#brian as a character in the book is even funnier also like. for one second as the Pre Chapter Break Suspense it's like oh who is this guy is

[unproduciblesmackdown]

absolutely niche but went off on one last night skimming through the phantom of the auditorium book to glean any like Visual Description scraps b/c i need the extra help of like, picking visuals from the diff sources available & shaking them up & filling in any blanks I Guess, b/c i Cannot think of ideas myself & when it’s time to like, imagine some design in some theme on a tee, i am gonna have an impossible challenge on my hands there, i can’t make stuff up wholecloth, and the more cloth i can get my hands on, the better i at least have some starting point (see: absolutely i think you can throw out visual details abt characters (presuming they’re not like, crucially relevant in w/e cases) and definitely make up your own design wholecloth, i also don’t think if you have like, the Full Visuals of [certain actors] you Gotta draw from that at all, especially when it’s like, this oscr is entirely Audio & of course these people are adults vs ghosts or preteens, & even dealing with Any stage production, esp w/multiple productions w/varied casting, it’s all the more relevant that there’s no one Concrete Way any give character looks....however first & foremost i’m here b/c of doing like, a triple take “oh goosebumps?? Musical??? Ft. Will Roland???????????????” at a tweet lmfao so in my mind & in my [what will more reliably motivate me to draw something / be conducive/convenient to that effort] tendencies, zeke’s a little a.u. will roland looking eleven year old or what have you lol, & using other cast members as a starting point / reference is right there as a convenience too, why not. certainly Principal Stine is just r.l. stine, exactly, or what are we even doing here? to me emile is just like, alex brightman in coveralls except he’s not even a Real night janitor, so just any outfit, rather than the canon description like near 60 y.o. ghostish guy, i can’t really shake that & why would i. on the flipside, i have little grasp on how i’d picture tina, & the book basically never describes her, she’s a seventh grade girl & that’s all we’ve got lol. could even turn to the Episode for further assistance there lol but i don’t super remember her having That distinctive a look there either)

all this is to say i wrote down all these notes about Ways The Book Says People Look / Visual Info That Feels Relevant Enough To My Goals Here lol. and since i’m typing them up for convenient / additional access anyways, and who knows what niche nominal interest it may be of to anyone, here is what i’ve written lol:

Brooke pushes hair “off” her face

Zeke’s hair

really long in front (blond)

covers one eye

very short almost shaved in the back

Brooke ties “long hair” into ponytail w/a scrunchie

always wears one on each wrist

“Zeke’s flannel shirtsleeve”

Brooke has a denim jacket

Emile: loose grey pants, sweatshirt

only inch or two taller than Zeke

Zeke: wearing jeans

raises left eyebrow / creases forehead in thought

biting lower lip when nervous

sneakers

Ms Walker: yellow sweater

Brian: * brown hair (*dra dark)

red & black flannel

black sweatpants / hightops

next outfit “looked cute”

black vest over white tee / faded jeans

Zeke has digital watch

Brian in a sweater

Zeke sweeps hair back w/hand when really tense

[post postscript: also naturally remembering some extra pointed out visuals like that zeke has freckles, brooke has glasses, brian has green eyes, just didn’t write it all down if i feel like i’ve got things Remembered / i’m not planning to use xyz specific detail &/or don’t feel the need to note the Quote abt the detail. like i think it’s funny brooke notes zeke’s watch has a lot going on w/buttons & he can wrangle a bunch of functions out of it except for Telling The Actual Time lol thank you for the humorous detail, but i’m not anticipating getting super detailed w/drawing that watch, but now that i know it exists, i’m definitely drawing it, we love like fun digital watches out here]

[anyways also noting these things for my Depiction Ambitions b/c like, if i draw in some [zeke pushes hair back] “frame” it’s like i’m gonna need some phantauditoriumhead to recognize the faithful tribute to the source lmfaoo]

[in addition to posting about all this Simply For Kicks b/c i mean, truly why not, it’s also just me sort of giving myself a gentle nudge abt continuing to Intend to actually try w/all this lol....hyping myself up a degree like nice job, i worked on this by skimming the book again....i work on it by rotating images inside my head when i listen to the songs, some sequences / moments more strongly than others......love you goosebumps the musical the phantom of the auditorium original studio cast recording, would love to build on that with this fun (to manifest) project, unfortunately i Am one of the slowest drawers out there and Am easily intimidated from actually jumping into any given drawing effort and i Do both need enough details re: how i wanna draw any of these people but i Am also one of the worst at creatively generating such details out of simply my imagination, so lol]

#in essence: #goosebumps the musical #i do keep finding the book a real delight though too lol. very Humorous and Vivacious imo i keep laughing quietly to myself every page #just now reappreciating how much of brian's dialogue from the book got pretty closely reworked into many My Story lyrics.... #brian as a character in the book is even funnier also like. for one second as the Pre Chapter Break Suspense it's like oh who is this guy is #he gonna be mean? then immediately it's like no his whole thing is being remarkably shy & nervous all the time abt everything. #bothered abt getting paint on his clothes; the extra scared one when going along w/zeke & brooke's adventures like when he's bothered about #the concept of finding the subbasement phantom who is gonna maybe be a ghost.....my brother......... #anyways i love absolutely all of the flair and all the little extra details abt character tendencies or dynamic illustrating moments or like #the clear moments of humor as [if you are not also like brooke's age the Obviously Incorrect / Limited Perspective Of Being Ten] moments of #inner commentary are like aha yeah i am inferring what you're getting at with what brooke is not quite Getting about this situation lol... #other like very pithy internal comments lol like thank you grown person writing in this humorous observation #anyways also enjoying how like yeah you don't even Know there's a ghost involved or how till the very end; but #all along the way it's like oh yeah there's plenty of like mystery/suspense w/this or that element & like #naturally that whatever Stakes would feel raised / a situation would feel more intimidating when you're like eleven or something #or really if you are a fully grown person lol just not written as if directly from or to that perspective #haunted school...cursed play...Scary play...stuck in the sub basement...threatening ghostly adult stranger... #mysterious mishaps that keep happening live & in person & that's evoking the curse of the scary play & you don't know it's Not your bestie.. #but when you do feel it's not your bestie; whodunit & why are they setting him up....getting in trouble(tm)...nighttime investigations of #places you're not supposed to be...stuck in the sub basement Again....living in a world where if you lose your job you can become unhoused.. #thinking you might die in this sub basement due to being trapped Again; threatened by an adult stranger Again.... #and that's all before The Play....many misadventures in one night & we're even for all intents & purposes dying all over again out here #anyways all the time i end up on these tangents lol i find the book quite fun as is only helped along by the musical in Conversation w/it #feels like i'm making progress hashing out visuals like. gotta have Enough of an idea how to draw the three central kids certainly #just gotta have enough particulars lol need to get into Some detail / figure out my own Geometry Rules.... #ya Gotta know how the shapes/angles are gonna go...at least well enough for my purposes #and to that end it Is helpful there's room for flexibility / making up as much of it as you want. already thought of some potential like #convenience re: throwing down a design for brian that is def not drawing from any preexisting particulars...one can just do that