games – 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

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.

Leonie Ramble: Yo! The Nintendo Direct!

By leonieyue Posted on 15 September 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate Tagged with artRepost, games, leonieyue, mariokart8, MarioKart8Deluxe, NintendoDirect, PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor, princess peach, PrincessPeachShowtime, splatoon3SideOrder, StrayChildrenOnionGames, SuperMarioRPG, wariowareMoveIt

I ramble about the Nintendo Direct that happened :0

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 / Floating with video games + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 4 April 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Timelapse Tagged with ArtWorkerBee, clipstudiopaint, embarrassing, falling, fallingwithstyle, floating, games, Illustration, leonieyue, officechair, PJs, recreation, self portrait, Timelapse, videogames

Floating with video games
It’s so hard to make time to play :’)

Finally posting this Maid with Love game gift/fanart from November 2015

By leonieyue Posted on 20 December 2021 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with ChampionsOfTheHeart, character design, charactercast, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, ChiNgo, fanart, gamedev, games, giftart, Illustration, JiaLiu, LaurenClinnick, leonieyue, maid, maidCafe, MaidWithLoveGame, MistyWalter, RevaSingh, SnowMcNally, TheaQuincy, tributeArt, visualnovel

It’s been hidden away for 6 years :’)

Character Design + illustration / ArtStation Box of Mystery Challenge – my Leader character so far + MondayLeonieUpdate

By leonieyue Posted on 22 June 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with AnimalCrossingNewHorizons, AnimalCrossingNewHorizonsThoughts, ArtStationBoxOfMysteryChallenge, autism, autismInLadies, BowlOfMysteryProject, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, concept art, FinalFantasyVIIremake, games, Illustration, JumpRopeChallenge, LastOfUsPart2, LeonieUpdate, MondayLeonieUpdate, PauPau, PokemonPresents, story, UnderAStarCalledSun

Character design / My Artstation Box of Mystery Challenge submission – my Leader character so far + MondayLeonieUpdate

— Leonie and the Box of Mystery challenge
— struggles & getting stuck with this challenge
— early stages in story, references, sketches and designing my leader character
— deciding to quit the deadline
— Personal update and ramble time
— Reflecting on the 7 signs of Autism in Ladies
— Games, Pokemon Presents and Last of Us Part 2 spoilers
— Leonie’s gaming shenanigans + Animal Crossing