At this time, Ling Shizhe felt that things were a little out of his control, originally he just wanted to show the ancient Chinese people, scenes, and literature in the comics, but now? Running to the art of painting, this digression is too biased. ▲ ∴ top ▲ ∴ point ▲ ∴ small ▲ ∴ said,

Pull it back, it must be pulled back, Ling Shizhe used iron-fisted means to forcibly move these artists in the direction he originally set, and as a result, he came up with several plans, all of which made him dissatisfied, he always felt as if something was missing, and the picture also felt wrong.

At this time, a master of Gong Chinese painting spoke: "Ling Shao, you also feel that something is wrong, right?" That's right, it's normal if it's wrong, and it's abnormal if it's right. ”

Ling Shizhe......

Seeing Ling Shizhe's puzzled expression, the painter surnamed Gong explained: "In fact, this problem was shown in your previous comic "God of Cooking", your DreamWorks painting style has always been the pursuit of Japanese anime's aesthetic painting method + American tough painting method, plus modern hard pen painting based on European postmodern oil painting. The advantage of this kind of drawing is that it can be used to make American comics, Japanese comics, and modern urban comics like Top Gun, Transformers, Star Wars, and Detective Conan.

But this kind of painting technique is not used to show the story of ancient Chinese history, because it cannot show the vast cultural connotation of China, "Di Gong Case" is a typical example, you have also seen, everyone has been fighting for many months, and there are many plans, but none of them are satisfactory to everyone, and you are not satisfied, why? It's because you can't show the unique charm of Chinese culture in this way.

Don't think that the novel "Di Gong's Case" was written by a foreigner, and there is not much Chinese culture in it, but if you read it carefully, the foreigners, profiteers, beauties, and even monks, nuns, Shamans, etc. in the book are quite vividly described, and these inconspicuous descriptions show that it is culture, a unique market culture in China, which is unique to us in China, and there is no such thing in other countries, so the "Di Gong Case" written by the Dutch writer Gao Luopei seems to be a story about Di Gong solving the case on the surfaceIn fact, what is shown in the book is the traditional Chinese culture.

Originally known as Robert Hans van Goulik, although he was a Westerner, he was an internationally renowned sinologist who had a deep knowledge of Chinese history, culture, religion, philosophy, architecture and other aspects, and even more importantly, he also learned Chinese calligraphy. Ling Shao, you see, it is not possible for such a person and the works he wrote to be dealt with in the same way as before. ”

Ling Shizhe said: "You just said that "God of Kitchen" also encountered this problem, why didn't I feel it, I think it's very good." ”

"It's true that you don't feel it, or I should say it, everyone doesn't feel it, because they're not professionals, so they can't feel it, but in the eyes of those of us, it's different, the overall painting style of "God of Kitchen" is beautiful, good-looking is good-looking, but we always feel a little awkward. And although "The God of Cooking" is also a story about the Tang Dynasty in China, it is just a criticism of ancient Chinese culture, and it is still a story of a modern person in its bones, so you can also deal with the past with your original methods. ”

When Master Gong said this, Ling Shizhe already fully understood what he meant - DreamWorks did not have its own painting art style.

The reason why masters are called masters is that they have their own artistic styles in the field of art they are engaged in, such as Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Wu Daozi, Picasso, etc., they all have their own distinctive characteristics, and only with their own artistic characteristics can they become masters who are admired by everyone.

It's like that, and it's the same with moving to a comic book company, Disney has his own style, Wiman has his own style, DC Comics has his own style, but DreamWorks doesn't have its own style.

DreamWorks' painting technique is Ling Shizhe's plagiarism of the later Japanese comic master Tsukasa Hojo's technique, plus the fusion of the European Venetian school, this technique is characterized by bold innovation in color, making the painting more vivid and bright, while the landscape proportion of the background of the characters is larger, and at the same time emphasizing the delicacy and sensory enjoyment of the picture, focusing on the gorgeous colors and vivid shapes, and the background and the interesting atmosphere of the foreground characters can be dexterously matched.

