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🐔💖🦆 Chicken & Mallard’s wedding party! 💐 2026 Crossy Road Valentine’s Day update with Tuxedo Mallard pt 2/2

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2026 Posted in CharacterDesign, Collaboration, Concept Art, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with ace, aestheticAttraction, alloromanticAce, antiGenAI, ballpointPen, cake, character design, character development, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyChickenCousins, CrossyMallard, CrossyMallardFamily, crossyroad, CrossyRoadCharacter, crossyRoadCharacterDesign, CrossyRoadUpdate, CrossyRoadWedding2026, CrossyRooster, HappySingleTime, Illustration, leonieyue, lithromantic, loneliness, love, mallard, pen, pen sketch, reflection, self portrait, singledom, ValentinesDay

❧ happy Valentine’s day for all kinds of love :’)
❧ reflecting on love, loneliness, personal update & more

🐲 Overwhelmed & deadpan Hermit Leonie

By leonieyue Posted on 14 January 2026 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with ArtHabits, GhibliBoyAndTheHeron, HermitDragonLeonie, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, leonieyue, movieThoughts, personal update, reflection, self portrait, stingyFrugalHermit, Studio Ghibli, TightBudgetHermit

❧ Boy and the Heron movie thoughts
❧ I’m autistic & I hyperfocus but fear big personal projects
❧ guilt with productivity & regular drawing habits
❧ personal update & 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.

I’m back! Web hosting, social media, my discord server & doing text blog updates!

By leonieyue Posted on 5 September 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with artdiscordserver, artstation, baldursgate3, bodypain, bodyPains, ChronicallyOnline, cohost, discord, healthUpdate, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, instagram, LeonieAttemptsToSelfPromote, LeonieDiscordServer, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, linkedin, lowkeystress, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, managingWorkload, physicalHealth, self portrait, siteManagement, social media, stress, TerminallyOnline, Threads, twitter, TwitterRecap, webhosting

In this blog update:
– on doing little text blog updates like this
– social media and my discord ramble + another way to get blog & youtube updates is at my tiny discord server
– switching web hosts
– using Glaze against AI scraping by social media platforms
– personal updates

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

Making my PNGtuber avatars for my channel [Reflective Speedpaint]!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 April 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with ActuallyAutistic, affinityprograms, AIartDiscourse, artprocess, autism, autismfocus, autismLife, autistic, autisticShutdown, autisticThings, clipstudiopaint, creativeEnergy, crossy road, CrossyCastleSandcastleShores, crossyChicken, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadUpdate, digital art, digital illustration, disappointed, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, Fallingbehind, grump, Illustration, leonieyue, lowEnergy, MakingVideo, ManagingEnergy, nonVerbal, OBS, PerformanceAnxiety, photoshop, PNGtuber, procrastination, scripting, self portrait, selfDiagnosisAutism, selfdirectedDeadlines, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, streamingLeonie, textcommentary, youtubevideo, zoneOut

In this blog post:
– about this video
– Crossy shenanigans
– to stream or not?
– voice over videos or not?
– figuring Adobe alternatives
– AI generated art worries, sadness & the “game illustrators in China got laid off” article
– personal ramble

My computer OS died on Saturday / storytime

By leonieyue Posted on 14 March 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with computerbuildupgrade, harddrives, hipsterWhale, leonieyue, personalupdate, progressupdate, reflection, SamsungSSD, self portrait, sketch, SSDprovisioning

Consequently my weekend was terrible and stressful but hey here’s what’s going on

SuperLeonieMode 359 / Got no time for this!

By leonieyue Posted on 8 August 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with alopeciaAreataHairLoss, art learning, autism, autismfocus, autismLife, autistic, beanie, comic, Doodles, gotnotimeforthis, Illustration, learningJourney, leonieyue, mood, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, self portrait, sketch, SketchForTheDay, SuperLeonieMode

Well.

