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🐔💖🦆 Chicken & Mallard’s wedding party! 💐 2026 Crossy Road Valentine’s Day update with Tuxedo Mallard pt 2/2

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2026 Posted in CharacterDesign, Collaboration, Concept Art, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with ace, aestheticAttraction, alloromanticAce, antiGenAI, ballpointPen, cake, character design, character development, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyChickenCousins, CrossyMallard, CrossyMallardFamily, crossyroad, CrossyRoadCharacter, crossyRoadCharacterDesign, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrossyRoadWedding2026, CrossyRooster, HappySingleTime, Illustration, leonieyue, lithromantic, loneliness, love, mallard, pen, pen sketch, reflection, self portrait, singledom, ValentinesDay

❧ happy Valentine’s day for all kinds of love :’)
❧ reflecting on love, loneliness, personal update & more

💔🦆 “Tell me why – Ain’t nothing but a heartache…” 💍 2026 Crossy Road Valentine’s Day update with Tuxedo Mallard pt 1/2

By leonieyue Posted on 10 February 2026 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with alonewithcompany, antiGenAI, burnout, character design, character development, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyChickenCousins, CrossyMallard, CrossyMallardFamily, crossyroad, CrossyRoadCharacter, crossyRoadCharacterDesign, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrossyRoadWedding2026, CrossyRooster, fanart, genAI, GenAIimpactInternet, Illustration, ImpactOfGenAIonEnvironment, intenseWorkRest, JawClenching, jawPain, KirbyAndTheForgottenLand, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, love, LoveDay, mallard, NintendoDirect, reflection, rest, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, ValentinesDay, winddownBedtime

❧ more about this Valentine’s update
❧ nintendo partner showcase, minimising burnout, personal update & more

❤️‍🔥Monster date night 💙 (Fallen Angel x Quiet Devil / original characters)

By leonieyue Posted on 4 November 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with character design, character development, character illustration, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, crossy road, crossyRoadCharacterDesign, CrossyRoadGothGirl, fanart, GothGirl, halloween, Illustration, leonieyue, monsterdatenight, movieThoughts, NeZhaMovieThoughts, ocs, originalCharacter, personal update, Timelapse

❧ subtitled timelapse & about my ocs
❧ personal update & more!

❄️Snow Miku 2026 / Happiness Patisserie! 🎀 Having a try like a slow, small turtle ❤️💛 Happy Miku day! 💙🤍

By leonieyue Posted on 10 March 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with character design, character development, character illustration, CharacterDesign, characterdesignThoughts, complexFeelings, costume, costumeDesign, FeelingLikeAfraud, hatsunemiku, hurtFeelings, leonieyue, mikuday, MikuDay2025, mixedFeelings, notgoodenoughFeelings, personal update, processingFeelings, sittingwithfeelings, SnowMiku, SnowMiku2026Patisserie, ミクの日, ミクの日2025, 初音ミク, 雪ミク2026

My challenges with this project and personal update about feelings & stress.

🥰Making my Hermit Dragon Leonie PNGtuber! 🐲

By leonieyue Posted on 18 June 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with addictiveEscapism, breastCancerCheckUp, CaraApp, character design, character development, character illustration, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, Contrapoints, expressingLove, godzillaMinusOneMovieThoughts, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, instagram, instagramAlgorithm, leonieyue, PNGtuber, quittinginstagram, quittingtwitter, romance, RomanceTropes, romantic, romanticAttraction, romanticFiction, ScaryLumpUpdate, StreamingAnxiety, toptierfamousartists, TwilightNovels, twitter, twitterAlgorithm, TwitterVentAgain

Also in this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse about my pngtuber!
❧ testing out streaming?
❧ romantic fiction & other things
❧ critique & more how Cara works
❧ Crossy Road, Disney Crossy Road & Shooty Skies 2016 – 2018 compilation video
❧ finally got the courage to leave instagram & twitter
❧ personal, health update & 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

Alice and the Good Witch’s Tea Party! [Crossy Road Candy update gift/fanart + timelapse]

By leonieyue Posted on 8 December 2021 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, Timelapse Tagged with Alice, alice in wonderland, alien, AshleighStarmer-Lee, character design, character development, characterart, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, crossy road, CrossyRoadCandyUpdate, cuteartwork, fanart, GoodWitch, hermitLife, hipsterWhale, homebodylife, Illustration, isolationlife, leonieyue, lifedirection, meaningoflife, TallAlice, tea, tealove, teatime, tributeArt

Hey I liked these two characters I did for the game!

