ManagingEmotions – Leonie's Art Blog

☺️ Jumping about! [Hermit Dragon Leonie Part 3]

By leonieyue Posted on 20 August 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with addictiveEscapism, aestheticAttraction, anxiety, BeyondTheDesperationOfSeekingFriends, bodyAwareness, bodyImage, BodyNeutrality, corporateFeminism, Cringe, darkTopics, demiplatonic, depression, doubleStandards, drycoughing, dysfunctionalFamilies, emotionalLabour, FemaleObjectification, foundFamily, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, hearingLoss, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, houseCleaning, Illustration, journal, ladylike, LeonieMiceCleaningTroubles2024, leonieyue, lowkeystress, magicaVoxel, makeUp, ManagingEmotions, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, officeWorkAppropriate, onlineBoundaries, oversharing, overthinking, personal, personal update, physicalAttractiveness, postingSchedule, PowaPowaP Siinamota, prisonOfYourMind, purityCulture, safety, self comparisons, sexualharassment, shame, singledom, socialValidation, stingyFrugalHermit, StressEat, toxicStress, traumaDumping, unsolicitedAdvice, validation, victimComplex, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, vulnerability, womensSafetyIssues

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on the process of this piece
❧ objectification, body image comparison, shaming
❧ online history, oversharing, not settling, dark thoughts
❧ personal update & more!

🐙🪸 Side Order [Splatoon 3]

By leonieyue Posted on 4 April 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AccentedCinema, AdobeCS6Collection, AIartDiscourse, AIdiscourse, bloodTest, BreathOfTheWild, BSOD, computerbuildupgrade, ComputerTroubles, fanart, healthUpdate, HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity, Illustration, IronDeficiencyAnemia, leftbehind, LeftistCookYoutube, Legend of Zelda, legendofzelda, leonieyue, ManagingEmotions, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, managingWorkload, PCsecurity, personalupdate, photoshop, PixarElemental, PNGtuber, Princess Zelda, productivityStruggles, puttingOutFires, RottenMangoPodcast, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, Splatfest, Splatoon3, splatoon3SideOrder, stress, systemRestore, TeamAlien, TearsOfTheKingdom, textcommentary, Timelapse, vaccines, Vtuber, youtube, YoutubeCreators, YoutubeShorts

In this blog post:
– speedpaint for this!
– Nessie / Alien / Big foot splatfest
– Tears of the Kingdom ramble
– latest update/lessons from my computer shenanigans & troubles
– ramble about videos on “A.I.”, Vtubers & more
– personal and health update

Gameboy Link 💚💙❤️

By leonieyue Posted on 17 October 2022 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Traditional Tagged with AfterAlterna, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismLife, autistic, choice, ChosenFamily, comfortZone, complexFeelings, drawtober, drawtober2022, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, EmotionallyAvoidant, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyProcessing, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, empty, EmptySoul, EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnceMovie, existential, existentialEmptiness, existentialism, fanart, feltpens, felttipmarkers, gameboy, gameboy color, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, highlighters, homebodylife, Illustration, inktober, inktober2022, isolationlife, jaded, Legend of Zelda, legendofzelda, LeonieMugs, leonieyue, lifedirection, lifesuffering, Link, linktober, linktober2022, livinginthemoment, loneliness, ManagingEmotions, meaningoflife, movieThoughts, quiet, QuietObserver, rejectionSensitivity, sociallyAcceptable, solitary, solitude, Splatoon3doodle, textas, Traditional, traditional art, TransGenerationalFamilyTrauma

Little blog ramble about this post, on Bayonetta 3, reflecting about “Everything Everywhere All at Once” & mugs ;D

SuperLeonieMode 357 / Energy depleted (taking my late June bday posting break)

By leonieyue Posted on 20 June 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with ArtCourse, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismLife, autistic, bday, birthday, birthdayBreak, boyBands, crushes, depressed, disappointed, disappointment, drained, emotionalEnergy, energy, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, existential, existentialEmptiness, fatigue, friendships, gloomy, gratitude, growingupinthe2000s, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hopelessness, hypochondriac, Illustration, irritable, jaded, juggling, LeonieBirthday, leonieyue, lowEnergy, lowMood, ManagingEmotions, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, mixedFeelings, moodSwings, motherDaughterRelationships, numbness, patience, period, personalupdate, postingBreak, processing, sadness, self comparisons, self portrait, sitting, sittingwithfeelings, slow, slowingdown, stress, SuperLeonieMode, teenageLifeThoughts, tired, TurningRed, TurningRedMovieThoughts

Reflecting about needing this posting and birthday break.

