Hello lovelies, you may have noticed that I'm not active on this blog much these days, because I unfortunately made it inconvenient for myself to use lmao. I will henceforth be moving my Danny Phantom activity over to a new blog, @just-another-dead-guy, which is less cumbersome for me to access.
Happy Phandom Holiday Truce! Here are the pieces I made for @spookberry and their super fun prompts. This was my first year participating and I had a blast. Thanks to @phandomholidaytruce for organizing everything!
The first two images are one bookmark for a full ghost Danny au. The last two images are the second bookmark about archeologist Flynn Fenton visiting home.
This is a part of my wheelchair/cane user Danny AU, and while I first had plans to draw Vlad and Dani in this AU- I just had to try my hand at drawing Cujo.
Cujo is a mobility assistant dog, he provides Danny with an additional level of balance support when Danny walks. He also has other tasks like item retrieval and "opening" doors.
He's also a trained diabetic alert dog! May as well put those heightened ghost dog senses to work.
More design explanation and little "rambles" under the cut, as always!
Someone in one of the other posts mentioned Danny using a hurrycane, and while I originally gave Danny a non-folding acrylic one for the aesthetic, I did want to give drawing different cane styles a go. This one has a wider base that swivels as he walks, and a small model of Pluto attached to the strap.
I imagine that, even though Danny would probably take the NASA designation very seriously, Pluto would become his favourite 'planet' after he develops his ice powers. Plus, in roman myth, Pluto is the equivalent of Hades- Hades has the dog Cerberus. And Pluto is a dog name- it was just too perfect.
When Danny brings Cujo to school with him, he brings a pouch of specialty ectoplasmic dog treats and Cujo's squeaker toy. He keeps those attached to his hip with a carabiner
Danny's new cane in this art has glow in the dark star stickers stuck all over it.
Cujo is modelled after a mastiff and bully- for no reason other than I wanted him to have the mastiff fur pattern and big ol' cheeks
Cujo being a diabetic alert dog actually comes from a gag line from a comic I've been working on. Danny was trying to get out of detention and fight a ghost, but Lancer rejects each of his excuses before he can make them, and one is "No, you may not go get Sam some juice or a snack, if she has low-blood sugar, I will get something for her."
But then I think it could just be a nice thing to train Cujo to do; I imagine that when Cujo is out with Phantom, he's alerted to a few random citizen's blood sugar levels
Cujo's full list of tasks include:
balance support for Danny while walking
"opening" doors (touching his nose to them to turn them intanglible for Danny)
item retrieval (less used due to how difficult ectoplasmic dog drool is to clean)
circling (where Cujo paces around Danny's chair in crowded places to give Danny space to move, stand up, or sit down)
wheelchair pulling (this is NOT an average mobility dog task- this is EXCLUSIVELY because Cujo is a ghost, he's got ghost strength)
and diabetic alert for Sam and other civilians.
More design rambles
Cujo's muzzle is non-restrictive. It's merely there as a signal to Cujo that he's still working, even if one or both of his vests have been removed.
The mobility assistant vest is inspired directly by a harness from Bold Lead Designs. I chose that one due to the adjustable height of the main bracer, but made a few changes; there is a leather bracer in front that's short and stays upright. The metal bracer can rotate back to lay against Cujo's side when it's not needed- and the plastic handle is moulded to curve around the shape of his body to make it lay flatter. There's a wool lining around the main parts of the vest for Cujo's comfort.
Here were my reference images:
The patches on the purple vest include "Mobility Assist" and "Diabetic Alert", a "Danny Phantom Certified SAFE GHOST" patch, another patch that says "Service Dog: Do Not Pet", and Danny's Casper High ID.
The light and dark gradient of Cujo's eyes is the reverse of what the humans have. Humans have highlights at the top of their irises and darker shades at the bottom, but Cujo has dark on top and highlight at the bottom.
