The Plucker - Release

The Plucker - Release: It's been too long since I did a Plucker piece. I spent last night literally just flipping through the book and creating thumbnails based on whatever scenes I landed on. This is one of them, when after the strange doll has broken, the Plucker is released. Man, it feels good to be drawing from this again! More shall come. (Characters and story belong to Brom)

Tools: Pencil (tracing), Prismacolor pens, Sharpie marker (framing), Faber-Castell watercolor pencils, and Studio Series watercolor crayons for coloring in the Plucker.

The Plucker-Animatic #1

The Plucker-Animatic #1: This is an animatic I made a little over a year ago, based on Brom's The Plucker. This was a lot of fun to work on back then, and I definitely want to make more based off of the story.

(All the characters and story belong to Brom)

Tools: Pencil (tracing), Prismacolor pens, Tombow brush tip gray scale markers, and MovieMaker.

The Plucker-Climax

The Plucker-Climax: Earlier this year/last year, I drew several story beats of Brom's The Plucker. This one takes place at the climax of the book (spoilers!). As I've said in the past, it's my dream to turn this story into an animated film (I've got drawn out diagrams, plot points, character arches from over the last year and a half, that's how much time I've spent thinking about it).

Tools: Pencil (outlining), various colored pencils, Prismacolor pens, and Faber-Castel markers.

Wildcard Wednesday #13

This week's theme: Brom's The Plucker. As cheesy as this may sound, finding this book felt like a fateful moment in a movie. I saw it from the top of the shelf at my local library-it was bigger and taller than the other books, and it jutted out awkwardly. The moment I pulled it down and saw the cover, without having to looking at the plot on the sleeve, I knew I had to read this. And over the course of one night and one morning, I read the book and absolutely loved it.
It is my dream to turn this book into an animated movie. There was one previous attempt at making a movie of The Plucker in 2008 (with Channing Tatum slated to direct and star in it), but it was dropped. And every time I read the book, even without looking at the illustrations, I can just see how this movie would play in my head. I've got so many ideas for the screenplay and animatics, I could lose myself in development. And since no one else seems to be making a movie out of it, I'll take on the task myself.
If you haven't read the book, read it. It's wonderful.

The Plucker #1: The hero of the book is Jack, a jack-in-the-box who's no longer wanted by the kid who owns him, Thomas. These sketches were done last year, and most of them are based off of some of the illustrations inside the book (although #4 was a stab at trying to draw Jack with a fusion of Brom's and my early art style).

The Plucker #2: These are some more recent sketches (done just this week, actually). Right now, as far as artistic duties go, my focus is on refining all my previous models for the characters in the book.