Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 378: Hot Discussion at the Beginning

The first serialization of "Dao Wei Yi Xian" was promoted with the help of Feng Yiyuan's long article published after the completion of "Purple Air Coming from the East". Feng Yiyuan's help also made the comic industry provide a lot of promotional resources, and Lin Qingshan relied on the popularity of the movie "Edge Walker" to get attention...

So it attracted a lot of attention from comic fans from the very beginning.

After reading the first episode, which was full of Lin Qingshan's personal style and a unique fusion of traditional Chinese painting styles, comic fans were delighted.

Although the setting and overall plot of the comic are still unclear, everyone feels satisfied with the explosive beginning and has expressed their opinions on various online platforms.

"You are worthy of being called Qingshan, old thief. Guigui gathered all his strength from the beginning and directly drew such a bloody scene."

"Awesome, using humans to make elixirs, this protagonist has a hellish start from the beginning!"

"I thought Denci's beginning was tragic enough. His parents died when he was young, and he was burdened with millions of debts. He even sold his organs to pay off his debts. His biggest dream was to eat bread with jam and have contact with women.

As a result, this one is even more heavyweight, and at the beginning it looks like it will be used as a medicinal ingredient for alchemy.

But what happened in the end? Does this mean that I can travel between the two worlds?"

"Using humans to make pills... makes sense. After all, all works of cultivation love to use parts of monsters and beasts' bodies as medicinal materials to make pills. So humans, as the spirits of all things, can also be used to make pills, right?"

"Gui Gui, your idea... why do I feel that this is the same idea as that of the old thief Qingshan? Quick! There is a talent here who should be sent to a mental hospital, send him in quickly!"

"When the protagonist was at the end, I felt that the hospital and the hospital gown were more like a mental hospital and psychiatric gowns. Could it be that Guigui, the old thief Qingshan, drew the protagonist as a mental patient this time?"

"That's absolutely right! Qingshan the old thief said that no one knows more about mental illness than me!"

"Yeah... Qingshan the old thief is a psychopath himself, with a rich history of mental illness. When it comes to understanding mental illness, who can compare to him?!"

"Ah? You're not really going to draw your experience of being a mental patient into a cartoon, are you?"

"Is it possible that the world where people are forced to make elixirs is actually a hallucination caused by the protagonist's hysterical attack?"

"I see. The protagonist is the old thief Qingshan! When it comes to getting sick, no one can compare to the old thief Qingshan!"

“It’s such a niche track, drawing out your own medical history…it’s really a track that no one can replicate.”

"Who said it can't be copied?! Everyone, wait for me! I'm going to sneak into the mental hospital to gain enlightenment! Wait, within half a year you will see a super new man in the comics industry rise up!"

"It's bad! After hearing what you said, I also want to go to a mental hospital to gain enlightenment!"

"The person who invented mental illness is truly a genius!"

"By the way, Qingshan Laozei's novel painting style is really beautiful. I think this style is the right style for comics about cultivation. Besides, Laozei's painting skills are as exquisite as ever."

"Gui Gui, when we first saw the style of the promotional picture, those of us who major in art thought that Qingshan Laoze was amazing. It must have taken him a long time to draw such a picture. We thought it was just a promotional picture. Who would have thought... did Qingshan Laoze plan to use this style to finish the whole "Tao Weird Immortal"?!"

"I tried to imitate it before, and it took me a lot of time to draw a single draft by hand. I'm a Chinese painting major, and it takes me a lot of time to draw one. With so many drafts for a comic, I don't know how Qingshan Laozi could finish it in time..."

"The old thief Qingshan had three assistants before, but now there are only two left. I guess the assistants helped a lot."

"That's amazing! It's definitely not easy to draw this kind of comics by hand."

"I find this style of painting pleasing to the eye, I love it, I will definitely continue to follow it if nothing else."

"Besides, this is Qingshan Laozei's comic. You can always trust Qingshan Laozei's creative ability!"

"I can't say much about the theme of the Cultivation Comic, but looking at the style of the comic and the name of the old thief Chong Qingshan, it is indeed worth looking forward to."

……

Comic fans are making all kinds of jokes online, and the first episode of "Daoguiyixian" is indeed too explosive.

The fact that this episode has been compared to the first episode of "Chainsaw Man" by comic fans shows how explosive the plot of this episode is.

Maybe it's not very exciting, but its explosiveness is definitely enough to attract people's attention.

Coupled with the comic style similar to the previous life's "Fog Mountain Five Elements", it is even more lovable.

This week, the popularity of the first serialization of "Daoguiyixian" reached the third place, which can be said to be an explosion in popularity.

After all, it has gathered so much popularity and publicity resources, plus Lin Qingshan’s own popularity, it is of course very eye-catching.

As Yang Shuzhun has always regarded Lin Qingshan as his imaginary enemy, he paid close attention to "Taoism of Immortals" when the film began to be promoted.

When the first episode of "The Taoist Immortal" was released, he also read the first episode of "The Taoist Immortal" first.

Seeing that style of painting, Yang Shuzhun felt a little ashamed of himself.

