games industry – Leonie's Art Blog

💚🎂 Miku Birthday Festival 2025!🎉初音ミク生誕祭2025 💙

By leonieyue Posted on 1 September 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Studies, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, 3Dmodeling, ArtCareer, BeingMisunderstood, blunt, characterIllustration, conflictAvoidance, DonkeyKongBonanza, emotionalDistance, emotionallyMutual, empathy, fanart, figure drawing, figuredrawing, FriendshipReciprocity, game industry, games, games industry, gamesConference, gamesWeek, GCAP, hatsunemiku, Illustration, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, LindsayEllisYoutube, loneliness, lonelyArtist, lowpoly, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, mikuBirthday, MikuBirthdayFestival, mikuday, minimalSocialInteractions, misunderstandings, mutuallyInterested, overstimulated, paintingStudy, photoStudy, portrait, portraitStudy, quiet, QuietObserver, social media, socialInepitude, SocialInteraction, socialmediaAndArtists, study, Timelapse, 初音ミク, 初音ミク生誕祭2025

❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ figure study & personal update

🧁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

💐💖 Happy Laur day [giftart], more GCAP reflections, first time watching Blade Runner & more! 🦄🌧️

By leonieyue Posted on 10 October 2023 Posted in Fanart, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with artprocess, autisticallySocial, birthdayBurpdoodles, BladeRunner, character illustration, digital illustration, dissociation, Enpoopfication, fanart, game industry, gameindustry, games industry, gamesConference, gamesEvents, gamesWeek, GCAP, GCAP2023, GCAP23, giftart, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, insecurity, isolationlife, KinderWorldGame, LaurenClinnick, leonieyue, loneWolf, masking, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, movieThoughts, PatreonIssues, process, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, sexualharassment, social media, socialAnxiety, socialEnergy, socialEvents, socialGroups, socialising, socialmediaAndArtists, Timelapse, twitter

In this little blog post:
❧ process rambling at my speedpaint!
❧ my first time watching Blade Runner (Final Cut 2007) + thoughts!
❧ reflecting & resting up from GCAP as an isolated, lonely homebody
❧ Patreon why?? And more!

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.

Splatoon 3: Marigold /スタッフさん from the Tableturf Battle Dojo! Hey I’m back!

By leonieyue Posted on 10 October 2022 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with AGDAs, AGDAs2022, AnimalCrossingConcert, AutismTrauma, autisticBurnout, backups, battleturfcardgame, burnout, burntOut, clipstudiopaint, crowds, digital illustration, disappointment, fanart, fish, gamedev, games industry, gamesWeek, germaphobe, goldfish, grump, Illustration, instagram, instagramAlgorithm, leonieyue, ManagingStress, Marigold, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, onlinesecurity, overwhelm, personalTraumas, postingSchedule, ranchu goldfish, socialAnxiety, socialEvents, sociallyOblivious, socialmedia, socialmediaBoundaries, SocialMediaMetrics, SocialMediaReach, socialrecluse, specimen, Splatoon, Splatoon3, SplatoonConcert, stress, TableturfBattleDojo Staff, TheSuperMarioBrosMovie, twitter, スタッフさん, スプラトゥーン3, マザー

Hey I’m back! I ramble about Splatoon 3, avoiding games week,
the Animal Crossing/Splatoon concert,
adjusting my posting schedule
and life stuff :’)

Fanart / Quaxly from Pokemon Scarlet Violet + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 13 June 2022 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Timelapse Tagged with bloodTest, delayedGratification, delayedReward, doctor, fanart, feastOrFamineFreelance, freelanceLife, frugal, games industry, GamesShowcase, grump, grumpy, healthUpdate, Illustration, IronDeficiencyAnemia, jaded, leonieyue, ManagingStress, moody, personalupdate, pokemon, PokemonScarletViolet, Quaxly, stress, strugglingForward, SummerGamesFest, tense, TertiaryHECSHelpDebt, Timelapse