I ramble about Alice in Wonderland and things :’)

Portraits of a Lady Samurai + timelapse! 🏹🌼🌸

By leonieyue Posted on 1 September 2021 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, Studies, Timelapse Tagged with art studies, character development, characterIllustration, Illustration, lady, leonieyue, portrait, samurai, studies, study, Timelapse

Lady Samurai portraits 🌸

Character design & illustration / Midnight the witch + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 30 November 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with acceptance, autism, BravelyDefault, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, Clemps, FloatPixarShort, GamingHistorianYoutuber, HealthyGamerGG, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, midnightTheWitch, OrdinaryThingsYoutuber, process, reflection, selfAcceptance, shortFilms, toxicMasculinity, Witch

Character design & illustration / Midnight the witch, process + LeonieUpdate!

Fanart / The Power of Coffee with Crossy Road Chicken [Crossy Road “At Home” update]!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 November 2020 Posted in Comics, Fanart, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with CatInTheBox, character development, coffee, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, FryingPan, hipsterWhale, Illustration, LaundryBasket, leonieyue, sadPlant, Slippers, Toaster, ToiletPaper, Toothbrush

Fanart / The Power of Coffee with Crossy Road Chicken [“At Home” update]!

Illustration / Don’t mess with Paw Paw + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 21 September 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate Tagged with AkiraMovie, angryWomen, autism, autistic, AxisOfAwesome, BladeRunner2049, BOMleader, BowlOfMysteryProject, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, emotionalMaturity, EmotionalSupport, Illustration, JoshKaufman, learning, LeonieUpdate, ManagingEmotions, Mulan2020, music, narcissism, Narcissists, NintendoDirect, originalCharacter, PawPaw, Playstation5, shortFilms, socialmedia, socialmediabreaks, ToxicPositivity, undertale

Illustration / Don’t mess with Paw Paw, process + LeonieUpdate about learning as a newbie, narcissists, toxic positivity, Mulan 2020 vent, interesting finds and more!

Character design / Carmen from Bowl Of Mystery 💛🧡 + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 6 August 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with alonewithcompany, ArtStationBoxOfMysteryChallenge, BOMcheeky, BowlOfMysteryProject, Carmen, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, faceyourart, faceyourart2020, faceyourartchallenge, FallGuys, friendships, hermitLife, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, loneliness, MeanGirlsMusical, MusicalThoughts, narcissism, Narcissists, parasocial relationships

Character design + illustration / Carmen from Bowl of Mystery💛🧡 + LeonieUpdate!

= Process for my Mischievous Character & final designs
= little personal update, FaceYourArt challenge & thoughts on the Mean Girls Musical

Character design & illustration / Shalonda 💜 from Bowl of Mystery + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 31 July 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with BOMBrave, BowlOfMysteryProject, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, process, Shalonda

Character design & illustration / Shalonda from Bowl Of Mystery💜 + LeonieUpdate!

= character design & illustration process for Shalonda
= on art making & random thoughts ;’D

Character Design + illustration / Paw Paw portraits + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 27 July 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with ArtStationBoxOfMysteryChallenge, BOMleader, BowlOfMysteryProject, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, Illustration, InterestingFinds, LeonieUpdate, motivational, Narcissists, PawPaw

Character design + illustration / Paw Paw portraits + LeonieUpdate & interesting finds!

Character design + illustration / Kelly from Bowl of Mystery💪 + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 20 July 2020 Posted in Concept Art, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with Art Anxiety, ArtStationBoxOfMysteryChallenge, BOMwild, BowlOfMysteryProject, careerthoughts, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, creativeRut, creativity, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, Narcissists, NotForBroadcastGame, OuterWildsGame, reflection

Character design + illustration / Kelly from Bowl of Mystery 💪 + LeonieUpdate and art making reflection!

Character design & illustration / Ernestine from Bowl of Mystery + LeonieUpdate! 💙

By leonieyue Posted on 13 July 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with AnimalCrossing, AnimalCrossingNewHorizonsThoughts, ArtStationBoxOfMysteryChallenge, BOMserious, BowlOfMysteryProject, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, Ernestine, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, reflection, socialmedia, socialmediaoverwhelm

Character design + illustration / Ernestine from Bowl of Mystery + LeonieUpdate! 💙
★ Process for my Serious Character
★ social media reflection and burnt out on Animal Crossing
★ changing up my blog posts

Tag: character development