CharacterDesign – Page 3 – Leonie's Art Blog

Being a Slow, steady and sleepy LeonieBear + art of the past week

By leonieyue Posted on 25 November 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with careerthoughts, CharacterDesign, competition, feelings, freelancing, games industry, hermitLife, leoniebear, leonieyue, lowEnergy, MentalHealth, overwhelm, owl, purpose, reflection, self compassion, sketchbook, slowingdown, stress

Leonie rambles about being a slow tortoise and not doing well with competition and ink doodles from the past week.

Knight of hearts, sketchbook, gloomy rambles, weekly blog posts & update

By leonieyue Posted on 18 November 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with artvsartist, burntOut, careerthoughts, CharacterDesign, cuteartwork, existential, feelings, freelancing, gloomy, goatmop, Illustration, inktober, inktober2019, isolated, knightofhearts, leonieyue, reflection, routine, self compassion, sketchbook, socialmedia, trashhippo

= Knight of Hearts Character illustration
= Leonie’s character designs & sketchbook
= #ArtvsArtist & trying to feel less existential with her art
= Personal update: Gloomy section, weekly blog posts & routine

[NOV#1] Knight of Hearts character design revisited, Inktober & Jesse Faden Control fanart

By leonieyue Posted on 4 November 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with birds, careerthoughts, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, charactersheet, ControlRemedy, cuteartwork, Dinosaurs, drawthisagain, fanart, freelancing, games industry, goodbye facebook, hermitLife, inktober, inktober2019, JesseFaden, knightofhearts, leonieyue, MentalHealth, owl, photo, power naps, redo, self compassion, sketchbook, socialmedia, stickybones, Traditional

= “You don’t have to fight alone” – revisiting my Knight of Hearts Character Design
= Inktober 2019 ends / Leonie’s Sketchbook
= Finally the StickyBones posable figures & Fly Rig I backed since 2016 are here
= Jesse Faden Portrait (Control Fanart)
= Leonie rambles about social media engagement, blog comments & Personal update

[Oct#2] Dresses, Inktober, doodles & libraries

By leonieyue Posted on 21 October 2019 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Photos, Sketches, Studies, Traditional Tagged with animals, character design, CharacterDesign, clippaintstudio, cute, dress, fanart, Illustration, inktober, inktober2019, leonieyue, NGVinternational, NGVmuseum, photo, photo post, photoshop, SayonaraWildHearts, sketchbook, studies, SuperLeonieMode, ToAllTheBoysIveLovedBefore

= “It’s just a photo” illustration
= Dress references I used from NGV
= Inktober 2019 / Leonie’s Sketchbook
= Lady Sibell Mary Lumley illustrated study & doodle
= I went to the State Library Victoria!! 😀 World of Book exhibition photos
= To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Lara Jean doodle
= Personal update & on self worth

October 2019 part 1 – giftart, city snaps, inktober & MIGW ramble

By leonieyue Posted on 7 October 2019 Posted in GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with birthday, character design, CharacterDesign, friendships, giftart, Illustration, inktober, inktober2019, LaurenClinnick, leonieyue, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, MIGW, photo, photo post, self compassion, selfdoubt, sketchbook, socialising, sociallyOblivious, socialmedia, socialmediaoverwhelm

= Birthday giftart for Lauren
= Melbourne city snaps
= Inktober 2019 / Leonie’s Sketchbook
= Ramble about not doing Melbourne International Games week & personal update

“Tales of the Dust Bunnies” commission, Ready to Roll Character sketch & Giftart for Kristy

By leonieyue Posted on 9 September 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Commission, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with BlindSparrowInteractive, character design, CharacterDesign, commission, Dinosaurs, EmiliePoissenot, friendships, games industry, giftart, Illustration, Kristy Prause, lettering, logo, logo design, NZGDC, ReadyToRoll, socialising, TalesOfTheDustBunnies

= Tales of the Dust Bunnies designs & illustration
= Ready to Roll character commission
= Giftart for Kristy
= Personal update & ramble about boundaries

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

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

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!

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!

Maid with Love Game – Character Design, Character Sheets & Process Pt 1 [2015]

By leonieyue Posted on 28 February 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, GameArt, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with character development, CharacterDesign, CharacterTurnaround, ChiNgo, costumeDesign, game art, Illustration, JiaLiu, MaidWithLoveGame, MistyWalter, process, RevaSingh, StorytimeWithLeonie, TheaQuincy

Please note I wrote this blog post at the time in 2015/2016! So it’s pretty outdated.

This is Part 1 of 2 parts of all the work I did for this project. I’m posting this now since I’ve already revealed what I’m allowed so far here in my NZGDC & GCAP Character Design talk slides in 2017 already.