selfdoubt – Leonie's Art Blog

🐍Happy Lunar New Year of the Snake 2025 featuring Nuregami 濡神, God of Water & 11 baby snake gods! 🌊 Okami Lunar New Year Project 🧧

By leonieyue Posted on 28 January 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with babysnakes, BeingMisunderstood, CareerPredictions, Chinese New Year, communication, compatibility, conflictAvoidance, courage, creativity, despair, diet, DragonPredictions, eczema, EmotionallyAvoidant, encouragement, energy, EnergyConserving, energyConservingMode, energyLevels, environmentSwitching, existential, existentialEmptiness, fanart, fatigue, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, freezeUp, friendshipCompatibility, friendships, frugal, grump, health, hyperawareOfPeople, hyperfocus, Illustration, imposterSyndrome, insecurity, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, limbo, love, LoveAndKindness, lovebombing, LoveHesitator, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, lowrisktaker, Lunar New Year, managingWorkload, misunderstandings, Nuregami, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, openOfficeEnvironments, opportunities, overthinking, patience, peopleManagement, recognition, relationshipsAreNotEverything, romantic, RomanticProjection, satisfaction, selfdoubt, selfLove, sensoryOverload, snake, socialEnergy, stingyFrugalHermit, teamwork, trialAndError, tunnelVision, waterPowers, watersprout, WhatIsLove, WoodSnake, writtencommunication, YearOfSnake, zodiacAnimals, zodiacPredictions

❧ subtitled art process timelapse!
❧ reflecting on my dragon predictions
❧ personal update

Midorifuji 翠富士, Ichiyamamoto 一山本, Takayasu 高安 💪 Sumo wrestler studies!

By leonieyue Posted on 21 January 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with anxiety, anxietyFuture, anxious, ArtCareer, ArtCollaboration, bluesky, communicationIssues, CreativeFai, CreativeFailure, CreativePressure, DesireToProveSelfConstantlyExhausting, energy, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, exhaus, existentialDread, fanart, hatsubasho2025, hermit, hermitLeonie, hustlingExhausting, Ichiyamamoto, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, keyboards, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, love, lowEnergy, lowselfEsteem, meditation, Midorifuji, NintendoSwitch2, personal update, portrait, provingOneselfExhausting, relationships, selfdoubt, social media, socialBattery, socialEnergy, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, SplitTentedKeyboards, sumo, sumoStudies, sumoTournaments, SumoWrestlerStudy, SumoWrestling, survivalArtistMode, Takayasu, timesink, WorkDowntime

❧ reflecting on creative failure
❧ personal update
Last week of the sumo hatsubasho is going right now yeahhh

🌌Samus [Metroid Dread fanart for the 38th anniversary] + sick with a head cold 🤧

By leonieyue Posted on 10 August 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, anxious, apathy, autism, AutismAdulthood, AutismEgoDeath, AutismEmployment, autismLife, autisticMasking, cloutChasing, confusion, DirtManSong, empty, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, existential, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, existentialism, fanart, FDSignifierYoutuber, feelingLost, genAI, genAIdiscourse, GenAIimpactInternet, genAIscams, gettingSick, headCold, healthUpdate, houseCleaning, Illustration, ImpactOfGenAIonEnvironment, insecurity, jobsAutism, judgemental, KendrickTracks, leonieyue, loneliness, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, managingPeople, ManagingStress, masking, menAndShoujo, MentalHealth, MetroidAnniversary, MetroidDread, MetroidSeries, neverGoodEnough, overthinking, PerformanceAnxiety, physiololgicalstress, process, programming, sadness, Samus, selfdoubt, selfLimitingBeliefs, SickWithCold, socialDynamics, socialHierarchy, songs, stress, SumoWrestling, TheZatmanYoutuber, Timelapse, toxicMasculinity, vibes, vulnerability, youtube

Also in this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ genAI discourse/shenanigans
❧ anxiety & apathy when creating things on the internet
❧ 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

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

StudyPost / Waiting for results to become a witch + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 July 2022 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, Reflection, Sketches, StudyPost, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, Art Anxiety, art studies, doubts, emotionallyProcessing, existential, existentialEmptiness, Illustration, leonieyue, lifedirection, personalupdate, photostudies, photoStudy, reflection, reflective, selfdoubt, slowStudy, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, studies, study, studyPost, tolerance, Witch, witchacademy, witchcraft

Nothing to see here ;P

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]

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

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!

