ManagingStress – Leonie's Art Blog

MoChu Daily Figures days 1 to 6 and just juggling what I can

By leonieyue Posted on 20 May 2026 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with ArtChallenge, DatingThoughts, figure drawing, figuredrawing, leonieyue, love, ManagingStress, MoChu2026, MoChuArtDailyChallenge, movieThoughts, SuperMarioGalaxyMovie

❧ just studying figures
❧ finally watched the Super Mario Galaxy Movie
❧ personal update and more

🌷 Kirby Anniversary Month x PleinAirpril studies days 7 to 12

By leonieyue Posted on 21 April 2026 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with ArtChallenge, artstudyingroutine, environmentStudy, fanart, Illustration, kirby, kirbyAnniversary, leonieyue, ManagingStress, physiololgicalstress, PleinAirApril, stress, study, studying, StudyingFromArtists, studyPost, toxicStress

❧ struggling with environment studies again
❧ little personal update

💚 March Hotel art challenge week 4 😴

By leonieyue Posted on 23 March 2026 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Traditional Tagged with ArtConstruction, artstudyingroutine, boxes, disrespectful, figure drawing, figuredrawing, hand, Illustration, impromptu, leonieyue, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, MarchHotel, marchhotel26, NotAbleToRelax, physiololgicalstress, rechargeTime, recovery, slowStudy, solitaryRecoveryMode, stress, study, studyPost, toxicStress

❧ March Hotel art and studies continue
❧ little personal update

✨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!

🍫 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

👻Happy Halloween with Toadette and Boo [Mario Wonder]🍄

By leonieyue Posted on 30 October 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with asthma, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismBoundaries, autismfocus, autismLife, autistic, boo, CaraApp, cleaning, communication, despair, drycoughing, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, emotionalExpectations, emotionalIntimacy, expectations, expectationsProjections, expenses, fanart, fans, frugal, halloween, heartbeatirregularities, heroesAndFans, Illustration, inhaler, invisibleExpectations, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, LeonieUpdate, lowkeystress, lowselfEsteem, ManagingStress, MasahiroSakurai, newsletters, openOfficeEnvironments, overfamiliar, overstimulated, parasocial relationships, PerformanceAnxiety, personalupdate, poor, quittingtwitter, restroomSensoryRecovery, sailorSenshi, social media, SocialMediaMetrics, stingyFrugalHermit, structureAndRoutine, SuperMarioBrosWonder, TextChatCommunication, Toadette, toxicworkplaces, twitter, unspokenExpectations, workaholic, writtencommunication, youtube

Also in this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ social media, newsletters, avoiding metrics & parasocial things
❧ personal update & more

🔥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!

🐲Dragon from Mario Wonder! (Year of the Dragon + Smaugust 2024)

By leonieyue Posted on 29 August 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 4D, acquaintanceBoundaries, ActuallyAutistic, antiGenAI, anxiety, autism, AutismAdulthood, autistic, autisticallySocial, autisticMasking, autisticShutdown, behindInLife, BeingAnOutcast, beingPerceived, boundaries, comedy, ConfirmationBias, conflictAvoidance, contradictory, coward, creepy, deadpan, disinterest, doingOwnThing, dragon, everyoneHatesMe, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, explicitConsent, fanart, feelings, genAI, genAIdiscourse, GenAIimpactInternet, genAIscams, humiliation, hurt, hurtFeelings, Illustration, leonieyue, ManagingStress, neurodivergent, NoPuttingPeopleOnAPedestal, onlineBoundaries, outcast, overstimulated, overthinking, parasocial relationships, passiveAggressive, personalBoundaries, petty, prettyUglyPrivilege, scapegoat, socialAnxiety, socialConformity, SuperMarioBrosWonder, surprisePartiesNoThanks, visualPresentation, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble & subtitled timelapse!
❧ Super Eyepatch Wolf’s video on Social Anxiety Horror
❧ personal update, Nintendo direct/indies & more!

☺️ 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!

🌌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 2 [Princess Peach: Showtime fanart] Anxiety as an artist, social media, relevancy, GenAi, twitter, networking & what am I even doing

By leonieyue Posted on 9 April 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate Tagged with anxiety, AnxietyFromNewsPolitics, anxietyFuture, AprilFools, Art Anxiety, ArtCareer, ArtistDesperation, artistSocialThings, ArtistStruggle, burnout, careerDirection, CareerRelevancy, careerthoughts, changeIsConstant, changing career, contentCreators, creative, creativeFulfillment, doomSpiraling, emotionalStorytelling, existential, existentialDread, fanart, FoamstarsEthics, forcingIntoThingsYouDontFit, freetochangeourmind, generativeAI, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, HustleCulture, hustlingExhausting, Illustration, innerPurpose, joyAndMeaning, leonieyue, lifeSkills, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, megadroughtFear, plagiarism, PokemonMiku, princess peach, princesspeach, PrincessPeachShowtime, purpose, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sketchbookThoughts, slow, slowingdown, social media, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, SocialMediaMetrics, SocialMediaVoid, StreamingAnxiety, stress, StruggleAdapt, sustainableArtCareer, twitter, TwitterVentAgain, volatileIndustry, wariowareMoveIt, youtubers

