comfortZone – Leonie's Art Blog

CharacterDesign, Collaboration, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Traditional

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

leonieyue Aug 12, 2025 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

CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video

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

leonieyue Dec 16, 2024 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

Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video

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

leonieyue Nov 26, 2024 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

LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart

⚔️ Making a Sword [Slowly learning Blender #1]

leonieyue May 28, 2024 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!

Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection

Leonie’s mixed feelings / my 15th twitter anniversary oof / I’m not keeping twitter up to date anymore, GenAI & creative control

leonieyue Mar 6, 2024 Tagged with acceptance, art blog mission, ArtCollaboration, ArtistBrand, ArtistHustle, ArtistStruggle, ArtJourney, ArtWorkerBee, askingForHelp, blogging, burnout, ChronicallyOnline, comfortZone, communicationIssues, ContentCreationProblems, contentCreators, ContentHustle, contentVoid, creativeControl, disappointment, fightForMyselfHow, frustration, generativeAI, HavingACry, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hope, hopelessness, Illustration, internet, internetConsumption, intrusiveBadMemories, jaded, learningJourney, leftbehind, leftinthedark, leonieyue, ManagingStress, memeing, mixedFeelings, mosquito, neglect, noenergytochase, notvalued, personal, personalBranding, pettiness, petty, reflection, reflective, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, self portrait, selfAcceptance, socialmediaAndArtists, spamEmail, speakingUp, struggle, supportArtist, TerminallyOnline, tolerate, trustIssues, twitter, twitterAnniversary, venting, wariness

Also in this little blog post about personal feelings, creative control, personal update & more.

CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video

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

leonieyue Dec 30, 2023 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

Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse

Young Cricket the meat dumplings lover! [Warioware: Get It Together!]

leonieyue Jun 6, 2023 Tagged with adultFriendship, aloneTime, alonewithcompany, anxiety, autism, autismFriendships, autismLife, autisticBurnout, AutisticFidgeting, BeingMisunderstood, burden, burnedBridges, comfortZone, commitmentfear, communication, confusion, connections, contentCreators, coworkerFriendshipsHard, deadpan, defensive, delayedProcessing, demiromantic, DemiromanticAce, disappointment, dumplings, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalLabour, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyImmature, emotionallyProcessing, exhausted, expectationsProjections, fanart, flowers, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, friendshipGuilt, friendships, gaslighting, ghosting, heartbreak, humanConnection, Illustration, incompetence, inconvenience, influencer, isolated, jawPain, jobsAutism, judgement, kungfu, leonieyue, LettingGo, LevelsOfFriendships, limerence, limerenceProjectionFantasy, loneliness, lonely, lowEnergy, MakingVideo, ManagingStress, manipulative, martial artist, martialartists, masking, meat buns, meat dumplings, monkey, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, NeurodiversityWorkplaceAccommmodations, nintendo, nonVerbal, notlookingautistic, Online:urker, onlineAcquaintances, OnlineContentConsistency, onlineFriendship, OnlineLurker, onlinePersona, OutgrowingFriends, passivereactions, PerformanceAnxiety, personalSpace, personalTraumas, personalupdate, personalZone, phonecalls, platonicFriends, publicpersona, rechargeTime, reflection, reflective, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, RomanticProjection, scapegoat, ScriptingAutism, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, socialAnxiety, socialGroups, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, socialMediaPoll, socialNeeds, SocialNorms, socialOutsider, socialreassurance, socialrecluse, socialValidation, speedpaintcommentary, StressEat, structureAndRoutine, stubbornness, subtlety, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, tired, toxicFriendships, TraumaProjection, unavailablepeople, WarioWare, WarioWareGetItTogether, writtencommunication, youngCricket, youtubevideo, ヤングクリケット

In this blog post:
– back to text commentary speedpaint
– commentary, youtube analytics & video making woes
– autism thoughts: masking, not looking autistic enough, scripting, “selective” mutism, burnouts, jobs/workplace accommodations, social faux pas, friendships & intimacy
– social media & personal update

Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Traditional

Gameboy Link 💚💙❤️

leonieyue Oct 17, 2022 Tagged with AfterAlterna, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismLife, autistic, choice, ChosenFamily, comfortZone, complexFeelings, drawtober, drawtober2022, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, EmotionallyAvoidant, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyProcessing, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, empty, EmptySoul, EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnceMovie, existential, existentialEmptiness, existentialism, fanart, feltpens, felttipmarkers, gameboy, gameboy color, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, highlighters, homebodylife, Illustration, inktober, inktober2022, isolationlife, jaded, Legend of Zelda, legendofzelda, LeonieMugs, leonieyue, lifedirection, lifesuffering, Link, linktober, linktober2022, livinginthemoment, loneliness, ManagingEmotions, meaningoflife, movieThoughts, quiet, QuietObserver, rejectionSensitivity, sociallyAcceptable, solitary, solitude, Splatoon3doodle, textas, Traditional, traditional art, TransGenerationalFamilyTrauma

