ManagingEnergy – Leonie's Art Blog

🦄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

🕵️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

🍫 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

☺️ 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!

🍩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

🌸🌼 Super Drill Princesses Peach & Daisy 🔩[Super Mario Bros Wonder] + reflecting how friendships & intimacy are hard.

By leonieyue Posted on 17 October 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with adultFriendship, AnimeMovie, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, art process, autism, autismfocus, autismFriendships, autismLife, BadFriends, BeyondTheDesperationOfSeekingFriends, boundaries, casualConnections, communication, complexFeelings, CreativeBlock, creativeRut, DetachmentLettingGo, DistancerPursuers, doubtful, EmotionallyAvoidant, EnergyDraining, EnergyImbalanceDynamics, energyLevels, fanart, fickle, freetochangeourmind, friends, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipActivitiesCosts, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEndedMeme, friendshipExpectations, friendshipGuilt, FriendshipMileage, friendshipMistakes, FriendshipReciprocity, friendships, FriendshipsAreHard, FriendshipStability, GoodFriendsWithoutExpectingIt, growingPains, humanscomplex, Illustration, insecurity, leonieyue, LevelsOfFriendships, limitedPublicSpaces, lowEnergy, ManagingEnergy, mario, MarioDrillAbility, MilkyWay, MillenniumActressMovie, ModernGamesGrinding, movieThoughts, mutuallyInterested, onlineFriendship, OutgrowingFriends, OutsideActivities, platonicFriends, preemptiveDistancing, princess peach, princessDaisy, PrioritisationWheel, pushpullconnections, PushPullStrategy, ReciprocityFriendshipCheck, SafeSupportiveAccepting, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, ScarcityFriendships, selfRespect, socialAnxiety, socialOutsider, socialreassurance, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary\, SuperMarioBrosWonder, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, touchingGrassAdvice, toxicFriendships, true', TrueIntimacy, TwitterRecap, unhealthyAttachment, WheelOfLife, WrongFriends, youthBeauty, デイジー姫, ピーチ姫

In this blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled speedpaint!
❧ friendships are a disaster
❧ attachment, intimacy & friendship lessons
❧ first time watching Millennium Actress
❧ personal update & more!

I’m back! Web hosting, social media, my discord server & doing text blog updates!

By leonieyue Posted on 5 September 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with artdiscordserver, artstation, baldursgate3, bodypain, bodyPains, ChronicallyOnline, cohost, discord, healthUpdate, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, instagram, LeonieAttemptsToSelfPromote, LeonieDiscordServer, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, linkedin, lowkeystress, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, managingWorkload, physicalHealth, self portrait, siteManagement, social media, stress, TerminallyOnline, Threads, twitter, TwitterRecap, webhosting

In this blog update:
– on doing little text blog updates like this
– social media and my discord ramble + another way to get blog & youtube updates is at my tiny discord server
– switching web hosts
– using Glaze against AI scraping by social media platforms
– personal updates

Making my PNGtuber avatars for my channel [Reflective Speedpaint]!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 April 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with ActuallyAutistic, affinityprograms, AIartDiscourse, artprocess, autism, autismfocus, autismLife, autistic, autisticShutdown, autisticThings, clipstudiopaint, creativeEnergy, crossy road, CrossyCastleSandcastleShores, crossyChicken, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, digital art, digital illustration, disappointed, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, Fallingbehind, grump, Illustration, leonieyue, lowEnergy, MakingVideo, ManagingEnergy, nonVerbal, OBS, PerformanceAnxiety, photoshop, PNGtuber, procrastination, scripting, self portrait, selfDiagnosisAutism, selfdirectedDeadlines, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, streamingLeonie, textcommentary, youtubevideo, zoneOut

In this blog post:
– about this video
– Crossy shenanigans
– to stream or not?
– voice over videos or not?
– figuring Adobe alternatives
– AI generated art worries, sadness & the “game illustrators in China got laid off” article
– personal ramble

🐙🪸 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

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

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 🧠

SuperLeonieMode 342 / Not actually ready for art + timelapse! Reflecting on purpose, energy, context switching and focus

By leonieyue Posted on 7 February 2022 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with ArtistHustle, autism, AutismAdulthood, autistic, burnout, cintiqWacom, comfortZone, comic, contextSwitching, creative, creativeEnergy, creativity, emotionalEnergy, energy, focus, Illustration, leonieyue, lowEnergy, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, personalart, productivity, productivityMethod, reflection, reflective, self portrait, slow, slowLearner, SuperLeonieMode, tea, Timelapse, tired, tunnelVision, why art anymore

Creative brain started to float away
oh no my creative & energy levels!
Thoughts on context switching, struggle with focus & questioning art purpose.

SuperLeonieMode 332 / Hermit Leonie goes outside after an isolated year 😰

By leonieyue Posted on 21 April 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with anxiety, comic, comicstrip, eczema, emotionalEnergy, energy, EnergyDraining, handEczema, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, introvert, isolated, isolationlife, isolife, leoniebear, lowEnergy, ManagingEnergy, nourished, stamina, SuperLeonieMode, tolerance, zombie

SuperLeonieMode 332 / Hermit Leonie goes outside after an isolated year 😰
I ramble about my anxious adventures in this post :’)

Fanart / My entry to MageCandor’s DrawThisInYourStyle challenge + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 15 March 2021 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with algorithms, anime, autism, autistic, autopilot, balance, boredom, BreathOfTheWild, connections, CryptoArtDiscourse, demon, demongirl, DidYouKnowGamingYoutube, DrawingChallenge, DrawThisInYourStyle, DrawThisInyourStyleChallenge, dtiys, dtiyschallenge, executiveFunctionChallenges, expectations, exposureTherapy, fanart, focus, gamedev, HealthyGamerGG, HirooOnodaWW2Holdout, Illustration, intentionality, InterestingFinds, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, magecandorArtist, magecandordemon, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, manga, mindfulness, OkisWeirdStoriesYoutube, perfectionism, perfectionist, power naps, process, processPost, redrawArt, selfDiscipline, sleep, sleepDeprived, socialmedia, socialmediaBoundaries, stress, succubus, TolerateBoredom

Fanart / My entry to MageCandor’s DrawThisInYourStyle challenge + LeonieUpdate, on the NFT/Crypto Art discourse, letting go of perfectionism, modes & hyperfocus, tolerating boredom in a world of algorithms and more in this ramble post!

Tag: ManagingEnergy