stress – Leonie's Art Blog

💚 March Hotel art challenge week 4 😴

By leonieyue Posted on 23 March 2026 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Traditional Tagged with ArtConstruction, artstudyingroutine, boxes, disrespectful, figure drawing, figuredrawing, hand, Illustration, impromptu, leonieyue, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, MarchHotel, marchhotel26, NotAbleToRelax, physiololgicalstress, rechargeTime, recovery, slowStudy, solitaryRecoveryMode, stress, study, studyPost, toxicStress

❧ March Hotel art and studies continue
❧ little personal update

✨Lots of Zeldas! 👍The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom!!

By leonieyue Posted on 19 February 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with conflictAvoidance, coworkerFriendshipsHard, deadpan, drama, emotionalDrama, emotionalExpectations, emotionallyMutual, expectationsProjections, fanart, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, FriendshipBoundaries, FriendshipCapacity, friendshipCompatibility, friendshipGuilt, ghosting, Illustration, incompatible, leonieyue, LettingGo, lowEnergy, lowMood, ManagingStress, mutuallyInterested, overthinking, personal update, personalupdate, quiet, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, restingPoutFace, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sleepDeprived, SleepSchedule, sleepy, stress, structureAndRoutine

A subtitled timelapse & little personal update about stress & social capacity!

🍫 One of those days today :(

By leonieyue Posted on 2 November 2024 Posted in Comics, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with autism, autismBoundaries, autismLife, autistic, autisticallySocial, autisticThings, behindInLife, Chicken56, chocolate, digestiveIssues, disappointed, disappointment, dissociation, emotionalEnergy, energy, EnergyConserving, EnergyDraining, EnergyImbalanceDynamics, energyLevels, frustration, hermitLife, homebodylife, indianFood, leonieyue, lifeLessons, lowEnergy, lowkeystress, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, mundane, noenergytochase, NotInControl, overstimulated, physiololgicalstress, processingFeelings, quiet, reflection, routine, sadness, sexismMisogyny, shutdown, sleep, SleepSchedule, socialEnergy, spicyFood, stress, structureAndRoutine, super listen mode, SuperLeonieMode

Wha happen

🔥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!

🌌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

🍩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

🍄Toadette & Elephant time!🐘 [Super Mario Bros Wonder] On what genAI can’t do, personality tests, rejection & baby steps at cleaning

By leonieyue Posted on 16 April 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AchyKnees, AIartDiscourse, AIgeneratedWork, ambivert, anxious, Art Anxiety, art style, ArtCareer, ArtDirection, ArtistDesperation, ArtistHustle, ArtistStandards, ArtistStruggle, artSkill, ArtStyle, autistic, autisticMasking, autisticThings, babySteps, BeingAnOutcast, BeingMisunderstood, bigmediumsmallForms, bloodTypePersonalityTest, bodyDoubling, careerDirection, CareerPredictions, character development, cleaningShowerGrout, comfort zone, comfortable, compatibility, complicatedDesign, conceptArtIndustry, ConceptArtist, contradictory, deadpan, Designers, disinfectHome, disinfectingHome, dontTalkToMeAura, ElephantToadette, EmotionallyDistant, emotionalStorytelling, EmotionalSupport, emotionalTurmoil, entertainmentIndustry, expectationsProjections, friendship, functionalDesign, FutureImpactOfAIgeneratedArt, generativeAI, gremlinPreferences, HandlingBleachEep, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, highStandards, housework, HouseworkInBabySteps, humanCollaboration, illustrationCareer, IndustrialDesign, insecurity, INTJ, introvert, invisibleExpectations, learning, leonieyue, lifeIshardwork, lowEnergy, LowSocialEndurance, masking, MBTI, MouldCleaning, MutualInterests, mutuallyInterested, NoSocialLife, passionProjects, personalityTests, personalProjects, popularArt, processing, provingOneselfExhausting, quiet, rambler, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, reserved, selfAnalysisTool, ShowerCleaning, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaArt, SocialProximity, StreamingAnxiety, stress, strugglingForward, SuperMarioBrosWonder, survivalArtistMode, TakingItNotSeriously, Timelapse, Toadette, trust, uncomfortable, unspokenExpectations, visual storytelling, VisualConsistency, whatGenAIcannotDo

Also in this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ personal update

🥰 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!