SuperLeonieMode 351 / Avoiding eye contact and how I manage my autistic, inattentive brain + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 7 March 2022 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with ActuallyAutistic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autistic, badShortTermMemory, comic, communication, deadpan, distractability, emotionalEnergy, EnergyDraining, eyeContact, focus, forgetfulness, Illustration, inattentiveADHD, intensity, leonieyue, lowEnergy, ManagingEmotions, ManagingEnergy, managingInterruptions, ManagingStress, minimisingDistractions, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, nonVerbal, productivityMethod, reflection, self portrait, slow, slowLearner, socialCues, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, sociallyExpected, sociallyOblivious, structureAndRoutine, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse, tunnelVision

I’m either deadpan staring or looking away ;D

Please I don’t want to stare into each other’s souls :’)

I did a bunch of online autism tests!

I go reflect how I currently manage my hyperfocus, rejection sensitive dysphoria, executive function struggles, attention & emotional dysregulation with my inattentive, autistic brain 🧠

Sketches for the day 07 / Drawing from imagination, reflecting + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 October 2021 Posted in CharacterDesign, LeonieYue, Sketches, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, Art Anxiety, ArtForTheDay, ArtistStandards, ArtistStruggle, careerDirection, character design, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, clipstudiopaint, dress, frustration, Illustration, imagination, iterations, leonieyue, lifedirection, ManagingEmotions, originalCharacter, photoshop, reflection, relax, sketch, sketchbook, SketchForTheDay, SketchFromImagination, sketchpost, slow, slowingdown, slowLearner, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaoverwhelm, subconsciousDrawing, Timelapse

Iterating & reflecting on drawing from imagination :’)

SuperLeonieMode 336 / Sinking down again from hurt and disappointment, timelapse + Crossy Road Castle’s Candy Cafe came out!

By leonieyue Posted on 18 October 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with AnimalCrossingNewHorizonsThoughts, AshleighStarmer-Lee, CandyCafe, comic, complexFeelings, CrossyRoadCastle, demoralised, disappointed, disappointment, emotionalEnergy, EmotionallyAvoidant, emotionalWalls, feelings, hipsterWhale, Illustration, jaded, leonieyue, letdown, ManagingEmotions, MentalHealth, mixedFeelings, overwhelm, self portrait, shutdownEmotionalWithdrawal, sinking, struggle, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse, trust, trustIssues

Sometimes, why bother :’)

SuperLeonieMode 333 / When you have slow health regeneration & recovery!

By leonieyue Posted on 16 August 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with blob, comic, DisneyRayaAndTheLastDragon, emotionalEnergy, headspace, lazy, LeonieBlob, ManagingEmotions, movieThoughts, overwhelm, personalSpace, recovery, rest, slow, slowingdown, solitaryBreaks, SuperLeonieMode, TakingBreaks, turtlePace

Life of a low energy blob

And ramble about the Raya and the Last Dragon movie.

SuperLeonieMode 340 / Me and my little Leonies! On expressing & interpreting mixed, subtle feelings.

By leonieyue Posted on 5 July 2021 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with ACNH, adultFriendship, adulthood, AnimalCrossing, AnimalCrossingNewHorizons, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, art style, autism, AutismAdulthood, autistic, awkward, BeingMisunderstood, birthday, bittersweet, BodyLanguage, comic, complexFeelings, deadpan, disappointed, earningTrust, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalIntimancy, emotionalLabour, EmotionallyAvoidant, emotionallyDraining, emotionalMaturity, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, empathy, existential, facade, facialExpression, feelingCaredFor, feelings, frustration, GutFeeling, HappyFacade, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hotColdBehaviour, internet, interpretation, jaded, juggling, LeonieBirthday, leonieyue, littleLeonies, making comics, ManagingEmotions, masking, MentalHealth, microexpressions, misunderstandings, mixedFeelings, not, notgoodenoughFeelings, personal, personalupdate, photo, reflection, reflective, rejectionSensitivity, self portrait, selfAwareness, selfCare, sensitive, sensitivity, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, sleepy, smallTalk, socialCues, socialHierarchy, sociallyAcceptable, sociallyExpected, sociallyOblivious, socialmedia, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediabreaks, SocialMediaMetrics, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialNorms, socialrecluse, SuperLeonieMode, tactless, ToxicPositivity, trust, trustIssues, twitter, validation, vulnerability, WorkingOvertime, あつまれどうぶつの森, あつ森, どうぶつの森

I ramble about my sappy mixed feelings and expressing & interpreting them in this blog post.

When I can’t really express how I’m feeling through words, through my awkward body language and my deadpan facial expression :’)

And reflecting on my birthday (which was over a week ago!) Please keep it to this blog; I don’t want to mention it on social media.

