autistic – Leonie's Art Blog

🔥🐎 Happy Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse 🥹 Crossy Road fanart 🎊 + 💚 starting the March Hotel challenge

By leonieyue Posted on 3 March 2026 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with angryCry, autistic, crossy, crossyroad, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrossyUnihorse, DonkeyKongBonanza, fanart, gameThoughts, gameWatchingThoughts, HighlySensitivePerson, horse, Illustration, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, LunarNewYear, MarchHotel, marchhotel26, reflective, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, SensoryFriendly, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, skinCare, sunscreen, unihorse, YearOfTheHorse

❧ about fire horse & starting the March Hotel challenge
❧ reflecting on being a highly sensory sensitive person & angry crying
❧ personal update, finished Donkey Kong Bananza & more

Wakamotoharu 若元春 and Nabatame 生田目💪Sumo wrestler studies!

By leonieyue Posted on 13 May 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with adultFriendship, artgoals, artprogress, artstudyingroutine, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismBoundaries, AutismEgoDeath, AutismEmployment, autismFriendships, autismLife, autismStuck, autistic, autisticBurnout, existential, fanart, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, FriendshipReciprocity, FriendshipsAreHard, Illustration, jobsAutism, leonieyue, nabatame, overthinking, portrait, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, structureAndRoutine, sumo, sumoStudies, SumoWrestlerStudy, SumoWrestling, Wakamotoharu, weeklyartprogress, why art anymore

❧ sumo wrestler studies
❧ past Leonie reflecting on sensory overload, burnout
❧ personal update

Weekly art progress / Kimodameshi 7 [2025] Days 1 to 6

By leonieyue Posted on 10 March 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with ace, alloromanticAce, alonewithcompany, anxious, ArtChallenge, artprogress, autistic, autisticThings, DemiromanticAce, DrawingChallenge, EmotionallyDistant, figure drawing, figuredrawing, guarded, Kimo, Kimo5, Kimodameshi2023, leonieyue, mirroring, photostudies, photoStudy, portraitStudy, reflection, romance, romanticFiction, sketch, studies, study, studyPost, weeklyartprogress, yearningLoveFantasyReality

❧ Reflecting on this art challenge & about guys yearning
❧ personal update

🍫 One of those days today :(

By leonieyue Posted on 2 November 2024 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with autism, autismBoundaries, autismLife, autistic, autisticallySocial, autisticThings, behindInLife, Chicken56, chocolate, digestiveIssues, disappointed, disappointment, dissociation, emotionalEnergy, energy, EnergyConserving, EnergyDraining, EnergyImbalanceDynamics, energyLevels, frustration, hermitLife, homebodylife, indianFood, leonieyue, lifeLessons, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, mundane, noenergytochase, NotInControl, overstimulated, physiololgicalstress, processingFeelings, quiet, reflection, routine, sadness, sexismMisogyny, shutdown, sleep, SleepSchedule, socialEnergy, spicyFood, stress, structureAndRoutine, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode

Wha happen

👻Happy Halloween with Toadette and Boo [Mario Wonder]🍄

By leonieyue Posted on 30 October 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with asthma, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismBoundaries, autismfocus, autismLife, autistic, boo, CaraApp, cleaning, communication, despair, drycoughing, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, emotionalExpectations, emotionalIntimacy, expectations, expectationsProjections, expenses, fanart, fans, frugal, halloween, heartbeatirregularities, heroesAndFans, Illustration, inhaler, invisibleExpectations, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, LeonieUpdate, lowkeystress, lowselfEsteem, ManagingStress, MasahiroSakurai, newsletters, openOfficeEnvironments, overfamiliar, overstimulated, parasocial relationships, PerformanceAnxiety, personalupdate, poor, quittingtwitter, restroomSensoryRecovery, sailorSenshi, social media, SocialMediaMetrics, stingyFrugalHermit, structureAndRoutine, SuperMarioBrosWonder, TextChatCommunication, Toadette, toxicworkplaces, twitter, unspokenExpectations, workaholic, writtencommunication, youtube