Health update, being frugal due to debt & a bit more rambling :’)
And I love Quaxly (:

Fanart / Week of Olivia from Animal Crossing + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 14 December 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with 2Danimation, ACNH, adultFriendship, AlexMeyersYoutube, AnimalCrossing, AnimalCrossingNewHorizons, ArtTagged, AspergersFromTheInsideYoutube, assertiveness, autism, bodyImage, BodyWeight, boundaries, brokenHeart, Cyberpunk2077, Dinosaurs, Disney, DisneyRayaAndTheLastDragon, earningTrust, eczema, ego, emotionalWalls, EncantoDisney, expectations, fanart, FitnessBoxing2game, friendship, friendships, gameAwards, games industry, gameTrailers, GutFeeling, HadesGame, Healthy, hipsterWhale, honesty, hurt, Illustration, IwajuSeries, kirby, LEGOdinosaurBuilding, LEGOset, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, LosingWeight, LupinIIITheFirst, MentalHealth, Olivia, PhysicalExercise, physicalHealth, PixarLightyear, pteranodon, reflection, rejection, RingFitAdventure, sayingNo, selfAcceptance, selfCare, selfLove, selfRespect, Sephiroth, SmashBrosUltimate, snowperson, stylish, SupergiantGames, TaikaWaititi, thegameawards, ThomasFrankYoutube, trust, TurningRed, tyrannosaurus rex, UpcomingMovieTV

Fanart / Week of Olivia from Animal Crossing + LeonieUpdate!
Personal update, Dinosaur LEGO set gift, reflecting about getting more active, The Game Awards, Disney news and more!

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.

Illustration / Relaxing Monstera Plant for Lauren + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 12 October 2020 Posted in GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with AGDAs2020, AnimalCrossing, AnimalCrossingNewHorizons, AnimalCrossingNewHorizonsThoughts, anime, autism, autistic, birthdayBurpdoodles, boundaries, contentCreators, discord, emotionalDistance, FreeplayParallels, friendship, friendships, gachaGames, games industry, GCAP, gcap2020, GuggukYoutuber, HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity, Illustration, InterestingFinds, introvert, kindness, KnivesOutMovie, LastOfUsPart2, LaurenClinnick, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, ManagingEmotions, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, MIGW, migw2020, MinecraftSteve, monsteraPlant, MrSakurai, music, narcissism, Narcissists, networking, nintendo, Parallels20, parasocial relationships, pikmin, PikminShortMovies, professionalRelationships, professionalVSpersonal, shortFilms, smallTalk, SmashBrosUltimate, social, socialAnxiety, socialEvents, socialising, sociallyOblivious, socialmedia, unrequitedLove, Vtubers

Illustration / Relaxing monstera plant for Lauren + LeonieUpdate, hanging out at the AGDAs & Parallels streams, keeping an emotional distance from the games industry, small talk as an autistic person, gacha games and Vtubers (need of boundaries) & other interesting finds!

Character design + illustration / Bowl of Mystery with Paw Paw + MondayLeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 29 June 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with AnimalCrossingNewHorizonsThoughts, ArtStationBoxOfMysteryChallenge, autism, birthday, BowlOfMysteryProject, careerthoughts, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, Emma2020movie, existential, games industry, Illustration, KnivesOutMovie, LeonieUpdate, metoo, MondayLeonieUpdate, MurderByNumbers, narcissism, PawPaw, progressupdate, reflection, relationships, shutdownEmotionalWithdrawal

Final illustration!

In this MondayLeonieUpdate:

— finished my Paw Paw character illustration from last week! 😀
— personal update: 2020 is a year of clarity! Also on narcissistic fathers & ramble on aspie shutdown and emotional withdrawal
— my birthday happened: reflecting on mortality, getting older, relationships & my career
— game thoughts on Crash 4, Min Min in Smash Ultimate, trailers and more
— Leonie’s Animal Crossing update + gaming shenanigans!