OKAY!! I Typed Up Some Character Lore For Lennon And Dimitri, But It Was So Long I Had To Break It Into

OKAY!! I typed up some character lore for Lennon and Dimitri, but it was so long I had to break it into separate posts. 1/2

This story follows the friendship of Lennon and Dimitri as they take the world head on, trying to make music together. The story is based in Cambridge/Somerville Massachusetts in 2009.

Lennon McManus (born June 21, 1986) is the son of a retired rockstar. Len feels like he's living in his dad's shadow and has a lot to live up to. He swears that he'll be a better musician than his dad ever was. Lennon wants nothing to do with his dad, even going as far to change his last name so he won't be associated with him.

Lennon is an extremely talented musician, spending most of his time learning new instruments (or playing Call of Duty and Mortal Kombat). Lennon really doesn't even need anyone else to be in his band, he could literally just do the whole thing himself, but he falls short when it comes to writing lyrics. He thinks his lyrics suck, (and they kind of do). A lot of that comes from insecurity, he doesn't feel he's had enough life experience to write interesting lyrics.

Lennon dropped out of high school during his sophomore year. Education is kind of a sore topic for Lennon. He didn't care about school, but the dude lives down the street from Harvard University and there are so many great colleges in the Boston area. As he gets older, he'll always wonder what could've been if he put more effort in and finished high school.

While hanging out in the area, or walking through Harvard Yard, sometimes he'll be stopped by tourists asking for directions. He lives in the area so of course he knows where everything is, but will instead reply, "Do I look like I attend school here???!" while gesturing to his dirty band tee and ripped jeans. It's a bit upsetting when this happens.

Lennon's kind of lazy and gross and only cares about things he's interested in doing. Lennon's really just a little gremlin. At 23, he stills lives at home with his father in Somerville, MA. He can't drive despite being gifted a car for his 16th birthday, (his father is kind of rich) it's just been sitting in the driveway the whole time.

Check out the post about Dimitri here

These boots took AN HOUR to draw! Anything for that punk look.

One of them went to law school, another is basically a murderer, one of them is a high school dropout and the other is the sweetest person you'll ever meet. Can you guess which is which?

(IDK why the star background. I drew this as a twitter banner, but it looked weird to just post it alone?)

I do wanna start blogging stuff here with words and all. Somehow I feel more comfortable taking about stuff on tumblr than elsewhere. IDK.

There's a lot of stuff bouncing around in my noggin and typing it all out might be helpful. I'm not a great writer, it's all stream of consciousness but probably worse.

But also i'd just love to drop OC lore on y'all like I could never do that on twitter like irl people follow me there and I feel weird about that??? absolutely nothing against them!...I'm just shy? Shy ain't even the right word for it.

I post about my characters then my hands get all shakey because it's scary 🥲

Hiya! I think characterization definitely helps a lot when you are wanting a character to draw attention to themselves. Maybe you could do something with the shape of his eyes/nose, give him a specific expression; maybe he's shy, maybe he looks aloof or cold because he's shy? I'm not saying your character is devoid of personality!! Right now he reads as boyish and cute. But the kind of attractiveness you're gunning for, that sort of.. intrigue? Personally; and this is obviously subjective, would shine through in the eyes for me. Something like adding a glossy shine to the eyes or focusing on how the eyelids fold would help that tremendously.

Anyway I just wanted to give my 2 cents, your art fucking rocks. I love your guys.

Thank you for your response!! Your comment is really helpful about how he comes off... I gotta try to draw him to look older maybe?