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.

OKAY!!! My first DTIYS!!!

I’m going to try and keep this low pressure and fun🙏

Rules: From Aug 10th to Sept 10th

1. As Long as you keep the subject (Wukong’s Warform) you can change whatever you like!!! The color palette, the pose, the setting, the outfit!! Whatever you have fun with most!!!

2. Tag me!! And use the hashtag #LavaFloweDTIYS 💕💕 I want to be able to reblog anyone who participates!!

Hope people have fun😊- I’m planning on randomly selecting one person to Win an Art Fight style commission (previous posts for example) and I will be opening commissions after the event ends✨

Also to info dump some, in the third set of hands, Wukong is holding a skullcap filled with brains and a knife. This is to reference Buddhist protection deities, which are depicted cutting up the brains as a symbol for destroying ignorance

This is also a kind of redraw from this piece I made back in October of last year

This is for @lavaflowe 's DTIYS :)

I also made two, cuz I thought the concept so freaking cool!

Tw for a lot of eyes on the next one

for @lavaflowe's dtiys <3

Finally drew @lavaflowe‘s dtiys!!

Dtiys from @lavaflowe 💞☺️

I very rarely draw full-fledged works, as I still need a lot of practice, so this was a bit difficult for me. But I am glad that I decided to take part in it :3