Commission – Leonie's Art Blog

🧺🌳Banner art for the new official Crossy Road Central Discord (with art boss’s help)! 🍕🦄🐔🐈‍⬛🦆🐖🐎📖 Blender learning & anxiety with recording & streaming

By leonieyue Posted on 20 February 2024 Posted in Collaboration, Commission, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 3Dart, AliceWalsh, anxiety, ArtCollaboration, BlenderThoughts, contentSlop, contentVoid, creativeFlow, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadCastle, discord, flow, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, intenseWorkRest, learningJourney, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, PerformanceAnxiety, protectArtCreativeProcess, RealTimeRecording, scoutrager, slowingdown, StreamingAnxiety, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

In this blog post:
❧ ramble a bit about the thoughts and process behind this!
❧ shall learn Blender another time
❧ the official Crossy Road Central discord
❧ reflecting on my anxiety with real time recordings/streaming

🎁🎀 Presents under the Christmas Tree🎄 [Happy Holidays with Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 25 December 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with aestheticAttraction, AgencyPDA, animeIndustry, AutismAdulthood, autistic, bodyAwareness, bodyImage, breadcrumbing, christmas, christmasDecorations, ChristmasTree, crossy, crossy road, CrossyAlien, CrossyCat, crossyChicken, CrossyDog, CrossyGingerbreadperson, CrossyGiraffe, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossySkunk, CrossyUnihorse, crushes, demiplatonic, demiromantic, DemiromanticAce, emotionalIntimacy, gifts, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, leonieyue, loneliness, peoplePleasing, PersistentDriveForAutonomy, PhysicalAppearance, physicalAttractiveness, PhysicalExercise, presents, romance, romantic, romanticallyIntimate, romanticAttraction, romanticFiction, RomanticProjection, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, shoujoAnime, ShoujoManga, slow, social media, solitary, solitude, TokyoGodfathersMovie, trustIssues, turtlePace, twitter, UglyDucklingSwanMakeover, UglyDucklingTransformation, unrequitedLove, XmasStar

In today’s Christmas blog post:
❧ learning about anime/shoujo topics
❧ managing body image insecurities
❧ unrequited love and loneliness
❧ saw Tokyo Godfathers for the 1st time
❧ personal update & more

🎵🎀🐤🐔Night time Christmas Carols📖🎶🦆🦢🐦 [Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 22 December 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with AgencyPDA, autismfocus, BodyLanguage, christmas, communication, contextSwitching, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBabyDuck, CrossyBabyPenguin, CrossyBirds, CrossyBlueMacaw, CrossyBunny, CrossyCardinal, CrossyCarols, CrossyCastleRivals, CrossyChick, crossyChicken, CrossyCockatoo, CrossyCrow, CrossyEmoGoose, CrossyEmperorPenguin, CrossyEnemyBirds, CrossyFiorlandPenguin, CrossyKea, CrossyKiwiBird, CrossyKookaburra, CrossyLostPenguin, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyOwlBos, CrossyParrot, CrossyPelican, CrossyPenguin, CrossyPigeon, CrossyPoopyPigeon, CrossyPresent, CrossyPterodactyl, CrossyPudding, CrossyPuffin, CrossyRaven, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRobin, CrossyRubberChicken, CrossySeagull, CrossyToucan, CrossyTurkey, CrossyUnihorse, CrossyWoodpeckerBoss, dreamsVSreality, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalInternaliser, EmotionalSupport, expectationsProjections, eyeContact, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, flirting, growingMindset, habit, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HumanDualityComplexity, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, inattentiveness, invisibleExpectations, leonieyue, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, misophoniaWhispering, NintendoSwitch, nintendoswitch2023, PaprikaMovie, PDA, PersistentDriveForAutonomy, physiololgicalstress, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, scapegoat, self compassion, selfCare, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sociallyExpected, stress, subtlety, surrealism, xmas

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled art process speedpaint video!
❧ learning more about Persistent Drive for Autonomy autism, unhelpful advice, invisible expectations, body language & eye contact
❧ watched Paprika for the first time
❧ my little Nintendo switch 2023 review and more!

🥧🍁 Sharing some pumpkin pie together 🤎🍂 [Crossy Road Castle Thanksgiving!]

By leonieyue Posted on 24 November 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with autumn, crossy, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, deadleaves, digital art, digital illustration, fallseason, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, hungry, Illustration, leonieyue, pumpkin, pumpkinpie, sunflower, thanksgiving, Timelapse, turkey, witchHat

Little blog ramble & subtitled art process video!

