MentalHealth – Leonie's Art Blog

🌌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

🧧🐉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!

Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe is out!! 🎩✨

By leonieyue Posted on 28 February 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AIartDiscourse, AIgeneratedWork, art learning, ArtAndFear, artprocess, BandanaDee, CBTapproach, dreamLife, fanart, gratitude, gratitudeJournaling, headspace, Illustration, journal, KingDedede, kirby, kirbysReturnToDreamlandDeluxe, learningJourney, leonieyue, Magolor, ManagingStress, manifesting, MentalHealth, MetaKnight, personalupdate, pixiv, reflection, reflective, sleepDeprived, sleepy, speedpaint, stress, subscriptionArtLearning, The Artist's Way, Timelapse, youtubevideo

In this blog post:
– speedpaint for this piece!
– reverting my efforts in Youtube videos
– morning pages & gratitude journals are not for everyone & other journaling approaches
– quitting pixiv & their AI generated work mess
– personal update

🎊💝 Happy Crossy Valentine’s Day!! [Crossy Road Valentine’s Day illustration for Hipster Whale]

By leonieyue Posted on 15 February 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with appreciation, artistCommentaryYoutube, artprocess, chocolate, contentCreators, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, leonieyue, LoveAndKindness, LoveDay, MakingVideo, ManagingStress, MentalHealth, negativity, parasocial relationships, process, self compassion, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfLove, SelfReview, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, stress, textcommentary, Timelapse, TrustingProcess, ValentinesDay, YoutubeShorts, youtubevideo

In this blog post:
– speedpaint process + text commentary for this Crossy piece!
– self care and love?
– why voiced commentary art videos are not for me
– reflecting on “don’t make a youtube channel”, mental health & video making
– personal update rambles

Oh heartbroken Kirby 💔

By leonieyue Posted on 7 November 2022 Posted in Comics, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with abandonment, adultFriendship, AIartDiscourse, ArtistHustle, beauty, bodyImage, brokenHeart, brokenhearted, character illustration, characterIllustration, cohost, comic, compatibility, digital art, digital illustration, disappointed, disappointment, empathy, fanart, friendship, friendships, HAL Laboratory, heartbreak, how to art career, hurt, Illustration, ImageAI, instagram, kirby, kirbysDreamBuffet, learning, learningfrommistakes, learningJourney, leftbehind, LeonieYoutube, leonieyue, letdown, LevelsOfFriendships, liveandlearn, lonely, MentalHealth, movieThoughts, nintendo, onlineFriendship, OutgrowingFriends, PhysicalAppearance, physicalAttractiveness, physiololgicalstress, pixiv, platonicFriends, postingBreak, publicpersona, RedShoesAndTheSevenDwarvesMovie, sadness, self compassion, selfdoubt, selfWorth, twitter

In this week’s blog post:
– the timelapse & feelings
– thoughts on Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves movie + body image
– issues with Cohost’s ToS so I’m not posting there
– AI art fears and thoughts as it spreads
– personal update

StudyPost / Spooky Scary Skeleton Studies + ’til Death 💀

By leonieyue Posted on 28 March 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with art studies, death, figure drawing, figuredrawing, gestures, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, MentalHealth, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, self portrait, skeleton, sketchbook, sketchpost, slowStudy, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaArt, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, studies, study, studyPost

Struggling with Skeletal studies!

And getting existential and gloomy from tracking metrics :’)

SuperLeonieMode 352 / When you fall into existential emptiness and silence + timelapse

By leonieyue Posted on 14 March 2022 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, anxiousLaugh, comic, complexFeelings, empty, emptyLaugh, existential, existentialEmptiness, existentialism, feelingNeutral, feelingNothing, feelings, headEmpty, howAreYou, Illustration, leonieyue, MentalHealth, mixedFeelings, NeutralDefault, NeutralMood, notgoodenoughFeelings, pause, silence, slow, slowLearner, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse

Not sure how to answer this question so I default to “okay”.
Reflecting about muted/neutral emotions & managing headspace.

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 343 / Pent-up sighing + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 4 October 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, comic, complexFeelings, confusion, disappointment, exhale, feelings, frustration, Illustration, leonieyue, LettingGo, ManagingStress, MentalHealth, mixedFeelings, overwhelm, resentment, self portrait, sighing, stress, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse

Letting it out :’)

StudyPost 17 / Hello I’m very rusty but I’m finally taking baby steps to study and practice again!