In fact, his painting skills are quite good. After all, he graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and studied abroad for a period of time. He learned traditional oil painting and integrated it with a bit of modern comic style.

Lin Qingshan can also tell from his comic style that Yang Shuzhun in this parallel world has great painting skills.

Moreover, Yang Shuzhun's comic style is not the comic style of his previous life, but is similar to the illustrations inserted in the middle of the single volume of the novel "Dragon Clan" in his previous life. It can be said that his painting skills are quite outstanding.

But Lin Qingshan was cheating. The ability of [Painting Kaleidoscope (Master)] in the system gift package he got at the beginning was comparable to the top level in the current world.

Even if you bring university professor Yang Shuzhun here, he may not be able to match Lin Qingshan in terms of painting skills.

Therefore, there is nothing shameful about Yang Shuzhun's self-abasement. On the contrary, his painting skills are absolutely outstanding.

After marveling at Lin Qingshan's painting skills and new style, he focused on the plot.

After all, the comic drawing skills and style are secondary, and what really matters is the plot.

There is no super popular comic that has gained huge popularity due to its excellent style and drawing skills. On the contrary, super popular comics like "Purple Air Coming from the East" and "True Dragon God's Choice" have achieved extremely high success due to their outstanding plots and settings.

It’s just like a TV series. No matter how handsome and good-looking the actors are, no matter how outstanding and beautiful the costumes and props and the set are, if the plot of the TV series is terrible, then the show is just a bad show with a beautiful appearance but rotten inside.

Some TV series may not have a good cast, and the costumes, props, and sets are not that great, but they can become popular if the plot is good.

To put it bluntly, the style and skills of painting are like the score on the test paper. If the plot and setting are already good, they can add extra points, thus achieving higher achievements.

But if the plot and setting are not good, it will be useless no matter how high the score is.

However, after reading the first episode, Yang Shuzhun was still a little confused.

Because this is the first episode, the settings are not completely clear yet, and in terms of the plot... it seems that only the male protagonist Li Huowang and the bald-headed Taoist priest are introduced.

But anyway…

"This opening is really eye-catching..."

Yang Shuzhun nodded and said admiringly, "Sure enough, he still has some skills..."

Tang Wei said, "This old thief Qingshan really likes... the setting of entering the flesh, but this setting is indeed easy to attract everyone's attention."

"Because this setting challenges the bottom line of human civilization, there is a sense of taboo excitement that goes beyond the moral bottom line."

Yang Shuzhun thought about it for a moment, and suddenly realized something. He analyzed and said, "I now understand his idea a little bit. The crazy plot and setting with extremely strong reversals can greatly give comic fans a sense of freshness, and this is the way to attract everyone."

To put it bluntly, humans are creatures who are easily bored with the old and like excitement. In his opinion, Lin Qingshan's extremely novel plot and setting, which challenge the bottom line of human morality, grasp this point.

But he was not quite sure whether Lin Qingshan did it intentionally or unintentionally.

The sense of madness contained in this kind of work is either because he directly comprehended the current preferences of human nature, or he himself is a mental patient and this is the routine he mastered inadvertently.

After all, looking at the rumors on the Internet, and Yang Shuzhun having met Lin Qingshan himself at the comic industry annual meeting...

Lin Qingshan really does look like a mental patient.

But let’s say he is a psychopath. How can a real psychopath draw comics and achieve such great success?
This is a bit too magical.

So he couldn't figure out whether Lin Qingshan was really crazy or just pretending to be crazy.

"but……"

Yang Shuzhun said with a smile, "Now he can start a new work without fear. After the completion of "Purple Air Coming from the East", "True Dragon Selection" is just good at maintaining the status quo but not making progress. Now it's my time!"

He is very confident that after gaining huge popularity with the Black Moon Tide chapter of "Protoss", he believes that the popularity of "Protoss" will continue to rise to the peak.

Now, "Purple Air Coming from the East", which has always been ranked first in popularity, has also come to an end. Although "True Dragon God's Selection" is also very popular, he can see that the comic author of "True Dragon God's Selection" has no ambition at all now and plans to continue to make money with his old capital.

Lin Qingshan...now it seemed to him that it was a bit of a pity.

Because Lin Qingshan's comic works have always been relatively short, "Edgewalker" is needless to say, "Flame Fist" was not serialized but directly published as a single volume, and "Chainsaw Man" was only serialized for about 90 chapters before it was announced to be suspended.

"Parasyte"... Not to mention, although it has a good reputation, it is not long and not very popular. It is the most critically acclaimed but least popular comic work among all Aoyama's comics.

If Lin Qingshan continued to serialize "Chainsaw Man", perhaps he could catch up with him, but unfortunately Lin Qingshan has been constantly starting new works.

Although the new work has good popularity and reputation, it is too short and cannot accumulate much popularity.

Even though the promotional resources for "The Dao of Immortal" were incredibly huge, it would still take a long period of time for it to catch up with "The Divine Race".

And now...

The opponent that he once looked up to has now become a complete challenger, which makes Yang Shuzhun feel a little proud and condescending.

"Now...Lin Qingshan, you have finally become a challenger."

Yang Shuzhun murmured to himself and said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)