loneliness – Leonie's Art Blog

🐔💖🦆 Chicken & Mallard’s wedding party! 💐 2026 Crossy Road Valentine’s Day update with Tuxedo Mallard pt 2/2

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2026 Posted in CharacterDesign, Collaboration, Concept Art, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with ace, aestheticAttraction, alloromanticAce, antiGenAI, ballpointPen, cake, character design, character development, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyChickenCousins, CrossyMallard, CrossyMallardFamily, crossyroad, CrossyRoadCharacter, crossyRoadCharacterDesign, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrossyRoadWedding2026, CrossyRooster, HappySingleTime, Illustration, leonieyue, lithromantic, loneliness, love, mallard, pen, pen sketch, reflection, self portrait, singledom, ValentinesDay

❧ happy Valentine’s day for all kinds of love :’)
❧ reflecting on love, loneliness, personal update & more

💔🦆 “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

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

💚🎂 Miku Birthday Festival 2025!🎉初音ミク生誕祭2025 💙

By leonieyue Posted on 1 September 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Studies, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, 3Dmodeling, ArtCareer, BeingMisunderstood, blunt, characterIllustration, conflictAvoidance, DonkeyKongBonanza, emotionalDistance, emotionallyMutual, empathy, fanart, figure drawing, figuredrawing, FriendshipReciprocity, game industry, games, games industry, gamesConference, gamesWeek, GCAP, hatsunemiku, Illustration, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, LindsayEllisYoutube, loneliness, lonelyArtist, lowpoly, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, mikuBirthday, MikuBirthdayFestival, mikuday, minimalSocialInteractions, misunderstandings, mutuallyInterested, overstimulated, paintingStudy, photoStudy, portrait, portraitStudy, quiet, QuietObserver, social media, socialInepitude, SocialInteraction, socialmediaAndArtists, study, Timelapse, 初音ミク, 初音ミク生誕祭2025

❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ figure study & personal update

Pipo Snake 🐒 from Ape Escape 3!

By leonieyue Posted on 19 August 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Timelapse Tagged with AceAttorneyInvestigations, ApeEscape, ApeEscape3, communication, Cramps, fanart, Illustration, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, lonelyArtist, mangaAddictionProcrastination, MilesEdgeworth, MilesEdgeworthInvestigations, monkey, personal update, PipoSnake, plushtoy, Windows11

❧ art timelapses for this little blog update!
❧ 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

☀️🏖️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!

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 ✨

🌳🌼Bouncing together at Crossy Road Castle 🐈‍⬛🐔🦆🦄

By leonieyue Posted on 5 November 2024 Posted in Animation, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 3D animation, 3Dart, animation, animation practice, anxiety, ArtistsOutOfMyLeague, boundaries, comic, communication, communicationIssues, copingMechanism, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, DemiromanticAce, depressed, disappointment, emotionalExpectations, entitlement, expectations, expectationsProjections, FeelingLikeAfraud, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, gratefulness, gratitude, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, imposterSyndrome, indecisive, irrelevant, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, LettingGo, loneliness, magicaVoxel, marketingArt, MentalHealth, negativity, neverGoodEnough, newsletters, notgoodenoughFeelings, PerformanceAnxiety, personalBoundaries, PokemonTCGpocket, reflection, romance, romantic, RomanticProjection, romanticSpectrum, romcoms, sappy, self comparisons, self compassion, SelfConfidence, skin, social media, socialConformity, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediacharismapopularitycontest, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, SocialMediaMetrics, SocialMediaReach, SuperLeonieMode, toptierfamousartists, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, wingingIt

In this blog post:
❧ about this little animation!
❧ on personal Crossy fanart next year
❧ Pokemon TCG Pocket
❧ not being good enough/impostor syndrome, mental health
❧ monthly newsletter, romance, personal update & more

🌌Samus [Metroid Dread fanart for the 38th anniversary] + sick with a head cold 🤧

By leonieyue Posted on 10 August 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, anxious, apathy, autism, AutismAdulthood, AutismEgoDeath, AutismEmployment, autismLife, autisticMasking, cloutChasing, confusion, DirtManSong, empty, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, existential, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, existentialism, fanart, FDSignifierYoutuber, feelingLost, genAI, genAIdiscourse, GenAIimpactInternet, genAIscams, gettingSick, headCold, healthUpdate, houseCleaning, Illustration, ImpactOfGenAIonEnvironment, insecurity, jobsAutism, judgemental, KendrickTracks, leonieyue, loneliness, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, managingPeople, ManagingStress, masking, menAndShoujo, MentalHealth, MetroidAnniversary, MetroidDread, MetroidSeries, neverGoodEnough, overthinking, PerformanceAnxiety, physiololgicalstress, process, programming, sadness, Samus, selfdoubt, selfLimitingBeliefs, SickWithCold, socialDynamics, socialHierarchy, songs, stress, SumoWrestling, TheZatmanYoutuber, Timelapse, toxicMasculinity, vibes, vulnerability, youtube

