hipsterWhale – Leonie's Art Blog

☀️🏖️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

🎂🐔 Happy 🔟th birthday Crossy Road!! 🎊🥳

By leonieyue Posted on 25 November 2024 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 20thNovCrossyRoadBirthday, ClaraReeveGCAP2024keynote, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, crossyChicken, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadBday, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, leonieyue, marketingArt

In this blog post:
❧ about this illustration & subtitled timelapse! (part 1)

🔥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!

🎮Crossy Road Castle is out now on consoles! [fanart doodle]

By leonieyue Posted on 12 September 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Timelapse, Video Tagged with CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, fanart, GameConsoles, hipsterWhale, Illustration, leonieyue, mallard, NintendoSwitch, Timelapse, uniho

Just art and sharing reviews.

🪺🐇🎀Bunny time with Big Baby Chicken 🐤🐔🦆 [Fanart for the Crossy Road Easter character update]! Social media, health assessment tool, stress & anxiety

By leonieyue Posted on 29 March 2024 Posted in Collaboration, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with anxiety, breastCancerCheckUp, breastCancerRiskAssessment, crossy, crossy road, CrossyChick, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyroad, crossyroadBigBabyChicken, CrossyRoadUpdate, dentist, easterBreak, fanart, focus, grindingTeeth, headspace, hipsterWhale, Illustration, intrusiveBadMemories, juggling, keepingBusy, leonieyue, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, OnPodcasting, personal update, physiololgicalstress, podcastMaking, spiraling, stress, teethShenanigans, tenseBody, toxicStress

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble & subtitled timelapse!
❧ personal update, breast cancer risk assessment tool & more!

🧺🌳Banner art for the new official Crossy Road Central Discord (with art boss’s help)! 🍕🦄🐔🐈‍⬛🦆🐖🐎📖 Blender learning & anxiety with recording & streaming

By leonieyue Posted on 20 February 2024 Posted in Collaboration, Commission, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 3Dart, AliceWalsh, anxiety, ArtCollaboration, BlenderThoughts, contentSlop, contentVoid, creativeFlow, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadCastle, discord, flow, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, intenseWorkRest, learningJourney, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, PerformanceAnxiety, protectArtCreativeProcess, RealTimeRecording, scoutrager, slowingdown, StreamingAnxiety, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

In this blog post:
❧ ramble a bit about the thoughts and process behind this!
❧ shall learn Blender another time
❧ the official Crossy Road Central discord
❧ reflecting on my anxiety with real time recordings/streaming

⚔️✨🔮Ad Fighter & Ad Buster🔥🥋🥊 [Crossy Road update]! Boundaries, saying no, adult friendships, why autistic peeps asking questions

By leonieyue Posted on 30 December 2023 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with acquaintanceBoundaries, adultFriendship, art process, assumptions, autismFriendships, autisticallySocial, autisticBurnout, AutisticQuestionAsking, autisticThings, BeyondTheDesperationOfSeekingFriends, bittersweet, boundaries, comfort zone, comfortable, comfortZone, communication, compromise, crossy, crossy road, CrossyAdBuster, CrossyAdFighter, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadUpdate, doormat, friendlyTonePadding, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipActivitiesCosts, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, friendshipBreakups, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, friendshipGuilt, FriendshipLoyalty, FriendshipMileage, friendshipMistakes, FriendshipReciprocity, FriendshipsAreHard, FriendshipStability, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, introvert, LeonieDefensive, leonieyue, lessonLearned, LevelsOfFriendships, lifeLessons, limitingNarrativeOrKnowingWhoYouAre, MakingFriendsJob, marketingArt, notbeingajerk, onlineAcquaintances, romance, RomanceTropes, romantic, romanticAttraction, romanticFiction, RomanticProjection, sayingNo, sensorySensitivities, slow, socialFoundation, spaceWarriorPrincess, speakingUp, TextChatCommunication, Timelapse, whyQuestions, WickedMusical

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled art process speedpaint video!
❧ about this big Crossy Road update!
❧ thoughts on boundaries & saying no
❧ notes on making friends as an adult
❧ why autistic people ask so many questions versus getting defensive

