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💔🦆 “Tell me why – Ain’t nothing but a heartache…” 💍 2026 Crossy Road Valentine’s Day update with Tuxedo Mallard pt 1/2

By leonieyue Posted on 10 February 2026 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with alonewithcompany, antiGenAI, burnout, character design, character development, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyChickenCousins, CrossyMallard, CrossyMallardFamily, crossyroad, CrossyRoadCharacter, crossyRoadCharacterDesign, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrossyRoadWedding2026, CrossyRooster, fanart, genAI, GenAIimpactInternet, Illustration, ImpactOfGenAIonEnvironment, intenseWorkRest, JawClenching, jawPain, KirbyAndTheForgottenLand, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, love, LoveDay, mallard, NintendoDirect, reflection, rest, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, ValentinesDay, winddownBedtime

💔🦆 “Tell me why – Ain’t nothing but a heartache…” 💍 2026 Crossy Road Valentine’s Day update with Tuxedo Mallard pt 1/2

❧ more about this Valentine’s update
❧ nintendo partner showcase, minimising burnout, personal update & more

Happy Kirby anniversary x Year of the Dragon! 🐲Processing thoughts on the Barbie movie

By leonieyue Posted on 23 April 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with anxiety, anxietyFuture, anxious, BarbieMovieThoughts, comedySatireMovie, complexFeelings, corporateFeminism, dragon, DragonKirby, empathy, FakeVideoGames, fanart, fridgeTroubles, gender inequality, GhostRiderThoughts, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, houseCleaning, humanConnection, humanity, humanscomplex, Illustration, kirby, KirbyAndTheForgottenLand, kirbyAnniversary, leonieyue, motherhood, movieThoughts, NicolasCageMovies, subtitledSpeedpaint, Timelapse, toxicMasculinity, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart

Happy Kirby anniversary x Year of the Dragon! 🐲Processing thoughts on the Barbie movie

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ processing thoughts on the Barbie movie
❧ personal update

Fanart / Lovely best buds Kirby & Bandana Dee! Happy 30th Kirby Anniversary + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 23 April 2022 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Timelapse Tagged with BandanaDee, fanart, Illustration, kirby, Kirby30th, KirbyAndTheForgottenLand, kirbyAnniversary, leonieyue, NieR12周年, waddle dee, カービィ30周年, 星のカービィ

Fanart / Lovely best buds Kirby & Bandana Dee! Happy 30th Kirby Anniversary + timelapse!

Love and friendship!

I sketched this before I knew it was in the game :0!!

Fanart / Kirby and the Forgotten Land + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 March 2022 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Timelapse Tagged with birds, fanart, Illustration, kirby, KirbyAndTheForgottenLand, leonieyue, nintendo, Timelapse

Fanart / Kirby and the Forgotten Land + timelapse!

It’s out todayyyyyyy 🥺

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★ CURRENT shenanigans ☆

- Personal art & fan art
- Part time Hipster Whale artist! [site]
- Study progress posts
- Freelance work for the right project

★ Social Media Lurking ☆

★ My tiny discord
☆ Youtube
★ Cara | BlueSky only checking these when I put out a blog post

Inactive:
~~LinkedIn just to collect industry peeps but I don't check it, Artstation, Pixiv, Twitter, DillyHub, InkBlot, Hive, Artfol, Artgram, Cohost, Mastodon, Instagram, Threads, Tumblr, Reddit, Facebook~~

Mail
Discord
Bluesky
YouTube
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★ Past Projects & Memories ☆

★ 2026 ★

- Whoa secret
- Crossy Road Lunar New Year 2026 Fire Horse Pt 2
- Crossy Road Valentine's Day 2026 Tuxedo Mallard & Wedding update Part 2
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★ 2025 ★

