Leonie's Art Blog – Page 26 – Welcome! I'm a character illustrator & low energy autistic hermit rambling about her learning journey! ʕ✿˵•ᴥ•˵ ʔ

Ghosty comic: “My planet needs me!!” & Leonie visits NGV International (A Fairy Tale In Red Times)

By leonieyue Posted on 2 September 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Photos Tagged with alien, artgallery, character design, CharacterDesign, disappointed, ghosty, ghostycomic, Illustration, introvert, leonieyue, loneliness, NGVinternational, NGVmuseum, personalupdate, photo post, sadness, spoontheory

= Sloth Leonie visits NGV International
= Designing Women Exhibition
= A Fairy tale in Red Times exhibition

Zelda from Cadence of Hyrule & Rogue Singularity [fanart post]

By leonieyue Posted on 26 August 2019 Posted in Fanart, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with artstyletests, CadenceOfHyrule, clippaintstudio, fanart, giftart, Illustration, InvaderZim, Legend of Zelda, leonieyue, MIGW, personalupdate, Princess Zelda, RogueSingularity, ScottBeca, Zelda

Leonie rambles about Cadence of Hyrule, Zelda fanart, Invader Zim x Rogue Singularity fanart, Melbourne International Games week & more.

“Go away Luigi!!” & Nina + Yamamura – Super Mario Maker 2 [fanart]

By leonieyue Posted on 19 August 2019 Posted in Comics, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with boo, comic, fanart, Illustration, lakitu, leonieyue, luigi, mario, mreraser, nina, ninayamamura, SuperMarioMaker2, yamamura

Leonie rambles about Super Mario Maker 2, Nina & Yamamura and more fanart doodles!

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

SuperListenMode 271: The Thank You Edition

By leonieyue Posted on 4 April 2019 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with gratitude, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode, thankYou

Wow, it’s over 3 years of this comic and 300+ episodes!
Feb 28th 2016 was when I posted my first SLM comic!
Reminiscing post!

SuperListenMode 270: Why I’m conflicted with these comics

By leonieyue Posted on 1 April 2019 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with comic, creativity, creativityRut, leonieyue, personal, sadness, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode

Perhaps I’m too emotional, repetitive and vulnerable online & people have mentally blocked me & my art out 🙁

Maybe I’m the one who’s tired of the subject matter and I need a break.

SuperListenMode 301: Quiet Recovery Bubble

By leonieyue Posted on 28 March 2019 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with comic, leonieyue, quiet, recovery, selfCare, socialising, socialmedia, socialmediabreaks, socialmediaoverwhelm, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode, TakingBreaks

Ignore social media and group social things sometimes, focus on occasional 1 to 1 catch ups & activities with my few, kind friends, do what I can with job hunting, freelancing and retreat into my bubble to learn and take care of myself.

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!

SuperListenMode 300: Rhythm Games [Taiko no tatsujin: Drum n Fun]

By leonieyue Posted on 18 March 2019 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with comic, games, GirlGeekAcademy, leonieyue, photo, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode, taikodrum, TaikonotatsujinDrumnFun

AHHHHHHHHHH!!

Mighty Games/Hipster Whale: the Voxel Art edition

By leonieyue Posted on 15 March 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Collaboration, GameArt, LeonieYue Tagged with babyanimals, beauty and the beast, CharacterDesign, crossy road, Dinosaurs, disneycrossyroad, hipsterWhale, leonieyue, LiloAndStitch, Lunar New Year, mightygames, mulan, NewZealand, NightmareBeforeChristmas, oceanupdate, piratesOfTheCaribbean, retro arcade, shootySkies, spaceupdate, voxelArt, year of the rooster

Collection of all the voxel art I’ve done for Crossy Road, Shooty Skies and Disney Crossy Road. I’ve designed and created voxel art that I specified [not everything] and you might have seen some of the concept art and studies I did. I’ll update with new screenshots as I go along.

A lot of gifs in this mega post!