Chapter 8: Comic Groups (Part II)
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In other words, a character can attract readers faster than a story, a story needs a gradual process of attracting readers, and a good character only needs a picture to successfully capture readers.
For example, Miyahara Shizu's previous life was the Black Rock Shooter, at the beginning, she was just an illustration published by a fanart artist on his blog, and then her popularity rose inexplicably, and the setting was perfected, and then there were Black Rock Shooter songs, games, comics, TV animations, and ...... It can be said that Black Rock Shooter has gradually become a cross-media two-dimensional work just by virtue of his initial successful character design.
In the character design, female characters are often easier to attract the attention of readers than male characters, and it is easier to please male readers and female readers at the same time, male readers are very simple, as long as the painting is beautiful enough, the character is not annoying, they will naturally like such characters, and female characters can also attract female readers with the same gender sense of substitution.
But such a work is very demanding for painting, and he requires the cartoonist to be skilled in drawing, and to look at faces in the real world, and the characters in comics also need to look at faces.
Therefore, Miyahara Jing can only do it herself.
At the same time, in order to win over female readers, he also needs a high-quality shoujo manga, which is the original manuscript that he has taken out now.
Strictly speaking, the original manuscript in his hands cannot be described as a pure shoujo manga, and it is difficult to clearly define whether it is aimed at a female or male audience, or whether it is a work that can please both sides.
This work is a "healing" department, a tear-jerking comic.
Miyahara provided the four original manga assistants with drawing tools, and then asked them to copy the original manuscripts, in addition to the character resemblance, Miyahara Shizune also asked them to try to be as similar as possible to their own painting style, as far as possible to get rid of the early nineties manga style.
Readers may not be comfortable with this style of painting, but this style that is different from the current one can indeed make people feel refreshed, and then make readers more impressed.
This time, Miyahara Shizune didn't have the ability to come up with too many storyboards at once like he did for Aida Seiichi, first, he didn't have that much time to draw storyboards, and second, these four people were not mature manga artists, and they didn't have the ability to draw according to the original manuscript like Aida Seiichi.
After all four of them completed the copying, the results of the comparison were somewhat unexpected by Miyahara Shizune, and the best paintings were actually Katsura Ono and Nahoko Ueda, rather than Chika Hakaino and Yuki Midorikawa, whom he had favored in advance.
No matter how you look at the characters of Chika Hakaino, Shizu Miyahara has a bit of the feeling of Hanamoto Hakumi and Mori Misaki, very much like the girl next door, while the characters in Yuki Midorikawa's pen seem to be a little too "fresh".
To put it simply, the paintings of the two people have their own characteristics
Neither of these feelings were right, Miyahara didn't need their characteristics, he wanted someone who could restore his characters...... Ono and Ueda do a good job of this, although the painting style is still a little awkward, but the characters are decent.
The reason for this is actually very simple, Ono and Ueda have been manga assistants for many years, and I don't know how many manga artists they have assisted during this time, although this experience has led to the gradual loss of their personal drawing style, but there are gains and losses, and they are already familiar with adapting to other people's painting styles.
In addition, their own skills are good, otherwise Miyahara Jing would not have picked them out, as long as they adjusted it slightly, they imitated Miyahara Jing's style by six or seven images.
This kind of person is what Miyahara Jing needs most, he doesn't need a talented manga artist, but this kind of person who has no personal style, has a strong ability to imitate, and can quickly adapt to his own style of painting, he just needs them to be his hands and be able to paint according to his will.
It's impossible to have two drawings in a comic.,Otherwise, no matter how similar they are, it's impossible to completely unify the style.,After a little consideration,Miyahara Jing made a decision.,The main painting of this manga is by Ono Katsura.,And Ueda Nahoko、Hakai no Chika and Midorikawa Yuki can only continue to be manga assistants for the time being.。
It's not that Ono Katsura's painting skills are much better than that of Nahoko Ueda, but that the former is more in line with Miyahara Shizu's original impression of this work.
The tasks of the remaining three are also not easy, because they not only serve as assistants in the manga group, but also temporarily serve as Miyahara Shizu's personal assistants.
There is no way, who made Miyahara Jing optimistic about their personal talents.
In addition to the original three-part mirror, Miyahara Shizune also plans to draw the other two works by himself, because of the cheating factor, he draws the storyboard very quickly, basically does not take up much time, and as the young president of the Hibiscus Society, he neither needs to discuss the storyboard with the editors, nor does he have to compromise with the editors on the story, and after throwing away these processes that ordinary manga artists need, he can use twice as much time as ordinary manga artists.
