#Danny phantom reference sheet

[theglamorousferal]

So if you’re new to the Danny Phantom fandom whether that be because you have joined us via a crossover, the new graphic novel coming out or just somehow got hooked into this fandom there are a few things you should know.

90% of content you will see is purely fanon lore.

I’m gonna divide this into two different sections, going over what is canon and then the most common things from fanon.

So if you go by the show, we have at least three different kinds of ghosts. We have ones like the Fright Knight who is a spirit formed from the feelings and beliefs of people surrounding the thoughts of Halloween and we have ones who were once humans like Sidney Poindexter and Desiree. There are also some who are the product of two different ghosts like Box Lunch. We technically also have the Ancients, but we don’t know anything about them except that they existed many years ago and then they enclosed Pariah Dark in the Sarcophagus of Forever sleep.

We know that a high concentration of ectoplasm introduced very quickly can causes human to turn into a half ghost. This happened with Danny at least 3 times, and the accident Vlad had (as well as Jack in an alternate timeline). Danny was changed twice by the portal and then once by being blasted by a bunch of ectoplasm.

In canon, the Fenton parents are very loving parents with just a bit of absent mindedness to them that leads to them missing the obvious signs that something is up with Danny. Every time in the show that he is exposed to them, he is accepted by them entirely. Even when in an alternate timeline where his parents never got together, he is accepted by them.

In canon, Jazz started out not knowing how to help Danny, Tucker and Sam, but it is shown in the show that she trains to be better later on. She still calls the ghosts by things she designated them as though, not how they would like to be called.

In canon, Vlad is awful. He regularly tries to Hamlet the main character. He tried to ruin/kill Jack to get with Maddie and make their kids his kids many, many times. He cloned a child, gaslit the clones into thinking he cared for them and then planned to melt them down to have his “perfect son”. In canon of the show, Vlad is not redeemable. (This sorta changes a bit in the graphic novel, but it’s a toss up whether that is actually considered active canon or if it’s its own canon now.)

In canon, Tucker is a genius after he was forced to sit through 12 hours of study programming. In canon, he is the reincarnation of a Pharaoh. He can speak a made-up language, Esperanto, and can hack into nearly every piece of tech he comes across.

In canon, Sam is obsessed with all things goth and so has tomes about magical beings and artifacts. She is athletic and is always ready to throw down. She only has plant powers in the episode “Urban Jungle”.

Now onto the Fanon, at least the most popular headcanons that I have come across.

The most common thing among the fandom is that Danny is half-dead. Some have him a ghost possessing his own corpse. Some have him be Schrodinger’s boy. Some have him have lower vitals or just no vital signs altogether. He is said to have died and not come back all the way or right. Common things have him be cold to the touch, a lower heart rate, and him forgetting to breathe entirely.

Probably the second most common headcanon is that Danny is the Ghost King after having fought and defeated Pariah Dark in single combat. Ways he takes the throne are varied, everything from him being forcibly put onto the throne and unable to go to the human world, to having to name Jazz or Maddie as regent until he reaches either human or ghostly majority, to him taking the throne but it being more of a figurehead thing. Most stories will have him have a plethora of titles and names he goes by. Along with this he now has a lair inside the Zone, most have him taking over Pariah’s Keep and some do have him have his own new lair.

Another popular headcanon is Ancient of Space or the Balance Danny (going with AGIT, the balance actually is now canon). These lead to things like Danny having an eldritch form. Something that is obviously “other” and hurts to perceive.

Both of these result in an OP Danny and probably around half of them will have him stuck at 14 and/or functionally immortal.

Another very common DP headcanon is Bad Fenton Parents and that their research caused the GIW’s formation. Alongside that come the most common type of fic you will come across which is where Danny has been captured by either the GIW or his parents and then is vivisected. Majority of them will have him vivisected by his own parents. Many of them will have them be varying levels of neglectful, from just not noticing things about their kids to straight up forgetting they were there and Jazz having to take care of them both.

In most fanon, the GIW are actively trying to genocide an entire species. This is closest to a canon thing considering that they did try to nuke the GZ, which would have resulted in their universe also collapsing. The things that some people write/draw for the atrocities the GIW and Bad!Fentons are things that I bring up to my therapist frequently. Be prepared for descriptive gore.

