031 The Power of Ink
What's more, Qin Han, as a representative of fan cartoonists, is also on the list of invited participants.
"The invitation list is all the best of the young generation of cartoonists in Dongying. You and CLAMP are the only doujin manga artists selected. In addition, there are Naoki Urasawa, Morikawa Ryōji, Kentaro Miura, and Toshima Ryuzo ......"
The names that Shunsuke Fujimoto said made Qin Han's heart sink and realize that this painting contest was not simple.
Toshima Ryuzo is now a hot rookie manga artist on JUMP, and his work "Raiden Swordsman" has long ranked fifth, and is known as the fifth person under the Four Heavenly Kings.
It's just that this guy, who debuted at the same time as Qin Han, doesn't seem to have a good personality.
In addition to well-known cartoonists like Toshima Ryuzo, who only exist in this world, there are also many masters in the list who had an impression of Qin and Han in their previous lives.
For example, Naoki Urasawa.
This is the man who created masterpieces such as "Monster" and "Twentieth Century Boy", and is known as the first person in the youth manga industry, and is closest to God (specifically referring to the god of manga, Osamu Tezuka).
Aside from the exaggerated boasting elements, Naoki Urasawa's strength is indeed undoubted, and he belongs to one of the top cartoonists in Toei.
However, in this world, Naoki Urasawa has only been making his debut not long ago, and he is drawing "Judo", a sports manga with the theme of judo.
And Morikawa Rangji, is the cartoonist of the three major shonen manga magazines, "Weekly Shonen Magazine", and his work "The First God Fist" is the longest-lived manga in the history of Kodansha, ranking first in the number of single volumes, and is known as another boxing manga masterpiece after "Tomorrow's Sho".
How influential was "Tomorrow's Father" in the sixties and seventies?
In that era of "all-hands fighting", there was a hijacking of a plane by the Red Army, and the slogan shouted was "We are tomorrow's fathers"!
can be compared with "Tomorrow's Zhang", which shows the power of "The First Divine Fist".
As for Kentaro Miura and his "Legend of the Sword Wind", needless to say, there are also many fans in Huaxia.
Being able to compete with so many strong players on the same stage, Qin Han felt burned.
In the afternoon of the same day, the Department of Cultural Affairs officially sent an invitation to Qin Han.
The next day, newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun, as well as major television stations including NHK, reported on it. On the Internet, various portals and niconico are also sparing no effort to publicize.
For a time, this online drawing contest has become the hotspot of the comics industry.
Participating cartoonists have two weeks to record and produce videos, regardless of subject matter and format, as long as they do not violate the law. After that, it will be sent to the Agency for Cultural Affairs, which will upload it to Niconico.
After a two-week voting period, the winner will be decided.
After this wave of publicity, Qin Han's Twitter followers have accelerated a bit.
Knowing that Mr. Lao Qinren was selected for this painting competition, many fans left messages.
"Congratulations to Mr. Lao Qinren for being invited to participate in the painting competition. ”
"It's really amazing.,There are only two old Qin people teacher and CLAMP in the entire fandom.。 ”
"CLAMP is okay to say, after all, he has been working hard in the same circle for more than ten years, and his fame and strength are top-notch.,It's a representative figure.。 Unexpectedly, Mr. Lao Qinren only participated in a CM fandom exhibition, and he was favored by the Department of Culture, and we fans also feel honored!"
"We must win the first place!"
"I didn't go to the CM fandom exhibition, but I was hoping to see the teacher from the NHK documentary. ”
"But if you want to win the first place, I'm afraid it's not easy. Most of the participants are young and promising commercial cartoonists, and the readership base is not at the same level as that of the same authors. And their strength is not bad, maybe the painting skills are not as deep as the old Qin teacher, but the story may be better, maybe it is not enough. ”
Qin and Han have released works so far, "Daily Reassuring Milk" is a unit drama with a small story on one page, and the plot is also very simple.
"FATE/stay-night" only released character drawings and some world view settings, and the manga is being created.
Therefore, the outside world, including Qin Han's hardcore brainless fans, does not have much confidence in his storytelling ability.
It's one thing to play doujinshi, it's another thing to draw commercial short stories, and it's a different standard to serialize them in magazines for a long time.
Excellent fanfiction authors, who died on the road to commercialization, don't have too many examples of this.
"Don't worry, the video length is an hour. This little time is enough to draw a single page, which can just give full play to the advantages of the old Qin teacher. ”
"Yes, yes, if you're worried about these senseless things, it's better to guess what kind of content Mr. Qin will create?"
This message quickly aroused the enthusiasm of netizens, and they began to speculate.
"It must be a beautiful girl!"
"Agreed. With the skills of the old Qin teacher, he can defeat all opponents with the two European factions drawn by his pen. ”
"Artoria is my eldest wife, Rin Tosaka is my second wife, and the beautiful girl that the old Qin teacher is about to create is my third wife!"
"This competition is a good stage, maybe Mr. Qin Ren will draw new characters from the FATE series to promote his new work. ”
Looking at these fans who were hotly discussed, Qin Han smiled slightly.
If you guess what you're going to draw, what's going to happen?
He scanned Kansuke Yamamoto's painting into his computer, uploaded it to Station P and Twitter, and then said, "I am fortunate enough to participate in the painting contest held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and I will try my best to win the first place, and I hope you will support me." Recently, I watched "Wind Forest Volcano" and felt that I would like to draw a picture, please enjoy it. ”
When Qin Han's tweet was sent out, the fans of the old Qin teacher who were holding their mobile phones and swiping Twitter all over Dongying had different reactions.
Some were completely stunned, like clay dolls, and only removed their eyes from the screen for half a sound.
Some were so shocked that they scolded and stared at this unheard of, fresh and free style, full of charm figure painting.
Others simply threw down their phones, turned on their computers and logged in to Twitter, zoomed in on the original picture, and enjoyed it carefully.
Originally, a message that was swiped in dozens of seconds came to an abrupt end, and Qin Han's Twitter fell into a strange silence.
But a few minutes later, the enthusiasm of the audience exploded!
"Oh my God! Isn't this the protagonist of this year's Taiga drama, Kansuke Yamamoto? Old Qin Ren teacher doesn't paint beautiful girls, but paints uncles instead?"
I don't know what to say. ”
"Cartoonists are all using brushes, but only Mr. Qin is controlling the brush!"
"Teacher Qinren, don't you play like this, okay? I originally thought that you were the most suitable for drawing campus love comics, and juvenile battle comics were also good. But as soon as this painting came out today, I realized that you are fully capable of surpassing Yokoyama Guanghui and becoming the first person in Toei's historical comics!"