The Three of Me

[Fire Monkey]

This is a picture of me ... well, sort of. These 3 characters combined are me - the personality at least. I am creating a digital comic based on a series of short stories I wrote, the comic is called Sifu and it is based on events in my life [though perhaps they didn't exactly happen as I have recounted them] For the story I created three main characters, each of which is based on part of me. The Monkey Lord is the clever and mischievous side of me, Sifu is the contemplative observer of life and the Fire Monkey is the wise and mysterious aspects of me - each a bit exaggerated and caricatured but when you combine them you have me - well, the personality - I can only wish I had all the skills - walking through walls could be handy....

[Brigid Briton]

Hi Tim,

I like this! It's really interesting that you've been able to graphically display different aspects of your character. Most of us have never even taken the time to delineate those aspects in ourselves, let alone draw them.

You are one cool monkey! (I mean three cool monkeys!)

[Fire Monkey]

Thanks - it took me a while to develop the characters, well, Sifu was easy since he looks sort of like me when I was a bit younger, but I went through a number of attempts to design the other two - these are what the characters look like in my digital comic, so I didn't come up with the look just now, I have drawn all three quite a few times in a lot of poses now ... I think at the moment I have drawn something like 170 or 180 panels of the comic [they don't all have these three in them, there are other characters too - like Sifu's cats: The Professor, whom Sifu calls "Flufftail" and Blackears, whom Sufu calls "Pantherella" - and several others.] but it has been fun coming up with them all.