Just A Totaly Grab Back Of Sketches For This Week's "character A Day" Thread. All A Little Undead Themed.

Pocket Wukong for the soul

baby macaque getting some tough love from a troop elder haha *dancing gif

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Shapeshifter who gets horribly grotesque and mutilated when flustered

been a little busy so i forgot to post these sooner, but i am so supremely happy with them i can't not share them: all my updated/new character references for art fight this year!

Celestial Water Monkeys

Was discussing in the notes of this post with @silverlycanthropelover about the possibility of Celestial/Stone Monkeys surviving the Great Flood by adapting to the sea.

One of the jokes is that "Sea Monkeys" (the frozen brine shrimp toy), are actually a misunderstanding of sea dragon records talking about the little mer-monkeys that inhabited their seas.

Basically

Ao Guang: "What are those things hiding in your mane?" Ao Shun, surrounded by tiny mermaid-like monkeys: "I dunno man, they just showed up one day, and they won't stop picking through my fur." Ao Guang: "Why haven't you scared them off?" Ao Shun: "Honestly? They are pretty adorable. They clean my body of parasites, and comfort me when I'm feeling unwell." Sea Monkeys: (*happy chirping + porpoise-like squeaks!*) Ao Guang: "They do seem very useful... How do I go about hiring them?" Ao Shun: "I believe you cannot choose them brother, they choose you." (*cut to hundreds of years later when Ao Guang is lying at the bottom of the East Sea, despaired at the loss of his youngest pup Ao Bing*) Sea Monkeys: "Chirrp?" Ao Guang: (*looks up to see a swarm of brightly-coloured mer-monkeys, all swimming around his gigantic body as they pick off the barnacles and parasites that settled in his depression.*) Leading Sea Monkey, petting the king dragon's face with sympathy in their eyes: "Chirrrrp." Ao Guang: (*smiles for the first time in weeks*) :')

Like pilot fish to a great white, the smaller creatures stick to dragons in a symbiotic relationship. The royal dragons are very protective of their monkeys. Ao Guang refuses to acknowledge the irony of a Stone Monkey being one of his greatest annoyances, whilst tending to his beloved servants.

Wukong has no idea that these little spiritual monkeys exist! To think that some Stone/Spiritual Monkeys survived the Great Flood by changing their whole biology, or existed even beforehand, is an amazing discovery!

The Water Monkeys are a lot smaller than Wukong or Macaque, being roughly the size of tamarins. They don't speak "human" languages very well, their vocal cords are more attuned to the calls of dragons and other sea life. They can still chirp and chatter as monkeys do, allowing for some delightful conversation between the Stone Monkey King (they do not recognise Sun Wukong as their king) and the school of excited fairy-like monkeys.

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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?

Legend of Hei x Solar terms (Spring/Summer) illustrations by HMCH animation studio.