Of course, it is not easy to let comics win the first prize of art exhibitions, like the award-winning works of previous art exhibitions are basically Chinese paintings and oil paintings, not to mention comics, not to mention awards, and they have not even won the opportunity to hang in the corridor to display. However, with Xiang Junfei's painting level, the comics he drew got a chance to be displayed through the pre-selection, which should be said to be no problem, but whether the final work won the award was directly selected by the judges, and these art judges are generally some old people with outdated ideas and regard comics as old antiques on the sidelines, even if the works of Osamu Tezuka and Akira Toriyama participated, in the eyes of these judges, it is estimated that they only ended up with simple and clear lines and well-layered evaluations, as for the awards, don't think about it.

It is precisely with this in mind that Xiang Junfei did not simply draw a random comic illustration in this competition, but after careful consideration, taking into account the aesthetic taste of these judges, he began to officially start writing. Because this art exhibition does not limit the theme of the work, Xiang Junfei decided to pay attention to the theme of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to draw a cartoon of Zhao Zilong in Changbanpo Seven into Seven, and painted with ink on rice paper.

You must know that the status of ink painting in the history of Chinese painting is like the status of oil painting in the history of Western painting, which is known as Chinese animation and enjoys a world reputation. Later, the ink animation derived from ink painting has attracted the attention of animation lovers from all over the world for its lightness, elegance and combination of virtual and real, and is the unique contribution of Chinese animation to world animation.

Compared with ink painting and ink animation, ink comics also have a place in the world comics, such as Feng Zikai, Hua Junwu, Huang Yongyu and other Chinese comic masters of the older generation, are good at drawing ink comics. However, these old-timers say that the ink cartoons they draw are all heavy on artistic conception and light on form, and the first impression is that the characters are not beautiful enough. After the new Japanese comics entered China, ink comics were gradually abandoned by readers for this reason. However, fortunately, Taiwan's Zheng Wen improved the problem of old-fashioned ink comics, borrowed some painting styles from Japanese comics, and combined the freehand and sketching techniques in Chinese painting with unique ink techniques, making the works gorgeous and chic. Zheng Wen also relied on the new ink comics to become the first Chinese cartoonist to break into the Japanese comic world, and even the famous "Asahi Shimbun" called him a ghost, genius, and extraordinary talent that no one has surpassed him in 20 years. After Zheng Wen, Hong Kong cartoonists successively relied on ink comics to enter Japan, such as Hong Kong cartoonist Li Zhiqing, who brought the artistic conception of ink painting to comics. When he drew illustrations for the Japanese version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", he focused on expressing the deep artistic conception of the relationship between the characters and the story, and would add more elements of ink painting His painting ability has been highly praised by the Japanese comic world, and his paintings are not drawn by Japanese cartoonists.

Later, many Japanese cartoonists even drew ink comics, such as Yuhiko Inoue, who is famous for "Slam Dunk", is a master of this. When drawing the historical comic strip "Wanderer's Journey", he began to use ink to paint, although from his dry brush-based ink technique, compared with Zheng Wen there is still a gap, but Inoue Yuhiko's comic language ability, and far from Zheng Wen can be compared, in the work Miyamoto Musashi's ink performance of Yanagi Shishu Qi is enough to be called the palace level, Inoue can definitely be matched with the title of ink comic master, in terms of a single painting skill, he also vaguely became the first person in the Japanese comic world.

It can be said that among all the types of comics, ink comics are the one that can best set off the technique, and without superb art skills, it is absolutely impossible to draw a good work. Xiang Junfei believes that if you participate in an ink comic, the judges will have to compare it on the same level as other types of paintings, even if they usually despise it. And as long as it is fair competition, Xiang Junfei absolutely believes in his own ability.

Placing the rice paper straight on the desk, Xiang Junfei picked up the wolf and dipped it in ink, and began to conceive the image of Zhao Zilong in his mind. Zhao Yun in the romance is a handsome young general in a white robe, white armor, white horse, white gun and white clothes, when he rode alone to save Adou, he picked 54 generals Cao Wei in his life, and he entered and exited seven times in the Cao camp, and was praised by Liu Bei for his courage. If Zhuge Liang is the most popular among the civil officials in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", then the most popular among the generals is none other than Zhao Yun, even the second brother Guan is still one line behind him.

When portraying such a heroic character, how to seek a breakthrough in the original fixed image is a problem that Xiang Junfei is currently thinking about. In the past, Xiang Junfei has seen a lot of portraits of Zhao Yun, and basically painted Zhao Yun as a handsome and dashing little white face wearing white armor. Although this kind of painting captures several characteristics of Zhao Yun, Xiang Junfei does not want to paint such Zhao Yun, feeling that it lacks a kind of masculine beauty.

Especially in the station of Changbanpo, Zhao Yun single-handedly entered Cao Ying, at this time, he must not be a weak image, it should be a murderous aura exuded from the top and bottom of his body, a momentum of people blocking and killing, and Buddha blocking and killing.

Gradually, the image of Zhao Yun, with messy hair, hideous face, covered in blood, holding a gun in one hand and a baby in the other, appeared in the sea of Xiang Junfei.

Yes, this is the feeling, what I want is this effect, Xiang Junfei no longer hesitated, and the ink pen in his hand began to "dance" on the rice paper, and the pen and ink were swaying on the paper heartily, and a heartfelt and martial arts iron-blooded man began to leap onto the paper. In order to highlight the audience's attention to Zhao Yun's heroic spirit despite tens of millions of people, Xiang Junfei deliberately downplayed Zhao Yun's handsome appearance with ink and wash, and used pen and ink in atmosphere rendering and other places that can highlight Zhao Yun's heroism. The hair scattered in the wind, the sharp eyes, the armor stained red by blood, and the spear vividly revealed Zhao Yun's heroic side.

When Xiang Junfei put down his pen and admired the ink cartoon he created, he also nodded and said with relief: "It seems that I am in good shape today, I thought that I hadn't painted this kind of painting for a long time, and the level would drop a lot, but now it seems that there is still a lot to go, at least in terms of atmosphere, it is up to standard." ”

Although the art exhibition has not yet started at this time, Xiang Junfei believes that with the quality of this painting, as long as the judges are not blind, it should not be a problem to win the first prize.

"Dare to insult the comics, Wang Dehua, you just wait to eat deflated!" Xiang Junfei began to look forward to the opening day of the art exhibition, and he could come soon.

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