- Whoa whoosh secret
- Z*** Run
- Crossy Road Crashy Cart Mode - character art & marketing anims
- Crossy Road Halloween update / Goth Girl character & anim
- Crossy Road Airport update 2025 with 15 characters & anim & feature art
- Crossy Road+ UK World Update (characters & UK overworld art & marketing art)
- Crossy Road Tennis Player character (mens & womens)
- Crossy Road Sneezer character for Easter 2025
- Mega Crossy Road x Subway Surfers collab update (characters & animation) [trailer]
- Kimo 7 / figure drawing challenge month
- My 2026 Snow Miku entry
- Crossy Road Valentine's Day 2025 Match Maker & Heart Breaker
- Crossy Road Lunar New Year update 2025 Wood Snake

★ 2024 ★

- Crossy Summer Chrimbus illustration
- Crossy Road 2024 Xmas Tree Cat
- Crossy Road Theme Park Update
- GCAP2024 Crossy Keynote illustrations
- Happy 10th Birthday Crossy Road!
- Celebrating 10 years of MIGW / Games Week Launch Party cupcakes project ft 10 Aussie game characters + my 10 year art career
- Crossy Road x Among Us animation
- Crossy Road & Crossy Road Castle collab fanart
- Crossy Road Castle on consoles
- June 2024 Three Chicken Cousins made it into Crossy Road's Farm update
- Crossy Road Easter 2024 Big Baby Chicken
- Year of the Dragon fanart project
- Crossy Road Central Discord art Banner
- Crossy Road Valentine's Day 2024 Lovely Teddy Bear
- Crossy Road Lunar New Year update 2024 Jade Dragon

★ 2023 ★

- Crossy Happy New Year 2024 3D animation | tweet
- Crossy New Years Eve illustration | tweet
- Crossy Road Ad Fighter & Ad Buster update | tweet
- Crossy Christmas Carols Illustration | Tweet | instagram
- Long Turkey for Crossy Road
- Crossy Road Castle Thanksgiving illustration | tweet
- Long Chicken for Crossy Road's 9th Birthday! | instagram | tweet | tiktok
- Crossy Road Halloween 2023 character | another post
- Crossy Road International Games Day UFO Chicken
- Crossy Road Castle Windup Workshop update (Tower 10) decorations
- Crossy Road Chicken in an Easter Bunny suit
- Crossy Road Castle Sandcastle Shores update (Tower 9) decorations
- Crossy Road St Patrick's Day illustration
- Crossy Road Valentine's Day illustration

★ 2022 ★

- Crossy Road 8th anniversary illustrations | tweet
- Crossy Road Castle Sticker Book Update | trailer
- Crossy Road's Medieval Update 2022
- SuperLeonieMode comics | WebToons
- Crossy Road Castle's Snowpeak Palace update 2022
- Crossy Road Castle's The Lost Temple update 2022
- Crossy Road's Lunar New Year 2022 Tiger

★ 2021 ★

- WebToons for SuperLeonieMode
- LeonieArtRambles Podcast [Podcast notes]
- Crossy Road Castle's Candy Cafe 2021 update
- Crossy Road+ theme park environment art helper
- Crossy Road's Japan update 2021
- Crossy Road Castle's Space Station 115 2021 update
- Crossy Road World Bee Day 2021 update
- Crossy Road Easter 2021 update
- Crossy Road Castle's Great Treehouse 2021 update
- Joining HipsterWhale as a part time artist
- Quitting Instagram & Facebook page [Reason why]

★ 2020 ★

- Hipster Whale anniversary patches
- Voxel artist helper for the little CrossyRoad End of Year Update (Dec) [tweet]
- Little NDA design project
- Little NDA project
- NDA art test
- Voxel artist for the CrossyRoad "At Home" Update (October) [tweet]
- Voxel art decorations helper for the CrossyRoadCastle Spooky Tower Update (October) [tweet]
- Bowl of Mystery Project
- Six Fanarts Challenge
- Voxel art decorations Helper for the CrossyRoadCastle Construction Tower Update (June) [tweet]
- LudoNarraCon 2020 header art [LNC2020]
- LudoNarraCon2020 art Unwinnable interview
- SuperLeonieMode WebToons Collection | Tapas collection

