emotionalEnergy – Leonie's Art Blog

Young Cricket the meat dumplings lover! [Warioware: Get It Together!]

By leonieyue Posted on 6 June 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with adultFriendship, aloneTime, alonewithcompany, anxiety, autism, autismFriendships, autismLife, autisticBurnout, AutisticFidgeting, BeingMisunderstood, burden, burnedBridges, comfortZone, commitmentfear, communication, confusion, connections, contentCreators, coworkerFriendshipsHard, deadpan, defensive, delayedProcessing, demiromantic, DemiromanticAce, disappointment, dumplings, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalLabour, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyImmature, emotionallyProcessing, exhausted, expectationsProjections, fanart, flowers, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, friendshipGuilt, friendships, gaslighting, ghosting, heartbreak, humanConnection, Illustration, incompetence, inconvenience, influencer, isolated, jawPain, jobsAutism, judgement, kungfu, leonieyue, LettingGo, LevelsOfFriendships, limerence, limerenceProjectionFantasy, loneliness, lonely, lowEnergy, MakingVideo, ManagingStress, manipulative, martial artist, martialartists, masking, meat buns, meat dumplings, monkey, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, NeurodiversityWorkplaceAccommmodations, nintendo, nonVerbal, notlookingautistic, Online:urker, onlineAcquaintances, OnlineContentConsistency, onlineFriendship, OnlineLurker, onlinePersona, OutgrowingFriends, passivereactions, PerformanceAnxiety, personalSpace, personalTraumas, personalupdate, personalZone, phonecalls, platonicFriends, publicpersona, rechargeTime, reflection, reflective, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, RomanticProjection, scapegoat, ScriptingAutism, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, socialAnxiety, socialGroups, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, socialMediaPoll, socialNeeds, SocialNorms, socialOutsider, socialreassurance, socialrecluse, socialValidation, speedpaintcommentary, StressEat, structureAndRoutine, stubbornness, subtlety, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, tired, toxicFriendships, TraumaProjection, unavailablepeople, WarioWare, WarioWareGetItTogether, writtencommunication, youngCricket, youtubevideo, ヤングクリケット

In this blog post:
– back to text commentary speedpaint
– commentary, youtube analytics & video making woes
– autism thoughts: masking, not looking autistic enough, scripting, “selective” mutism, burnouts, jobs/workplace accommodations, social faux pas, friendships & intimacy
– social media & personal update

Happy Vietnamese New Year of the Cat 2023 featuring Catwalk God Kabegami / 壁神 🐈 & Issun!! [大神 / Ōkami LNY Project 🧧 ] + more!

By leonieyue Posted on 31 January 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with autism, autismfocus, autismInertia, autismLife, autistic, autisticBurnout, blackholeRest, bodyAwareness, cat, Catwalk, Celestial Brush God, chineseheritage, chúc mừng năm mới, conflicting, conversation, drive, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, EmotionallyAvoidant, emotionallyImmature, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyProcessing, emotionalMaturity, emotionalWalls, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, fanart, friendships, giantKoiFish, headspace, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hypocritical, Illustration, indecisive, IntenseProductivity, issun, Kabegami, kofi, leonieyue, lowEnergy, lowrisktaker, Lunar New Year, ManagingEnergy, masking, motivation, mutuallyInterested, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, patreon, patronThanks, postingSchedule, productivity, productivityMethod, rejectionSensitivity, relationships, scapegoat, selfish, sensitive, sensitivity, SensoryFriendly, socialEnergy, sociallyAcceptable, sociallyExpected, socialrecluse, speedpaintcommentary, Tet, timeBlindness, Vietnam, VietnameseNewYear, yearofCat, zodiacAnimals, 壁神, 大神, 猫

In this blog post:
– thoughts on my Year of the Cat illustration & little bit on lunar new year
– numbered intimacy levels to gauge relationships and friendships
– managing my autism, inertia, uneven productivity, attention, drive, emotions and energy levels
– update/changes to my little Patreon
– personal update

