Chapter 4: Ambition
"An Yi? I know! Isn't it our class, no, it should be the most beautiful girl in our entire Changling City No. 1 Middle School, the absolute school flower, and she looks pitiful...... I think she seems to have entered our high school as an art student, right? The grades are extremely poor, and even I, a guy who doesn't know how to get into the city's No. 1 Middle School, can't compare! Not to mention you, a top student! Cao Sheng said suddenly.
"She's a girl who was born to paint, and grades don't mean anything to her! Do you know the 'World Children's Painting Star', 'International Children's Painting and Calligraphy Competition', and 'National Children's Art Cup Calligraphy and Painting Competition'? Shen Ningfan seemed to be suppressing some kind of love that wanted to explode.
"I know, I know! Didn't you win a silver medal in the 'National Children's Art Cup Calligraphy and Painting Competition', which is amazing, as for the first two, although it sounds very international, but I am the maker of the international order......
Before Cao Sheng could finish speaking, Shen Ningfan interrupted rudely: "You don't understand anything at all!" The "World Children's Painting Star" and the "International Children's Painting and Calligraphy Competition" have the highest gold content, especially the "World Children's Painting Star"! As long as An Yi participates in the competition, whether it is an international competition or a domestic competition, the gold medal, first place, and first prize will always belong to her! This is true genius, undoubted genius! β
Cao Sheng saw that Shen Ningfan, who had always been indifferent, became excited, he was slightly surprised, and couldn't help but laugh and said, "You know An Yi so well, don't you like people?" β
Shen Ningfan seemed to be choked all of a sudden, his face turned red, and he retorted eagerly: "Don't talk nonsense, I just learned to paint with her when I was a child in the 'master' who fell into the eyes of money!" β
"Ouch, it's still a childhood sweetheart, who is the 'master' anyway?" Cao Sheng asked.
"Xu Liyong, known as the 'master' who can best train painters, but his level is not very good, he is strict to death, he can only teach the basics, but he wants money. He likes to say, 'I don't have the money to learn any art, get out of here as soon as possible!' βγ β
"Why didn't I draw in junior high school, it was killed by him! He said that people like me have studied painting all their lives, and in the end they can only entertain themselves......"
Even An Yi couldn't satisfy him, he said at the beginning that An Yi's paintings have aura and no foundation, buildings in the air, and garbage! Later, An Yi's foundation didn't know how good Cheng DΓΉ had been, I thought it was better than him, and he said that he was full of craftsmanship, completely spiritual, garbage! β
Then An Yi's family had an accident and had no money for him, so he directly asked An Yi to get out of the way, stop learning to paint! There is no point in not being able to support a painter who does not support himself! My house is leaning on the place where he teaches painting, don't you know what kind of expression An Yi had on his face when he drove him away......" Shen Ningfan almost gritted his teeth and said this.
"No wonder I heard that in the first semester of the first semester of high school, An Yi never painted, and she didn't look like an art student at all, this is a complete abandonment of painting, right? Then her score is likely to be persuaded by the city No. 1 Middle School to transfer in the second year of high school! Cao Sheng sighed.
"So, that guy ruined a painting genius! An Yi shouldn't have studied with him in the first place, even if that guy was very famous in the whole of Greater China, and many cutting-edge painters were trained by him......" Shen Ningfan was still indignant about what happened to An Yi.
Cao Sheng felt that the topic was too far, so he quickly pulled it back and said, "So, it's useless for you to ask me to find An Yi, she has completely given up painting!" Anyway, let's become cartoonists together, I'm the original author of the comics, and you're the one to write and draw! β
Shen Ningfan sneered: "You are too naΓ―ve! Although the requirements for talent in commercial comics are not as good as those for art and painting, the talents who can become popular cartoonists are also a small number of geniuses who are really talented, and then they are ordinary gamblers. β
"Gamblers?"
"Yes, the so-called cartoonist refers to a person who can live a lifetime with comics. Even if it can be serialized in a weekly magazine, it will be voted by readers every week, and if it is not popular, it will be cut in half for ten weeks! The works are selling well, or many works can be eaten for a lifetime, they are cartoonists, such as Mr. Ke Yongqun, who ranks among the top cartoonists with a "Heroic Shadow", and "The Land of Martial Arts" is a well-deserved pillar! β
"If you can't sell that kind of Cheng dΓΉ, you are an ordinary gambler, and many rookie cartoonists are working in other places while serving popular cartoonists as assistants, because if you don't do some work, you will starve to death......" Shen Ningfan unceremoniously hit Cao Sheng's enthusiasm.
"Huh? How do you know so much about cartoonists, could it be that you have long wanted to draw comics? Cao Sheng's enthusiasm has not decreased, but has become more motivated.
"I ......" Shen Ningfan wanted to speak and stopped, but said, "There are only 0.1% of people who aspire to become cartoonists and can live a lifetime from comics, no, 0.1 is one in a thousand people." It should be 0.001%, only one person in 100,000 people! If you cooperate with me, it is 0.0005%, and we will share the income equally. With such slim odds, you still want to be a cartoonist? β
"Yes!"
"You're ......"
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An Yi didn't expect that he would come to this special comic bookstore to learn about the situation, and he would actually meet his classmates by chance, according to the memory in his mind, the classmate named Shen Ningfan was a boy with excellent grades and was quite handsome, but he didn't expect that he had also learned to draw with her when he was a child.
As for the bits and pieces he told about An Yi's past, she actually knew it for a long time, but she didn't have any resentment against that "Xu Liyong" in her heart, no matter what, he was her teacher after all!
And after hearing the conversation between the two of them, An Yi also had some idea of the difficulty of being a cartoonist, and she was suddenly full of ambition!
Because she has the strongest drawing skills, she has countless classic stories from another world in her head, and all she has to do is turn these classic stories into comics!
However, before that, she also had to buy a lot of professional comic tools such as G-shaped pen, round-tip pen, and correction liquid, including some background book drawings, which were very important preparations.
Moreover, commercial comics are very different from art paintings, which is an inevitable thing, for example, it is very simple to draw people who stop moving, but moving, expressive, and need to compose pictures, these have to be thought in their own minds, which is completely different from drawing static pictures or landscape pictures!
In fact, this can also be compared to literary masterpieces and commercial popular novels, the former pays attention to an artistry, reflects the profundity of human nature, and the darkness of society, but the latter requires a sense of rhythm, a sense of substitution, and a wonderful and refreshing plot......
An Yi didn't even have the money to buy tools, and she didn't want to ask her brother for it.
She came up with a way to earn start-up capital β sketch on the street and sell her paintings.