danny's notepad

Hey there!

The name's Danny and this is my archive/gallery thingamajig. I've been meaning to start one for a while now, so I'm gonna be making an effort to put together my stuff here, both old and new. This page is purely going to be used for that reason and nothing else in the foreseeable future. Nice and simple!

If you're more curious about me, I have a blog! I put my ramblings and more in-depth writings there, and it also acts as my "where you can find me" site! Since this is my art archive, I also have an abandoned DeviantArt page & my old Miiverse backup that used to house my really old stuff.

And yeah! Hope it's easier for y'all to find my stuff now. If you're wondering a bit more why this page exists (or the status of my backlog queue of ancient art), you can read more right below:

Zoru + Ball: Sport Zoru! ⚾

What's the next ability I want to combine Zoru with? One of my personal least favorites, PFFFT. But when you mix Ball with Zoru, he'll make full use of Kirby's roundness to become an athlete and gain a varied repertoire of moves with him.

Sport Zoru! A heck of an all-rounder player of all kinds!

The Ball ability is, personally, waaay too finicky and difficult to control in the games, but I still love the concept of just making Kirby a ball (and especially in the spin-off games). I've had this idea of giving Zoru the sporty feel for a while now!

This time around, I wanted this ability's design to have a slightly zanier feel, like how the abilities in Kirby 64 were sometimes so strange and had that "that looks wild" feeling. The main thing you'll notice is the baseball pattern on his red belly and the sports gear he dawns. But you'll also notice that his tail has become a sort of golf bag, to hold his sports tools!

His moveset takes a more ranged approach, where Zoru performs various maneuvers, and Kirby is the sports ball! Kirby will be launched in many different manners towards enemies, as seen with moves like Rally and its follow-ups.

Zoru can also Volley his enemies with his tail, tumbling enemies above him at an arc. Once he does, he can charge up for a big hit.

And boy, does he have a gnarly swing and quite the skillset.

Crossing once more

A sort of thoughtful drawing, because a lot has happened since the start of the year! I moved! And got a new job! And a lot of my life has been changing dramatically!

More old drawings, but these are more than half a year old! A friend of mine wanted to introduce me and a few friends to Etrian Odyssey and have us all play the game with our characters modded into it.

So! After several months of delay, I finally got around to drawing my and Sakura's dnd characters in the game's style! I like to think they came out pretty true to the target aesthetic! I tried my best to sort of adapt them into the classes they were ultimately going to have.

Zoru + Paint: Graffiti Zoru! 🎨

Taking a much more colorful approach, when you get the Paint ability with Zoru, you get Graffiti Zoru! Since Zoru is a rather rambunctious fellow, giving him this feel, along with some Jet Set Radio inspiration, felt really perfect for him. In fact, it felt really fitting that I ended up animating a l'il intro for him (which, unsurprisingly, extended the end of the project by a considerable amount).

This ability can actually be considered somewhat of a situational ability in Kirby, like how Wheel is designed for long stages or Hi-Jump for vertical ones. As for Graffiti, the main selling points of this ability are his mobility options and using paint and tricks to propel him forward!

Since he's now on his roller blades, he's a fair bit faster now, with the tradeoff that he is a bit slippery. A lot of his moveset revolve around carrying the flow of Zoru's movement. He can use paint to blast through enemies or paint the scenery, as well as use the environment to reach new places through rails, ramps, and wallrides.

The last cookie

And finally, finishing off this year's art fight, I've wanted to draw FunSizeMini's, well, Mini! Was at a crosswords for how to draw this l'il guy, especially given the time remaining, but I took it as fitting to draw this fox with that namesake there.

the littlest and fuzziest hug

Flashcard quiz

Another piece of friendly fire revenge with Olaxis's Mocha and Fen! I had a lot of choices to pick from, but since I was on a roll with doing these duo character pieces (and these two emanated a really nice cafe/library pair), I definitely wanted to stylized them with my way of scribbling characters out, haha!

Like bird, like son

So since I already was drawing Tech's kenku for Art Fight, I was definitely gonna do the other bird that was present in the same campaign. Ghosty's Vyrn has been on my backlog for a while, and I finally get to do this mute bard with the incentive I needed

something tells me you like the color orange

i don't remember these two from jjk

This is simply an added bonus idea after getting to draw Sen again after so long. Tech offhandedly gave me a commission idea for a specific (and goofy) frame to redraw that lad and his kenku, Drip Drop.

"just do a sen drawing"

I would like to simply mention that it has been way too often that when my best friend pays for my food or supplies, he simply responds back with this quote before I tell him I'll pay him back.