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble!
❧ trying not to spiral with anxiety and fear as an artist – relevancy, GenAI, social media is frustrating, twitter & not knowing what I’m doing
❧ reflecting on artist networking
❧ personal feelings, update & more!

🪺🐇🎀Bunny time with Big Baby Chicken 🐤🐔🦆 [Fanart for the Crossy Road Easter character update]! Social media, health assessment tool, stress & anxiety

By leonieyue Posted on 29 March 2024 Posted in Collaboration, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with anxiety, breastCancerCheckUp, breastCancerRiskAssessment, crossy, crossy road, CrossyChick, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyroad, crossyroadBigBabyChicken, CrossyRoadUpdate, dentist, easterBreak, fanart, focus, grindingTeeth, headspace, hipsterWhale, Illustration, intrusiveBadMemories, juggling, keepingBusy, leonieyue, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, OnPodcasting, personal update, physiololgicalstress, podcastMaking, spiraling, stress, teethShenanigans, tenseBody, toxicStress

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble & subtitled timelapse!
❧ personal update, breast cancer risk assessment tool & more!

Leonie’s mixed feelings / my 15th twitter anniversary oof / I’m not keeping twitter up to date anymore, GenAI & creative control

By leonieyue Posted on 6 March 2024 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with acceptance, art blog mission, ArtCollaboration, ArtistBrand, ArtistHustle, ArtistStruggle, ArtJourney, ArtWorkerBee, askingForHelp, blogging, burnout, ChronicallyOnline, comfortZone, communicationIssues, ContentCreationProblems, contentCreators, ContentHustle, contentVoid, creativeControl, disappointment, fightForMyselfHow, frustration, generativeAI, HavingACry, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hope, hopelessness, Illustration, internet, internetConsumption, intrusiveBadMemories, jaded, learningJourney, leftbehind, leftinthedark, leonieyue, ManagingStress, memeing, mixedFeelings, mosquito, neglect, noenergytochase, notvalued, personal, personalBranding, pettiness, petty, reflection, reflective, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, self portrait, selfAcceptance, socialmediaAndArtists, spamEmail, speakingUp, struggle, supportArtist, TerminallyOnline, tolerate, trustIssues, twitter, twitterAnniversary, venting, wariness

Also in this little blog post about personal feelings, creative control, personal update & more.

📜🐉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!

🎵🎀🐤🐔Night time Christmas Carols📖🎶🦆🦢🐦 [Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 22 December 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with AgencyPDA, autismfocus, BodyLanguage, christmas, communication, contextSwitching, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBabyDuck, CrossyBabyPenguin, CrossyBirds, CrossyBlueMacaw, CrossyBunny, CrossyCardinal, CrossyCarols, CrossyCastleRivals, CrossyChick, crossyChicken, CrossyCockatoo, CrossyCrow, CrossyEmoGoose, CrossyEmperorPenguin, CrossyEnemyBirds, CrossyFiorlandPenguin, CrossyKea, CrossyKiwiBird, CrossyKookaburra, CrossyLostPenguin, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyOwlBos, CrossyParrot, CrossyPelican, CrossyPenguin, CrossyPigeon, CrossyPoopyPigeon, CrossyPresent, CrossyPterodactyl, CrossyPudding, CrossyPuffin, CrossyRaven, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRobin, CrossyRubberChicken, CrossySeagull, CrossyToucan, CrossyTurkey, CrossyUnihorse, CrossyWoodpeckerBoss, dreamsVSreality, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalInternaliser, EmotionalSupport, expectationsProjections, eyeContact, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, flirting, growingMindset, habit, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HumanDualityComplexity, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, inattentiveness, invisibleExpectations, leonieyue, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, misophoniaWhispering, NintendoSwitch, nintendoswitch2023, PaprikaMovie, PDA, PersistentDriveForAutonomy, physiololgicalstress, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, scapegoat, self compassion, selfCare, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sociallyExpected, stress, subtlety, surrealism, xmas

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled art process speedpaint video!
❧ learning more about Persistent Drive for Autonomy autism, unhelpful advice, invisible expectations, body language & eye contact
❧ watched Paprika for the first time
❧ my little Nintendo switch 2023 review and more!

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