What does inspiration look like?

Tsukasa Higashino doesn't know anyone else, he only knows how he enters the state of inspiration.

For example, Tsukasa Higashino's creation must take the following steps: seeing something, generating a certain desire to create, forming a desire to create in his mind, and finally drawing it...

But if inspiration comes, Tsukasa Higashino can basically omit the two steps of 'generating the desire to create' and 'creating the desire to create ideas in the mind'.

In other words, you don't have to think about it at all, just take out the things in your head and draw them.

And the quality of the finished product is still very high, sometimes even surpassing a painting that he has carefully prepared and meticulously carved.

Some people may think it's an exaggeration, but it's not an exaggeration.

A simple example is that if you play a game, you may not be able to beat a silver player when you are in bad shape, but if you are in good shape, you may even have to kill a diamond player.

It's called a state.

And Tsukasa Higashino is now in this state of inspiration explosion.

The senses seem to be magnified, how the brushstrokes under his hands will come out, and what the picture will become when it comes out, as if they have been rehearsed in his mind, just waiting for him to take it out.

He paints with ease, with a sense of lightheartedness.

After staying in this state for almost an hour, Higashino exhaled, stopped his pen, and looked at the oil painting in front of him.

The warm streets of Tokyo, the pompously dressed pedestrians, the rickety Japan, the dream-like era, and—

Tsukasa Higashino looks at the middle-aged man leaning on a telephone pole in the very center of the frame.

It's so lively all around.

Only the middle-aged man leaned on the telephone pole, crying and laughing.

The strong contrast of warm and cold tones highlights the middle-aged man as a subject.

The whole picture seems to be very jumpy at first glance, but at the second glance, it will be taken away by the middle-aged man, and the whole picture of the oil painting has become extremely serious, with a strong irony.

This middle-aged man is not only imaged by Tamura, but also by the images of office workers and down-and-out homeless people that Higashino has seen in Tokyo for the past two months.

The meaning of this painting is actually very simple.

Whether it is the glamorous and impetuous side of the upper class or the dark and depressing side of the lower class, they all belong to the side of Tokyo.

It's like this everywhere, it's full of two sides.

So the title of the painting is-

Tsukasa Higashino stretched out his hand and wrote the title.

"Tokyo".

Then he wrote his name underneath, and it was a temporary call for work.

Of course, this is only a first draft, and some of the colors on it still need to be refined, and it is estimated that it will take four or five times to paint before it is officially finished.

This painting was used as an adult group at the Tokyo Youth Painting Awards, and there is absolutely no problem with this quality.

If we say that the painting "Tokyo Sunset: Impression" depicts the view of Tokyo as seen by Tsukasa Higashino.

This "Tokyo" depicts the various people that Higashino came into contact with.

Higashino withdrew his hand contentedly, and then turned sideways and whispered thanks to the female college student next to him.

In the middle of the painting, he actually noticed that there were people around him, and it was the street female college student he met for the first time who empathetically dispersed the crowd.

And I also used the other party's painting tools, canvases, and paints.

"I'm sorry, I'll pay." Tsukasa Higashino thanked him, and as he spoke, he took out 10,000 yen from his wallet and handed it to the other party.

But what Higashino didn't expect was that the female college student actually shook her head gently, and just curiously stretched out her finger and pointed to the oil painting drawn by Higashino Division.

"You mean you want to see?" Higashino asked, out of the way.

The female college student nodded.

She seems to be the type who likes to talk too much, and is very quiet.

But unlike Konoe Ryoka, who doesn't dare to speak, she just doesn't like to talk very much, and she looks generous and gentle.

She looked at the painting drawn by Tsukasa Higashino, and after a while, she nodded lightly to Tsukasa Higashino: "Very good drawing." ”

"Really? I also think it's okay, but there are a lot of shortcomings, it's just a draft, and it needs to be refined. Higashino nodded.

"It's just a draft...", the gentle girl seemed a little unacceptable, but she quickly took out her phone and looked at Tsukasa Higashino with big eyes that seemed to be able to speak.

"You want to take a picture?"

Tsukasa Higashino understood what she meant.

The other party said 'um', then tilted his head slightly, holding a flip phone with a pink shell in his white palm, and looked up: "No?" ”

Tsukasa Higashino naturally agreed.

After all, they used each other's paints and painting tools, and they used everything, and if they didn't even take a photo of each other, it would be too much.

"Thank you." The other party thanked him, picked up his mobile phone very seriously, pointed at the oil painting, and took two photos.

Then he consciously walked to the other side under the gaze of Tsukasa Higashino and looked at him with blank eyes.

"Huh? You're done? ”

Higashino Tsukasa was still thinking about whether the other party would have to look around the oil painting twice, but she didn't expect her to take a photo, and then she consciously gave up her position.

"Well, that's enough." The female college student nodded.

This is really a girl with personality.

Higashino couldn't help but glance at the other party.

The long black straight hair fell down the shoulders, and the two sideburns were tied with a belt, which looked very demure.

She has a melon seed face, a small nose, a pink face with glasses, and looks intellectual and serious - but her breasts are a little small, and compared to college students of the same age, she looks flat and flat.

She looked at Tsukasa Higashino without speaking, and then stretched out her hand and pointed to the easel, expressing only one meaning - the photo is taken, you can remove the painting.

Seeing that the other party had no intention of taking his own money at all, Higashino Tsukasa thought about it and thanked him again: "Thank you very much this time." ”

“... No. The female college student shook her head rarely, and looked thoughtfully at the name on the oil painting of Tsukasa Higashino for a long time, and finally shook her head: "Move the painting away." ”

After saying this, she didn't plan to deal with Higashino Tsukasa.

Seeing her like this, Higashino didn't mean to continue to bother her.

After all, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and it took him a lot of time to paint this sketch.

He left a contact information for the female college student, saying that he remembered that she helped this time, and he would help if the other party had something.

“......”

Looking at the back of Higashino Tsukasa leaving, the female college student couldn't help but bite her thumb gently, and a subtle, slightly unwilling soft voice came out:

"He's Mr. Higashino, who painted "Midnight Bells"?"

"The oil paintings are so good..."

Her calm face was much more difficult to fluctuate.

She turned to look at the bag she had brought with her.

It's stuffed with original comic manuscripts...

Those are the original comic strips of Among the Dolls.

I'm so unwilling...

She bit her thumb lightly again, and her watery eyes looked in the direction of the departing Higashino Division.

I heard from the editor that he was only sixteen years old and had just entered his first year of high school... Why is it so powerful?

So envious... Unwilling.