Illustration......

It can be said that it is the most important component of light novels. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

A good illustration can make the portrayal of the characters in the light novel itself go to the next level in the reader's mind.

The status of illustrations, in the real world before Chen Yu crossed over, was finally ridiculed by some netizens as 'reading light novels?' Isn't it just for those cute girls in the illustrations? "If you don't have those cute girls, who would read light novels.''" ’

While these conclusions are not entirely correct, they do have some truth in them.

Take Chen Yu as an example, the reason why he knew light novels was because he was attracted by the illustrations in the light novels.

Chen Yu was once affected by this, and when his brain was hot to write novels, he once fantasized about how good it would be if the novels he wrote also had illustrations.

At that time, because he was ignorant, he didn't know that illustration had high requirements for his own works, and at that time, he had such thoughts in his head not once or twice.

Later, I found out that if the quality of the work itself is not good, there is no possibility of illustration at all, and the illustrations of those light novels are all specially selected by relevant institutions in light novels, and the excellent works are selected, and finally the painters are recruited to add illustrations to them.

Also, even a very attractive illustration can't save the quality of the light novel itself.

Until now, whenever Chen Yu thinks of something that can be regarded as his black history, he will smile helplessly.

What was once ignorant, what was once an unattainable wish, now finally has a day to come true.

After Shiichi Asakawa and his staff sifted through it, the remaining illustrations were reduced from four boxes to two, a full half.

These two boxes of illustration works are also sorted into categories in the process of screening, one of which is about "Magic Forbidden Book**", and the other box is "My Youth Love Story Really ***".

If Chen Yu was asked to choose the illustrations, he would definitely hesitate.

After all, among the rest of the works, they are all left behind after being screened by these professionals.

If you don't have a certain strength, you won't be recognized by these people.

Replaced by the ignorant Chen Yulai before, he was definitely caught in the whirlpool of choice difficulties.

Right now......

To be honest, Chen Yu is also quite entangled now, but the difference is that now Chen Yu has a general impression in his heart, and after reading the works, it is estimated that he will be able to select some particularly excellent works.

"Huh?!! It's ......"

In the selection of the illustrations of "My Youth Love Story Sure enough", Chen Yu found a particularly strange work.

Why is it strange, it should be said that this work is currently the most suitable illustration for "My Youth Love Story" in Chen Yu's heart.

Up to now, most of the illustrations Chen Yu has seen are in warm colors, and in Chen Yu's heart, he still likes the cold color illustrations like the original.

Although the warm-colored illustrations look unique, if there are better cold-colored works, Chen Yu will still choose cold-colored illustrations that are closer to the original.

Now the illustration in Chen Yu's hand belongs to the cold-colored illustration.

Not only that, but this illustration is in terms of painting level, so that Chen Yu, a layman, can see that this illustration is far higher than what he saw before.

"Uncle Asakawa, do you know who submitted this work?"

After seeing this illustration, Chen Yu decided in his heart that it would be used as the illustration of "My Youth Love Story Sure enough".

As for the other works, I'm sorry, but since it's already decided, there's no need to look at it again.

There is no second word for this kind of thing.

"Chen Yu, do you also fancy this work?"

Shiichi Asakawa took the illustration handed over by Chen Yu, and after taking a look, he looked a little surprised.

"Well, Uncle Asakawa, look at your expression, is there something wrong with it."

Chen Yu, who was already a little puzzled about this illustration, saw Asakawa Shiichi's appearance, and his heart was a little sure.

"Actually, it's not a problem, but before Chen Yu saw this work, I discussed it with the staff."

"Since Chen Yu has listed this work alone, it means that you have made a certain decision in your heart."

"-Hmm."

Chen Yu admitted very calmly, there is no need to hide such a thing.

"I was a little surprised because the work was from the UK."

“......”

What the hell, a work from the United Kingdom, although the two light novels I made think are a little famous, they won't affect foreign countries by now.

Seeing Chen Yu's somewhat shocked expression, Shiichi Asakawa took a deep breath and slowly exhaled it.

"Chen Yu, you also feel incredible. Your work has attracted attention from people abroad before it is even published. ”

If you don't pay attention, you won't have to go all the way to Tokyo in the 11th ward to participate in this illustration selection.

Moreover, compared to the pure layman Chen Yu, what Asakawa Shiichi sees from this painting is not just what Chen Yu sees.

From this illustration, Shiichi Asakawa can see that this painter has a solid foundation, very solid, and from the slightly immature layer beautification in the illustration, it can be found that this artist should not be very old, and is expected to be under 30 years old.

Another point is that when he saw this illustration, Shiichi Asakawa always had a sense of déjà vu, but he just couldn't remember where it came from.

"Uncle Asakawa, is it possible to make this artist the illustrator of "My Youth Love Story Sure enough"?"

Really, Chen Yu really liked it the more he saw this illustration.

The three main protagonists of "My Youth Love Story", the big teacher, Yukino and Yui, everything in the story revolves around the three of them.

Therefore, the illustration of the three protagonists is much higher than that of other characters, and because only the first volume is currently released, even in the state of wonderful brushwork, Chen Yu will portray the characters more fully as much as possible in the case of restoring the original work, but limited to the limited number of words in the novel itself, many aspects of the characters of the three protagonists have not yet been revealed.

Before seeing this cool color illustration, the other warm color illustrations were mainly drawn around the personalities of the three current protagonists.

Maybe others can't see it, but as Chen Yu, who knows the plot, there are always some small flaws in such works.

But after seeing this cold-colored illustration, Chen Yu's previous contradictory feeling was completely gone.

The illustrator seemed to have guessed what the personalities of the three protagonists depicted by Chen Yu were, and in the three works that painted the three protagonists separately, the personalities of the three protagonists were completely drawn.

"This ......"

"I tried to practice ...... with this artist"

Shiichi Asakawa was a little embarrassed, because it was not a little troublesome for such a multinational entry to be connected with other domestic artists.

But when he saw that Chen Yu had made such a request to him for the first time, it was not easy for him to refuse.

"Wait!!"

Shiichi Asakawa suddenly understood something.

"Chen Yu, you shouldn't have decided to make this work an illustration?"

If that's the case, isn't this guy invisibly adding pressure to himself?

"Well, that's right."

"If it's possible, Uncle Asakawa I'd like to talk to the artist personally."

"As for the remuneration, if the other party is willing to illustrate my work, it is not impossible to take an additional share from my sales share."

“......”

“！！！！”

Don't look at Chen Yu's words, but his words scared Shiichi Asakawa a lot.

An additional share of the sales share is drawn......

This kind of remuneration is not enjoyed by any painter before.

Generally speaking, the remuneration received by the artist is calculated according to the quantity and quality of the work itself.

This is true even for famous artists.

And Chen Yu's proposal to get an additional share according to the sales share of the work is simply ......

Should you say that you are conceited or confident that you sell your work......

"Chen Yu, you're not kidding."

After thinking for a while in his heart, Shiichi Asakawa still conservatively confirmed it to Chen Yu.

After all, with Chen Yu's scheduled results now, no matter how big the share is, it is definitely a lot of income.

"Of course, Uncle Asakawa, do you think I'm joking?" (To be continued.) )