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💚🎂 Miku Birthday Festival 2025!🎉初音ミク生誕祭2025 💙

By leonieyue Posted on 1 September 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Studies, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, 3Dmodeling, ArtCareer, BeingMisunderstood, blunt, characterIllustration, conflictAvoidance, DonkeyKongBonanza, emotionalDistance, emotionallyMutual, empathy, fanart, figure drawing, figuredrawing, FriendshipReciprocity, game industry, games, games industry, gamesConference, gamesWeek, GCAP, hatsunemiku, Illustration, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, LindsayEllisYoutube, loneliness, lonelyArtist, lowpoly, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, mikuBirthday, MikuBirthdayFestival, mikuday, minimalSocialInteractions, misunderstandings, mutuallyInterested, overstimulated, paintingStudy, photoStudy, portrait, portraitStudy, quiet, QuietObserver, social media, socialInepitude, SocialInteraction, socialmediaAndArtists, study, Timelapse, 初音ミク, 初音ミク生誕祭2025

❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ figure study & 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

✨🦆Crossy Road Chicken & Mallard illustrations (originally for the GCAP2024 keynote)🐔

By leonieyue Posted on 26 November 2024 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 4Bmovement, 4BMovementLifeWithoutMen, ace, asexual, asexuality, beauty, beauty and the beast, beautyStandard, beautyStandards, burnout, burntOut, ClaraReeveGCAP2024keynote, comfort zone, comfortZone, conventionallyAttractive, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, DemiromanticAce, emotionalEnergy, energy, EnergyConserving, EnergyDraining, energyLevels, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, leonieyue, marketingArt, physicalAttractiveness, physiotherapist, reflection, romance, social media, stingyFrugalHermit, Timelapse, youthBeauty

In this blog post (part 2):
❧ about these illustrations & subtitled timelapse!
❧ managing social media & checking only when I post
❧ personal update & more internet finds

🌳🌼Bouncing together at Crossy Road Castle 🐈‍⬛🐔🦆🦄

By leonieyue Posted on 5 November 2024 Posted in Animation, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 3D animation, 3Dart, animation, animation practice, anxiety, ArtistsOutOfMyLeague, boundaries, comic, communication, communicationIssues, copingMechanism, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, DemiromanticAce, depressed, disappointment, emotionalExpectations, entitlement, expectations, expectationsProjections, FeelingLikeAfraud, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, gratefulness, gratitude, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, imposterSyndrome, indecisive, irrelevant, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, leonieyue, LettingGo, loneliness, magicaVoxel, marketingArt, MentalHealth, negativity, neverGoodEnough, newsletters, notgoodenoughFeelings, PerformanceAnxiety, personalBoundaries, PokemonTCGpocket, reflection, romance, romantic, RomanticProjection, romanticSpectrum, romcoms, sappy, self comparisons, self compassion, SelfConfidence, skin, social media, socialConformity, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediacharismapopularitycontest, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, SocialMediaMetrics, SocialMediaReach, SuperLeonieMode, toptierfamousartists, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, wingingIt

In this blog post:
❧ about this little animation!
❧ on personal Crossy fanart next year
❧ Pokemon TCG Pocket
❧ not being good enough/impostor syndrome, mental health
❧ monthly newsletter, romance, personal update & more

👻Happy Halloween with Toadette and Boo [Mario Wonder]🍄

By leonieyue Posted on 30 October 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with asthma, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismBoundaries, autismfocus, autismLife, autistic, boo, CaraApp, cleaning, communication, despair, drycoughing, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, emotionalExpectations, emotionalIntimacy, expectations, expectationsProjections, expenses, fanart, fans, frugal, halloween, heartbeatirregularities, heroesAndFans, Illustration, inhaler, invisibleExpectations, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, LeonieUpdate, lowkeystress, lowselfEsteem, ManagingStress, MasahiroSakurai, newsletters, openOfficeEnvironments, overfamiliar, overstimulated, parasocial relationships, PerformanceAnxiety, personalupdate, poor, quittingtwitter, restroomSensoryRecovery, sailorSenshi, social media, SocialMediaMetrics, stingyFrugalHermit, structureAndRoutine, SuperMarioBrosWonder, TextChatCommunication, Toadette, toxicworkplaces, twitter, unspokenExpectations, workaholic, writtencommunication, youtube

