Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 372 New Work Preheating
"It is a little different from the cultivation of the teacher from Phoenix Academy."

Lin Qingshan scratched his head and said, "But in fact, this world was originally normal. It just became like this because of some unexpected events. The protagonist will then push this distorted world of cultivation back on track."

When he said this, Yang Dahai and Ito Ayumi were both stunned.

"Teacher, you mean the world line similar to the one in "Purple Air Coming from the East" where the immortals who were sealed by Daozu in the Mogong world defeated Daozu?"

Yang Dahai suddenly realized and asked.

The final villain force in Feng Yiyuan's immortal cultivation comic "Purple Air Coming from the East" is actually a bit evil. They want to sacrifice all living things in the world to help them achieve enlightenment, but in the comic they were first defeated and sealed in the world by a legendary character in "Purple Air Coming from the East" - Daozu.

If they had not been defeated by the Taoist Ancestor, but had eventually ruled the world of "Purple Qi Coming from the East", this weird method of cultivating immortals by refining elixirs might have been derived.

Looking at it this way, refining the human elixir really does have a bit of the flavor of sacrificing all living creatures and spirits in the world.

Referring to the setting of "Purple Air Coming from the East", Yang Dahai thought that "Tao Weiyixian" was a fallen world of immortal cultivation where the world's strongest people were ruled by the ultimate villain.

"Not really... Actually, it's more like being influenced by an alien demon, but it's almost the same."

Lin Qingshan scratched his head. He didn't know what to say. He still didn't like spoilers.

"This... well, it's quite interesting. A world where the strongest person in the world is an evil cultivator."

Yang Dahai thought about it, but still said, "But... Teacher, I hope you can consider the commercial value of this comic a little more..."

If "Tao Weird Sage" turns out to be like "Parasyte", the higher-ups will probably bring up the incident from the second part of "Chainsaw Man" to torture him.

When he was asked why he didn't persuade Lin Qingshan to go back to serialize the popular comic "Chainsaw Man", he would be a little overwhelmed.

Although he thinks Parasyte is also a very good work, the key is that its popularity and commercial value are not very high...

What kind of peripheral products can you sell related to "Parasyte"?
T-shirts, mouse pads, quilts, etc., not many people buy them.

As for the peripheral products like figures, you can only make figures of a few characters, and at most the figures of three or four characters, namely, Shinichi, Xiaoyou, Hou Teng and Tamiya Yoshiko, sell slightly better.

Even the peripheral products of the heroine Li Mei are unlikely to sell very well.

"Parasyte" is destined to be just a masterpiece with excellent reputation, but its commercial value will definitely not be that high.

"Commercial value..."

Lin Qingshan scratched his head and said, "Then I'll try my best..."

To be honest, he is not sure whether the commercial value of "Tao Weiyixian" will be very high, but it should be higher than "Parasyte".

After all, there should be something worth doing with Brother Huozi's peripheral products. The Xinpan Spine Sword, the Copper Coin Mask, the Siqi Right Family Purple Spiked Sword and these should still be able to sell a lot. In terms of figures, Brother Huozi should also be considered a top-tier figure.

The prerequisite is that he can draw the comics adapted from the novel well enough.

This... shouldn't be a big problem for him.

Lin Qingshan's painting skills are very impressive. With the help of the ability [Painting Kaleidoscope (Master)], he can be counted among the top five even in this era where there are no masters but painting skills and art are almost perfect.

Even those famous masters in history may not be as good as him in painting skills.

Of course, Lin Qingshan is far inferior to these painting masters.

The reason why masters are masters is not their painting skills, but their epoch-making paintings.

It may not be difficult for modern painters to reproduce famous paintings such as "Starry Night", "Sunflowers" and "Mona Lisa". For example, "Mona Lisa"... this world-famous painting, the ones exhibited in the Louvre are actually replicas.

Few people know that the real original works are rarely exhibited, which is mainly to protect the original paintings.

The replica is almost identical to the original, and few people can tell except for the traces of time.

But reproduction and creation are always different.

One simply shows that you are a high-precision "printing machine", while the other is the embodiment of human wisdom.

To put it bluntly, Lin Qingshan is now a human printing press. His painting skills are extremely superb, but he is still a plagiarist.

That’s why he seemed a little less confident when the novel “Dao Guiyixian” was adapted into a comic.

But it's not that he has no confidence at all. His drawing skills are fine, and with the Chinese painting comic style similar to "Fog Mountain Five Elements", he still feels that his drawing skills are not that bad.

But the comic storyboards and picture composition were his own ideas after all, so he was mainly worried about this aspect.

"Thank you very much, teacher."

Yang Dahai nodded to Lin Qingshan and said, "I believe that this new work of yours will be a big hit."

Having said that, he couldn't say anything more about whether Lin Qingshan's subsequent work "Taoism of Immortals" would be directed towards higher commercial value.

