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Day 03 - Black Cat

I confess, sometimes I think what if Danny were a cat. And then I think that he would be very small and very fluffy, given how very unruly his hair is.

Anyway, have some skrunkly kitten Dannys, and of course the required lost time:

He's just a tiny little soot poof of a kitten...

#danny phantom #ectoberhaunt23 #jackdraw-spwrite #jackdraw-sprite #clockwork dp #danny fenton dp #day 03 black cat

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I have an infestation in my brain

#danny phantom #danny phantom dp #little baby man #jackdraw-sprite #digital art #well I inked it on paper and colored in krita #jackdraw-spwrite

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Day 5 - Hunt

I've never drawn Skulker before, so I figured this would be a good opportunity :)

#danny phantom #skulker dp #ectoberhaunt23 #eh science #day 5 #hunt #jackdraw-spwrite #jackdraw-sprite

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Finished a pocket sketchbook today that I was using for hand and line confidence practice.

#jackdraw-spwrite #jackdraw-sprite #traditional art #hands #tw flashing #it's flipping the pages of a sketchbook but to be safe #I figured out that it takes me about as much time to draw a hand as it does for my tea to brew #so for the past week and change I've been drawing one while I wait #keeps me from forgetting it for an hour #we're not going to examine the days that have eight drawings I start work very early 😭

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I can't help it I thought about lost time a little too hard and now this is here.

My first lineart submission for @green-with-envy-phandom-event 2024!

#danny phantom #greenwithenvy2024 #danny phantom dp #clockwork dp #jackdraw-sprite #jackdraw-spwrite #lineart

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My second lineart submission for @green-with-envy-phandom-event 2024!

#danny phantom #clockwork dp #danny phantom dp #jackdraw-spwrite #jackdraw-sprite #lineart #greenwithenvy2024 #lost time dp

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I'm still obsessed with him

look at him, small enough to use the crown as a bed

he's so shaped

he can be a worm

he can be a cat

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adorable or vicious or adorably vicious

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maybe when he's happy he does the banana pose like seals do

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One thing is for sure, though:

I want to roll him out like cookie dough.

and bake him.

#danny phantom #danny phantom dp #little baby man #jackdraw-sprite #digital art #long post #jackdraw-spwrite

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Hi, @ep-10 ! I was your truce gifter this year for @phandomholidaytruce and I decided to use your prompts for a Japanese ghost--kinda, but mostly for a biopunk fantasy au. You're getting some character designs for a biopunk fantasy AU set in a world suspiciously similar to Sengoku era Japan! And also backstory. Mostly backstory, really.

Warning for someone getting baked alive in a kiln.

I mean, we all know who.

Jack and Maddie Fenton are a married pair of researcher/alchemists who've been brought into the country with the influence of an old friend of theirs, Vlad. He wants them to figure out the secret to producing porcelain, an expensive and magically versatile ceramic with a production process that's a closely guarded secret in a nearby, much more economically powerful country.

To this end, Vlad has supplied the Fentons with enough wealth and resources to not ask things like "where did you get this?" and "what exactly is going to happen when it gets out that we're trying to make porcelain?"

As it turns out, this is a very important question, because together the pair piece together how to build a kiln that burns hotter than any they've ever seen before and for the very first time make the coveted porcelain.

The victory is short lived: their son Daniel goes missing that very day, and then their search for him is waylaid by another discovery: some of the porcelain is coming to life, animated by a horrific amalgam of flesh and vitriol. They must find Danny, but first they must make sure the monsters they've made are destroyed…

So! The three big players in our cast of characters here are Jack, Maddie, and poor, poor Danny. They are coincidentally the only ones I had time to do a character design for, so let's look at Jack first, who is holding an experimental porcelain vase:

That's quite an outfit. It's, uh. Not quite standard in the Sengoku: while he's wearing a hitatare, it's been modified, and he's chosen not to wear pants because it's technically not, like, a crime. I chose this for him because Jack:

a) Does not care about what everyone thinks of what he's wearing, or he wouldn't wear a jumpsuit all the time in canon b) Hates the feel of most clothes

Hitatare were growing in popularity during the Sengoku because of how comfortable they were, so it seemed a good fit for Jack. They didn't necessarily need to be worn with hakama if you were of a lower class, but it would be frowned upon to go without if you were off a higher class.

The modifications he and Maddie have made to it make it even less restrictive than a standard hitatare, and a bit more suited to their work of experimenting with kilns and clay.

The obi is stitched into place, so it doesn't actually act like a belt and put a line of pressure across Jack's stomach, and they've added a button to the side to hold the hitatare closed, instead. The stitching around the sleeve openings is pretty archaic by this point, but they've kept (or added) it so he can draw the openings closed when he wants, and a second draw string runs along his sleeve to let him draw the sleeves away from his hands when needed, while still letting him let them extend to their full length to act as a barrier between his skin and unpleasant textures.

He's got some leather gloves and a pair of very early goggles to protect his hands and eyes from the heat of the kilns.

The geta act as an additional layer of protection against bad textures, since they should keep him above mud.

Maddie, here holding a shattered fragment of porcelain, is dressed far less eccentrically, because this (left) is before the porcelain came to life. She's just wearing a kosode with hakama and a leather apron. (She has gloves too, they're just tucked away at her back) The smaller sleeves stay out of the way while she works, and the hakama are roomy. She's wearing waraji, because she prefers what I assume is more stable footing and a lower center of gravity.

