reflective – Leonie's Art Blog

🔥🐎 Happy Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse 🥹 Crossy Road fanart 🎊 + 💚 starting the March Hotel challenge

By leonieyue Posted on 3 March 2026 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with angryCry, autistic, crossy, crossyroad, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrossyUnihorse, DonkeyKongBonanza, fanart, gameThoughts, gameWatchingThoughts, HighlySensitivePerson, horse, Illustration, leonieyue, Lunar New Year, LunarNewYear, MarchHotel, marchhotel26, reflective, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, SensoryFriendly, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, skinCare, sunscreen, unihorse, YearOfTheHorse

❧ about fire horse & starting the March Hotel challenge
❧ reflecting on being a highly sensory sensitive person & angry crying
❧ personal update, finished Donkey Kong Bananza & more

🐦Feeling small in an overwhelming world 💐 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 13/final]

By leonieyue Posted on 14 October 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with compromise, DailySchedule, existential, feelingSmallInOverwhelmingWorld, gamesWeek, Illustration, learning, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, reflective, selfAwareness, studying, video, voxel, voxelArt, whocaresabouttags

❧ reflecting on this voxel project & my video compilation
❧ on learning and on feeling small
❧ on drawing everyday
❧ personal update & ramble

Weekly art progress / Kimodameshi 2025 Days 28 to 30 with studies + I’m making an idol debut!

By leonieyue Posted on 29 April 2025 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Timelapse Tagged with artprogress, FAOLiveENevent, figure drawing, figuredrawing, idolDebut, Kimo, kimo7, Kimodameshi2025, leonieyue, photoStudy, portraitStudy, reflective, study, studyPost, Timelapse, TummyPain, weeklyartprogress

❧ collection of art & studies so far
❧ making an idol debut & timelapse
❧ tiny personal update

💧 Void watching where I work [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 9]

By leonieyue Posted on 5 February 2025 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with BeingMisunderstood, communication, expectations, expectationsProjections, ezcema, flawed, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, invisibleExpectations, learning, learningJourney, learningProcess, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, mindgames, overthinking, reflection, reflective, s, scapegoat, scaryConversations, slowingdown, summer, teamwork, TextChatCommunication, unspokenExpectations, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ reflecting on this
❧ personal update & more!

🕵️Sus about Mallard mascot🦆 Fanart for the Crossy Road Theme Park update!

By leonieyue Posted on 3 December 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with alienatingYourself, asocial, autismLife, autisticallySocial, awkward, changeIsConstant, comfort zone, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, CrossyFanart, CrossyMallard, CrossyMallardMascot, crossyroad, CrossyRoadBday, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, exhausted, fallingAsleep, fanart, grump, grumpy, headFogHeavy, hermitLife, homebody, homebodylife, hybridWork, illustraiton, Illustration, intervention, knighthood, leonieyue, lifeChanges, livestreamingParasocialRelationships, lowEnergy, LowSocialEndurance, ManagingEnergy, nightowl, NoSocialLife, openOfficeEnvironments, outsourcedArtist, overanalysing, overstimulated, personalupdate, progressupdate, recovery, reflection, reflective, remoteWorking, restroomSensoryRecovery, routine, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, sleepy, socialBattery, socialEating, socialEnergy, SocialInteraction, sociallyOblivious, socialOutsider, socialWithdrawal, socialZombie, structureAndRoutine, Timelapse, tired, workaholic, workFromHome, workingHours, ZombieHusk

In this blog post:
❧ about this illustration
❧ reflecting on my first in-office days (hybrid with WFH) & life changes as a hermit
❧ personal update & mental health

🌈Crossy Road Castle Rainbow Spin! 🐈‍⬛🐔🦆🦄

By leonieyue Posted on 23 October 2024 Posted in Animation, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with bluesky, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, internetFinds, LEGObricks, leonieyue, lowkeystress, magicaVoxel, makeovers, makeUp, marketingArt, mutuallyInterested, overthinking, overwhelm, personal, rainbow, reflective, social media, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaVoid, SwanPrincess, UglyDucklingSwanMakeover, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

Also in this blog post:
❧ a little about this animation
❧ reflecting more on Bluesky
❧ make up, internet finds & personal update

🌈Rainbow swim [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 6]

By leonieyue Posted on 12 October 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, acquaintanceBoundaries, activelySocialOnline, adultFriendship, anxiety, anxious, asocial, asthma, autisticallySocial, BlueSkySocial, casualConnections, ChronicallyOnline, complexFeelings, conflictAvoidance, connections, coworkerFriendshipsHard, cupcake, disappointment, disrespectful, drycoughing, earHealth, earningTrust, emotionalConnections, emotionalDistance, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, EmotionallyDistant, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyMutual, emotionallyProcessing, expectationsProjections, feelingCaredFor, friendship, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, friendshipBreakups, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, friendshipGuilt, FriendshipLoyalty, friendshipmi, FriendshipMileage, friendshipMistakes, FriendshipReciprocity, guilt, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hurtFeelings, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, leonieyue, LimerenceProjectionFantasty, limerenceProjectionFantasy, linkedin, LowSocialEndurance, manipulative, mixedFeelings, mutuallyInterested, NoSocialLife, notgoodenoughFeelings, onesided, onlineAcquaintances, onlineBoundaries, onlineFriendship, onlinePersona, overthinking, parasocial relationships, personal update, postcoldinfectionscough, processingFeelings, rainbow, reflection, reflective, resentment, respect, RomanticProjection, secondchance, secondguessing, sittingwithfeelings, social media, socialAnxiety, socialConformity, socialsi, socialSituations, splatoon3SideOrder, toiletCleaning, trust, trustIssues, unequaldynamics, unfollow, VoxelAnimation, voxelIllustration, WalkingSteps

