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@suekis-stuff 生日快乐啊，我画咗你嘅平行世界大丹！

Happy birthday! I have drawn your alternate universe Dan Phantom. 😆

I suppose I can talk about how I draw cartoon characters and how I deal with lines in the future (will probably talk about that on other social media).

I like Weibo's watermark by the way, so I posted the version with its watermark.

Don't repost my things.

发布于2021年12月14日。

@liang-rexy 嘅第132篇原创文章。

I drew something about my alternate universe "Wings of the Ravens".

DO NOT REPOST OR USE. 😠

Last time I mainly talked about lines with the same thickness (@liangrexy 's 6th post), and this time I used more lines with different thickness. I basically drew lines with ink painting, calligraphy and pen drawing methods. You can see the strokes pretty clearly I suppose. Some ends of the lines, which were where I stop moving the pencil, look obvious, because I was imitating how I paint and write on actual paper. Although I don't paint very often and I really need to improve my skills, I know how it works and what I probably want. The brush I mainly used was the felt-tip pen tool, and honestly the lines has something to do with how hard I pressed the pencil against the device. When painting with an actual brush, I can hang the brush and let the tip of the brush stay on the end of a line for a little bit longer so that the water and ink can leave a pattern on the paper (to draw some lines I also need to rotate my brush). And I need to write strokes as well. As for the lineart in this post, I used techniques that are usually seen in landscape paintings. For example I drew dot leaves (pine tree needles here), which are groups of lines, to represent hair and other stuff, and I used tree branches and fabric wrinkles to draw shapes and outlines. Usually I don't colour my line drawings, so it will be nice if the lines are smooth and well-organized. If I want to colour my lineart, I can draw rougher lines theoretically (I don't really enjoy colouring my lineart now! ! ! ). 😂😂😂

I did colour something. Most of the colours I used were low-saturated. The bottom right Danny is in blue while the whole scene is basically in a red tone, so in order to achieve colour harmony, the saturation of the blue colours had to drop. The same goes for the bottom left little Dark Danny. I used the oil painting brush tool (I guess), the felt-tip pen tool, the eraser tool, and some other brushes. I drew the colours with methods of oil painting, watercolour and acrylic painting, and I didn't use that many lines. I left some brushstrokes and drew different kinds of edges because of my personal preference. Last year I often used the magic wand tool to draw this kind of art but now I realize that I can draw more quickly with brushes, although the bottom right Danny with a background still took me over two hours to draw. 😂😂😂 I think the coloured ones kind of look like prints and paper cuttings.

All plants in the picture are fictional. I just wanted to test something. I designed foliage's shapes and decorated them with branches. I have observed Cinnamomum camphora, Ficus microcarpa and some other species, and drawn a few line drawings. So I remembered something about how the branches grow, but sadly I didn't draw things very accurately. I will draw real species later I guess. 😂😂😂 SunnyTP (Lofter and Twitter) said that the dark red bushes were too saturated when we talked about colours, so I changed the bushes' colours.

The bottom left Danny's sketch doesn't have blood, and when I was colouring, I realized that I wanted to draw blood and a crying child again. I released feelings and it was cool. The blood is Dark Danny's, and I did use some horror stuff elements but I drew things in a mild way since the point was not showing something actually scary. I mix the features of several materials like hair/ fur, fire, liquid (water), clouds/ mist, plant textures and some other things together to design Danny's hair. So I can make his hair look convincing and at the same time it's clear that the character is fictional. Drawing the colourful smoke were interesting, too. One side of a wisp of smoke could have some twists while the other side could be drawn smoother.

The middle left Dannys: @suekis-stuff said my AU Dannys can lick each other and I thought that would be fine to draw so I drew the boys being friendly (or maybe not really).

There will be a few coloured chapters in the AU's comic, so I need to find proper ways to colour.

And here's one more piece of art: something about the Far Frozen people.

@liang-rexy 嘅第130篇原创文章。

于2021年9月24日发布。

Something about my Danny Phantom AU.

I drew something for my alternate universe "Wings of the Ravens". The little bear in the picture is my character Bella.

DO NOT REPOST OR USE. 😠

Top left: The bear. 🤔

Middle left: 👀👀.

Bottom left: Feeding time (kind of).