Fanart / Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon! Ramble about themed cafes, confidence & update

By leonieyue Posted on 29 March 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue Tagged with DamienShields, fanart, Illustration, InterestingFinds, MamoruChiba, sailor moon, SelfConfidence, selfdoubt, shiningMoonTokyoCafe, SundayLeonieUpdate, TuxedoMask

– Tuxedo Mask
– Learning about the Sailor Moon cafe
– Personal update time & Interesting finds!
– Ramble about confidence and life

Fanart / Buddy & me! Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX demo thoughts & update

By leonieyue Posted on 8 March 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with artbusiness, careerthoughts, charmander, covid19, existential, fanart, freelancing, friendship, InterestingFinds, leonieyue, NintendoSwitch, pokemon, PokemonMysteryDungeon, PokemonMysteryDungeonRescueTeamDX, selfdoubt, squirtle, SundayLeonieUpdate

= Pokemon Mystery Dungeon demo thoughts
= Personal thoughts on covid19
= Interesting Finds
= Short ramble on “Is there purpose in life”?
= Personal ramble on art and business

StudyPost 01 / February figures! Open for freelance! What saying no means & my fears in focusing

By leonieyue Posted on 23 February 2020 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost Tagged with art studies, figuary, figure drawing, figuredrawing, learning, LeonieTalks, leonieyue, OpenForFreelance, patron, personalupdate, progress, progresspost, progressupdate, reflection, SelfConfidence, selfdoubt, SelfPromotion, sketchbook, Sketching People, sketchpost, studies, study, SundayLeonieUpdate

= Figure studies I’ve done / Figuary
= Open for freelance work! flails arms about!
= What saying no means & fears that came up
= Posting future sketchbook updates only for patrons after this

Fanart / Sailor Senshi illustrations, my Figurarts figures & weekly update!

By leonieyue Posted on 16 February 2020 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Photos, Reflection Tagged with alexithymia, AmyMizuno, autism, CollectableFigurines, faceMaskSheetThoughts, fanart, Illustration, InterestingFinds, leonieyue, LitaKino, masking, MinaAino, photo, photo post, RayeHino, sailor moon, SailorJupiter, SailorMars, SailorMercury, SailorMoon, sailorScouts, sailorSenshi, SailorVenus, selfdoubt, SerenaTsukino, socialmedia, SundayLeonieUpdate

= individual art for each sailor scout
= friendship ramble
= photo of my sailor figures
= Interesting Finds this week
= trying to not take this blog so seriously

Illustration / Got a new apron, I got sick & freelancing + blogging ramble

By leonieyue Posted on 2 February 2020 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate Tagged with apron, blogging, cold, cute, cuteartwork, doubts, freelancing, gettingSick, Illustration, insecurity, leonieyue, personalupdate, quoting, self portrait, selfdoubt, socialmedia, socialmediaoverwhelm, SundayLeonieUpdate, vector art

= cold and apron
= coronavirus concerns
= requoting and vector art
= personal blogging & options
= my art insecurities
= distance from social media
= pixiv
= issues with sharing the same switch 🙁

Knight of Hearts comic, Melbourne city trip, self help notes on managing emotions & update

By leonieyue Posted on 21 December 2019 Posted in CharacterDesign, Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, Sketches, Traditional Tagged with 2B, 9S, AnxiousAttachementStyle, artsupply, babaisyou, character design, character development, CharacterDesign, christmasDecorations, ConfirmationBias, cute, cuteanimals, cuteartwork, DecisionMaking, fanart, freelancing, HSPfood, kangaroo, knightofhearts, KnivesOutMovie, loneliness, lunecroissanterie, ManagingEmotions, melbourneCity, mental health tips, MentalHealth, NegativeBeliefs, NieRAutomata, OwningIt, Personality, photo post, reflection, selfAwareness, SelfConfidence, selfdoubt, selfhelpnotes, shopping, sketchbook

Leonie rambles about the past week, attachment styles, self confidence, confirmation bias, managing emotions, Melbourne city trip photos, getting scammed of a pastry & ink doodles.

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.

Tag: selfdoubt