There are a few characters that have spawned in fanon that are widely accepted as canon characters now. The main one is Wes Weston along with his brother Kyle. Wes Weston was a background character that we see for about 3 frames in one episode, but he looked similar to Danny and had green eyes and the fandom latched onto that. It started out with someone claiming the A-listers would think that Wes is Phantom because he’s athletic, had the same build and green eyes. From there, the fandom has decided that he also is the only person to figure out that Danny was Phantom and tries frequently to expose him. Kyle Weston is Wes’ older brother, in the same class as Jazz and he doesn’t believe that ghosts are real and is played for gags a lot.

Another major piece of fanon lore is ghost cores. This stems from a remark Frostbite said talking about Danny’s core temperature and the fans took it and ran with it. In fanon there’s all kinds of different types of ghost cores, usually an element or an aspect of existence. Many have Danny possess an ice core, in some he has a space core. Others take his “death” into consideration and believe him to have an electric core. Commonly people have Vlad have a fire core. Usually cores are an orb that a ghost can retreat into to heal. If the core is shattered, the ghost is ended and no longer exists in any capacity.

Similar to cores is obsessions. These are essentially the purpose of the ghost, their drive and purpose. Skulker’s is hunting, Ember’s is recognition etc. Most give Danny a protection obsession, but will sometimes give him a space obsession.

Something that has gained traction in the last few years (to my knowledge mostly since the pandemic) is liminality. Liminality is where people are contaminated with ectoplasm due to overexposure or ingestion of it and it gives them ghostly abilities. Different people have liminality give people different abilities. Some have glowing eyes, lengthened canines and pointed ears. Some have enhanced senses, strength and speed as well as extra durability. Some have eyes that reflect like a cats and night vision. Some even go so far as give them at least one of the major ghostly abilities.

How someone becomes liminal differ depending on if the writer wishes to have it just be main characters or if it’s the entire town. If it’s just main characters then usually their frequent exposure to ghostly things as well as close proximity to it makes them liminal. For the whole town people will usually have the portal give off essentially radiation or when the town was pulled into the GZ be the cause.

Frequently Sam, Tucker and to a lesser extent Jazz are given extra abilities. Sam usually has residual powers from her time possessed by Undergrowth, Tucker usually has some form of techno Nancy and Jazz usually has some sort of empathetic ability, if not that she get’s the basic extra strength, speed, durability and senses.

There are some lesser known ones that should at least be mentioned in case you come across them. One of those being ghost hunger. This is where ghosts or liminals thirst for ectoplasm similar to how vampires thirst for blood. Another common thing is that ghosts socialize by fighting. That most of the fights are ghosts greeting the baby ghost. The last thing is that the main characters are known as Team Phantom.

I’m probably going to think of more later and I’ll post when I do, but this is the basics that I could remember on the fly. I hope this helps people!!

[okkennymay]

Commission for @sophronns

I know my reference sheets are supposed to be cell shaded, but for Danny? Oh man you know I couldn't help myself

Especially one that's ftm, short as hell and in his 30's (i'm only 2 years off myself!) man lemme just live vicariously through you my boi, I wanna be able to transform into a 6'6 beef cake too (っ °Д °;)っ

[definitely-jax]

[inky-fwog]

3 full body, full character sheets in 3 day???? Unheard of. (Tucker Foley)

I’m gonna post a speedpaint of all of them when I finish the lineup

Original under the cut

[starryqueen-18]

here are reference Sheet for Vlad's Roomate/ lab assistant Clara hope you guys enjoy

[papiliomame]

Road to 3D- Sam Manson (Part 1):

Model sheet

Part 2: Character Modeling

Hi! On my recent posts of my 3d models I got many asking questions about how I made them. I'm currently working on a 3d Sam model from scratch and so I thought I can document my process here and add some thoughts through my process.

Before I can model anything in 3d I need a reference and a plan. For characters this means I need to create a model sheet, so here we are.

Some disclaimer first before I continue:

I'm just a self-taught hobby artist not a professional or proper art student. The infos I write here down are just the things I do and can be completly wrong or different in a professional setting.

