Hey so I got bored and started thinking about how I haven’t really drawn anything Balance-related in a while so here’s Balance!Dan bein all cool using his powers and shit.
It occurred to me that I’ve never actually posted a drawing of these guys using their powers. In 2020 I really want to get Project Balance started and powers get used a LOT in the story (seriously; there’s 6 arcs of about 11-13 episodes each that I have planned, and two of those arcs are directly centered around their powers (namely Dan’s), so I wanted to practice drawing then actually being used.
I need to draw Lucy more. She’s one of my favorite characters that I’ve ever created, not just in ProBal. So I decided to draw her showing her powers off to Balance!Dan for Inktober!
(Descriptions and AU-related things under the cut in case y’all don’t want to hear about that)
Balance!Dan is WAY different personality-wise than actual Dan. He’s a lot more introverted and sensitive in this AU, and he is constantly afraid of hurting one of his friends (specifically Arin) with his powers, which are among the strongest in the story, to the point where upon first exposing his powers to Arin he made Arin promise not to let Dan hurt anyone of the Grumps or Sonic cast (Monika hadn’t appeared yet). He was the first one in the group to get powers, for reasons that will be explained as the story progresses. Also I feel I should mention that this is an Egobang AU, so Dan has a super mega mondo crush on Arin but keeps it hidden so as not to tamper Arin and Suzy’s relationship.
His design is mostly unchanged from the real-life Danny Sexbang costume. I got rid of the red ribbons around the hands because I like the cape to be flowy, and I added a hood to the cape that you can’t see here. I thought it would be cute.
Powers include enhanced strength, psychokinesis, limited teleportation abilities (he can only really teleport himself in the beginning), an advanced healing factor and he can generate large EMP blasts (though he can’t really control this yet).
The second I saw the title of today’s Power Hour I knew what I was gonna be drawing tonight. All the Grumps in ProBal have a telepathic link with each other so I wanted to draw them using their powers; Arin has pyrokinetic abilities and Dan is an esper and can levitate things.
It felt kinda weird doing a full color illustration after doing two lined animatics in a little over a week, but I’m really proud of the colors and effects on this. I also put the logo in the corner there as a sort of watermark because this is based on that AU. I am planning on starting that soon by the way. I don’t have any major art-based projects going on right now aside from stuff for online classes so my goal is to sum up the courage to start a ProBal sideblog so this blog doesn’t get clogged up with the main comic.
You might be wondering what Dan is levitating here. Well, hopefully you’ll find out soon enough...
