autismLife – Leonie's Art Blog

Drawing for my birthday

By leonieyue Posted on 27 June 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with abandonment, anxiety, autisic, autism, autismfocus, autismLife, autistic, birthday, birthdayBreak, existential, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, existing, fears, gratitude, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, insecurity, LeonieBirthday, leonieyue, loneliness, lonelyArtist, overstimulated, overwhelm, reflection, reflective, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, scapegoat, self compassion, self portrait, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfdoubt, SuperLeonieMode, TearsOfTheKingdomUpdate

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A mini reflective ramble & update

Young Cricket the meat dumplings lover! [Warioware: Get It Together!]

By leonieyue Posted on 6 June 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with adultFriendship, aloneTime, alonewithcompany, anxiety, autism, autismFriendships, autismLife, autisticBurnout, AutisticFidgeting, BeingMisunderstood, burden, burnedBridges, comfortZone, commitmentfear, communication, confusion, connections, contentCreators, coworkerFriendshipsHard, deadpan, defensive, delayedProcessing, demiromantic, DemiromanticAce, disappointment, dumplings, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalLabour, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyImmature, emotionallyProcessing, exhausted, expectationsProjections, fanart, flowers, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, friendshipGuilt, friendships, gaslighting, ghosting, heartbreak, humanConnection, Illustration, incompetence, inconvenience, influencer, isolated, jawPain, jobsAutism, judgement, kungfu, leonieyue, LettingGo, LevelsOfFriendships, limerence, limerenceProjectionFantasy, loneliness, lonely, lowEnergy, MakingVideo, ManagingStress, manipulative, martial artist, martialartists, masking, meat buns, meat dumplings, monkey, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, NeurodiversityWorkplaceAccommmodations, nintendo, nonVerbal, notlookingautistic, Online:urker, onlineAcquaintances, OnlineContentConsistency, onlineFriendship, OnlineLurker, onlinePersona, OutgrowingFriends, passivereactions, PerformanceAnxiety, personalSpace, personalTraumas, personalupdate, personalZone, phonecalls, platonicFriends, publicpersona, rechargeTime, reflection, reflective, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, RomanticProjection, scapegoat, ScriptingAutism, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, socialAnxiety, socialGroups, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, socialMediaPoll, socialNeeds, SocialNorms, socialOutsider, socialreassurance, socialrecluse, socialValidation, speedpaintcommentary, StressEat, structureAndRoutine, stubbornness, subtlety, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, tired, toxicFriendships, TraumaProjection, unavailablepeople, WarioWare, WarioWareGetItTogether, writtencommunication, youngCricket, youtubevideo, ヤングクリケット

In this blog post:
– back to text commentary speedpaint
– commentary, youtube analytics & video making woes
– autism thoughts: masking, not looking autistic enough, scripting, “selective” mutism, burnouts, jobs/workplace accommodations, social faux pas, friendships & intimacy
– social media & personal update

Princess Zelda [The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom]!!

By leonieyue Posted on 10 May 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with ActuallyAutistic, adultFriendship, antisocial, AttentionEconomy, attentionSpan, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismLife, autistic, autisticallySocial, autisticBurnout, AutisticMeltdown, autisticShutdown, autisticThings, blackTea, blogging, ChronicallyOnline, compatibility, Cramps, DiscordServer, fanart, FireEmblem, FireEmblemTea, FireEmblemThreeHouses, friendships, hyperfixation, hyperfocus, Illustration, Legend of Zelda, legendofzelda, leonieyue, MakingVideo, managingWorkload, masking, nonVerbal, onlineBoundaries, onlineFriendship, onlineTime, openOfficeEnvironments, OutgrowingFriends, overwhelm, personalupdate, Princess Zelda, reflection, reflective, remoteWorking, SensitiveSnowflake, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, tea, TearsOfTheKingdom, teatime, TerminallyOnline, textcommentary, timeBlindness, timeManagement, WaitingModeMonotasker, Zelda

In this blog post:
– art process & text commentary video
– avoiding Tears of the Kingdom spoilers
– Fire Emblem black tea
– workload with making videos & blog posts
– how to fix “waiting mode”
– reflecting on my autistic shutdowns and meltdowns
– declining attention spans & managing time on the internet
– personal update

Making my PNGtuber avatars for my channel [Reflective Speedpaint]!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 April 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with ActuallyAutistic, affinityprograms, AIartDiscourse, artprocess, autism, autismfocus, autismLife, autistic, autisticShutdown, autisticThings, clipstudiopaint, creativeEnergy, crossy road, CrossyCastleSandcastleShores, crossyChicken, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, digital art, digital illustration, disappointed, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, Fallingbehind, grump, Illustration, leonieyue, lowEnergy, MakingVideo, ManagingEnergy, nonVerbal, OBS, PerformanceAnxiety, photoshop, PNGtuber, procrastination, scripting, self portrait, selfDiagnosisAutism, selfdirectedDeadlines, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, streamingLeonie, textcommentary, youtubevideo, zoneOut

In this blog post:
– about this video
– Crossy shenanigans
– to stream or not?
– voice over videos or not?
– figuring Adobe alternatives
– AI generated art worries, sadness & the “game illustrators in China got laid off” article
– personal ramble

Happy Vietnamese New Year of the Cat 2023 featuring Catwalk God Kabegami / 壁神 🐈 & Issun!! [大神 / Ōkami LNY Project 🧧 ] + more!

By leonieyue Posted on 31 January 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with autism, autismfocus, autismInertia, autismLife, autistic, autisticBurnout, blackholeRest, bodyAwareness, cat, Catwalk, Celestial Brush God, chineseheritage, chúc mừng năm mới, conflicting, conversation, drive, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, EmotionallyAvoidant, emotionallyImmature, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyProcessing, emotionalMaturity, emotionalWalls, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, fanart, friendships, giantKoiFish, headspace, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hypocritical, Illustration, indecisive, IntenseProductivity, issun, Kabegami, kofi, leonieyue, lowEnergy, lowrisktaker, Lunar New Year, ManagingEnergy, masking, motivation, mutuallyInterested, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, patreon, patronThanks, postingSchedule, productivity, productivityMethod, rejectionSensitivity, relationships, scapegoat, selfish, sensitive, sensitivity, SensoryFriendly, socialEnergy, sociallyAcceptable, sociallyExpected, socialrecluse, speedpaintcommentary, Tet, timeBlindness, Vietnam, VietnameseNewYear, yearofCat, zodiacAnimals, 壁神, 大神, 猫

In this blog post:
– thoughts on my Year of the Cat illustration & little bit on lunar new year
– numbered intimacy levels to gauge relationships and friendships
– managing my autism, inertia, uneven productivity, attention, drive, emotions and energy levels
– update/changes to my little Patreon
– personal update