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💚🎂 Miku Birthday Festival 2025!🎉初音ミク生誕祭2025 💙

By leonieyue Posted on 1 September 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Studies, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, 3Dmodeling, ArtCareer, BeingMisunderstood, blunt, characterIllustration, conflictAvoidance, DonkeyKongBonanza, emotionalDistance, emotionallyMutual, empathy, fanart, figure drawing, figuredrawing, FriendshipReciprocity, game industry, games, games industry, gamesConference, gamesWeek, GCAP, hatsunemiku, Illustration, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, LindsayEllisYoutube, loneliness, lonelyArtist, lowpoly, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, mikuBirthday, MikuBirthdayFestival, mikuday, minimalSocialInteractions, misunderstandings, mutuallyInterested, overstimulated, paintingStudy, photoStudy, portrait, portraitStudy, quiet, QuietObserver, social media, socialInepitude, SocialInteraction, socialmediaAndArtists, study, Timelapse, 初音ミク, 初音ミク生誕祭2025

❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ figure study & personal update

Okonomiyaki 🥘 お好み焼き / Character design & illustration Telephone

By leonieyue Posted on 12 August 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Collaboration, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Traditional Tagged with ArtCollaboration, character design, character illustration, CharacterDesign, characterDesignTelephone, characterdesignThoughts, characterDriven, characterTelephone, comfort zone, comfortZone, dissociateDetachSelf, dread, figure drawing, figuredrawing, Illustration, leonieyue, ManagingEgo, medicalScan, okonomiyaki, personal update, portrait, unfairWorld

❧ about this design/illustration project
❧ pen study doodles
❧ personal update

Man…… [Doodle for my birthday today 🎀]

By leonieyue Posted on 27 June 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with bday, birthday, birthdayBreak, figuredrawing, HermitDragonLeonie, idolDebut, Illustration, leonieyue, portrait

❧ “my idol career is over” art and an art study
❧ reflecting on birthday, being existential & artist community

[May 2025] Ura 宇良 💪相撲 Sumo wrestler studies of Ura 宇良, Terunofuji 照ノ富士, Nabatame 生田目 & Souga 颯雅!

By leonieyue Posted on 3 June 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with adultFriendship, artprogress, fanart, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, friendshipExpectations, FriendshipLoyalty, FriendshipMileage, FriendshipReciprocity, Illustration, leonieyue, nabatame, portrait, progressupdate, souga, sumo, sumoStudies, sumoTournaments, SumoWrestlerStudy, SumoWrestling, terunofuji, Ura, YokozunaTerunofuji

❧ sumo wrestler studies recap
❧ ol’ friendship reflection ramble
❧ personal update

Wakamotoharu 若元春 and Nabatame 生田目💪Sumo wrestler studies!

By leonieyue Posted on 13 May 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with adultFriendship, artgoals, artprogress, artstudyingroutine, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismBoundaries, AutismEgoDeath, AutismEmployment, autismFriendships, autismLife, autismStuck, autistic, autisticBurnout, existential, fanart, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, FriendshipReciprocity, FriendshipsAreHard, Illustration, jobsAutism, leonieyue, nabatame, overthinking, portrait, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, structureAndRoutine, sumo, sumoStudies, SumoWrestlerStudy, SumoWrestling, Wakamotoharu, weeklyartprogress, why art anymore

❧ sumo wrestler studies
❧ past Leonie reflecting on sensory overload, burnout
❧ personal update

Weekly art progress / Kimodameshi 2025 Days 16 to 20!

By leonieyue Posted on 8 April 2025 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with art studies, artprogress, expressions, figure drawing, figuredrawing, Kimo, kimo7, Kimodameshi2025, leonieyue, portrait, portraitStudy, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, sketchbook, sketchpost, studies, study, weeklyartprogress

❧ Reflecting on this art challenge
❧ personal update

Weekly art progress / Kimodameshi 2025 Days 11 to 15 of figure studies! Reflecting on the end of Kimo 7

By leonieyue Posted on 1 April 2025 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with ArtChallenge, artprogress, DrawingChallenge, figure drawing, figuredrawing, Kimo, Kimo5, kimo7, Kimodameshi2023, Kimodameshi2025, leonieyue, photostudies, photoStudy, portrait, sketch, sketchbook, sketchpost, studies, study, studyPost, weeklyartprogress

❧ Reflecting on this art challenge
❧ personal update on Kimo ending

🏴‍☠️ Drawing Majima from memory🦜 [Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii] 🗡️

By leonieyue Posted on 11 February 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with ballpointPen, fanart, GoroMajima, Illustration, leonieyue, LikeADragonSeries, Majima, MajimaPirateYakuza, memorySketches, pen, pen sketch, portrait, portraits, sketch, yakuza, YakuzaGameSeries

Little sketchy post ;P

Midorifuji 翠富士, Ichiyamamoto 一山本, Takayasu 高安 💪 Sumo wrestler studies!

