hermitLeonie – Leonie's Art Blog

🐲 Overwhelmed & deadpan Hermit Leonie

By leonieyue Posted on 14 January 2026 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with ArtHabits, GhibliBoyAndTheHeron, HermitDragonLeonie, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, leonieyue, movieThoughts, personal update, reflection, self portrait, stingyFrugalHermit, Studio Ghibli, TightBudgetHermit

❧ Boy and the Heron movie thoughts
❧ I’m autistic & I hyperfocus but fear big personal projects
❧ guilt with productivity & regular drawing habits
❧ personal update & more!

💐 Overwhelmed and slowing down [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 12]

By leonieyue Posted on 26 August 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with beanies, determination, DonkeyKongBonanza, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hyperfocus, Illustration, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, lostinthought, magicaVoxel, movieThoughts, NeZhaMovieThoughts, onARoll, overwhelm, personal update, procrastination, reflection, slowingdown, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, winter, winterCold, winteroutfit

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this & winter triple beanies
❧ personal update

A dream I had recently

By leonieyue Posted on 29 July 2025 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with alonewithcompany, behindInLife, demiplatonic, demiromantic, failure, Fallingbehind, fearOfAloneInTheWorld, feelingnotenough, foreverAloneMeme, HermitDragonLeonie, hermitLeonie, LeonieDoodles, LeonieDreams, loneliness, lonely, lonelyArtist, notenough, platonicRelationship, romance, romanticallyIntimate, singledom, SuperLeonieMode

little personal ramble

📒 Getting surrounded by mist🌷 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 11]

By leonieyue Posted on 15 July 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, personal update, voxel, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ reflecting on this
❧ personal update & games!

🦋 Dreaming about mugs and waterfalls! 🍵 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 10]

By leonieyue Posted on 17 June 2025 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, medicalScan, personal update, romance, SelfConfidence, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ personal update!

💧 Void watching where I work [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 9]

By leonieyue Posted on 5 February 2025 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with BeingMisunderstood, communication, expectations, expectationsProjections, ezcema, flawed, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, invisibleExpectations, learning, learningJourney, learningProcess, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, mindgames, overthinking, reflection, reflective, s, scapegoat, scaryConversations, slowingdown, summer, teamwork, TextChatCommunication, unspokenExpectations, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ reflecting on this
❧ personal update & more!

Midorifuji 翠富士, Ichiyamamoto 一山本, Takayasu 高安 💪 Sumo wrestler studies!

By leonieyue Posted on 21 January 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with anxiety, anxietyFuture, anxious, ArtCareer, ArtCollaboration, bluesky, communicationIssues, CreativeFai, CreativeFailure, CreativePressure, DesireToProveSelfConstantlyExhausting, energy, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, exhaus, existentialDread, fanart, hatsubasho2025, hermit, hermitLeonie, hustlingExhausting, Ichiyamamoto, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, keyboards, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, love, lowEnergy, lowselfEsteem, meditation, Midorifuji, NintendoSwitch2, personal update, portrait, provingOneselfExhausting, relationships, selfdoubt, social media, socialBattery, socialEnergy, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, SplitTentedKeyboards, sumo, sumoStudies, sumoTournaments, SumoWrestlerStudy, SumoWrestling, survivalArtistMode, Takayasu, timesink, WorkDowntime

❧ reflecting on creative failure
❧ personal update
Last week of the sumo hatsubasho is going right now yeahhh

🌙Sleeping on the pink crescent moon🌷 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 8]

By leonieyue Posted on 14 January 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with breathwork, EnergyConserving, energyConservingMode, EnergyDraining, existential, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, existing, fallingAsleep, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hyperawareOfPeople, Illustration, LeonieBlob, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, meditation, nightowl, NotAbleToRelax, openOfficeEnvironments, overstimulated, poisoning, recovery, relax, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, sleep, sleeping, SleepSchedule, sleepy, socialOutsider, solitaryRecoveryMode, stingyFrugalHermit, TaleOfPrincessKaguyaThoughts, TightBudgetHermit, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ on sleep, got slightly poisoned & internet finds
❧ the Tale of Princess Kaguya spoiler thoughts
❧ personal update & why I’m not logging in at bluesky much anymore & crossposting less at Linkedin from now on.

