Seeing Yan Fei's unconvinced face, Wang Wenhong continued: "I admit that there are a lot of basketball comics, but I have to say that there is indeed a lack of a classic that others recognize. "Slam Dunk" is very good, but this comic by Mr. Tamagawa, even in District 11, has a large number of readers who do not recognize its status, let alone Huaxia. Before a basketball masterpiece really appears, there is definitely room for improvement in this field. ”

Yan Fei rubbed her forehead, "I understand what you say, but it's difficult...... With such a popular theme, it is already difficult to bring freshness to readers, I am afraid of ...... Reader's"

"I also know it's difficult. That's why I said that I can't draw this type of manga yet, and I'll have to wait a little longer. Shen Xin scratched his head.

Sports animation, especially basketball, is more difficult to create than other manga. In addition to solid fundamentals, this type of comic requires excellent storyboards, as well as close-ups of the athletes' movements.

Shen Xin had drawn Ken Obata's "Chess Soul" before, and that comic was actually a test of storyboarding, many times without words, just relying on storyboards, you can draw the details of the characters. One of the representatives is the battle between Sawei and Taya Yuyo - the two chess players do not meet, but the tension of the picture is conveyed to the reader through the storyboard.

Basketball comics, which also have high requirements for storyboards, are different from Go. Go uses static storyboards to create the atmosphere of the picture, while basketball uses dynamic storyboards, especially the confrontations between characters, to create a sense of fierce competition, so that readers can feel the intensity of the game.

Since there is a fierce confrontation, it is inevitable that there will be another thing involved - how to draw the characters in the game more realistically.

If you want to express the intensity of the picture through the collision of muscles, you must be particularly clear about the structure of the human body, and at the same time, you must copy a lot of sports photos to paint that feeling.

"Actually, there is a reason why Brother Xin is ready to draw basketball cartoons." Xi Muhan, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"What is the reason?" Yan Fei turned around and asked.

Is there something going on?

"Do you know there's a guy named 'Yang'?" Xi Muhan asked, seeing Yan Fei and Wang Wenhong's hesitant expressions, knowing that these two people had forgotten this person, he explained, "When Brother Xin painted "DN", he wrote a lot of articles in support of Brother Xin. ”

"When you say that, I suddenly have an impression. At that time, the netizen named 'Yang' wrote a lot of posts analyzing "DN" and was a loyal reader of "DN". Wang Wenhong raised his head.

Yan Fei also remembered this person.

"But...... The teacher decided to draw basketball, what does it have to do with him? ”

"Because, we met him, when we were traveling in Europe." Xi Muhan took out the pad, found a photo, and handed the pad to Yan Fei.

Wang Wenhong also stood up and came to Yan Fei's side.

The photo was taken on a basketball court, and a young man, who looked to be eighteen or nineteen years old, sat under the basket, posing as a scissor-hand to the camera, and had a big smile on his face.

Unlike ordinary people, he is in a wheelchair.

"He used to be a very talented athlete who was in a car accident while he was on his way to training, and now he is being treated in Europe, and he doesn't know if he will be able to stand up. When I was in Europe, I just posted a photo of my trip on Weibo, and he made a special trip to contact us. At first, we thought it was just an ordinary reader, but we didn't expect that he would have such an experience. Shen Xin said.

Wang Wenhong and Yan Fei suddenly realized.

"But, Mr. Shen, if it's with him as the protagonist...... Readers don't like the main character being injured, especially if it's a car accident, no matter how good the story is, readers won't buy it. Yan Fei looked worried.

"Nope...... It was only after meeting him that I came up with the idea of drawing basketball comics, but I didn't say what I decided, let alone use him as a prototype for the main character. It should be said that when I saw him still obsessed with basketball, I was also thinking, for many people, basketball is also their dream, right? So, I thought about the subject matter very seriously. After the manga is re-serialized, let's all work together, right? ”

Xi Muhan nodded seriously, she had always had great confidence in Shen Xin. Wang Wenhong and Yan Fei were all stunned, and then their eyes were bright, and they also showed their expectations for the future.

"That's right, teacher. I haven't been serialized for so long, and some people are starting to forget about you. Wang Wenhong said with a smile.

"Forget it." Shen Xin didn't care too much about this, "As long as you draw good works." Okay, now let's get to work, shall we? ”

Wang Wenhong and Yan Fei nodded to each other and continued their respective work.

Shen Xin flipped through the magazines and checked the comics serialized in these magazines.

Because he doesn't know Japanese, he can only judge the trend of the magazine from the storyboard and the artistry.

After reading several magazines in a row, as Haruka Tamagawa said, there is no sign of the prevalence of color manga in District 11.

What about comics on the web?

Shen Xin clicked on the forum of the comic journal again, but correspondingly, black and white comics still occupy the main body.

"By the way, Huaxia's comics...... What is the current acceptance of color comics? Shen Xin remembered something.

"Teacher, you shouldn't have forgotten "Leap", right? The comic was a full-color magazine, and it already had a large number of fans. After the popularity of webtoons, cartoonists led by Duan Ping gradually began to get involved in webtoons, and they have already achieved good results. ”

Shen Xin nodded.

"Leap" has already dropped below a million sales, but the magazine's pricing is higher than that of both "Comic Future" and "Manga Fly", so it's not hard to live. Moreover, the extension of "Leap" is not animation, but martial arts or fantasy film and television dramas, and the copyright fee is not low.

But it is precisely because of the existence of "Leap" that some readers accept color comics, and even more, some readers only watch color comics.

Some of the authors are also targeting this market, although their storyboards are not good enough and the flow of the story is only moderate, but they just use color to attract some readers.

This should be the most popular thing about Duoman.com.

"Domestic readers,There is no big problem with the acceptance of color man,Color man can be said to have some fans."

Shen Xin scratched his head, "Then there's no way." That's the market...... Anyone who wants to gain a foothold in the market must respect the choices of readers. ”

In fact, as long as the cost is reduced, color magazines are not impossible.

Whether it is "Comic Future" or "Manga Fly", it is a single page of 16 pages, as long as it is changed to a single page of 4-in-1, the cost should be able to come down.

But Shen Xin doesn't like this mode very much, this kind of typography will make the storyboards carefully set up by many cartoonists no longer so amazing.

The impact on the general storyboard is still manageable, and the shock of the full page and spread will be greatly reduced.

"By the way, the evaluation of readers in District 11 on the Internet is also more like color comics, but they also proposed that color comics will affect the normal update of comics, and it will also make cartoonists more tired, all things considered, they think black and white comics are the most suitable."

"It's normal for them to have such an answer." Shen Xin was not surprised.

If the reader doesn't like color comics, the headpiece color page won't be so important.

However, enterprises need costs, and if color pages become the mainstream, it will inevitably affect the composition of the current cartoonist studio, so stability should be the most needed by the comic industry in District 11.

Before I knew it, the time had passed five o'clock, and in more than two hours, Toru Murakami would come over.

"By the way, Sister Yan, give Murakami a call and say that we are at the hotel. It's District 11, but we're still hosts, right? ”

Yan Fei nodded, took her mobile phone to the window, and Shen Xin's eyes fell on the magazine again.