VoxelIllustration – Leonie's Art Blog

🐦Feeling small in an overwhelming world 💐 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 13/final]

By leonieyue Posted on 14 October 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with compromise, DailySchedule, existential, feelingSmallInOverwhelmingWorld, gamesWeek, Illustration, learning, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, reflective, selfAwareness, studying, video, voxel, voxelArt, whocaresabouttags

❧ reflecting on this voxel project & my video compilation
❧ on learning and on feeling small
❧ on drawing everyday
❧ personal update & ramble

💐 Overwhelmed and slowing down [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 12]

By leonieyue Posted on 26 August 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with beanies, determination, DonkeyKongBonanza, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hyperfocus, Illustration, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, lostinthought, magicaVoxel, movieThoughts, NeZhaMovieThoughts, onARoll, overwhelm, personal update, procrastination, reflection, slowingdown, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, winter, winterCold, winteroutfit

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this & winter triple beanies
❧ personal update

📒 Getting surrounded by mist🌷 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 11]

By leonieyue Posted on 15 July 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, personal update, voxel, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ reflecting on this
❧ personal update & games!

🦋 Dreaming about mugs and waterfalls! 🍵 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 10]

By leonieyue Posted on 17 June 2025 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, medicalScan, personal update, romance, SelfConfidence, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ personal update!

💧 Void watching where I work [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 9]

By leonieyue Posted on 5 February 2025 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with BeingMisunderstood, communication, expectations, expectationsProjections, ezcema, flawed, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, invisibleExpectations, learning, learningJourney, learningProcess, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, mindgames, overthinking, reflection, reflective, s, scapegoat, scaryConversations, slowingdown, summer, teamwork, TextChatCommunication, unspokenExpectations, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ reflecting on this
❧ personal update & more!

🌙Sleeping on the pink crescent moon🌷 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 8]

By leonieyue Posted on 14 January 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with breathwork, EnergyConserving, energyConservingMode, EnergyDraining, existential, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, existing, fallingAsleep, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hyperawareOfPeople, Illustration, LeonieBlob, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, meditation, nightowl, NotAbleToRelax, openOfficeEnvironments, overstimulated, poisoning, recovery, relax, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, sleep, sleeping, SleepSchedule, sleepy, socialOutsider, solitaryRecoveryMode, stingyFrugalHermit, TaleOfPrincessKaguyaThoughts, TightBudgetHermit, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ on sleep, got slightly poisoned & internet finds
❧ the Tale of Princess Kaguya spoiler thoughts
❧ personal update & why I’m not logging in at bluesky much anymore & crossposting less at Linkedin from now on.

I will post status updates at my discord server instead + I’m active at my blog, youtube & cara! <3

🌥️Head in the pink clouds 🌈 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 7]

By leonieyue Posted on 15 November 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Photos, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with anxious, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, autismBoundaries, bluesky, BlueSkySocial, boundaries, communication, communicationIssues, conflictAvoidance, DetachmentLettingGo, disassociation, disgustRepulsed, disrespectful, dissatisfaction, emotionalConnections, emotionalDetachment, emotionalDump, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, emotionalExpectations, emotionalHonesty\, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalLabour, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyMutual, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, ergonomicKeyboard, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, flawed, freezeUp, FriendshipEffort, hermit, HermitBurpcast, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hikikomori, honesty, Illustration, intellectualMoralEmotionalValueEqual, intense, keyboards, leonieyue, lowEnergy, magicaVoxel, manipulative, melbourne, melbourneCity, MentalHealth, mutuallyInterested, noenergytochase, NoPuttingPeopleOnAPedestal, NotAroundPeopleYouLookDownUpon, onlineBoundaries, overthinking, overwhelm, personalBoundaries, photo, photo post, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, self comparisons, self compassion, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfregulation, selfRespect, shutdownEmotionalWithdrawal, socialDynamics, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaoverwhelm, speakingUp, SplitTentedKeyboards, stingyFrugalHermit, toxicFriendships, toxicRelationships, unequaldynamics, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, vulnerability, zombie

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ sorting bluesky boundaries, feeds, lists
❧ self boundaries with relationships & the ick feelings
❧ Hermit Leonie walks around in the city & takes 2 days to recover
❧ keyboard troubles & getting a new one with silent switches :0!!
❧ personal update & more!