He had no other choice, unless the popularity of "The Taoist Immortal" was too low, he could just cancel it.

Otherwise, if it was like "Parasyte", which had low commercial value and low popularity but was still in the top ten in popularity, there would be nothing he could do about it.

In fact, Yang Dahai does not want to discontinue the works of some popular cartoonists.

He is still relatively humane. He doesn't mind if the works of popular cartoonists are temporarily less popular. He won't cut off the works of these cartoonists unless it is absolutely necessary.

It’s just that some dissatisfaction from the upper echelons makes him feel a little pressured.

After all, he was also an employee, and if he didn't do his job well, he might be fired, so he briefly mentioned this to Lin Qingshan.

“Then I guess I passed.”

Lin Qingshan asked.

"Well, teacher, are you planning to start a new series after Fenghuangyuan's "Purple Air Coming from the East" is finished?"

Yang Dahai asked immediately.

For a super popular cartoonist like Lin Qingshan, even if his new work is really a crap, can it not be rejected?
If a cartoonist who has a certain popularity base makes a plate of chocolate that looks like a defense paper, he still has to give it a try.

If it really is a defense, it won't be too late to cut it off.

What's more, the explosive beginning and setting of "The Taoist Immortal" look very good, so we should give it a try.

The serialization time of Lin Qingshan's "The Tao of Strange Immortals" is...

After all, they had said before that Lin Qingshan’s new work would "inherit" the treatment of Feng Yiyuan’s new work and receive the highest level of new work promotion treatment in the comics industry.

But "Purple Air Coming from the East" still has the last two chapters to be completed, so if "The Tao of Immortals" wants to enjoy the publicity treatment of a new work, it will have to start serialization two weeks later.

"Yes, wait until Teacher Feng's "Purple Air Coming from the East" is finished before starting the serialization of "The Tao of Strange Immortals."

Lin Qingshan nodded and said.

"No problem. By the way, Mr. Aoyama, do you have some character original drawings that you hand-painted yourself this time?"

Yang Dahai said again, "You can use it to promote your new work when the time comes."

Lin Qingshan thought about it and said, "Sure, I'll draw a few for you when the time comes."

When the time comes, I will draw the image of Brother Huozi after he becomes the Grand Elder of the Nestorian Church as a promotional poster.

There is also an original painting with a composition that shows the image of the projection of the dual world. Half of it is Huozi Ge wearing Taoist clothes in the Nuo world, and the other half is Huozi Ge wearing mental illness clothes in the real world. You can also draw one as a promotional picture.

Then there is one of Yang Na, one of Bai Lingmiao... If possible, Zhuge Yuan can also draw a picture of Danyangzi... Forget it, I won’t draw a picture of Danyangzi for promotion.

It is better to use handsome men and beautiful women as promotional pictures.

"In addition, Teacher Fenghuangyuan is looking forward to your new work, Teacher Qingshan. Do you have any idea of ​​showing these drawings to Teacher Fenghuangyuan?" Yang Dahai said with a smile again.

"Hahaha, I actually want to find some time to take these drawings to visit Teacher Feng."

Lin Qingshan gave a thumbs up and said.

"I think Mr. Hououin will be looking forward to seeing your new work, Mr. Aoyama."

Yang Dahai laughed.

"Then Chief Editor Yang, I'll take my leave now that it's confirmed. I won't disturb you from working."

Lin Qingshan said immediately.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Mr. Qingshan."

Yang Dahai personally sent Lin Qingshan off.

Lin Qingshan left behind his drawings and then left the Manjie Company.

After all, the drawings would be given to the comic company in advance to prepare for the new serialization. After they had scanned and uploaded them, Lin Qingshan planned to come and retrieve the drawings and visit Feng Yiyuan.

……

After confirming that "The Tao of Immortals" would be serialized, Lin Qingshan first went back to draw a few promotional comic pictures requested by Yang Dahai.

After drawing out the images of several characters, he thought about it and decided to use the picture of Brother Huozi's complete image after he became the Grand Elder of the Nestorian Church as the illustration.

He posted a blog post on C Station, Weibo, and Twitter:

"The new work has been finalized! It's called "The Taoist Strange Immortal"! I hope everyone will like this new work!"

His several public accounts are actually quite active. In addition to sharing his daily life, he also cooperates with some promotional activities.

Recently, it has also cooperated with the promotion of the movie "Edgewalker", the promotion of the final episode of "Parasyte", and the warm-up of the second season of the "Chainsaw Man" animation, etc.

Then soon after he posted it, his fans came one after another to leave comments.

"'The Strange Dao of Immortals'? Strange? And is this the protagonist? He looks so poisonous!"

"Huh? Is this a new comic about cultivating immortals by Qingshan Laozei? That's really rare."

"This comic's style... is it a new style? It feels like an ancient painting."

"Is this the style of Chinese painting? Chinese painting fused with comics? This painting is really good!"

