This is pretty much the most recent thing I have done to date having completed it only yesterday.
It is a depiction of a character from Chinese folk lore called Monkey or Sūn Wùkōng taken from the book “The Journey to the West” and it’s for a project that I’m working on at the moment.
I grew up watching the TV series which was dubbed into English and I would be sure to be sat crossed legged, watching BBC2 at 6pm on a Tuesday (as I remember).
If you don’t know it follows him and his companions on their journey to India to fetch some Buddhist scriptures and I still watch it with my own kids on DVD today.
He was made to go on this “Journey” by Buddha in penance for his behaviour in the Kingdom of Heaven (He smashed it up a bit, ate all the peaches and peed on the Buddha’s finger).
How’s that for disrespect?
While all the other kids at the time were into Superman or The Hulk, Monkey was my hero and still is.
He was a sort of anti-hero in the fact he was mischievous, arrogant, self centred and refused to do as he was told.
Can’t imagine why I like him so much:)
If you’d like to download it as a desktop (1920×1200) you can do so by clicking HERE and the iPhone wallpaper HERE.
Monkey Magic:)
