After sending the two officers away, Araki Bai picked up his phone and looked at it. He found that Kitagawa didn't reply to the email, so Araki Bai called again, only to find that the other party had turned off the phone.

Unable to contact Kitagawa, Araki Bai could only helplessly put down the phone and go to the kitchen to make lunch first. After eating with Yuko Araki, it was close to one o'clock in the afternoon.

And Araki Haku and Yosuke Akasaka agreed to meet at one o'clock in the afternoon.

Sure enough, after putting away the pots and pans, Araki Haku heard the doorbell.

Araki Shiro opens the door and introduces Yosuke Akasaka into the house.

The two passed by the living room, and Yuko looked over with a little curiosity.

Akasaka hurriedly greeted, "Excuse me! ”

Araki Bai said: "There are only two people in my family, me and my sister, this is my sister Yuko Araki." ”

Akasaka smiled and said, "Araki-kun's sister is really cute, and she will definitely be a great beauty in the future." ”

Afterwards, he politely said to Yuko Araki: "Hello, I'm Yosuke Akasaka from the JUMK editorial department, please give me a lot of advice." ”

Yuko Araki nodded as a greeting, and then ran away a little scared.

Araki Hakudo: "Mr. Akasaka, come with me to my room, I usually paint there." ”

Yosuke Akasaka naturally nodded and followed Araki Haku's footsteps.

The two of them went to Araki Haku's slightly cramped room, where Araki Haku arranged for Akasaka to sit down at a low table while he took out his painting utensils from under the bed.

In fact, this time Akasaka came over, in addition to verifying Araki Haku's painting speed, another point is that Akasaka himself also wanted to confirm whether "Samsara" was Araki Haku's work.

You know, although comics are not related to high art, they can only be achieved through hard training.

And Araki Haku is so young, and such a high school student has mastered such superb manga skills, which is really suspicious.

Akasaka took out a DV player from his bag, and he was going to take pictures of the evidence of Araki's painting and send it back to the editorial office. If Araki Haku can really draw quickly and well, then the editorial department obviously won't have any doubts about Araki Haku's serialization.

Araki Shiro laid out the drawing paper, looked up at Yosuke Akasaka and asked, "Mr. Akasaka, are you ready?" ”

Akasaka nodded and said, "It's time to start, Araki-kun." ”

Araki Bai nodded, and continued to draw the plot that he had thought about yesterday but hadn't finished drawing yet.

Once he started drawing, the whole person's momentum became completely different. Akasaka looked at him in amazement, only to see Araki Shiro wielding his brush at an extremely fast and incredibly smooth speed, and the lines of his pen were like a sheet of music, and the never-ending notes naturally overflowed from the score.

Yosuke Akasaka has seen many manga artists before, but he has never seen a manga artist wield his pen so gracefully and quickly, and it is almost like an art - Araki Shiro's painting itself is a kind of art that is pleasing to the eye.

With the wave of the brush in Araki Haku's hand, it didn't take long for the first draft of an original manuscript to appear under Araki Haku's pen. At this time, the original manuscript was still only the interaction between the characters, and Araki Haku had not yet added lattice bubbles to the sketch. Araki Hakuro has always done this work at a later stage, and at this time he only has to express the image in his mind on the sketch.

Yosuke Akasaka was completely stunned.

He thinks that any editor who sees Araki's painting will be stunned.

A manuscript, from the beginning of his pen to the landing of the original, the whole process did not exceed 15 minutes.

In other words, Araki Haku can basically draw four to five original drafts in an hour, and even if you add post-work, Araki Haku's work in one day is enough to complete the workload of other manga artists for a week.

This speed is incredible!

In the room, there was only the rustle of pens and manuscript paper, and Yosuke Akasaka was so fascinated by the other party's drawing technique that he completely forgot the passage of time.

It wasn't until he felt the pain in his hands that he realized that he had been holding up the DV machine for more than an hour.

And Araki Shiro is still there and continues to paint, obviously completely in a state of self-forgetfulness.

Yosuke Akasaka pointed the DV at the drawings on the ground, and although the first drafts of these original drafts had not yet been done in the final stages such as borders, bubbles, effect lines, and grids, they did not affect the beauty revealed in the paintings.

In these paintings, even the ugly scum villains are shown to life, as if their true personalities are preserved.

Originally, if you were filming, it would be enough to shoot so much, and then Yosuke Akasaka had to talk to Araki about the contract.

However, he couldn't bear to interrupt Araki Shiro, who was painting, so he could only put the DV camera in the corner of the table to shoot automatically, and he sat upright opposite Araki Bai and watched him draw.

Time passed minute by minute, and finally, after drawing more than a dozen pages of drawing, Araki Bai stopped writing. He felt a little sore in his shoulders and couldn't help but stretch, only to see Yosuke Akasaka sitting upright looking at him.

"What's wrong with you, Mr. Akasaka?" Araki Bai asked a little confused.

Yosuke Akasaka said, "I originally had doubts about Araki-sensei's strength, but now I firmly believe in it, I'm sorry, I shouldn't doubt you!" ”

He prostrated down as he spoke, and made a big salute.

Araki Bai hurriedly said, "No need to be so polite, Mr. Akasaka, get up quickly!" ”

Yosuke Akasaka just got up.

Araki Hakumichi: "Mr. Akasaka should have no doubt about my painting speed now, right?" I think I only need to work one or two days a week, and I can handle serialization on JUMK. ”

Yosuke Akasaka also nodded and said, "I'm sure that when you see the scene of Mr. Araki's drawing, you will never say anything that you won't want to serialize." You're a person who was born to draw comics, and if we don't let you serialize, it's a terrible thing. So don't worry. ”

Araki Bai smiled and nodded.

Yosuke Akasaka asked, "I think what Mr. Araki was drawing just now seems to be the characters from "Samsara"?" ”

Araki Hakumichi: "I've been drawing the main part of Samsara these days when I'm fine, and now I've reached the second volume. ”

Araki Hakuro explained the plot to Yosuke Akasaka a little.

Yosuke Akasaka said a little embarrassed: "Mr. Araki, it's good that you can draw the content of the serialization in advance, but we usually draw the NAME first, and then draw the original manga." ”

Araki Hakudo: "NAME, do you mean the draft storyboard?" ”

Yosuke Akasaka nodded.

Araki Hakumichi: "I'm not used to drawing those. Of course, it's not that you can't draw, but I just don't think it's necessary. ”

Storyboard drafts are originally used by cartoonists to clear their minds, and some cartoonists draw comics until they have designed a very detailed storyboard before they start writing, and it is also convenient to discuss with the editor.

But some cartoonists hate storyboard drafts and think it limits their inspiration. They usually follow their own train of thought, so the plots of these cartoonists often seem a little whimsical and very jumpy. However, these people are not without a main line, but the main line of the story is in their heads.