Also in this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ genAI discourse/shenanigans
❧ anxiety & apathy when creating things on the internet
❧ personal update & more

🍩Making Kirby themed donuts & slowly learning Blender part 2 🥐

By leonieyue Posted on 30 July 2024 Posted in Fanart, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, Video Tagged with 4Bmovement, 4BMovementLifeWithoutMen, ace, alonewithcompany, antisocial, asexual, asexuality, asocial, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismFriendships, autismLife, Awkwafina, Blender3D, BlenderThoughts, ChronicallyOnline, connections, creativeEnergy, DemiromanticAce, emotionalConnections, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, emotionallyMutual, energyLevels, fallingAsleep, fearOfAloneInTheWorld, frugal, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, highschoolArtVisComAssignments, humanConnection, humanscomplex, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, LeonieDiscordServer, LeonieFinds, LeonieMiceCleaningTroubles2024, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, marriage, olympicPictograms, progess, progressupdate, romance, sketch, sleepDeprived, stingyFrugalHermit, stress, StressEat, survivalArtistMode, TertiaryHECSHelpDebt, trauma, TraumaProjection, vacationOutOfReach, voiceActingCelebrities

In this blog post:
❧ Blender learning & subtitled video!
❧ dealing with hundreds of mice droppings
❧ life without men movement
❧ poorer but goodbye debt
❧ personal update, reflection & more

🍵Teatime with Hermit Dragon Leonie for my birthday! 🐲

By leonieyue Posted on 27 June 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AceAttorney, AceAttorneyInvestigationsCollection, AdobeDamageControl, AIgeneratedWork, antiGenAI, ArtCareer, birthday, birthdayBreak, breastCancerCheckUp, breastCancerRiskAssessment, Defunctland, FutureImpactOfAIgeneratedArt, genAI, healthUpdate, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, homebodylife, ImpactOfGenAIonEnvironment, LegendOfZeldaEchoesOfWisdom, LeonieBirthday, leonieyue, lifeIshardwork, lifeIsShort, loneliness, LossOfCommunity', making comics, MarioLuigiBrothership, ModernHistoricThemedMusicVersusHistoricallyAccurateMusic, ModernVikingMusic, NintendoDirect, passionProjects, ProtectionFromGenAItraining, reflection, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, ScaryLumpUpdate, toxicMasculinity

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ genAI happenings is saddening
❧ health update (biopsy results & breast cancer checks)
❧ personal reflection about bday & more

☺️ Kung fu Peach Part 3 [Princess Peach: Showtime fanart!]

By leonieyue Posted on 14 May 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with acceptance, AchyKnees, alonewithcompany, anxiety, anxietyFuture, anxious, artistCommunities, ArtistCompetition, ArtistDesperation, ArtistHustle, ArtistStruggle, AutismAdulthood, BarbieMovieThoughts, basicLifeSkills, belonging, burnout, CreativePressure, emotionalIntelligence, envious, envy, fanart, fantasyOfAdulthood, fearOfAloneInTheWorld, fears, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, FriendshipMileage, gooutsideTouchGrass, grumpy, HaroldHalibutGame, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hibernating, Illustration, insecurity, instagram, instagramstories, jealousy, KendrickTracks, KnivesOutGlassOnionMovie, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, lonelyArtist, lowEnergy, LowPeriods, LowSocialEndurance, notvalued, overstimulated, Patriarchy, personalProjects, scapegoat, SelfConfidence, selfcritical, SelfPressure, social media, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, SocialMediaReach, SocialMediaVoid, socialZombie, StreamingAnxiety, streamingLeonie, StressEat, structureAndRoutine, strugglingForward, supportArtist, survivalArtistMode, TimeAnxiety, touchingGrassAdvice, unfairWorld

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ jealousy, dealing with discouragement, moving on from twitter (again), personal update & more

👑🌼Princess Daisy & Elephant time!🐘 [Super Mario Bros Wonder]

By leonieyue Posted on 7 May 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with addictiveEscapism, blunt, ElephantDaisy, entertainmentConsumption, escapism, fanart, FinalFantasy7, FinalFantasy7Rebirth, fridgeTroubles, GhostRider2Thoughts, Illustration, internetConsumption, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, MobilePhoneAddiction, NicolasCageMovies, parasocial relationships, personal, postingSchedule, princessDaisy, racistSlurs, selfAwareness, socialAnxiety, StellarBladeThoughts, subtlety, TwitterVentAgain, デイジー姫

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ Social anxiety vs celebrity worship
❧ Final Fantasy VII Rebirth spoiler thoughts
❧ personal update & more

📜🐉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!

🎁🎀 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

Tag: loneliness