By leonieyue Posted on 11 August 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with art studies, contourDrawing, creativeEnergy, emotionalEnergy, gestures, learning, learningJourney, leonieyue, MentalHealth, movieThoughts, patron, photostudies, photoStudy, PixarSoul, portrait, portraits, postingSchedule, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, rusty, sketchbook, sketchpost, spoilers, studies, study, studyPost

Here we go again!
This is all the studies from the past week & my loose learning plan from here.

And spoiler talk on the movie Soul.

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.

Fanart / Princess Daisy and Peach from Mario Golf Super Rush, timelapse & little E3 ramble

By leonieyue Posted on 21 June 2021 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Timelapse Tagged with ArtistStandards, ArtistStruggle, BoBurnham, BoBurnhamINSIDE, boundaries, BreathOfTheWild, E3thoughts, empty, existential, fanart, focus, foggy, gameRamble, GardenStoryGame, gloomy, housekeeping, HyruleWarriors, HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity, Illustration, insecurity, KazuyaTekken, KnockoutHomeFitness, leonieyue, LeonieYueRambles, MarioGolfSuperRush, MentalHealth, overwhelm, personal, personalupdate, princess peach, princessDaisy, self comparisons, SmashBros, SmashBrosSP, SmashBrosUltimate, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaoverwhelm, TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles, Timelapse, toxicProductivity, twitter, uncertain, WarioWare, WarioWareGetItTogether, デイジー姫, ピーチ姫, マリオゴルフスーパーラッシュ

I ramble about games I’m looking forward to! And I’m taking a break next week :’)

Fanart / Wah [Ninomae Ina’nis from hololiveEN]

By leonieyue Posted on 7 June 2021 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with anxiety, Art Anxiety, characterIllustration, emailUpdates, fanart, hololiveEN, housekeeping, Illustration, Ina, inART, influencer, iterating, learning, learningfrommistakes, learningJourney, leonieyue, MentalHealth, ninomaeInanis, PerformanceAnxiety, slo, slowingdown, slowLearner, socialCurrency, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaArt, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, streamers, toxicProductivity, turtlePace, twitter, twitterAlgorithm, Vtuber, いなート, 一伊那尓栖

Leonie rambles about her limited knowledge about Ina & update about sketch prompts and tweeting art :’)

Sketch for the day 03 / Book + little twitter ramble + timelapse

By leonieyue Posted on 1 June 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, Timelapse Tagged with ArtForTheDay, artPrompt, book, clipstudiopaint, drawing, DrawingChallenge, leonieyue, MentalHealth, photostudies, photoStudy, pixivSketch, portait, prompt, rough, sketch, sketchbook, SketchForTheDay, sketchpost, socialmedia, Timelapse, twitter

Third sketch for the day!!
Leonie also rambles about not posting these to twitter and only checking twitter mentions.

Sketch for the day 02 / Pointing [pixivSketch 28/05/2021] + ramble on managing social media (LeonieArtRambles podcast #6)

By leonieyue Posted on 29 May 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, Podcast, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with algorithms, ArtChallenge, ArtForTheDay, ArtistBrand, ArtistStandards, artPrompt, AttentionEconomy, careerDirection, careerthoughts, contentCreators, creative, creativeRut, creativity, creativityRut, drawing, DrawingChallenge, existential, FindingANiche, influencer, LeonieArtRambles, loneliness, lonelyArtist, MentalHealth, niche, perfectionism, PerformanceAnxiety, personal, Personality, personalupdate, photostudies, photoStudy, pixivSketch, pointing, portrait, prompt, reflection, rough, sketch, sketchbook, SketchForTheDay, sketchpost, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialMediaEngagement, tired, twitterAlgorithm, uncertainty

It’s my second sketch prompt!
Also Leonie rambles about feelings, managing social media, not wanting to post some of her art to twitter, mental health, perfectionism, niches, uncertainty, constantly evolving boundaries and how few people seem to read her blog 🙁

There’s also a podcast version of this blog post!

Tag: MentalHealth