Illustration – Page 22 – Leonie's Art Blog

Self portrait experiments

By leonieyue Posted on 12 August 2019 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, Merch, Reflection Tagged with avatar, icon, Illustration, leonieyue, MentalHealth, NewPixels, NewPixelsApp, patreon, self portrait, stickers, TakingBreaks

Lots of self portraits, playing with the NewPixelsApp and made stickers.

Kaoru from Rilakkuma and Kaoru [Fanart] & being existential about life

By leonieyue Posted on 5 August 2019 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with acceptance, aggretsuko, clipstudiopaint, existential, existentialism, fanart, Illustration, KaoruAndRilakkuma, kiiroitori, leftbehind, patreon, rilakkuma, singledom

* This is is a 10 minute read! * “It rains non-stop every day. It constantly rains in my heart too.” – Kaoru from Rilakkuma and …

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Get out of my house trespassers! The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds [fanart]

By leonieyue Posted on 29 July 2019 Posted in Comics, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Photos Tagged with ALinkBetweenWorlds, comic, fanart, FireEmblem, FireEmblemThreeHouses, GamesDoneQuick, Illustration, Kristy Prause, Legend of Zelda, LeoniePinelli, Link, proko, prokoskull, ravio, ravio and sheerow, sheerow, socialmedia, Zelda

A few A Link Between Worlds fanart, Leonie Pinelli fanart from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Proko skull, Kirby cake and on my posting schedule.

CheckPoint Coping Companion Card Deck Project: “Play with friends!” illustration & process

By leonieyue Posted on 22 July 2019 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with charity, CheckPoint, CheckPointOrg, copingcompaniondeck, CopingCompanionProject, FourSwords, FourSwordsAdventures, games, Illustration, Legend of Zelda, leonieyue, Link, MentalHealth, Play for fun not to win, process, wip

= Support CheckPoint’s Coping Companion deck!
= What does this piece mean to me? Leonie rambles version
= The illustration Process for the Links

The art of Total eSports Action Manager (Mighty Serious game 2019)

By leonieyue Posted on 15 July 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Collaboration, Concept Art, GameArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with art style, CharacterDesign, concept art, eSports, game art, leonieyue, logo design, mightygames, MightySerious, portraits, process, TeamEsportsActionManager, teamwork, tshirt design, vector art

Mighty Serious/Mighty Games published T.E.A.M. in April and since I’m back from my posting break early this month, I am ready to show some of the art I did!

Reflecting on working on this project, art direction, crunching, art process, learning UI art, personal lessons, performance anxiety + concept art and vector portraits.

Easing back into art, blogging & social media. Hello I’ve returned from my break! [Progress update]

By leonieyue Posted on 8 July 2019 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with Art Anxiety, burntOut, careerthoughts, CharacterDesign, fanart, figuredrawing, freelancing, leftbehind, leonieyue, MentalHealth, patreon, progressupdate, reflection, self portrait, slowingdown, studies

– Patreon Tier art
– Digital studies & ongoing healing from creative burnout
– How is Leonie doing after 3 months?
– Anxieties and finally letting go of being a game artist
– What’s this “progress updates” thing?
– Flexible posting schedule and blog comments return!
– The plan now: reflecting, getting up & keep on rolling

Mighty Games: Shooty cat flying the skies! + Charming Runes Character Concepts

By leonieyue Posted on 25 March 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Illustration, LeonieYue, Merch Tagged with CharacterDesign, CharmingRunes, concept art, design, Illustration, leonieyue, mightygames, shootyCat, shootySkies

“Wee!” – Unused pillowcase design of Shooty Cat from Shooty Skies!
And Charming Runes character concepts!

“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!

Mighty Games Technical Difficulties Screen illustrations for technical support (2017)

By leonieyue Posted on 11 March 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with CharmingRunes, Illustration, leonieyue, mightygames, mightyGamesMascot, shootySkies, socialMediaArt, technicalDifficulties

Mighty Games Technical Difficulties Screen, Shooty Skies edition - Social media art for community support (2017)

Featuring 3 technical difficulty screens I did for Mighty (:

SlowyTwitch illustration commission: “Thanks for following!”

By leonieyue Posted on 6 March 2019 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with commission, hamburger turtle, Illustration, jobhunt, leonieyue, lookingforwork, process, sketch, Slowy, SlowyTwitch, tsumea

Slowy kindly reached out for a small commission + commission thoughts!

Check her out https://www.twitch.tv/slowy

Maid with Love Game – Character Design, Character Sheets & Process Pt 1 [2015]

By leonieyue Posted on 28 February 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, GameArt, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with character development, CharacterDesign, CharacterTurnaround, ChiNgo, costumeDesign, game art, Illustration, JiaLiu, MaidWithLoveGame, MistyWalter, process, RevaSingh, StorytimeWithLeonie, TheaQuincy

Please note I wrote this blog post at the time in 2015/2016! So it’s pretty outdated.

This is Part 1 of 2 parts of all the work I did for this project. I’m posting this now since I’ve already revealed what I’m allowed so far here in my NZGDC & GCAP Character Design talk slides in 2017 already.

Okami Lunar New Year 2019: Bakugami 🐗

By leonieyue Posted on 5 February 2019 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with bakugami, boar, Celestial Brush God, cherryBomb, Illustration, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, zodiacAnimals, 大神, 爆神, 筆神

Happy Lunar New Year full of fireworks!! Featuring a sleepy Bakugami, the Celestial God of the Cherry Bomb. Sleepy because I’m pretty pooped, exhausted and ambivalent from the past couple of years.

Rambling about the year