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Chapter 15 Quickly Become a Super Cartoonist!
The temperature in the afternoon in May is still a bit cool.

After eating, drinking and playing, Xiaoqianhe clutched her beloved Rubik's Cube, spread it into big characters on the tatami mat and fell asleep soundly, with her little quilt covering her body.

Higashino Hirosawa sat aside, flipping through the manga tutorial in his hand from time to time.

There are drawing paper and pencil erasers on the table, and the drawing paper is full of outlines and figures of various characters.

Drawing manga is not an easy task. Many manga authors have been insisting on drawing and improving their drawing skills for many years.

It often takes them several years to get started, and the editors of the comic book company take a fancy to their submissions, and they start to have the opportunity to serialize short stories.

That's right, it's just an opportunity to serialize short stories.

It is almost impossible for a newcomer to serialize a long novel from the beginning.

Even the popular king, One Piece, was only a short story at first. After serialization, the response was not bad, and then he began to rebuild the plot characters and carry out long serialization. Finally, he set countless records and became the youthful One Piece of a generation.

Not only One Piece, but many famous novels, such as "Slam Dunk" and "Yu Yu Hakusho" all started to test the waters with short stories.

Like Hirozawa Higashino, who aimed at earning a lot of money from long-form serialization from the beginning, let those manga authors who are working hard for the serialization know that they will definitely give him a big roll of eyes without mercy.

This is daydreaming.

But in fact, Higashino Hirosawa's learning progress is extremely fast.

With LV7's drawing ability and LV4's super memory ability, he himself has read a lot of classic comics, and he knows all kinds of skills mentioned in the tutorial.

With a little practice on the manuscript paper, Higashino Hirozawa has a good grasp of it.

In just three hours, Hirozawa Higashino has mastered most of the basic knowledge and skills of drawing manga.

Naturally, these comic tutorials not only teach the skills of drawing comics, but also use various examples to point out how to become a professional cartoonist.

Hirozawa Higashino had no knowledge of this aspect before, but combined with the famous manga artists he knew, he deeply agreed with it after reading it.

Generally speaking, whether a comic can become popular depends mainly on the plot setting and character creation, secondly on the storyboard, and thirdly on the drawing skills.

Drawing manga, drawing ability is not the most important thing.

This is also the reason why many comic book authors are clearly good at drawing, but they still fail to become popular.

And Yoshihiro Togashi, who is a top-notch cartoonist with plot setting and character creation, is obviously a semi-eunuch. He has been on hiatus for many years, and the reissue is just a fool with drafts, but he is still sought after by countless fans, and he can be published every time he reissues. hot search.

Storyboards are also important.

Storyboarding refers to decomposing the plot to be drawn into individual shots and drawing them on manuscript paper.

The same story, if the storyboard is not done well, people will not understand what they are watching, but if the storyboard is done well, it can turn decay into magic, and people can't stop watching it.

The most typical storyboard is the battle between Xiangbei and Shanwang in "Slam Dunk".

In the last tens of seconds of the game, if described in words, it means that Xiangbei seized the opportunity, broke through the siege, and turned defeat into victory.

A very ordinary story, no gorgeous battles, and no wonderful superpowers.

However, under the pen of the author Kazuhiko Inoue, the silent scenes, without a single word, make people excited and excited.

That's the beauty of mirroring.

"In the tutorial, these are summed up as the three basic skills of cartoonists. It's a pity that there are very few people who can possess these three basic skills at the same time."

Hirosawa Higashino closed the tutorial.

Numerous comic writers aim at this and constantly hone themselves in order to become real cartoonists.

However, Hirosawa Higashino, as a porter standing on the shoulders of giants, naturally does not need to do this.

Take out a new sheet of manuscript paper.

The basic knowledge and skills are almost mastered, Higashino Hirosawa is ready to enter the actual combat practice.

Higashino Hirosawa's first work to draw is "Dragon Ball".

Regarding the style characteristics of various comic magazines in the world, Higashino Hirozawa has not yet conducted research.

But in his view, as long as "Dragon Ball" is drawn, there is no reason why it should not be popular.

In the original world, "Dragon Ball" only serialized a few episodes, and its popularity began to skyrocket.

During the 11-year serialization period, the popularity has been rising all the way, becoming the absolute pillar of the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, driving the sales of the magazine to soar.

Even after the end of Dragon Ball, the sales of Weekly Shonen Jump plummeted by 150 million copies, which is terrifying.

The words Super Saiyan have become synonymous with strong combat power.

Decades after the manga ended, Dragon Ball is still one of the most popular and profitable animation IPs, with annual IP sales of about 1000 billion yen.

Dragon Ball is a well-deserved killer. Higashino Hirozawa can draw it, so he doesn't have to worry that the magazine won't want it.