Also in this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ social media, newsletters, avoiding metrics & parasocial things
❧ personal update & more

💎Sommie Poops🐈 [Fire Emblem Engage]

By leonieyue Posted on 10 September 2024 Posted in Comics, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with alienated, alonewithcompany, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismFriendships, autismLife, autismStuck, AutismTrauma, autistic, BeingMisunderstood, blogging, brainPooped, comfort zone, CrossyRoadCastle, despair, fanart, fearOfAloneInTheWorld, FireEmblemEngage, FriendshipCapacity, ghosting, Illustration, internetFinds, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, LifeOfKeaSeries, masking, misunderstandings, neverGoodEnough, personal update, reflection, reflective, rejected, rejection, rejectionSensitivity, selfLove, shame, Sommie, spiraling, Wukong

Also in this blog post:
❧ personal update & internet finds

🐲Dragon from Mario Wonder! (Year of the Dragon + Smaugust 2024)

By leonieyue Posted on 29 August 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 4D, acquaintanceBoundaries, ActuallyAutistic, antiGenAI, anxiety, autism, AutismAdulthood, autistic, autisticallySocial, autisticMasking, autisticShutdown, behindInLife, BeingAnOutcast, beingPerceived, boundaries, comedy, ConfirmationBias, conflictAvoidance, contradictory, coward, creepy, deadpan, disinterest, doingOwnThing, dragon, everyoneHatesMe, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, explicitConsent, fanart, feelings, genAI, genAIdiscourse, GenAIimpactInternet, genAIscams, humiliation, hurt, hurtFeelings, Illustration, leonieyue, ManagingStress, neurodivergent, NoPuttingPeopleOnAPedestal, onlineBoundaries, outcast, overstimulated, overthinking, parasocial relationships, passiveAggressive, personalBoundaries, petty, prettyUglyPrivilege, scapegoat, socialAnxiety, socialConformity, SuperMarioBrosWonder, surprisePartiesNoThanks, visualPresentation, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble & subtitled timelapse!
❧ Super Eyepatch Wolf’s video on Social Anxiety Horror
❧ personal update, Nintendo direct/indies & more!

🍄Toadette & Elephant time!🐘 [Super Mario Bros Wonder] On what genAI can’t do, personality tests, rejection & baby steps at cleaning

By leonieyue Posted on 16 April 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AchyKnees, AIartDiscourse, AIgeneratedWork, ambivert, anxious, Art Anxiety, art style, ArtCareer, ArtDirection, ArtistDesperation, ArtistHustle, ArtistStandards, ArtistStruggle, artSkill, ArtStyle, autistic, autisticMasking, autisticThings, babySteps, BeingAnOutcast, BeingMisunderstood, bigmediumsmallForms, bloodTypePersonalityTest, bodyDoubling, careerDirection, CareerPredictions, character development, cleaningShowerGrout, comfort zone, comfortable, compatibility, complicatedDesign, conceptArtIndustry, ConceptArtist, contradictory, deadpan, Designers, disinfectHome, disinfectingHome, dontTalkToMeAura, ElephantToadette, EmotionallyDistant, emotionalStorytelling, EmotionalSupport, emotionalTurmoil, entertainmentIndustry, expectationsProjections, friendship, functionalDesign, FutureImpactOfAIgeneratedArt, generativeAI, gremlinPreferences, HandlingBleachEep, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, highStandards, housework, HouseworkInBabySteps, humanCollaboration, illustrationCareer, IndustrialDesign, insecurity, INTJ, introvert, invisibleExpectations, learning, leonieyue, lifeIshardwork, lowEnergy, LowSocialEndurance, masking, MBTI, MouldCleaning, MutualInterests, mutuallyInterested, NoSocialLife, passionProjects, personalityTests, personalProjects, popularArt, processing, provingOneselfExhausting, quiet, rambler, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, reserved, selfAnalysisTool, ShowerCleaning, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaArt, SocialProximity, StreamingAnxiety, stress, strugglingForward, SuperMarioBrosWonder, survivalArtistMode, TakingItNotSeriously, Timelapse, Toadette, trust, uncomfortable, unspokenExpectations, visual storytelling, VisualConsistency, whatGenAIcannotDo

