After the trial illustration was affirmed by Akiyama Goki, the illustration style of "Machine Era" was determined to be the style drawn by Yu Kamiya, because the novel had already been completed, and basically as soon as Yuu Kamiya's illustrations arrived, they could be officially published. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Yu Kamiya is not a person who procrastinates.,The things that others ask for will be completed as soon as possible so as not to become an unnecessary burden.,Determine the light novel illustration style of "Machine Age" The next day, Yu Kamiya has completed the ten illustrations needed for the first volume.。

Due to the peculiarity of the novel's plot style, only two of the ten illustrations are character illustrations, three close-up illustrations, and five long-range illustrations, highlighting the decaying atmosphere of the wasteland world and the unique worldview design of "Automata".

"Originally, light novel illustrations should be character-oriented, especially female characters, but I did the opposite. After consulting Akiyama, he shared his belief that a long-range vision would best depict the decaying atmosphere of the world. The illustrations don't spoil the novel, but there may be a considerable number of readers who don't buy it. Looking at the finished illustrations on the computer screen, Kamiya couldn't help but smile bitterly.

It is said that buying illustrations will give you toilet paper, but a considerable number of readers who buy illustrations are aimed at female characters. The dead house is really disgusting, and another meaning is that the money also called the dead house is really easy to cheat.

That being said,Kamiya Yu still has a lot of confidence in his illustrations,In addition to the two beautiful character illustrations of the male and female protagonists,Each one he draws has the quality of the top desktop wallpaper,Consciousness painting brings a completely different look and feel of the illustration structure from hand-drawn,Delicate painting style and the ultimate use of color,Anyone's first impression of these illustrations will not be low。

Yu Kamiya's price for his illustrations is 80,000 yen per piece, which is theoretically close to the limit of the price of an illustrator's average work. The famous illustrator in the 11th district of the last world named "Fukasaki Twilight",His prints were auctioned for 300,000 yen.,The prints that were drawn for the light novel "The Cultivation Method of the Passerby Heroine" were originally sold for tens of thousands of yen, but the price soared to more than 100,000 yen after the animation was broadcast.,And the prints drawn for the light novel have a copy version.。

Drawing illustrations is not a simple job,Well-known illustrators will have their own exclusive team,Fukasaki Twilight and his partner Kuroya Shinobu created a team called Cradle (Cradle),Each has a different division of labor,As Fukasaki Twilight's partner,Although Fukasaki Twilight is extremely famous in District 11,Kurosaki Shinobu is a simple person,Rarely appear in public,Fukasaki Twilight once revealed that Kurosaki Shinobu's illustration level is actually above him。 In addition, it is interesting to note that Shinobu Kurotani is a female illustrator, and she and Twilight Fukasaki are actually husband and wife.

Yuu Kamiya is really not interested in the illustration industry in District 11.,I once confused Fukazaki Twilight with the cartoonist Big Twilight.,My understanding of Fukazaki Twilight is limited to the animation of "The Cultivation Method of the Passerby Heroine", and the texture of the stockings he drew is good.

80,000 yen for a beautiful computer-drawn illustration, the unbelievable price in the eyes of ordinary people is actually just an offer given by Yu Kamiya to limit some of the pricing factors, and there are many game companies that have given the price of more than one million yen for an illustration in the projects that he cooperated with and was rejected. This price is not exaggerated, at the beginning, in order to obtain the [Yuanshen] ship girl mental model drawn by him, the player of "Ship Girl Collection" contributed a total of more than 100 million yen to the game of "Ship Girl Collection".

"Okay, pack them all up and send them to Akiyama." After the review, Yu Kamiya sent the ten illustrations he had drawn to Gojing Akiyama's mailbox, and after doing this, he opened another folder where the illustrations were stored, and an illustration with a classical oriental charm that was completely different from the Japanese illustration jumped in front of him.

When drawing the illustration of "Machine Age", Yuya Kamiya also drew the cover picture of the novel "Breaking the Sky" that he "carried" over, and he first used drawing software to reduce the resolution of the cover painting, and he was embarrassed for a while: "The cover painting of "Breaking the Firmament" is drawn, and the next step is to make it a novel cover, but the resolution of the cover painting will become quite low after making the cover of the novel, and the website does not support uploading it to the novel in large size. ”

There is another point that needs to be carefully considered in the illustration style of "Breaking the Sky", that is, the style of the novel itself.

Oriental fantasy? Western Fantasy?

