freelancing – Leonie's Art Blog

Illustration / Hot Chocolate Girl + update!

By leonieyue Posted on 20 April 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate Tagged with autism, catsmusical, character design, CharacterDesign, FinalFantasyVIIremake, freelancing, hotchocolate, HotChocolateGirl, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, musical, OpenForFreelance, phantomOfTheOpera, SonicTheHedgehog

– Hot chocolateee!!!
– Personal update time for the past week

Fanart / Buddy & me! Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX demo thoughts & update

By leonieyue Posted on 8 March 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with artbusiness, careerthoughts, charmander, covid19, existential, fanart, freelancing, friendship, InterestingFinds, leonieyue, NintendoSwitch, pokemon, PokemonMysteryDungeon, PokemonMysteryDungeonRescueTeamDX, selfdoubt, squirtle, SundayLeonieUpdate

= Pokemon Mystery Dungeon demo thoughts
= Personal thoughts on covid19
= Interesting Finds
= Short ramble on “Is there purpose in life”?
= Personal ramble on art and business

Fanart / Crossy Road Castle has been out on Apple Arcade!! I was an art helper for the game.

By leonieyue Posted on 4 March 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with appleArcade, backgroundArt, crossy road, CrossyRoadCastle, freelancing, hipsterWhale

Leonie rambles about working on this game.

Fanart / Nooo!! I’m ded in Kirby Air Ride! Poor yellow Kirby! My first visit to the Immigration Museum & update

By leonieyue Posted on 1 March 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with comic, creativeRut, creativity, entertainmentIndustry, freelancing, ImmigrationMuseum, kirby, KirbyAirRide, leonieyue, melbourneCity, PatchGaming, personalupdate

= Kirby’s Air Ride ramble
= My first visit to the Immigration Museum & noms!
= SundayLeonieRamble time! Personal update and slow progress
= Redoing Patreon tier art

Fanart / Byleth from “Fire Emblem: Three Houses” in Smash! Introducing Interesting finds

By leonieyue Posted on 9 February 2020 Posted in Fanart, LeonieYue, Sketches Tagged with Byleth, fanart, FireEmblem, FireEmblemThreeHouses, freelancing, Illustration, IntelligentSystems, InterestingFinds, KoeiTecmo, leonieyue, nintendo, sketch, SmashBrosUltimate, SundayLeonieUpdate

= Bunch of Byleth art & as a fighter in Smash
= Personal update
= Interesting finds on the internet!

Illustration / Got a new apron, I got sick & freelancing + blogging ramble

By leonieyue Posted on 2 February 2020 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate Tagged with apron, blogging, cold, cute, cuteartwork, doubts, freelancing, gettingSick, Illustration, insecurity, leonieyue, personalupdate, quoting, self portrait, selfdoubt, socialmedia, socialmediaoverwhelm, SundayLeonieUpdate, vector art

= cold and apron
= coronavirus concerns
= requoting and vector art
= personal blogging & options
= my art insecurities
= distance from social media
= pixiv
= issues with sharing the same switch 🙁

GoodBye, 2019. Reflection for the year, on being neurodivergent, Frozen2 thoughts & update

By leonieyue Posted on 29 December 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, Photos, Reflection, Traditional Tagged with autism, careerthoughts, CharacterDesign, cuteartwork, fanart, freelancing, friendship, friendships, Frozen2, games, games industry, Illustration, introvert, JojoRabbitMovie, knightofhearts, leonieyue, Linkle, MentalHealth, movieThoughts, neurodivergent, overthinking, personalupdate, photo post, PicrossSwitchGame, reflection, relationships, RingFitAdventure, sketchbook, socialising, socialmedia, workMode

LeonieBear says goodbye 2019, personal lessons of the year, rambling about outside adventures and Frozen 2.

Knight of Hearts comic, Melbourne city trip, self help notes on managing emotions & update

By leonieyue Posted on 21 December 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with 2B, 9S, AnxiousAttachementStyle, artsupply, babaisyou, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, christmasDecorations, ConfirmationBias, cute, cuteanimals, cuteartwork, DecisionMaking, fanart, freelancing, HSPfood, kangaroo, knightofhearts, KnivesOutMovie, loneliness, lunecroissanterie, ManagingEmotions, melbourneCity, mental health tips, MentalHealth, NegativeBeliefs, NieRAutomata, OwningIt, Personality, photo post, reflection, selfAwareness, SelfConfidence, selfdoubt, selfhelpnotes, shopping, sketchbook

Leonie rambles about the past week, attachment styles, self confidence, confirmation bias, managing emotions, Melbourne city trip photos, getting scammed of a pastry & ink doodles.

Spooky Toilet Trips + art of the past week (Ben Burnes album commission)

By leonieyue Posted on 2 December 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with BenBurnesAlbum, careerthoughts, character development, CharacterDesign, commission, feltcutemightdeletelater, freelancing, owl, personalstories, sketchbook, spooky

Story behind this, Ben Burnes Album commission, update & ink doodles from the past week.

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

[NOV#1] Knight of Hearts character design revisited, Inktober & Jesse Faden Control fanart

By leonieyue Posted on 4 November 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with birds, careerthoughts, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, charactersheet, ControlRemedy, cuteartwork, Dinosaurs, drawthisagain, fanart, freelancing, games industry, goodbye facebook, hermitLife, inktober, inktober2019, JesseFaden, knightofhearts, leonieyue, MentalHealth, owl, photo, power naps, redo, self compassion, sketchbook, socialmedia, stickybones, Traditional

= “You don’t have to fight alone” – revisiting my Knight of Hearts Character Design
= Inktober 2019 ends / Leonie’s Sketchbook
= Finally the StickyBones posable figures & Fly Rig I backed since 2016 are here
= Jesse Faden Portrait (Control Fanart)
= Leonie rambles about social media engagement, blog comments & Personal update

Easing back into art, blogging & social media. Hello I’ve returned from my break! [Progress update]

By leonieyue Posted on 8 July 2019 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with Art Anxiety, burntOut, careerthoughts, CharacterDesign, fanart, figuredrawing, freelancing, leftbehind, leonieyue, MentalHealth, patreon, progressupdate, reflection, self portrait, slowingdown, studies

– Patreon Tier art
– Digital studies & ongoing healing from creative burnout
– How is Leonie doing after 3 months?
– Anxieties and finally letting go of being a game artist
– What’s this “progress updates” thing?
– Flexible posting schedule and blog comments return!
– The plan now: reflecting, getting up & keep on rolling

“The Artist is Absent” artwork for JS’s GDC2019 talk

By leonieyue Posted on 22 March 2019 Posted in Comics, Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with assassin's creed, bioshock, commission, freelancing, game design, games industry, GDC, GDCtalk, interpretation, JenniferScheurle, JennyGDC2019talk, journey game, leonieyue, lighting fast game design, nathan drake, perfectionist, pokemongo, puppies, ritual, The Artist is Absent, transmission, uncharted

I worked with the lovely, supportive Jenny [her website] for her part in the GDC lightning game design talks! I’m sure her talk did wonderfully yesterday! 😀

Here is my artwork for her slides + ramble!