self compassion – Leonie's Art Blog

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

🎊💝 Happy Crossy Valentine’s Day!! [Crossy Road Valentine’s Day illustration for Hipster Whale]

By leonieyue Posted on 15 February 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with appreciation, artistCommentaryYoutube, artprocess, chocolate, contentCreators, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, leonieyue, LoveAndKindness, LoveDay, MakingVideo, ManagingStress, MentalHealth, negativity, parasocial relationships, process, self compassion, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfLove, SelfReview, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, stress, textcommentary, Timelapse, TrustingProcess, ValentinesDay, YoutubeShorts, youtubevideo

In this blog post:
– speedpaint process + text commentary for this Crossy piece!
– self care and love?
– why voiced commentary art videos are not for me
– reflecting on “don’t make a youtube channel”, mental health & video making
– personal update rambles

Oh heartbroken Kirby 💔

By leonieyue Posted on 7 November 2022 Posted in Comics, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with abandonment, adultFriendship, AIartDiscourse, ArtistHustle, beauty, bodyImage, brokenHeart, brokenhearted, character illustration, characterIllustration, cohost, comic, compatibility, digital art, digital illustration, disappointed, disappointment, empathy, fanart, friendship, friendships, HAL Laboratory, heartbreak, how to art career, hurt, Illustration, ImageAI, instagram, kirby, kirbysDreamBuffet, learning, learningfrommistakes, learningJourney, leftbehind, LeonieYoutube, leonieyue, letdown, LevelsOfFriendships, liveandlearn, lonely, MentalHealth, movieThoughts, nintendo, onlineFriendship, OutgrowingFriends, PhysicalAppearance, physicalAttractiveness, physiololgicalstress, pixiv, platonicFriends, postingBreak, publicpersona, RedShoesAndTheSevenDwarvesMovie, sadness, self compassion, selfdoubt, selfWorth, twitter

In this week’s blog post:
– the timelapse & feelings
– thoughts on Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves movie + body image
– issues with Cohost’s ToS so I’m not posting there
– AI art fears and thoughts as it spreads
– personal update

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]

Fanart / Week of Molly from Animal Crossing + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 7 December 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with "ugly", AccentedCinema, acceptance, ACNH, AnAmericanInParisMusical, AnimalCrossing, AnimalCrossingNewHorizons, appreciation, Aragorn, beautiful, beauty, beautyStandards, beingTrueToYourself, bodyImage, bodypositivity, BoJackHorseman, CinemaTherapyYoutube, comedy, depression, Destiny2, duck, emotionalEnergy, empty, EnergyDraining, entertainmentConsumption, fanart, feelingCaredFor, feelings, FromHereToEternityMusical, Frozen2, games industry, gratitude, headspace, hermitLife, hikikomori, homebody, honesty, hugs, Illustration, InsideOutMovie, JapaneseLife, japanExperiences, KnivesOutMovie, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, listening, loneliness, LordOfTheRings, lovelanguage, mediaManipulation, MentalHealth, mixedFeelings, Molly, music, MusicalThoughts, NerdwriterYoutube, overwork, ParasiteMovie, ParksAndRecreationShow, personalupdate, physicalAttractiveness, privilege, QueerEye, RamiIsmail, rat, REDPlay, romance, SalariYoutuber, self compassion, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfLove, socialCurrency, socialmedia, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediabreaks, socialmediaoverwhelm, solitary, solitude, takecare, talent, TangledMovie, TheOfficeShow, timeandspace, TimMinchin, ToxicPositivity, vulnerability, warmFuzzies, wholesome, workCulture, workingHours, ZootopiaMovie

Fanart / Week of Molly from Animal Crossing + LeonieUpdate, reflecting on videos I watched, why the Japanese are so lonely, how we’re manipulated to believe that talent belongs to the beautiful & more.

SuperLeonieMode 319 / Coffee and tea with crossy Chicken and me [Crossy Road At Home update]!

By leonieyue Posted on 18 November 2020 Posted in Comics, Fanart, GiftArt, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with AtHome, autistic, coffee, comic, comicstrip, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, gamedev, hermitLife, hipsterWhale, homebody, homebodylife, Illustration, isolationlife, isolife, leoniebear, leonieyue, MentalHealth, music, pandemicstruggles, quarantineandchill, self compassion, SuperLeonieMode, tea, warm

SuperLeonieMode / Coffee and tea with Crossy Chicken and me [Crossy Road “At Home” update]! Also I reflect about being used to working from home.

StudyPost 09 / Figure drawing, magmastudio doodles, final LightBoxExpo 2020 Online thoughts & making most sketchbook posts patron-only again

By leonieyue Posted on 24 September 2020 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with acceptance, anatomy, art studies, artExperiment, artistCommunities, clippaintstudio, clipstudiopaint, creativeRut, creativity, enjoyingArt, entertainmentIndustry, experiment, feedback, gestures, helplessness, LBX2020, LBXOnline2020, leonieyue, LightBoxExpo, LightBoxExpo2020, MagmaStudioApp, ManagingEmotions, muscle, music, patreon, PatreonOnly, patron, photostudies, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, self comparisons, self compassion, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, SelfConfidence, selfdoubt, sketchbook, sketchpost, studies, study, TylerEdlin, TylerEdlinArtist

Sketchbook 09 / Art, final LightBoxExpo 2020 Online thoughts & feedback and why I’m making future sketchbook posts patron-only again

Fanart / Puddles from Animal Crossing!

