Lazy Days

Hello, welcome to my blog. It doesn't really have a theme, I just blog whatever strikes me during my time scrolling through my dash. Age mid 20s

[luxmoogle]

the way you render water is so beautiful, do you work from reference a lot or is it just familiarity? love all the mermay hehe

Oh gosh this is from LAST years MerMay, better late than never..!

It's both. But I always do want to advocate for references, you really need to look at a thing a million times and try and draw it another million times before you really start grasping the fundamentals of whatever it is you're drawing.

Key elements to understand with water are 1. Movement - think about the physics, how it moves, how it stops 2. Color - water reflects it's surroundings, it's not just blue..!!

I'd also refer you to this post, where I've discussed more water!

[luxmoogle]

..I'm not supposed to be in this picture ...the one who was always with you... It's not me.

[luxmoogle]

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.

[luxmoogle]

₊˚⊹⋆˙౨ See that faint glimmer way in the back of your heart? ₊˚⊹₊

[luxmoogle]

"ᴵ ᶜᵃⁿ'ᵗ ˢʰᵃᵏᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵉᵉˡⁱⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵗʰᵉˢᵉ ʷᵃᵗᵉʳˢ ᵗᵒᵘᶜʰ ᵃⁿᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ˢʰᵒʳᵉ ᴵ'ᵛᵉ ᵛⁱˢⁱᵗᵉᵈ." ࿐ ࿔*:･ﾟ

[luxmoogle]

"The structure of this world is incredibly complex. At first, there were no manifestations of what we know as Light and Darkness. But our arrival here brought those concepts with us — the Darkness given physical form only after we defined it." ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁

[luxmoogle]

"Any day spent with you is my favorite day. ˚ . ★⋆. ࿐࿔ So, today is my new favorite day." ˚　.˚　　　✦　　. . 　 ˚

[medievaljournalist]

so you know that cursed sword that slowly drives whoever wields it mad & causes mysterious illnesses? you guessed it: scabbard was absolutely loaded with black mold

[dragon-in-a-fez]

big fan of the four-year-old on this flight who yelled "THEY ARE BRINGING COMPLEMENTARY BEVERAGES" when the flight attendants came down with the drinks cart

[uss-emberprise]

[straytheskies]

its 3 am and im tire d and someone posted this strategy board in ffxiv and im crying

[mythiclings]

Fanwork no.1 I made for 2026 stormblood's anniversary.

Posted to bluesky and X on 06.17

[heated-blanket]

RIP bozo status pending

[beththebubbly]

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have won a lifetime supply of this

How do you feel?

good!

I CAN SELL THIS AND GET RICH

im drowning in my supply help

Eh it's okay

BAD. VERY BAD

results/other

Remaining time: 6 days 6 hours

you would receive the supply once a month

the brand/type will vary so you could

you can sell the things you get/give them away but they will keep coming until you die

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

hey gang i got popsicles pick one as pass the box to someone else

mint

lemon

orange

strawberry

cola

pineapple

dark cherry

anise

Remaining time: 5 days 59 minutes

"i cant believe you dont have this or that flavor" listen they had these ones okay

[shijiujun]

MDZS DONGHUA 8TH ANNIVERSARY ART

[rexuality]

hikes are very good yes but a deluxe hike is when you are a accompanied by a freak with niche nature knowledge. they’re like omg stop there’s a horned valerian varmint beetle here and then you both get to crouch down and look at a bug like :)

[las-lus]

Watching the new Folding Ideas video and I can't stop thinking that Mr Beast is unsatisfied because he doesn't have a fandom. He is dying to understand where to throw money to make fandom happen. It gives me great pleasure to know that we hold the power to keep mr. Beast miserable

[robotlyra]

When Dan Olson said that Mr Beast's people asked him and a bunch of other youtubers "How do you create fandom", I experienced a moment of terror so visceral that my heart jumped into my throat. But luckily what followed was a thorough reassurance that he would never be able to understand the answer to that question.

The reason WHY Team Beast wants to "create fandom" is because they have an awareness that fandom is something that makes Number Go Up, and they want to have access that sort of loyalty and attention. But fandom isn't really something you create intentionally, it's more of a natural side effect of caring about something a lot, and going about the business of expressing how much you care, and finding community that cares in a similar way. But Mr Beast and his team do not actually care about anything at all, except Number Go Up. Everything Team Beast does is just a random exercise in throwing money at different ideas to see which makes Number Increase More.

Team Beast made chocolate bars because they know their audience of kids likes and buys candy, not because they liked candy or were interested in the process of making good candy. This is how they ended up making a chocolate bar that lacked the pre-sectioned bar shape that any other reputable candy maker has known and utilized for decades.

Team Beast made a reality show, because they know that reality shows are popular, and that Squid Game was a massive cross-cultural phenomenon, not because they care about reality shows, or are interested in telling stories about the limits of human cooperation and integrity in high stress, high rewards situations. This is how they ended up making a reality show with too many people to focus on any sort of interesting individual narratives, filled with elimination challenges that didn't work.

Team Beast is basically going down a checklist of "what activities that have the highest profits/highest level of public awareness associated with them" because they want that Simple Numerical Supremacy that comes from them, not because they care about the actual activities themselves. This also explains why Dan Olson was invited to Team Beast's studios to begin with. They probably only have a vague awareness of him as a guy on youtube with a million subscribers, and a 2 hour documentary about NFTs that is apocryphally regarded as the Film That Ended The Business. They don't actually care about what he or other youtubers consider important. They just want their fandoms.