Chapter 27: Fan Voices (3)
Before watching this interview, Li Jie always thought that the cartoonist who could draw "Next Stop Superstar" must be a girl, and the age would not be too young, but now it is clearly written in the magazine that the pit boy is an underage boy, which makes Li Jie can't help but shout: "The pit boy is actually a boy and a minor?" Is thisβso possible? Li Jie couldn't believe her eyes at this time, she opened her eyes wide and was stunned for a while, and then rubbed her eyes, for fear that she was looking at the flowers, but when she finished rubbing her eyes and looked at it again, the white and black characters were also clearly written, which was no different from when she first saw it.
Compared with ordinary comic fans, Li Jie has a certain foundation in art, when she was only in kindergarten, her parents sent her to the art interest class to study, until now she will definitely go to the study class every Saturday to learn art, at present, her ink painting has a considerable level, repeatedly appeared in the art exhibitions held by the school, and was well received by teachers and students.
Li Jie likes art is true, but there is one thing she has not told her parents, that is compared with ink painting, she prefers to draw comics, although there is no teacher to teach her how to draw comics, but Li Jie has relied on copying comic books, and gradually mastered the techniques of drawing comics, such as the techniques of the copying cartoonists in the drawing line dots and screenwriting, etc., of course, it is thanks to Li Jie who has a relatively solid art foundation so quickly, although the difference between traditional Chinese painting and comics is still very large, but art is always the sameOnce you are familiar with one kind of painting, then you can learn another kind of painting, of course, you can get twice the result with half the effort.
In addition to completing an ink painting every week, Li Jie spends more time on comics, especially recently, she has also begun to try to create comics by herself, and she used to copy other people's works, so she didn't feel it, but when she started to be original, she realized that it was not easy to draw comics well.
Let's not talk about the most headache-inducing comic script for the time being, let's just talk about the character design, after designing the heroine's good shape, Li Jie is more and more dissatisfied, she feels that the characters she designed are just female characters who simply imitate her comics, and they always look familiar.
Especially compared with Shen Weizhen in "The Next Stop Queen", the frustration is even more natural. In terms of styling design, action depiction, and character setting, the gap is simply a natural difference. Although Li Jie is usually quite proud, she admires the pit boy who can draw "The Next Stop Queen", and now after learning that the pit boy is an underage boy, this admiration is even stronger.
"This pit boy is really amazing, not to mention that he can have such solid drawing skills and screenwriting skills at such a young age, and he can draw comics from a woman's point of view so realistically, so that people can't tell that he is a boy at all, there is still such a cartoonist in the world, if I can meet him, I really want to ask him about comics." Li Jie, who has regarded the pit boy as an idol, is no different from those fans who are obsessed with film and television stars, and she really wants to see the true face of her idol and communicate with each other.
Of course, Li Jie is not the only one who has such an idea, a large number of readers of "The King of Painting" after seeing this interview with the pit, like Li Jie, admired the pit like a surging river, out of control, and the rough information can not satisfy the reader's curiosity about the pit boy at all, and they have written to the editorial department of "The King of Painting", asking the magazine to publish the photo, real name and contact address of the pit The local cartoonist who has published the comic also asked the editorial department about Xiang Junfei's situation, and wanted to communicate with this talented cartoonist who is still a minor and has become famous in the mainland.
"Oh my God! I always thought that the pit boy was an uncle about 30 years old, but I didn't expect him to be underage, I said that I am 16 years old this year, I don't know if the pit is younger or older than me, but anyway, he can draw such wonderful comics at this age ("Full-time Hunter" is definitely a rare boutique in the comics industry, even Japanese comics have few comics can have such a wonderful thing), I will resolutely support the pit boy in the future, he let me see the hope of Chinese comics! β
"Strongly protest that "The King of Paintings" does not publish a photo of the pit boy, I really want to see what he looks like, and his personal information is so sketchy, even his real name is not clear. I don't know if the editor can reveal more information about the pit boy to me, please rest assured, my mouth has always been very strict, and I will never say it, but people really want to know his contact address! β
"Why can people draw such wonderful comics at such a young age, look at their own works, compared with the pit boy, it is not half a star. But I will never give up comics, it is my second life, although the previous submission was politely rejected by the editors, but I will never give up, one day my work will be published in "Painting King"! β
"Our school recently came to a Chinese teacher, is to teach our class, recently I found out that she and we also like to watch "Painting King", yesterday I plucked up the courage to ask her, when I liked the cartoonist on "Painting King" the most, she said that it was a pit boy, I liked to watch his "Next Stop Superstar" very much, I was very happy to listen to it, because I also like Pit Tsai, as a result, the two of us discussed around Pit Tsai, everyone said that if it wasn't for watching this interview, I wouldn't have guessed that Pit Tsai was a boy, hehe...... At that time, I felt that the teacher and I were talking like friends, and it was really nice that everyone was relaxed and happy, and it would be great if all the teachers in the world liked comics as much as she did, and the relationship between teachers and students must be very harmonious! β
"I can't imagine that the parents of the pit boy are the same as my parents, they don't like comics, they are really the same people who have fallen into the world, last time my mother actually sold the "Painting King" I bought as a waste book, so angry that I quarreled with her at the time, and cried for a whole day. Adults are the most unreasonable, saying that we read comics affect learning, hum! I also said that they often play mahjong and it affects their work! And it's not illegal to read comics, but gambling is still illegal, which is simply unreasonable. I was angry and said a lot, anyway, I hope that the matter of the pit boy drawing comics will not be known by your parents, otherwise I will die of sadness without "Full-time Hunter" and "Next Stop Superstar".
"Pit boy, don't worry, but what will happen in the future, I will definitely stick to Chinese comics, I believe that in the near future, Chinese comics will be like Japanese comics, favored by comic fans from all over the world. We can do it! β
The above messages are just a drop in the sea in the letters from readers across the country, but it is not difficult to find that the popularity of Pengzi has reached a height that no one in the mainland comic industry has reached, and his importance to "The King of Paintings" is equivalent to Akira Toriyama's "Shonen JUMP", which has become a guarantee for the sales of the magazine. Countless comic fans and new cartoonist Gao Shan look up to Xiang Junfei and regard him as the banner of the rise of Chinese comics.