progressupdate – Leonie's Art Blog

Happy Kirby anniversary x Year of the Dragon! 🐲Processing thoughts on the Barbie movie

By leonieyue Posted on 23 April 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with anxiety, anxietyFuture, anxious, BarbieMovieThoughts, comedySatireMovie, complexFeelings, corporateFeminism, dragon, DragonKirby, empathy, FakeVideoGames, fanart, fridgeTroubles, gender inequality, GhostRiderThoughts, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, houseCleaning, humanConnection, humanity, humanscomplex, Illustration, kirby, KirbyAndTheForgottenLand, kirbyAnniversary, leonieyue, motherhood, movieThoughts, NicolasCageMovies, subtitledSpeedpaint, Timelapse, toxicMasculinity, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ processing thoughts on the Barbie movie
❧ personal update

🥰 Kung fu Peach Part 2 [Princess Peach: Showtime fanart] Anxiety as an artist, social media, relevancy, GenAi, twitter, networking & what am I even doing

By leonieyue Posted on 9 April 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate Tagged with anxiety, AnxietyFromNewsPolitics, anxietyFuture, AprilFools, Art Anxiety, ArtCareer, ArtistDesperation, artistSocialThings, ArtistStruggle, burnout, careerDirection, CareerRelevancy, careerthoughts, changeIsConstant, changing career, contentCreators, creative, creativeFulfillment, doomSpiraling, emotionalStorytelling, existential, existentialDread, fanart, FoamstarsEthics, forcingIntoThingsYouDontFit, freetochangeourmind, generativeAI, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, HustleCulture, hustlingExhausting, Illustration, innerPurpose, joyAndMeaning, leonieyue, lifeSkills, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, megadroughtFear, plagiarism, PokemonMiku, princess peach, princesspeach, PrincessPeachShowtime, purpose, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sketchbookThoughts, slow, slowingdown, social media, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, SocialMediaMetrics, SocialMediaVoid, StreamingAnxiety, stress, StruggleAdapt, sustainableArtCareer, twitter, TwitterVentAgain, volatileIndustry, wariowareMoveIt, youtubers

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble!
❧ trying not to spiral with anxiety and fear as an artist – relevancy, GenAI, social media is frustrating, twitter & not knowing what I’m doing
❧ reflecting on artist networking
❧ personal feelings, update & more!

🫧👑 Bubble Princess Daisy & Peach!✨☁️ [Super Mario Bros Wonder] + on social media/”content” creation

By leonieyue Posted on 27 February 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 3DMariogames, ActuallyAutistic, addictiveEscapism, AIethicsLegality, AIgeneratedWork, AIimageGeneratorsSteal, algorithms, ArtistStruggle, authenticity, autisic, autism, beginnerMindset, bubblePrincesses, chasingTrends, CleaningFollowerAccounts, ContentCreationProblems, contentCreators, ContentHustle, contentSlop, contentVoid, creativity, CreativityIncEdCatmull, fanart, fastfoodcontent, generativeAI, Illustration, InternetTrends, leonieyue, mario, nintendo, notgoodenoughFeelings, OnlineContentConsistency, onlinePersona, OnlinePopularity, OnvideoEssays, overstimulated, princess, princess peach, princessDaisy, sleepDeprived, social media, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, SocialMediaMetrics, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaReach, SocialMediaVoid, SuperMarioBrosWonder, Timelapse, YoutubeAlgorithm, デイジー姫, ピーチ姫

In this blog post:
❧ the art
❧ indefinite break from making small subtitled timelapses / youtube videos
❧ manually removing 475 twitter followers & 30 instagram ones
❧ vent about social media & how its falling apart
❧ exhaustion and ethics of consuming and making “content” & more!

🧺🌳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

❤️🧸 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!