🎁🎀 Presents under the Christmas Tree🎄 [Happy Holidays with Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 25 December 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with aestheticAttraction, AgencyPDA, animeIndustry, AutismAdulthood, autistic, bodyAwareness, bodyImage, breadcrumbing, christmas, christmasDecorations, ChristmasTree, crossy, crossy road, CrossyAlien, CrossyCat, crossyChicken, CrossyDog, CrossyGingerbreadperson, CrossyGiraffe, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossySkunk, CrossyUnihorse, crushes, demiplatonic, demiromantic, DemiromanticAce, emotionalIntimacy, gifts, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, leonieyue, loneliness, peoplePleasing, PersistentDriveForAutonomy, PhysicalAppearance, physicalAttractiveness, PhysicalExercise, presents, romance, romantic, romanticallyIntimate, romanticAttraction, romanticFiction, RomanticProjection, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, shoujoAnime, ShoujoManga, slow, social media, solitary, solitude, TokyoGodfathersMovie, trustIssues, turtlePace, twitter, UglyDucklingSwanMakeover, UglyDucklingTransformation, unrequitedLove, XmasStar

In today’s Christmas blog post:
❧ learning about anime/shoujo topics
❧ managing body image insecurities
❧ unrequited love and loneliness
❧ saw Tokyo Godfathers for the 1st time
❧ personal update & more

🎵🎀🐤🐔Night time Christmas Carols📖🎶🦆🦢🐦 [Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 22 December 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with AgencyPDA, autismfocus, BodyLanguage, christmas, communication, contextSwitching, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBabyDuck, CrossyBabyPenguin, CrossyBirds, CrossyBlueMacaw, CrossyBunny, CrossyCardinal, CrossyCarols, CrossyCastleRivals, CrossyChick, crossyChicken, CrossyCockatoo, CrossyCrow, CrossyEmoGoose, CrossyEmperorPenguin, CrossyEnemyBirds, CrossyFiorlandPenguin, CrossyKea, CrossyKiwiBird, CrossyKookaburra, CrossyLostPenguin, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyOwlBos, CrossyParrot, CrossyPelican, CrossyPenguin, CrossyPigeon, CrossyPoopyPigeon, CrossyPresent, CrossyPterodactyl, CrossyPudding, CrossyPuffin, CrossyRaven, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRobin, CrossyRubberChicken, CrossySeagull, CrossyToucan, CrossyTurkey, CrossyUnihorse, CrossyWoodpeckerBoss, dreamsVSreality, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalInternaliser, EmotionalSupport, expectationsProjections, eyeContact, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, flirting, growingMindset, habit, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HumanDualityComplexity, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, inattentiveness, invisibleExpectations, leonieyue, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, misophoniaWhispering, NintendoSwitch, nintendoswitch2023, PaprikaMovie, PDA, PersistentDriveForAutonomy, physiololgicalstress, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, scapegoat, self compassion, selfCare, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sociallyExpected, stress, subtlety, surrealism, xmas

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled art process speedpaint video!
❧ learning more about Persistent Drive for Autonomy autism, unhelpful advice, invisible expectations, body language & eye contact
❧ watched Paprika for the first time
❧ my little Nintendo switch 2023 review and more!

🌼👑Princess Daisy! [LeonieDoodles]

By leonieyue Posted on 19 December 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with AgencyOverIdentity, AIimageGeneratorsSteal, AlanWake2game, AmericanArcadiaGame, AstarionBaldursGate3, BlueSkySocial, BrunoEncanto, ChineseOnYieldingThings, ChromeBrowser, ChronicallyOnline, contextSwitching, DodgerDexbonus, EncantoDisney, EncantoThoughts, fanart, favouritism, gameAwards, GayRespectabilityPolitics, grifters, hipsterWhale, intergenerationalTrauma, LeonieDoodles, LGBTQIAplus, lookism, martial artist, MayaTheBee, MillenniumActressMovie, movieThoughts, parasocial relationships, PerfectBlueMovie, plagiarism, princessDaisy, psyhologicalThriller, QueerDiverseMinorities, redHeadedCharacters, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, scapegoat, sexualExploitationEntertainmentIndustry, SmallSagaGame, social media, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaReach, SocialMediaVoid, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, thegameawards, ThirstySuitorsGame, Threads, ThreadsMeta, twitter, youtubers

In this blog post:
❧ trying to do little doodles
❧ why Encanto triggers me
❧ the hbomberguy plagiarism video
❧ first time watching Perfect Blue
❧ the Game Awards & more!