Top right: Danny is trying to love "himself", or maybe not really.

Middle right: Danny in his lab coat!

Bottom right: 😢😭.

It usually takes me quite a long time to draw. 🤔 And I often feel stressful when I create works. It was great that I finally felt a little bit happy again when I drew this picture.

The joy of conveying what I want to say can really encourage me to create more works. 😭😭😭

There are mainly two ways of drawing lines here. One way is to use lines with the same thickness (there are two to three kinds of thickness), and the other way is to use several different lines (like the lines in ink painting). When I used lines with the same thickness, I could draw pretty clear shapes and the more important thing was I could focus on designing the density of lines in an easier way. The other way of drawing is a lot more similar to ink painting methods and it is always interesting to use. I can write lines you know.

I have posted some drawings of Danny wearing his lab coat and Bella the Bear before (@liang-rexy ). Apparently Danny has more than one coat ha ha! 😂 I also drew two limiters (the belts) for the boy this time since I mentioned that my AU Danny uses "power limiters" willingly. 🤔

I wanted talk about my AU Danny AGAIN. Some concepts below were mentioned before and I still wanted to write them again. 😂

The Danny here suffers from some illnesses and he does get separated, and then there is Dark Danny and a more human-like Danny (sharp-incisorsed/ black-haired Danny), and neither of the Dannys is nasty/ violent enough to become something really horrible. Both Dannys are still half humans and they actually need what humans need. The two Dannys are fine with the existence of themselves and they can get on well with each other. They can fuse together (then separate if necessary) without using any tools/ devices, and when they are being one Danny, Danny can be more reasonable than his black-haired self. (Unfortunately Dannys are still suffering from illnesses. 😞)

In this world the Dannys are regarded as shapeshifters by other people, although I know that the "going ghost" thing is different from shapeshifting. Both of the Dannys can shapeshift but the black-haired Danny doesn't do that very often. Danny doesn't change "back" to any forms, so if he is very tired he will just stay in the current form. Basically he can only be other versions of himself and he has preferred forms. He needs to shapeshift occasionally or it will be uncomfortable for him to stay in a form, because staying in one form for too long (a few days or several weeks will be alright) is not very good for his health, but he can't shapeshift too frequently or it will be too tiring/ painful and even harmful/ dangerous for Danny. For example, he won't want to change immediately after a transformation (sometimes he just cannot transform after that without taking a rest). So he needs to be careful when he chooses a form. He uses some devices like the limiters mentioned above to monitor his health condition. The devices can also help him stay in a particular form if that's really necessary.

Danny has some hobbies and he really has the time to do his things. I have already talked about that. And I might talk more about what Danny can do/ like to do later. The boy takes good care of (most of) his toys and models and he is fine with playing toys with Jazz or other people, but he is afraid of stuff toys (only occasionally). Cute fluffy animal toys might scare him, so someone who knows Danny might use dolls to try to frighten Danny.

By the way, I didn't want Dannys to know the TUE timeline earlier, but this year I changed my mind. Little Dan here does see something of the TUE alternate universe (TUE is a parallel world in this case).

Liang Rexy嘅第6篇文章。

于2021年9月22日发布。

A few sketches of my alternate universe. Some Dannys were drawn in 2020.

DON'T REPOST!

Danny in the bottom left of the image says he doesn't have any money for dinner. The other sentence means that Danny will punch anyone who curses him.

The collar and the belts are two different types of power limiters. The collar can force a shapeshifter into staying in/ transforming to a particular "form" as well as hurting the user (Danny is regarded as a sort of shapeshifter here and a collar like that can affect him) (I know the canon half ghosts are not shapeshifters and I don't care). 🤔🤔🤔 I browsed my stuff on Instagram and noticed that I only mentioned the name of power limiters but I didn't actually introduce the devices. 🤔😳 I have posted some concepts of power limiters to Lofter. And I might change several things about the limiters, so I don't want to post what I posted to that platform here. 🤔 I kind of explained the devices in my 126th post anyway.

I might try to create a very short comic and post it here before June. I really hope I can finish the comic as soon as possible, and I think I want to make an English version this time, but I'm not sure. 🤔

无厘头羽王龙嘅第127篇原创文章。

于2021年5月20日发布。

Some concepts of my alternate universe "Wings of the Ravens". (It's really different from the canon world! Please skip this post if you mind seeing AUs) 🤔😂😂

DON'T REPOST.

