Chapter 21: The Famous Scene of the Month (Part II)
For a cartoonist, not being serialized is an extremely painful thing, but it is also a painful thing to do because serialization means endless work. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info draws storyboards, discusses the plot with the editor, revises the storyboards, draws the original script, paints white, pastes the grid, and after one issue is finished, the next issue is followed by the next one, and the manga artist is a year-round job......
Although Shizune Miyahara is different from ordinary manga artists, he also has to give a certain number of original manuscripts within the specified time.
After packing up the manuscripts and painting tools, he and Ono returned to the studio they had just rented, and immediately got to work.
At the very beginning, Miyahara Jing gave 170 pages of the storyboard of the ancient city of the King of Thorns, and Aida Seiichi drew a total of 73 pages in the last issue, and there are 97 pages left, and these storyboards can last more than two periods, so the work of the ancient city of the King of Thorns is not in a hurry.
And the original manuscript of the unheard flower name was already overfinished by the time he was in class, so Miyahara Shizune was left with only the drawing of the Crown of Sin and Fate.
Because the second episode of Fate has a battle scene between Saber and Red A, it is a little more complicated to deal with, and he has already completed ten pages of the original manuscript of the Guilty Crown before, so Miyahara Shizune first picked up where he last time and began to draw the next content of the Guilty Crown.
The second episode of the Crown of Sin is the encounter between the protagonist Sakura Manji and the leader of the funeral shrine, Ka Kamiya, in fact, it is similar to the second episode of fate, and the second episode of the Crown of Sin also has battle scenes, but Miyahara Shizu's personal requirements for the action scenes of the two works are different.
For Fate, he needs to make the reader feel the fierce and gorgeous battle, so that when the reader sees the comic, he can feel that the actions of the characters are connected one by one, and they are "fighting". In the case of the Guilty Crown, he needs to present the reader with a "static delicacy of refinement", and the requirements for the character's sense of action are not so strong.
The protagonist of the poster of the second issue he chose was also Saber, and was replaced by the heroes and heroines of the two sinful crowns, Sakura Manji and Kasuke.
The content of the poster is the scene in the manga where Sakura Mitsuji awakens the "power of the king" and pulls out the "Void Sword" from Kasuke's body.
The so-called void refers to the process of extracting the corresponding void from the human body, discarding the individual, non-essential attributes, and extracting the common, essential attributes from many things to form concepts. For the setting of the whole story of the Guilty Crown, the most important thing is the "Void" that can be extracted from the human body by using the "power of the king" and can be used as a variety of weapons, so it can be said that the battle of the Guilty Crown is the battle of the Void.
When Miyahara got to this page, he put down his brush for the time being, and he had to finish the poster before drawing the original manuscript.
Because humans who are pulled out of the void will lose consciousness, so in this poster, Sakura Manji holds the prayer with his eyes closed in his left hand, and his right hand is vertically raising the stunning Void Sword to the sky, and the bodies of the two are floating around the fluid produced when using the power of the king with silver mercury-colored streamers, and the background is a high-rise building brightly lit in the night.
Because she has consciously trained her ability to paint quickly and with high quality since she was a child, it is not difficult for Miyahara to draw such a large and delicate poster, and the real rarity is coloring.
At this time, computer graphics technology is much more backward than later generations, for the work of coloring, can only rely on Miyahara Jing herself, compared to the era of computer graphics can be used a variety of software can be simply colored, any mistakes can be modified in time convenience, now if Miyahara Jing has a color or coloring error, can only start again from scratch from the drawing.
For such a large poster, it is difficult to fix any mistakes that occur, and the point is that Miyahara herself is a perfectionist to a certain extent, and he does not want his elaborate poster to be picked out by readers for any mistakes.
"And~"
As a result, the brush in Miyahara Shizu's hand skimmed lightly, and then skimmed out the original range of tones, and the poster that had been painted for more than half an hour was wasted.
Miyahara gently lifted the piece of paper, and then without hesitation, she threw aside the fruits of her half-hour labor.
"Miyahara-kun, can't this painting be used?"
Chika Yukaino, who was blacking out Shizue Miyahara's manuscript, asked, in her opinion, this painting is very perfect, at least she can't paint this amazing feeling, but she didn't expect Miyahara Jing to throw it away like garbage, is there anything he is dissatisfied with?
In "Sento Isuzu", the work of the four except for Miyahara Shizun is not very heavy, they do not need to conceive a storyline, they only need to complete twenty pages of original manuscripts every week, although the main writer of the four is Ono Katsura, but Ueda Nanahoko can also help draw less important pages, and the reader may feel a little incongruous, but this does not affect their reading.