Little blog ramble about this post, on Bayonetta 3, reflecting about “Everything Everywhere All at Once” & mugs ;D

LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost

Study & sketch post / Portraits from imagination + Figure studies ❤️💙💛💜

leonieyue Sep 19, 2022 Tagged with AIartDiscourse, art studies, ArtCareer, careerthoughts, comfortZone, DrawingFromImagination, EadweardMuybridgeFrames, EmptySoul, existentialEmptiness, fanart, figure drawing, figuredrawing, gestures, imagination, ImaginativeDrawing, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, mindlessdoodles, photoStudy, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, reflective, Shiver, sketchbook, SketchFromImagination, sketchpost, slowStudy, Splatoon3, Splatoon3doodle, studies, study, studyPost, sustainableArtCareer

Portraits from imagination + Eadweard Muybridge frame studies!
Reflecting on art brain dumps, AI art discourse & I continue to juggle life and trying to relax better :’)

LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches

Art from Imagination & Memory / Lots of Portraits & health update!

leonieyue May 23, 2022 Tagged with alopeciaAreataHairLoss, anxiety, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismLife, Berserk, comfortZone, DrawingFromImagination, FinalFantasyOriginsStrangersOfParadise, GutsBerserk, healthUpdate, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hikikomori, imagination, ImaginativeDrawing, IronDeficiencyAnemia, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, PerformanceAnxiety, personalupdate, portraits, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, sketchbook, SketchFromImagination, sketchpost

Lots of terrible heads
And current health update :’)

Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse

SuperLeonieMode 342 / Not actually ready for art + timelapse! Reflecting on purpose, energy, context switching and focus

leonieyue Feb 7, 2022 Tagged with ArtistHustle, autism, AutismAdulthood, autistic, burnout, cintiqWacom, comfortZone, comic, contextSwitching, creative, creativeEnergy, creativity, emotionalEnergy, energy, focus, Illustration, leonieyue, lowEnergy, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, personalart, productivity, productivityMethod, reflection, reflective, self portrait, slow, slowLearner, SuperLeonieMode, tea, Timelapse, tired, tunnelVision, why art anymore

Creative brain started to float away
oh no my creative & energy levels!
Thoughts on context switching, struggle with focus & questioning art purpose.

Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse

SuperLeonieMode 337 / Empty + timelapse!

leonieyue Nov 22, 2021 Tagged with autopilot, BeingPresent, blob, comfortZone, comic, distraction, headEmpty, Illustration, LeonieBlob, leonieyue, lowEnergy, mundane, noThoughts, self portrait, slow, soulLeavingBody, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse

No thoughts, head empty

A ramble about what my mind does sometimes.

Comics, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, SuperLeonieMode

SuperLeonieMode 324 / Happy Love day with Kirby and me, adjusting my blog posts and patreon + LeonieUpdate!

leonieyue Feb 15, 2021 Tagged with 2SnacksAnimation, AccentedCinema, alien, alienatingYourself, alonewithcompany, animated, anime, AnimeTranslationLocalisation, ArcadeShooterGame, AspergersFromTheInsideYoutube, authenticity, autism, autismInLadies, autistic, BakaMitaiCover, BeingMisunderstood, blogging, BodyLanguage, BootlegKoalas, boundaries, ChosenFamily, comfortZone, comic, comicstrip, communication, compatibility, copingWithPain, dating, DatingThoughts, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, executiveFunctionChallenges, eyeContact, fanart, friends, friendship, GaiaOnline, guilt, hermitLife, highfive, HKRomance, honesty, humanConnection, Illustration, InLoveWithIdeaOfSomeone, inspiration, isolated, isolationlife, JhonaYoutube, kennyLauderdaleYoutube, kirby, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, livingWithIntention, loneliness, love, LoveAndKindness, LoveDay, lovelanguage, marriage, MaxDerratYoutube, MetaHumanCreator, MutualInterests, MyImmortal, overthinking, pain, personal, personalTraumas, personalupdate, PointBlankGame, RedBardYoutube, reflection, rejection, rejectionSensitivity, relationships, respect, romance, romanticAttraction, SabanMoonPilot, SalariYoutuber, self portrait, selfDiagnosisAutism, selfLove, selfRespect, shortFilms, SlowBonding, socialCues, socialising, sociallyOblivious, subtlety, SuperLeonieMode, traumas, unrequitedLove, ValentinesDay, values, WaitingModeMonotasker, WeddingIndustrialComplex, weddingsExploitLoveAndWallet, WhatIsLove, yakuza, カービィ, 星のカービィ

SuperLeonieMode 324 / Happy Love day with Kirby and me! LeonieUpdate, adjusting my blog posts (why and how) & patreon, reflecting on relationships, experiencing pain, guilt and loneliness as an autistic and interesting finds in this blog post!

Comics, LeonieYue, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode

SuperListenMode 212: Improv Class Episode 2

leonieyue May 15, 2018 Tagged with comfortZone, games, improvClass, learning, leonieyue, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode

Episode 2 of improv class shenanigans

Tag: comfortZone