KaroxArts

Karo · Hobbyist digital artist · 28 y.o · Poland · proshipers/maps DNI

[wkz123]

Archaic WIPs of Dec25-Feb26

[night-aku]

Here's a little drawing of Wukong from the game "Black Myth: Wukong" hope you like it!

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[t0byinthesky]

I'm fascinated by how the animators for TADC handle Caine's impossible anatomy so well. There's so much to balance and they've somehow engineered a solution for his expressions to hold during speech.

I also traced Caine answering the phone from episode 4 to demonstrate his phonemes and mouth shapes.

[alleesaur]

the productivity creatures

[shenoego]

GET BACK HERE

[karoxarts]

Artist quirk #1: I color code my OC files so that I make sure their color palette's don't repeat

[igallbladder]

[revivivivify]

[your-least-favorite-poet]

yk what fuck it, im gonna make a tag game

artist mutuals! i call upon thee to post all of your current wips right now!

ill go first:

tags: @burnininhell @midnight-drip @ink-stained-paws @im-n-your-walls + every other artist that sees this

[im-n-your-walls]

OOOOHHHH fun fun fun

My main wip since I use markers so I don’t have to wait for paint to draw lol

Uuhhh idk how many of my moots are artists so uuuhhh let’s go

@artistic-endchamber @ne1gh6 @pacificpearls @ghoulia-fn

[artistic-endchamber]

Wip of my girlfriend from memory page !!!

@sketchist-art @hybridanafrost @kcuf-ad @queenbutterfly276 @aquamage1000 @mitchmitmy !!!

[mitchmitmy]

Wip of a song!

I have many ideas of drawings but I didn’t start them cuz a song appeared in my mind and I need to make it ASAP.

@ryansrave @hoshi-keiko @nachtfaustshairtie @jullify @therandomestusernameever don’t be afraid of your wips they’re your friends too 😭🫶🏽

[jullify]

small wip of a teto painting that i will post later 😗😗 along with gumi too (later just imagine kike a green canvas)

hi guys 🥹🥹

@ryansrave @therandomestusernameever @nachtfaustshairtie @pvnksolar @princey-poetry and anyone else

[ryansrave]

AWWW THANK YOU FOR TAGGING MEEEEE Oh gosh where do I even start ermmm...

These two full body reference sheets i keep talking about and NOT doing ✌️

Guys I'll finish them I swear... 🏃‍♂️ Ry's outfits will no longer be confusing one day

And then a few panels from a comic that’s been rotting for like 2 months eheh - not chrological cuz some of its just stick figures so there wasn't much point 💀

All this + like 3 collabs a my irl friends, a whole animation for tiktok, and uh other people’s OC drawings but im working on getting better at the element of surprise so no sneak peaks 🤝😔

What can i say i like keeping myself busyyy (◕‿◕ )

I summon thee 🫶

@pluesan6 @viridian-vulpes @allensstars @dashwjhgz01 @ladytrsharon

[allensstars]

Oml I'm a bit nervous about showing these...

First we have this: It was for the fankid prompt of yumemay, idk why I didn't finish it, I was really excited to show my beautiful Eleonor

Then this... It's supposed to be a cursesd drawing of Mereoleona with my favorite drink lmao

Then this attempt at trying to learn how to draw my face, I'm still struggling but I'll keep trying until I get it right :333

I get really shy when it comes to showing my sketches and wips because they're usually terrible ehe😓

@pvnksolar @dashwjhgz01 @klaire430 come here and do this

[dashwjhgz01]

Do i even got sketches let me go look

Uhuuu sketch of lilith's spirit for her lore. The spirit of the sword passed down through generations of sword saints in the spade kingdom 🙂‍↕️

Been also replaying botw recently so i (finally) made an oc for sidon. He reminds me of Leo alot !! (Old oc design)

Sidon sketches

Updated design of my zora oc, she's an oarfish with the gift of prophecy huhu

Highschool au Leo (1)

Highschool au Leo (2)

One day i will properly do line art for all these pieces lmfao for now i just have very bad sketches that i crop to make it look finished 🫠

Pspspsps

@karoxarts @thoughtfullyrainynightmare

Dont be shy, share what you have

[karoxarts]

I don't have many wips due to my declining health but there you go

I don't know who to tag so eh.

