reflection – Page 4 – Leonie's Art Blog

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…

2021 art summary: reflecting on the year!

By leonieyue Posted on 22 December 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with 2021artsummary, ArtHabits, artof2021, ArtStationRecap, ArtStationRecap2021, artsummary, artvsartist, artVSartist2021, EndOfYear, fanart, Illustration, leonieyue, MostPopularPieceReddit, MostPopularYoutube, PixivRecap, postingSchedule, reflection, slow, slowLearner, slowStudy, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, TrustingProcess, TwitterRecap

Leonie rambles about life and art learning again.
But this time it’s about the whole year, my tiny steps of progress and plateaued metrics.

The last post of 2021.

StudyPost 20 / Figure studies, reflecting on mastery & the growth mindset!

By leonieyue Posted on 15 November 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with art studies, clipstudiopaint, fastStudy, gestures, growingMindset, growingPains, Growth, headspace, imagination, ImaginativeDrawing, learning, learningJourney, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, lineartArtist, mastery, mindset, paintShapeArtist, photostudies, photoStudy, plateau, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, sketchbook, sketchpost, slowLearner, slowStudy, StephenSilver, StephenSilverDrawingAcademy, studies, study, summary, visualise

The life long learning journey!!
Some self directed learning shenanigans from Stephen Silver (:

And thoughts on mastery, long term fulfillment and the growth mindset.

Sketches for the day 07 / Drawing from imagination, reflecting + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 October 2021 Posted in CharacterDesign, LeonieYue, Sketches, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, Art Anxiety, ArtForTheDay, ArtistStandards, ArtistStruggle, careerDirection, character design, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, clipstudiopaint, dress, frustration, Illustration, imagination, iterations, leonieyue, lifedirection, ManagingEmotions, originalCharacter, photoshop, reflection, relax, sketch, sketchbook, SketchForTheDay, SketchFromImagination, sketchpost, slow, slowingdown, slowLearner, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaoverwhelm, subconsciousDrawing, Timelapse

Iterating & reflecting on drawing from imagination :’)

StudyPost 19 / Fluffy pink frills, high heels and hair curls [costumed life drawing] + timelapses!

By leonieyue Posted on 11 October 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, progressupdate, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Timelapse Tagged with art studies, costumeDesign, DrawingCabaretCouture, entertainmentIndustry, figure drawing, figuredrawing, frills, gestures, highheels, LBX2021, LBXO2021, LbxOnline2021, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, life drawing, LightBoxExpo, LightBoxExpo2021, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, sketch, sketchbook, sketchpost, studies, study, Timelapse

Drawing Cabaret Couture life drawing!

StudyPost 18 / Figure studies & bubble tea + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 22 September 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Timelapse Tagged with art studies, bicycle, clipstudiopaint, creativeRut, creativity, earthquake, familiarity, figure drawing, figuredrawing, FindingANiche, focus, gestures, Groose, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, mario, niche, OnlineContentConsistency, OnlinePopularity, overwhelm, patron, photostudies, popularity, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, sketchbook, sketchpost, socialCurrency, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaArt, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, socialmediaoverwhelm, stress, studies, study

Doodling people because I’m rusty.

SuperLeonieMode 346 / When your mind drifts away from the conscious world + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 20 September 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with absentminded, boredom, breathing, comic, consciousness, disappointment, emotionalEnergy, emotionallyDraining, emotionalWalls, empty, evolve, existential, existentialEmptiness, existing, fatigue, headEmpty, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, jaded, learningfrommistakes, leonieyue, lowEnergy, meditative, mundane, neutral, noThoughts, quiet, QuietObserver, reflection, reflective, self portrait, selfAwareness, sleepy, stamina, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse, tired, TolerateBoredom, trust, trustIssues, uncertainty

Low energy hermit thoughts :’)

SuperLeonieMode 345 / When you’re hand washing with shampoo + timelapse! 😓🧼

By leonieyue Posted on 6 September 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, comic, frugal, germaphobe, handwashing, Illustration, lazy, leonieyue, reflection, self portrait, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse

Saving money I guess

And I reflect and stop myself from putting self worth = follower numbers again :’)

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.