Also in this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ social media, newsletters, avoiding metrics & parasocial things
❧ personal update & more

🌈Crossy Road Castle Rainbow Spin! 🐈‍⬛🐔🦆🦄

By leonieyue Posted on 23 October 2024 Posted in Animation, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with bluesky, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, internetFinds, LEGObricks, leonieyue, lowkeystress, magicaVoxel, makeovers, makeUp, marketingArt, mutuallyInterested, overthinking, overwhelm, personal, rainbow, reflective, social media, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaVoid, SwanPrincess, UglyDucklingSwanMakeover, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

Also in this blog post:
❧ a little about this animation
❧ reflecting more on Bluesky
❧ make up, internet finds & personal update

🌈Rainbow swim [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 6]

By leonieyue Posted on 12 October 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, acquaintanceBoundaries, activelySocialOnline, adultFriendship, anxiety, anxious, asocial, asthma, autisticallySocial, BlueSkySocial, casualConnections, ChronicallyOnline, complexFeelings, conflictAvoidance, connections, coworkerFriendshipsHard, cupcake, disappointment, disrespectful, drycoughing, earHealth, earningTrust, emotionalConnections, emotionalDistance, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalEnergy, EmotionallyAvoidant, EmotionallyDetach, EmotionallyDistant, emotionallyDraining, emotionallyInvested, emotionallyMutual, emotionallyProcessing, expectationsProjections, feelingCaredFor, friendship, FriendshipAttentiveness, FriendshipBoundaries, friendshipBreakups, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, friendshipExpectations, friendshipGuilt, FriendshipLoyalty, friendshipmi, FriendshipMileage, friendshipMistakes, FriendshipReciprocity, guilt, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hurtFeelings, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, leonieyue, LimerenceProjectionFantasty, limerenceProjectionFantasy, linkedin, LowSocialEndurance, manipulative, mixedFeelings, mutuallyInterested, NoSocialLife, notgoodenoughFeelings, onesided, onlineAcquaintances, onlineBoundaries, onlineFriendship, onlinePersona, overthinking, parasocial relationships, personal update, postcoldinfectionscough, processingFeelings, rainbow, reflection, reflective, resentment, respect, RomanticProjection, secondchance, secondguessing, sittingwithfeelings, social media, socialAnxiety, socialConformity, socialsi, socialSituations, splatoon3SideOrder, toiletCleaning, trust, trustIssues, unequaldynamics, unfollow, VoxelAnimation, voxelIllustration, WalkingSteps

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ Social media overthinking & second guessing if it’s mutual
❧ Side Order, personal, hearing & health update & more

🧁My 10 year art career & celebrating 10 years of MIGW / 10 Australian game characters for the Games Week Launch Party (cupcake fondant topper commission + LeonieArtRambles podcasty video)

By leonieyue Posted on 6 October 2024 Posted in Commission, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Podcast, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AgentARubyLaRouge, ArtCareer, asocial, autisic, autisticallySocial, CeriHutton, commission, covid19, COVIDzine, creativity, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyroad, CultOfTheLamb, cupcake, earHealth, EnergyDraining, EnergyImbalanceDynamics, energyLevels, entitlement, envy, faceMask, FrogDetective, game industry, gamedev, gameindustry, games, games industry, gamesConference, gamesEvents, GamesShowcase, gamesWeek, GCAP, HollowKnight, Illustration, indiegamedev, KingOfArmello, LeonieArtRambles, leonieyue, lowEnergy, ManagingEnergy, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, MIGW, MIGW2024, MovingOutGame, podcast, RATtestCovid, social media, socialAnxiety, socialEvents, speedpaintcommentary, StrayGods, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, UnpackingGame, UntitledGooseGame

