lowEnergy – Leonie's Art Blog

💚 Mythic Hero Uma Lyn pt 1/2 🐴 Happy Lunar New Year of the Horse x Fire Emblem Heroes/Shadows 🎉

By leonieyue Posted on 3 February 2026 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with autisticBurnout, burnout, burntOut, chibi, Chinese New Year, CNY, fanart, FireEmblem, FireEmblemShadows, gameWatchingThoughts, HipsterWhaleAnniversary, HorseGirl, Illustration, leonieyue, LNY, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, Lunar, Lunar New Year, LunarNewYear, meditation, MythicHeroUmaLyn, NotAbleToRelax, timelapseLater, Uma, YearOfTheHorse

❧ about Uma Lyn
❧ art juggling, games, privacy
❧ Leonie tries to practice resting/relaxing vs burnout
❧ personal update & more!

✨Lots of Zeldas! 👍The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom!!

By leonieyue Posted on 19 February 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with conflictAvoidance, coworkerFriendshipsHard, deadpan, drama, emotionalDrama, emotionalExpectations, emotionallyMutual, expectationsProjections, fanart, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, friendshipGuilt, ghosting, Illustration, incompatible, leonieyue, LettingGo, lowEnergy, lowMood, ManagingStress, mutuallyInterested, overthinking, personal update, personalupdate, quiet, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, restingPoutFace, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, sleepy, stress, structureAndRoutine

A subtitled timelapse & little personal update about stress & social capacity!

🐍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

🧸✨ Giant Plushie Collector 🛍️🦆 Crossy Road Theme park update fanart! 🦄🦊🐶🐈‍⬛🦒🐰

By leonieyue Posted on 16 December 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with asocial, comfort zone, comfortZone, creativeFlow, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, CrossyFanart, CrossyPlushieCollector, crossyroad, CrossyRoadBday, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, DesireToProveSelfConstantlyExhausting, energy, fanart, femininePerformance, frugal, gameAwards, gobelins, heatwaveDay, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, houseCleaning, housework, HouseworkInBabySteps, Illustration, impatientWithSelf, insecurity, internetFinds, japanExperiences, leonieyue, lowEnergy, LowPeriods, lowselfEsteem, LowSocialEndurance, minimalSocialInteractions, nightowl, NoArtRequests, NoSocialLife, openOfficeEnvironments, overthinking, personal update, personalProjects, reflection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sensorySensitivities, socialOutsider, socialrecluse, speakingUp, StatlerAndWaldorfMuppets, stingyFrugalHermit, summer, teamwork, thegameawards, themePark, TheSubstanceMovie, TightBudgetHermit, Timelapse

In this blog post:
❧ Theme Park fanart compilation timelapse
❧ I don’t do art requests
❧ being high sensitivity & a night owl workaholic
❧ personal update & internet finds

🦄Super Excited Kid’s spectacular ride with Carousel Horse 🌈✨ Crossy Road Theme park update fanart!

By leonieyue Posted on 10 December 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with alien, alienatingYourself, asocial, cleaning, cosygame, coworkerFriendshipsHard, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, CrossyCarouselHorse, CrossyFanart, crossyroad, CrossyRoadBday, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrosySuperExcitedKid, EnergyConserving, energyConservingMode, energyLevels, eyeContact, fanart, gameThoughts, GanbareNakamurakun, homeCleaning, Illustration, InfinityNikki, internetFinds, LegendOfZeldaEchoesOfWisdom, leonieyue, listenerObserver, lowEnergy, ManagingEnergy, managingWorkload, NekoOjiSalarymanReincarnatedAsAKitten, neurodivergent, openWorldGames, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, remoteWorking, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, socialEnergy, Timelapse, UVwindowFilm, workaholic, workingHours

In this blog post:
❧ what this is (Theme Park characters)
❧ didn’t get far with Infinity Nikki
❧ personal & work update + 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 ✨

🕵️Sus about Mallard mascot🦆 Fanart for the Crossy Road Theme Park update!

