comfort zone – Leonie's Art Blog

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

🎄Merry Catmas with Christmas Tree Cat 🐈 Crossy Road update fanart! ❄️

By leonieyue Posted on 22 December 2024 Posted in Collaboration, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with affection, ArtSelfExpression, cat, christmas, ChristmasTree, christmasTreeCat, cleaning, comfort zone, comfortable, Cramps, CreativeBlock, creativeControl, creativeFlow, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyCat, CrossyFanart, crossyroad, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, crushes, decompress, earningTrust, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, executiveFunctionChallenges, fanart, fashionPersonalStyle, focus, happyholidays, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, homebody, homebodylife, homeCleaning, houseCleaning, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, internetf, internetFinds, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, learning, learningProcess, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, love, LoveHesitator, magicalGirl, music, patience, PikminBloom, postingSchedule, productivity, productivityStruggles, safety, stingyFrugalHermit, talent, TightBudgetHermit, Timelapse, trialAndError, trust, whiteCat, zoneOut

In this little blog post:
❧ the art & speedpaint!
❧ personal update, juggling things & internet finds!

🧸✨ Giant Plushie Collector 🛍️🦆 Crossy Road Theme park update fanart! 🦄🦊🐶🐈‍⬛🦒🐰

By leonieyue Posted on 16 December 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with asocial, comfort zone, comfortZone, creativeFlow, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, CrossyFanart, CrossyPlushieCollector, crossyroad, CrossyRoadBday, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, DesireToProveSelfConstantlyExhausting, energy, fanart, femininePerformance, frugal, gameAwards, gobelins, heatwaveDay, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, houseCleaning, housework, HouseworkInBabySteps, Illustration, impatientWithSelf, insecurity, internetFinds, japanExperiences, leonieyue, lowEnergy, LowPeriods, lowselfEsteem, LowSocialEndurance, minimalSocialInteractions, nightowl, NoArtRequests, NoSocialLife, openOfficeEnvironments, overthinking, personal update, personalProjects, reflection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sensorySensitivities, socialOutsider, socialrecluse, speakingUp, StatlerAndWaldorfMuppets, stingyFrugalHermit, summer, teamwork, thegameawards, themePark, TheSubstanceMovie, TightBudgetHermit, Timelapse

In this blog post:
❧ Theme Park fanart compilation timelapse
❧ I don’t do art requests
❧ being high sensitivity & a night owl workaholic
❧ personal update & internet finds

🕵️Sus about Mallard mascot🦆 Fanart for the Crossy Road Theme Park update!

By leonieyue Posted on 3 December 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with alienatingYourself, asocial, autismLife, autisticallySocial, awkward, changeIsConstant, comfort zone, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, CrossyFanart, CrossyMallard, CrossyMallardMascot, crossyroad, CrossyRoadBday, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, exhausted, fallingAsleep, fanart, grump, grumpy, headFogHeavy, hermitLife, homebody, homebodylife, hybridWork, illustraiton, Illustration, intervention, knighthood, leonieyue, lifeChanges, livestreamingParasocialRelationships, lowEnergy, LowSocialEndurance, ManagingEnergy, nightowl, NoSocialLife, openOfficeEnvironments, outsourcedArtist, overanalysing, overstimulated, personalupdate, progressupdate, recovery, reflection, reflective, remoteWorking, restroomSensoryRecovery, routine, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, sleepy, socialBattery, socialEating, socialEnergy, SocialInteraction, sociallyOblivious, socialOutsider, socialWithdrawal, socialZombie, structureAndRoutine, Timelapse, tired, workaholic, workFromHome, workingHours, ZombieHusk

In this blog post:
❧ about this illustration
❧ reflecting on my first in-office days (hybrid with WFH) & life changes as a hermit
❧ personal update & mental health

✨🦆Crossy Road Chicken & Mallard illustrations (originally for the GCAP2024 keynote)🐔