This painting method has a great secularity, so it is very popular with European and American readers, but this method is not good for depicting ancient Chinese stories, and this painting technique is always plagiarized from other people's things, not DreamWorks' own things, so even if DreamWorks is doing well, it is only imitating other people's styles, and it is never possible to become its own, and DreamWorks wants to have its own style, so it must find ways from other channels.

It seems that DreamWorks has developed rapidly until now, and has entered a bottleneck period, although comics are a modern industrial print, it has always belonged to the category of artistic creation, if you can't break through this bottleneck and form your own artistic style, then DreamWorks can never become a great company, it can only belong to the second rate.

But how do you break through? After thinking about it for many days, Ling Shizhe didn't come up with a clue, and at this time, the master surnamed Gong came again.

He claimed to be a registered disciple of Zhang Daqian, and he went back to Taiwan a few days ago and told his mentor Mr. Zhang Daqian about the situation faced by Ling Shizhe.

Master Zhang actually wanted to give him a few paintings, Ling Shizhe naturally didn't dare to slack off, and after opening the suitcase, he found that there were two scrolls and several comic books inside.

These comic books are "The Legend of the West Chamber", "Wu Song Fights the Tiger", "Haunting Heavenly Palace", "Fairy Tree" and "Peach Blossom Fan". The other two scrolls, one is a Chinese painting landscape and the other is a picture of a lady with a fine brush, which is Zhang Daqian's own work.

Ling Shizhe seemed to have a comprehension, and stood motionless in place for a long time, and finally understood what Mr. Daqian meant, since DreamWorks' comics pursue beauty, then why not choose Chinese gongbi as his style?

In addition, Mr. Zhang Daqian has another meaning, that is, the traditional Chinese comic book art has been seriously challenged, the traditional comic book painting, is a painter with a pen, one painting at a time, and modern animation creation is completely produced in an assembly line way, with a strong ability to survive, if the comic book is not reformed, sooner or later one day China's comic book art will decline, so he hopes that Ling Shizhe will create his own comic style at the same time, to find a way out for Chinese comic book art.

Mr. Daqian's worries, Ling Shizhe had to admire, Zhang Daqian did not worry about the sky at all, didn't the Chinese comic books of later generations decline, and finally became cultural relics in the museum. The later comics produced in China are all full of Japanese style, and it is a serious irony to throw away one's own painting art, pick up other people's things, and be a garbage fast food.

Since the master has this request, I will help him complete it, and simply find another one, and use Gao Luopei's "Di Gong Case" comic book as a breakthrough in traditional Chinese comic books.

To reform Chinese comics, first of all, we must carry out a thorough reform of traditional comic production, Chinese comic strips are called Chinese comics in Japan, in fact, the Japanese comic industry developed from Chinese comics, after Chinese comics were transmitted to Japan, the Japanese carried out modern technological transformation on the basis of traditional Chinese comics.

To put it simply, it is to turn the comics from the previous creation to team creation, to see the comics as a commodity or a whole, and there is a team to characterize the overall style of the comics - that is, the character is fixed, the scenery is fixed, the background is fixed, etc., and so on, and after these are done, all aspects of the comic production are decomposed and produced in batches, and those who are good at character sketching are responsible for sketching, those who are good at coloring are responsible for coloring, those who are good at painting landscapes are responsible for painting landscapes, and those who are good at drawing buildings are good at drawing buildings...... In short, it is the assembly line production of a large industry.

The same is true of Ling Shizhe's transformation of the comic strip, which is split. This is not difficult, but before you have to set the style of the comics, and the character and appearance of the characters in the comics must also be set, so that the reader can know what kind of person this is at a glance, although it is very facial, but the world's comic production companies do not do this, the key is that the characters should have distinct personalities.

As always, the aesthetic style of painting is adopted, but the soft pen of the fine brush is mainly used in the technique, and the hard pen painting method used before is abandoned, because the art of fine brush painting is shown with a soft pen such as a brush, and the hard pen does not reflect its artistic charm at all, but the brush white drawing has a major shortcoming, that is, there are high requirements for the painter's painting skills, and this excessively high threshold will become a major obstacle to assembly line production.

This is also why modern comics are painted with a hard pen, because it is simple and convenient for the painter to master, but brush painting is different, and he will not dare to be put on the job without years of hard practice.