By leonieyue Posted on 3 September 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with AnimalCrossing, AnimalCrossingNewHorizons, anxiety, fanart, Illustration, ManagingEmotions, MentalHealth, music, Puddles, self compassion, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfLove, stress

Fanart / Puddles from #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons!
STAHP being mean to yourself!! 🐸
Remembering that having mixed feelings and not getting things perfect is okay 💓

StudyPost 06 / Calm gestures, Figure drawing & portrait sketches & embracing that I am terrible and have much to learn at art 🖤 + LEONIEARTRAMBLES E02

By leonieyue Posted on 2 September 2020 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Podcast, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with AdamDuff, anatomy, art studies, ArtBlock, ArtHabits, artImprovement, burntOut, careerthoughts, clippaintstudio, clipstudiopaint, creativeRut, creativity, existential, gestures, gettingSupport, Growth, habit, helplessness, insecurity, LeonieArtRambles, leonieyue, MakingIt, motivation, NotPerfect, patron, podcast, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, protectingYourLight, reflection, self comparisons, self compassion, selfAwareness, selfdoubt, sketchbook, sketchpost, slowingdown, slowLearner, socialmedia, socialmediabreaks, studies, study, TerribleAtArt

Sketchbook / Calm gestures, figure drawing & portrait sketches + embracing that I am terrible and have much to learn at art 🖤

I ramble about artist block and motivation!

SuperLeonieMode / Self hugs, love & care! 💙💜💖

By leonieyue Posted on 27 August 2020 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection Tagged with comic, comicstrip, Illustration, leonieyue, love, LoveAndKindness, self compassion, self portrait, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfLove, SuperLeonieMode

SuperLeonieMode / Self hugs, love & care!

Fanart / Pietro from Animal Crossing + MondayLeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 May 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with AnimalCrossing, AnimalCrossingNewHorizons, cuteartwork, fanart, FinalFantasyVIIremake, gaming, Illustration, kindness, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, MondayLeonieUpdate, MusicalThoughts, MyAnimalCrossingAdventures, personalupdate, Pietro, progress, progressupdate, self compassion, SixFanarts, SixFanartsChallenge, TheSoundOfMusic

Pietro for SixFanarts? Plus ramble on self confidence & Pietro
Leonie Rambles:
Animal Crossing & games with peeps update!
personal update, interesting finds, finished watching Final Fantasy IV Remake & a bit of The Sound of Music (2013) show thoughts

PatchGaming sticker set commission process & mental health ramble [+ weekly update]

By leonieyue Posted on 14 December 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, Merch, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with careerthoughts, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, CheckPointOrg, commission, cuteartwork, dinosaurMascot, games industry, mental health tips, MentalHealth, PatchGaming, positivity, process, self compassion, selfCare, selfdoubt, selfLove, sketchbook, stickerDesign, stickers, thegameawards, topnine, vector art

Positive mental health sticker pack designs for Patchgaming!
Design thoughts and process!

Leonie rambles about the past week, ink doodles, mental health, sticker flop, game awards and more.

Being a Slow, steady and sleepy LeonieBear + art of the past week

By leonieyue Posted on 25 November 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with careerthoughts, CharacterDesign, competition, feelings, freelancing, games industry, hermitLife, leoniebear, leonieyue, lowEnergy, MentalHealth, overwhelm, owl, purpose, reflection, self compassion, sketchbook, slowingdown, stress

Leonie rambles about being a slow tortoise and not doing well with competition and ink doodles from the past week.

Knight of hearts, sketchbook, gloomy rambles, weekly blog posts & update

By leonieyue Posted on 18 November 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with artvsartist, burntOut, careerthoughts, CharacterDesign, cuteartwork, existential, feelings, freelancing, gloomy, goatmop, Illustration, inktober, inktober2019, isolated, knightofhearts, leonieyue, reflection, routine, self compassion, sketchbook, socialmedia, trashhippo

= Knight of Hearts Character illustration
= Leonie’s character designs & sketchbook
= #ArtvsArtist & trying to feel less existential with her art
= Personal update: Gloomy section, weekly blog posts & routine

[NOV#1] Knight of Hearts character design revisited, Inktober & Jesse Faden Control fanart

By leonieyue Posted on 4 November 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with birds, careerthoughts, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, charactersheet, ControlRemedy, cuteartwork, Dinosaurs, drawthisagain, fanart, freelancing, games industry, goodbye facebook, hermitLife, inktober, inktober2019, JesseFaden, knightofhearts, leonieyue, MentalHealth, owl, photo, power naps, redo, self compassion, sketchbook, socialmedia, stickybones, Traditional

= “You don’t have to fight alone” – revisiting my Knight of Hearts Character Design
= Inktober 2019 ends / Leonie’s Sketchbook
= Finally the StickyBones posable figures & Fly Rig I backed since 2016 are here
= Jesse Faden Portrait (Control Fanart)
= Leonie rambles about social media engagement, blog comments & Personal update

Tag: self compassion