Illustration – Page 6 – Leonie's Art Blog

⭐Happy Mar10 day 2024!! 🍄👑 On being a hermit

By leonieyue Posted on 10 March 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with BeingAnOutcast, bummed, creative, creativeControl, creativeFulfillment, creativity, cute, DesireToProveSelfConstantlyExhausting, disappointed, disappointment, envious, envy, expectations, feelings, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hurt, Illustration, Kimo, leftbehind, leonieyue, luigi, Mar10day, mario, Mario bros, missedKimo, mixedFeelings, movingForward, nintendo, personal, princess peach, princesspeach, protectArtCreativeProcess, reassurance, resentment, SelfReassurance, spiraling, unaware, ピーチ姫, ルイージ

Little personal blog post and ramble!

Leonie’s mixed feelings / my 15th twitter anniversary oof / I’m not keeping twitter up to date anymore, GenAI & creative control

By leonieyue Posted on 6 March 2024 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with acceptance, art blog mission, ArtCollaboration, ArtistBrand, ArtistHustle, ArtistStruggle, ArtJourney, ArtWorkerBee, askingForHelp, blogging, burnout, ChronicallyOnline, comfortZone, communicationIssues, ContentCreationProblems, contentCreators, ContentHustle, contentVoid, creativeControl, disappointment, fightForMyselfHow, frustration, generativeAI, HavingACry, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hope, hopelessness, Illustration, internet, internetConsumption, intrusiveBadMemories, jaded, learningJourney, leftbehind, leftinthedark, leonieyue, ManagingStress, memeing, mixedFeelings, mosquito, neglect, noenergytochase, notvalued, personal, personalBranding, pettiness, petty, reflection, reflective, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, self portrait, selfAcceptance, socialmediaAndArtists, spamEmail, speakingUp, struggle, supportArtist, TerminallyOnline, tolerate, trustIssues, twitter, twitterAnniversary, venting, wariness

Also in this little blog post about personal feelings, creative control, personal update & more.

🫧👑 Bubble Princess Daisy & Peach!✨☁️ [Super Mario Bros Wonder] + on social media/”content” creation

By leonieyue Posted on 27 February 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 3DMariogames, ActuallyAutistic, addictiveEscapism, AIethicsLegality, AIgeneratedWork, AIimageGeneratorsSteal, algorithms, ArtistStruggle, authenticity, autisic, autism, beginnerMindset, bubblePrincesses, chasingTrends, CleaningFollowerAccounts, ContentCreationProblems, contentCreators, ContentHustle, contentSlop, contentVoid, creativity, CreativityIncEdCatmull, fanart, fastfoodcontent, generativeAI, Illustration, InternetTrends, leonieyue, mario, nintendo, notgoodenoughFeelings, OnlineContentConsistency, onlinePersona, OnlinePopularity, OnvideoEssays, overstimulated, princess, princess peach, princessDaisy, sleepDeprived, social media, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, SocialMediaMetrics, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaReach, SocialMediaVoid, SuperMarioBrosWonder, Timelapse, YoutubeAlgorithm, デイジー姫, ピーチ姫

In this blog post:
❧ the art
❧ indefinite break from making small subtitled timelapses / youtube videos
❧ manually removing 475 twitter followers & 30 instagram ones
❧ vent about social media & how its falling apart
❧ exhaustion and ethics of consuming and making “content” & 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

❤️🧸 Drawing Lovely Teddy Bears 🐔💛 [Fanart for the Crossy Road Valentine’s Day character update]!

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AcrossTheSpiderverseMovieThoughts, animeIndustry, Chores, CommunistOther, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, CrossyFanart, CrossyLovelyTeddyBear, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, fanart, GenderedJapanese, HappySingleTime, hearts, Illustration, intenseWorkRest, JapanWorkCrunchCulture, leonieyue, LoveDay, LuxuryObsession, rest, singledom, timeManagement, ValentinesDay, ZoryAppInteractiveRomance

In this blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled timelapse!
❧ love day, anime industry, Across the Spiderverse thoughts
❧ personal update and more!

🏮🐲 Happy Lunar New Year with Jade Dragon 💚🐔🦆🌸 [Fanart for the Crossy Road LNY update]!

