Chapter 69: The Lonely Illustrator
The young girl's name is Lu Yiyun, she is an out-and-out housegirl, and she is a heavy two-dimensional house, and she will not regret it once she enters the house. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info she dropped out of college after a few days of college because she was extremely uncomfortable, and has been living in a rental house ever since.
Lu Yiyun has a specialty of painting, learning sketching and oil painting since he was a child, but when he grew up, he went astray because of his love for the second dimension, and embarked on the road of no return for comics and illustrations.
She knows the reason very well, her painting is no problem, what is lacking is the plot. It is tolerable to have a good plot and poor drawing, such as "One Punch Man" and "Attack on Titan", but not the other way around. Having said that, the skill of making up the plot is not something that can be improved casually, you can only take it slowly. She's been reading some popular novels lately, and she wants to improve herself, but maybe because she reads too many comics, she has a headache reading textual things now.
Lu Yiyun is also a frequent visitor to the live broadcast room of [Eat, Drink and Fun in Binhai], but she is not a fan, because she has never rewarded money and never sent barrages, so she does not dare to call herself a fan.
She watched Xiaoxue's live broadcast not because Xiaoxue was cute-she had already despaired of the third dimension, but because Xiaoxue would go to many places in Binhai City in the live broadcast, which was equivalent to being able to travel to Binhai without leaving home, and it was the essence of Binhai City, which was a very important life experience for Lu Yiyun, who always stayed at home.
She follows Xiaoxue's livestream to a variety of shops, whether the theme is food or board games, whether it's beautiful flowers or old books, she reads them with relish, and records them every time - all of which could be valuable material for her future comics.
She fantasized that she would follow Xiaoxue into the store, taste the delicious food with her own mouth, listen to the live music, take a deep breath of the fragrant flowers, sit on the old chair that has been mottled by the age, hold a traditional old book in vertical formatting, and spend the whole afternoon in the warm sunshine...... However, it was just a fantasy, she had no money, no time, and was even more afraid of going out.
Until last week, Xiaoxue actually chose a pet store to do a live broadcast.
Lu Yiyun also has a cat, which was left by the previous tenant when she moved, she doesn't know what breed it is, probably a string, if it is a valuable purebred cat, people will definitely take it away. The cat's back and back of the head are yellow, the chest and abdomen and face are white, the limbs are also yellow and white, and the hair is quite long, and the previous tenant called it "Jasmine".
At that time, Lu Yiyun had just fallen out with her family because of her college withdrawal, her parents threatened her to cut off the relationship, and the living expenses were also cut off, and she had almost no money left after renting the house, she was worried that she couldn't even support herself, how could she raise another cat? So she asked the former tenant to take Jasmine away, but the former tenant refused, and just said lightly: "If you don't raise it, help me throw it away." After speaking, he left with his luggage, and his back was very chic.
If you don't raise it, throw it away, if you don't want it, throw it away, why does it sound like an old newspaper book?
It may be the reason for the injury, she always feels that the lonely self is very similar to this lonely cat, and when she came back to her senses, she had already held it in her arms and cried. Jasmine did not resist the new master, and snuggled softly in her arms, perhaps it had also accepted the fate of being abandoned.
I don't know how long it took, Lu Yiyun wiped away her tears, even if it was for it, she had to find a way to fill her stomach.
Since then, she has worked hard to cheer up, sending her illustrations to different websites, and desperately squeezing into various Q groups to receive orders and advertise. Because I am a newcomer, the number of illustration orders received is not much, and it is not stable, and the manuscript fee is very low, but the requirements are very high, and I am often woken up by phone calls in the middle of the night and get up from the bed to change the picture. If the other party is not satisfied after changing it once, it will be changed a second and third time......
She also lost control and lost her temper in an empty rental house, except for the mobile phone and computer graphics tablet used to support her life, she didn't dare to fall anything. But even at this time, Jasmine did not dodge, and silently crouched beside her as if she had made a mistake, not screaming or moving. The last person and a cat hugged their heads and cried, crying enough to continue to change the map, and changed it until dawn......
After experiencing the initial difficulties, because she did not disobey the client, and the painting was good and the delivery was timely, the number of orders slowly increased, and the price of a single image also increased a little, and her life finally improved, and she and her cat have lost a lot of weight.
When she saw the live broadcast of Xiaoxue's pet store, the store manager introduced to the camera that the store could provide cat bathing services, and she remembered that she had never bathed Jasmine since she took over Jasmine.
In such a palm-sized place in the rental house, she and Jasmine are always sticking together, just experienced the sultry summer, Jasmine's hair is long, to say that Jasmine has no smell at all is self-deception.
She felt guilty and blamed herself, why didn't she think about whether Jasmine wanted to take a bath when she took a bath?
In the live broadcast, she saw that Xiaoxue also bought a cat in the store, the price was staggeringly expensive, and Xiaoxue didn't even wrinkle her eyebrows, sure enough, being an anchor is rich.
In line with her trust in Xiaoxue's choice of store, she decided to take the cat to Qiyuan Pet Store to take a bath. After checking the map on the Internet, she was surprised to find that the old-fashioned community where she was located was very close to the Qiyuan pet store, and the back door of the community was on the same street as the Qiyuan pet store, which was a ten-minute walk, which further dispelled her fear of going out.
There is a small supermarket in the community, she can cook by herself, and other things can be solved by express delivery and e-commerce, she has not left the community for several months, and has been staying in the room and painting desperately.
Because she has lost a lot of weight, and she doesn't need to buy new clothes when she doesn't go out often, she looks very fat when she wears the clothes she used to wear; she has a haircut that is solved in the bathroom in front of the mirror, so her hairstyle is miserable; her cheeks are not very healthy and pale after not seeing the sun for a long time; she has been working at the desk for a long time, and her myopia has deepened; and her cosmetics are only the most basic moisturizers.
In the mirror, she even looks like dirt. But it doesn't matter, anyway, she didn't go out to seek an encounter, and it didn't matter what the image was.
Along the way, she always felt that the pedestrians around her were watching her, and countless eyes intertwined into a net, tightly winding her, she hugged Jasmine tighter, resisted the urge to turn around and run away, and walked quickly to the location on the electronic map with her head down.