Sam Drew has been drawing Lumps since 2016 — tubby, wide-grinned characters that started in sketchbooks and kept showing up. In August 2021, he turned 500 of them into unique digital characters on the Ethereum blockchain. Each one hand-drawn. No two alike. There will only ever be 500.
Why 500?
At a time when most digital collections numbered in the thousands, Sam chose 500, Small enough that each character mattered. More like a set of art objects than a production line.
Lumps Before the Blockchain
Lumps have existed since 2016, They started as characters in Sam's sketchbooks, showed up in his illustration work, and gradually became a world of their own. By the time the 500 Inhabitants were created in 2021.
Built by Hand
Every Inhabitant was drawn by Sam, The trait system, 66 individual traits across 8 categories, were mapped out on spreadsheets built with his dad, a self-confessed maths and data nerd. No generative AI. No outsourced illustration. Just a lot of drawing.
OFFICIAL LINKS
ARRIVED - August 2021
Sam uploaded all 500 characters to OpenSea himself, no pre-sales, no waiting list, no hype campaign. Just 500 hand-drawn Inhabitants, put out into the world. They sold out. He'd built the entire trait system with his dad — a spreadsheet and maths obsessive, mapping out every possible combination across 66 traits and 8 categories by hand. Every Inhabitant's unique combination was worked out between the two of them before a single character went live.
THE GATHERING - September 2021
Someone invited Sam to a Twitter Space. People started asking what he was going to do with the project. He had absolutely no idea. A Discord server followed, people joined, and Lumps World stopped being one person's sketchbook project and became something shared.
THE RAPTURE - November 2021
Sam designed a transformation event called the Rapture, holders could send their Inhabitant in, and its original traits would influence two entirely new full-body characters from alternate realities. Two completely different art styles, two separate sets of traits, hundreds of hand-drawn iterations across three body positions. Months of late nights working with a developer to get it right. 500 became a possible 1,500.
CAPSULES · SERIES 1 - 2021
Mystery drops sent to holders every two weeks, part lore, part gift. Each Capsule revealed a new piece of Lumps World's story, written by a friend of Sam's. Some contained physical artworks and prints. Others, digital pieces. You never knew what you'd get.
THE EMPORIUM - February 2022
A dedicated contract for 1/1 custom artworks and collectibles, one-of-a-kind pieces from the world, each completely unique.
CAPSULES · SERIES 2 - 2022
The second series went deeper. The lore expanded, physical rewards continued, and for the first time Lumps World had a voice, audio clips narrated by a friend of Sam's who is a voice actor, giving the Inhabitants a storyteller and a new dimension.
THE WORLD TODAY
What started as 500 digital characters has grown into something physical. Trading cards, collectibles, a Collector's Club, Lumps World keeps expanding beyond the screen. The 500 Inhabitants are the origin. Everything else grew from there.
ARRIVED - August 2021
Sam uploaded all 500 characters to OpenSea himself, no pre-sales, no waiting list, no hype campaign. Just 500 hand-drawn Inhabitants, put out into the world. They sold out. He'd built the entire trait system with his dad — a spreadsheet and maths obsessive, mapping out every possible combination across 66 traits and 8 categories by hand. Every Inhabitant's unique combination was worked out between the two of them before a single character went live.
THE GATHERING - September 2021
Someone invited Sam to a Twitter Space. People started asking what he was going to do with the project. He had absolutely no idea. A Discord server followed, people joined, and Lumps World stopped being one person's sketchbook project and became something shared.
THE RAPTURE - November 2021
Sam designed a transformation event called the Rapture, holders could send their Inhabitant in, and its original traits would influence two entirely new full-body characters from alternate realities. Two completely different art styles, two separate sets of traits, hundreds of hand-drawn iterations across three body positions. Months of late nights working with a developer to get it right. 500 became a possible 1,500.
CAPSULES · SERIES 1 - 2021
Mystery drops sent to holders every two weeks, part lore, part gift. Each Capsule revealed a new piece of Lumps World's story, written by a friend of Sam's. Some contained physical artworks and prints. Others, digital pieces. You never knew what you'd get.
THE EMPORIUM - February 2022
A dedicated contract for 1/1 custom artworks and collectibles, one-of-a-kind pieces from the world, each completely unique.
CAPSULES · SERIES 2 - 2022
The second series went deeper. The lore expanded, physical rewards continued, and for the first time Lumps World had a voice, audio clips narrated by a friend of Sam's who is a voice actor, giving the Inhabitants a storyteller and a new dimension.
THE WORLD TODAY
What started as 500 digital characters has grown into something physical. Trading cards, collectibles, a Collector's Club, Lumps World keeps expanding beyond the screen. The 500 Inhabitants are the origin. Everything else grew from there.
Lumps World was built by one person (and his dad's spreadsheets) and shaped by hundreds. To everyone who's held an Inhabitant, past and present, this world is yours too.