Gameboy Link 💚💙❤️

By leonieyue Posted on 17 October 2022 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Traditional Tagged with AfterAlterna, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismLife, autistic, choice, ChosenFamily, comfortZone, complexFeelings, drawtober, drawtober2022, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, EmotionallyAvoidant, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyProcessing, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, empty, EmptySoul, EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnceMovie, existential, existentialEmptiness, existentialism, fanart, feltpens, felttipmarkers, gameboy, gameboy color, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, highlighters, homebodylife, Illustration, inktober, inktober2022, isolationlife, jaded, Legend of Zelda, legendofzelda, LeonieMugs, leonieyue, lifedirection, lifesuffering, Link, linktober, linktober2022, livinginthemoment, loneliness, ManagingEmotions, meaningoflife, movieThoughts, quiet, QuietObserver, rejectionSensitivity, sociallyAcceptable, solitary, solitude, Splatoon3doodle, textas, Traditional, traditional art, TransGenerationalFamilyTrauma

Little blog ramble about this post, on Bayonetta 3, reflecting about “Everything Everywhere All at Once” & mugs ;D

SuperLeonieMode 357 / Energy depleted (taking my late June bday posting break)

By leonieyue Posted on 20 June 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with ArtCourse, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismLife, autistic, bday, birthday, birthdayBreak, boyBands, crushes, depressed, disappointed, disappointment, drained, emotionalEnergy, energy, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, existential, existentialEmptiness, fatigue, friendships, gloomy, gratitude, growingupinthe2000s, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hopelessness, hypochondriac, Illustration, irritable, jaded, juggling, LeonieBirthday, leonieyue, lowEnergy, lowMood, ManagingEmotions, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, mixedFeelings, moodSwings, motherDaughterRelationships, numbness, patience, period, personalupdate, postingBreak, processing, sadness, self comparisons, self portrait, sitting, sittingwithfeelings, slow, slowingdown, stress, SuperLeonieMode, teenageLifeThoughts, tired, TurningRed, TurningRedMovieThoughts

Reflecting about needing this posting and birthday break.

SuperLeonieMode 351 / Avoiding eye contact and how I manage my autistic, inattentive brain + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 7 March 2022 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with ActuallyAutistic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autistic, badShortTermMemory, comic, communication, deadpan, distractability, emotionalEnergy, EnergyDraining, eyeContact, focus, forgetfulness, Illustration, inattentiveADHD, intensity, leonieyue, lowEnergy, ManagingEmotions, ManagingEnergy, managingInterruptions, ManagingStress, minimisingDistractions, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, nonVerbal, productivityMethod, reflection, self portrait, slow, slowLearner, socialCues, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, sociallyExpected, sociallyOblivious, structureAndRoutine, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse, tunnelVision

I’m either deadpan staring or looking away ;D

Please I don’t want to stare into each other’s souls :’)

I did a bunch of online autism tests!

I go reflect how I currently manage my hyperfocus, rejection sensitive dysphoria, executive function struggles, attention & emotional dysregulation with my inattentive, autistic brain 🧠

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.

SuperLeonieMode 336 / Sinking down again from hurt and disappointment, timelapse + Crossy Road Castle’s Candy Cafe came out!

By leonieyue Posted on 18 October 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with AnimalCrossingNewHorizonsThoughts, AshleighStarmer-Lee, CandyCafe, comic, complexFeelings, CrossyRoadCastle, demoralised, disappointed, disappointment, emotionalEnergy, EmotionallyAvoidant, emotionalWalls, feelings, hipsterWhale, Illustration, jaded, leonieyue, letdown, ManagingEmotions, MentalHealth, mixedFeelings, overwhelm, self portrait, shutdownEmotionalWithdrawal, sinking, struggle, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse, trust, trustIssues

Sometimes, why bother :’)

