8. Practice
For candidates, this sprint time before the high school entrance examination is the busiest, with countless test questions and test papers every day, and even sleep time is squeezed.
Although when answering other people's questions, Liang Yu always says: "Well, I have a serious review until 11 o'clock every night", but in fact, in addition to completing those homework three times and dividing five by two, Liang Yu is the type who doesn't even open the textbook after returning home. In fact, there is no need, in the end, it is a high-achieving student who graduated from a medical university, and this junior high school level content is still difficult for her.
The reason why I answer this way is just that I don't want to be too special and be regarded as an outlier.
However, Liang Yu did not have nothing to do after arriving home, she was desperately practicing painting.
There is no shortcut to painting, it requires a lot of focused practice, even those geniuses who become famous at a young age only understand more deeply than others, master more skillful skills, and have a higher comprehension than anyone else.
Liang Yu doesn't know if she is talented in this area, she learns and absorbs art knowledge very quickly, but can this be considered talent? She didn't know — after all, it would be unfair to anyone else to be judged by a middle school student.
Liang Yu accepted Luo Shaocong's suggestion, starting from the basics and insisting on two hours of sketching practice every day. Sketching is a type of sketching, which means making a quick sketch. There is no specific specification for sketching, you can draw whatever you want, select a scene fragment as a reference for depiction, and outline it with concise lines.
Novice practice sketching, mainly to practice the overall mastery of the overall view, as well as the practice of lines, for cartoonists, whether to draw well or not is secondary, but the picture remains fresh and clean, with beautiful lines is definitely the foundation of becoming a cartoonist.
"But having said that, it feels so hard."
Although the theoretical knowledge is already well understood, once it is time to put pen to paper, Liang Yu's lines are not as coherent as imagined, and are often crooked, causing the structure to deviate from the center of gravity. But when she slowed down and carefully manipulated the lines, she would become more often broken than before.
Ah, it's so difficult, this is just a foundation, and I really don't know if I can really become a cartoonist in the Year of the Monkey and make my debut.
Although Liang Yu already plans to spend a lifetime to realize this dream, if possible, he really hopes to make his debut as soon as possible, and then draw one or two masterpieces. After all, cartoonist is a broad word, it is too broad, anyone who works in comics and can make money can be crowned with this title, but the so-called dream, shouldn't it be to have a greater goal and enthusiasm, right, so Liang Yu set a goal for himself, that is, to draw a popular comic.
Liang Yu glanced at the photo on the table, it was a photo of Liang Yu smiling in a white dress and sunhat, although if you want to see yourself, you just need to look in the mirror, but this photo has a different meaning for Liang Yu.
"I'll make your dreams come true." She picked up the pen on the table and said with a serious look in her eyes.
On the other side, the editorial office of the weekly shonen manga magazine Fantasy.
Since I chose this manga-related job, working overtime has become a habitual routine, so even at night, the editorial office is still brightly lit.
The editorial department has just finished the serial meeting, everyone has left one after another, Guo Pinyuan is also finishing up the final work, at this time his top boss Ye Chuan walked in, he was in a good mood with the phone he had just closed, because a cartoonist in charge of his hand had just been serialized, and he just went out to make this call.
Glancing at Guo Pinyuan, who was still busy in front of the computer, Ye Chuan asked, "What, are you still busy?" ”
"Well, I want to sort out the specific information and send it to the other party."
"Is that the middle school student from Gaoyang City?"
"Yes."
"Speaking of which, today's children are really amazing."
"But it's too early to want to serialize.,Although the painting is good, but the story lacks novelty.,Such a story won't win an award even if it's a short story.。 Guo Pinyuan sighed: "But this kid's perseverance is really amazing, after being eliminated in the Golden Apple Cup, he actually submitted articles at a rate of one article a month, and I want to cheer for him." ”
"Do middle school students have so much free time to draw?"
"Hahahaha, there are also a lot of children who have aspired to become cartoonists since childhood."
"It's too perfunctory to talk like this, I think students still have to focus on learning, cartoonists need to be talented, there are many people who like comics, but only those who have talent and are chosen by the god of comics can draw popular comics, and we should know this best as editors, right?"
"Yes, I used to think about drawing manga, but I gave up after realizing that I didn't have talent, but in the end, I couldn't let go of this love, so I applied for a job as an editor after graduating from university. Because of this experience, I especially want to cheer for such a persistent author," Guo Pinyuan put the sketch on the table neatly, put it in the file bag, and sealed it: "Giving up may be a kind of wisdom, but unswervingly hitting the goal, even if it is difficult, will not flinch, this may be a qualification that cartoonists must have." ”
"......" Ye Chuan was silent for a moment and joked: "Lao Guo, you should be a teacher, you must be very enthusiastic." ”
"Is it like a GTO?"
"Yes!" Ye Chuan moved his buttocks to the side and leaned on the table: "I remember that there was a guy who was very bad at drawing before, how is he now?" ”
"Anyway, I recommended her to participate in the script competition on SD, you must not imagine, she is still a junior high school girl."
"Is it a junior high school student again, and it's a girl who wrote that kind of story, are you sure she didn't find someone to write it?"
"There's no need for that, is it?" Guo Pinyuan asked rhetorically, but he nodded: "But I think someone should give her advice." ”
Ye Chuan thought about it and became excited: "It would be good if it was real, you can combine these two people under you, one can draw, the other writes stories, and the title is 'Genius Middle School Student Combination', what do you think?" ”
"Huh?" Guo Pinyuan was stunned for a moment, and slowly recalled: "It seems to be pretty good." ”
"Hey, hey, haven't you thought of holding such a good resource, I remember that the original contest on SD was in mid-July, right?"
"Well, the 14th of next month."
"Did you ask that middle school girl to write a few more short stories for you?"
"Yes, I gave her the phone number and email address."
"Let's open it and take a look."
"I just watched it this morning...... All right. Seeing the expectant gaze of his boss, Guo Pinyuan still agreed to click in.
This email address is a private email address, not a submission email address of the editorial department, so only a small number of emails from recognized authors and related parties are accepted.
When I clicked in, I saw that there were several new unread emails, one of which had the title of "Contribution" written in it.
Guo Pinyuan couldn't wait to click on it with the mouse to take a look.
"This, this is ......"