CharacterDesign – Leonie's Art Blog

❤️‍🔥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!

Okonomiyaki 🥘 お好み焼き / Character design & illustration Telephone

By leonieyue Posted on 12 August 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Collaboration, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Traditional Tagged with ArtCollaboration, character design, character illustration, CharacterDesign, characterDesignTelephone, characterdesignThoughts, characterDriven, characterTelephone, comfort zone, comfortZone, dissociateDetachSelf, dread, figure drawing, figuredrawing, Illustration, leonieyue, ManagingEgo, medicalScan, okonomiyaki, personal update, portrait, unfairWorld

❧ about this design/illustration project
❧ pen study doodles
❧ personal update

❄️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

🥮 Goddess of the Moon for 中秋節/ Mid-Autumn Festival! 🌙 [Character design & illustration] + managing loneliness and isolation

By leonieyue Posted on 26 September 2023 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AceAttorney, achievements, Art Anxiety, BlueSkySocial, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadFluffySheep, crowdedEventsNoMasksScary, CultOfTheLamb, curatingInternetUse, DigitalMinimalism, fanartTooMuch, gameTrailers, housekeeping, Illustration, kneeInjuries, kneeInjury, leonieyue, lifedirection, midAutumnFestival, moon cakes, Moon god, moon goddess, parasocial relationships, social media, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaVoid, stress, stylised, TypeApeoplehuh, 中秋節

In this blog post:
❧ speedpaint & managing loneliness and isolation
❧ struggling with Glaze
❧ will streaming make it less lonely & overstimulating (sensory)?
❧ character designing the Moon Goddess
❧ curating how I do social media
❧ I finally got BlueSky?? And personal update & knee concerns!

Ah mooncake and tea 💛

Character exploration / Contemplating about meaning + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 18 July 2022 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with Art Anxiety, ArtAesthetics, ArtExecution, ArtSelfExpression, ArtStyle, careerDirection, character, character design, character illustration, characterart, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, confusion, expression, Illustration, insecurity, Kinh, learningfrommistakes, learningJourney, leonieyue, lifedirection, lost, mood, portrait, reflection, reflective, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, stylisation, Timelapse, trialAndError

Reflecting about my creative block, my art journey, what I want to do with my art, what excites and motivates me too.

Character illustration / Curious about you + timelapse! Hello, I’m back!

By leonieyue Posted on 11 July 2022 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with ArtAdvice, ArtChallenge, ArtContest, ArtTeachers, AutismTrauma, BeingAnOutcast, character, character design, characterart, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, curious, dramaticLighting, drawfest, Drawfest3, Drawfest3Guweiz, EncantoThoughts, glasses, Illustration, Kinh, learning, learningfrommistakes, learningJourney, leonieyue, movieThoughts, nightlight, originalCharacter, personalTraumas, personalupdate, pixiv, PretendToBeBeginner, scapegoat, slow, slowLearner, Timelapse, TransGenerationalFamilyTrauma, turtlePace

Thoughts on Drawfest3 and learning, reflecting on my bday break, my struggle with managing my iron intake and more.

Art from imagination & watercolour practice / My feelings for you ❤️

By leonieyue Posted on 30 May 2022 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with anxiety, anxious, BryceKhoClass, character design, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, feeling, feelings, health, Illustration, insecurity, learning, learningfrommistakes, learningJourney, leonieyue, love, LoveAndKindness, mixedFeelings, personalupdate, practice, sad, sadness, tense, tension, vulnerability, watercolour

All the mixed feelings :’)
Trying to learn & practice watercolour!
And little personal ramble for the week.

Wishing you lots of happiness, luck, strength, love, good health, heartwarming feelings & prosperity during this Year of the Tiger! (Art for the day timelapse)

By leonieyue Posted on 2 February 2022 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, Timelapse Tagged with Animal, ArtForTheDay, cantonese, character design, CharacterDesign, Chinese New Year, design, food, foodThoughts, Illustration, impromptu, learningLanguage, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, peanutChineseCandy, SketchForTheDay, tiger, YearOfTheTiger, yearoftiger

Celebrating the Year of the Tiger with this deadpan, fed up expression ;D

Finally posting this Maid with Love game gift/fanart from November 2015

By leonieyue Posted on 20 December 2021 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with ChampionsOfTheHeart, character design, charactercast, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, ChiNgo, fanart, gamedev, games, giftart, Illustration, JiaLiu, LaurenClinnick, leonieyue, maid, maidCafe, MaidWithLoveGame, MistyWalter, RevaSingh, SnowMcNally, TheaQuincy, tributeArt, visualnovel

It’s been hidden away for 6 years :’)

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 :’)

Sketches for the day 07 / Drawing from imagination, reflecting + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 October 2021 Posted in CharacterDesign, LeonieYue, Sketches, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, Art Anxiety, ArtForTheDay, ArtistStandards, ArtistStruggle, careerDirection, character design, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, clipstudiopaint, dress, frustration, Illustration, imagination, iterations, leonieyue, lifedirection, ManagingEmotions, originalCharacter, photoshop, reflection, relax, sketch, sketchbook, SketchForTheDay, SketchFromImagination, sketchpost, slow, slowingdown, slowLearner, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaoverwhelm, subconsciousDrawing, Timelapse

Iterating & reflecting on drawing from imagination :’)

Fanart / Absolutely innocent Tanuki from Crossy Road’s Japan update + timelapse! 🦝✨

By leonieyue Posted on 4 August 2021 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with character design, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, creativeRut, creativity, creativityRut, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadJapanUpdate, doneIsBetterThanPerfect, existential, existentialEmptiness, fanart, giftart, gloomy, hamsterWheel, hipsterWhale, Illustration, leonieyue, perfectionism, progress, raccoon dog, reflection, resignation, sumo, sumoTournaments, tanuki, たぬき, 日本, 狸

Family friendly raccoon dog (:
And I reflect about my art, what I post and mixed feelings on “progress”.

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!

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!

Tag: CharacterDesign