By leonieyue Posted on 11 February 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AliceWalsh, BrendonT, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, CrossyFanart, crossyJadeDragon, crossyLNYdragon, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, fanart, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, Illustration, KevynStott, lantern, leonieyue, lny2024, Lunar New Year, SaraFonseca, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart

In this little blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled timelapse!
❧ about the update and kudos to HW artists & peeps!

🧧🐉Happy (actual) Lunar New Year of the Dragon today ft. cute Rejuvenation God Yomigami! 🏮🌠 [大神 / Ōkami Lunar New Year Project] Bummed about metrics & Zodiac predictions

By leonieyue Posted on 10 February 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with CareerAdvice, Chinese, ChineseSuperstitions, dragon, EarthDragon, fanart, health, Illustration, lackOfClout, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, MentalHealth, MoonFestival, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, physicalHealth, romance, subtitledSpeedpaint, superstitions, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart, Yomigami, zodiacAnimals, zodiacPredictions

In this blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled timelapse!
❧ bummed from metrics again
❧ let’s get superstitious! Predictions for the Year of the Dragon and personal update!

🎀 Oh Elise!! 🍒🩰 [Little Goody Two Shoes] On the game & making timelapses again

By leonieyue Posted on 16 January 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with ArtHabits, dreaming, dreams, dreamsVSreality, fanart, flexible, gameThoughts, habit, Illustration, LeonieDreams, leonieyue, LGTSElise, LittleGoodyTwoShoesGame, personal update, postingSchedule, routine, structureAndRoutine, timeandspace, Timelapse, timeManagement, WebbyPaint, YoutubeShorts, youtubevideo

In this little blog post:
❧ the art and ramble on the game!
❧ whelp I’m back to making vertical timelapses youtube shorts :’)
❧ personal update

💘StudyPost 29 / Wishing for love🎐 Creative fulfilment, scaling back videos, blog posts & not posting as much at twitter

By leonieyue Posted on 9 January 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with acmi dreamworks, addictiveEscapism, Ageism, AgingNaturally, Art Anxiety, art studies, ArtistCompetition, ArtistHustle, ArtistStandards, ArtistStruggle, artTakingOverYourLife, beautyStandard, bodyImage, creativeFulfillment, drawfest, drawfest4, dreamsVSreality, escapism, Fulfillment, HustleCulture, hyperfixation, hyperfocus, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, ManicPixieDreamGirlTrope, meditation, overwork, passionProjects, personalProjects, progress, progresspose, progressupdate, scottPilgrimThoughts, sketchbook, sketchpost, studies, study

In this blog post:
❧ the art, Drawfest & ol’ figure studies
❧ creative fulfillment; passion projects not for everyone
❧ when art consumes your whole life
❧ scaling back & simplifying my youtube videos, blog posts & twitter

🎵Lo-fi boks to celebrate the New Year to ft. Crossy Chicken 🐔🎶 Happy New Year 2024! 🕯️🎊 Fear of Blender & insecure with social media

By leonieyue Posted on 1 January 2024 Posted in Animation, Illustration, LeonieYue, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with bluesky, crossy, crossy road, crossyMarketingArt, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, instagram, leonieyue, marketingArt, social media, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaReach, ThreadsMeta, twitter, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

In this little blog post:
❧ learning MagicaVoxel
❧ fear of Blender 3D
❧ struggling to cut out some social media

🎆🌠Happy New Year’s Eve with Crossy Road!🐔🎇 Reflecting back on 2023, 2024 hopes, rejection sensitivity, needs, boundaries & communication issues

By leonieyue Posted on 31 December 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 2023artsummary, acquaintanceBoundaries, anxiety, art learning, ArtistStruggle, artsummary, autistic, autisticThings, babySteps, boundaries, communication, Confetti, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, defensiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, GodfatherTrilogy, HappyNewYear, headspace, Illustration, invisibleExpectations, leonieyue, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, NewYearEve, notbeingajerk, onlineBoundaries, parasocial relationships, PartyChicken, PartyPopper, reflection, reflective, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, sadness, SensoryIssues, slow, socialEnergy, socialEvents, socialmediaBoundaries, socialSituations, strugglingForward, TheGodfatherMovie, vulnerability

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled art process speedpaint video!
❧ reflecting on 2023 & 2024 hopes!
❧ rejection sensitivity, needs, boundaries and communication issues

⚔️✨🔮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!