Cosmic Imitation

Bending over, he cried, "Grow!" and at once grew to be ten thousand feet tall, with a head like the Tai Mountain and a chest like a rugged peak, eyes like lightning and a mouth like a blood bowl, and teeth like swords and halberds. The rod in his hands was of such a size that its top reached the thirty-third Heaven and its bottom the eighteenth layer of Hell.

for the DTIYS by @lavaflowe!! it was such an awesome concept, I just had to get a bit daring with the perspective :D had to get some photobashing going close to the end though but it worked out well!

rambles about the artistic choices under read more <3

I exchanged the skullcap bowl for a gourd, since Wukong is often represented in religious statues as holding one or an immortal peach. The headdress was inspired by Beijing opera, but the mirror was borrowed from Lion Dance costumes. The mirror on their heads is meant to repel bad energies. The tiger pelt kilt is a classic of course, and a symbol of a protective deity. The long draping tail and staff supporting the heaven was my way of giving an awing sense of scale and of his reach. The symbols in the sky is the Chinese star map. And it's hard to tell, but the mountains in the distance are the other three Continents in the JTTW cosmology.

ELLE APPRECIATION

I don’t see enough art of Elle so I took it upon myself to draw them~ They’re so cute and it’s not everyday I draw characters with cute pink hair.

They got that business brain and I love it💕

Once again this character belongs to @journeytomonkiekid !

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grandma-the-ghost

5 months ago

am I the only one who imagined it as

“No<3”

or is that just me

Let's have open arms instead!

*stab*

No..

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grandma-the-ghost

10 months ago

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grandma-the-ghost

1 year ago

*chucks This Post At You From Across The Street*

*chucks this post at you from across the street*

here have some more text post memes!

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grandma-the-ghost

1 year ago

i love your Guan Yin design, i was wondering if you could explain how you developed her and why you drew her the way you did! id love to see your thought process for such an interesting take on her.

First, I had the help of all the amazing artists who’ve influenced me in life. Second, when I see people’s designs of Guan Yin, she typically is portrayed as a human woman with several arms. That’s how I also draw her human form, but I believed she needed a design that exploded with life and magic to really hammer how incredibly powerful and loved she is.

People also seem to gloss over the fact that she lives in the southern sea! I wanted to surround her with sea flora and fauna. Coral reefs blossoming off her body, inhabiting plumes of creatures to happily float around her

You’ve only seen about ten percent of her actual design in my style too! Much like Wukong, I want each interaction with her to mirror what the lesson of the chapter is and what time of year it is as well. When Wukong meets her in the comic I made, she’s calm, composed, worry-free. In a comic I’m planning with her, she’s resentful, impatient, and unkempt. What do you think she’ll look like then?