Fanart / Absolutely innocent Tanuki from Crossy Road’s Japan update + timelapse! 🦝✨

By leonieyue Posted on 4 August 2021 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with character design, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, creativeRut, creativity, creativityRut, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadJapanUpdate, doneIsBetterThanPerfect, existential, existentialEmptiness, fanart, giftart, gloomy, hamsterWheel, hipsterWhale, Illustration, leonieyue, perfectionism, progress, raccoon dog, reflection, resignation, sumo, sumoTournaments, tanuki, たぬき, 日本, 狸

Family friendly raccoon dog (:
And I reflect about my art, what I post and mixed feelings on “progress”.

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.

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!

Patron only StudyPost 16 / Figures and fashion studies + reflecting on “positive arrogance” & these patron posts!

By leonieyue Posted on 10 May 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with art studies, ArtistStruggle, careerDirection, careerthoughts, drapery, drawingLifeSession, EthanBecker, existential, fashion, figure drawing, figuredrawing, FindingANiche, freelanceIllustration, freelanceLife, frustration, gestures, growingPains, Iamenough, impatient, imposterSyndrome, inadequacy, learning, learningJourney, leonieyue, notgoodenoughFeelings, PaperMario, PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor, patreon, PatreonOnly, patron, perfectionist, positiveArrogance, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, QueenOfTheDragonflies, reflection, reflective, selfAwareness, sketchbook, sketchpost, soloist, studies, study, vivian

Sketchpost 16 / Figures and fashion studies, Vivian timelapse + reflecting on “positive arrogance” & these patron posts [patron only]!

Patron only StudyPost 15 / DTIYS illustration timelapse, figure drawing & portraits + letting go of results & perfectionism

By leonieyue Posted on 26 April 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with AkimboPodcast, animation, anxiety, art studies, autism, autistic, Awkwafina, BadFriends, beauty and the beast, blogging, clippaintstudio, clipstudiopaint, ColossalMovie, concentration, creative, creativeRut, creativity, creativityRut, doubts, empty, existential, failures, FeminineGaze, figure drawing, figuredrawing, FilmJoyYoutube, focus, friendships, hopelessness, housekeeping, HowlsMovingCastle, hyperfocus, InterestingFinds, KungFuPanda, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, LettingGo, lifesuffering, LoishArtist, MaleGaze, MarvelShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings, MollieBowmanYoutube, Nihilism, patreon, PatreonOnly, patron, perfectionist, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, reflective, results, RKFT1Youtube, SagesRainYoutube, self compassion, selfa, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfdoubt, selfImprovement, SethGodin, shortFilms, sketchbook, sketchpost, studies, study, success, suffering, TaikaWaititi, TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles, witandFollyYoutube, yakuza, YharaZaydYoutube

Sketchpost 15 / DTIYS illustration timelapse, figure drawing and portraits + letting go of results, perfectionism & final interesting finds in this blog post [patron only]

Patron only StudyPost 14 / Figure studies, my posting break times, notes on work modes, focus and cognitive biases + LeonieUpdate

By leonieyue Posted on 12 April 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Timelapse Tagged with art studies, boundaries, clipstudiopaint, cognitiveBias, comedy, comedySkits, communication, contentCreators, contextSwitching, CryptoArtDiscourse, distraction, EggFriedRice, fanart, figure drawing, figuredrawing, food, foodpoisoning, heroesAndFans, InterestingFinds, Legend of Zelda, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, maker, manager, MelbourneInternationalComedyFestival, NFTdiscourse, onlineBoundaries, parasocial relationships, patreon, PatreonOnly, patron, portrait, postingSchedule, Princess Zelda, priorities, procrastination, productivity, productivityMethod, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, rest, routine, schedule, sketchbook, sketchpost, standupComedy, streamers, studies, study, TakingBreaks, tension, Timelapse, timeManagement, UncleRogerYoutube, workingHours, workMode, Zelda

Sketchpost 14 / Figure studies, posting break times, notes on working hours, work modes, focus and cognitive biases, time management + LeonieUpdate in this post! [patron only]

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