★ 2019 ★

- LudoNarraCon 2020 illustration [LNC2020]
- Voxel art decorations helper for CrossyRoadCastle - Unihorse Castle [HipsterWhale] [game]
- Ben Burnes Album art commission
- "Tales of the Dust Bunnies art" for Emilie Poissenot [site] [Emilie's site]
- NDA Concept art
- PatchGaming Designs [site] [store]
- CheckPoint Coping Companion handbook [site]
- SuperListenMode comics 2016 to 2019 [SLM WebToons]
- JS's GDC2019 game design lightning talk
- Total eSports Action Manager / T.E.A.M. art 2019 [Mighty Serious] [steam] [itch.io]
- Mighty Games & Hipster Whale Art Helper Feb 2016 to Feb 2019 [Mighty site]:
---- ShootySkies [site]
---- CrossyRoad [site]
---- DisneyCrossyRoad [site]
---- CharmingKeep [site]
---- CharmingRunes [site]
---- QuestyQuest [site]
---- a little bit of concept art & a few piffleballs on Piffle
---- The Voxel art post

★ 2018 ★

- MIGW18 art
- MIGW18 Speaker BurpDoodles
- BurpDoodles
- Inktober 2018
- MCVPacific WomenInGames List 2018 [feature]
- Cat BurpStickers 2018 [RB]
- VectorBurpQuest
- WiDGET nonoFoMo 2018
- Mighty Ladies Portraits
- MeowBurpDoodles
- OkamiLunarNewYear Series
- MelbGGJ18 Pitch Perfect Pickles Game [site]
- Adriel & Rami's Wedding Icons

★ 2017 ★
- Wonderful World Of Character Design Talks NZGDC17 & GCAP17 Talks [SlidesPDF] [Resource Page] [Entries] [tw]
- Speaker MIGW17 BurpDoodles
- Speaker NZGDC17 BurpDoodles [twitter moment]
- The Guardian Australia Feature 2017 [site]
- Framed2 Polaroid Illustrations & iStickers Art [game] [site]
- Art for JS GDC talk
- Goddess Of the Ruby Sea MelbGGJ17 Game [site]
- Kotaku Australia Art Feature 2017

★ 2016 ★

- PAXAus16 Nanojam & Character Concept Creation Panels
- Inktober 2016
- Speaker BurpDoodles MIGW16 [itch.io][gumroad]
- Contours 2016
- BurpTalk 2016
- ShootySkies comics [tw]

★ 2015 ★

- BurpAvatars 2015
- You Don't Make Friends With Salad
- HermitBurpcast 2015 [itunes][yt]
- Inktober 2015
- MaidWithLove Game, character design & art 2015 [site][tw][fb]
- HungryBirds Party MelbGGJ [site]
- Wukong Illustration
- GunBlocks Demo Art [site]
- CTNx Competition 2015 [site]

★ 2013/2014 ★

- U001LSCDIllust
- Footsteps MelbGGJ2014 Game [site]
- Position: Vacant [site]
- Cooking with Rex

★ Top Posts & Pages ☆

🌸 Kirby Anniversary Month x PleinAirpril studies days 19 to 22 and I burnt out 😭
🌻 Kirby Anniversary Month x PleinAirpril studies days 1 to 6
StudyPost 21 / Leonie draws over five hundred boxes + rambles about tracking habits and progress
StudyPost 24 / Tiger studies for the Drawfest2 1 hour drawing challenge!
Weekly art progress / Kimodameshi 2025 Days 24 to 27 and Sailor Moon! 🌙

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Copyright © 2026 Leonie's Art Blog | Powered by Responsive Theme

All my work is copyrighted to Leonie Yue unless otherwise stated.
Do not use any of my artwork and written words for genAI training, datasets, crypto or any other commercial, unethical purposes without my written consent.

特に明記されていない限り、私の作品の著作権はすべてレオニー・ユエにあります。
私の作品や文章を、私の書面による同意なしに、genAIのトレーニング、データセット、暗号通貨、その他の商業的、非倫理的な目的のために使用しないでください。

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