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ Social media overthinking & second guessing if it’s mutual
❧ Side Order, personal, hearing & health update & more

💎Sommie Poops🐈 [Fire Emblem Engage]

By leonieyue Posted on 10 September 2024 Posted in Comics, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with alienated, alonewithcompany, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismFriendships, autismLife, autismStuck, AutismTrauma, autistic, BeingMisunderstood, blogging, brainPooped, comfort zone, CrossyRoadCastle, despair, fanart, fearOfAloneInTheWorld, FireEmblemEngage, FriendshipCapacity, ghosting, Illustration, internetFinds, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, LifeOfKeaSeries, masking, misunderstandings, neverGoodEnough, personal update, reflection, reflective, rejected, rejection, rejectionSensitivity, selfLove, shame, Sommie, spiraling, Wukong

Also in this blog post:
❧ personal update & internet finds

⚔️ Making a Sword [Slowly learning Blender #1]

By leonieyue Posted on 28 May 2024 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart Tagged with 3D, activelySocialOnline, animationIndustry, anxietyFuture, ArtHabits, autisticBurnout, Blender3D, bluesky, comfort zone, comfortZone, complexFeelings, contentVoid, entertainmentIndustry, envy, focus, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, instagram, intense, JennyNicholsonYoutube, learning, learningJourney, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, MetaAi, movieTrailers, notgoodenoughFeelings, OkisWeirdStoriesYoutube, processingFeelings, qubicle, reflection, reflective, resentment, selfImprovement, sittingwithfeelings, social media, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, socialmediaoverwhelm, socialmediatoxicity, SocialMediaVoid, spiteful, StarWarsHotel, sword, ThreeKingdoms, TwitterVentAgain

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ personal update, striving not to burn out & more!

Leonie’s mixed feelings / my 15th twitter anniversary oof / I’m not keeping twitter up to date anymore, GenAI & creative control

By leonieyue Posted on 6 March 2024 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with acceptance, art blog mission, ArtCollaboration, ArtistBrand, ArtistHustle, ArtistStruggle, ArtJourney, ArtWorkerBee, askingForHelp, blogging, burnout, ChronicallyOnline, comfortZone, communicationIssues, ContentCreationProblems, contentCreators, ContentHustle, contentVoid, creativeControl, disappointment, fightForMyselfHow, frustration, generativeAI, HavingACry, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hope, hopelessness, Illustration, internet, internetConsumption, intrusiveBadMemories, jaded, learningJourney, leftbehind, leftinthedark, leonieyue, ManagingStress, memeing, mixedFeelings, mosquito, neglect, noenergytochase, notvalued, personal, personalBranding, pettiness, petty, reflection, reflective, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, self portrait, selfAcceptance, socialmediaAndArtists, spamEmail, speakingUp, struggle, supportArtist, TerminallyOnline, tolerate, trustIssues, twitter, twitterAnniversary, venting, wariness

Also in this little blog post about personal feelings, creative control, personal update & more.

🎆🌠Happy New Year’s Eve with Crossy Road!🐔🎇 Reflecting back on 2023, 2024 hopes, rejection sensitivity, needs, boundaries & communication issues

By leonieyue Posted on 31 December 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 2023artsummary, acquaintanceBoundaries, anxiety, art learning, ArtistStruggle, artsummary, autistic, autisticThings, babySteps, boundaries, communication, Confetti, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, defensiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, GodfatherTrilogy, HappyNewYear, headspace, Illustration, invisibleExpectations, leonieyue, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, NewYearEve, notbeingajerk, onlineBoundaries, parasocial relationships, PartyChicken, PartyPopper, reflection, reflective, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, sadness, SensoryIssues, slow, socialEnergy, socialEvents, socialmediaBoundaries, socialSituations, strugglingForward, TheGodfatherMovie, vulnerability

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled art process speedpaint video!
❧ reflecting on 2023 & 2024 hopes!
❧ rejection sensitivity, needs, boundaries and communication issues

🍰🐔Happy 9th Crossy Road Birthday with Long Chicken!! 🎊

By leonieyue Posted on 20 November 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with catshriek, crossy, crossy road, crossy9thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, crossyChicken, digital art, digital illustration, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, leonieyue, LongChicken, marketingArt, reflective, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint

Little blog post & subtitled art process video!

LeonieWrites about GCAP2023 (Days 1 & 2) – vlog & blog ramble!