🌳🌼Bouncing together at Crossy Road Castle 🐈‍⬛🐔🦆🦄

By leonieyue Posted on 5 November 2024 Posted in Animation, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 3D animation, 3Dart, animation, animation practice, anxiety, ArtistsOutOfMyLeague, boundaries, comic, communication, communicationIssues, copingMechanism, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, DemiromanticAce, depressed, disappointment, emotionalExpectations, entitlement, expectations, expectationsProjections, FeelingLikeAfraud, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, gratefulness, gratitude, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, imposterSyndrome, indecisive, irrelevant, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, LettingGo, loneliness, magicaVoxel, marketingArt, MentalHealth, negativity, neverGoodEnough, newsletters, notgoodenoughFeelings, PerformanceAnxiety, personalBoundaries, PokemonTCGpocket, reflection, romance, romantic, RomanticProjection, romanticSpectrum, romcoms, sappy, self comparisons, self compassion, SelfConfidence, skin, social media, socialConformity, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediacharismapopularitycontest, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, SocialMediaMetrics, SocialMediaReach, SuperLeonieMode, toptierfamousartists, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, wingingIt

In this blog post:
❧ about this little animation!
❧ on personal Crossy fanart next year
❧ Pokemon TCG Pocket
❧ not being good enough/impostor syndrome, mental health
❧ monthly newsletter, romance, personal update & more

🌈Crossy Road Castle Rainbow Spin! 🐈‍⬛🐔🦆🦄

By leonieyue Posted on 23 October 2024 Posted in Animation, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with bluesky, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, internetFinds, LEGObricks, leonieyue, lowkeystress, magicaVoxel, makeovers, makeUp, marketingArt, mutuallyInterested, overthinking, overwhelm, personal, rainbow, reflective, social media, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaVoid, SwanPrincess, UglyDucklingSwanMakeover, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

Also in this blog post:
❧ a little about this animation
❧ reflecting more on Bluesky
❧ make up, internet finds & personal update

✨Woo Crossy Road Castle crossplay (between consoles) multiplayer animation! 🎮

By leonieyue Posted on 16 October 2024 Posted in Animation, GameArt, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, SuperLeonieMode, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 3D, 3D animation, 3Dart, anxiety, Blender3D, CastleMarketingArt, coworkerFriendshipsHard, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyroad, CrossyUnihorse, depression, freezeUp, friendship, FriendshipActivitiesCosts, FriendshipBoundaries, friendshipBreakups, FriendshipCapacity, FriendshipEffort, FriendshipMileage, game, gameRamble, ghosting, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, isolationRoomsPressuredToQuitJob, jumpController, learningfrommistakes, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, marketingArt, onlineBoundaries, PeopleChange, privacy, relationships, splatoon3SideOrder, voxelArt, WhoIsPayingForMeal, youtube

In this blog post:
❧ more animating & learning in Blender
❧ friendship ramble & internet finds
❧ I quit at Side Order’s final boss (spoiler vent)
❧ personal update & more

🌈Rainbow swim [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 6]

