creativityRut – Leonie's Art Blog

Fanart / Absolutely innocent Tanuki from Crossy Road’s Japan update + timelapse! 🦝✨

By leonieyue Posted on 4 August 2021 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with character design, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, creativeRut, creativity, creativityRut, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadJapanUpdate, doneIsBetterThanPerfect, existential, existentialEmptiness, fanart, giftart, gloomy, hamsterWheel, hipsterWhale, Illustration, leonieyue, perfectionism, progress, raccoon dog, reflection, resignation, sumo, sumoTournaments, tanuki, たぬき, 日本, 狸

Family friendly raccoon dog (:
And I reflect about my art, what I post and mixed feelings on “progress”.

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]

Fanart / Sailor Mercury☿️ & Sailor Jupiter♃ + LeonieUpdate about art making, habits and breaks!

By leonieyue Posted on 10 August 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate Tagged with arting, autism, creativeRut, creativity, creativityRut, fanart, focus, habit, headspace, hermitLife, Illustration, InterestingFinds, LastOfUsPart2, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, lineart, MentalHealth, narcissism, Narcissists, personalupdate, process, procrastination, productivity, relationships, SailorJupiter, SailorMercury, sailorScouts, sailorSenshi, sketch, TakingBreaks, TimMinchin

Fanart / Sailor Mercury☿️ & Sailor Jupiter♃ + LeonieUpdate:
★ process for my fanart ;D
★ personal update about art making, habits and breaks, on youtube videos plus interesting finds

Illustration / Hot Chocolate Girl love! + MondayLeonieupdate

By leonieyue Posted on 8 June 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate Tagged with autism, boundaries, burntOut, character design, CharacterDesign, creativity, creativityRut, gaming thoughts, hotchocolate, HotChocolateGirl, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, MondayLeonieUpdate, MusicalThoughts, narcissism, Narcissists, personalupdate, SixTheMusical, TomHollandUmbrella

In this MondayLeonieUpdate:
— Hot chocolate girl again!
— personal update, burn out & creativity as an artist
— more therapeutic thoughts about dealing with narcissism & having autism
— and other interesting finds!

SuperListenMode 270: Why I’m conflicted with these comics

By leonieyue Posted on 1 April 2019 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with comic, creativity, creativityRut, leonieyue, personal, sadness, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode

Perhaps I’m too emotional, repetitive and vulnerable online & people have mentally blocked me & my art out 🙁

Maybe I’m the one who’s tired of the subject matter and I need a break.

Why do I art anymore? Three years of Burp! 2016 Reflection + 11 months at Mighty Games [NOV&DEC2016]

By leonieyue Posted on 5 January 2017 Posted in Comics, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Podcast, Reflection, Sketches, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with creativity, creativityRut, fanart, journal, kimi no na wa, learning, LeonieTalks, mightygames, moana, movie, PlayToWinDocumentary, pokemon, pokemon sun and moon, sketch, star wars rogue one, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode, why art anymore, Year of Burp, your name, YuriOnIceAnime

Whole bunch of SuperLeonieMode comics within!

Y3M11&12 Leonie Yue’s Sketchbook

Why do I art anymore? When everyone is incredible & standards are so high

Recalling poor Graphic Novel attempts; not for me right now
Wait; what do I want to keep doing?

Questions on making art, inspiration, personal art evolution, what makes art worthwhile, what my art is about & how do you know when it’s done

2016 & 11 months at Mighty Games: From Home Hermit to Studio Hermit Artist haha

List of notable 2016 “Personal Struggles & Things Learned” blog posts

Special Thanks to people & Personal Stuff to remember

Artist Jealousy the Overview: Again? Leonie, why?

The Past 2 Months: Recovery from intense MIGW16, Play to Win Documentary, entertainment I saw and hopes for 2017!

Tag: creativityRut

Fanart / Absolutely innocent Tanuki from Crossy Road’s Japan update + timelapse! 🦝✨

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

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

Fanart / Sailor Mercury☿️ & Sailor Jupiter♃ + LeonieUpdate about art making, habits and breaks!

Illustration / Hot Chocolate Girl love! + MondayLeonieupdate

SuperListenMode 270: Why I’m conflicted with these comics

Why do I art anymore? Three years of Burp! 2016 Reflection + 11 months at Mighty Games [NOV&DEC2016]