🧧🐉Happy (actual) Lunar New Year of the Dragon today ft. cute Rejuvenation God Yomigami! 🏮🌠 [大神 / Ōkami Lunar New Year Project] Bummed about metrics & Zodiac predictions

By leonieyue Posted on 10 February 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with CareerAdvice, Chinese, ChineseSuperstitions, dragon, EarthDragon, fanart, health, Illustration, lackOfClout, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, MentalHealth, MoonFestival, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, physicalHealth, romance, subtitledSpeedpaint, superstitions, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart, Yomigami, zodiacAnimals, zodiacPredictions

In this blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled timelapse!
❧ bummed from metrics again
❧ let’s get superstitious! Predictions for the Year of the Dragon and personal update!

🎆🌠Happy New Year’s Eve with Crossy Road!🐔🎇 Reflecting back on 2023, 2024 hopes, rejection sensitivity, needs, boundaries & communication issues

By leonieyue Posted on 31 December 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 2023artsummary, acquaintanceBoundaries, anxiety, art learning, ArtistStruggle, artsummary, autistic, autisticThings, babySteps, boundaries, communication, Confetti, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, defensiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, GodfatherTrilogy, HappyNewYear, headspace, Illustration, invisibleExpectations, leonieyue, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, NewYearEve, notbeingajerk, onlineBoundaries, parasocial relationships, PartyChicken, PartyPopper, reflection, reflective, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, sadness, SensoryIssues, slow, socialEnergy, socialEvents, socialmediaBoundaries, socialSituations, strugglingForward, TheGodfatherMovie, vulnerability

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled art process speedpaint video!
❧ reflecting on 2023 & 2024 hopes!
❧ rejection sensitivity, needs, boundaries and communication issues

⚔️✨🔮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

🌼👑Princess Daisy! [LeonieDoodles]

By leonieyue Posted on 19 December 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with AgencyOverIdentity, AIimageGeneratorsSteal, AlanWake2game, AmericanArcadiaGame, AstarionBaldursGate3, BlueSkySocial, BrunoEncanto, ChineseOnYieldingThings, ChromeBrowser, ChronicallyOnline, contextSwitching, DodgerDexbonus, EncantoDisney, EncantoThoughts, fanart, favouritism, gameAwards, GayRespectabilityPolitics, grifters, hipsterWhale, intergenerationalTrauma, LeonieDoodles, LGBTQIAplus, lookism, martial artist, MayaTheBee, MillenniumActressMovie, movieThoughts, parasocial relationships, PerfectBlueMovie, plagiarism, princessDaisy, psyhologicalThriller, QueerDiverseMinorities, redHeadedCharacters, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, scapegoat, sexualExploitationEntertainmentIndustry, SmallSagaGame, social media, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaReach, SocialMediaVoid, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, thegameawards, ThirstySuitorsGame, Threads, ThreadsMeta, twitter, youtubers

In this blog post:
❧ trying to do little doodles
❧ why Encanto triggers me
❧ the hbomberguy plagiarism video
❧ first time watching Perfect Blue
❧ the Game Awards & more!

🍂🦃 Happy Long Turkey Day 🌻 [Crossy Road update]!

By leonieyue Posted on 28 November 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with art process, autumn, crossy, crossy road, CrossyFanart, CrossyTurkey, DiscordServer, fallseason, fanart, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, iterating, LeonieDiscordServer, leonieyue, LongTurkey, turkey

A little dedicated blog ramble on Turkeys! And note on my Crossy marketing art and fanart.

🍰🐔Happy 9th Crossy Road Birthday with Long Chicken!! 🎊

By leonieyue Posted on 20 November 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with catshriek, crossy, crossy road, crossy9thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, crossyChicken, digital art, digital illustration, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, leonieyue, LongChicken, marketingArt, reflective, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint

Little blog post & subtitled art process video!

☂️Princess Peach’s Umbrella Triple Move 💕 [Super Mario RPG] Game is out today!!

