Cartoonist's Dream

Using "whether they have the spirit of service" as an introduction, Limu once again talked to them about the new comic book.To tell the truth, talking about diffuse bids is about diffuse bids, but it is not difficult to know, but difficult to implement.Any author who can read 22 articles is actually mature enough to not need editing, just like Limu, which is reassuring.

After listening to Li Mu's explanation of the basic concept, he then talked about the 4 points from the core 22... When he said that the 22 points will be assessed, everyone was stunned at first, and then suddenly realized the shorthand.

Seeing that everyone was writing, Li Mu didn't stop lecturing, but just started talking about unimportant things.He pulled a chair from behind the podium, sat on the side of the podium, propped his chin and said with a smile:

"Some students with strong opinions told me, 'If you have to draw for something, it's not an interest. Drawing cartoons is to express your own ideas, and to export all the things in your mind for others to read.'

"——This kind of idea of ​​venting one's emotions to others can be said to be selfish. Generally, only artists will paint without scruples. However, practice has proved that these artists actually have no shortage of confidant audiences.[

"There are a thousand people, there are a thousand opinions, there will always be someone who will resonate with your comics,

"I want to do what I like, and I just draw if I like it. I don't have much purpose. Because I can draw the feeling of life and the feeling of beauty under my pen, I have a little sense of accomplishment, and I just want to be happy... Actually, comics are such Art that is both simple and complex.—Simple to draw, but complex to achieve.

"'Father of manga' Osamu Tezuka's original reason for drawing manga is actually very unreliable, just to be able to have a skill and not be bullied by his classmates, gradually... Gradually, the small seeds took root and sprouted.

"Concepts and ideals are always growing, because they are so vast, you can even extend it to the universe, beyond our dimension - I don't want my words to become the shackles that bind you.

"Adhering to your heart, just like I think 'having a spirit of service' is correct, so I will also try to change your drawing ideas and force you to answer me 'drawing comics for readers'. But you should also have your own Thinking, owning your own creativity, you can choose a more comprehensive way when painting.

"Like—draw half of the story you want to paint, and leave the other half to serve the reader; or this—seven tenths of interest, plus three tenths of service...Ah, misleading you again No matter what, I don’t think the spirit of killing must be lost anywhere, and it’s been on your foreheads since before you started writing!”

Li Mu finally said emphatically, with a helpless smile on his face, after all, he brought up his サービス spirit.The more simple the wish, the more radiant it can be, so why doesn't he have the same idea.

——If I don’t draw for a day, I will die... I feel like ants are crawling all over my body...

——I just want to save the things I see and imagine the pictures with my own hands.

——I like comics, and I enjoy drawing quietly...

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After 9:10 and nearly [-]:[-], Riki Baibanna ended the manga lecture early.The courses that originally expanded students' creativity and curiosity were advanced, and included in the important theoretical courses that laid the foundation for comics.In fact, there is nothing wrong with this order of lectures. The question is whether it will make them abandon the spirit of serving readers?

——Just like the stubborn me before, I only paint with the subjects I like...

Li Mu fears that they will repeat the same mistakes.At the end of the lecture, he simply assigned homework.

"This is the end of today's class. The following is the homework for this week. Please, students, transform my personal image, and put my 2 head body, 25, 3, 35, ... 85, 9, 10, a total of 16 images ;Front, back, 34 sides, a total of 4 parallel viewing angles; portrait, full-body portrait, kneeling or sitting bust, a total of 3 pictures; looking up and looking down at two angles of inclination; a total of 2 kinds of combinations, try your best Sketch out."

When assigning homework, Li Mu was always worried about whether someone would make a fuss, and 384 characters in a week was a bit too much.Fortunately, the student didn't have any special reaction. It seemed that the last sentence had a soothing effect.

However, some students still showed distressed expressions, and some students regarded the homework as a competition.In any case, most of the students who have taken classes under Limu's hands have successfully entered the airline, and the best of them are gathered in the t publishing house. Just go to the dormitory area and knock on them to visit their studios.

...Success is close at hand, and this is the bottom line that strict teachers produce high-level apprentices.

