LeonieUpdate – Leonie's Art Blog

📜🐉Happy Lunar New Year of the Dragon 2024 with Rejuvenation God Yomigami / 蘇神 & baby seahorses!🔮🏮 [大神 / Ōkami Lunar New Year Project] Trusting self, ghosting, stress resilience & more

By leonieyue Posted on 6 February 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with ActuallyAutistic, anxiety, art process, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, BeingAnOutcast, BeingMisunderstood, BeingPresent, beingTrueToYourself, bloodTest, Bruxism, Celestial Brush God, Chinese New Year, DetachmentLettingGo, dragon, emotionalDetachment, EmotionallyDetach, emotionallyMutual, emotionalMaturity, faceMask, fanart, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, ghosting, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, lifedirection, loneliness, Lunar New Year, ManagingStress, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, openOfficeEnvironments, PerformanceAnxiety, petty, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, resilience, seahorse, self compassion, selftrust, stress, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, thirdPlaces, tiger, Timelapse, transactionalRelationships, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart, YearOfTheTiger, Yomigami, youtubevideo, 大神, 蘇神

In this blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled timelapse is back!
❧ doing dragon fanart this year!
❧ on trusting yourself, ghosting and resilience with stress
❧ personal update, the year of the dragon & more!

💘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

I’m back! Web hosting, social media, my discord server & doing text blog updates!

By leonieyue Posted on 5 September 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with artdiscordserver, artstation, baldursgate3, bodypain, bodyPains, ChronicallyOnline, cohost, discord, healthUpdate, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, instagram, LeonieAttemptsToSelfPromote, LeonieDiscordServer, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, linkedin, lowkeystress, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, managingWorkload, physicalHealth, self portrait, siteManagement, social media, stress, TerminallyOnline, Threads, twitter, TwitterRecap, webhosting

In this blog update:
– on doing little text blog updates like this
– social media and my discord ramble + another way to get blog & youtube updates is at my tiny discord server
– switching web hosts
– using Glaze against AI scraping by social media platforms
– personal updates

Study & sketch post / Portraits from imagination + Figure studies ❤️💙💛💜

By leonieyue Posted on 19 September 2022 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with AIartDiscourse, art studies, ArtCareer, careerthoughts, comfortZone, DrawingFromImagination, EadweardMuybridgeFrames, EmptySoul, existentialEmptiness, fanart, figure drawing, figuredrawing, gestures, imagination, ImaginativeDrawing, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, mindlessdoodles, photoStudy, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, reflective, Shiver, sketchbook, SketchFromImagination, sketchpost, slowStudy, Splatoon3, Splatoon3doodle, studies, study, studyPost, sustainableArtCareer

Portraits from imagination + Eadweard Muybridge frame studies!
Reflecting on art brain dumps, AI art discourse & I continue to juggle life and trying to relax better :’)

Art from Imagination & Memory / Lots of Portraits & health update!

By leonieyue Posted on 23 May 2022 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with alopeciaAreataHairLoss, anxiety, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismLife, Berserk, comfortZone, DrawingFromImagination, FinalFantasyOriginsStrangersOfParadise, GutsBerserk, healthUpdate, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hikikomori, imagination, ImaginativeDrawing, IronDeficiencyAnemia, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, PerformanceAnxiety, personalupdate, portraits, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, sketchbook, SketchFromImagination, sketchpost

Lots of terrible heads
And current health update :’)

StudyPost / Leonie draws over 190 cylinders and lots of weird 3D forms!

By leonieyue Posted on 9 May 2022 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with 3DformPractice, art studies, boxes, clipstudiopaint, cylinder, cylinders, figure drawing, figuredrawing, fundamentals, gestures, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, perspective, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, sketchbook, sketchpost, studies, study

Doing some pages of fundamental studies!

And personal reflective ramble about life/art juggling and trying to not stress about it as usual.

StudyPost / Spooky Scary Skeleton Studies + ’til Death 💀

By leonieyue Posted on 28 March 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with art studies, death, figure drawing, figuredrawing, gestures, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, MentalHealth, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, self portrait, skeleton, sketchbook, sketchpost, slowStudy, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaArt, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, studies, study, studyPost

Struggling with Skeletal studies!

