feelings – Leonie's Art Blog

🐲Dragon from Mario Wonder! (Year of the Dragon + Smaugust 2024)

By leonieyue Posted on 29 August 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 4D, acquaintanceBoundaries, ActuallyAutistic, antiGenAI, anxiety, autism, AutismAdulthood, autistic, autisticallySocial, autisticMasking, autisticShutdown, behindInLife, BeingAnOutcast, beingPerceived, boundaries, comedy, ConfirmationBias, conflictAvoidance, contradictory, coward, creepy, deadpan, disinterest, doingOwnThing, dragon, everyoneHatesMe, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, explicitConsent, fanart, feelings, genAI, genAIdiscourse, GenAIimpactInternet, genAIscams, humiliation, hurt, hurtFeelings, Illustration, leonieyue, ManagingStress, neurodivergent, NoPuttingPeopleOnAPedestal, onlineBoundaries, outcast, overstimulated, overthinking, parasocial relationships, passiveAggressive, personalBoundaries, petty, prettyUglyPrivilege, scapegoat, socialAnxiety, socialConformity, SuperMarioBrosWonder, surprisePartiesNoThanks, visualPresentation, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble & subtitled timelapse!
❧ Super Eyepatch Wolf’s video on Social Anxiety Horror
❧ personal update, Nintendo direct/indies & 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

⭐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!

LeonieWrites about GCAP2023 (Days 1 & 2) – vlog & blog ramble!

By leonieyue Posted on 4 October 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Photos, Reflection, Video Tagged with antisocial, ArtCareer, autisticallySocial, careerthoughts, complexFeelings, conflicting, crowdedEventsNoMasksScary, crowds, feelings, gamedev, gameindustry, games, games industry, gamesConference, gamesEvents, gamesWeek, GCAP, GCAP2023, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, homebody, homebodylife, hurt, LeonieRambles, LeonieWrites, leonieyue, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, MIGW, MIGW2023, mixedFeelings, notgoodenoughFeelings, reflective, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, sittingwithfeelings, social, socialAnxiety, socialEnergy, socialEvents, socialGroups, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, vlog

My 4.5 minute LeonieWrites vlog, recap and reflecting a bit more at the blog.

Milk Chocolate for Valentine’s Day Splatfest Chocolate #5 / Splatoon 3 🍫💕

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with beautyStandards, beingTrueToYourself, chocolate, communication, complexFeelings, desirability, fanart, feelings, friendships, games, HappySingleTime, hotchocolate, Illustration, InLoveWithIdeaOfSomeone, leonieyue, love, LoveAndKindness, LoveDay, lovelanguage, mixedFeelings, NintendoDirect, physicalAttractiveness, platonicFriends, platonicRelationship, pussinbootsTheLastWish, relationships, romance, romanticAttraction, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfLove, singledom, sittingwithfeelings, speedpaintcommentary, spinster, SwitchGames, textcommentary, Timelapse, unrequitedLove, ValentinesDay, videogames, WhatIsLove, youtubevideo

In this blog post:
– speedpaint text commentary process video!
– Chocolate Splatfest
– personal ramble about romance, feelings & happy single time!
– Nintendo Direct thoughts

Art from imagination & watercolour practice / My feelings for you ❤️

By leonieyue Posted on 30 May 2022 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with anxiety, anxious, BryceKhoClass, character design, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, feeling, feelings, health, Illustration, insecurity, learning, learningfrommistakes, learningJourney, leonieyue, love, LoveAndKindness, mixedFeelings, personalupdate, practice, sad, sadness, tense, tension, vulnerability, watercolour

All the mixed feelings :’)
Trying to learn & practice watercolour!
And little personal ramble for the week.

SuperLeonieMode 352 / When you fall into existential emptiness and silence + timelapse

By leonieyue Posted on 14 March 2022 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, anxiousLaugh, comic, complexFeelings, empty, emptyLaugh, existential, existentialEmptiness, existentialism, feelingNeutral, feelingNothing, feelings, headEmpty, howAreYou, Illustration, leonieyue, MentalHealth, mixedFeelings, NeutralDefault, NeutralMood, notgoodenoughFeelings, pause, silence, slow, slowLearner, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse

Not sure how to answer this question so I default to “okay”.
Reflecting about muted/neutral emotions & managing headspace.

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 343 / Pent-up sighing + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 4 October 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, comic, complexFeelings, confusion, disappointment, exhale, feelings, frustration, Illustration, leonieyue, LettingGo, ManagingStress, MentalHealth, mixedFeelings, overwhelm, resentment, self portrait, sighing, stress, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse

Letting it out :’)

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.

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.

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]

SixFanartsChallenge 03 / Doraemon + MondayLeonieupdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 11 May 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with ADHD, anime, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, artvsartist, ArtVSartist2020, autism, ByJeevesMusical, Doraemon, fanart, feelings, FinalFantasyVIIremake, hurt, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, MusicalThoughts, personalupdate, progressupdate, reflection, rejection, RingFitAdventure, SixFanartsChallenge

About Doraemon!
Personal update time:
silly hurt feelings vent
avoidant & anxious attachment styles
Autism vs ADHD
deciding how to best fit in studies
Ring Fit Adventure progress yay

Being a Slow, steady and sleepy LeonieBear + art of the past week

By leonieyue Posted on 25 November 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with careerthoughts, CharacterDesign, competition, feelings, freelancing, games industry, hermitLife, leoniebear, leonieyue, lowEnergy, MentalHealth, overwhelm, owl, purpose, reflection, self compassion, sketchbook, slowingdown, stress

Leonie rambles about being a slow tortoise and not doing well with competition and ink doodles from the past week.

Knight of hearts, sketchbook, gloomy rambles, weekly blog posts & update

By leonieyue Posted on 18 November 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with artvsartist, burntOut, careerthoughts, CharacterDesign, cuteartwork, existential, feelings, freelancing, gloomy, goatmop, Illustration, inktober, inktober2019, isolated, knightofhearts, leonieyue, reflection, routine, self compassion, sketchbook, socialmedia, trashhippo

= Knight of Hearts Character illustration
= Leonie’s character designs & sketchbook
= #ArtvsArtist & trying to feel less existential with her art
= Personal update: Gloomy section, weekly blog posts & routine

SuperListenMode 268: A Letter with more Artist Feelings

By leonieyue Posted on 31 December 2018 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with creativity, feelings, learning, reflection, self compassion, selfdoubt, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode

Full comic and rambling about my focus and the existential, sad artist journey.

Tag: feelings