In this blog post:
❧ about this project & art timelapse
❧ my little art career as a rambly podcast + art slideshow!
❧ I’ll add cupcake photos with credit at the blog if people share any :0
❧ COVID protection zine
❧ About not going to Melbourne International Games Week & the industry

🏰🎮Fanart to celebrate Crossy Road Castle being on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox & Playstation 5!! 🦄🐔🐈‍⬛🦆

By leonieyue Posted on 17 July 2024 Posted in Animation, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with CrossyBlueTheCat, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyUnihorse, fanart, GameConsoles, genAI, GenAIimpactInternet, genAIscams, HidekiKamiya, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, IkumiNakamura, Illustration, KarakuriJPmechanicalArt, LeonieMiceCleaningTroubles2024, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, marketingArt, NintendoSwitch, personal update, Playstation5, social media, socialmedia, socialmediaBubble, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, XboxSeriesX

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled youtube video & ramble about my voxel illustration & animations + what I did for Castle
❧ more info about the console version of Crossy Road Castle
❧ mice troubles update
❧ personal update & more!

🪺🐔 3 Crowing Chicken Cousins [Fanart for the Crossy Road Farm World update!] 💛

By leonieyue Posted on 11 June 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Concept Art, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AIdiscourse, breastCancerCheckUp, CaraApp, CinematicThemesVisualsAncientChina, crossy, crossy road, crossyChicken, crossyChickenCousins, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadFarmWorldUpdate, CrossyRooster, embarrassing, evolutionaryPsychology, expressingLove, fanart, feelings, genAI, Illustration, instag, instagr, instagram, KungFuPanda, LeonieDreams, leonieyue, MakingVideo, motivational, MusicIndustry, personal update, quittinginstagram, ScaryLumpUpdate, SickWithCold, social media, socialBattery, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediacharismapopularitycontest, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaFatigue, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, TechIndustry, WhiteSilkieChicken

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ about my 3 chickens!
❧ catching up on more artist videos about genAI
❧ being more at Cara & Bluesky and less at twitter & instagram
❧ Cara thoughts and critique so far
❧ personal update, being sick, health update & more

⚔️ Making a Sword [Slowly learning Blender #1]

By leonieyue Posted on 28 May 2024 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart Tagged with 3D, activelySocialOnline, animationIndustry, anxietyFuture, ArtHabits, autisticBurnout, Blender3D, bluesky, comfort zone, comfortZone, complexFeelings, contentVoid, entertainmentIndustry, envy, focus, GlazeAgainstAIScraping, instagram, intense, JennyNicholsonYoutube, learning, learningJourney, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, leonieyue, MetaAi, movieTrailers, notgoodenoughFeelings, OkisWeirdStoriesYoutube, processingFeelings, qubicle, reflection, reflective, resentment, selfImprovement, sittingwithfeelings, social media, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, socialmediaoverwhelm, socialmediatoxicity, SocialMediaVoid, spiteful, StarWarsHotel, sword, ThreeKingdoms, TwitterVentAgain

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on this
❧ personal update, striving not to burn out & more!

☺️ Kung fu Peach Part 3 [Princess Peach: Showtime fanart!]

By leonieyue Posted on 14 May 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with acceptance, AchyKnees, alonewithcompany, anxiety, anxietyFuture, anxious, artistCommunities, ArtistCompetition, ArtistDesperation, ArtistHustle, ArtistStruggle, AutismAdulthood, BarbieMovieThoughts, basicLifeSkills, belonging, burnout, CreativePressure, emotionalIntelligence, envious, envy, fanart, fantasyOfAdulthood, fearOfAloneInTheWorld, fears, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, FriendshipMileage, gooutsideTouchGrass, grumpy, HaroldHalibutGame, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hibernating, Illustration, insecurity, instagram, instagramstories, jealousy, KendrickTracks, KnivesOutGlassOnionMovie, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, lonelyArtist, lowEnergy, LowPeriods, LowSocialEndurance, notvalued, overstimulated, Patriarchy, personalProjects, scapegoat, SelfConfidence, selfcritical, SelfPressure, social media, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, SocialMediaReach, SocialMediaVoid, socialZombie, StreamingAnxiety, streamingLeonie, StressEat, structureAndRoutine, strugglingForward, supportArtist, survivalArtistMode, TimeAnxiety, touchingGrassAdvice, unfairWorld

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ jealousy, dealing with discouragement, moving on from twitter (again), 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!

