complexFeelings – Leonie's Art Blog

❄️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.

🌈Rainbow swim [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 6]

By leonieyue Posted on 12 October 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, acquaintanceBoundaries, activelySocialOnline, adultFriendship, anxiety, anxious, asocial, asthma, autisticallySocial, BlueSkySocial, casualConnections, ChronicallyOnline, complexFeelings, conflictAvoidance, connections, coworkerFriendshipsHard, cupcake, disappointment, disrespectful, drycoughing, earHealth, earningTrust, emotionalConnections, emotionalDistance, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, EmotionallyDistant, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyMutual, emotionallyProcessing, expectationsProjections, feelingCaredFor, friendship, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, friendshipBreakups, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, friendshipGuilt, FriendshipLoyalty, friendshipmi, FriendshipMileage, friendshipMistakes, FriendshipReciprocity, guilt, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hurtFeelings, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, leonieyue, LimerenceProjectionFantasty, limerenceProjectionFantasy, linkedin, LowSocialEndurance, manipulative, mixedFeelings, mutuallyInterested, NoSocialLife, notgoodenoughFeelings, onesided, onlineAcquaintances, onlineBoundaries, onlineFriendship, onlinePersona, overthinking, parasocial relationships, personal update, postcoldinfectionscough, processingFeelings, rainbow, reflection, reflective, resentment, respect, RomanticProjection, secondchance, secondguessing, sittingwithfeelings, social media, socialAnxiety, socialConformity, socialsi, socialSituations, splatoon3SideOrder, toiletCleaning, trust, trustIssues, unequaldynamics, unfollow, VoxelAnimation, voxelIllustration, WalkingSteps

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ Social media overthinking & second guessing if it’s mutual
❧ Side Order, personal, hearing & health update & more

⚔️ 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!

Happy Kirby anniversary x Year of the Dragon! 🐲Processing thoughts on the Barbie movie

By leonieyue Posted on 23 April 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with anxiety, anxietyFuture, anxious, BarbieMovieThoughts, comedySatireMovie, complexFeelings, corporateFeminism, dragon, DragonKirby, empathy, FakeVideoGames, fanart, fridgeTroubles, gender inequality, GhostRiderThoughts, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, houseCleaning, humanConnection, humanity, humanscomplex, Illustration, kirby, KirbyAndTheForgottenLand, kirbyAnniversary, leonieyue, motherhood, movieThoughts, NicolasCageMovies, subtitledSpeedpaint, Timelapse, toxicMasculinity, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ processing thoughts on the Barbie movie
❧ personal update

☂️Princess Peach’s Umbrella Triple Move 💕 [Super Mario RPG] Game is out today!!

By leonieyue Posted on 17 November 2023 Posted in Animation, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, 2Danimation, 2dbasicAnimation, ableism, adultFriendship, animation, art process, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, AutismEgoDeath, autismfocus, autismFriendships, autismLife, complexFeelings, coworkerFriendshipsHard, eugenicsJapan, eyeContact, fanart, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, gameThoughts, ghosted, ghosting, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hikikomori, hurt, hydrationPlan, ignored, Illustration, JawClenching, jawPain, leonieyue, LiveActionZeldaMovie, livestreamingParasocialRelationships, loneliness, ManagingStress, MarioKart8Deluxe, masking, mukbang, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, NeurodiversityWorkplaceAccommmodations, notgoodenoughFeelings, parasocial relationships, perceptions, physiololgicalstress, princess peach, RATtestCovid, rejected, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, scapegoat, selfAwareness, selfregulation, social media, socialDistancing, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, SocialScripts, stress, subtitledSpeedpaint, SuperMarioBrosWonder, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, TheLegendOfZeldaMovie, ThoughtSpotYoutube, twitter, Umbrella, ZeldaMovie, スーパーマリオrpg, ピーチ姫

On her left

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled speedpaint!
❧ Live action Zelda movie??
❧ Hikikomori, autism & ego deaths
❧ finished Super Mario Bros Wonder!
❧ personal update & more!