I will post status updates at my discord server instead + I’m active at my blog, youtube & cara! <3

☀️🏖️A Sunny Summer Chrimbus! 🎅⛄⭐ [Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 25 December 2024 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with abandonmentIssues, acquaintanceBoundaries, adultFriendship, beach, comicMangaThoughts, covid19, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, CrossyCrab, CrossyGingerbreadperson, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossySandmanSnowman, CrossySanta, disfigurementdisgustprettyprivilege, distrust, eczema, emotionalDistance, EmotionallyDistant, envious, envy, FearOfMissingOut, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, FriendshipLoyalty, FriendshipReciprocity, FriendshipsAreHard, GoalsPhilosophy, happyholidays, healthUpdate, hermit, hermitLeonie, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, insecurity, judgemental, leftout, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, lossOfRespect, MaleGaze, manga, marketingArt, neverGoodEnough, NintendoSwitch, nintendoswitch2024, notgoodenoughFeelings, onesided, personal update, pikmin4, postingBreak, postingSchedule, preemptiveDistancing, ReciprocityFriendshipCheck, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, sameFaceSyndrome, self comparisons, SelfPressure, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sensorySensitivities, sexyGenderBinary, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, socialGroups, solitary, solitaryRecoveryMode, summer, Timelapse, videogames, youtubevideo

In this blog post:
❧ about the art & speedpaint for summer chrimbus peeps!
❧ envy & internet finds
❧ personal update & 2025 goals

🎄Merry Catmas with Christmas Tree Cat 🐈 Crossy Road update fanart! ❄️

By leonieyue Posted on 22 December 2024 Posted in Collaboration, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with affection, ArtSelfExpression, cat, christmas, ChristmasTree, christmasTreeCat, cleaning, comfort zone, comfortable, Cramps, CreativeBlock, creativeControl, creativeFlow, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyCat, CrossyFanart, crossyroad, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, crushes, decompress, earningTrust, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, executiveFunctionChallenges, fanart, fashionPersonalStyle, focus, happyholidays, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, homebody, homebodylife, homeCleaning, houseCleaning, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, internetf, internetFinds, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, learning, learningProcess, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, love, LoveHesitator, magicalGirl, music, patience, PikminBloom, postingSchedule, productivity, productivityStruggles, safety, stingyFrugalHermit, talent, TightBudgetHermit, Timelapse, trialAndError, trust, whiteCat, zoneOut

In this little blog post:
❧ the art & speedpaint!
❧ personal update, juggling things & internet finds!

🧸✨ Giant Plushie Collector 🛍️🦆 Crossy Road Theme park update fanart! 🦄🦊🐶🐈‍⬛🦒🐰

By leonieyue Posted on 16 December 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with asocial, comfort zone, comfortZone, creativeFlow, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, CrossyFanart, CrossyPlushieCollector, crossyroad, CrossyRoadBday, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, DesireToProveSelfConstantlyExhausting, energy, fanart, femininePerformance, frugal, gameAwards, gobelins, heatwaveDay, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, houseCleaning, housework, HouseworkInBabySteps, Illustration, impatientWithSelf, insecurity, internetFinds, japanExperiences, leonieyue, lowEnergy, LowPeriods, lowselfEsteem, LowSocialEndurance, minimalSocialInteractions, nightowl, NoArtRequests, NoSocialLife, openOfficeEnvironments, overthinking, personal update, personalProjects, reflection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sensorySensitivities, socialOutsider, socialrecluse, speakingUp, StatlerAndWaldorfMuppets, stingyFrugalHermit, summer, teamwork, thegameawards, themePark, TheSubstanceMovie, TightBudgetHermit, Timelapse

In this blog post:
❧ Theme Park fanart compilation timelapse
❧ I don’t do art requests
❧ being high sensitivity & a night owl workaholic
❧ personal update & internet finds

My Cara Best Nine #bestnine #carabest9 #best9

By leonieyue Posted on 8 December 2024 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with artvsartist, best9, bestnine, CaraBest9, CaraBestNine, exhausted, fanart, growingPains, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, lowselfEsteem, openOfficeEnvironments, overstimulated, overwhelm, personal update, quiet, QuietObserver, reserved, restroomSensoryRecovery, sad, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, stamina

(5 pieces are from 2024 & 4 are reposted older art)
Will this be seen? Time will tell how things go with posting to bksy ✨

✨🦆Crossy Road Chicken & Mallard illustrations (originally for the GCAP2024 keynote)🐔

By leonieyue Posted on 26 November 2024 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 4Bmovement, 4BMovementLifeWithoutMen, ace, asexual, asexuality, beauty, beauty and the beast, beautyStandard, beautyStandards, burnout, burntOut, ClaraReeveGCAP2024keynote, comfort zone, comfortZone, conventionallyAttractive, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, DemiromanticAce, emotionalEnergy, energy, EnergyConserving, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, leonieyue, marketingArt, physicalAttractiveness, physiotherapist, reflection, romance, social media, stingyFrugalHermit, Timelapse, youthBeauty

