selfAwareness – Leonie's Art Blog

🐦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

🌥️Head in the pink clouds 🌈 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 7]

By leonieyue Posted on 15 November 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Photos, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with anxious, AnxiousAvoidantAttachmentStyle, autismBoundaries, bluesky, BlueSkySocial, boundaries, communication, communicationIssues, conflictAvoidance, DetachmentLettingGo, disassociation, disgustRepulsed, disrespectful, dissatisfaction, emotionalConnections, emotionalDetachment, emotionalDump, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, emotionalExpectations, emotionalHonesty\, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalLabour, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyMutual, EmotionalSupport, emotionalWalls, ergonomicKeyboard, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, flawed, freezeUp, FriendshipEffort, hermit, HermitBurpcast, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hikikomori, honesty, Illustration, intellectualMoralEmotionalValueEqual, intense, keyboards, leonieyue, lowEnergy, magicaVoxel, manipulative, melbourne, melbourneCity, MentalHealth, mutuallyInterested, noenergytochase, NoPuttingPeopleOnAPedestal, NotAroundPeopleYouLookDownUpon, onlineBoundaries, overthinking, overwhelm, personalBoundaries, photo, photo post, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, self comparisons, self compassion, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfregulation, selfRespect, shutdownEmotionalWithdrawal, socialDynamics, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaoverwhelm, speakingUp, SplitTentedKeyboards, stingyFrugalHermit, toxicFriendships, toxicRelationships, unequaldynamics, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, vulnerability, zombie

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ sorting bluesky boundaries, feeds, lists
❧ self boundaries with relationships & the ick feelings
❧ Hermit Leonie walks around in the city & takes 2 days to recover
❧ keyboard troubles & getting a new one with silent switches :0!!
❧ personal update & more!

👑🌼Princess Daisy & Elephant time!🐘 [Super Mario Bros Wonder]

By leonieyue Posted on 7 May 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Timelapse, Video Tagged with addictiveEscapism, blunt, ElephantDaisy, entertainmentConsumption, escapism, fanart, FinalFantasy7, FinalFantasy7Rebirth, fridgeTroubles, GhostRider2Thoughts, Illustration, internetConsumption, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, MobilePhoneAddiction, NicolasCageMovies, parasocial relationships, personal, postingSchedule, princessDaisy, racistSlurs, selfAwareness, socialAnxiety, StellarBladeThoughts, subtlety, TwitterVentAgain, デイジー姫

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ Social anxiety vs celebrity worship
❧ Final Fantasy VII Rebirth spoiler thoughts
❧ personal update & more

☂️Princess Peach’s Umbrella Triple Move 💕 [Super Mario RPG] Game is out today!!

By leonieyue Posted on 17 November 2023 Posted in Animation, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, 2Danimation, 2dbasicAnimation, ableism, adultFriendship, animation, art process, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, AutismEgoDeath, autismfocus, autismFriendships, autismLife, complexFeelings, coworkerFriendshipsHard, eugenicsJapan, eyeContact, fanart, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, gameThoughts, ghosted, ghosting, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hikikomori, hurt, hydrationPlan, ignored, Illustration, JawClenching, jawPain, leonieyue, LiveActionZeldaMovie, livestreamingParasocialRelationships, loneliness, ManagingStress, MarioKart8Deluxe, masking, mukbang, neurodivergent, neurodivergentBrain, NeurodiversityWorkplaceAccommmodations, notgoodenoughFeelings, parasocial relationships, perceptions, physiololgicalstress, princess peach, RATtestCovid, rejected, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, scapegoat, selfAwareness, selfregulation, social media, socialDistancing, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, SocialScripts, stress, subtitledSpeedpaint, SuperMarioBrosWonder, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, TheLegendOfZeldaMovie, ThoughtSpotYoutube, twitter, Umbrella, ZeldaMovie, スーパーマリオrpg, ピーチ姫

On her left

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled speedpaint!
❧ Live action Zelda movie??
❧ Hikikomori, autism & ego deaths
❧ finished Super Mario Bros Wonder!
❧ personal update & more!

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

Milk Chocolate for Valentine’s Day Splatfest Chocolate #5 / Splatoon 3 🍫💕

By leonieyue Posted on 14 February 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with beautyStandards, beingTrueToYourself, chocolate, communication, complexFeelings, desirability, fanart, feelings, friendships, games, HappySingleTime, hotchocolate, Illustration, InLoveWithIdeaOfSomeone, leonieyue, love, LoveAndKindness, LoveDay, lovelanguage, mixedFeelings, NintendoDirect, physicalAttractiveness, platonicFriends, platonicRelationship, pussinbootsTheLastWish, relationships, romance, romanticAttraction, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfLove, singledom, sittingwithfeelings, speedpaintcommentary, spinster, SwitchGames, textcommentary, Timelapse, unrequitedLove, ValentinesDay, videogames, WhatIsLove, youtubevideo

In this blog post:
– speedpaint text commentary process video!
– Chocolate Splatfest
– personal ramble about romance, feelings & happy single time!
– Nintendo Direct thoughts

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 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.

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]

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.

Illustration / My entry to SamsA’s DrawThisInYourStylechallenge + LeonieUpdate!

By leonieyue Posted on 16 November 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches Tagged with AccentedCinema, acceptance, ArtChallenge, autism, autismInLadies, autistic, autisticBurnout, Awkwafina, boundaries, CeriHutton, characterIllustration, crushes, DrawingChallenge, DrawThisInYourStyle, DrawThisInyourStyleChallenge, dtiys, emotionalDistance, emotionalIntimacy, emotionalMaturity, EmotionalSupport, expectations, friendship, friendships, hermitLife, hurt, Illustration, InterestingFinds, kindness, leonieyue, loneliness, LouieZong, magicalGirl, ManagingEmotions, music, networking, nuance, personalSpace, platonicFriends, process, rats, reddit, redrawArt, reflection, rejection, romanticAttraction, RurouniKenshin, samsa_dtiys1k, SamsAartist, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, WaterLady

Illustration / My entry to SamsA’s DrawThisInYourStyleChallenge + little LeonieUpdate and ramble about platonic friendships!

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!

Tag: selfAwareness