This is especially true after they start fighting the porcelain. Pictured here, you can see she keeps her hair out of her face with a standard low ponytail, and the Fenton Anti-Creep stick manages to still exist in this world, despite all odds.

This Anti-Creep stick is a bokken with embedded teeth of broken porcelain for a better shattering potential--metal, especially enough metal of sufficient quality for a sword, is expensive, and they're dealing with something that's only a stronger ceramic…

Which brings us to the kiln. And, to his great misfortune, to Danny.

This is a multi-chambered climbing kiln. While I don't think it's the first kiln that allowed firing temperatures to reach that required for porcelain in Japan in our world, it's the most common and appeared around the same time as that first one. The design of it encourages airflow in a way that traps and directs heat to build it on itself and distribute it reasonably evenly.

The kiln chambers would get filled with the pots to be fired, then they would set a fire in the little step down in each chamber. Then they would seal the kiln chambers entrances with fire bricks, except for a small stoking hole to keep the fires fed.

Then they'd light the main fire at the mouth to the first, lowest chamber called the stoke hole and the fire box respectively.

And then they would keep the fires lit, and feed them, wood upon wood upon wood…

Until eventually, the kiln warmed, grew sweltering, grew hot, hot like fire, like iron in a forge and then hotter still, until the whole of the inside glows.

Like the center of the earth.

…

At the lowest, porcelain requires a firing temperature of 1000 degrees. Celsius.

Brass melts, at that temperature. Porcelain itself gets its strength from melting.

And Danny…

Danny tripped. Danny was loading one of the chambers, and he tripped and he hit his head and by the time he woke he was sweating.

He tried to crawl away from where he knew the fires were. The flue, where the spent air left the kiln, has charred finger marks where his burnt away after the carbon dioxide and heat drove him unconscious a second time.

It was a mercy.

By the time he woke again, his body was cooling.

You see, the Fentons enchanted the kiln to make it try to repair pieces that were falling apart during the firing process. And, if one piece was destroyed in the firing anyway, to use the fragments to reinforce the other pieces in the kiln.

Danny was in the kiln. Danny's body failed.

Bone ash is not a critical ingredient in porcelain, but its presence makes it much, much stronger.

Danny woke up made of porcelain.

His sandals left black on the soles of his feet and the fingers on one hand that had burned looked skeletal. But he woke up.

And he ran.

Later, he'll find help. Later, he'll find a way to fight the other things in the kiln that day, and the results of later firings. Later, he'll meet a boy who loves puzzles and information and who teaches him how to use a bow and arrow to keep his fragile body intact. He'll meet a girl who loves foraging (partly because it gets her away from her parents) but loves justice more.

(Whether he'll stop wearing his clothes like a corpse is another question.)

Danny here is wearing something hitatare adjacent and hakama, along with a yugake.

Happy truce!

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Some quick little baby men!

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LBM is @tourettesdog's

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The hour for Lost Time brainrot has struck once more!

But jackdaw, you say, that's every hour.

So it is.

A random au where Clockwork raises Danny / takes him in. Danny has a cloak because he kept stealing Clockwork's. This has been in the works a while (and sat gathering dust even longer), but I'm finally happy with it!

#danny phantom #danny phantom dp #clockwork dp #jackdraw-sprite #lineart #digital art #digital line art #I may color this later but I really want it to see the light of day because I'm so proud of the lineart #I learned a lot about line weights and communicating contrast #and light and shadow #and depth while working on this #jackdraw-spwrite

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Hello! I had the honor of making the sidebar art for this year's @ectoberhaunt!

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I decided to try coloring this lineart with some of Krita's watercolor brushes. I've played with them before and really liked them, and I like how this turned out :)

Thanks to @risayume for helping me figure out some issues I was having with the background :)

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Ectoberhaunt 22 - Day 20: Flight

Each step on the way out of the lab seemed insurmountable.

#danny phantom #ectoberhaunt22 #eh chaos #day 20 #flight #danny phantom dp #jackdraw-sprite #pastels #cw gore #cw blood #jackdraw-spwrite

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some quick LBM (and one Little Baby Dani) sketches to test out some tablet settings :)

LBM is @tourettesdog's child, and @seaglass-skies can be blamed for Dani eating shrimp out of a takeout box.

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Ectoberhaunt 22, Day 25 - Forest

A spirit world AU Danny, sitting in a forest and missing home :) Based (a little) off my minibang fic, Mare. In that context, this is a bit how I visualize the deepest layer of the spirit world we see in that fic: a forest full of trees so large that it's almost like being in a cathedral.

#danny phantom #ectoberhaunt22 #ectoberweek2022 #danny phantom dp #jackdraw-sprite #pastels #jackdraw-spwrite

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Dannymay 2023, Day 19: No Backspace challenge

I don't have a lot of time this month, but this challenge is perfect for keeping me from spending ages fine-tuning anatomical details. :)

To comply with the rules, I used ballpoint pen and no pencil. I did refine the scans, but only by evening out the white of the page on the scanned image.

Two alternate fills are below the cut -- I like all three of them but the above is my favorite.

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