This is not a tutorial or a step-by-step-guide for character design or how to make character sheets in general. Just additional things that I pay attention to when I make a model sheet for my 3d models.

As someone who just does 3d modeling in my freetime for 2 1/2 years I see myself still as a beginner. I'm still in a experimenting with different techniques and artstyle. This and the following posts describes just stuff I do for this model, it could be some other method next if I feel this didn't work out that well. Nothing is set in stone.

I do the 3d models just for myself for practice and for fun, you cannot download them anywhere. I just post screenshots and do sometime animations to archive my progress.

Under the cut are my thoughts of how I approach a model sheet for a 3d character:

First things first I search for references and make some rough sketches to decide how I want the character to look like. I found this image of a character on pinterest ( anyone knows who the artist is? I cannot find the original source) and use this as a reference for my Sam model.

After the inital phase I first draw the front side of the character. For a 3d model I need a symmetrical neutral character in a T-pose, an A-pose or a standing pose in which the arms doesn't obscure the body. This makes it easier to model and rig them late on.

Speaking of obscuring the body it's also better to have a character without their clothes on and in multiple angles. It is easier to model the character's full body first and then model the clothes around it as an anchor point.

The most import angles for me are the front and side view. The other angles are more for the details to get the likeness right. I try to model the front view most accurately and the sideview is more for the proportions. I don't often see people only from the side view so whatever I draw from the side cannot 100% be accurately be modeled like that. I also made a different side view on the right with the arm seperated from the body, this makes it easier block in the form of the body and it's easier to model the arm and hand seperatly because hands are not only difficult to draw but also difficult to model.

For the different angles I use a mannequin model in blender as a guide and reference. Clip studio paint (the painting program I use) has also 3d mannequins but I personally find them difficult to move around so I prefer to use blender for this.

When I'm finished with the model sheet I also make a quick turnaround animation to see if anything looks consistent enough.

Yeah that's it. Now onto the modelling process!

[squishy-lombax]

Reference pictures and backgrounds for my two scenes in the Danny Phantom reanimation project. Now I actually have to start animating.

[eltigreslasher]

Laura Fenton/Laura Phantom

Leo The Lion And Raven The Hedgehog

[murcielagatito]

lets talk abt the stylization of danny phantom

so ive been an observer of phandom for a reaaallly long time now and ive noticed something thats had me thinking about this for a while. a lot of artists have mentioned they dont really know how to translate some of the characters into their own styles. this is something ive mostly noticed be said about tucker so i thought id make a little reference sheet type situation comparing the style of the show with a toned down version of my own

and its the fucking cheekbones!!! thats the part thats tripping yall up

-paulina has a slender face with high but soft cheekbones. shes a latina character so she translates to me as someone whose indigenous features are more prominent

-meanwhile sam has a rounder face and lower cheekbones than paulina does. the pic i chose honestly wasnt the best bc sams hairstyle covers their face a bit but moving on c i gotta to to sleep lmao

-valerie is NOT SKINNY and yet ppl stay drawing her that way. the show had its own issues with that itself but if you look at these characters by their faces alone it provides the necessary information to know that valerie has chubby cheeks

-dannys cheekbones are sharp and high but not as high as paulina's

-meanwhile tuckers cheekbones are sharp and low pero tambien el es un cachetón so he would have chubby cheeks as well. also it might not look like it but tucker wears a beret! id love to see more art of him wearing it :(

tucker danny and sam have natural eyebrows!! they dont do anything with them so if you wanna get more fun with it give em stray lil hairs n stuff!

and now the word cheek looks wierd to me ANYWAYS I REALLY HOPE THIS HELPS if yall want more facial breakdowns of any of the other dp characters lmk!

[phantomwithbreakfast]

⋆.˚ ⚡︎ 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐦 ⚡︎ ˚.⋆

⟢ My Danny Phantom OOC • Sheet 01: Bad-Tempered Behavior • Finally the full detailed clothing I had in mind—cyber wear inspired .ᐟ • Likes to wear baggy clothes • Age: 18 • ‘Scared’ to turn into his human form • Lightning scar • Damaged left eye, but not blind • From my Phic Scarred For Half A Life

My Danny version is a torment soul, grappling with depression and PTSD. Half his life has been spent carrying scars—some carved into his flesh, others burned into his soul. He drifts through the days, dissociation pulling him apart at the seams, his own thoughts twisting against him with desires he doesn’t want.

