crossyChicken – Leonie's Art Blog

🐔💖🦆 Chicken & Mallard’s wedding party! 💐 2026 Crossy Road Valentine’s Day update with Tuxedo Mallard pt 2/2

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2026 Posted in CharacterDesign, Collaboration, Concept Art, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with ace, aestheticAttraction, alloromanticAce, antiGenAI, ballpointPen, cake, character design, character development, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyChickenCousins, CrossyMallard, CrossyMallardFamily, crossyroad, CrossyRoadCharacter, crossyRoadCharacterDesign, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrossyRoadWedding2026, CrossyRooster, HappySingleTime, Illustration, leonieyue, lithromantic, loneliness, love, mallard, pen, pen sketch, reflection, self portrait, singledom, ValentinesDay

❧ happy Valentine’s day for all kinds of love :’)
❧ reflecting on love, loneliness, personal update & more

💔🦆 “Tell me why – Ain’t nothing but a heartache…” 💍 2026 Crossy Road Valentine’s Day update with Tuxedo Mallard pt 1/2

By leonieyue Posted on 10 February 2026 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with alonewithcompany, antiGenAI, burnout, character design, character development, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyChickenCousins, CrossyMallard, CrossyMallardFamily, crossyroad, CrossyRoadCharacter, crossyRoadCharacterDesign, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrossyRoadWedding2026, CrossyRooster, fanart, genAI, GenAIimpactInternet, Illustration, ImpactOfGenAIonEnvironment, intenseWorkRest, JawClenching, jawPain, KirbyAndTheForgottenLand, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, love, LoveDay, mallard, NintendoDirect, reflection, rest, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, ValentinesDay, winddownBedtime

❧ more about this Valentine’s update
❧ nintendo partner showcase, minimising burnout, personal update & more

☀️🏖️A Sunny Summer Chrimbus! 🎅⛄⭐ [Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 25 December 2024 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with abandonmentIssues, acquaintanceBoundaries, adultFriendship, beach, comicMangaThoughts, covid19, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, CrossyCrab, CrossyGingerbreadperson, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossySandmanSnowman, CrossySanta, disfigurementdisgustprettyprivilege, distrust, eczema, emotionalDistance, EmotionallyDistant, envious, envy, FearOfMissingOut, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, FriendshipLoyalty, FriendshipReciprocity, FriendshipsAreHard, GoalsPhilosophy, happyholidays, healthUpdate, hermit, hermitLeonie, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, insecurity, judgemental, leftout, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, lossOfRespect, MaleGaze, manga, marketingArt, neverGoodEnough, NintendoSwitch, nintendoswitch2024, notgoodenoughFeelings, onesided, personal update, pikmin4, postingBreak, postingSchedule, preemptiveDistancing, ReciprocityFriendshipCheck, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, sameFaceSyndrome, self comparisons, SelfPressure, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sensorySensitivities, sexyGenderBinary, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, socialGroups, solitary, solitaryRecoveryMode, summer, Timelapse, videogames, youtubevideo

In this blog post:
❧ about the art & speedpaint for summer chrimbus peeps!
❧ envy & internet finds
❧ personal update & 2025 goals

✨🦆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

🎂🐔 Happy 🔟th birthday Crossy Road!! 🎊🥳

By leonieyue Posted on 25 November 2024 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 20thNovCrossyRoadBirthday, ClaraReeveGCAP2024keynote, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, crossyChicken, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadBday, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, leonieyue, marketingArt

In this blog post:
❧ about this illustration & subtitled timelapse! (part 1)

🌳🌼Bouncing together at Crossy Road Castle 🐈‍⬛🐔🦆🦄

By leonieyue Posted on 5 November 2024 Posted in Animation, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 3D animation, 3Dart, animation, animation practice, anxiety, ArtistsOutOfMyLeague, boundaries, comic, communication, communicationIssues, copingMechanism, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, DemiromanticAce, depressed, disappointment, emotionalExpectations, entitlement, expectations, expectationsProjections, FeelingLikeAfraud, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, gratefulness, gratitude, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, imposterSyndrome, indecisive, irrelevant, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, LettingGo, loneliness, magicaVoxel, marketingArt, MentalHealth, negativity, neverGoodEnough, newsletters, notgoodenoughFeelings, PerformanceAnxiety, personalBoundaries, PokemonTCGpocket, reflection, romance, romantic, RomanticProjection, romanticSpectrum, romcoms, sappy, self comparisons, self compassion, SelfConfidence, skin, social media, socialConformity, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediacharismapopularitycontest, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, SocialMediaMetrics, SocialMediaReach, SuperLeonieMode, toptierfamousartists, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, wingingIt

In this blog post:
❧ about this little animation!
❧ on personal Crossy fanart next year
❧ Pokemon TCG Pocket
❧ not being good enough/impostor syndrome, mental health
❧ monthly newsletter, romance, personal update & more

🌈Crossy Road Castle Rainbow Spin! 🐈‍⬛🐔🦆🦄

By leonieyue Posted on 23 October 2024 Posted in Animation, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with bluesky, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, internetFinds, LEGObricks, leonieyue, lowkeystress, magicaVoxel, makeovers, makeUp, marketingArt, mutuallyInterested, overthinking, overwhelm, personal, rainbow, reflective, social media, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaVoid, SwanPrincess, UglyDucklingSwanMakeover, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

Also in this blog post:
❧ a little about this animation
❧ reflecting more on Bluesky
❧ make up, internet finds & personal update