🪺🐇🎀Bunny time with Big Baby Chicken 🐤🐔🦆 [Fanart for the Crossy Road Easter character update]! Social media, health assessment tool, stress & anxiety

By leonieyue Posted on 29 March 2024 Posted in Collaboration, Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with anxiety, breastCancerCheckUp, breastCancerRiskAssessment, crossy, crossy road, CrossyChick, crossyChicken, CrossyMallard, crossyroad, crossyroadBigBabyChicken, CrossyRoadUpdate, dentist, easterBreak, fanart, focus, grindingTeeth, headspace, hipsterWhale, Illustration, intrusiveBadMemories, juggling, keepingBusy, leonieyue, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, OnPodcasting, personal update, physiololgicalstress, podcastMaking, spiraling, stress, teethShenanigans, tenseBody, toxicStress

In this blog post:
❧ the art ramble & subtitled timelapse!
❧ personal update, breast cancer risk assessment tool & more!

📜🐉Happy Lunar New Year of the Dragon 2024 with Rejuvenation God Yomigami / 蘇神 & baby seahorses!🔮🏮 [大神 / Ōkami Lunar New Year Project] Trusting self, ghosting, stress resilience & more

By leonieyue Posted on 6 February 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with ActuallyAutistic, anxiety, art process, autisic, autism, AutismAdulthood, BeingAnOutcast, BeingMisunderstood, BeingPresent, beingTrueToYourself, bloodTest, Bruxism, Celestial Brush God, Chinese New Year, DetachmentLettingGo, dragon, emotionalDetachment, EmotionallyDetach, emotionallyMutual, emotionalMaturity, faceMask, fanart, friendsComeAndGo, friendship, ghosting, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, lifedirection, loneliness, Lunar New Year, ManagingStress, okami, OkamiLunarNewYear, openOfficeEnvironments, PerformanceAnxiety, petty, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, rejectionSensitivity, resentment, resilience, seahorse, self compassion, selftrust, stress, subtitledSpeedpaint, textcommentary, TextSpeedpaint, thirdPlaces, tiger, Timelapse, transactionalRelationships, YearOfTheDragon, YearOfTheDragonFanart, YearOfTheTiger, Yomigami, youtubevideo, 大神, 蘇神

In this blog post:
❧ the art & subtitled timelapse is back!
❧ doing dragon fanart this year!
❧ on trusting yourself, ghosting and resilience with stress
❧ personal update, the year of the dragon & more!

🎵🎀🐤🐔Night time Christmas Carols📖🎶🦆🦢🐦 [Crossy Road + Crossy Road Castle]

By leonieyue Posted on 22 December 2023 Posted in Commission, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with AgencyPDA, autismfocus, BodyLanguage, christmas, communication, contextSwitching, crossy, crossy road, CrossyBabyDuck, CrossyBabyPenguin, CrossyBirds, CrossyBlueMacaw, CrossyBunny, CrossyCardinal, CrossyCarols, CrossyCastleRivals, CrossyChick, crossyChicken, CrossyCockatoo, CrossyCrow, CrossyEmoGoose, CrossyEmperorPenguin, CrossyEnemyBirds, CrossyFiorlandPenguin, CrossyKea, CrossyKiwiBird, CrossyKookaburra, CrossyLostPenguin, CrossyMallard, crossyMarketingArt, CrossyOwlBos, CrossyParrot, CrossyPelican, CrossyPenguin, CrossyPigeon, CrossyPoopyPigeon, CrossyPresent, CrossyPterodactyl, CrossyPudding, CrossyPuffin, CrossyRaven, CrossyRoadCastle, CrossyRobin, CrossyRubberChicken, CrossySeagull, CrossyToucan, CrossyTurkey, CrossyUnihorse, CrossyWoodpeckerBoss, dreamsVSreality, emotionalDysregulation, emotionalInternaliser, EmotionalSupport, expectationsProjections, eyeContact, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, flirting, growingMindset, habit, hipsterWhale, HipsterWhaleMarketingArt, HumanDualityComplexity, HWCrossyChristmas, Illustration, inattentiveness, invisibleExpectations, leonieyue, lowkeystress, ManagingStress, misophoniaWhispering, NintendoSwitch, nintendoswitch2023, PaprikaMovie, PDA, PersistentDriveForAutonomy, physiololgicalstress, SatoshiKon, SatoshiKonMovie, scapegoat, self compassion, selfCare, sensitive, SensitiveSnowflake, sensitivity, sociallyExpected, stress, subtlety, surrealism, xmas

In this blog post:
❧ subtitled art process speedpaint video!
❧ learning more about Persistent Drive for Autonomy autism, unhelpful advice, invisible expectations, body language & eye contact
❧ watched Paprika for the first time
❧ my little Nintendo switch 2023 review and 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!