🌸🌼 Super Drill Princesses Peach & Daisy 🔩[Super Mario Bros Wonder] + reflecting how friendships & intimacy are hard.

By leonieyue Posted on 17 October 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with adultFriendship, AnimeMovie, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, art process, autism, autismfocus, autismFriendships, autismLife, BadFriends, BeyondTheDesperationOfSeekingFriends, boundaries, casualConnections, communication, complexFeelings, CreativeBlock, creativeRut, DetachmentLettingGo, DistancerPursuers, doubtful, EmotionallyAvoidant, EnergyDraining, EnergyImbalanceDynamics, energyLevels, fanart, fickle, freetochangeourmind, friends, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipActivitiesCosts, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEndedMeme, friendshipExpectations, friendshipGuilt, FriendshipMileage, friendshipMistakes, FriendshipReciprocity, friendships, FriendshipsAreHard, FriendshipStability, GoodFriendsWithoutExpectingIt, growingPains, humanscomplex, Illustration, insecurity, leonieyue, LevelsOfFriendships, limitedPublicSpaces, lowEnergy, ManagingEnergy, mario, MarioDrillAbility, MilkyWay, MillenniumActressMovie, ModernGamesGrinding, movieThoughts, mutuallyInterested, onlineFriendship, OutgrowingFriends, OutsideActivities, platonicFriends, preemptiveDistancing, princess peach, princessDaisy, PrioritisationWheel, pushpullconnections, PushPullStrategy, ReciprocityFriendshipCheck, SafeSupportiveAccepting, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, ScarcityFriendships, selfRespect, socialAnxiety, socialOutsider, socialreassurance, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary\, SuperMarioBrosWonder, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, touchingGrassAdvice, toxicFriendships, true', TrueIntimacy, TwitterRecap, unhealthyAttachment, WheelOfLife, WrongFriends, youthBeauty, デイジー姫, ピーチ姫

In this blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled speedpaint!
❧ friendships are a disaster
❧ attachment, intimacy & friendship lessons
❧ first time watching Millennium Actress
❧ personal update & more!

LeonieWrites about GCAP2023 (Days 1 & 2) – vlog & blog ramble!

By leonieyue Posted on 4 October 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Photos, Reflection, Video Tagged with antisocial, ArtCareer, autisticallySocial, careerthoughts, complexFeelings, conflicting, crowdedEventsNoMasksScary, crowds, feelings, gamedev, gameindustry, games, games industry, gamesConference, gamesEvents, gamesWeek, GCAP, GCAP2023, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, homebody, homebodylife, hurt, LeonieRambles, LeonieWrites, leonieyue, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, MIGW, MIGW2023, mixedFeelings, notgoodenoughFeelings, reflective, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, sittingwithfeelings, social, socialAnxiety, socialEnergy, socialEvents, socialGroups, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, vlog

My 4.5 minute LeonieWrites vlog, recap and reflecting a bit more at the blog.

Milk Chocolate for Valentine’s Day Splatfest Chocolate #5 / Splatoon 3 🍫💕

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with beautyStandards, beingTrueToYourself, chocolate, communication, complexFeelings, desirability, fanart, feelings, friendships, games, HappySingleTime, hotchocolate, Illustration, InLoveWithIdeaOfSomeone, leonieyue, love, LoveAndKindness, LoveDay, lovelanguage, mixedFeelings, NintendoDirect, physicalAttractiveness, platonicFriends, platonicRelationship, pussinbootsTheLastWish, relationships, romance, romanticAttraction, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfLove, singledom, sittingwithfeelings, speedpaintcommentary, spinster, SwitchGames, textcommentary, Timelapse, unrequitedLove, ValentinesDay, videogames, WhatIsLove, youtubevideo

In this blog post:
– speedpaint text commentary process video!
– Chocolate Splatfest
– personal ramble about romance, feelings & happy single time!
– Nintendo Direct thoughts