The Wild Robot Is The Best Movie I Have Ever Seen In My Entire Life And I Am Not Joking. I Have Never

Seafoam prince (AF sona)

I'm actually quite proud of this one. I had the opportunity to experiment with new colors and brushes and I fell in love with the results.

I won't deny it, I would like to receive attacks from this one...

Just a totaly grab back of sketches for this week's "character a day" thread. All a little undead themed. Mostly a little silly.

Flavor text as follows:

1: Hey look, some days all you want to draw is a cute vampire.

2: "I... I didn't realize it was raining, Sam. Want me to get you the usual?"

3: Henry really misses phones with keypads. Now it's all capacitive screens, fingerprint readers, facial recognition. It leaves guys like him kinda boned.

4: Kevin's brother felt guilty about it like about ten seconds later and gave him his pick of candy from his haul.

5: HEY MA! THERE'S THIS WEIRD FUKIN' CAT OUTSIDE! It looks diseased the crazy thing. HEY DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT. MA! THERE'S THIS STRAY CAT OUTSIDE. I don't want it startin a fight with Lucy. *kiss kiss* It's okay Lucy. MA! There's this WEIRD FUKIN' stray cat outside!

My little brother has been mumbling, "I'm Jangles." Under his breath for the past 24 hours help

my friend took in a stray and she’s the cutest kitty ever but he named her oil so whenever he sends a picture of her me and my other friends look like we’re roleplaying as the US military

I've heard that Wukong has a heart of gold (literally), as well as iron lungs, and a metal spine from being in Lao Tzu's furnace and eating molten Copper from Guan Yin and was wondering if this is true.

Monkey states that in ch. 34:

When old Monkey caused great disturbance in the Celestial Palace five hundred years ago and was refined for forty-nine days in the eight trigram brazier of Laozi, the process in fact gave me a heart strong as gold and viscera hardy as silver, a bronze head and an iron back, fiery eyes and diamond pupils (Wu & Yu, 2012, vol. 2, p. 131).

The legend of his adamantine body predates the 1592 JTTW. For instance, Sun claims the following in the early-Ming zaju play:

I plundered Laozi’s gold Pill of Immortality, and have endured so many alchemical transformations that my muscles are brass, my bones iron, my eyes fire, my pupils gold, my asshole lead and my prick is pewter (Ning, 1986, p. 142). 

Another example comes from the 13th-century JTTW. He is referred to as the the “Bronze-Headed, Iron-Browed King of the Eighty-Four Thousand Monkeys of the Purple Cloud Grotto on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits” (Wivell, 1994, p. 1182). And the story ends with the Tang Emperor Taizong enfeoffing him as the “Great Sage Steel Muscles and Iron Bones” (Wivell, 1994, p. 1207).

Sources:

Ning, C. Y. (1986). Comic Elements in the Xiyouji Zaju (UMI No. 8612591) [Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Wivell, C.S. (1994). The Story of How the Monk Tripitaka of the Great Country of T’ang Brought Back the Sūtras. In V. Mair (Ed.), The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature (pp. 1181-1207). New York: Columbia University Press.

Wu, C., & Yu, A. C. (2012). The Journey to the West (Vols. 1-4) (Rev. ed.). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.

中秋~(*¯︶¯*)

Mid-autumn

A fawn curled up beside a fake deer which is used for target practice. 

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.

A character from the #Bikermonkeys world called Wally.

His death started a terrible chain of events for King and his gang.