🫧👑 Bubble Princess Daisy & Peach!✨☁️ [Super Mario Bros Wonder] + on social media/”content” creation

By leonieyue Posted on 27 February 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 3DMariogames, ActuallyAutistic, addictiveEscapism, AIethicsLegality, AIgeneratedWork, AIimageGeneratorsSteal, algorithms, ArtistStruggle, authenticity, autisic, autism, beginnerMindset, bubblePrincesses, chasingTrends, CleaningFollowerAccounts, ContentCreationProblems, contentCreators, ContentHustle, contentSlop, contentVoid, creativity, CreativityIncEdCatmull, fanart, fastfoodcontent, generativeAI, Illustration, InternetTrends, leonieyue, mario, nintendo, notgoodenoughFeelings, OnlineContentConsistency, onlinePersona, OnlinePopularity, OnvideoEssays, overstimulated, princess, princess peach, princessDaisy, sleepDeprived, social media, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, SocialMediaMetrics, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaReach, SocialMediaVoid, SuperMarioBrosWonder, Timelapse, YoutubeAlgorithm, デイジー姫, ピーチ姫

In this blog post:
❧ the art
❧ indefinite break from making small subtitled timelapses / youtube videos
❧ manually removing 475 twitter followers & 30 instagram ones
❧ vent about social media & how its falling apart
❧ exhaustion and ethics of consuming and making “content” & more!

🎵Lo-fi boks to celebrate the New Year to ft. Crossy Chicken 🐔🎶 Happy New Year 2024! 🕯️🎊 Fear of Blender & insecure with social media

By leonieyue Posted on 1 January 2024 Posted in Animation, Illustration, LeonieYue, Video, VoxelIllustration Tagged with bluesky, crossy, crossy road, crossyMarketingArt, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, Illustration, instagram, leonieyue, marketingArt, social media, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaReach, ThreadsMeta, twitter, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

In this little blog post:
❧ learning MagicaVoxel
❧ fear of Blender 3D
❧ struggling to cut out some social media

🎁🎀 Presents under the Christmas Tree🎄 [Happy Holidays with Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 25 December 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with aestheticAttraction, AgencyPDA, animeIndustry, AutismAdulthood, autistic, bodyAwareness, bodyImage, breadcrumbing, christmas, christmasDecorations, ChristmasTree, crossy, crossy road, CrossyAlien, CrossyCat, crossyChicken, CrossyDog, CrossyGingerbreadperson, CrossyGiraffe, CrossyMallard, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossySkunk, CrossyUnihorse, crushes, demiplatonic, demiromantic, DemiromanticAce, emotionalIntimacy, gifts, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, leonieyue, loneliness, peoplePleasing, PersistentDriveForAutonomy, PhysicalAppearance, physicalAttractiveness, PhysicalExercise, presents, romance, romantic, romanticallyIntimate, romanticAttraction, romanticFiction, RomanticProjection, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, shoujoAnime, ShoujoManga, slow, social media, solitary, solitude, TokyoGodfathersMovie, trustIssues, turtlePace, twitter, UglyDucklingSwanMakeover, UglyDucklingTransformation, unrequitedLove, XmasStar

In today’s Christmas blog post:
❧ learning about anime/shoujo topics
❧ managing body image insecurities
❧ unrequited love and loneliness
❧ saw Tokyo Godfathers for the 1st time
❧ personal update & more

Tag: social media