OkamiLunarNewYear – Leonie's Art Blog

🐎💨 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

🐍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 (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

Fanart for Ōkami 大神 / Happy Lunar New Year of the Tiger 2022 + hey I’m back! 🧧🐅🎆

By leonieyue Posted on 1 February 2022 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with brainfart, Celestial Brush God, crossy road, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, fanart, Gekigami, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleAnniversary, Illustration, leonieyue, lightning, Lunar New Year, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, neurotypical, okami, okamiden, OkamiLunarNewYear, reflection, reflective, thunderstorm, tunnelVision, yearoftiger, zodiacAnimals, zodiacPredictions, 凍神, 大神, 虎

Hey I’m back!!
I talk about the Tiger zodiac reading for fun & reflect on (technically) my Hipster Whale 1 year anniversary…

Fanart for Ōkami 大神 / Happy Lunar New Year of the Ox 2021 with cute Itegami! 🧧🎆

By leonieyue Posted on 12 February 2021 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with Celestial Brush God, cuteartwork, fanart, Illustration, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, yearofox, zodiacAnimals, 凍神, 大神

Fanart for Ōkami 大神 / Happy Lunar New Year of the Ox 2021 with cute Itegami! 🧧🎆 A Iittle blog post!

Fanart for Ōkami 大神 / Lunar New Year of the Ox 2021 with Itegami 凍神! 🐂🧧

By leonieyue Posted on 8 February 2021 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with 8canineWarriors, amaterasu, bakugami, Celestial Brush God, dog, fanart, Illustration, issun, Kasugami, leonieyue, Moegami, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, rat, Rooster, Sheep, Shiranui, tachigami, zodiacAnimals, 大神, 筆神

Fanart / Lunar New Year of the Ox 2021 with Itegami! [Ōkami 大神]
A dedicated blog post for this project!

Fanart / Happy Lunar New Year of the Ox 2021 with Itegami 凍神 🐂🧧 [ŌKAMI 大神], process + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 8 February 2021 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with 8canineWarriors, AccentedCinema, AdeshThapliyalYoutube, AdventureGame, AiWeiWeiArtist, amaterasu, AnimalCrossingNewHorizonsThoughts, anime, AnnaAndElsa, attitude, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismInLadies, autistic, bakugami, Blizzard, burnout, Celestial Brush God, cherryBomb, ChineseKnockOffStigma, ChosenFamily, ChrisStuckmannYoutube, DidYouKnowGamingYoutube, Dinosaurs, dog, driving, dysfunctionalFamilies, eczema, fanart, flatEarth, flow, flower, FoldingIdeasYoutube, Frozen2, FrozenMovie, GamingChairs, Geocentrists, gratitude, GrissiniProjectYoutube, Hanagami, handEczema, hermitLife, homebodylife, HowardHoYoutube, Illustration, ImmigrantParents, issun, Itegami, JackieChan, JCLeyendecker, JehovahsWitness, JennyNicholsonYoutube, Kasugami, LadyGaga, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, lifesuffering, LimboOfTheLost, Lugia, MandaloreGamingYoutube, marioFanfiction, MatildaMovie, meaningoflife, MetalOx, Moegami, monkey, music, MusicalThoughts, MyImmortal, NieR, NieRAutomata, NitroRadYoutube, NormanRockwell, OfficeChairs, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, OmoriGame, onlineBoundaries, Ox, ParentsStandards, patreon, PatreonOnly, patron, PerformanceArt, pig, plagiarism, pokemon, posture, process, processPost, ProZD, QualityCultureYoutube, RapsitteStreetKidsBelieveInSanta, rat, Rooster, routine, RuthlessTheMusical, sailor moon, SarahZYoutube, selfDiscipline, sensoryOverload, Sheep, Shiranui, socialmedia, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, tachigami, TheLastBronycon, TheMysteryOfTheDruids, twitter, twitterAlgorithm, wakingTime, workingHours, WorkingOvertime, yearofox, zodiacAnimals, 凍神, 大神, 牛, 筆神, 金牛

Fanart for Ōkami 大神 / Happy Lunar New Year of the Ox 2021 with Itegami, process + LeonieUpdate, mental health notes, interesting finds in this blog post [patron only]!

Fanart / Okami Year of the Tachigami/Rat! Happy Lunar New Year 2020! + Rolling up my sleeves update

By leonieyue Posted on 26 January 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with AustralianBushfires, Celestial Brush God, cute, cuteartwork, diet, dreams, eczema, fanart, health, ikigai, Illustration, intermittentFasting, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, personalupdate, portrait, powerslash, progressupdate, rat, reflection, RingFitnessAdventure, self portrait, socialmedia, SundayLeonieUpdate, tachigami, YearofRat, yearOfTheRat, zodiacAnimals, 大神, 断神, 筆神

Tachigami, the Celestial God of Power Slash!
LeonieUpdate and ramble about art struggles after coming back from her break!

Okami Lunar New Year 2019: Bakugami 🐗

By leonieyue Posted on 5 February 2019 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with bakugami, boar, Celestial Brush God, cherryBomb, Illustration, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, zodiacAnimals, 大神, 爆神, 筆神

Happy Lunar New Year full of fireworks!! Featuring a sleepy Bakugami, the Celestial God of the Cherry Bomb. Sleepy because I’m pretty pooped, exhausted and ambivalent from the past couple of years.

Rambling about the year