#Ox Head

[we-players]

In 2024 we also premiered a new 'popup' version of our PSYCHOPOMP work, with a gathering of guardian gods to be discovered one afternoon along San Francisco's Great Highway.

Photo: David Enloe

[ubtendo]

A doodle page from today, because I finished up sketches today but I don't have the energy to complete the drawings and I also don't have anything else to show 🥲

Anyway Ouaw + my artist sona doodles

[english-history-trip]

Some more truly baffling denizens of the margins of the 14th century Luttrell Psalter.

[nedison]

The morbid and oddly terrifying covers for John Entwistle's first four albums make them perfect for your spooky season soundtrack.

[randomthunk]

Valentine's Day kind of snuck up on me this year for a variety of reasons, but inspiration came when I saw a drawing of the finger-thumb heart gesture and was like "there, that's it, Oxventurers doing those K-pop things" or whatever.

[ruensroad]

What if we kissed at the gates of Hell?

A spoopy JiuYuan Au because the end of spoopy season is nigh. Ox-head and Horse-face are from Chinese Mythology.

[1650-1793-1941]

Well, we know what Crowley was doing in ancient Athens, I guess: tempting some poet into starting a blasphemous dining club

[yanguazalie]

Crossing the finish line!

🐇➡🐉

Just 5 days left.

[gingermintpepper]

U mention in 1 of ur tags that Poseidon has vitiligo? Could u tell us more about that pls?

Okay so, I saw this ask and went "oh man this is a wonderful opportunity to ramble about some of my design decisions for the Olympians" then I also, simultaneously went "This is also a perfect opportunity to doodle Poseidon" so I spent like, way too much time doing a dinky little doodle to show both what Poseidon's vitiligo looks like + what I generally envision his design to be like when he's on Olympus!

Of course, in true Ginger fashion, it's very messy but I think it gets the point across well enough! The big reason Poseidon has vitiligo (or why I've interpreted his skin as being speckled) is because well, as a horse/hippocampus (which is his actual preferred form) he has a piebald/pinto coat and the only way really to translate that onto a human-presenting form is some form of pigmentation disorder like vitiligo or leukoderma.

Poseidon, like almost every other Olympian (save for Apollo who has the most human-like appearance of them all) has multiple animal/mythical creature elements incorporated into his design/interpretation, many of these I've chosen to allude to what their 'truest' forms are like, for example Zeus' big bull horns because he was born a horned god or Aphrodite's feathered hair and talons because she is directly descended from Ouranos. Because gods are always changing and evolving as the world changes and evolves, these features of theirs can change to better match their current 'truest' self, but most deities, especially the older ones, tend to settle after a period of time and don't experience much drastic change. For my purposes, Poseidon was born with horse like features which he inherited from his mother including his striking piebald coat and his horse's ears, but he later acquired sea serpent traits such as his tail, sharp teeth and water-like hair after acquiring the domain of the Ocean and being forced to adapt very rapidly to his new environment.

Due to geneology and generational inheritance being such a major theme in my work, I chose to let that stand for the descendents of the gods as well! Humans naturally aren't born with coats and such, but many of Poseidon's children do end up having some form of leucism from minor things like Ancaeus' double coloured hair or Bellerophon's 'peeled' hands and feet (they were a lighter colour than the rest of his body) to much more intense expressions of the trait like Theseus' albinism or Triton's very unique speckling. It's rare for his human children to get an extreme expression of this trait due to humans just kind of having less melanin to work with compared to nymphs, spirits or animals, but it does happen from time to time.

[lmk-oc-competition]

LMK OC COMPETITION - ROUND 1

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Ox-Head belongs to @allthenicknamesweretaken

Java belongs to @the-real-dev

Learn more about them below the cut!!

Ox-Head:

Ox-head is one of the many servants of the Underworld. He exists in a world where ox-heads and horse-faces are a species, guarding the Underworld and guiding the many many souls to their inevitable destination there. These servants don no name as there is no use for one, the only thing that matters is their job. This ox-head, however, has been doubting their leaders' motives and whether they really are worth following. No matter. It can't be more important than their job... Can it?

