creative – Leonie's Art Blog

🥰 Kung fu Peach Part 2 [Princess Peach: Showtime fanart] Anxiety as an artist, social media, relevancy, GenAi, twitter, networking & what am I even doing

By leonieyue Posted on 9 April 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate Tagged with anxiety, AnxietyFromNewsPolitics, anxietyFuture, AprilFools, Art Anxiety, ArtCareer, ArtistDesperation, artistSocialThings, ArtistStruggle, burnout, careerDirection, CareerRelevancy, careerthoughts, changeIsConstant, changing career, contentCreators, creative, creativeFulfillment, doomSpiraling, emotionalStorytelling, existential, existentialDread, fanart, FoamstarsEthics, forcingIntoThingsYouDontFit, freetochangeourmind, generativeAI, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, HustleCulture, hustlingExhausting, Illustration, innerPurpose, joyAndMeaning, leonieyue, lifeSkills, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, megadroughtFear, plagiarism, PokemonMiku, princess peach, princesspeach, PrincessPeachShowtime, purpose, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sketchbookThoughts, slow, slowingdown, social media, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, SocialMediaMetrics, SocialMediaVoid, StreamingAnxiety, stress, StruggleAdapt, sustainableArtCareer, twitter, TwitterVentAgain, volatileIndustry, wariowareMoveIt, youtubers

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble!
❧ trying not to spiral with anxiety and fear as an artist – relevancy, GenAI, social media is frustrating, twitter & not knowing what I’m doing
❧ reflecting on artist networking
❧ personal feelings, update & more!

⭐Happy Mar10 day 2024!! 🍄👑 On being a hermit

By leonieyue Posted on 10 March 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with BeingAnOutcast, bummed, creative, creativeControl, creativeFulfillment, creativity, cute, DesireToProveSelfConstantlyExhausting, disappointed, disappointment, envious, envy, expectations, feelings, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hurt, Illustration, Kimo, leftbehind, leonieyue, luigi, Mar10day, mario, Mario bros, missedKimo, mixedFeelings, movingForward, nintendo, personal, princess peach, princesspeach, protectArtCreativeProcess, reassurance, resentment, SelfReassurance, spiraling, unaware, ピーチ姫, ルイージ

Little personal blog post and ramble!

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

By leonieyue Posted on 7 February 2022 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse 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.

Sketch for the day 02 / Pointing [pixivSketch 28/05/2021] + ramble on managing social media (LeonieArtRambles podcast #6)

By leonieyue Posted on 29 May 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, Podcast, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with algorithms, ArtChallenge, ArtForTheDay, ArtistBrand, ArtistStandards, artPrompt, AttentionEconomy, careerDirection, careerthoughts, contentCreators, creative, creativeRut, creativity, creativityRut, drawing, DrawingChallenge, existential, FindingANiche, influencer, LeonieArtRambles, loneliness, lonelyArtist, MentalHealth, niche, perfectionism, PerformanceAnxiety, personal, Personality, personalupdate, photostudies, photoStudy, pixivSketch, pointing, portrait, prompt, reflection, rough, sketch, sketchbook, SketchForTheDay, sketchpost, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialMediaEngagement, tired, twitterAlgorithm, uncertainty

It’s my second sketch prompt!
Also Leonie rambles about feelings, managing social media, not wanting to post some of her art to twitter, mental health, perfectionism, niches, uncertainty, constantly evolving boundaries and how few people seem to read her blog 🙁

There’s also a podcast version of this blog post!

Patron only StudyPost 15 / DTIYS illustration timelapse, figure drawing & portraits + letting go of results & perfectionism

By leonieyue Posted on 26 April 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with AkimboPodcast, animation, anxiety, art studies, autism, autistic, Awkwafina, BadFriends, beauty and the beast, blogging, clippaintstudio, clipstudiopaint, ColossalMovie, concentration, creative, creativeRut, creativity, creativityRut, doubts, empty, existential, failures, FeminineGaze, figure drawing, figuredrawing, FilmJoyYoutube, focus, friendships, hopelessness, housekeeping, HowlsMovingCastle, hyperfocus, InterestingFinds, KungFuPanda, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, LettingGo, lifesuffering, LoishArtist, MaleGaze, MarvelShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings, MollieBowmanYoutube, Nihilism, patreon, PatreonOnly, patron, perfectionist, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, reflective, results, RKFT1Youtube, SagesRainYoutube, self compassion, selfa, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfdoubt, selfImprovement, SethGodin, shortFilms, sketchbook, sketchpost, studies, study, success, suffering, TaikaWaititi, TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles, witandFollyYoutube, yakuza, YharaZaydYoutube

Sketchpost 15 / DTIYS illustration timelapse, figure drawing and portraits + letting go of results, perfectionism & final interesting finds in this blog post [patron only]

Patron only StudyPost 13 / Figure studies + Dreams, prestige, hustle culture and purpose

By leonieyue Posted on 28 October 2020 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with AdamDuff, art studies, artbusiness, ArtCareer, ArtCareerAdvice, ArtDreams, awards, burnout, CareerAdvice, careerthoughts, clipstudiopaint, competition, creative, creativity, Doodles, DrawingChallenge, DrawThisInYourStyle, dreamStudios, dtiys, entertainmentIndustry, fame, feelings, figure drawing, figuredrawing, freelanceLife, growingPains, Growth, HustleCulture, influence, leonieyue, ManagingEmotions, MentalHealth, music, overcompensatingWeaknesses, overwork, patreon, PatreonOnly, patron, personalSpace, prestige, productivity, professionalism, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, purpose, recognition, redrawArt, reflection, reputation, self portrait, selfWorth, sketchbook, sketchpost, socialCurrency, socialmedia, stress, studies, study, sustainableArtCareer

Sketchbook 13 / Figure studies, doodles + ramble about dreams, prestige, hustle culture and purpose [patron only]

SuperListenMode 282: Don’t give a hoot about showing sketchbook mileage

By leonieyue Posted on 28 February 2019 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with comic, creative, creativeRut, creativity, leonieyue, sketchbook, socialmedia, socialmediaoverwhelm, stamina, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode

Leonie rambles!
I’ve come across so many reputable artists talking about keeping sketchbooks all the time. Filling them, doing deliberate practice, studying and learning at tremendous speeds. That you have to have a sketchbook with you at all times. Fill up X number of pages a day, week, month, year.

That you *should* do this and that if you want *this career*.

SuperListenMode: On being a fan and Parasocial Relationships

By leonieyue Posted on 2 October 2018 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with authenticity, BurpDoodle, creative, fandoms, friendships, games industry, leonieyue, parasocial relationships, socialEvents, socialising, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode

Leonie rambles deep into the topic of parasocial relationships with youtubers, streamers, as a person who posts art online and who watches lots of streams/videos, how things are weird/creepy with the social dynamic when boundaries are not established/respected and industry relationships online.