By leonieyue Posted on 26 November 2024 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 4Bmovement, 4BMovementLifeWithoutMen, ace, asexual, asexuality, beauty, beauty and the beast, beautyStandard, beautyStandards, burnout, burntOut, ClaraReeveGCAP2024keynote, comfort zone, comfortZone, conventionallyAttractive, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, DemiromanticAce, emotionalEnergy, energy, EnergyConserving, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, leonieyue, marketingArt, physicalAttractiveness, physiotherapist, reflection, romance, social media, stingyFrugalHermit, Timelapse, youthBeauty

In this blog post (part 2):
❧ about these illustrations & subtitled timelapse!
❧ managing social media & checking only when I post
❧ personal update & more internet finds

💎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

⚔️ Making a Sword [Slowly learning Blender #1]

By leonieyue Posted on 28 May 2024 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart Tagged with 3D, activelySocialOnline, animationIndustry, anxietyFuture, ArtHabits, autisticBurnout, Blender3D, bluesky, comfort zone, comfortZone, complexFeelings, contentVoid, entertainmentIndustry, envy, focus, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, instagram, intense, JennyNicholsonYoutube, learning, learningJourney, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, MetaAi, movieTrailers, notgoodenoughFeelings, OkisWeirdStoriesYoutube, processingFeelings, qubicle, reflection, reflective, resentment, selfImprovement, sittingwithfeelings, social media, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, socialmediaoverwhelm, socialmediatoxicity, SocialMediaVoid, spiteful, StarWarsHotel, sword, ThreeKingdoms, TwitterVentAgain

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ personal update, striving not to burn out & 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

⚔️✨🔮Ad Fighter & Ad Buster🔥🥋🥊 [Crossy Road update]! Boundaries, saying no, adult friendships, why autistic peeps asking questions

By leonieyue Posted on 30 December 2023 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with acquaintanceBoundaries, adultFriendship, art process, assumptions, autismFriendships, autisticallySocial, autisticBurnout, AutisticQuestionAsking, autisticThings, BeyondTheDesperationOfSeekingFriends, bittersweet, boundaries, comfort zone, comfortable, comfortZone, communication, compromise, crossy, crossy road, CrossyAdBuster, CrossyAdFighter, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadUpdate, doormat, friendlyTonePadding, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipActivitiesCosts, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, friendshipBreakups, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, friendshipGuilt, FriendshipLoyalty, FriendshipMileage, friendshipMistakes, FriendshipReciprocity, FriendshipsAreHard, FriendshipStability, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, introvert, LeonieDefensive, leonieyue, lessonLearned, LevelsOfFriendships, lifeLessons, limitingNarrativeOrKnowingWhoYouAre, MakingFriendsJob, marketingArt, notbeingajerk, onlineAcquaintances, romance, RomanceTropes, romantic, romanticAttraction, romanticFiction, RomanticProjection, sayingNo, sensorySensitivities, slow, socialFoundation, spaceWarriorPrincess, speakingUp, TextChatCommunication, Timelapse, whyQuestions, WickedMusical

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled art process speedpaint video!
❧ about this big Crossy Road update!
❧ thoughts on boundaries & saying no
❧ notes on making friends as an adult
❧ why autistic people ask so many questions versus getting defensive

Splatoon 3 / Frye, Shiver & Big Man (Deepcut) doodles + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 12 September 2022 Posted in Fanart, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse Tagged with alopeciaAreataHairLoss, BigMan, boundaries, comfort zone, DeepCut, doctor, fanart, friendships, Frye, health, healthUpdate, Illustration, incompatible, intermittentFasting, IronDeficiencyAnemia, leonieyue, nintendo, NintendoSwitch, onlineBoundaries, onlineFriendship, overthinking, personal, physicalHealth, rejection, rejectionSensitivity, sensitive, sensitivity, Shiver, socialmediaBoundaries, Splatoon, Splatoon3, SwitchFriendCode, Timelapse, uncomfortable, venting, ウツホ, スプラトゥーン3, フウカ

I ramble about:
– playing slow in story mode
– switch friend code for Splatoon 3 & reflecting on online boundaries,
– Splatoon 3 doodle,
– Deep Cut timelapse
– venting about the doctor & struggling with my iron deficiency :’)

Tag: comfort zone