SuperLeonieMode 346 / When your mind drifts away from the conscious world + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 20 September 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with absentminded, boredom, breathing, comic, consciousness, disappointment, emotionalEnergy, emotionallyDraining, emotionalWalls, empty, evolve, existential, existentialEmptiness, existing, fatigue, headEmpty, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, jaded, learningfrommistakes, leonieyue, lowEnergy, meditative, mundane, neutral, noThoughts, quiet, QuietObserver, reflection, reflective, self portrait, selfAwareness, sleepy, stamina, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse, tired, TolerateBoredom, trust, trustIssues, uncertainty

Low energy hermit thoughts :’)

SuperLeonieMode 333 / When you have slow health regeneration & recovery!

By leonieyue Posted on 16 August 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with blob, comic, DisneyRayaAndTheLastDragon, emotionalEnergy, headspace, lazy, LeonieBlob, ManagingEmotions, movieThoughts, overwhelm, personalSpace, recovery, rest, slow, slowingdown, solitaryBreaks, SuperLeonieMode, TakingBreaks, turtlePace

Life of a low energy blob

And ramble about the Raya and the Last Dragon movie.

StudyPost 17 / Hello I’m very rusty but I’m finally taking baby steps to study and practice again!

By leonieyue Posted on 11 August 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with art studies, contourDrawing, creativeEnergy, emotionalEnergy, gestures, learning, learningJourney, leonieyue, MentalHealth, movieThoughts, patron, photostudies, photoStudy, PixarSoul, portrait, portraits, postingSchedule, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, rusty, sketchbook, sketchpost, spoilers, studies, study, studyPost

Here we go again!
This is all the studies from the past week & my loose learning plan from here.

And spoiler talk on the movie Soul.

SuperLeonieMode 340 / Me and my little Leonies! On expressing & interpreting mixed, subtle feelings.

By leonieyue Posted on 5 July 2021 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with ACNH, adultFriendship, adulthood, AnimalCrossing, AnimalCrossingNewHorizons, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, art style, autism, AutismAdulthood, autistic, awkward, BeingMisunderstood, birthday, bittersweet, BodyLanguage, comic, complexFeelings, deadpan, disappointed, earningTrust, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalIntimancy, emotionalLabour, EmotionallyAvoidant, emotionallyDraining, emotionalMaturity, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, empathy, existential, facade, facialExpression, feelingCaredFor, feelings, frustration, GutFeeling, HappyFacade, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hotColdBehaviour, internet, interpretation, jaded, juggling, LeonieBirthday, leonieyue, littleLeonies, making comics, ManagingEmotions, masking, MentalHealth, microexpressions, misunderstandings, mixedFeelings, not, notgoodenoughFeelings, personal, personalupdate, photo, reflection, reflective, rejectionSensitivity, self portrait, selfAwareness, selfCare, sensitive, sensitivity, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, sleepy, smallTalk, socialCues, socialHierarchy, sociallyAcceptable, sociallyExpected, sociallyOblivious, socialmedia, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediabreaks, SocialMediaMetrics, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialNorms, socialrecluse, SuperLeonieMode, tactless, ToxicPositivity, trust, trustIssues, twitter, validation, vulnerability, WorkingOvertime, あつまれどうぶつの森, あつ森, どうぶつの森

I ramble about my sappy mixed feelings and expressing & interpreting them in this blog post.

When I can’t really express how I’m feeling through words, through my awkward body language and my deadpan facial expression :’)

And reflecting on my birthday (which was over a week ago!) Please keep it to this blog; I don’t want to mention it on social media.