By leonieyue Posted on 12 October 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, acquaintanceBoundaries, activelySocialOnline, adultFriendship, anxiety, anxious, asocial, asthma, autisticallySocial, BlueSkySocial, casualConnections, ChronicallyOnline, complexFeelings, conflictAvoidance, connections, coworkerFriendshipsHard, cupcake, disappointment, disrespectful, drycoughing, earHealth, earningTrust, emotionalConnections, emotionalDistance, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, EmotionallyDistant, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyMutual, emotionallyProcessing, expectationsProjections, feelingCaredFor, friendship, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, friendshipBreakups, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, friendshipGuilt, FriendshipLoyalty, friendshipmi, FriendshipMileage, friendshipMistakes, FriendshipReciprocity, guilt, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hurtFeelings, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, leonieyue, LimerenceProjectionFantasty, limerenceProjectionFantasy, linkedin, LowSocialEndurance, manipulative, mixedFeelings, mutuallyInterested, NoSocialLife, notgoodenoughFeelings, onesided, onlineAcquaintances, onlineBoundaries, onlineFriendship, onlinePersona, overthinking, parasocial relationships, personal update, postcoldinfectionscough, processingFeelings, rainbow, reflection, reflective, resentment, respect, RomanticProjection, secondchance, secondguessing, sittingwithfeelings, social media, socialAnxiety, socialConformity, socialsi, socialSituations, splatoon3SideOrder, toiletCleaning, trust, trustIssues, unequaldynamics, unfollow, VoxelAnimation, voxelIllustration, WalkingSteps

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ Social media overthinking & second guessing if it’s mutual
❧ Side Order, personal, hearing & health update & more

📢ALERT!! Crossy Road x Among Us animation + Crossy Road life sized jump controller

By leonieyue Posted on 4 October 2024 Posted in Animation, GameArt, LeonieYue, progressupdate, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 3D, 3D animation, 3Dart, amongUs, BigGamesNightOut, Blender3D, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyMarketingArt, crossyroad, crossyRoadCollab, CrossyRoadJumpController, CrossyRoadUpdate, earHealth, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, marketingArt, RedCrewmate

In this little blog post:
❧ about this Blender animation!
❧ animated gif to promote the Crossy Road life sized jump controller for Big Games Night Out (Melb Games Week)

🫖 Keeping warm by the tea [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 5]

By leonieyue Posted on 18 September 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with depression, dissociation, expenses, eyeHealth, FamicomDetectiveClub, happiness, headEmpty, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, keyboards, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, monitorTroubles, visualnovel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

A personal update ramble, eye pressure, depression, Emio the Smiling Man and my dying monitor…

🖥️ Working [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 4]

By leonieyue Posted on 5 September 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on these pieces
❧ personal update & internet finds!

☺️ Jumping about! [Hermit Dragon Leonie Part 3]

By leonieyue Posted on 20 August 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with addictiveEscapism, aestheticAttraction, anxiety, BeyondTheDesperationOfSeekingFriends, bodyAwareness, bodyImage, BodyNeutrality, corporateFeminism, Cringe, darkTopics, demiplatonic, depression, doubleStandards, drycoughing, dysfunctionalFamilies, emotionalLabour, FemaleObjectification, foundFamily, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, hearingLoss, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, houseCleaning, Illustration, journal, ladylike, LeonieMiceCleaningTroubles2024, leonieyue, lowkeystress, magicaVoxel, makeUp, ManagingEmotions, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, officeWorkAppropriate, onlineBoundaries, oversharing, overthinking, personal, personal update, physicalAttractiveness, postingSchedule, PowaPowaP Siinamota, prisonOfYourMind, purityCulture, safety, self comparisons, sexualharassment, shame, singledom, socialValidation, stingyFrugalHermit, StressEat, toxicStress, traumaDumping, unsolicitedAdvice, validation, victimComplex, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, vulnerability, womensSafetyIssues

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on the process of this piece
❧ objectification, body image comparison, shaming
❧ online history, oversharing, not settling, dark thoughts
❧ personal update & more!

🌳Crossy Road Castle on console is being showcased at BitSummit this weekend!!🦄🐔🐈‍⬛🦆

By leonieyue Posted on 20 July 2024 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with AliceWalsh, BitSummit, bitsummit2024, Blender3D, CastleMarketingArt, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, gamedev, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, indiegamedev, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, LeonieMiceCleaningTroubles2024, leonieyue, marketingArt, personal update, postcardConceptByAliceWalsh, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, クロッシーロードキャッスル, ビットサミットドリフト

About this marketing art (lessons learned as a Blender newbie) & personal update!

Category: VoxelIllustration