Sam Drew has been drawing Lumps since 2016 — tubby, wide-grinned characters that started in sketchbooks and kept showing up. In August 2021, he turned 500 of them into unique digital characters on the Ethereum blockchain. Each one hand-drawn. No two alike. There will only ever be 500.
Why 500?
At a time when most digital collections numbered in the thousands, Sam chose 500, Small enough that each character mattered. More like a set of art objects than a production line.
Lumps Before the Blockchain
Lumps have existed since 2016, They started as characters in Sam's sketchbooks, showed up in his illustration work, and gradually became a world of their own. By the time the 500 Inhabitants were created in 2021.
Built by Hand
Every Inhabitant was drawn by Sam, The trait system, 66 individual traits across 8 categories, were mapped out on spreadsheets built with his dad, a self-confessed maths and data nerd. No generative AI. No outsourced illustration. Just a lot of drawing.
OFFICIAL LINKS
ARRIVED - August 2021
Sam uploaded all 500 characters to OpenSea himself, no pre-sales, no waiting list, no hype campaign. Just 500 hand-drawn Inhabitants, put out into the world. They sold out. He'd built the entire trait system with his dad — a spreadsheet and maths obsessive, mapping out every possible combination across 66 traits and 8 categories by hand. Every Inhabitant's unique combination was worked out between the two of them before a single character went live.
THE GATHERING - September 2021
Someone invited Sam to a Twitter Space. People started asking what he was going to do with the project. He had absolutely no idea. A Discord server followed, people joined, and Lumps World stopped being one person's sketchbook project and became something shared.
THE RAPTURE - November 2021
Sam designed a transformation event called the Rapture, holders could send their Inhabitant in, and its original traits would influence two entirely new full-body characters from alternate realities. Two completely different art styles, two separate sets of traits, hundreds of hand-drawn iterations across three body positions. Months of late nights working with a developer to get it right. 500 became a possible 1,500.
CAPSULES · SERIES 1 - 2021
Mystery drops sent to holders every two weeks, part lore, part gift. Each Capsule revealed a new piece of Lumps World's story, written by a friend of Sam's. Some contained physical artworks and prints. Others, digital pieces. You never knew what you'd get.
THE EMPORIUM - February 2022
A dedicated contract for 1/1 custom artworks and collectibles, one-of-a-kind pieces from the world, each completely unique.
CAPSULES · SERIES 2 - 2022
The second series went deeper. The lore expanded, physical rewards continued, and for the first time Lumps World had a voice, audio clips narrated by a friend of Sam's who is a voice actor, giving the Inhabitants a storyteller and a new dimension.
THE WORLD TODAY
What started as 500 digital characters has grown into something physical. Trading cards, collectibles, a Collector's Club, Lumps World keeps expanding beyond the screen. The 500 Inhabitants are the origin. Everything else grew from there.
ARRIVED - August 2021
Sam uploaded all 500 characters to OpenSea himself, no pre-sales, no waiting list, no hype campaign. Just 500 hand-drawn Inhabitants, put out into the world. They sold out. He'd built the entire trait system with his dad — a spreadsheet and maths obsessive, mapping out every possible combination across 66 traits and 8 categories by hand. Every Inhabitant's unique combination was worked out between the two of them before a single character went live.
THE GATHERING - September 2021
Someone invited Sam to a Twitter Space. People started asking what he was going to do with the project. He had absolutely no idea. A Discord server followed, people joined, and Lumps World stopped being one person's sketchbook project and became something shared.
THE RAPTURE - November 2021
Sam designed a transformation event called the Rapture, holders could send their Inhabitant in, and its original traits would influence two entirely new full-body characters from alternate realities. Two completely different art styles, two separate sets of traits, hundreds of hand-drawn iterations across three body positions. Months of late nights working with a developer to get it right. 500 became a possible 1,500.
CAPSULES · SERIES 1 - 2021
Mystery drops sent to holders every two weeks, part lore, part gift. Each Capsule revealed a new piece of Lumps World's story, written by a friend of Sam's. Some contained physical artworks and prints. Others, digital pieces. You never knew what you'd get.
THE EMPORIUM - February 2022
A dedicated contract for 1/1 custom artworks and collectibles, one-of-a-kind pieces from the world, each completely unique.
CAPSULES · SERIES 2 - 2022
The second series went deeper. The lore expanded, physical rewards continued, and for the first time Lumps World had a voice, audio clips narrated by a friend of Sam's who is a voice actor, giving the Inhabitants a storyteller and a new dimension.
THE WORLD TODAY
What started as 500 digital characters has grown into something physical. Trading cards, collectibles, a Collector's Club, Lumps World keeps expanding beyond the screen. The 500 Inhabitants are the origin. Everything else grew from there.
