A personal history of Kingdom Hearts art
Since I've been riddled with nostalgia lately, I thought it might be interesting as well as entertaining to others, to see the gradual evolution of how my KH fanart has progressed through time and along with the series.
There had been various scribbles in notebooks before, but the real start of my fanart journey begins from a piece drawn in early September of 2007, still at the height of the craze following Kingdom Hears II, which I consider to be the first ever real fanart I'd drawn.
2015 - 2018
Here we have a noticeable gap in activity. For around three years I don't blog or publicly post about Kingdom Hearts and am fully occupied in other fandoms even though I still produce fanart for the series steadily. I just simply don't post it anywhere and it remains unseen. Around 2018 I get my first drawing tablet, and it inspires me to start a new sideblog here, on tumblr, called luxmoogle. And so, I start blogging and posting art into the fandom once again, digital enabling a faster pace of producing art.
From around 2022 onwards, I've become a fully digital artist when it comes to KH fanart, because of the ease of producing such art at a much faster pace compared to traditional art. The need to get all my thoughts and concepts out of my head has become a priority, even though I consider traditional and a more methodical way of making art to be more natural to me. The shift to digital has been very interesting and pleasantly challenging, since it requires a whole different approach and thinking than traditional, which I had to that point been doing my whole life. A pattern I only now recognize, is the latest phase, where I've obviously started looking at the piece more as a whole, and less of a character piece with a flattering background. It'll be interesting to see, where my hands and heart take me next.