In this blog post (part 2):
❧ about these illustrations & subtitled timelapse!
❧ managing social media & checking only when I post
❧ personal update & more internet finds

🌥️Head in the pink clouds 🌈 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 7]

By leonieyue Posted on 15 November 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Photos, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with anxious, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, autismBoundaries, bluesky, BlueSkySocial, boundaries, communication, communicationIssues, conflictAvoidance, DetachmentLettingGo, disassociation, disgustRepulsed, disrespectful, dissatisfaction, emotionalConnections, emotionalDetachment, emotionalDump, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, emotionalExpectations, emotionalHonesty\, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalLabour, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyMutual, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, ergonomicKeyboard, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, flawed, freezeUp, FriendshipEffort, hermit, HermitBurpcast, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hikikomori, honesty, Illustration, intellectualMoralEmotionalValueEqual, intense, keyboards, leonieyue, lowEnergy, magicaVoxel, manipulative, melbourne, melbourneCity, MentalHealth, mutuallyInterested, noenergytochase, NoPuttingPeopleOnAPedestal, NotAroundPeopleYouLookDownUpon, onlineBoundaries, overthinking, overwhelm, personalBoundaries, photo, photo post, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, self comparisons, self compassion, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfregulation, selfRespect, shutdownEmotionalWithdrawal, socialDynamics, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaoverwhelm, speakingUp, SplitTentedKeyboards, stingyFrugalHermit, toxicFriendships, toxicRelationships, unequaldynamics, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, vulnerability, zombie

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ sorting bluesky boundaries, feeds, lists
❧ self boundaries with relationships & the ick feelings
❧ Hermit Leonie walks around in the city & takes 2 days to recover
❧ keyboard troubles & getting a new one with silent switches :0!!
❧ personal update & more!

🌈Rainbow swim [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 6]

By leonieyue Posted on 12 October 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, acquaintanceBoundaries, activelySocialOnline, adultFriendship, anxiety, anxious, asocial, asthma, autisticallySocial, BlueSkySocial, casualConnections, ChronicallyOnline, complexFeelings, conflictAvoidance, connections, coworkerFriendshipsHard, cupcake, disappointment, disrespectful, drycoughing, earHealth, earningTrust, emotionalConnections, emotionalDistance, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, EmotionallyDistant, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyMutual, emotionallyProcessing, expectationsProjections, feelingCaredFor, friendship, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, friendshipBreakups, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, friendshipGuilt, FriendshipLoyalty, friendshipmi, FriendshipMileage, friendshipMistakes, FriendshipReciprocity, guilt, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hurtFeelings, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, leonieyue, LimerenceProjectionFantasty, limerenceProjectionFantasy, linkedin, LowSocialEndurance, manipulative, mixedFeelings, mutuallyInterested, NoSocialLife, notgoodenoughFeelings, onesided, onlineAcquaintances, onlineBoundaries, onlineFriendship, onlinePersona, overthinking, parasocial relationships, personal update, postcoldinfectionscough, processingFeelings, rainbow, reflection, reflective, resentment, respect, RomanticProjection, secondchance, secondguessing, sittingwithfeelings, social media, socialAnxiety, socialConformity, socialsi, socialSituations, splatoon3SideOrder, toiletCleaning, trust, trustIssues, unequaldynamics, unfollow, VoxelAnimation, voxelIllustration, WalkingSteps

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ Social media overthinking & second guessing if it’s mutual
❧ Side Order, personal, hearing & health update & more

🔥Super Fire Princesses Daisy & Peach 🌸🌼 [Super Mario Bros Wonder]!

By leonieyue Posted on 3 October 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, adultFriendship, anxiety, anxious, artprocess, asocial, autisticallySocial, BlueSkySocial, character illustration, complacentBystanderSupportingAbusers, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCastleConsoles, datingApps, DatingThoughts, digital illustration, eczema, eyeHealth, faceMask, fanart, finalfantasy10, fireballs, FireEmblem, fireprincess, foodpoisoning, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipReciprocity, germaphobe, handEczema, HappySingleTime, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, highTea, hipsterWhale, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, leonieyue, listening, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, LowSocialEndurance, MajimaPirateYakuza, ManagingStress, melbourneCity, NoSocialLife, phonesystem, princess peach, princessDaisy, princesspeach, singledom, socialBattery, socialEating, stingyFrugalHermit, stress, StressEat, Timelapse, TwitterVentAgain, xenosaga, デイジー姫, ピーチ姫

In this blog post:
❧ reflecting & subtitled timelapse
❧ the Hipster Whale Castle console launch high tea & the city
❧ personal update, health & more!

Tag: hermitLeonie