Cujo's Axiom Labs dog tag has been replaced with a Danny Phantom tag.
The patches on the purple vest include "Mobility Assist" and "Diabetic Alert", a "Danny Phantom Certified SAFE GHOST" patch, another patch that says "Service Dog: Do Not Pet", and Danny's Casper High ID.
The light and dark gradient of Cujo's eyes is the reverse of what the humans have. Humans have highlights at the top of their irises and darker shades at the bottom, but Cujo has dark on top and highlight at the bottom.
Cujo's Axiom Labs dog tag has been replaced with a Danny Phantom tag.
Phew. That's a big list. Hope I didn't forget anything.
And that's about it for now. Like I said, I have plans for Vlad and Dani- but for now I just want to say this:
Thank you all so so much for the overwhelming support on my original post for this AU. 2K notes on the first drawings I did is insane- I have been blown away by how kind and excited ya'll have been about my design choices and art! And I'm so so so incredibly grateful for all of the wonderful people who gave me their feedback and advice, and corrected me on some of my mistakes.
I hope that as I post more, I continue to learn and improve.
also if I knew it was going to get so much attention I would have drawn backgrounds for the first two posts. They look so unfinished to me now ;-;
When I get time I'm going to go back and add some simple backgrounds to those two posts.
Thank you for sticking around and reading the rest of this post!
Jack hated holiday shopping. No, shopping was the easy part. He hated deciding what to buy for someone, especially when his wife and children claimed all the good ideas. By the time he’d decided to buy Danny a new telescope, Maddie had already ordered one. When Jazz dropped some hints she’d like some new psychology textbooks, Danny’d already hit the bookstore with the last of his allowance. Don’t even get him started on Maddie’s gifts—they’d been married eighteen years and he almost always came up with the worst gifts. He was lucky that she loved them anyway, grateful despite his blunders.
This year, Jack managed to come up with suitable gifts for her and Danny, but he was at a loss for Jazz. What did seventeen-year-old girls even like? Lip gloss? Unicorn stickers? Light-up sneakers?
That didn’t sound right. Even when she’d been younger, Jazz was never into that stuff. He could always buy her a gift card, but that felt impersonal. Besides, he’d bought real gifts for Maddie and Danny! He should be able to find a gift for his daughter—it’s not like she was a stranger!
With no other ideas, Jack started a list of things that Jazz liked. She liked psychology, school, and reading. Danny had already gotten her books, so he couldn’t steal that idea. So what did like besides academics? Did Jazz do anything else besides study? He couldn’t even name any TV shows she liked!
Think Jack, think.
What about… a scarf? No, Jazz had plenty of scarves. Besides, Maddie had already bought her clothes.
What about a new phone case? Oh, but she already loved the one she had.
A set of bath products? Wait, that’s what he got her last year. He didn’t want to repeat himself—that was just pathetic.
What does she like?
Jazz loved her Mom’s cooking. She liked going on car rides. She liked watching over her brother and she didn’t like her parents’ inventions. She liked reading the newspaper, but not magazines. Lately, Jazz had gotten into scrapbooking, but she already had about every material on the planet. Jack remembered when she got into that hobby, Maddie had sworn up and down that it was beyond ridiculous. Neither of them could understand why Jazz idolized Amity Park’s notorious ghost kid, Phantom. She liked him as much as she liked scrapbooking and neither of them knew why.
Although… maybe Jack could get her something for her scrapbook.
Sure, he didn’t exactly approve of Jazz's—ahem—celebrity crush, but it was Christmas. Phantom didn’t make it a secret that he liked signing autographs, hell, at one point he charged for them! If Jazz liked Phantom, then she’d love his signature, wouldn’t she? It was the perfect gift!
The only problem was convincing Phantom that he wouldn’t shoot him on sight.
Challenged myself to color this in 45 minutes and lemme just say... I love the autofill lasso tool. Not much to say, just a fun Idea I had to get out of my head :D