Speaking of drawing 16*4*3*2 kinds of images is not too much, if you want to draw the angles and images of all comic characters, it will take at least half a year.The most important element in comics is "people", and drawing people is only a relatively complicated item in comics. [

The head-to-body ratio and angle of view are only the most superficial drawing. In his printed textbooks, there are modeling chapters, campus characters chapters, ancient characters chapters, classical characters chapters, modern characters chapters, sports chapters, facial expressions, male characters, The chapter on female surnames and characters... Each book can make up more than 200 pages, and it is at least half a meter high when stacked together.

The difference between painting and comics is that most of them are static portraits, and comics must give people a sense of coherence and movement.The difference between painting and comics is most obvious in combat comics. Limu has seen comics with better plots but poor painting styles——

For example, the battle scenes in "Sword Art Online" are all portrait-like close-ups of characters.There is no sense of power and speed, and readers can't even tell the front and back. The lens axis method allows readers to visually measure the depth and distance of objects...

It's not Limu's style to complain about a manga, so let's stop there.

But for people who are exposed to comics from painting for the first time, just secondary deformation of characters is enough to make them suffer.They must use imagination to stretch people, and they must also have the ability to compress people into two heads.

If they really want to exhaust them, Limu can add more requirements, after all, there are various types of characters.For example, add ancient style and Western European style to them, and then change the "male pear wood" into "female pear wood" and draw again. In this way, the above number of 384 has to be multiplied by 2 to the cube.

Most of the manga-style drawings are deformed characters, and every student needs to have the ability to transform one material into multiple materials.

Artists can spend a month looking for materials, and another month to draw a high-end art work. Even if they only sell 5000 yuan, they can count as 2500\ monthly income.But cartoonists can't!If you put the efficiency of an artist on a manga artist, find early materials at this snail's pace, and then paint at the speed of a painter, even Osamu Tezuka himself will starve to death in the manga world.

Seemingly the same occupation, in fact, the operations are quite different, so Li Mu prefers to teach those students who originally drew manga.

However, art graduates who have a foundation in painting are not a big problem. There is a fast drawing method in art that is very close to comics, that is, sketching and sketching.

A pencil and a piece of manuscript paper are undoubtedly the simplest combination in art. Most art students start to learn from sketching and sketching.As long as you have learned the pre-projects of this kind of comics, experienced people can easily change careers.Of course, talented people can change careers at any time.

Skills such as shading, lighting, perspective, etc. are all experiences.

Imagination, creativity, and mastery of composition are talents.

A wide variety of experiences and abilities come together.Slightly more abstract than portraiture, but also more realistic than abstract painting, this is the status of comics.Having said that, this group of students is not so mixed and indistinguishable. They are all a group of people gathered together through painting, which feels like a synthetic field.

As long as there is a person who is familiar with the road, he will soon be able to escape from this field and find another way to survive.Even though we shuttle through the ups and downs of life, we still rush forward without stopping.

Since I am here, I will be responsible to you, you must hand in your homework...

For Limu, it is not uncommon for students not to turn in their homework.It's not that they don't respect him as a little teacher, it's just that some people don't like doing homework by nature, and think that as long as they get results in actual combat, everything will be fine.But as far as the teacher is concerned, the importance of homework is self-evident. It is like a report on the detection of the enemy's situation, and to a certain extent determines the outcome of this battle.

The theory class lasted a week during the assignment period.

Compared with their mature painting skills, Limu cares more about correcting their painting concepts.Manga should indeed have the spirit of service, if it is drawn with the selfish attitude of "draw your own picture, let others talk about it".Cartoonists either never hold their heads up, or they stumble sooner or later.

Li Mu had to adjust the focus of their lectures, knowing that most of the two hundred students were artists who were born with the theme of self-expression.

... In the repeated lectures, Li Mu is actually constantly summarizing and growing.

His knowledge is accumulated in teaching, just like Grandma Li who is still teaching in Pingnan Primary School. Even college students or postgraduate teachers who graduated from key universities have far less solid grasp of primary school knowledge points than her. [

A week after the start of the class, the drafts were collected. After carefully reviewing them, Limu's eyes became bright and energetic. There are many talented artists in this group of painters, and several of them can serve as teaching assistants. (To be continued.)