All the dialogues are in Chinese, and I tried to translate most of them into English. I can't translate one of the sentences but I can explain the text.

The first image:

1. 我其实唔系好识用嗰部机。不过如果你等我睇阵说明书，我应该可以搞得𠶧。

I am not really good at operating the machine. But if you wait for a moment and let me read the instructions, I can probably manage to use it.

2. 啲人话我“搞搞震，冇帮衬”，我好伤心。

They said I was just messing around and I'm so sad. (@suekis-stuff helped me translate the common saying here)

3. 说明书睇咗三分之一，好攰啊！

Explanation: (I cannot translate this one since it's too weird to say that in English) Basically he has read some of the instructions and he's tired.

The second image:

1. Vlad: 你做乜着成噉？

Why are you wearing a lab coat?

2. Danny: (does not reply to Vlad) 我着实验服只系因为件衫好睇。

Because it makes me look good.

3. Danny: 好似揿错掣，点算好？

I think I pressed the wrong button. What should I do?

4. 我攞到我支笔啦！

I've got my pen!

5. 我畀人𢴒咗出嚟。

I was kicked out of the lab.

6. My note: 佢有只水壶，用嚟装嘢饮。

Danny has a thermos that is used for containing drinkable liquids (for example, a kind of drink that's made from Blood Blossoms) (So his thermos is not meant for capturing ghosts).

😂😂. 🤔

Danny has a short-sleeved lab coat and he can wear it sometimes. This kind of coat is probably designed for some medical workers, and I think Danny should probably wear a long-sleeved coat to do laboratory work. 🤔

When I was at high school, I saw a doctor who wore a lab coat with short sleeves. Before that, I thought all lab coats were long-sleeved (maybe I just didn't notice the other kind of lab coat when I was younger). 😂😂😂 My first drawing of Danny with a lab coat was drawn in 2019 (the third image). I said that I didn't like Danny (young Dark Danny) wearing the HAZMAT suit (then I realized that it didn't look nice perhaps because I couldn't draw the suit very well), and I thought Danny with a lab coat would look better than just wearing the suit, so I sketched the little drawing. 🤔

This time I wanted to take things more seriously. I redesigned the character a little bit, and I like the result. After talking with @littleveltyoung , I thought my old design was kind of weird (though something like that is canon), and it would make sense that Danny would just wear casual clothes with a white coat (I know in some AUs Danny can't change his clothes). This Danny really can take off his clothes and change clothes. He isn't interested in wandering around in a HAZEMAT suit, and he won't wear the suit if he doesn't have to. 😂😂😂

His wristband is one of the power limiters that I mentioned on Lofter and on Instagram. I forgot to talk about power limiters here. 😳 The device monitors the user's condition regularly, restricts the user's "powers" by limiting the amount of energy that's sent out by the user, and can probably keep the user safe on certain occasions. There are belts that is similar to the wristband in functions, but I didn't draw those belts this time (My AU Sam always wears that sort of belt and I have posted drawings of her). The limiters can be considered as an alternate version of Fenton Specter Deflector, but the limiters don't really cause Danny pain. 🤔The limiter(s) can usually keep Danny from hurting himself, and since removing the device(s) won't kill him, Danny can release the limiter(s) when he wants to. 😂😂😂

Danny is able to help with some lab work but sometimes not too helpful due to his lack of knowledge about his parents' (or Vlad's) technology. Though he can read instructions/ instruction books on how to use his parents' (and Vlad's) inventions/ machines (yeah there are instruction books). He does mess around and he might damage things or even hurt other people so he probably shouldn't be allowed to use weapons in labs. 😂😂😂

The Vlad in this world lives with Danny and Jazz (Of course the girl is alive) (The Nasty Burger explosion didn't happen, and this world isn't a TUE AU anyway). Vlad is not as horrible as the canon Vlad, although he is still responsible for Danny's situation. 🤔🤔🤔

I think it's alright to post DP AU concepts. But if I want to talk about my original works, I won't (shouldn't) explain too many things. 🤔

My post on Lofter:

无厘头羽王龙嘅第126篇原创文章。

于2021年5月19日发布。

I drew my alternate universe Danny. I posted the drawings to Lofter earlier. 🤔

DON'T repost.