Obviously, from the cultural atmosphere of the novel, it tends to the former, but the vindictiveness, Warcraft setting and characters similar to Medusa will have the flavor of Western fantasy, which is one of the most toxic elements in the online literature industry in the future.

Online novels are a combination of themes that can barely be seen before, but if they are drawn into illustrations, the sense of disobedience explodes. Imagine a knight in Western-style armor breaking into the world of Xianxia and fighting a cultivator against a Western dragon. Considering this, Yu Kamiya simply changed the cultural atmosphere of the entire "Breaking the Sky" to a quasi-oriental fantasy, and the settings or things with a Western flavor in the novel were carefully modified.

The illustration style is not Japanese, nor is it Hong Kong comic style, if you want to say it, it is the 2D ultimate enhanced version of the domestic animation "Qin Shi Mingyue", which has the charm of the oriental martial arts world.

Frowning and thinking about it for a long time, Kamiya Yu put his hands on the desk and muttered to himself: "Then simply upload the illustrations to your account on the [BiuBiuBiu] website, the popularity of the illustrations will also make the initial stage of the novel a little more stable, and the quality of the remade version of "Breaking the Sky" will not disgrace the name of the illustrations." ”

The reset of "Breaking the Sky" has greatly improved some of the criticisms of the original work, and he is confident that there will be no signs that the novel is not worthy of the illustrations.

Yu Kamiya opened the [BiuBiuBiu] barrage video website he created, logged in to the account named [Blank], and uploaded this illustration with a strong oriental classical charm to his work with an explanation: "The cover art drawn for my friend's novel "Breaking the Firmament", "Breaking the Firmament" will be officially serialized in [Fantasy Book League] tomorrow, welcome readers who like online novels to watch, and every once in a while I will draw illustrations tailored for this novel, so stay tuned. ”

Even if he will not reveal his true identity to the public, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he still set "Breaking the Sky" as written by his friend.

This illustration with oriental culture attracted a lot of attention as soon as it was uploaded, and in China, where the painter industry has not fully emerged, this mainstream illustration style of online novels in the future is definitely a rarity.

Ten minutes after he uploaded the illustration, the comments in the comment area of the cover illustration of "Breaking the Sky" easily exceeded 100.

"Wo Cao! What the hell is this illustration! ――Yujiang"

"Without my king's fanart, I'm going to die. ――Miku8AFE。 ”

"The road turns to the powder! What a beautiful Chinese illustration! - Dox's Cat"

"It's completely different from the previous illustration style.,It's better to say that this is already the category of different artists' works.,Praise this illustration is really good.,The character on it is the hero of the novel? ――Meow-sama~"

"The template of Japanese illustrations, the atmosphere of Chinese culture, I don't feel a sense of disobedience at all, a bunker! - Limited Edition HY Game

"When will online novels also be equipped with high-end and high-grade illustrations! How much does this illustration cost? - A dwarf who is afraid of heights"

"It's said that it's an illustration drawn by a friend who is [blank], and it must be a friendship price. -- Troubles are too extravagant."

"The price of the May Big Touch illustration is 3,000 RMB, [Blank] The Big Touch must be 5,000 to start, and the friendship price is not a cost that a web novel can bear, but it's better to say that it's a violent thing? -- The Fox of Alishan"

"It's actually a custom illustration of a web novel, and it's a treatment that god-level authors don't have! Well, for the sake of illustration, let's pay attention to that novel. ――Eric・Cartman”

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On the other side, Gojing Akiyama received an email from Yu Kamiya.

"That guy from Kamiya shouldn't have activated the [Edge's Sky] animation production company to help him draw illustrations, this speed is really fast and it's a headache." It was more than the first time to tell himself that everything related to Yu Kamiya was not worth being surprised against, and Gojo Akiyama patted his head when he saw the ten illustrations displayed on his computer screen, and smiled bitterly.

Ten illustrations a day,No matter how you say it, it's not the speed that a human artist should have.,The most conservative estimate is that Yu Kamiya draws the main frame of the illustration.,The artist will continue to complete it.。

He scrolled the mouse wheel to view these illustrations, and he didn't give Yu Kamiya too much advice in drawing light novel illustrations, and handed over all the creative rights to him, which is also the treatment that a top illustrator should have.