And getting existential and gloomy from tracking metrics :’)

Art from imagination / Mundane powers of a Dishwasher

By leonieyue Posted on 21 March 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with ArtForTheDay, complexFeelings, dishwasher, dishwashing, DrawingFromImagination, eczema, handEczema, hurt, Illustration, ImaginativeDrawing, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, mixedFeelings, personalupdate, rejection, rejectionSensitivity, self portrait, SketchForTheDay, SketchFromImagination, StreamOfConsciousness, Timelapse

I hand wash dishes a couple of times daily ;’D

And a personal update ramble.

StudyPost 21 / Leonie draws over five hundred boxes + rambles about tracking habits and progress

By leonieyue Posted on 28 February 2022 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with art studies, ArtDreams, ArtWod, CreateLearnInTheMoment, DrawABox, gestures, HabitTracker, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Krenz, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, MarshallVandruff, ModernDayJames, NotMakingGoals, PerformanceAnxiety, photoshop, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, RoutineTracker, sketchbook, sketchpost, socialmediaBoundaries, StevenZapata, studies, study, StudyingFromArtists

Reflecting on boxes, not worrying about art goals/dreams and tracking habits & progress.

StudyPost 20 / Figure studies, reflecting on mastery & the growth mindset!

By leonieyue Posted on 15 November 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with art studies, clipstudiopaint, fastStudy, gestures, growingMindset, growingPains, Growth, headspace, imagination, ImaginativeDrawing, learning, learningJourney, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, lineartArtist, mastery, mindset, paintShapeArtist, photostudies, photoStudy, plateau, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, sketchbook, sketchpost, slowLearner, slowStudy, StephenSilver, StephenSilverDrawingAcademy, studies, study, summary, visualise

The life long learning journey!!
Some self directed learning shenanigans from Stephen Silver (:

And thoughts on mastery, long term fulfillment and the growth mindset.

StudyPost 19 / Fluffy pink frills, high heels and hair curls [costumed life drawing] + timelapses!

By leonieyue Posted on 11 October 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, progressupdate, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Timelapse Tagged with art studies, costumeDesign, DrawingCabaretCouture, entertainmentIndustry, figure drawing, figuredrawing, frills, gestures, highheels, LBX2021, LBXO2021, LbxOnline2021, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, life drawing, LightBoxExpo, LightBoxExpo2021, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, sketch, sketchbook, sketchpost, studies, study, Timelapse

Drawing Cabaret Couture life drawing!

SuperLeonieMode 347 / Overthinking and anxiety with a dash of denial + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 27 September 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, ArtCareer, careerDirection, careerthoughts, comic, denial, germaphobe, germs, handEczema, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, overanalysing, pandemicstruggles, paranoid, personalupdate, self portrait, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse

I doodled this during the before times too.

Germaphobe worries and reflecting on my art focuses :’)

StudyPost 18 / Figure studies & bubble tea + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 22 September 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Timelapse Tagged with art studies, bicycle, clipstudiopaint, creativeRut, creativity, earthquake, familiarity, figure drawing, figuredrawing, FindingANiche, focus, gestures, Groose, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, mario, niche, OnlineContentConsistency, OnlinePopularity, overwhelm, patron, photostudies, popularity, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, sketchbook, sketchpost, socialCurrency, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaArt, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, socialmediaoverwhelm, stress, studies, study

Doodling people because I’m rusty.

Fanart / Nia from Xenoblade Chronicles 2!

By leonieyue Posted on 31 May 2021 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with catgirl, fanart, Illustration, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, nia, personalupdate, xenobladeChronicles2, xenobladeChroniclesSeries, ゼノブレイド2, ニア

Little ramble about Nia from Xenoblade Chronicles 2

SuperLeonieMode 329 / Mother’s Day 7 page comic

By leonieyue Posted on 3 May 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with agnostic, atheist, comic, comicstrip, discouraged, existential, ghosts, grief, housekeeping, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, making comics, mixedFeelings, mother, mothersday, personal, personalupdate, spinningBowl, SuperLeonieMode, tribute

SuperLeonieMode 329 / Mother’s Day 7 page comic, story ramble about this Mother’s Day comic + adjusting my patreon, changed my blog’s look, conflicted twitter feelings in this blog post :’)

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