By leonieyue Posted on 21 January 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with anxiety, anxietyFuture, anxious, ArtCareer, ArtCollaboration, bluesky, communicationIssues, CreativeFai, CreativeFailure, CreativePressure, DesireToProveSelfConstantlyExhausting, energy, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, exhaus, existentialDread, fanart, hatsubasho2025, hermit, hermitLeonie, hustlingExhausting, Ichiyamamoto, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, keyboards, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, love, lowEnergy, lowselfEsteem, meditation, Midorifuji, NintendoSwitch2, personal update, portrait, provingOneselfExhausting, relationships, selfdoubt, social media, socialBattery, socialEnergy, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, SplitTentedKeyboards, sumo, sumoStudies, sumoTournaments, SumoWrestlerStudy, SumoWrestling, survivalArtistMode, Takayasu, timesink, WorkDowntime

❧ reflecting on creative failure
❧ personal update
Last week of the sumo hatsubasho is going right now yeahhh

Wishing you all the best Terunofuji 照ノ富士 pt 1 💪Sumo wrestler studies!

By leonieyue Posted on 18 January 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with fanart, hatsubasho2025, Illustration, leonieyue, portrait, sumo, sumoStudies, SumoWrestlerStudy, SumoWrestling, terunofuji, yokozuna, YokozunaTerunofuji

A ramble about Terunofuji

Character exploration / Contemplating about meaning + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 18 July 2022 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with Art Anxiety, ArtAesthetics, ArtExecution, ArtSelfExpression, ArtStyle, careerDirection, character, character design, character illustration, characterart, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, confusion, expression, Illustration, insecurity, Kinh, learningfrommistakes, learningJourney, leonieyue, lifedirection, lost, mood, portrait, reflection, reflective, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, stylisation, Timelapse, trialAndError

Reflecting about my creative block, my art journey, what I want to do with my art, what excites and motivates me too.

StudyPost / Kimodameshi 2022 Days 15 to 20, figure drawings + portrait timelapse (the end)

By leonieyue Posted on 25 April 2022 Posted in LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Timelapse Tagged with ArtChallenge, DrawingChallenge, DrawingFromImagination, figure drawing, figuredrawing, imagination, ImaginativeDrawing, Kimo, Kimo4, Kimodameshi2022, leonieyue, photostudies, photoStudy, portrait, portraitStudy, sketch, sketchbook, SketchFromImagination, sketchpost, studies, study, studyPost, Timelapse

Final week of kimo figure drawing studies!

Reflecting on my current headspace and learning.

StudyPost / Kimodameshi 2022 Days 1 to 7

By leonieyue Posted on 11 April 2022 Posted in LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Timelapse Tagged with figure drawing, figuredrawing, Kimo, Kimo4, Kimodameshi2022, learning, learningJourney, leonieyue, photostudies, photoStudy, portrait, portraits, portraitStudy, reflection, reflective, studies, Timelapse

Last month I started doing the yearly Kimo(dameshi) challenge where you post figure studies for 20 days.

Featured here was Day 1.

It goes downhill from here as I document & struggle with the 1st week :’)

SuperLeonieMode 330 / Self Portrait Day!

By leonieyue Posted on 1 November 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with comic, crossy road, CrossyRoadUpdate, Illustration, InternationalSelfPortraitDay, leonieyue, portrait, portraits, self portrait, SelfPortraitDay, SuperLeonieMode

Hoy there~!

New Crossy Road Halloween character & personal update!

Portraits of a Lady Samurai + timelapse! 🏹🌼🌸

By leonieyue Posted on 1 September 2021 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, Studies, Timelapse Tagged with art studies, character development, characterIllustration, Illustration, lady, leonieyue, portrait, samurai, studies, study, Timelapse

Lady Samurai portraits 🌸

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.

Tag: portrait