🍂🦃 Happy Long Turkey Day 🌻 [Crossy Road update]!

By leonieyue Posted on 28 November 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with art process, autumn, crossy, crossy road, CrossyFanart, CrossyTurkey, DiscordServer, fallseason, fanart, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, iterating, LeonieDiscordServer, leonieyue, LongTurkey, turkey

A little dedicated blog ramble on Turkeys! And note on my Crossy marketing art and fanart.

🥧🍁 Sharing some pumpkin pie together 🤎🍂 [Crossy Road Castle Thanksgiving!]

By leonieyue Posted on 24 November 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with autumn, crossy, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, deadleaves, digital art, digital illustration, fallseason, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, hungry, Illustration, leonieyue, pumpkin, pumpkinpie, sunflower, thanksgiving, Timelapse, turkey, witchHat

Little blog ramble & subtitled art process video!

🍰🐔Happy 9th Crossy Road Birthday with Long Chicken!! 🎊

By leonieyue Posted on 20 November 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with catshriek, crossy, crossy road, crossy9thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, crossyChicken, digital art, digital illustration, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, leonieyue, LongChicken, marketingArt, reflective, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint

Little blog post & subtitled art process video!

🦋👑Princess Peach [Super Mario RPG remake]💐 Work update, more reflecting on autism & more!

By leonieyue Posted on 7 November 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with abandonment, abandonmentIssues, ableism, ActuallyAutistic, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, AutismEmployment, autismfocus, autismFriendships, autismLife, AutismTrauma, autistic, autisticallySocial, autisticBurnout, AutisticFidgeting, AutisticMeltdown, autisticShutdown, AutisticStereotypes, autisticThings, backPains, badShortTermMemory, BeingMisunderstood, butterfly, chasingFriends, chronicPain, communication, Cramps, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCastleWindup, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, EmotionalPermanence, empathy, eyeContact, fanart, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, friendsComeAndGo, GenderExpression, hipsterWhale, Illustration, kneeInjuries, kneeInjury, leonieyue, mario, marioRPG, masking, misunderstandings, neurodivergent, NotAbleToRelax, notlookingautistic, openOfficeEnvironments, overanalysing, overstimulated, princess peach, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, ShoujoManga, social patterns, socialAnxiety, socialCues, socialDeficits, socialEnergy, socialHierarchy, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, stereotypes, stimming, SuperMarioRPG, supermariorpglegendofthesevenstars, SuperMarioRPGRemake, textcommentary, Timelapse, TMJinjury, twitter, unsaidTruths, YattaSongGreenLeaves, スーパーマリオrpg, ピーチ姫

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled speedpaint!
❧ belated update on my work shenanigans
❧ reflecting on autism continues (meltdowns, social patterns, ableism, stereotypes, abandonment, etc)
❧ personal update & more!

Happy Crossy St Patrick’s Day! 🍀💚 [Crossy Road illlustration for Hipster Whale]

By leonieyue Posted on 18 March 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse Tagged with AnnaAkanaYoutube, clover, clovers, computerbuildupgrade, costofliving, covid19, crossy, crossy road, CrossyAlien, CrossyBabyParrot, crossyChicken, CrossyGummyGear, CrossyKeaParrot, CrossyLizard, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyNudibranch, CrossyRaptor, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyTortoise, environmentArt, green, harddrives, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, learningJourney, leonieyue, marketingArt, personalupdate, potOGold, StPatricksDay, walletpain

In this blog post:
– speedpaint process and reflection
– life lessons: people coming/going, self rejection, disappointing people, self responsibility, communication, social media metrics & more
– personal update as I juggle more things and feel more stingy :’)

My computer OS died on Saturday / storytime

By leonieyue Posted on 14 March 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with computerbuildupgrade, harddrives, hipsterWhale, leonieyue, personalupdate, progressupdate, reflection, SamsungSSD, self portrait, sketch, SSDprovisioning

Consequently my weekend was terrible and stressful but hey here’s what’s going on

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