slowingdown – Leonie's Art Blog

💐 Overwhelmed and slowing down [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 12]

By leonieyue Posted on 26 August 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with beanies, determination, DonkeyKongBonanza, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hyperfocus, Illustration, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, lostinthought, magicaVoxel, movieThoughts, NeZhaMovieThoughts, onARoll, overwhelm, personal update, procrastination, reflection, slowingdown, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, winter, winterCold, winteroutfit

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this & winter triple beanies
❧ 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!

🥰 Kung fu Peach Part 2 [Princess Peach: Showtime fanart] Anxiety as an artist, social media, relevancy, GenAi, twitter, networking & what am I even doing

By leonieyue Posted on 9 April 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate Tagged with anxiety, AnxietyFromNewsPolitics, anxietyFuture, AprilFools, Art Anxiety, ArtCareer, ArtistDesperation, artistSocialThings, ArtistStruggle, burnout, careerDirection, CareerRelevancy, careerthoughts, changeIsConstant, changing career, contentCreators, creative, creativeFulfillment, doomSpiraling, emotionalStorytelling, existential, existentialDread, fanart, FoamstarsEthics, forcingIntoThingsYouDontFit, freetochangeourmind, generativeAI, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, HustleCulture, hustlingExhausting, Illustration, innerPurpose, joyAndMeaning, leonieyue, lifeSkills, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, megadroughtFear, plagiarism, PokemonMiku, princess peach, princesspeach, PrincessPeachShowtime, purpose, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sketchbookThoughts, slow, slowingdown, social media, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, SocialMediaMetrics, SocialMediaVoid, StreamingAnxiety, stress, StruggleAdapt, sustainableArtCareer, twitter, TwitterVentAgain, volatileIndustry, wariowareMoveIt, youtubers

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble!
❧ trying not to spiral with anxiety and fear as an artist – relevancy, GenAI, social media is frustrating, twitter & not knowing what I’m doing
❧ reflecting on artist networking
❧ personal feelings, update & more!

🧺🌳Banner art for the new official Crossy Road Central Discord (with art boss’s help)! 🍕🦄🐔🐈‍⬛🦆🐖🐎📖 Blender learning & anxiety with recording & streaming

By leonieyue Posted on 20 February 2024 Posted in Collaboration, Commission, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 3Dart, AliceWalsh, anxiety, ArtCollaboration, BlenderThoughts, contentSlop, contentVoid, creativeFlow, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadCastle, discord, flow, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, intenseWorkRest, learningJourney, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, PerformanceAnxiety, protectArtCreativeProcess, RealTimeRecording, scoutrager, slowingdown, StreamingAnxiety, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

In this blog post:
❧ ramble a bit about the thoughts and process behind this!
❧ shall learn Blender another time
❧ the official Crossy Road Central discord
❧ reflecting on my anxiety with real time recordings/streaming

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.

Sketches for the day 07 / Drawing from imagination, reflecting + timelapse!

By leonieyue Posted on 25 October 2021 Posted in CharacterDesign, LeonieYue, Sketches, Timelapse Tagged with anxiety, Art Anxiety, ArtForTheDay, ArtistStandards, ArtistStruggle, careerDirection, character design, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, clipstudiopaint, dress, frustration, Illustration, imagination, iterations, leonieyue, lifedirection, ManagingEmotions, originalCharacter, photoshop, reflection, relax, sketch, sketchbook, SketchForTheDay, SketchFromImagination, sketchpost, slow, slowingdown, slowLearner, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaoverwhelm, subconsciousDrawing, Timelapse

Iterating & reflecting on drawing from imagination :’)

SuperLeonieMode 333 / When you have slow health regeneration & recovery!

By leonieyue Posted on 16 August 2021 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with blob, comic, DisneyRayaAndTheLastDragon, emotionalEnergy, headspace, lazy, LeonieBlob, ManagingEmotions, movieThoughts, overwhelm, personalSpace, recovery, rest, slow, slowingdown, solitaryBreaks, SuperLeonieMode, TakingBreaks, turtlePace

Life of a low energy blob

And ramble about the Raya and the Last Dragon movie.

Fanart / Wah [Ninomae Ina’nis from hololiveEN]

By leonieyue Posted on 7 June 2021 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with anxiety, Art Anxiety, characterIllustration, emailUpdates, fanart, hololiveEN, housekeeping, Illustration, Ina, inART, influencer, iterating, learning, learningfrommistakes, learningJourney, leonieyue, MentalHealth, ninomaeInanis, PerformanceAnxiety, slo, slowingdown, slowLearner, socialCurrency, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaArt, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, streamers, toxicProductivity, turtlePace, twitter, twitterAlgorithm, Vtuber, いなート, 一伊那尓栖

Leonie rambles about her limited knowledge about Ina & update about sketch prompts and tweeting art :’)

SuperLeonieMode 321 / Hang in there! 💛❤️

By leonieyue Posted on 12 November 2020 Posted in Comics, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate Tagged with comic, comicstrip, exhausted, hangInThere, leonieyue, lowEnergy, personalupdate, sketchbookApp, sleepDeprived, sleepy, slow, slowingdown, SuperLeonieMode, tired

SuperLeonieMode 321 / Hang in there & a little ramble

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!

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.

Easing back into art, blogging & social media. Hello I’ve returned from my break! [Progress update]

By leonieyue Posted on 8 July 2019 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with Art Anxiety, burntOut, careerthoughts, CharacterDesign, fanart, figuredrawing, freelancing, leftbehind, leonieyue, MentalHealth, patreon, progressupdate, reflection, self portrait, slowingdown, studies

– Patreon Tier art
– Digital studies & ongoing healing from creative burnout
– How is Leonie doing after 3 months?
– Anxieties and finally letting go of being a game artist
– What’s this “progress updates” thing?
– Flexible posting schedule and blog comments return!
– The plan now: reflecting, getting up & keep on rolling

Tag: slowingdown