After a while, his gaze paused on one of the character illustrations, with a complicated gaze: "Codename 7・・・・・・"

Codename 7,The heroine of his pen,The initiator of the intelligent mechanical rebellion,Code 7 in the character illustration drawn by Yu Kamiya is a silver-haired girl with three nothings.,Most of the time it appears in the form of Lori.。 There is a slight difference from the characters depicted in his novels, and the code name 7 from Yuyuki Kamiya's pen has more complex charm that he has always wanted to express, which shows that Yuu Kamiya must have carefully studied his novels before drawing the illustrations.

"And then this part is the vision that Kamiya said."

The mouse continues to slide, a long view of the wasteland world is reflected in his pupils, the male protagonist takes the heroine's hand and enters the dilapidated city head-on, the buildings are toppled and blocked the ground roads, those once gorgeous vehicles are turned into scrap metal and placed in the ruins, weeds are overgrown, roadsides, ruins, broken buildings, those green vegetation has taken over the city after mutation, interpreting the beauty of the fusion of nature and man-made.

In the second painting, a city of ruins made of steel, a garbage pile made of electronic products obscures the sun, it looks as if it smells the pungent smell of rust, and humans in tattered clothes come and go here, occasionally you can see the shadow of some intelligent machines, and you can see the strange eyes of some passers-by looking at these intelligent machines.

The third, the world shrouded by the boundless sandstorm is just an ordinary desert, but the war caused by the intelligent mechanical rebellion still leaves traces here, including the fallen fighter jets, and the giant circle left behind after being bombed by nuclear bombs, all of which are slowly eroded by the wind and sand, and the male and female protagonists are moving forward in the barren desert.

Of course, Akiyama Gojing knows what the best illustration of a light novel should be, and there is a joke in their editorial department: "Light novel illustration without a heroine is just a work that has nothing to do with this work." This means that if there is no heroine in the light novel illustrations, then these illustrations have nothing to do with the novel, which shows the importance of the heroine's character illustrations.

But as the editor-in-chief of the light novel, Akiyama Gojing didn't have any doubts in his heart when he received a call from Yu Kamiya saying that the illustrations should be drawn in the mode of a long view, or his trust in Yu Kamiya, or what he originally thought, and he himself was not very clear.

Now when I look at the vista illustration drawn by Yu Kamiya, this answer becomes clear.

"Tuk-tuk." There was a knock on the door

"Come in." Akiyama replied, still focusing on the long-range illustration in front of him, as if to find out all the details of this illustration.

"Akiyama, these are the reviews of this month's light novels... What are you reading?" Tosui, Akiyama's editorial assistant, was curious when he saw him staring at the screen seriously, and walked over to see the unique style of illustrations.

"What's going on with these illustrations?" Even though he was only an editor, he could see the difference between the illustrations at a glance.

Akiyama Gojing clasped his hands and turned his head to look at the assistant who spoke out and nodded, "It's all the work of Mr. Kamiya." ”

"That Yu-sensei Kamiya? I was thinking that it was from that famous artist, and it was really extraordinary, the illustration of the "Fate/zero" novel? The Yuanshui editor exclaimed.

Gosei Akiyama shook his head: "It's another light novel, but it's not a new work by Mr. Kamiya." ”

"Not Kamiya-sensei's work?"

The editor of Yuanshui looked carefully and felt that the illustration style was very different from "Fate/zero", but after looking carefully, he frowned in surprise and asked: ""Mechanical Age"! ”

Hearing this, Akiyama Gojing was surprised and said: "Yuanshui, it's really a shame that you can see it." ”

The editor of Yuanshui shook his head and smiled: "I've read your novel anyway, I don't know why I feel this way, but now you're finally willing to publish "Machine Age"?" "Before he became Gokuni Akiyama's assistant editor, he was the editor in charge of Gokuni Akiyama's novels, and he was one of the few people who knew why Gojo Akiyama became an editor.

"What do you think?"

"Isn't it good?,I've always thought you had the potential to write light novels.,And now I've got the help of that Kamiya-sensei.,Anyway, I'm optimistic.。 Speaking of these illustrations, it's really amazing.,How the hell is drawn?,It feels like it's not at the same level as ordinary illustrations.。 The Ensui editor patted Akiyama Gojing's shoulder, and curiously leaned his head to look at these novel illustrations carefully.

The improper answer made Akiyama Gojing helpless, just now when the editor of Yuanshui recognized it as the illustration of the novel "Machine Age", he was pleasantly surprised in his heart, which can make the editor of Yuanshui leave an impression, and it is also a recognition of his work, not to mention that he showed him "Machine Age" a few years ago.

Yu Kamiya's illustrations also gave him a lot of confidence, and even if the novel was not popular, he at least created the light novel he really wanted to create.