stingyFrugalHermit – Leonie's Art Blog

🐲 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!

🐍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

🌙Sleeping on the pink crescent moon🌷 [Hermit Dragon Leonie part 8]

By leonieyue Posted on 14 January 2025 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with breathwork, EnergyConserving, energyConservingMode, EnergyDraining, existential, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, existing, fallingAsleep, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hyperawareOfPeople, Illustration, LeonieBlob, leonieyue, magicaVoxel, meditation, nightowl, NotAbleToRelax, openOfficeEnvironments, overstimulated, poisoning, recovery, relax, sensoryOverload, sensorySensitivities, sleep, sleeping, SleepSchedule, sleepy, socialOutsider, solitaryRecoveryMode, stingyFrugalHermit, TaleOfPrincessKaguyaThoughts, TightBudgetHermit, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration

❧ on sleep, got slightly poisoned & internet finds
❧ the Tale of Princess Kaguya spoiler thoughts
❧ personal update & why I’m not logging in at bluesky much anymore & crossposting less at Linkedin from now on.

I will post status updates at my discord server instead + I’m active at my blog, youtube & cara! <3

🎄Merry Catmas with Christmas Tree Cat 🐈 Crossy Road update fanart! ❄️

By leonieyue Posted on 22 December 2024 Posted in Collaboration, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with affection, ArtSelfExpression, cat, christmas, ChristmasTree, christmasTreeCat, cleaning, comfort zone, comfortable, Cramps, CreativeBlock, creativeControl, creativeFlow, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyCat, CrossyFanart, crossyroad, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, crushes, decompress, earningTrust, EnergyConserving, energyLevels, executiveFunctionChallenges, fanart, fashionPersonalStyle, focus, happyholidays, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, homebody, homebodylife, homeCleaning, houseCleaning, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, internetf, internetFinds, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, learning, learningProcess, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, love, LoveHesitator, magicalGirl, music, patience, PikminBloom, postingSchedule, productivity, productivityStruggles, safety, stingyFrugalHermit, talent, TightBudgetHermit, Timelapse, trialAndError, trust, whiteCat, zoneOut

In this little blog post:
❧ the art & speedpaint!
❧ personal update, juggling things & internet finds!

🧸✨ Giant Plushie Collector 🛍️🦆 Crossy Road Theme park update fanart! 🦄🦊🐶🐈‍⬛🦒🐰

By leonieyue Posted on 16 December 2024 Posted in CharacterDesign, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with asocial, comfort zone, comfortZone, creativeFlow, crossy, crossy road, crossy10thBday, CrossyAnniversary, CrossyBirthday, CrossyFanart, CrossyPlushieCollector, crossyroad, CrossyRoadBday, CrossyRoadCharacter, CrossyRoadThemeParkUpdate, CrossyRoadUpdate, DesireToProveSelfConstantlyExhausting, energy, fanart, femininePerformance, frugal, gameAwards, gobelins, heatwaveDay, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, houseCleaning, housework, HouseworkInBabySteps, Illustration, impatientWithSelf, insecurity, internetFinds, japanExperiences, leonieyue, lowEnergy, LowPeriods, lowselfEsteem, LowSocialEndurance, minimalSocialInteractions, nightowl, NoArtRequests, NoSocialLife, openOfficeEnvironments, overthinking, personal update, personalProjects, reflection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sensorySensitivities, socialOutsider, socialrecluse, speakingUp, StatlerAndWaldorfMuppets, stingyFrugalHermit, summer, teamwork, thegameawards, themePark, TheSubstanceMovie, TightBudgetHermit, Timelapse

In this blog post:
❧ Theme Park fanart compilation timelapse
❧ I don’t do art requests
❧ being high sensitivity & a night owl workaholic
❧ personal update & internet finds

✨🦆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

🌥️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!

👻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

🔥Super Fire Princesses Daisy & Peach 🌸🌼 [Super Mario Bros Wonder]!