SuperLeonieMode 332 / Hermit Leonie goes outside after an isolated year 😰

By leonieyue Posted on 21 April 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with anxiety, comic, comicstrip, eczema, emotionalEnergy, energy, EnergyDraining, handEczema, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, introvert, isolated, isolationlife, isolife, leoniebear, lowEnergy, ManagingEnergy, nourished, stamina, SuperLeonieMode, tolerance, zombie

SuperLeonieMode 332 / Hermit Leonie goes outside after an isolated year 😰
I ramble about my anxious adventures in this post :’)

SuperLeonieMode 324 / Happy Love day with Kirby and me, adjusting my blog posts and patreon + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 15 February 2021 Posted in Comics, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with 2SnacksAnimation, AccentedCinema, alien, alienatingYourself, alonewithcompany, animated, anime, AnimeTranslationLocalisation, ArcadeShooterGame, AspergersFromTheInsideYoutube, authenticity, autism, autismInLadies, autistic, BakaMitaiCover, BeingMisunderstood, blogging, BodyLanguage, BootlegKoalas, boundaries, ChosenFamily, comfortZone, comic, comicstrip, communication, compatibility, copingWithPain, dating, DatingThoughts, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, executiveFunctionChallenges, eyeContact, fanart, friends, friendship, GaiaOnline, guilt, hermitLife, highfive, HKRomance, honesty, humanConnection, Illustration, InLoveWithIdeaOfSomeone, inspiration, isolated, isolationlife, JhonaYoutube, kennyLauderdaleYoutube, kirby, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, livingWithIntention, loneliness, love, LoveAndKindness, LoveDay, lovelanguage, marriage, MaxDerratYoutube, MetaHumanCreator, MutualInterests, MyImmortal, overthinking, pain, personal, personalTraumas, personalupdate, PointBlankGame, RedBardYoutube, reflection, rejection, rejectionSensitivity, relationships, respect, romance, romanticAttraction, SabanMoonPilot, SalariYoutuber, self portrait, selfDiagnosisAutism, selfLove, selfRespect, shortFilms, SlowBonding, socialCues, socialising, sociallyOblivious, subtlety, SuperLeonieMode, traumas, unrequitedLove, ValentinesDay, values, WaitingModeMonotasker, WeddingIndustrialComplex, weddingsExploitLoveAndWallet, WhatIsLove, yakuza, カービィ, 星のカービィ

SuperLeonieMode 324 / Happy Love day with Kirby and me! LeonieUpdate, adjusting my blog posts (why and how) & patreon, reflecting on relationships, experiencing pain, guilt and loneliness as an autistic and interesting finds in this blog post!

Fanart / Week of Molly from Animal Crossing + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 7 December 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with "ugly", AccentedCinema, acceptance, ACNH, AnAmericanInParisMusical, AnimalCrossing, AnimalCrossingNewHorizons, appreciation, Aragorn, beautiful, beauty, beautyStandards, beingTrueToYourself, bodyImage, bodypositivity, BoJackHorseman, CinemaTherapyYoutube, comedy, depression, Destiny2, duck, emotionalEnergy, empty, EnergyDraining, entertainmentConsumption, fanart, feelingCaredFor, feelings, FromHereToEternityMusical, Frozen2, games industry, gratitude, headspace, hermitLife, hikikomori, homebody, honesty, hugs, Illustration, InsideOutMovie, JapaneseLife, japanExperiences, KnivesOutMovie, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, listening, loneliness, LordOfTheRings, lovelanguage, mediaManipulation, MentalHealth, mixedFeelings, Molly, music, MusicalThoughts, NerdwriterYoutube, overwork, ParasiteMovie, ParksAndRecreationShow, personalupdate, physicalAttractiveness, privilege, QueerEye, RamiIsmail, rat, REDPlay, romance, SalariYoutuber, self compassion, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfLove, socialCurrency, socialmedia, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediabreaks, socialmediaoverwhelm, solitary, solitude, takecare, talent, TangledMovie, TheOfficeShow, timeandspace, TimMinchin, ToxicPositivity, vulnerability, warmFuzzies, wholesome, workCulture, workingHours, ZootopiaMovie

Fanart / Week of Molly from Animal Crossing + LeonieUpdate, reflecting on videos I watched, why the Japanese are so lonely, how we’re manipulated to believe that talent belongs to the beautiful & more.

Tag: emotionalEnergy