Of course, it is too much of an exaggeration for him to finish 80 pages of two works before the next serialization, and if he did, it would mean that he would have to stay awake for a long time, so he set himself the goal of completing 30 pages of manuscripts for each work, for a total of 60 pages.
"Mr. Ono, I will give you two days to familiarize yourself with the style and story, and after the end of this weekend, you will really start painting, everyone work hard, after all, we are only a little more than ten days away from the deadline."
It was said that it was two days, but in fact, Saturday had already passed, and Miyahara Shizune only had one day left for the four of them.
Miyahara quietly tidied up the living room of his house, where the five of them were working for the time being, and while he was painting his own works, he was devoting himself to correcting the shortcomings and deficiencies of Ono Katsura and his colleagues.
As for Ono, how many people are not convinced by the guidance of a person who is younger than himself? They can't serve anymore, first, Miyahara Jing herself is the original work of the work, and has the right to let the painting work according to their own requirements, and second, this is a more important point, they were surprised by Miyahara Jing's "talent".
When Miyahara Shizune painted her own works, she didn't even have a storyboard, and she just got started with the original manuscript, and the degree of completion was quite high, there were few places that needed to be revised, and the painting skills were exquisite, and the characters in her pen could make people feel "amazing".
This made the eyes of the four cartoonists who worked with him widen, not to mention that they had never seen this way of drawing before, and they had never even heard of it.
Miyahara Jing is also a fight, he asked the four of them to improve the painting style and characters as soon as possible, which led to them staying at Miyahara Jing's house this weekend and painting non-stop, hungry instant noodles tube full, who is tired is really not good, just nest on the sofa for a while......
Even Miyahara herself.
Soon, the weekend is over, but it means that the busy time is over, and it also means that the busier time is coming.
After two days of assault training, Ono Katsura's drawings were finally approved by Shizune Miyahara, and they were about to start drawing the original manuscript in earnest.
They had to work on more than 40 pages of the manuscript in 10 days, and because Miyahara was under constant supervision, they had to ensure the quality of each page.
On Monday, Miyahara first went to the hospital, and Miyahara Hideko and a professional nurse have been helping to take care of his father, which is also an important reason why Miyahara can work with peace of mind.
"Aunt Hideko, what's going on with my father's condition?" Shizune Miyahara asked Hideko Miyahara while looking at Yuichi Miyahara who was lying on the hospital bed.
It seems that for the time being, Yuichi Miyahara has no signs of waking up.
"The hospital's statement is that the eldest brother's current condition has neither deteriorated nor improved, and the doctor said that this kind of coma caused by cerebral congestion is best to wait for the patient to wake up, but if the eldest brother does not wake up, the hospital will consider the feasibility of craniotomy, although the position of the thrombus of the eldest brother is a little bad......"
Miyahara Hideko made a very euphemistic statement, and it could be seen that she was thinking about Miyahara Jing's emotions, this kind of patient who continues to be in a coma, if there is no sign of improvement, it is deteriorating, and I believe that the hospital will use more severe words when explaining to her.
"I see, I've been bothering Aunt Hideko these days."
Miyahara Hideko smiled, and then said, "You don't have to worry about the hospital, as for the Hibiscus Society...... Just do your best, don't break your body. ”
She could see that Miyahara Jing's complexion was not very good, and the affairs of the Hibiscus Club were all pressed on him as a high school student, and no matter how she looked at it, she was very reluctant.
"I'm fine...... The fact of Ruri also asks Aunt Hideko to bother a lot......"
After learning about his father's condition, Miyahara immediately went to the hospital, then went to school again, took another week off on the grounds that his father was in a coma and had no one to take care of him, and then quickly returned home to continue working.
"Miyahara-kun, how about taking a look at the original manuscript we have completed?"
As soon as Shizune Miyahara returned home, Katsura Ono handed him two manuscripts.
He took the original manuscript and looked at it carefully, both the characters and the background were relatively unified, and there was no major problem.
"There's no problem with painting......"
Ono Katsura was happy on his face, in order to meet Miyahara Jing's requirements in the past two days, several of them could be tossed enough.
"But...... You finished this page in one morning? ”
Katsura Ono's face immediately collapsed again, and she remembered that the quality of the work is one thing, and the speed of painting is also an inevitable requirement.
"Before the deadline, you must complete more than four pages of the original manuscript every day, otherwise no matter how good the drawing is, it will not be able to catch up with the serialization, which means ......"
"That means we have to increase our efficiency by 100 percent."
Ono Katsura almost wailed and ran back to his workbench, and the word "right" on Miyahara's lips was also choked.