#jan lyons

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OC-tober Day 9: inventory

A tiny bit late AND I refuse to explain it

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OC-tober Day 6: relationships

This is NOT good enough for the artblog LOL. anyway is this your ship

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OC-tober Day 5 & 6: Relationships & Symbol

To compensate for being late for Day 5, I'll talk about something that mixes up both days. On top of that, to prove that my choice of character for Day 1 was a reasonable one, I will once again talk about something that pertains to Jan.

I'll ask you to first take a look at this old sketch for a sprite edit. This was for my personal project inspired by Mozart l'Opéra Rock, and it uses his old sprite, which features slight mistakes in his palette, but it still comes together fairly nicely in my opinion.

I'd really like to re-use this jacket/colour on him eventually. Still, what I want you to take notice of is the pin on his lapel.

This is not a definite design, just a concept - what it says is "JA DA", and my concept for it would be that the letters be written so fancily that the viewer might not realise they're letters at first.

This is an idea I have for a symbol representing Jan's friend group, which consists of Jan, Adele, Damien and Ashley.

This is part of Murder Fabrication's canon, by the way. Jan is a student in a prestigious music school, in which he studies multiple instruments and genres, but specialises in the piano and classical music. When he joined said school, he was pleasantly surprised to run into his best friend Damien. (If you'd like to know why he didn't know Damien was joining the same school he was ahead of time, I'll have to ask that you wait until a certain arc of Murder Fabrication has been published. Wink, wink.)

Jan befriended their classmate Adele, who happens to be a violinist and share his speciality in classical music. Damien, a bassist, also befriended another one of their classmates named Ashley, a drummer. The four of them quickly became close friends, and together they form the worst band you've ever heard of, consisting of a pianist, a violinist, a bassist and a drummer.

Though they may actually act as a band sometimes, they're mostly friends who happen to each main a different instrument. Still, as fellow musicians in a prestigious establishment, they decided to come up with a symbol or logo they might use to represent them as a group; more so to have a neat representation of their bond than to make themselves look professional in any way. Noticing how the first letters of their names fit together, they decided on a "fancy looking" logo that would use them.

Though this is all worldbuilding/side quests if anything, I have a soft spot for Jan's friend group. Damien, Ashley and Adele are each someone Jan cares about deeply in a different way, and they each love Jan in their own personal way. Neither of them is any less important - either being the person he trusts the most, or the person he wants to spend the most time with, or the epitome of what he thinks is cool, though maybe they don't realise the extent of it, Jan admires each one of them.

His relationship with each of them are perfect examples to use to explore how Jan feels about his loved ones and, generally, those around him, and how they feel about him.

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Murder Fabrication masterminds - Akijan

My favorite novelist - you ought to read him too Though it was a long time ago that he committed suicide "It was a lifetime filled with countless shames," he said "Spent with only lies being told," he said "What a gloomy guy," they laughed, but no matter what, I couldn't get it out of my head

Still working on doodling masterminds for this poll... someone must have been asking for this in voting for Akiro and Jan.

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Today's Bluesky requests!

Star Lord (vol.3 skin from Marvel Rivals)

noriaki/nure's OC May Britt

a guy

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OC-tober Day 30: memes

A new one for this season...

(I am not saying their assumptions are correct lol) This one may need a few more days to start making sense...

Original template by featherleafern

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I commissioned @golatcxr to draw Jan! I'm very happy with the energy in this drawing, especially the pose, which is very fitting even though I wasn't super specific with the direction - thank you!

I will be updating the list of solo commissions here ASAP~

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I'm so out of practice I drew them a little weird but in a funny way