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🐔💖🦆 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

🐍Happy Lunar New Year of the Snake 2025 featuring Nuregami 濡神, God of Water & 11 baby snake gods! 🌊 Okami Lunar New Year Project 🧧

By leonieyue Posted on 28 January 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with babysnakes, BeingMisunderstood, CareerPredictions, Chinese New Year, communication, compatibility, conflictAvoidance, courage, creativity, despair, diet, DragonPredictions, eczema, EmotionallyAvoidant, encouragement, energy, EnergyConserving, energyConservingMode, energyLevels, environmentSwitching, existential, existentialEmptiness, fanart, fatigue, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, freezeUp, friendshipCompatibility, friendships, frugal, grump, health, hyperawareOfPeople, hyperfocus, Illustration, imposterSyndrome, insecurity, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, limbo, love, LoveAndKindness, lovebombing, LoveHesitator, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, lowrisktaker, Lunar New Year, managingWorkload, misunderstandings, Nuregami, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, openOfficeEnvironments, opportunities, overthinking, patience, peopleManagement, recognition, relationshipsAreNotEverything, romantic, RomanticProjection, satisfaction, selfdoubt, selfLove, sensoryOverload, snake, socialEnergy, stingyFrugalHermit, teamwork, trialAndError, tunnelVision, waterPowers, watersprout, WhatIsLove, WoodSnake, writtencommunication, YearOfSnake, zodiacAnimals, zodiacPredictions

❧ subtitled art process timelapse!
❧ reflecting on my dragon predictions
❧ personal update

Midorifuji 翠富士, Ichiyamamoto 一山本, Takayasu 高安 💪 Sumo wrestler studies!

By leonieyue Posted on 21 January 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with anxiety, anxietyFuture, anxious, ArtCareer, ArtCollaboration, bluesky, communicationIssues, CreativeFai, CreativeFailure, CreativePressure, DesireToProveSelfConstantlyExhausting, energy, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, exhaus, existentialDread, fanart, hatsubasho2025, hermit, hermitLeonie, hustlingExhausting, Ichiyamamoto, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, keyboards, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, love, lowEnergy, lowselfEsteem, meditation, Midorifuji, NintendoSwitch2, personal update, portrait, provingOneselfExhausting, relationships, selfdoubt, social media, socialBattery, socialEnergy, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, SplitTentedKeyboards, sumo, sumoStudies, sumoTournaments, SumoWrestlerStudy, SumoWrestling, survivalArtistMode, Takayasu, timesink, WorkDowntime

❧ reflecting on creative failure
❧ personal update
Last week of the sumo hatsubasho is going right now yeahhh

🎄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!

Milk Chocolate for Valentine’s Day Splatfest Chocolate #5 / Splatoon 3 🍫💕

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with beautyStandards, beingTrueToYourself, chocolate, communication, complexFeelings, desirability, fanart, feelings, friendships, games, HappySingleTime, hotchocolate, Illustration, InLoveWithIdeaOfSomeone, leonieyue, love, LoveAndKindness, LoveDay, lovelanguage, mixedFeelings, NintendoDirect, physicalAttractiveness, platonicFriends, platonicRelationship, pussinbootsTheLastWish, relationships, romance, romanticAttraction, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfLove, singledom, sittingwithfeelings, speedpaintcommentary, spinster, SwitchGames, textcommentary, Timelapse, unrequitedLove, ValentinesDay, videogames, WhatIsLove, youtubevideo

In this blog post:
– speedpaint text commentary process video!
– Chocolate Splatfest
– personal ramble about romance, feelings & happy single time!
– Nintendo Direct thoughts

Art from imagination & watercolour practice / My feelings for you ❤️

By leonieyue Posted on 30 May 2022 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with anxiety, anxious, BryceKhoClass, character design, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, feeling, feelings, health, Illustration, insecurity, learning, learningfrommistakes, learningJourney, leonieyue, love, LoveAndKindness, mixedFeelings, personalupdate, practice, sad, sadness, tense, tension, vulnerability, watercolour

All the mixed feelings :’)
Trying to learn & practice watercolour!
And little personal ramble for the week.

SuperLeonieMode 324 / Happy Love day with Kirby and me, adjusting my blog posts and patreon + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 15 February 2021 Posted in Comics, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with 2SnacksAnimation, AccentedCinema, alien, alienatingYourself, alonewithcompany, animated, anime, AnimeTranslationLocalisation, ArcadeShooterGame, AspergersFromTheInsideYoutube, authenticity, autism, autismInLadies, autistic, BakaMitaiCover, BeingMisunderstood, blogging, BodyLanguage, BootlegKoalas, boundaries, ChosenFamily, comfortZone, comic, comicstrip, communication, compatibility, copingWithPain, dating, DatingThoughts, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, executiveFunctionChallenges, eyeContact, fanart, friends, friendship, GaiaOnline, guilt, hermitLife, highfive, HKRomance, honesty, humanConnection, Illustration, InLoveWithIdeaOfSomeone, inspiration, isolated, isolationlife, JhonaYoutube, kennyLauderdaleYoutube, kirby, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, livingWithIntention, loneliness, love, LoveAndKindness, LoveDay, lovelanguage, marriage, MaxDerratYoutube, MetaHumanCreator, MutualInterests, MyImmortal, overthinking, pain, personal, personalTraumas, personalupdate, PointBlankGame, RedBardYoutube, reflection, rejection, rejectionSensitivity, relationships, respect, romance, romanticAttraction, SabanMoonPilot, SalariYoutuber, self portrait, selfDiagnosisAutism, selfLove, selfRespect, shortFilms, SlowBonding, socialCues, socialising, sociallyOblivious, subtlety, SuperLeonieMode, traumas, unrequitedLove, ValentinesDay, values, WaitingModeMonotasker, WeddingIndustrialComplex, weddingsExploitLoveAndWallet, WhatIsLove, yakuza, カービィ, 星のカービィ

SuperLeonieMode 324 / Happy Love day with Kirby and me! LeonieUpdate, adjusting my blog posts (why and how) & patreon, reflecting on relationships, experiencing pain, guilt and loneliness as an autistic and interesting finds in this blog post!