Java:

Spider demon OC! He's Syntax's cousin and childhood friend. He's basically the inventor of the spider gang (since Syntax is the coder!) He also has a set of spider legs, but he actually uses them as arms. Think Garmadon from Ninjago. Fun Fact: I named him after Minecraft: Java edition, as well as Java the actual coding language (to parallel with Syntax :3)

[we-players]

Catch up with Ox Head and Horse Face, those wise-cracking Chinese guardians of the underworld, on SF's Great Highway this Saturday at Noriega from 12 to 4. This event is free and open to all ages!

Photos by the amazing Lauren Matley

[the-monkey-ruler]

Prequel of the Monkey King (2009) 齐天大圣前传

Director: Liang Hansen Screenwriter: Liang Hansen / Li Weilong Starring: He Jiong / Zhang Yishan / Wang Hantao / Li Yang / Lu Nuo / Xie Na Genre: Drama / Comedy / Fantasy / Adventure Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2009-09-29 Also known as: Monkey King - Prequel / Prequel of the Monkey King Type: Retelling

Summary:

Sun Wukong (voiced by He Jiong) has no father or mother. He is a monkey that jumped out of the stone. With his extraordinary courage and wisdom, Sun Wukong quickly found a place for himself among the monkeys and became the Monkey King leading the monkeys in one fell swoop. However, after witnessing the death of an old monkey, Sun Wukong began to doubt his own existence and significance, and he decided to embark on a journey to find a way to make himself immortal.

Sun Wukong met Patriarch Bodhi and became his disciple. After going through many difficulties and dangers, he finally achieved enlightenment. After that, he came to the East China Sea Dragon Palace and turned the Dinghai Divine Needle into his handy weapon, the Golden Cudgel, and thus mastered powerful power. An accident caused Sun Wukong to break into the underworld by mistake, get the book of life and death from the Lord of Hell, and thus gain eternal life

Source: https://chinesemov.com/2009/Prequel-of-the-Monkey-King

Link: https://www.bilibili.com/s/video/BV1wt411L74u

[toad-in-a-trenchcoat]

bust designs for my non-doll Uglydolls au

I suppose in this case they’d just be called Uglies

[nonbinary-sticks-the-badger]

i dont think he's shadow's best va but i think david humphrey definitely suits his character best (at least my version of how canon shadow should act). he has the ability to sound menacing but isn't overly aggressive; he can be gentle when needs be.

i particularly like his more monotone performance adds to it because it isnt so far as to sound unenthusiastic (as an actor) but it gives off the feeling that he's uninterested to those who don't know him, portraying the misunderstood side well. at the same time this adds to shadow being easy to view as autistic, which is obviously going to please me, an autistic person, and help me relate.

im glad he's not the exclusive VA for shadow, because i dont think he would have thrived in his more "edgy" mischaracterisations later (NOT counting shth because even if it is ridiculously edgy at times THE WHOLE! POINT! OF THAT GAME! IS THAT THE PLAYER! DECIDES! SHADOW'S! MOTIVES!). even when shadow is portrayed in a more nuanced light, eg 06, prime, it isn't quite the same way as he was in sa2 and heroes. neither have a major focus on maria or anything to do with the ark in shadow's story, and while heroes doesn't either, i think with the general tone of the game (and also with it being aimed at a younger demographic) shadow does get to express himself way differently through the level dialogue, a more informal way of communicating character, than in cutscene dialogue.

to be fair i have never played 06 so i dont know the level dialogue in that!!! but also out of the 3 iterations i just listed that one has the oldest target audience (heroes is PEGI 3, prime would probably be PEGI 7 and 06 is PEGI 12). and obviously theres no level dialogue in prime lol.

anyway hope you enjoyed my yapping about david humphrey shadow 👉👈

[buddy-tm]

I'm sorry I really don't know what was going on in my head here

[rivilu]

Excavated and redesigned an old oc from middle school because his old design was um.

..unusable.