By leonieyue Posted on 4 October 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Photos, Reflection, Video Tagged with antisocial, ArtCareer, autisticallySocial, careerthoughts, complexFeelings, conflicting, crowdedEventsNoMasksScary, crowds, feelings, gamedev, gameindustry, games, games industry, gamesConference, gamesEvents, gamesWeek, GCAP, GCAP2023, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, homebody, homebodylife, hurt, LeonieRambles, LeonieWrites, leonieyue, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, MIGW, MIGW2023, mixedFeelings, notgoodenoughFeelings, reflective, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, sittingwithfeelings, social, socialAnxiety, socialEnergy, socialEvents, socialGroups, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, vlog

My 4.5 minute LeonieWrites vlog, recap and reflecting a bit more at the blog.

Pikmin 4 / Me, my pikmin and my space dog Oatchi!

By leonieyue Posted on 18 July 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with animatedshort, ArtistHustle, ArtistStruggle, asexual, asexuality, AutismTrauma, bluepikmin, bluesky, existential, existentialEmptiness, fanart, finalfantasy16, frayromantic, glowpikmin, healthUpdate, HustleCulture, hyperfocus, icepikmin, Illustration, indiegamedev, instagram, leonieyue, neurodivergent, NintendoSwitch, Oatchi, overthinking, personalTraumas, personalupdate, pikmin, pikmin4, pinkpikmin, platonicRelationship, purplepikmin, redpikmin, reflection, reflective, rockpikmin, romance, romantic, romanticSpectrum, shortFilms, shoujoAnime, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediabreaks, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaReach, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, TakingBreaks, TearsOfTheKingdomUpdate, TextSpeedpaint, Threads, TransGenerationalFamilyTrauma, trauma, TraumaProjection, traumas, twitter, videoreflectivenotes, whitepikmin, yellowpikmin, youtube, オッチン, ピクミン 4

In this blog post:
– speedpaint text commentary for this fanart
– Twitter & social media woes
– not sure about my Thread account
– reflecting on some youtube videos, romance & asexuality, hustle culture, personal update & taking a break

Drawing for my birthday

By leonieyue Posted on 27 June 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with abandonment, anxiety, autisic, autism, autismfocus, autismLife, autistic, birthday, birthdayBreak, existential, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, existing, fears, gratitude, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, insecurity, LeonieBirthday, leonieyue, loneliness, lonelyArtist, overstimulated, overwhelm, reflection, reflective, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, scapegoat, self compassion, self portrait, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfdoubt, SuperLeonieMode, TearsOfTheKingdomUpdate

Oh no

A mini reflective ramble & update

Young Cricket the meat dumplings lover! [Warioware: Get It Together!]

By leonieyue Posted on 6 June 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with adultFriendship, aloneTime, alonewithcompany, anxiety, autism, autismFriendships, autismLife, autisticBurnout, AutisticFidgeting, BeingMisunderstood, burden, burnedBridges, comfortZone, commitmentfear, communication, confusion, connections, contentCreators, coworkerFriendshipsHard, deadpan, defensive, delayedProcessing, demiromantic, DemiromanticAce, disappointment, dumplings, emotionalDistance, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalLabour, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyImmature, emotionallyProcessing, exhausted, expectationsProjections, fanart, flowers, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, friendshipGuilt, friendships, gaslighting, ghosting, heartbreak, humanConnection, Illustration, incompetence, inconvenience, influencer, isolated, jawPain, jobsAutism, judgement, kungfu, leonieyue, LettingGo, LevelsOfFriendships, limerence, limerenceProjectionFantasy, loneliness, lonely, lowEnergy, MakingVideo, ManagingStress, manipulative, martial artist, martialartists, masking, meat buns, meat dumplings, monkey, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, NeurodiversityWorkplaceAccommmodations, nintendo, nonVerbal, notlookingautistic, Online:urker, onlineAcquaintances, OnlineContentConsistency, onlineFriendship, OnlineLurker, onlinePersona, OutgrowingFriends, passivereactions, PerformanceAnxiety, personalSpace, personalTraumas, personalupdate, personalZone, phonecalls, platonicFriends, publicpersona, rechargeTime, reflection, reflective, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, RomanticProjection, scapegoat, ScriptingAutism, SensoryIssues, sensoryOverload, socialAnxiety, socialGroups, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, socialMediaPoll, socialNeeds, SocialNorms, socialOutsider, socialreassurance, socialrecluse, socialValidation, speedpaintcommentary, StressEat, structureAndRoutine, stubbornness, subtlety, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, Timelapse, tired, toxicFriendships, TraumaProjection, unavailablepeople, WarioWare, WarioWareGetItTogether, writtencommunication, youngCricket, youtubevideo, ヤングクリケット

In this blog post:
– back to text commentary speedpaint
– commentary, youtube analytics & video making woes
– autism thoughts: masking, not looking autistic enough, scripting, “selective” mutism, burnouts, jobs/workplace accommodations, social faux pas, friendships & intimacy
– social media & personal update

Tag: reflective