Also in this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ personal update

🤛 Kung Fu Peach [Princess Peach: Showtime is out!] Autistic feelings, “authentic content” & Nimona movie thoughts

By leonieyue Posted on 22 March 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, acquaintanceBoundaries, ActuallyAutistic, adultFriendship, algorithms, antisocial, anxiety, authenticity, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, AutismEmployment, autismfocus, autismFriendships, autismLife, AutismTrauma, autistic, booktok, ContentCreationProblems, ContentHustle, contentVoid, creativity, deadpan, envy, fanart, fastfoodcontent, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, FriendshipBoundaries, friendshipc, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipMileage, FriendshipReciprocity, FriendshipsAreHard, grassisGreenerOtherside, grumpy, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, historyofbooks, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, intrusiveBadMemories, KungFuPanda, leonieyue, lowEnergy, LowSocialEndurance, masking, MinimallyVerbal, movieThoughts, niche, NimonaMovieThoughts, OnlineContentConsistency, overstimulated, overwhelm, personalBranding, rejectionSensitivity, resentement, reserved, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sensoryOverload, socialAnxiety, socialEnergy, socialEvents, solitary, solitude, zoningOut, プリンセスピーチショータイムPrincessPeachShowtime

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble!
❧ reflecting on autistic feelings
❧ thoughts on the Nimona movie & not watching Kung Fu Panda 4
❧ reflecting on “authentic video content” & what do I do ahhh
❧ personal feelings & more!

🎆🌠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

🎁🎀 Presents under the Christmas Tree🎄 [Happy Holidays with Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 25 December 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with aestheticAttraction, AgencyPDA, animeIndustry, AutismAdulthood, autistic, bodyAwareness, bodyImage, breadcrumbing, christmas, christmasDecorations, ChristmasTree, crossy, crossy road, CrossyAlien, CrossyCat, crossyChicken, CrossyDog, CrossyGingerbreadperson, CrossyGiraffe, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossySkunk, CrossyUnihorse, crushes, demiplatonic, demiromantic, DemiromanticAce, emotionalIntimacy, gifts, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, leonieyue, loneliness, peoplePleasing, PersistentDriveForAutonomy, PhysicalAppearance, physicalAttractiveness, PhysicalExercise, presents, romance, romantic, romanticallyIntimate, romanticAttraction, romanticFiction, RomanticProjection, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, shoujoAnime, ShoujoManga, slow, social media, solitary, solitude, TokyoGodfathersMovie, trustIssues, turtlePace, twitter, UglyDucklingSwanMakeover, UglyDucklingTransformation, unrequitedLove, XmasStar

In today’s Christmas blog post:
❧ learning about anime/shoujo topics
❧ managing body image insecurities
❧ unrequited love and loneliness
❧ saw Tokyo Godfathers for the 1st time
❧ 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!

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

Oh no

A mini reflective ramble & 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

📺 WHY do Youtube?! Happy Lunar New Year of the Cat! [Rambly Speedpaint with Leonie featuring Kabegami from Ōkami] 🐈

By leonieyue Posted on 7 February 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with artistCommentaryYoutube, autistic, energyLevels, fanart, Illustration, issun, Kabegami, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, patreon, postingSchedule, RamblyCommentaryWithLeonie, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, Tet, VietnameseNewYear, yearofCat, 大神

Speedpaint ramble on why I do Youtube videos
And little blog ramble about making this video

Tag: autistic