portraits – Leonie's Art Blog

🏴‍☠️ 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

Art from Imagination & Memory / Lots of Portraits & health update!

By leonieyue Posted on 23 May 2022 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with alopeciaAreataHairLoss, anxiety, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismLife, Berserk, comfortZone, DrawingFromImagination, FinalFantasyOriginsStrangersOfParadise, GutsBerserk, healthUpdate, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hikikomori, imagination, ImaginativeDrawing, IronDeficiencyAnemia, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, PerformanceAnxiety, personalupdate, portraits, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, sketchbook, SketchFromImagination, sketchpost

Lots of terrible heads
And current health update :’)

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!

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.

Patron only / Steve Welz portrait commission, process and reflecting on portrait commissions!

By leonieyue Posted on 10 February 2021 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with artbusiness, ArtistStandards, artprocess, commission, freelanceLife, freelanceWork, LouieZong, MissionInSnowdriftlandGame, NickRobinsonYoutube, patreon, PatreonOnly, patron, personal commission, portrait, portraits, process, processPost, reflection, SteveWelzGameDev, workMode

Illustration / Steve Welz portrait commission, process & reflecting on portrait commissions in general in this blog post [patron only]!

Fanart / “The Farewell” (2019) portraits and reflective Spoiler ramble

By leonieyue Posted on 12 August 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with Aiko, AoiMizuhara, Awkwafina, BilliWang, ChenHan, clipstudiopaint, DianaLin, DontTellHer, fanart, HaoHao, Illustration, leonieyue, LittleNaiNai, LuHong, LuJian, LuluWang, movieThoughts, portrait, portraits, sketch, spoilers, TheFarewellMovie

Fanart / “The Farewell” (2019) portraits and reflective spoiler ramble

Fanart / “Onward” (2020) Barley and Ian Lightfoot💙💜 + spoiler ramble!

By leonieyue Posted on 3 August 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with brotherhood, brotherhug, brotherlove, leonieyue, movieThoughts, onward, onwardMovie, onwardPixar, Pixar, portrait, portraits

Fanart / “Onward” (2020) Barley and Ian Lightfoot + movie spoiler ramble!

The art of Total eSports Action Manager (Mighty Serious game 2019)

By leonieyue Posted on 15 July 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Collaboration, Concept Art, GameArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with art style, CharacterDesign, concept art, eSports, game art, leonieyue, logo design, mightygames, MightySerious, portraits, process, TeamEsportsActionManager, teamwork, tshirt design, vector art

Mighty Serious/Mighty Games published T.E.A.M. in April and since I’m back from my posting break early this month, I am ready to show some of the art I did!

Reflecting on working on this project, art direction, crunching, art process, learning UI art, personal lessons, performance anxiety + concept art and vector portraits.