✨Woo Crossy Road Castle crossplay (between consoles) multiplayer animation! 🎮

By leonieyue Posted on 16 October 2024 Posted in Animation, GameArt, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, SuperLeonieMode, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 3D, 3D animation, 3Dart, anxiety, Blender3D, CastleMarketingArt, coworkerFriendshipsHard, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyroad, CrossyUnihorse, depression, freezeUp, friendship, FriendshipActivitiesCosts, FriendshipBoundaries, friendshipBreakups, FriendshipCapacity, FriendshipEffort, FriendshipMileage, game, gameRamble, ghosting, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, isolationRoomsPressuredToQuitJob, jumpController, learningfrommistakes, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, marketingArt, onlineBoundaries, PeopleChange, privacy, relationships, splatoon3SideOrder, voxelArt, WhoIsPayingForMeal, youtube

In this blog post:
❧ more animating & learning in Blender
❧ friendship ramble & internet finds
❧ I quit at Side Order’s final boss (spoiler vent)
❧ personal update & more

🧁My 10 year art career & celebrating 10 years of MIGW / 10 Australian game characters for the Games Week Launch Party (cupcake fondant topper commission + LeonieArtRambles podcasty video)

By leonieyue Posted on 6 October 2024 Posted in Commission, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Podcast, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AgentARubyLaRouge, ArtCareer, asocial, autisic, autisticallySocial, CeriHutton, commission, covid19, COVIDzine, creativity, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyroad, CultOfTheLamb, cupcake, earHealth, EnergyDraining, EnergyImbalanceDynamics, energyLevels, entitlement, envy, faceMask, FrogDetective, game industry, gamedev, gameindustry, games, games industry, gamesConference, gamesEvents, GamesShowcase, gamesWeek, GCAP, HollowKnight, Illustration, indiegamedev, KingOfArmello, LeonieArtRambles, leonieyue, lowEnergy, ManagingEnergy, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, MIGW, MIGW2024, MovingOutGame, podcast, RATtestCovid, social media, socialAnxiety, socialEvents, speedpaintcommentary, StrayGods, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, UnpackingGame, UntitledGooseGame

In this blog post:
❧ about this project & art timelapse
❧ my little art career as a rambly podcast + art slideshow!
❧ I’ll add cupcake photos with credit at the blog if people share any :0
❧ COVID protection zine
❧ About not going to Melbourne International Games Week & the industry

📢ALERT!! Crossy Road x Among Us animation + Crossy Road life sized jump controller

By leonieyue Posted on 4 October 2024 Posted in Animation, GameArt, LeonieYue, progressupdate, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 3D, 3D animation, 3Dart, amongUs, BigGamesNightOut, Blender3D, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyMarketingArt, crossyroad, crossyRoadCollab, CrossyRoadJumpController, CrossyRoadUpdate, earHealth, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, marketingArt, RedCrewmate

In this little blog post:
❧ about this Blender animation!
❧ animated gif to promote the Crossy Road life sized jump controller for Big Games Night Out (Melb Games Week)

🎮Crossy Road Castle is out now on consoles! [fanart doodle]

By leonieyue Posted on 12 September 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Timelapse, Video Tagged with CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, fanart, GameConsoles, hipsterWhale, Illustration, leonieyue, mallard, NintendoSwitch, Timelapse, uniho

Just art and sharing reviews.

🌳Crossy Road Castle on console is being showcased at BitSummit this weekend!!🦄🐔🐈‍⬛🦆

By leonieyue Posted on 20 July 2024 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with AliceWalsh, BitSummit, bitsummit2024, Blender3D, CastleMarketingArt, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, gamedev, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, indiegamedev, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, LeonieMiceCleaningTroubles2024, leonieyue, marketingArt, personal update, postcardConceptByAliceWalsh, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, クロッシーロードキャッスル, ビットサミットドリフト

About this marketing art (lessons learned as a Blender newbie) & personal update!

🏰🎮Fanart to celebrate Crossy Road Castle being on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox & Playstation 5!! 🦄🐔🐈‍⬛🦆

By leonieyue Posted on 17 July 2024 Posted in Animation, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, fanart, GameConsoles, genAI, GenAIimpactInternet, genAIscams, HidekiKamiya, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, IkumiNakamura, Illustration, KarakuriJPmechanicalArt, LeonieMiceCleaningTroubles2024, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, marketingArt, NintendoSwitch, personal update, Playstation5, social media, socialmedia, socialmediaBubble, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, XboxSeriesX

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled youtube video & ramble about my voxel illustration & animations + what I did for Castle
❧ more info about the console version of Crossy Road Castle
❧ mice troubles update
❧ personal update & more!

🪺🐔 3 Crowing Chicken Cousins [Fanart for the Crossy Road Farm World update!] 💛

By leonieyue Posted on 11 June 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AIdiscourse, breastCancerCheckUp, CaraApp, CinematicThemesVisualsAncientChina, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyChickenCousins, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadFarmWorldUpdate, CrossyRooster, embarrassing, evolutionaryPsychology, expressingLove, fanart, feelings, genAI, Illustration, instag, instagr, instagram, KungFuPanda, LeonieDreams, leonieyue, MakingVideo, motivational, MusicIndustry, personal update, quittinginstagram, ScaryLumpUpdate, SickWithCold, social media, socialBattery, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediacharismapopularitycontest, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaFatigue, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, TechIndustry, WhiteSilkieChicken

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ about my 3 chickens!
❧ catching up on more artist videos about genAI
❧ being more at Cara & Bluesky and less at twitter & instagram
❧ Cara thoughts and critique so far
❧ personal update, being sick, health update & more