By leonieyue Posted on 17 November 2023 Posted in Animation, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, 2Danimation, 2dbasicAnimation, ableism, adultFriendship, animation, art process, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, AutismEgoDeath, autismfocus, autismFriendships, autismLife, complexFeelings, coworkerFriendshipsHard, eugenicsJapan, eyeContact, fanart, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, gameThoughts, ghosted, ghosting, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hikikomori, hurt, hydrationPlan, ignored, Illustration, JawClenching, jawPain, leonieyue, LiveActionZeldaMovie, livestreamingParasocialRelationships, loneliness, ManagingStress, MarioKart8Deluxe, masking, mukbang, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, NeurodiversityWorkplaceAccommmodations, notgoodenoughFeelings, parasocial relationships, perceptions, physiololgicalstress, princess peach, RATtestCovid, rejected, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, scapegoat, selfAwareness, selfregulation, social media, socialDistancing, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, SocialScripts, stress, subtitledSpeedpaint, SuperMarioBrosWonder, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, TheLegendOfZeldaMovie, ThoughtSpotYoutube, twitter, Umbrella, ZeldaMovie, スーパーマリオrpg, ピーチ姫

On her left

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled speedpaint!
❧ Live action Zelda movie??
❧ Hikikomori, autism & ego deaths
❧ finished Super Mario Bros Wonder!
❧ personal update & more!

🦋👑Princess Peach [Super Mario RPG remake]💐 Work update, more reflecting on autism & more!

By leonieyue Posted on 7 November 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with abandonment, abandonmentIssues, ableism, ActuallyAutistic, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, AutismEmployment, autismfocus, autismFriendships, autismLife, AutismTrauma, autistic, autisticallySocial, autisticBurnout, AutisticFidgeting, AutisticMeltdown, autisticShutdown, AutisticStereotypes, autisticThings, backPains, badShortTermMemory, BeingMisunderstood, butterfly, chasingFriends, chronicPain, communication, Cramps, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCastleWindup, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, EmotionalPermanence, empathy, eyeContact, fanart, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, friendsComeAndGo, GenderExpression, hipsterWhale, Illustration, kneeInjuries, kneeInjury, leonieyue, mario, marioRPG, masking, misunderstandings, neurodivergent, NotAbleToRelax, notlookingautistic, openOfficeEnvironments, overanalysing, overstimulated, princess peach, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, ShoujoManga, social patterns, socialAnxiety, socialCues, socialDeficits, socialEnergy, socialHierarchy, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, stereotypes, stimming, SuperMarioRPG, supermariorpglegendofthesevenstars, SuperMarioRPGRemake, textcommentary, Timelapse, TMJinjury, twitter, unsaidTruths, YattaSongGreenLeaves, スーパーマリオrpg, ピーチ姫

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled speedpaint!
❧ belated update on my work shenanigans
❧ reflecting on autism continues (meltdowns, social patterns, ableism, stereotypes, abandonment, etc)
❧ personal update & more!

👑🌸🩷 Super Princess Time with Princess Peach and Princess Daisy! 🧡🌼 [Super Mario Bros Wonder] + “content” creating and Blade Runner 2049 thoughts

By leonieyue Posted on 24 October 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, BladeRunner2049, CommunityBuilding, ContentCreationProblems, contentCreators, curatingInternetUse, dentistUpdate, dystopianStories, emotionalIntimacy, fanart, friendship, FriendshipCapacity, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, FriendshipMileage, ghosting, hermitLife, Illustration, internetConsumption, JawClenching, jawPain, killingCinema, leonieyue, loneliness, movieThoughts, NotTheChosenOne, OnlineContentConsistency, overalls, personal update, power naps, princess peach, princessDaisy, relationships, RelationshipsAreNotEndurance, singledom, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, sleepy, speedpaintcommentary, SuperMarioBrosWonder, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, TMJinjury, TrueIntimacy, twitter, デイジー姫, ピーチ姫

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled speedpaint!
❧ making “content” as an artist on the internet
❧ 1st time Blade Runner 2049 movie thoughts
❧ personal update & more!

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