Cartoonist's Dream

The dragon dancer was sweating profusely, and he was an "outsider" in the village, so his seat was naturally at the end of the banquet.This place is easier to be ignored by people, so Li Mu, who didn't want to chat with others, hid in the dragon dance team.It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and he was finally found by someone who was looking for him. Fortunately, the village woman didn't mean to reveal his location.

"Limu, the village cadres are all at your table, why don't you go and accompany them?" The village woman squatted next to Limu's chair and asked a symbolic question, using it as a reckless conversation.

"I have already thanked them for helping me hold the celebration banquet."

Limu is not opposed to this kind of celebration. No matter how much food is left over from the celebration in the village, it will not be wasted. After the meal, almost every household will pack some vegetables back home. It is difficult to feed the pigs with some leftover vegetable juice.

"Well, Aunt Yan asked you something."

The village woman squatted down and was half a head shorter than Li Mu, and she had to talk to him on her back when she spoke.

——If you just "inquire about something", I'm afraid you don't have to squat down as soon as you come.

Seeing that she didn't intend to speak clearly at the beginning, Li Mu was afraid that her cervical spine would be sore and that she would be tired from lowering her head, so she immediately suggested:

"How about taking a stool to sit down first? It's tiring to squat like this."

"well."

The village woman nodded to Li Mu, expressing her approval, and turned around as if obeying the order, and went to get a stool.

Pingnan Village is a village in the city, and the people in the village are neither honest nor honest, nor are they as taciturn as the villagers from the countryside.The villages surrounded by the city have already lost their way of life. Once demolished, the villagers will be suspicious. The far-sighted villagers will no longer stick to this one-third of an acre of land.Aunt Yan is obviously a quick-witted villager.

"My son wants to draw comics like you. Where should I learn? What kind of stories should I draw to make money." She expressed her intention.

"How old is your son?" Li Mu didn't have much impression of this person who claimed to be Aunt Yan.

This is a fact.I think he spends most of his day painting, unlike other children running around in the village, and actually knows only a few people, and he is doing his best to maintain close relationships with those he cares about.

"Almost two years older than you."

Aunt Yan didn't care that Li Mu didn't know her son.The so-called noble people are busy with things - they forget things too much, and Qi Linzi, who rarely sees a shadow once in half a year, can remember his son. It would be strange if he did.

"Two years older—?" At most, he was only in the first grade, so he wanted to make money from comics?Li Mu couldn't stop laughing at Aunt Yan's statement, "Since you want to draw manga, then don't rush to think about what to draw. Learn drawing skills such as parallel perspective, light angle, etc. In fact, dead objects such as tables and houses are the easiest to draw.”

The village woman nodded.Li Mu is suspected to be an expert in this regard.Although she asked many people before and knew a lot about manga, she was always puzzled about how to learn manga.

"Do you know what manga is?" Li Mu's tone was very soft.

"What is it?" The village woman agreed, not intending to say the answer in her heart.

"Comics are paintings, but they are not paintings drawn by artists to express emotions at a certain moment—" Li Mu explained the nature of comics to the village woman, and hoped that she would realize that comics are not such an easy thing to learn.

"It is a series of coherent picture stories. So what your son needs now is to learn to draw cartoon characters first, and then it will be better to draw when his thinking is mature enough. Of course, if you want to learn, you must first know dot paper, dip pen, and tools. Basic tools such as a ruler. It takes about half a year to learn how to draw a page of manga. This is the time to give up other work and concentrate on learning manga. If you learn while taking classes, it should take 2 to 3 years to mature.”

Aunt Yan seemed not to understand, and she gave Limu a friendly smile.When talking with people, the most fearful thing is to meet people who don't understand the content of the conversation at all. [

——Aunt Yan is obviously the type without basic knowledge.

"There are various categories of comics, and every introductory book on comics has its own views. If I were to classify them, there are actually only two kinds of comics. One is called 'private comics' and the other is called 'fantasy comics'."

"'Private comics' and 'fantasy comics'...?" Aunt Yan repeated.

Li Mu took a sip of Sprite with the cup in his hand, moistened his throat and said, "Personal comics are also called objective comics, which are somewhat similar in meaning to 'private novels', that is, they focus on 'I' as the center of observation, and are concerned about what happens around them. An objective creation in which people, events and things are created.

"In private novels, 'My Words' No. 1 said that novels are often called 'low-level' novels. Because the beginning of the word 'I' can only read the article from the point of view of 'I', so the author does not have to write articles for nothing. Readers consider writing techniques such as 'God's Vision' and 'Others' Vision'.

"However, to say that private novels are low-level is not necessarily the case. Kazuo Ozaki, a famous genius novelist in Japan, is an expert at writing private novels. Of course, there is not so much worry in drawing manga. It is enough to grasp a point of view. Private manga is right Creations based on objective facts that have happened to oneself or others.

"Life experience cannot be exhausted, especially when a person is immersed in creation, his life almost stagnates and enters a resting stage of 'creation summary'.

"When the things that happened around me are painted, the creators who have no skills will turn to 'fantasy', from real life themes to fantasy themes. This is the most challenging time for painters. After all, objective themes that are close to reality are no longer available for painting. So what are they going to do to attract readers?"

Riki smiled.Aunt Yan on the side completely gave up thinking and waited for him to announce the answer.

"For fantasy cartoonists, there are two decisive points: one is drawing skills; the other is thinking.

"These two points are very similar to novelists. When their life experiences, experience, and all objective facts can be written, the novel will turn into a fantasy novel. At this time, there are two decisive points for their novels to attract readers, that is, Writing and plot.

"Who will read a novel that is divorced from reality, has no writing and no plot? On the contrary, like Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", both the essay and the plot are top-notch. It is constantly being filmed and remade into TV dramas. His creations are fantasy works based on objective historical facts. Mature creators can directly skip the "private" stage and add their own fantasy plots to the objective facts to attract Reader. The maturity of their writing is also one of the key determining factors.

"In comics, the drawing skills determine the reader's perception, and the plot determines the reader's obsession. Listen to what you said just now, your son has never studied comics, and he is not a few years older than me. Such a child draws while taking lessons. Comics, haven’t experienced seven or eight years of honing, has his drawing skills matured to an attractive level? Or does he have enough life experience to support him in drawing private comics? Or does he already have mature thinking beyond his age for him to draw? Create plausible and engaging fantasy comics?"

"With superb drawing skills, the plot is ups and downs, and the manga will sell well; if the drawing skills are superb, but the plot is corrupt, people will still read it; but the drawing skills are poor, and the plot is messy, then I'm sorry..."

Aunt Yan responded with a bitter smile.This time she understood, drawing manga is like writing a story if you have to write it, and make it up if you don't have to.Children who are too young do not have much life experience, how can they create good stories?Children's thinking is naive, who will read the comics they conceived?The story is not good-looking, and the drawing skills are not particularly outstanding. How can a 12- or 3-year-old draw comics that can be sold for money?

Recalling Limu's "Q Version of Three Kingdoms", didn't it start from the city management war against Guan Gong's cattle stall?The whole comic is very close to reality from buying and selling, rice, Chinese cabbage, and market.

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Sorry, this chapter was updated an hour late, and it took me a while to deal with some troublesome things today.

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