🥮 Goddess of the Moon for 中秋節/ Mid-Autumn Festival! 🌙 [Character design & illustration] + managing loneliness and isolation

By leonieyue Posted on 26 September 2023 Posted in CharacterDesign, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AceAttorney, achievements, Art Anxiety, BlueSkySocial, CharacterDesign, characterIllustration, crossy, crossy road, CrossyRoadFluffySheep, crowdedEventsNoMasksScary, CultOfTheLamb, curatingInternetUse, DigitalMinimalism, fanartTooMuch, gameTrailers, housekeeping, Illustration, kneeInjuries, kneeInjury, leonieyue, lifedirection, midAutumnFestival, moon cakes, Moon god, moon goddess, parasocial relationships, social media, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaoverwhelm, SocialMediaVoid, stress, stylised, TypeApeoplehuh, 中秋節

In this blog post:
❧ speedpaint & managing loneliness and isolation
❧ struggling with Glaze
❧ will streaming make it less lonely & overstimulating (sensory)?
❧ character designing the Moon Goddess
❧ curating how I do social media
❧ I finally got BlueSky?? And personal update & knee concerns!

Ah mooncake and tea 💛

I’m back! Web hosting, social media, my discord server & doing text blog updates!

By leonieyue Posted on 5 September 2023 Posted in LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with artdiscordserver, artstation, baldursgate3, bodypain, bodyPains, ChronicallyOnline, cohost, discord, healthUpdate, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, instagram, LeonieAttemptsToSelfPromote, LeonieDiscordServer, LeonieUpdate, leonieyue, linkedin, lowkeystress, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, managingWorkload, physicalHealth, self portrait, siteManagement, social media, stress, TerminallyOnline, Threads, twitter, TwitterRecap, webhosting

In this blog update:
– on doing little text blog updates like this
– social media and my discord ramble + another way to get blog & youtube updates is at my tiny discord server
– switching web hosts
– using Glaze against AI scraping by social media platforms
– personal updates

🐙🪸 Side Order [Splatoon 3]

By leonieyue Posted on 4 April 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with AccentedCinema, AdobeCS6Collection, AIartDiscourse, AIdiscourse, bloodTest, BreathOfTheWild, BSOD, computerbuildupgrade, ComputerTroubles, fanart, healthUpdate, HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity, Illustration, IronDeficiencyAnemia, leftbehind, LeftistCookYoutube, Legend of Zelda, legendofzelda, leonieyue, ManagingEmotions, ManagingEnergy, ManagingStress, managingWorkload, PCsecurity, personalupdate, photoshop, PixarElemental, PNGtuber, Princess Zelda, productivityStruggles, puttingOutFires, RottenMangoPodcast, speedpaint, speedpaintcommentary, Splatfest, Splatoon3, splatoon3SideOrder, stress, systemRestore, TeamAlien, TearsOfTheKingdom, textcommentary, Timelapse, vaccines, Vtuber, youtube, YoutubeCreators, YoutubeShorts

In this blog post:
– speedpaint for this!
– Nessie / Alien / Big foot splatfest
– Tears of the Kingdom ramble
– latest update/lessons from my computer shenanigans & troubles
– ramble about videos on “A.I.”, Vtubers & more
– personal and health update

Watching movies with Rosalina and Luma! ☄️ Happy MAR10 day! 🍿

By leonieyue Posted on 10 March 2023 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse, Video Tagged with animeIndustry, cosmosQueen, fanart, GoneInSixtySecondsMovie, help, Illustration, instagram, instagramReels, instagramUpdate, JapaneseAnimeIndustry, leonieyue, Level5GameDev, luma, ManagingStress, mario, movie, NicolasCageMovies, personalupdate, PrincessRosalina, ProfessorLaytonAndTheNewWorldOfSteam, Rosalina, RRRmovie, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, stress, super mario galaxy, tiktok, Timelapse, YoutubeCreators, YoutubeShorts, ロゼッタ

In this blog post:
– speedpaint process for this art piece
– On Princess Rosalina!
– reflecting on videos about art youtube content, tiktok & the japanese anime industry
– personal update

Tag: stress