And even when happiness dares to touch him, just for a moment—just enough to remind him of what could be—the universe always rips it away. It doesn’t just let him suffer; it ensures it. In every way possible.

☻% x ـــــــــــــــﮩ٨ـ

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦.

⟢ bottom left angle/perspective was a reference I came across on Pinterest once, and I really wanted to try that out.

⟢ This is my first ‘character sheet design’ I’ve made in my entire life, so don’t come after me lol.

⟢ Still learning and playing with lights and shading—need to do this more often.

⟢ Full story: Ao3

[y0-yo-yo]

This is kinda messy because it's a prologue...But!

OBSESSED WITH YOU

a DCxDP story

Danny really doesn't like New Jersey

It was damp and cold and smelled like seaweed. winter wind felt like sand and salt on a cut.

And yet, he'll have to stay there for however long this mission will take. You see, a few days ago, Clockwork had commissioned him to go stop a young man who would, if left unattended, create a portal into the ghost zone and turn into a halfa contrary to his destiny in the small costal town Danny was now residing in.

Danny doesn't usually mind going on missions,but he quickly get bored if they drag on for a long time, he'd usually talk to his friends via ectophones or play and watch videos on it.... except Clockwork sent him to the 19th century!!! How was he supposed to cure his boredom now?

Well...there was a way for him to contact his friends without technology....

Resting places and remain were one of the most important things a ghost could ever have, it was something precious that linked them to their lives and the living world, if the ghost was powerful enough they could infuse their ectoplasm in their remains or objects that belonged to them in life through which the livings could contact them.

The same thing applied to Danny, true he didn't have a resting place per say, but being a powerful ghost owning a part of him could be enough to be linked to him. That is why each time he clip his nails or cut his hair he made sure to burry them in what he and his friends lovingly refer to as his "grave" on the outskirts of Amity Park's cemetery bellow a tree he and Tucker liked to climb on as children.

The thought of someone being more or less linked to him by merely owning a strand of his hair was concerning but as long as he didn't infuse it with his ectoplasm, and it didn't fall in the wrong hands it wouldn't be a problem, right? It's not like anyone would desecrate an unmarked tomb outside of a cemetery, right? Plus it has it's avantages! He first had this idea when for her birthday, Danny had offered Jazz a locket necklace, she put a picture of them as kids and, at first as a joke, she decided to use it as it's intended purpose and ceremoniously cut a strand of Phantom's hair to have both parts of her brother near her heart, Danny had felt like a tiny piece of himself had been taken from him, but it wasn't that uncomfortable of a feeling, it wasn't missing, it was there, surrounded in the comforting warmth he associated with his sister.

A few days after, he realized that if he concentrated enough he could feel what his sister was feeling at the moment and even see a strand guiding him to her when he closed his eyes and drowned out everything else.

Thinking it was cool and could be useful he made a choker locket for Sam and a braided ankle bracelet for Tucker.

But it took a lot of concentration and effort to actually use his lock of hair as actual walkie talkie so he will have to make do with the light tug he associate with his friend and sister, far, yet so close, his core was practically purring in the shared feeling of warmth, security and belonging...But the feeling of warmth was quickly blown away by another harsh gust of wind and brought him back to his situation.

And so here was Danny, going by Daniel Nightgale from the outskirts of Chicago, Illinois, coming to bum fuck nowhere Gotham in this god blessed year of 1883 to live with his fake sister "juliette" for a few months.

CW had 'generously' crafted him a backstory with an upbringing and entourage similar enough to his real one to avoid any slip up and given him his usual green sheet of paper on which an adress was scribbled on...green colored paper in the 19th huh? Danny sure hoped it wasn't crafted in a time accurate manner.

The sixteen year old adjusted his grey wool scarf and walked out of the alley he was just portaled in, to the dirty neo gothic streets.