To solve this problem is also simple, Ling Shizhe designed a new pen called "soft pen" to solve this problem, the traditional pen nib is the same as a ballpoint pen is a small rollerball, and Ling Shizhe designed this "soft pen" nib is a diameter of only 0.3 mm, 2 mm long soft gel, inserted into the refill part of a small hole, used to guide the ink in the refill.

This kind of pen can be as soft as a brush, but not like a brush will be bifurcated, it is very convenient to use, and it is best to use it instead of a brush for white drawing.

Solve the problem of production tools, there is only one problem of depth of field left in the picture, the traditional fine brush painting is beautiful, but the lack of three-dimensional sense, here the team led by Ling Shizhe on the basis of the fine brush painting and the use of Western oil painting techniques, so that the whole picture has a strong sense of hierarchy.

After several months of repeated revisions, the protagonists, supporting characters, and thirteen main characters of the comic have been completely finalized, Ling Shizhe carefully identified them, which is very in line with the setting requirements of modern anime characters, and the rest is the design of background props. The design of flowers and plants, blue skies, white clouds, buildings, and roads must be modeled.

In particular, the building can not be sloppy, the characteristics of the Tang Dynasty architecture is magnificent atmosphere, unlike the Song Dynasty buildings have a lot of fine flower decoration, it pays attention to the simplicity and nature, at this point Ling Shizhe asked these painters to pay special attention, do not move the Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings inside, this will become nondescript.

After nearly a year of revision, it was finally published and listed, that is, Li Hanxiang's hand of this new comic book with a strong Chinese comic book style, this is the first color comic launched by DreamWorks, Westerners have not seen the art of Chinese painting, plus the story of "Di Gong Case" has been well-known in Europe and the United States, so as soon as it was listed, it was welcomed by the market, and this new style of comics was also very popular in Southeast Asia, and only then did Ling Shizhe breathe a sigh of relief, and the modernization of comic strips was considered a success.

In the future, the comic book art in the mainland declined, at least DreamWorks kept it and became DreamWorks' oriental comic style, and whether it can be carried forward in the future depends on the development of DreamWorks itself in the future.

The picture is exquisite, the characters are expressive, the story is wonderful, and the "Tang Di Gong Case" full of Chinese comic book art style attracted the attention of the great director Li Hanxiang, from the beginning of seeing this comic, he was deeply attracted by the artistic charm shown by this comic, and had the idea of putting "The Tang Di Gong Case" on the screen.

"The story of "The Case of Di Gong" written by Gao Luopei includes chapters such as "The Story of the Obscene Monk", "The Prince's Pavilion", "Four Lacquered Screens", "The Lame Beggar", etc., and you plan to put that story on the screen." Ling Shizhe asked, it is actually very difficult to put a detective novel on the big screen, because this kind of movie is a puzzle film, in order to attract the audience into the cinema, a lot of suspense must be set in the story, so that the audience can't guess the result, but the story in "Di Gong's Case", the audience knows the result, in this way, no matter how you shoot the story, the audience knows who is the ultimate murderer, the attractiveness of the movie will be greatly reduced, and the box office is likely to be unsatisfactory.

"I won't shoot any of Gao Luopei's "Di Gong Case" stories, I'll shoot other stories."

Ling Shizhe looked at Li Hanxiang in surprise, and suddenly understood what he meant, in addition to the "Di Gong Case" written by Gao Luopei, an unknown author in the late Qing Dynasty also wrote a novel "Di Gong Case", which also tells the story of Di Renjie's case, obviously Li Hanxiang just wants to put a paragraph of this novel on the big screen.

Soon Ling Shizhe frowned, because the "Di Gong Case" written by a writer in the late Qing Dynasty is not suitable for Westerners, you can see the content in it, it is all landlords and bullies who bully people, and the government is forced by local tyrants and powerful people in the court, and they dare not care if they can't afford it.

If this kind of plot is filmed, the Chinese will understand it, and the Westerners will understand it? The West will have a question in his heart, since this county order is so useless, why not replace him? You see, this can't be communicated at all, Westerners have such an experience, they don't understand the meaning of "Lord Qingtian" at all, and Westerners will watch such a movie before it is called a ghost.