I imitated @krossan 's art style again, and this time I tried to use her design for humans (/humaniods), but didn't really imitate every way of simplification or shading/ colouring (I also kind of changed the proportion of the character). My lines look different from Krossan's art , and it's pretty obvious.

I spent lots of time working on the lineart. I used some ink painting methods, and the lines look pretty nice. 😂 Designing the action/ pose wasn't a very big problem for me, but I am not familiar with human anatomy, so it did take me quite some time to figure out the construction and how to design a fine proportion. I spent some more time on designing the clothes. I gave Danny some really baggy clothes (basically my clothes but with different colours) (and perhaps the clothes are too big for him) so that I could draw interesting folds. At first the fabric was drawn too complicated, so I simplified the design several times (I redrew and redrew … 😅). I can draw some even simpler clothes (just take a look at my other posts), but it was not my purpose of drawing this. Anyway, I can talk a lot more about creating lineart, but not this time. (I am not sure if I know how to explain some theories in English) 🤔

The lineart here was not really meant for a coloured drawing and I didn't thought much about colouring when I drew the lineart. I don't actually enjoy shading or colouring, and apparently I am better at creating lineart. If I want to colour something, I prefer to design a simpler line drawing, and sometimes won't have to draw some very nice lines (yeah theoretically I can draw sketchier lines in that case, but I don't usually draw "rough" lines since I'm probably not good at that) (or I can just try something that's more like acrylic/ oil painting). The coloured one took me about 3 hours and 20 minutes to colour. 😓The coloured drawing is not as good as my line drawing, and it has something to do with the proportion of elements (such as lines, light and shade, colours, textures, etc.). 😂

After carefully drawing the lineart and colouring the character, I added some simple shade very quickly. The shade is really really rough, since I just wanted to see how to deal with colours. The drawing with simple shade here looks a bit better than the coloured one mentioned above. When I want to draw light and shade as well as colours, I often design environments that are a bit more complicated than the light background of the shaded one here in order to see how the colours affect each other, how the coloured light affect the environment, and to try to achieve colour harmony, which is basically what I do when I paint some particular kinds of paintings. In this case, I created some buildings (in fact, abstract textures would be alright as well) around Danny. I also needed to tell what Danny was feeling, so the environment was pretty important. (The light and shade in the drawings don't make much sense, but it doesn't matter because the drawings look fine) I like the red one, so it's more detailed and carefully drawn than the blue one. Honestly I can draw better light and shade and use a variety of greys to create a better drawing (or painting?), but this time I didn't want to focus on colours and light, so these two drawings are supposed to be rougher than my lineart. 😂

I planned to draw blood but I was too tired to study blood or find some references. In the end there's no blood in the drawing.

My posts on Lofter:

无厘头羽王龙嘅第124篇原创文章。

于2021年5月16日发布。

I drew Danny.

Don't repost or use my art. 😒

I kind of like this one. 🤔

I really enjoy drawing lineart (or line drawings? ). The drawings in this post are a bit sketchy, but I can draw better lines, you know. 🤔

Here are three similar drawings (I only changed the character's expression). I planned to post the one in the middle, and then @suekis-stuff said that she wanted to see all of the versions, so eventually I saved three files. 🤔

And some sketches. 🤔

无厘头羽王龙嘅第116篇原创文章。于2021年4月21日发布。

😂😂😂Well…

I imitated @krossan 's style and drew this guy in February, 2020. (Honestly her style has been changing, which is really cool)

Krossan's sketches reminded me of the Loomis method, and it was not very difficult for me to imitate Krossan's style. I didn't draw things exactly the same as Krossan's style (e. g. how I simplified clothes, the colours and the background), and it didn't really matter.

Compared to my usual style(s), it's actually a little bit easier to draw characters with this style. 😂😂😂😂😂

I talked to Krossan, and she thought it's alright to post my drawing. 😂

I have a more detailed text post on Lofter, but I can't translate that post into English, otherwise I could talk about drawing and design theories here. 😂😂😭

无厘头羽王龙嘅第115篇原创文章。于2021年4月21日发布。