Lunar New Year – Leonie's Art Blog

🔥🐎 Happy Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse 🥹 Crossy Road fanart 🎊 + 💚 starting the March Hotel challenge

By leonieyue Posted on 3 March 2026 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with angryCry, autistic, crossy, crossyroad, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrossyUnihorse, DonkeyKongBonanza, fanart, gameThoughts, gameWatchingThoughts, HighlySensitivePerson, horse, Illustration, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, LunarNewYear, MarchHotel, marchhotel26, reflective, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, SensoryFriendly, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, skinCare, sunscreen, unihorse, YearOfTheHorse

❧ about fire horse & starting the March Hotel challenge
❧ reflecting on being a highly sensory sensitive person & angry crying
❧ personal update, finished Donkey Kong Bananza & more

🔥🐴 Happy Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse 🎆 Crossy Road fanart 🎊

By leonieyue Posted on 23 February 2026 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with crossy, crossy road, CrossyFanart, CrossyLNYfirehorse, crossyroad, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrossyUnihorse, fanart, horse, Illustration, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, LunarNewYear, unihorse, YearOfTheHorse

❧ about the Crossy & Castle horses
❧ reflecting on surviving toxic people
❧ newbie at skin care, sleeping habits & more

🐎💨 Happy Lunar New Year of the Horse 2026 featuring Kazegami 風神, God of Wind!! 🍃 The final 12th piece of my Okami LNY Project 🧧

By leonieyue Posted on 17 February 2026 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with bluesky, Chinese New Year, CNY, DragonPredictions, fanart, foodThoughts, GetingSmarter, HighlySensitivePerson, horse, Illustration, JapaneseWarFan, leonieyue, LNY, LoveDay, Lunar New Year, LunarNewYear, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, reflection, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, timelapseLater, YearOfTheHorse, zodiacPredictions

❧ about this piece
❧ silly 2026 predictions for my animal “zodiac”
❧ sleepy personal update

💚 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!

🐍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

🌸🐍Happy Lunar New Year of the Wood Snake 🌳Crossy Road fanart!

By leonieyue Posted on 24 January 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with bluesky, BlueSkySocial, bodilyPains, Cramps, crossy road, CrossyRoadCharacter, crossyRoadCharacterDesign, CrossyRoadUpdate, discord, DiscordServer, fanart, Illustration, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, LunarNewYear, Majora's Mask, onlineBoundaries, personal update, stalkers, sumoTournaments, WoodSnake, YearOfSnake

❧ about this last Crossy illustrated fanart
❧ a little personal update & more

🏮🐲 Happy Lunar New Year with Jade Dragon 💚🐔🦆🌸 [Fanart for the Crossy Road LNY update]!

By leonieyue Posted on 11 February 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AliceWalsh, BrendonT, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, CrossyFanart, crossyJadeDragon, crossyLNYdragon, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, fanart, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, Illustration, KevynStott, lantern, leonieyue, lny2024, Lunar New Year, SaraFonseca, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart

In this little blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled timelapse!
❧ about the update and kudos to HW artists & peeps!

🧧🐉Happy (actual) Lunar New Year of the Dragon today ft. cute Rejuvenation God Yomigami! 🏮🌠 [大神 / Ōkami Lunar New Year Project] Bummed about metrics & Zodiac predictions

By leonieyue Posted on 10 February 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with CareerAdvice, Chinese, ChineseSuperstitions, dragon, EarthDragon, fanart, health, Illustration, lackOfClout, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, MentalHealth, MoonFestival, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, physicalHealth, romance, subtitledSpeedpaint, superstitions, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart, Yomigami, zodiacAnimals, zodiacPredictions

In this blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled timelapse!
❧ bummed from metrics again
❧ let’s get superstitious! Predictions for the Year of the Dragon and personal update!

📜🐉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!

📺 WHY do Youtube?! Happy Lunar New Year of the Cat! [Rambly Speedpaint with Leonie featuring Kabegami from Ōkami] 🐈

By leonieyue Posted on 7 February 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with artistCommentaryYoutube, autistic, energyLevels, fanart, Illustration, issun, Kabegami, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, patreon, postingSchedule, RamblyCommentaryWithLeonie, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, Tet, VietnameseNewYear, yearofCat, 大神

Speedpaint ramble on why I do Youtube videos
And little blog ramble about making this video

Happy Vietnamese New Year of the Cat 2023 featuring Catwalk God Kabegami / 壁神 🐈 & Issun!! [大神 / Ōkami LNY Project 🧧 ] + more!

By leonieyue Posted on 31 January 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with autism, autismfocus, autismInertia, autismLife, autistic, autisticBurnout, blackholeRest, bodyAwareness, cat, Catwalk, Celestial Brush God, chineseheritage, chúc mừng năm mới, conflicting, conversation, drive, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, EmotionallyAvoidant, emotionallyImmature, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyProcessing, emotionalMaturity, emotionalWalls, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, fanart, friendships, giantKoiFish, headspace, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hypocritical, Illustration, indecisive, IntenseProductivity, issun, Kabegami, kofi, leonieyue, lowEnergy, lowrisktaker, Lunar New Year, ManagingEnergy, masking, motivation, mutuallyInterested, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, patreon, patronThanks, postingSchedule, productivity, productivityMethod, rejectionSensitivity, relationships, scapegoat, selfish, sensitive, sensitivity, SensoryFriendly, socialEnergy, sociallyAcceptable, sociallyExpected, socialrecluse, speedpaintcommentary, Tet, timeBlindness, Vietnam, VietnameseNewYear, yearofCat, zodiacAnimals, 壁神, 大神, 猫

In this blog post:
– thoughts on my Year of the Cat illustration & little bit on lunar new year
– numbered intimacy levels to gauge relationships and friendships
– managing my autism, inertia, uneven productivity, attention, drive, emotions and energy levels
– update/changes to my little Patreon
– personal update

Happy Lunar New Year of the Rabbit 2023 with Moon God Yumigami / 弓神🌙 & mochi bunnies! [大神 / Ōkami LNY Project] Hey I’m back!

By leonieyue Posted on 22 January 2023 Posted in Fanart, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AIartDiscourse, ArtHabits, artistCommentaryYoutube, artstation, bunnies, Celestial Brush God, ConAir1997, contentCreators, Crescent, fanart, flow, FutureImpactOfAIgeneratedArt, GuillermoDelToroPinocchio2022, habit, HabitTracker, Illustration, intenseWorkRest, Kimo, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, Mochi, mochiBunnies, moon, Moon god, NicolasCageMovies, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, onlineBoundaries, OnlineContentConsistency, pixiv, postingSchedule, productivity, QualityCultureYoutube, rabbit, reflection, RobinRobin, TheRock1996, twitter, yearofrabbit, YoutubeShorts, youtubevideo, Yumigami, zodiacAnimals, zodiacPredictions, 兎, 大神, 弓神

In this blog post:
– speedpaint commentary video on feeling behind with productivity!
– the Year of the Rabbit horoscope
– movie rambles
– removing my art on Artstation
– figuring out my videos, workload and nobody wants to watch speedpaints of studies
– personal update