SuperLeonieMode 338 / Life is frustrating sometimes

By leonieyue Posted on 7 May 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with clipstudiopaint, comic, disappointed, grump, impatient, irritable, leonieyue, ManagingEmotions, ManagingStress, rejection, sadness, socialmedia, stress, SuperLeonieMode, twitter, twitterCropping, verticalart

SuperLeonieMode 338 / Life is frustrating sometimes

LeonieArtRambles podcast 04 / Ikigai, outer & inner reasons for being and living

By leonieyue Posted on 23 November 2020 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Podcast, Reflection Tagged with emotionalMaturity, EmotionalSupport, existential, friendship, friendships, gratitude, ikigai, innerPurpose, LeonieArtRambles, life venn diagram, livinginthemoment, ManagingEmotions, meaning, meaningoflife, MentalHealth, outerPurpose, podcast, purpose, selfCare

LeonieArtRambles podcast 04 / Ikigai, outer & inner reasons for being and living.
How ikigai is not all about money or career, how I feel it applies to me and maybe my rambles help you reflect about yourself too 💜

Illustration / My entry to SamsA’s DrawThisInYourStylechallenge + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 16 November 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with AccentedCinema, acceptance, ArtChallenge, autism, autismInLadies, autistic, autisticBurnout, Awkwafina, boundaries, CeriHutton, characterIllustration, crushes, DrawingChallenge, DrawThisInYourStyle, DrawThisInyourStyleChallenge, dtiys, emotionalDistance, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalMaturity, EmotionalSupport, expectations, friendship, friendships, hermitLife, hurt, Illustration, InterestingFinds, kindness, leonieyue, loneliness, LouieZong, magicalGirl, ManagingEmotions, music, networking, nuance, personalSpace, platonicFriends, process, rats, reddit, redrawArt, reflection, rejection, romanticAttraction, RurouniKenshin, samsa_dtiys1k, SamsAartist, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, WaterLady

Illustration / My entry to SamsA’s DrawThisInYourStyleChallenge + little LeonieUpdate and ramble about platonic friendships!

Patron only StudyPost 13 / Figure studies + Dreams, prestige, hustle culture and purpose

By leonieyue Posted on 28 October 2020 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with AdamDuff, art studies, artbusiness, ArtCareer, ArtCareerAdvice, ArtDreams, awards, burnout, CareerAdvice, careerthoughts, clipstudiopaint, competition, creative, creativity, Doodles, DrawingChallenge, DrawThisInYourStyle, dreamStudios, dtiys, entertainmentIndustry, fame, feelings, figure drawing, figuredrawing, freelanceLife, growingPains, Growth, HustleCulture, influence, leonieyue, ManagingEmotions, MentalHealth, music, overcompensatingWeaknesses, overwork, patreon, PatreonOnly, patron, personalSpace, prestige, productivity, professionalism, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, purpose, recognition, redrawArt, reflection, reputation, self portrait, selfWorth, sketchbook, sketchpost, socialCurrency, socialmedia, stress, studies, study, sustainableArtCareer

Sketchbook 13 / Figure studies, doodles + ramble about dreams, prestige, hustle culture and purpose [patron only]

Illustration / My entry to BeachLifeStudio’s DrawThisInYourStyle challenge + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 26 October 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with Animaniacs, ArtChallenge, authenticity, autism, autismInLadies, beachlife20k, BeachLifeStudioCarlyArtist, BeingAnOutcast, compatibility, DisneyRayaAndTheLastDragon, DrawThisInYourStyle, DrawThisInyourStyleChallenge, dtiys, entertainmentConsumption, escapism, friends, friendship, friendships, hermitLife, hikikomori, hopelessness, Illustration, InterestingFinds, japanExperiences, LeonieUpdate, LettingGo, LevelsOfFriendships, LizardBrain, loneliness, LouieZong, ManagingEmotions, MentalHealth, MovingOn, music, NikoSoujiGameDev, nostalgia, OutgrowingFriends, personalupdate, process, redrawArt, reflection, relationships, RoundTheTwist, socialAnxiety, socialrecluse, socialWithdrawal, toxicFriendships, WrongFriends, ZachBraff, Zelda, ZeldaWindWaker

Illustration / My entry to BeachLifeStudio’s DrawThisInYourStyle challenge! LeonieUpdate about autism & compatibility in relationships, hermit reflects on Japan’s age of social withdrawal, outgrowing friendships and more!

SuperLeonieMode / Carnival pizza time [CrossyRoadCastle Spooky Tower update] + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 19 October 2020 Posted in Comics, Fanart, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with alienatingYourself, ambivert, anime, autism, autistic, AutoTune, boundaries, casualConnections, CatPeople, CocoDisney, comic, comicstrip, communication, CrayonShinchan, CreepyCarnival, CrossyRoadCastle, disrespectful, DogPeople, ego, emotionalMaturity, EmotionalSupport, empathy, extrovert, friendship, friendships, ghosting, goodbye facebook, halloween, honesty, InterestingFinds, introvert, japanExperiences, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, ManagingEmotions, masking, music, narcissism, Narcissists, nostalgia, oldAnime, Personality, pizza, power naps, psychology, recovery, sensitivity, sociallyOblivious, SpookyTower, SuperLeonieMode, TakingBreaks, Vampire, Witch

SuperLeonieMode / Carnival Pizza Time [CrossyRoadCastle Spooky Tower Update]!
LeonieUpdate and ramble about: cat vs dog people, how to lose friends and alienate yourself as an aspie and other interesting finds!

Tag: ManagingEmotions