CrossyMallard – 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

🕵️Sus about Mallard mascot🦆 Fanart for the Crossy Road Theme Park update!

By leonieyue Posted on 3 December 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with alienatingYourself, asocial, autismLife, autisticallySocial, awkward, changeIsConstant, comfort zone, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, CrossyFanart, CrossyMallard, CrossyMallardMascot, crossyroad, CrossyRoadBday, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, exhausted, fallingAsleep, fanart, grump, grumpy, headFogHeavy, hermitLife, homebody, homebodylife, hybridWork, illustraiton, Illustration, intervention, knighthood, leonieyue, lifeChanges, livestreamingParasocialRelationships, lowEnergy, LowSocialEndurance, ManagingEnergy, nightowl, NoSocialLife, openOfficeEnvironments, outsourcedArtist, overanalysing, overstimulated, personalupdate, progressupdate, recovery, reflection, reflective, remoteWorking, restroomSensoryRecovery, routine, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, sleepy, socialBattery, socialEating, socialEnergy, SocialInteraction, sociallyOblivious, socialOutsider, socialWithdrawal, socialZombie, structureAndRoutine, Timelapse, tired, workaholic, workFromHome, workingHours, ZombieHusk

In this blog post:
❧ about this illustration
❧ reflecting on my first in-office days (hybrid with WFH) & life changes as a hermit
❧ personal update & mental health

✨🦆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

🌳🌼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

🎮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!

🪺🐇🎀Bunny time with Big Baby Chicken 🐤🐔🦆 [Fanart for the Crossy Road Easter character update]! Social media, health assessment tool, stress & anxiety

By leonieyue Posted on 29 March 2024 Posted in Collaboration, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with anxiety, breastCancerCheckUp, breastCancerRiskAssessment, crossy, crossy road, CrossyChick, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyroad, crossyroadBigBabyChicken, CrossyRoadUpdate, dentist, easterBreak, fanart, focus, grindingTeeth, headspace, hipsterWhale, Illustration, intrusiveBadMemories, juggling, keepingBusy, leonieyue, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, OnPodcasting, personal update, physiololgicalstress, podcastMaking, spiraling, stress, teethShenanigans, tenseBody, toxicStress

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble & subtitled timelapse!
❧ personal update, breast cancer risk assessment tool & more!

🏮🐲 Happy Lunar New Year with Jade Dragon 💚🐔🦆🌸 [Fanart for the Crossy Road LNY update]!

By leonieyue Posted on 11 February 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AliceWalsh, BrendonT, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, CrossyFanart, crossyJadeDragon, crossyLNYdragon, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, fanart, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, Illustration, KevynStott, lantern, leonieyue, lny2024, Lunar New Year, SaraFonseca, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart

In this little blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled timelapse!
❧ about the update and kudos to HW artists & peeps!

🎁🎀 Presents under the Christmas Tree🎄 [Happy Holidays with Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 25 December 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with aestheticAttraction, AgencyPDA, animeIndustry, AutismAdulthood, autistic, bodyAwareness, bodyImage, breadcrumbing, christmas, christmasDecorations, ChristmasTree, crossy, crossy road, CrossyAlien, CrossyCat, crossyChicken, CrossyDog, CrossyGingerbreadperson, CrossyGiraffe, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossySkunk, CrossyUnihorse, crushes, demiplatonic, demiromantic, DemiromanticAce, emotionalIntimacy, gifts, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, leonieyue, loneliness, peoplePleasing, PersistentDriveForAutonomy, PhysicalAppearance, physicalAttractiveness, PhysicalExercise, presents, romance, romantic, romanticallyIntimate, romanticAttraction, romanticFiction, RomanticProjection, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, shoujoAnime, ShoujoManga, slow, social media, solitary, solitude, TokyoGodfathersMovie, trustIssues, turtlePace, twitter, UglyDucklingSwanMakeover, UglyDucklingTransformation, unrequitedLove, XmasStar

In today’s Christmas blog post:
❧ learning about anime/shoujo topics
❧ managing body image insecurities
❧ unrequited love and loneliness
❧ saw Tokyo Godfathers for the 1st time
❧ personal update & more

🎵🎀🐤🐔Night time Christmas Carols📖🎶🦆🦢🐦 [Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 22 December 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with AgencyPDA, autismfocus, BodyLanguage, christmas, communication, contextSwitching, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBabyDuck, CrossyBabyPenguin, CrossyBirds, CrossyBlueMacaw, CrossyBunny, CrossyCardinal, CrossyCarols, CrossyCastleRivals, CrossyChick, crossyChicken, CrossyCockatoo, CrossyCrow, CrossyEmoGoose, CrossyEmperorPenguin, CrossyEnemyBirds, CrossyFiorlandPenguin, CrossyKea, CrossyKiwiBird, CrossyKookaburra, CrossyLostPenguin, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyOwlBos, CrossyParrot, CrossyPelican, CrossyPenguin, CrossyPigeon, CrossyPoopyPigeon, CrossyPresent, CrossyPterodactyl, CrossyPudding, CrossyPuffin, CrossyRaven, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRobin, CrossyRubberChicken, CrossySeagull, CrossyToucan, CrossyTurkey, CrossyUnihorse, CrossyWoodpeckerBoss, dreamsVSreality, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalInternaliser, EmotionalSupport, expectationsProjections, eyeContact, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, flirting, growingMindset, habit, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HumanDualityComplexity, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, inattentiveness, invisibleExpectations, leonieyue, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, misophoniaWhispering, NintendoSwitch, nintendoswitch2023, PaprikaMovie, PDA, PersistentDriveForAutonomy, physiololgicalstress, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, scapegoat, self compassion, selfCare, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sociallyExpected, stress, subtlety, surrealism, xmas

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled art process speedpaint video!
❧ learning more about Persistent Drive for Autonomy autism, unhelpful advice, invisible expectations, body language & eye contact
❧ watched Paprika for the first time
❧ my little Nintendo switch 2023 review and more!

🥧🍁 Sharing some pumpkin pie together 🤎🍂 [Crossy Road Castle Thanksgiving!]

By leonieyue Posted on 24 November 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with autumn, crossy, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, deadleaves, digital art, digital illustration, fallseason, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, hungry, Illustration, leonieyue, pumpkin, pumpkinpie, sunflower, thanksgiving, Timelapse, turkey, witchHat

Little blog ramble & subtitled art process video!

Tag: CrossyMallard