Lumps World was built by one person (and his dad's spreadsheets) and shaped by hundreds. To everyone who's held an Inhabitant, past and present, this world is yours too.
Sam Drew has been drawing Lumps since 2016 — tubby, wide-grinned characters that started in sketchbooks and kept showing up. In August 2021, he turned 500 of them into unique digital characters on the Ethereum blockchain. Each one hand-drawn. No two alike. There will only ever be 500.
Why 500?
At a time when most digital collections numbered in the thousands, Sam chose 500, Small enough that each character mattered. More like a set of art objects than a production line.
Lumps Before the Blockchain
Lumps have existed since 2016, They started as characters in Sam's sketchbooks, showed up in his illustration work, and gradually became a world of their own. By the time the 500 Inhabitants were created in 2021.
Built by Hand
Every Inhabitant was drawn by Sam, The trait system, 66 individual traits across 8 categories, were mapped out on spreadsheets built with his dad, a self-confessed maths and data nerd. No generative AI. No outsourced illustration. Just a lot of drawing.
OFFICIAL LINKS
ARRIVED - August 2021
Sam uploaded all 500 characters to OpenSea himself, no pre-sales, no waiting list, no hype campaign. Just 500 hand-drawn Inhabitants, put out into the world. They sold out. He'd built the entire trait system with his dad — a spreadsheet and maths obsessive, mapping out every possible combination across 66 traits and 8 categories by hand. Every Inhabitant's unique combination was worked out between the two of them before a single character went live.
THE GATHERING - September 2021
Someone invited Sam to a Twitter Space. People started asking what he was going to do with the project. He had absolutely no idea. A Discord server followed, people joined, and Lumps World stopped being one person's sketchbook project and became something shared.
THE RAPTURE - November 2021
Sam designed a transformation event called the Rapture, holders could send their Inhabitant in, and its original traits would influence two entirely new full-body characters from alternate realities. Two completely different art styles, two separate sets of traits, hundreds of hand-drawn iterations across three body positions. Months of late nights working with a developer to get it right. 500 became a possible 1,500.
CAPSULES · SERIES 1 - 2021
Mystery drops sent to holders every two weeks, part lore, part gift. Each Capsule revealed a new piece of Lumps World's story, written by a friend of Sam's. Some contained physical artworks and prints. Others, digital pieces. You never knew what you'd get.
THE EMPORIUM - February 2022
A dedicated contract for 1/1 custom artworks and collectibles, one-of-a-kind pieces from the world, each completely unique.
CAPSULES · SERIES 2 - 2022
The second series went deeper. The lore expanded, physical rewards continued, and for the first time Lumps World had a voice, audio clips narrated by a friend of Sam's who is a voice actor, giving the Inhabitants a storyteller and a new dimension.
THE WORLD TODAY
What started as 500 digital characters has grown into something physical. Trading cards, collectibles, a Collector's Club, Lumps World keeps expanding beyond the screen. The 500 Inhabitants are the origin. Everything else grew from there.
ARRIVED - August 2021
Sam uploaded all 500 characters to OpenSea himself, no pre-sales, no waiting list, no hype campaign. Just 500 hand-drawn Inhabitants, put out into the world. They sold out. He'd built the entire trait system with his dad — a spreadsheet and maths obsessive, mapping out every possible combination across 66 traits and 8 categories by hand. Every Inhabitant's unique combination was worked out between the two of them before a single character went live.
THE GATHERING - September 2021
Someone invited Sam to a Twitter Space. People started asking what he was going to do with the project. He had absolutely no idea. A Discord server followed, people joined, and Lumps World stopped being one person's sketchbook project and became something shared.
THE RAPTURE - November 2021
Sam designed a transformation event called the Rapture, holders could send their Inhabitant in, and its original traits would influence two entirely new full-body characters from alternate realities. Two completely different art styles, two separate sets of traits, hundreds of hand-drawn iterations across three body positions. Months of late nights working with a developer to get it right. 500 became a possible 1,500.
CAPSULES · SERIES 1 - 2021
Mystery drops sent to holders every two weeks, part lore, part gift. Each Capsule revealed a new piece of Lumps World's story, written by a friend of Sam's. Some contained physical artworks and prints. Others, digital pieces. You never knew what you'd get.
THE EMPORIUM - February 2022
A dedicated contract for 1/1 custom artworks and collectibles, one-of-a-kind pieces from the world, each completely unique.
CAPSULES · SERIES 2 - 2022
The second series went deeper. The lore expanded, physical rewards continued, and for the first time Lumps World had a voice, audio clips narrated by a friend of Sam's who is a voice actor, giving the Inhabitants a storyteller and a new dimension.
THE WORLD TODAY
What started as 500 digital characters has grown into something physical. Trading cards, collectibles, a Collector's Club, Lumps World keeps expanding beyond the screen. The 500 Inhabitants are the origin. Everything else grew from there.