It wasn't long until he started to hear whispers of his halfa to be, a thief named Jim who seemingly started to dip his toes in the occult.

Alright! All Danny had to do was stop a thief confiscate his occult stuff and he'd be on his way home! As easy as that! Nothing wrong could ever happen and there was not an once of foreshadowing in this whole story at all!.

[fanaroff]

Master Post

For my own peace of mind to be able to find my own stuff :) you can use it if you wanna as well. Everything's under the bar to save room!

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Original Art:

| >> Battle Wound Kitties |

Danny Phantom Stuff: Above the Nasty Burger | Ao3 Link | Wattpad Link | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 3- Companion Piece | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | DP Fanart: | >> DP x DC Downed Danny | >>Baby Mer!Danny | >>Ghost King Danny Design Sheet [ATNB] | >>Ember Is A Star [ATNB/Blast Off] | >>Ember and GK!Danny Redesign Lineup [ATNB] | >>Booja Blast | >> Infection AU: Mosquito Malignance | Plot Bunnies, Prompts (Additions), and Oneshots: | >>DP x DC Watchtower Haunting | >>DP x DC Downed Danny | >> DP Ice Age | >> DP x DC It’s In The Cave | >> DP x DC Space Like An Ocean | >> It’s “Halfa” | >> DP Oneshot: He’s Death | >> DP x DC: Keeps Coming Back | >> DP x DC Prompt: Reliving | >> Little Baby Man In the Past | >> DP Prompt: Incarnations | >> DP Let Him Cry | >>DP x DC Phantom Host | >> Dp Sam and Tucker Neurodivergent but Danny Neurotypical | >>DP x DC Greatest Prank? | >>Sleight of Handyman | >> DP Halfa-Humans Are Weird l

Cult of the Lamb Stuff:

Can’t post NSFW to Tumblr so here’s where my COTL collective spicy is: Here!

COTL Choiceless AU:

Prompt: Choiceless

Reference Sheet: Faust and Narinder | Goat Gibbet |

Relationship in 5 Mins

| Comic #1 | Continuation |

Choiceless Minis: | Snort Laugh | Made With Love | Bunny Suit | Sheared High (Spicy) | Humanoid Faust |

One Shot: | Prayer Is Delicious |

COTL EGIS AU:

Ao3 Link Here | Ch. 1 & Art | Ch. 2 |

COTL Fanart:

| >>Village WIP | >> Comfort and Safety [comic] | >> Dynamics | >> Kneel to be Sacrificed? || >> Sircarrieart DTIYS ||

COTL Plot Bunnies and Prompts:

| >>Prompt: Locked In | >>Plot Bunny: Modern Mafia | >>Prompt: Through The Eye | >>Prompt: Lamb In Chains | >>Prompt AU: Possessed | >> Choiceless |

Artfight:

| >> Void_Goblin |

*Will be edited and added to over time

[definitely-jax]

[ghostlyglimmer]

Here's a reference sheet for my Danny Phantom.

Danny is chronically tired 24/7 and always has dark circles under his eyes, his nails are usually painted al a Sam. He does have a Lichtenburg scar on his left arm, but he'll usually wear compression sleeves/gloves depending on if he's wearing a hoodie or short sleeves. (He tries his best to hide them, since Phantom has the same scars albeit a bit more ectoplasmic)

Phantom is pretty terrifying to Amity parkers. He looks like a charred corpse surging with ectoplasm. He's a goof though, so don't let his looks scare you!

[inky-fwog]

Sam Manson

this ended up taking an hour less than Danny’s final one was but like 20m less than it took for me to draw all 4 of him so idk if that means I’m getting slower or what

still I’m pretty happy with the middle and the right one but the left is a bit meh.

from what I’ve seen of her, ppl put her as like goth but I hate drawing goth fashion cuz there’s too many frills plus her outfits in the show read more emo to me so that’s what I went with

[starryqueen-18]

Oh boy y'all look out, it's the phantom of freakshow's circus and son of Freakshow, I introduce you the design of Freakshow Danny!!! I just added a star because in the episode of control freaks we see Danny wearing a crown and star necklace. I also did some adjustments to his ghost suit.