It's the magazine of this world, it's best to pray that you will be that lucky one.

The first two pages of the first chapter of Dragon Ball have no content, and there is no practice effect.

Higashino Hirosawa chose the third page, the six-frame mirror of Xiao Wukong practicing skills and splitting wooden piles, to start drawing.

At the same time that the picture appeared in Hirozawa Higashino's mind, the pencil in his hand began to move rapidly.

The silhouettes of characters, scenery and objects are all done in one go, appearing on the manuscript paper like printing.

About 5 minutes later, Hirosawa Higashino put down the pencil.

He drew the first draft of a one-page manga in six frames in just 5 minutes.

This is only the first draft, and a series of processing is still needed to turn it into a manga that ordinary readers see.

Use a dip pen to blacken the contour lines, color and blacken the character's hair, clothes, background and shadows, and draw various auxiliary lines to create a sense of speed and power in the picture.

The dip pen is a special ink pen for comics. The tip and the body of the pen can be separated.

Hirozawa Higashino had no money, so when he bought second-hand manga magazines and tutorials, he bought a second-hand dip pen with only a thick nib.

As taught in the tutorial, Higashino Hirosawa used a dip pen to blacken the first draft of the drawing, and blackened the characters and background.

After finishing these, the background and characters need to be further processed with a ruler, grid paper, and dot paper.

After all these are completed, it is a complete manga manuscript.

Hirosawa Higashino didn't know about these manga tools before, so he didn't buy them.

Without tools, Higashino Hirozawa thought about it and tried to draw directly with a dip pen.

"It seems that there is no need for these various tools, and the same effect can be drawn directly with a dip pen."

Higashino Hirosawa muttered after trying a little.

Not only those post-processing tools, Hiroze Higashino felt that it was redundant to draw the outline with a pencil, and then use a dip pen to draw black.

Ordinary manga writers use a pencil to draw the outline and then use a dip pen to trace the black, because the pencil line is easy to modify and is suitable for drafting.

But Hirozawa Higashino’s paintings do not need to be modified at all, just use dipped brushes to paint.

Hirosawa Higashino immediately began to try.

The painting is still the third page of the first chapter of Dragon Ball.

A storyboard drawn in six frames of black ink quickly took shape.

really.

Pencil outlines are superfluous!
With LV7 drawing ability and LV5 strong physical ability, Higashino Hirosawa's control of the tip of the dip pen is amazingly fast, stable and accurate.

Those auxiliary lines, grid points, shadows, etc. that should have been drawn using various auxiliary tools, he can draw the effect of the picture with one stroke, and the effect of the manuscript paper directly reaches the level of the final draft.

Higashino Hirozawa can render even the thin lines that require a fine tip by reducing the strength and contact area of ​​the dip pen to render them stably.

8 minutes!
After one page was drawn, the effect of the picture was almost the same as in Hiroze Higashino's mind, and Hirozawa Higashino only took 8 minutes!
This is not yet proficient, and the time can be shortened, shortened a lot!
Higashino Hirosawa followed the content of the first chapter of Dragon Ball manga and continued to draw.

As time passed, Higashino Hirozawa drew pages of manga manuscripts at an astonishing speed and threw them on the ground to dry.

Higashino Hirosawa's movements became more and more proficient, and his painting speed became faster and faster.

Xiao Qianhe had slept for a full three hours, she rubbed her eyes and got up from the ground.

After waking up, she quickly looked around and saw that Hirosawa Higashino was still in the room, so she was relieved.

After rubbing her stomach, she felt that she was not hungry yet, so she sat down and twisted the Rubik's Cube in her hand with her head down.

She is not twisting randomly, Hiroze Higashino has demonstrated to her that the same color should be screwed onto the same surface.

She had been playing for a while at noon, and she had roughly memorized how some color positions would change after being twisted.

……

In the room, two people, one big and one small, are quietly busy with their own affairs.

Another long time passed.

Higashino Hirosawa let out a long breath.

For the first chapter of Dragon Ball, he has drawn all the 31 pages of the manuscript.

It took less than 3 hours before and after.

During these 3 hours, the speed of Hirozawa Higashino's original painting skyrocketed.

The first page took him 8 minutes.

But at the back, the time required to draw a page has been greatly shortened.

On average, Hirosawa Higashino only needs 5 minutes to complete a page of manuscript!
No one will believe this speed.

Many authors of weekly manga serials, even with the help of two or three assistants, still have to work hard for several days before they can draw the content of a chapter.

Weekly comics generally have a little more pages except for the first few episodes, and then they are serialized, with about [-] pages per episode.

Based on an average of [-] pages, Hirosawa Higashino can complete the work of others for a week in less than two hours.

This means that Hirozawa Higashino can draw several more comics at the same time and serialize them together!
(End of this chapter)