By leonieyue Posted on 3 December 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with alienatingYourself, asocial, autismLife, autisticallySocial, awkward, changeIsConstant, comfort zone, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, CrossyFanart, CrossyMallard, CrossyMallardMascot, crossyroad, CrossyRoadBday, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, exhausted, fallingAsleep, fanart, grump, grumpy, headFogHeavy, hermitLife, homebody, homebodylife, hybridWork, illustraiton, Illustration, intervention, knighthood, leonieyue, lifeChanges, livestreamingParasocialRelationships, lowEnergy, LowSocialEndurance, ManagingEnergy, nightowl, NoSocialLife, openOfficeEnvironments, outsourcedArtist, overanalysing, overstimulated, personalupdate, progressupdate, recovery, reflection, reflective, remoteWorking, restroomSensoryRecovery, routine, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, sleepy, socialBattery, socialEating, socialEnergy, SocialInteraction, sociallyOblivious, socialOutsider, socialWithdrawal, socialZombie, structureAndRoutine, Timelapse, tired, workaholic, workFromHome, workingHours, ZombieHusk

In this blog post:
❧ about this illustration
❧ reflecting on my first in-office days (hybrid with WFH) & life changes as a hermit
❧ personal update & mental health

🌥️Head in the pink clouds 🌈 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 7]

By leonieyue Posted on 15 November 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Photos, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with anxious, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, autismBoundaries, bluesky, BlueSkySocial, boundaries, communication, communicationIssues, conflictAvoidance, DetachmentLettingGo, disassociation, disgustRepulsed, disrespectful, dissatisfaction, emotionalConnections, emotionalDetachment, emotionalDump, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, emotionalExpectations, emotionalHonesty\, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalLabour, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyMutual, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, ergonomicKeyboard, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, flawed, freezeUp, FriendshipEffort, hermit, HermitBurpcast, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hikikomori, honesty, Illustration, intellectualMoralEmotionalValueEqual, intense, keyboards, leonieyue, lowEnergy, magicaVoxel, manipulative, melbourne, melbourneCity, MentalHealth, mutuallyInterested, noenergytochase, NoPuttingPeopleOnAPedestal, NotAroundPeopleYouLookDownUpon, onlineBoundaries, overthinking, overwhelm, personalBoundaries, photo, photo post, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, self comparisons, self compassion, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfregulation, selfRespect, shutdownEmotionalWithdrawal, socialDynamics, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaoverwhelm, speakingUp, SplitTentedKeyboards, stingyFrugalHermit, toxicFriendships, toxicRelationships, unequaldynamics, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, vulnerability, zombie

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ sorting bluesky boundaries, feeds, lists
❧ self boundaries with relationships & the ick feelings
❧ Hermit Leonie walks around in the city & takes 2 days to recover
❧ keyboard troubles & getting a new one with silent switches :0!!
❧ personal update & more!

🍫 One of those days today :(

By leonieyue Posted on 2 November 2024 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with autism, autismBoundaries, autismLife, autistic, autisticallySocial, autisticThings, behindInLife, Chicken56, chocolate, digestiveIssues, disappointed, disappointment, dissociation, emotionalEnergy, energy, EnergyConserving, EnergyDraining, EnergyImbalanceDynamics, energyLevels, frustration, hermitLife, homebodylife, indianFood, leonieyue, lifeLessons, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, mundane, noenergytochase, NotInControl, overstimulated, physiololgicalstress, processingFeelings, quiet, reflection, routine, sadness, sexismMisogyny, shutdown, sleep, SleepSchedule, socialEnergy, spicyFood, stress, structureAndRoutine, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode

Wha happen

🧁My 10 year art career & celebrating 10 years of MIGW / 10 Australian game characters for the Games Week Launch Party (cupcake fondant topper commission + LeonieArtRambles podcasty video)

