Mitya Designs

So Much Mitya! Read on for an overly long description of my thought process in drawing him

Dmitri took the longest of all the brothers to figure out how to draw. I literally could not picture him consistently while I was reading the book because I kept wondering how to draw him... He threw me for a loop because he's supposed to be really strong, but also dress all proper and gentleman-ly (top hat, what not.)

As I have said, I really wanted one of the brothers to have a ponytail. Specifically I wanted the angsty brother to have the ponytail, but I couldn't remember which one that was (turns out it's Ivan) So I ended up mostly imagining Mitya with long hair.

Which is all well and good except Mr. Dostoevsky, who almost never gives much by way of a character's physical description, decided to include the fact that Mitya has short hair. So I figured out of deference to the author I ought to draw him that way. (He's also supposed to have a mustache, but you can only ask a fan girl to go so far...) The brothers all ended up trading haircuts. Dmitri has a short version of Alyosha's haircut design now...

When I first drew him he mostly he ended up looking like Razumikhin from Crime and Punishment- which is a problem, especially since they're both named Dmitri. I didn't want him to be all huge and muscle-y, but he still had to look pretty strong, so I tried to beef up the design a bit.

The reason I made him looks so different from Alyosha and Ivan is that he is technically only their half-brother. I think the only thing I gave him in common was the hair (which you can't tell, because they all have different haircuts...)

As for his nose, it is curved like his dad's, a trait that his brother's didn't get. It is also a bit crooked, mostly because I wanted to draw it that way... I'm gonna say he broke it in a fight