CharacterDesign – Leonie's Art Blog

❤️🧸 Drawing Lovely Teddy Bears 🐔💛 [Fanart for the Crossy Road Valentine’s Day character update]!

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AcrossTheSpiderverseMovieThoughts, animeIndustry, Chores, CommunistOther, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, CrossyFanart, CrossyLovelyTeddyBear, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, fanart, GenderedJapanese, HappySingleTime, hearts, Illustration, intenseWorkRest, JapanWorkCrunchCulture, leonieyue, LoveDay, LuxuryObsession, rest, singledom, timeManagement, ValentinesDay, ZoryAppInteractiveRomance

In this blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled timelapse!
❧ love day, anime industry, Across the Spiderverse thoughts
❧ personal update and more!

🏮🐲 Happy Lunar New Year with Jade Dragon 💚🐔🦆🌸 [Fanart for the Crossy Road LNY update]!

By leonieyue Posted on 11 February 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AliceWalsh, BrendonT, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, CrossyFanart, crossyJadeDragon, crossyLNYdragon, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, fanart, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, Illustration, KevynStott, lantern, leonieyue, lny2024, Lunar New Year, SaraFonseca, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart

In this little blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled timelapse!
❧ about the update and kudos to HW artists & peeps!

💘StudyPost 29 / Wishing for love🎐 Creative fulfilment, scaling back videos, blog posts & not posting as much at twitter

By leonieyue Posted on 9 January 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with acmi dreamworks, addictiveEscapism, Ageism, AgingNaturally, Art Anxiety, art studies, ArtistCompetition, ArtistHustle, ArtistStandards, ArtistStruggle, artTakingOverYourLife, beautyStandard, bodyImage, creativeFulfillment, drawfest, drawfest4, dreamsVSreality, escapism, Fulfillment, HustleCulture, hyperfixation, hyperfocus, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, ManicPixieDreamGirlTrope, meditation, overwork, passionProjects, personalProjects, progress, progresspose, progressupdate, scottPilgrimThoughts, sketchbook, sketchpost, studies, study

In this blog post:
❧ the art, Drawfest & ol’ figure studies
❧ creative fulfillment; passion projects not for everyone
❧ when art consumes your whole life
❧ scaling back & simplifying my youtube videos, blog posts & twitter

⚔️✨🔮Ad Fighter & Ad Buster🔥🥋🥊 [Crossy Road update]! Boundaries, saying no, adult friendships, why autistic peeps asking questions

By leonieyue Posted on 30 December 2023 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with acquaintanceBoundaries, adultFriendship, art process, assumptions, autismFriendships, autisticallySocial, autisticBurnout, AutisticQuestionAsking, autisticThings, BeyondTheDesperationOfSeekingFriends, bittersweet, boundaries, comfort zone, comfortable, comfortZone, communication, compromise, crossy, crossy road, CrossyAdBuster, CrossyAdFighter, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadUpdate, doormat, friendlyTonePadding, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipActivitiesCosts, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, friendshipBreakups, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, friendshipGuilt, FriendshipLoyalty, FriendshipMileage, friendshipMistakes, FriendshipReciprocity, FriendshipsAreHard, FriendshipStability, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, introvert, LeonieDefensive, leonieyue, lessonLearned, LevelsOfFriendships, lifeLessons, limitingNarrativeOrKnowingWhoYouAre, MakingFriendsJob, marketingArt, notbeingajerk, onlineAcquaintances, romance, RomanceTropes, romantic, romanticAttraction, romanticFiction, RomanticProjection, sayingNo, sensorySensitivities, slow, socialFoundation, spaceWarriorPrincess, speakingUp, TextChatCommunication, Timelapse, whyQuestions, WickedMusical

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled art process speedpaint video!
❧ about this big Crossy Road update!
❧ thoughts on boundaries & saying no
❧ notes on making friends as an adult
❧ why autistic people ask so many questions versus getting defensive

🥮 Goddess of the Moon for 中秋節/ Mid-Autumn Festival! 🌙 [Character design & illustration] + managing loneliness and isolation

By leonieyue Posted on 26 September 2023 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AceAttorney, achievements, Art Anxiety, BlueSkySocial, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadFluffySheep, crowdedEventsNoMasksScary, CultOfTheLamb, curatingInternetUse, DigitalMinimalism, fanartTooMuch, gameTrailers, housekeeping, Illustration, kneeInjuries, kneeInjury, leonieyue, lifedirection, midAutumnFestival, moon cakes, Moon god, moon goddess, parasocial relationships, social media, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaVoid, stress, stylised, TypeApeoplehuh, 中秋節

In this blog post:
❧ speedpaint & managing loneliness and isolation
❧ struggling with Glaze
❧ will streaming make it less lonely & overstimulating (sensory)?
❧ character designing the Moon Goddess
❧ curating how I do social media
❧ I finally got BlueSky?? And personal update & knee concerns!

Ah mooncake and tea 💛

Falcons are my passion! 💜🪶 [Crossy Road Medieval update]

By leonieyue Posted on 12 December 2022 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with bragging, capes, clipstudiopaint, ColumboShow, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadCharacter, crossyRoadMedievalUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, digital illustration, falcon, falconer, fanart, gameAwards, Illustration, leonieyue, Medieval, MedievalUpdate, noblewoman, photoshop, romantic, showoff, SuperMarioKart, thegameawards, Timelapse

In this blog post:
– speedpaint for this fanart illustration
– the Game Awards
– reflecting on a “why society hates creative people” video
– personal update, youtube dislikes and reels