LeonieUpdate! I’m back with updated plans to future posts, why I’m quitting my instagram + facebook page and interesting finds!

By leonieyue Posted on 1 February 2021 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Podcast, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with :3ildcatYoutube, appearingNormal, AttentionEconomy, beauty, beautyStandard, beautyStandards, boundaries, BrazilianJapanese, CalNewport, cats, CommunityManagement, contentCreators, contextSwitching, CosmonautVarietyHourYoutube, cuteartwork, DeepWork, DickWhittingtonPantomine, DidYouKnowGamingYoutube, DigitalMinimalism, distraction, DonQuixoteBallet, DonQuixoteRoyalBallet, EarwigAndTheWitchGhibliMovie, eczema, emotionalLabour, facebookPage, FemaleObjectification, focus, friendships, HarryPotter, heroesAndFans, HettyFeatherStageshow, Illustration, ImmigrantParents, instagram, instagramAlgorithm, instagramstories, instagramUpdate, internetConsumption, JapaneseBrazilians, JasonVongYoutube, JuliaBausenhardtIllustrator, JulieNolkeYoutube, languageBarriers, LeonieArtRambles, leonieyue, LeonieYueRambles, livingWithIntention, LouieZong, love, LoveAndKindness, magical, MozartMagicFluteOpera, MozartTheMagicFluteOpera, musical, MusicalThoughts, NerdwriterYoutube, NieRAutomata, onlineBoundaries, parasocial relationships, performingHappiness, persona5, personalupdate, productivity, PuiPuiMolcarAnime, quittingfacebook, quittinginstagram, RenginIllustrator, SalariYoutuber, SarahZYoutube, selfLove, socialCurrency, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediabreaks, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaoverwhelm, SophiaMitropoulosArtist, SuperLeonieMode, SuperMario3DWorldBowsersFury, TheLegendofValkyrie, toad, ToxicPositivity, TwinMirrorGame, UnseenJapan, venting, VictoriaTran, WorkBoyGameBoy, WorthiKidsAnimator

Final public LeonieUpdate!
I’m back with updated plans to future blog posts, why I’m quitting my instagram + facebook page (huge page of social media sources too) and interesting finds on beauty standards, stage shows, games, online boundaries, parasocial relationships, cultural belonging, changes to blog posts & more in this long blog post!

SuperLeonieMode / Self hugs, love & care! 💙💜💖

By leonieyue Posted on 27 August 2020 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with comic, comicstrip, Illustration, leonieyue, love, LoveAndKindness, self compassion, self portrait, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfLove, SuperLeonieMode

SuperLeonieMode / Self hugs, love & care!

Illustration / Happy day of love! 💙

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2020 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with asexuality, autism, CharacterDesign, demisexuality, friendship, Illustration, leonieyue, love, selfLove, socialising, ValentinesDay

= Cat and love
= Personal ramble about autism & wondering about asexuality

SuperListenMode 279: Rewatching Romantic Moments

By leonieyue Posted on 11 February 2019 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with comic, entertainment, leonieyue, love, romance, romcoms, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode

Let me be sappy okay?╰(✿>ᴗ<✿)╯♡ ✧* Especially if I watched how they slowly developed their connection, respect and trust as equals beforehand! Quality emotional bonding and intimate moments! ^.^

SuperListenMode 266: Power fantasies

By leonieyue Posted on 17 December 2018 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with fun, kindness, love, LoveAndKindness, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode

Why not? In the entertainment I consume?

BurpDoodle: Hugs with Love & Kindness

By leonieyue Posted on 16 August 2018 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with BurpDoodle, CatBlobs, cats, kindnes, kindness, leonieyue, love, LoveAndKindness, super listen mode

Leonie rambles about kindness, hugs, and being compassionate rather than being right.

Quotes: Love, Beauty and Motivation & Update Notice

By leonieyue Posted on 19 September 2011 Posted in LeonieYue, Reflection, Traditional Tagged with all your heart, beautiful, chinese calligraphy brush, confucius, experiencing, felt with the heart, helen keller, imperfect person, love, perfect person, practice, quote, Sam Keen, way they are

Started a while back to practice using my [very cheap and bad quality] chinese calligraphy brush [which after using is already going in different directions and …

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Portal Fanart: “I thought you loved me”

By leonieyue Posted on 17 September 2011 Posted in Fanart, LeonieYue, Reflection, Traditional Tagged with blood, companion cube, fanart, I thought you loved me, love, portal, portal 2, valve, watercolour

“I thought you loved me” This can be interpreted two ways. Either the player OR the cube is saying that quote. Take your pick.

Tag: love