SuperLeonieMode 356 / Huh? No + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 14 July 2022 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with assumptions, bayonetta, Bayonetta3, BeingMisunderstood, grump, grumpy, Illustration, judgement, kirbysDreamBuffet, leonieyue, lowEnergy, misunderstandings, mood, mute, NintendoDirect, passiveAggressive, processing, self portrait, silence, sitting, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse

: | :<

SuperLeonieMode 357 / Energy depleted (taking my late June bday posting break)

By leonieyue Posted on 20 June 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with ArtCourse, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismLife, autistic, bday, birthday, birthdayBreak, boyBands, crushes, depressed, disappointed, disappointment, drained, emotionalEnergy, energy, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, existential, existentialEmptiness, fatigue, friendships, gloomy, gratitude, growingupinthe2000s, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hopelessness, hypochondriac, Illustration, irritable, jaded, juggling, LeonieBirthday, leonieyue, lowEnergy, lowMood, ManagingEmotions, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, mixedFeelings, moodSwings, motherDaughterRelationships, numbness, patience, period, personalupdate, postingBreak, processing, sadness, self comparisons, self portrait, sitting, sittingwithfeelings, slow, slowingdown, stress, SuperLeonieMode, teenageLifeThoughts, tired, TurningRed, TurningRedMovieThoughts

Reflecting about needing this posting and birthday break.

SuperLeonieMode 348 / Even if it is hard to believe, let’s do what we can right now [self portrait]

By leonieyue Posted on 2 May 2022 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with ArtCourse, comic, deadpan, fatigue, help, Illustration, leonieyue, lowEnergy, ManagingStress, overwhelm, personalupdate, self portrait, slowLearner, slowStudy, stress, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse, tired

Head empty, doing your best one small step at a time.

Also busy busy busy juggling and stressing

Art from imagination / Floating with video games + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 4 April 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Timelapse Tagged with ArtWorkerBee, clipstudiopaint, embarrassing, falling, fallingwithstyle, floating, games, Illustration, leonieyue, officechair, PJs, recreation, self portrait, Timelapse, videogames

Floating with video games
It’s so hard to make time to play :’)

StudyPost / Spooky Scary Skeleton Studies + ’til Death 💀

By leonieyue Posted on 28 March 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with art studies, death, figure drawing, figuredrawing, gestures, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, MentalHealth, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, self portrait, skeleton, sketchbook, sketchpost, slowStudy, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaArt, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, studies, study, studyPost

Struggling with Skeletal studies!

And getting existential and gloomy from tracking metrics :’)

Art from imagination / Mundane powers of a Dishwasher

By leonieyue Posted on 21 March 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with ArtForTheDay, complexFeelings, dishwasher, dishwashing, DrawingFromImagination, eczema, handEczema, hurt, Illustration, ImaginativeDrawing, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, mixedFeelings, personalupdate, rejection, rejectionSensitivity, self portrait, SketchForTheDay, SketchFromImagination, StreamOfConsciousness, Timelapse

I hand wash dishes a couple of times daily ;’D

And a personal update ramble.

SuperLeonieMode 351 / Avoiding eye contact and how I manage my autistic, inattentive brain + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 7 March 2022 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with ActuallyAutistic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autistic, badShortTermMemory, comic, communication, deadpan, distractability, emotionalEnergy, EnergyDraining, eyeContact, focus, forgetfulness, Illustration, inattentiveADHD, intensity, leonieyue, lowEnergy, ManagingEmotions, ManagingEnergy, managingInterruptions, ManagingStress, minimisingDistractions, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, nonVerbal, productivityMethod, reflection, self portrait, slow, slowLearner, socialCues, socialising, sociallyAcceptable, sociallyExpected, sociallyOblivious, structureAndRoutine, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse, tunnelVision

I’m either deadpan staring or looking away ;D

Please I don’t want to stare into each other’s souls :’)

I did a bunch of online autism tests!

I go reflect how I currently manage my hyperfocus, rejection sensitive dysphoria, executive function struggles, attention & emotional dysregulation with my inattentive, autistic brain 🧠

SuperLeonieMode 350 / Quiet & head empty + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 23 February 2022 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse Tagged with absentminded, apathy, BeingMute, comic, deadpan, Illustration, indifferent, leonieyue, listening, lowEnergy, nonVerbal, noThoughts, overstimulated, presence, processing, quiet, QuietObserver, self portrait, sensitive, slow, sociallyAcceptable, sociallyExpected, sociallyOblivious, SuperLeonieMode, Timelapse, tired

Most people aren’t comfortable when you don’t speak and with a deadpan face :’)

Tag: self portrait