Giver/Taker
#speedran finishing this so i could get rid of any art desires b4 my masters assignments deadline#anyways more wukong. i think unless it’s zhiping i won’t do more monkey for a while since i finished my metaphor base file#maybe hulkenberg and some louis next#jttw#journey to the west#sun wukong#wukong#artists on tumblr#digital illustration#digital art#m1nsur0#black myth wukong#art study#illustration
[JTTW OC: 智平]
蛟龙潜匿隐苍波，且与虾蟆作混和。
等待一朝头角就，撼摇霹雳震山河。
#mum walked in whilst i was drawing him and went :) oh what a lovely lady :)#i was gonna give extra points to anyone who could see what was on the scroll but tumblr will ruin the details so don’t worry about it#make sure to give zhiping some winter mandarins#he deserves it#jttw#journey to the west#jttw oc#black myth wukong#black myth wukong oc#artists on tumblr#digital illustration#digital art#m1nsur0
[JTTW OC: 智平] Pale Dragons, Pale Mountains
#Bai Long Ma and Zhiping click immediately from the moment Longma almost kills sanzang after eating his horse#dragon to dragon communication#between zhiping and wukong that dragon horse is TAKEN CARE OF ❗️#bimawen and the dragon healer keep him in tip top shape#in JTTW bai long ma ends up at leiyin temple but in this black myth wukong divergence he sticks with zhiping at his academy grounds#they hibernate together#jttw#jttw oc#black myth wukong#bai long ma#yu long#oc#m1nsur0#artists on tumblr#digital illustration#digital art#journey to the west
大鬧天宮 still sits at the top for best Wukong design
[JTTW OC: 智平] Winter Blues
#he’s not happy to be out this time of year he wants to HIBERNATE#huaguoshan luckily has a shorter winter season than most but he will still find some sort of cave near a natural hot spring until it’s warm#constant war of attrition between him and wukong on staying awake during winter so they can be lovey dovey n the cold making zhiping likely#to eat him while to stay warm#cut to monkey dragging his claws down a cave wall bc he wants attention but it will be his death if he interrupts winter slumber#all this to say i needed to do a fabric study to keep up with folds and zhiping was on the brain#jttw#journey to the west#jttw oc#black myth wukong#sun wukong x oc#sun wukong x reader
Denizens of Spring
[Sun Wukong & The Destined One]
#sigh…. in another life wukong can baby all of his younger monkeys forever#i think mandrill chief gave him little expeditions around the mountain when he was a baby monkey#and wukong does it for all the newborn cubs that he can#touring for all of the best peach and mango plants#ye ye wukong would be the most spoiling grandpa#ye ye sun !!! ye ye kong#he gets a bit :( if there’s no monkey born one year bc who will grasp onto his fur as he walks around#jttw#journey to the west#sun wukong#destined one#black myth wukong#monkeys#artists on tumblr#digital illustration#digital art#m1nsur0#i always forget the mandarin for grandpa lol i’m cantonese/hakka malay chinese
[JTTW OC: 智平] i’ll let you guys figure out what horrors have befallen me today
Same Branch, Different Leaves.
[Sun Wukong and the Destined One]
#i know i said i wasn’t drawing more of this sort of art bc of metaphor but i found this one i did about a month ago#so here!#love wukong and the destined one. i think wukong probably felt remorse and pity putting a diff monkey to rise to his heights#a different leaf of his branch having to breach the soil under harsh circumstances#he’s very empathetic for his mountain monkeys and it probs caused some dissonance that one of his monkeys had to suffer for him to be free#he cannot live without one of his monkeys dying (over and over and over)#jttw#journey to the west#sun wukong#jttw sun wukong#destined one#black myth wukong#artists on tumblr#digital illustration#digital art#m1nsur0
[JTTW OC: 智平] “分桃” The Shared Peach
Originally an act of courtship, Wukong would always share a peach with the Violet Dragon, taking a single bite to ensure it was of high enough standard for him. No matter how many years pass, most mornings spent together begin with the Monkey King passing a peach with a bite taken out of it to his lover.
#did you know that 分桃 is used for gay lovers in china? you now do you’re welcome#as early as a 6th century poem!#instantly assigned it to wukong and zhiping when i deep dived into poetry a few years back#he also calls zhiping 分桃 because he’s the peach that wukong takes a bite out of the most#jttw#jttw oc#journey to the west#black myth wukong#sun wukong#sun wukong x oc#sun wukong x reader#this is a frame from the chap2 stop motion animation btw!#used my fave digital brushes for this one#nice n textured
First Winter Known, First Snowball Thrown
#still very obsessed with japanese baby macaques n their long fur when they’re the mountain type#so wukong gets to be a mountain macaque here#he looooves pelting snowballs#thinks it’s the funniest thing in the world#terrifying aim as well never misses his shot#jttw#journey to the west#sun wukong#artists on tumblr#digital illustration#digital art#m1nsur0#art study#black myth wukong
“In Mount Huaguo, a day unlike any other unfolded. The Mandrill Chief was leaping through the mountains when she suddenly saw the celestial stone on the mountaintop explode, producing a stone egg. As the wind blew over it, the stone egg transformed into a stone monkey. The Mandrill Chief approached to observe, and the stone monkey began to mimic, learning to crawl and walk.”
- Mandrill Chief In-Game Journal entry
#love this game’s interpretation of wukong’s mother and also motherhood across the game#the mandrill chief and lady rakshasi#i think it’s so subtle but so lovely how it’s the mandrill chief that travels faster and further than the destined one to do her part#in brining her son (wukong) back#that’s her son that she raised!!!!!!#and she finally gets to the 5th buddha head to see a monkey that looks just like her late son#wukong’s CN laugh being similar to mandrills despite the different sub-species they are…like mother like son#her instantly going on her own journey when she’s told she can make a difference……#jttw#journey to the west#black myth wukong#sun wukong#artists on tumblr#digital illustration#digital art#m1nsur0
[JTTW OC: 智平] Zhi-Ping: “Brother Bajie introduced me to this ‘Destined One’ a day ago, but if anything bad happens to him I will kill everyone here and then myself.”
(Bajie: Well let’s slow down here, I don’t need both you AND Wukong dead.)
#that’s His Son#his baby#zhi-ping always calls him one peach tall#to which DO turns into a peach to make him laugh#the mountain monkey babies loooove him and he loves them more#married the monkey king so he could adopt like 490 baby monkeys at once#artists on tumblr#digital illustration#digital art#m1nsur0#jttw#journey to the west#black myth wukong#destined one#sun wukong#the baby monkeys are always asking him to turn into his dragon form so they can climb all over him and his horns#why would he ever deny them!