By leonieyue Posted on 3 October 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, adultFriendship, anxiety, anxious, artprocess, asocial, autisticallySocial, BlueSkySocial, character illustration, complacentBystanderSupportingAbusers, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRoadCastleConsoles, datingApps, DatingThoughts, digital illustration, eczema, eyeHealth, faceMask, fanart, finalfantasy10, fireballs, FireEmblem, fireprincess, foodpoisoning, friendship, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipReciprocity, germaphobe, handEczema, HappySingleTime, hermit, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, highTea, hipsterWhale, IdealSocialSituation, Illustration, leonieyue, listening, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, LowSocialEndurance, MajimaPirateYakuza, ManagingStress, melbourneCity, NoSocialLife, phonesystem, princess peach, princessDaisy, princesspeach, singledom, socialBattery, socialEating, stingyFrugalHermit, stress, StressEat, Timelapse, TwitterVentAgain, xenosaga, デイジー姫, ピーチ姫

In this blog post:
❧ reflecting & subtitled timelapse
❧ the Hipster Whale Castle console launch high tea & the city
❧ personal update, health & more!

☺️ Jumping about! [Hermit Dragon Leonie Part 3]

By leonieyue Posted on 20 August 2024 Posted in Animation, CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, ThreeDart, VoxelIllustration Tagged with addictiveEscapism, aestheticAttraction, anxiety, BeyondTheDesperationOfSeekingFriends, bodyAwareness, bodyImage, BodyNeutrality, corporateFeminism, Cringe, darkTopics, demiplatonic, depression, doubleStandards, drycoughing, dysfunctionalFamilies, emotionalLabour, FemaleObjectification, foundFamily, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, FriendshipEffort, hearingLoss, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, HermitDragonLeonieVoxel, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, houseCleaning, Illustration, journal, ladylike, LeonieMiceCleaningTroubles2024, leonieyue, lowkeystress, magicaVoxel, makeUp, ManagingEmotions, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, officeWorkAppropriate, onlineBoundaries, oversharing, overthinking, personal, personal update, physicalAttractiveness, postingSchedule, PowaPowaP Siinamota, prisonOfYourMind, purityCulture, safety, self comparisons, sexualharassment, shame, singledom, socialValidation, stingyFrugalHermit, StressEat, toxicStress, traumaDumping, unsolicitedAdvice, validation, victimComplex, voxel, VoxelAnimation, voxelArt, voxelIllustration, vulnerability, womensSafetyIssues

In this little blog post:
❧ reflecting on the process of this piece
❧ objectification, body image comparison, shaming
❧ online history, oversharing, not settling, dark thoughts
❧ personal update & more!

🍩Making Kirby themed donuts & slowly learning Blender part 2 🥐

By leonieyue Posted on 30 July 2024 Posted in Fanart, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, ThreeDart, Video Tagged with 4Bmovement, 4BMovementLifeWithoutMen, ace, alonewithcompany, antisocial, asexual, asexuality, asocial, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, autismFriendships, autismLife, Awkwafina, Blender3D, BlenderThoughts, ChronicallyOnline, connections, creativeEnergy, DemiromanticAce, emotionalConnections, emotionalEnergy, emotionalIntimacy, emotionallyMutual, energyLevels, fallingAsleep, fearOfAloneInTheWorld, frugal, hermit, HermitDragonLeonie, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, highschoolArtVisComAssignments, humanConnection, humanscomplex, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, LeonieBlenderLearningProgress, LeonieDiscordServer, LeonieFinds, LeonieMiceCleaningTroubles2024, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, marriage, olympicPictograms, progess, progressupdate, romance, sketch, sleepDeprived, stingyFrugalHermit, stress, StressEat, survivalArtistMode, TertiaryHECSHelpDebt, trauma, TraumaProjection, vacationOutOfReach, voiceActingCelebrities

In this blog post:
❧ Blender learning & subtitled video!
❧ dealing with hundreds of mice droppings
❧ life without men movement
❧ poorer but goodbye debt
❧ personal update, reflection & more

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