At the same time, Ueda is also responsible for drawing the background of the work, while Midorikawa Yukikawa and Chika Haumino are only responsible for blacking and pasting the grid, but it cannot be said that their task is the most easy, because in addition to doing the work of unheard of the flower name, they also have to work as Miyahara's personal manga assistants.
Although Miyahara Shizune often does not paint with fake hands, and even the background can be drawn by herself, Midorikawa and the two of them also do the most basic work such as blackening, but unlike Ono Katsura and Ueda Nahoko, who work 40 pages of manuscripts per issue, the workload of the two of them is 100 pages of manuscripts.
"Personally, I'm quite satisfied with the painting, but there is a little problem with the color grading and coloring, I need these scattered 'voids' to be metallic, and I have to make the reader feel that they are flowing, but the tone on this painting is grayish, which does not meet my requirements, and the color map here is wrong, out of range." Miyahara said, pointing to a place on the poster.
Yu Haiye and Midorikawa first looked at the place where Miyahara Shizune pointed his finger, and it was true that the coloring was three or five millimeters beyond the sideline as he said, but this mistake could not be seen at all without looking carefully.
The two looked at each other, and then they were speechless to each other, just for their own subjective feelings and a small coloring error, they discarded a painting with a high degree of completion.
That's right, the serialization of two manga plus the original work of two manga, in fact, Miyahara Shizune herself has become a pillar of Similil.
How old is he, but he's just a high school student, so why should he be as strict with himself as an old cartoonist who has been drawing for more than ten years?
"Sure enough, I'm still honestly a comic assistant at this stage", at this moment, the thoughts in the hearts of the two are almost the same.
What Miyahara Jing didn't know was that because of his unintentional words, the two future shoujo manga gods had a lot higher requirements for their own drawing.
Miyahara laid out a blank piece of paper on the desk again, then threw down the paintbrush she had used to color, picked up the G-size brush again, and began to sketch the lines of the figure.
Twenty minutes later, an almost identical painting appeared in front of Miyahara's eyes, and he nodded, feeling that this painting was the same as the previous one, without any flaws, and fully matched the requirements of the effect he wanted.
Now it's time to color.
"What's wrong with you?"
While changing the brush, Miyahara noticed that an assistant was looking at his right hand holding the brush without blinking.
"I didn't ...... Nothing, just appreciation. ”
The tip of the dipping pen used in the drawing process of manga is similar to that of a fountain pen, but the two are not the same, and the former should be dipped in water at all times when used, rather than absorbing ink that can be written for a long time at a time like a fountain pen.
There are many types of dipping pens, the thickness and shape of the nib are different, according to the different content of the drawing, the dipping pen of different thicknesses is selected, but the G number is the dipping pen is almost the most widely used brush in the process of comic drawing, because the line drawn with it is very elastic, easy to draw lines of different thicknesses, and it is also a weapon for drawing background effects and speed lines.
Therefore, being able to use the G pen proficiently is one of the basic requirements for every professional cartoonist, but this does not mean that the use of the G pen is easy to master, on the contrary, because the focus is slightly different, the lines under the G pen will be seriously deformed, so it is a difficult brush for beginners to master.
When Miyahara used the G pen just now, he was very smooth, and he was able to draw the line he wanted most without any hesitation, and only where the G pen could not be used, he would change to a finer line pen.
That's why Midorikawa and Hamino are just appreciating, because this kind of smooth, completely unmodified painting ability is really worth appreciating.
"Appreciation?" Miyahara shook her head, not caring about what the two said.
After he actually became a cartoonist, many people who saw his drawings said that his drawing skills were superb, as if his drawing ability was really talented, and some people even said that he should be a painter instead of a cartoonist, but who knew that he practiced for more than ten years?
He's really reborn.,There are a lot of comic cartoons and animations that are memorized and stored in the brain.,But his drawing ability is not innate.,It's an hour from childhood to adulthood.,Piece by piece of drawing paper exercised.,At the beginning, his paintings were also bad and couldn't see people.,Even his painting skills are only a matter of recent years.。
Maybe he really has a little talent for painting, but that's only the talent for drawing comics, not the talent for painting art, and the requirements for the two are different.
If he becomes a painter, he can only say that his paintings are full of craftsmanship and no one cares about them, but if he is a cartoonist, his characters will be full of spirituality and vividness.
Because comics are what he really likes.