[tychodorian]

CHAPTER CW: SI, Attempted Self-Harm, and Artistic Nudity

Read this comic on Tapas and Webtoons! It really helps me out, and I release every Wednesday.

Thank you so much for the support! All links are in my pinned post.

[karoxarts]

You know that feeling when you want to draw something but it is out of your skillset and patience it's driving you nuts??? Yea that is me with drawing ship art. To people that draw ship art: How do you do it? How do you make it look so good? Tell me your secrets please!!!

[aurorarpresources]

reblog this if you're fine with your mutuals sending you asks unprompted

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

Ailao mountain, yunnan province, China.

[timeturner-jay]

You know what exhausts me the most about the typical LMK fanon characterisation of Sun Wukong that has unfortunately bled even into people's perception of regular JttW?

The fact that they characterise him as a clueless himbo with random cool superpowers.

If you've only watched LMK and don't know the source material, I guess I can't blame you for having that idea, because that show really does do him so dirty - they stole nearly all his positive traits and gave them to the Six-Eared Macaque instead, after all. And for MK, the abilities he inherited from Wukong really do work like superpowers, so I get why you'd think it's like that.

But Wukong worked for them. His spells (not powers!) are the result of intense study and spiritual cultivation. He's extremely clever and learned all this magic and philosophy in record time, but he did still have to sit down and spend years learning it all. He's a scholar. He became an immortal sage because he became such a masterful practicioner of Daoist magic. Not only that, he's also a master of ancient Chinese medicine and can cure pretty much any ailment. The guy is a certified doctor! He's a big fan of clever wordplay too, and by "wordplay", I mean Chinese poetry and philosophy. He has a lot of sage wisdom and advice for all his silly quirks, and he can weave very beautiful and poignant quotes on the spot.

Above all, from among the four Celestial Primates (to which the Six-Eared Macaque also belongs), Sun Wukong's designation is "the Intelligent Stone Monkey". Out of the four, he's specifically noted for his intelligence. He's smarter than any of them. It's what sets him apart. If he has a "superpower" at all, it's his astounding intellect. He's a genius. He's so much smarter than Macaque could ever be, because it's literally his defining trait.

So yes. That's why this himbo-characterisation that has been bleeding into every other JttW-fandom space feels so deeply exhausting. It misunderstands and misrepresents Sun Wukong on such a frustratingly fundamental level. Every time I see takes like "Sun Wukong is the physically strong one, while Macaque is the one who is smart and good at magic, which Wukong kinda sucks at teehee", I die a little inside. I'm not even going to touch much on the fact that LMK gave Six-Ear a much bigger role than he ever should've had (he's a very evil and obsessive two-bit villain in the books who only shows up for a single arc and was never a part of Wukong's life before or after that), because that's a whole other can of worms, but by putting him so front and center and giving him most of Wukong's good qualities (leaving Wukong himself with pretty much nothing in exchange), LMK really has done irreparable damage to the way a lot of people perceive the Handsome Monkey King. Which is a very backwards way to treat the mythological figure whose fame and popularity you're basing your whole franchise around, if you ask me.

[karoxarts]

I used to be a fan of LMK and to broaden my horizon I picked up JTTW, it's related graphic novels and movies and games. The amount of a disappointment I felt at the show, was massive. Wukong in the show now that I re-watch it felt just like a washed down version of the novel one. I sometimes joke that he is a bit like Goku from DBZ and I'm starting to feel like it's not a joke anymore. Heck Macaque is more like novel Wukong than the LMK.

I'm not going to bash people for liking LMK, you do you boo. However, if people base their knowlege on Wukong just from LMK... To quote Macaque is season 4: "You really should read the book kid", cause there is more complexity to Wukong than you think.

[venompeach]

Trying to put the sun in Sun Wukong

[so-many-ocs]

*feverishly* fetch me images of the Character. Posthaste.

[julien3223]

Tang Sanzang pretending to sleep to avoid what Wu Kong had to tell him and immediately paying consequence.

FOR ONCE ON THIS JOURNEY JUST LISTEN TO HIM HES YOUR BEST DESCIPLE😭😭😭

I need to draw more silly scenes/moments from jttw

@jttwaudiodrama so close to chapter 40!!🙌

Almost to that halfway mark 😭 thank you 5th monkey team for all your hard work!

[chernobog13]

Posters of the pilgrims from Journey to the West used to advertise the films The Monkey King 2 (2016) and The Monkey King 3 (2018).