"This idea is really great! Suddenly I feel that this style of painting is what a comic about cultivating immortals should be like, hahahaha!"

"Aoyama has really returned to normal recently and started drawing serious comics. I'm still a little uncomfortable with it (funny)."

"This shows that falling in love can help with mental healing!"

"The new protagonist looks so handsome, shashasha, it hits my XP right away!"

"What a handsome little brother! This copper coin mask is too charming, and this red dress!"

"Looking forward to it! Qingshan Laozei's Xiuxian comics! I'm looking forward to what new big things he can come up with!"

"Forget it. The theme of cultivating immortals has been painted to death. It is impossible to draw anything good. Even if the old thief Qingshan comes, it will be like this."

“I think this new style of painting is still worth watching, but it is true that there is no possibility of any innovation in the plot and setting.”

"I feel like this is just a promotional style, the comics should still be drawn the same way as before."

"That's boring. Qingshan the old thief has run out of ideas. I guess this "The Tao of Strange Immortals" is just so-so."

……

Soon, the number of comments under Lin Qingshan’s several accounts skyrocketed.

It’s just that among these reviews, some are quite optimistic about Lin Qingshan’s new work “A Strange and Immortal Taoism”, but some are completely not good, or even pessimistic about the new work “A Strange and Immortal Taoism”.

The main reason is that the theme of cultivating immortals has been overused. Ever since "Purple Qi Coming from the East" pioneered the comic strip on the theme of cultivating immortals and led the trend of Chinese style, everyone has been following suit and drawing comic strips on the theme of cultivating immortals in the past twenty years.

It’s just like when a certain subject in Lin Qingshan’s novel in his previous life becomes popular, it will attract a large number of people to follow suit.

Although comics have a certain threshold, the degree of following the trend is not as easy to spread as novels.

But after more than 20 years of following the trend, many comics have been produced on the theme of cultivating immortals.

People will get aesthetically fatigued. After reading so many comics on the theme of cultivating immortals, everyone can't help but feel a little bored.

To the extent that the comic theme of cultivating immortals has now become stagnant.

The few remaining Xiuxian comics were either cut short or forced to have a bad ending.

It is for this reason that Feng Yiyuan has some expectations for Lin Qingshan, a very innovative new comic star.

Maybe... Lin Qingshan can slightly reverse the decline of the comic theme of cultivating immortals.

Most people are quite tired of this kind of immortal cultivation-themed comics. If Lin Qingshan really uses the same settings and routines as "Purple Qi Coming from the East", comic fans will definitely not buy it.

However... "The Tao of Strange Immortals" is not ordinary, more than ordinary...

It's totally abnormal!

Lin Qingshan rarely replies to comments. After posting a blog post, he is ready to start playing.

After all, the serialization of "Dao Guiyixian" will be released in two weeks, so he can take a short break in these two weeks.

how?

He's been serializing the comic for so long, can't he just enjoy himself?

At that time, I can go out and play with Gu Qianli, with whom I recently confirmed my relationship, or I can play games or watch other entertainment works at home.

Especially tonight, the most crucial episode of "Kamen Rider Ryuki" is coming!

The male protagonist Shinji Shirodo died while saving others, and finally entrusted the second male lead Akiyama Ren to fight the final villain Kanzaki Shiro!
This is definitely something no one expected!
Lin Qingshan couldn't wait to review this episode!

　Well, let’s talk about the length of the strange chapter... First of all, I said that before because my brother saw that the performance of my book was not very good some time ago, so he suggested that I finish it quickly, so I am a little anxious.

　　Moreover, Daogui wants to use a new writing style, which basically does not write about the original plot. For example, the following parts about how Huozi Ge and Bai Lingmiao get along and frame Zhengkun are all glossed over. He may write about the image of the vase boy, and then focus on writing about the feedback from comic fans.

　　The number of words written in this way will not be too many, and the length may not be too long. This part focuses on the impact on comic fans and the madness of the protagonist and comic fans.

　　That’s why I said the sequel won’t be too long, and Attack on Titan will probably be written in the same way, so I just want to finish it early…

　　The main reason is that my grades are not ideal... Actually, I think it is OK. I didn't set high standards at the beginning. Now I think it is OK to continue to have full attendance for this book...

　　But my brother suggested to me that if the readership is so low, my income will get lower and lower, so he suggested that I finish the book early and start a new one.

　　He is more experienced, so I listen to his advice more when it comes to writing novels.

　　Like what everyone mentioned before, "Berserk" and "Devilman" are intended to be the material for the next new book.

　　Well...but everyone has said so, so I'll just have to wait and see how the situation plays out...If the data is good, I'll continue to write a longer article.

　　But don’t worry, I’m a rather slow writer when it comes to writing novels, so even if I want to make it shorter, it will end up being longer without me noticing, and the length of the Taoist and mysterious parts shouldn’t be that short…

　　
　
(End of this chapter)