Happy Crossy St Patrick’s Day! 🍀💚 [Crossy Road illlustration for Hipster Whale]

By leonieyue Posted on 18 March 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse Tagged with AnnaAkanaYoutube, clover, clovers, computerbuildupgrade, costofliving, covid19, crossy, crossy road, CrossyAlien, CrossyBabyParrot, crossyChicken, CrossyGummyGear, CrossyKeaParrot, CrossyLizard, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyNudibranch, CrossyRaptor, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyTortoise, environmentArt, green, harddrives, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, learningJourney, leonieyue, marketingArt, personalupdate, potOGold, StPatricksDay, walletpain

In this blog post:
– speedpaint process and reflection
– life lessons: people coming/going, self rejection, disappointing people, self responsibility, communication, social media metrics & more
– personal update as I juggle more things and feel more stingy :’)

Patron only / Steve Welz portrait commission, process and reflecting on portrait commissions!

By leonieyue Posted on 10 February 2021 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with artbusiness, ArtistStandards, artprocess, commission, freelanceLife, freelanceWork, LouieZong, MissionInSnowdriftlandGame, NickRobinsonYoutube, patreon, PatreonOnly, patron, personal commission, portrait, portraits, process, processPost, reflection, SteveWelzGameDev, workMode

Illustration / Steve Welz portrait commission, process & reflecting on portrait commissions in general in this blog post [patron only]!

Illustration / Steve Welz portrait commission!

By leonieyue Posted on 10 February 2021 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with commission, freelanceWork, LouieZong, MissionInSnowdriftlandGame, NickRobinsonYoutube, personal commission, portrait, SteveWelzGameDev

Illustration / Dedicated blog post for the Steve Welz portrait commission!

Illustration / LudoNarraCon 2020 header commission & process for the LudoNarraCon Promo art!

By leonieyue Posted on 24 April 2020 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with commission, FellowTraveler, games, games industry, gamesConference, Illustration, LudoNarraCon, LudoNarraCon2020, narrativeGames, process, processPost

The 7 thematic header art!
– Process for the LudoNarraCon illustration

Illustration / LudoNarraCon 2020 – online Narrative games convention is happening next week!

By leonieyue Posted on 17 April 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with commission, FellowTraveler, games, games industry, gamesConference, Illustration, leonieyue, LudoNarraCon, LudoNarraCon2020, narrativeGames

LudoNarraCon Key Illustration for April 2020 for Fellow Traveler + thoughts

PatchGaming sticker set commission process & mental health ramble [+ weekly update]

By leonieyue Posted on 14 December 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, Merch, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with careerthoughts, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, CheckPointOrg, commission, cuteartwork, dinosaurMascot, games industry, mental health tips, MentalHealth, PatchGaming, positivity, process, self compassion, selfCare, selfdoubt, selfLove, sketchbook, stickerDesign, stickers, thegameawards, topnine, vector art

Positive mental health sticker pack designs for Patchgaming!
Design thoughts and process!

Leonie rambles about the past week, ink doodles, mental health, sticker flop, game awards and more.

Spooky Toilet Trips + art of the past week (Ben Burnes album commission)

By leonieyue Posted on 2 December 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with BenBurnesAlbum, careerthoughts, character development, CharacterDesign, commission, feltcutemightdeletelater, freelancing, owl, personalstories, sketchbook, spooky

Story behind this, Ben Burnes Album commission, update & ink doodles from the past week.

“Tales of the Dust Bunnies” commission, Ready to Roll Character sketch & Giftart for Kristy

By leonieyue Posted on 9 September 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Commission, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with BlindSparrowInteractive, character design, CharacterDesign, commission, Dinosaurs, EmiliePoissenot, friendships, games industry, giftart, Illustration, Kristy Prause, lettering, logo, logo design, NZGDC, ReadyToRoll, socialising, TalesOfTheDustBunnies

= Tales of the Dust Bunnies designs & illustration
= Ready to Roll character commission
= Giftart for Kristy
= Personal update & ramble about boundaries

“The Artist is Absent” artwork for JS’s GDC2019 talk

By leonieyue Posted on 22 March 2019 Posted in Comics, Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with assassin's creed, bioshock, commission, freelancing, game design, games industry, GDC, GDCtalk, interpretation, JenniferScheurle, JennyGDC2019talk, journey game, leonieyue, lighting fast game design, nathan drake, perfectionist, pokemongo, puppies, ritual, The Artist is Absent, transmission, uncharted

I worked with the lovely, supportive Jenny [her website] for her part in the GDC lightning game design talks! I’m sure her talk did wonderfully yesterday! 😀

Here is my artwork for her slides + ramble!