By leonieyue Posted on 6 October 2024 Posted in Commission, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Podcast, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AgentARubyLaRouge, ArtCareer, asocial, autisic, autisticallySocial, CeriHutton, commission, covid19, COVIDzine, creativity, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyroad, CultOfTheLamb, cupcake, earHealth, EnergyDraining, EnergyImbalanceDynamics, energyLevels, entitlement, envy, faceMask, FrogDetective, game industry, gamedev, gameindustry, games, games industry, gamesConference, gamesEvents, GamesShowcase, gamesWeek, GCAP, HollowKnight, Illustration, indiegamedev, KingOfArmello, LeonieArtRambles, leonieyue, lowEnergy, ManagingEnergy, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, MIGW, MIGW2024, MovingOutGame, podcast, RATtestCovid, social media, socialAnxiety, socialEvents, speedpaintcommentary, StrayGods, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, UnpackingGame, UntitledGooseGame

In this blog post:
❧ about this project & art timelapse
❧ my little art career as a rambly podcast + art slideshow!
❧ I’ll add cupcake photos with credit at the blog if people share any :0
❧ COVID protection zine
❧ About not going to Melbourne International Games Week & the industry

🔥Super Fire Princesses Daisy & Peach 🌸🌼 [Super Mario Bros Wonder]!

By leonieyue Posted on 3 October 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, adultFriendship, anxiety, anxious, artprocess, asocial, autisticallySocial, BlueSkySocial, character illustration, complacentBystanderSupportingAbusers, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCastleConsoles, datingApps, DatingThoughts, digital illustration, eczema, eyeHealth, faceMask, fanart, finalfantasy10, fireballs, FireEmblem, fireprincess, foodpoisoning, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipReciprocity, germaphobe, handEczema, HappySingleTime, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, highTea, hipsterWhale, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, leonieyue, listening, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, LowSocialEndurance, MajimaPirateYakuza, ManagingStress, melbourneCity, NoSocialLife, phonesystem, princess peach, princessDaisy, princesspeach, singledom, socialBattery, socialEating, stingyFrugalHermit, stress, StressEat, Timelapse, TwitterVentAgain, xenosaga, デイジー姫, ピーチ姫

In this blog post:
❧ reflecting & subtitled timelapse
❧ the Hipster Whale Castle console launch high tea & the city
❧ personal update, health & 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

☺️ 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

🍄Toadette & Elephant time!🐘 [Super Mario Bros Wonder] On what genAI can’t do, personality tests, rejection & baby steps at cleaning

By leonieyue Posted on 16 April 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AchyKnees, AIartDiscourse, AIgeneratedWork, ambivert, anxious, Art Anxiety, art style, ArtCareer, ArtDirection, ArtistDesperation, ArtistHustle, ArtistStandards, ArtistStruggle, artSkill, ArtStyle, autistic, autisticMasking, autisticThings, babySteps, BeingAnOutcast, BeingMisunderstood, bigmediumsmallForms, bloodTypePersonalityTest, bodyDoubling, careerDirection, CareerPredictions, character development, cleaningShowerGrout, comfort zone, comfortable, compatibility, complicatedDesign, conceptArtIndustry, ConceptArtist, contradictory, deadpan, Designers, disinfectHome, disinfectingHome, dontTalkToMeAura, ElephantToadette, EmotionallyDistant, emotionalStorytelling, EmotionalSupport, emotionalTurmoil, entertainmentIndustry, expectationsProjections, friendship, functionalDesign, FutureImpactOfAIgeneratedArt, generativeAI, gremlinPreferences, HandlingBleachEep, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, highStandards, housework, HouseworkInBabySteps, humanCollaboration, illustrationCareer, IndustrialDesign, insecurity, INTJ, introvert, invisibleExpectations, learning, leonieyue, lifeIshardwork, lowEnergy, LowSocialEndurance, masking, MBTI, MouldCleaning, MutualInterests, mutuallyInterested, NoSocialLife, passionProjects, personalityTests, personalProjects, popularArt, processing, provingOneselfExhausting, quiet, rambler, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, reserved, selfAnalysisTool, ShowerCleaning, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaArt, SocialProximity, StreamingAnxiety, stress, strugglingForward, SuperMarioBrosWonder, survivalArtistMode, TakingItNotSeriously, Timelapse, Toadette, trust, uncomfortable, unspokenExpectations, visual storytelling, VisualConsistency, whatGenAIcannotDo

Also in this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ personal update

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