Timeout in the third quarter. It was pouring down at Casper High tonight. It wasn't easy running up a two touchdown lead for the Ravens... Danny needed a break, but he'd end up giving every girl in the stands an eyeful.
Heavily inspired by this Dash fanart from constellaj on Tumblr, whose art has been great in spurring my own creative juices as of late. Chin alt and Danny Jockdom versions included too, as is relatively usual, 'cause who better than I to draw for my own smutfic.
It's hardly been a week since Danny Fenton changed from an unassuming guy everyone saw as weird to a musclebound jock, transforming into the school's new top dog almost overnight. Getting Casper High's attention and dethroning Dash Baxter was easy; it was adjusting to his new size, and the many new capabilities it offered, that was going less smoothly. At least he's got his friends -- including a few new ones -- to help him get the hang of it.
I've had a rocky few weeks, in which some things happened that put whether I'd be able to do art again the way I have into question. At the very least, I've been reassured, as much as some other things will eventually have to get worked out. There's a real shift in perspective on this one, which was refreshing; I've never actually drawn Danny as anything but a smooth-operator alpha jock, so this snapshot, perhaps much earlier in that journey, is some underexplored conceptual territory.
What do you mean, Danny’s ‘too young’ to be on the varsity team? Are you going to look at that muscular, athletic, chiseled body in the face and tell him he’s not meant to be on varsity? Are you going to look at his unbelievable on-field performance and tell him he doesn’t deserve to be Casper High’s star player… because of his grade level? Danny Fenton deserves his Casper High varsity regalia more than anyone this school’s seen in years. How dare you suggest such a ridiculous, absurd notion?
This is the merger of two unrelated drawings. In January 2021 I started on an image of Danny in a tank top. I switched art programs while it was half-finished, and it was likely going to just sit there forever unfinished. I had an entirely unrelated pose I started on much more recently; worried about not making it distinctive enough, I remembered the old tank top idea, and given that's a relatively simple concept to port over, I decided to throw it in here. Therefore, this is an amalgam of two different concepts, put together into one studly Danny. Somdude424 (DeviantArt, Twitter) is at least partly to thank for the original "Danny in a tank top" concept, as he was working on a Danny muscle growth sequence of his own at the time that inspired me. It was a singlet, in reality, but I interpreted it as a tank top and here we are.
With a little help, Dipper's finally feeling manly, complete with all the confidence and physique that entails. But he hasn't become a burly lumber-hunk; he's ventured back to shores he knows, finding his own way.
The last (but certainly not the least) in the Boys of Summer series to fittingly close out the season. Muscle art of Dipper is a rarity, so here's a welcome contribution from me.
The power of the American Dragon surging through him, Jake's developed impressively -- and I don't just mean his skills. When he's not the dragon, he's become an American hunk.
Next in the Boys of Summer set is none other than Jake Long. Those hands were really hard to put into something even remotely resembling a reasonable position once the jacket came off. Chose the "season 1" style pretty much arbitrarily, even though the Jake in the art this was inspired by looks more based off season 2. I don't really care too much about it, at least in terms of how Jake looks; obviously one of his dragon forms looks better than the other...
Despite his awkward first impression, Randy's curried favor with the Wave Slayers. His rippling musculature and washboard abs make him look stunning on a jetski. Who wants a ride from him once he's back on land?
And back to The Boys of Summer up close, after the little detour last week. I haven't drawn Randy Cunningham in over four years, so I thought I'd fix that. He's among the many characters besides Danny I really want to draw more of.
Kevin's new, musclebound form meant it was a little harder for him to fit in the minivan now, but he didn't even care. Becoming a superhero was great, and he and his sister helped each other out often, but having something to flex outside of the guise felt even better -- literally and figuratively. The possibilities of his new body seemed endless all over again, even though growing into a bodybuilder's physique under mysterious, instant circumstances brought its own questions for many. He could probably explain them all away before school started, though. Maybe he could join the football team in the fall. Maybe he could finally talk to his crush?...
Many a corner was cut in this part of making the art, admittedly, though I can twist leaning against a stop sign instead of drawing the minivan into an easter egg rather than laziness.
