend was ruined and taken up by it
  • crash learning what I should do and everything :<
  • and learning how much I use the internet
  • and learning my lesson and I will be more vigilant with sites from now on
• feeling like there’s more people who enjoy my work outside of bluesky
  • bluesky is more about fanart or personal updates
  • but then again my Tuxedo Mallard fanart didn’t do well at all there ;/
  • I keep feeling tempted to just let wordpress auto post for me so I don’t need to log into it to post something and keep my bluesky as a blog feed
    • but as artists you usually need to share the art on the platform :<
  • I will probably do it in the next blog post and keep bluesky as a blog feed
  • it reflects how disconnected and isolated I feel posting there because I don’t have the energy nor interest to interact there
  • like a broken record, I’m more at my discord server, youtube, maybe cara and this blog
• gosh I did a lot of blog posts so far due to events happening
  • and I was building my buffer in January
• I’ll just keep kicking out accounts from my server
  • namely suspiciously newly made discord members who won’t verify themselves
  • why is the majority of joining new people are not real people?? Or they don’t verify themselves?
  • if the server is not for you, that’s ok!
• trying to manage the food I enjoy and don’t want to give up…
  • everything in moderation somehow :’D
  • I don’t think I can give up sauces and condiments…
  • as much as the sweet sauces are super overpowering and probably unnecessary
  • I get tempted by fries but I cannot eat them often…
  • I did eat ice cream that tasted like artificial banana lollies
• intense work happenings
• not looking forward to another sweaty hot day
  • where my hands struggle to heal from eczema due to marinating in my stinky sweat of my dishwashing gloves
  • it’s so itchy and ouch right now 🙁
• trying to be better at skin care, exercise, chores, life admin and arranging 1 to 1 chats continues day by day ahhh
• feeling behind on things I want to learn…
  • I need to get going later next month or so by on focusing on studies more

I am fighting to stay awake to get this blog out there and then I need to get some rest!! It’s super late and I’m too sleepy and tired to ramble anything further. Hope this post makes some sense – I did proofread it best I could.

Anyhoo happy lunar new year!! It’s a week or so of celebrations!

Wishing you are prosperous, safe, healthy year ahead!

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