The temperature is still a bit cool in the afternoon in May.

After Xiao Qianhe was tired from eating, drinking and playing, she grabbed her beloved Rubik's Cube, spread it out in a big shape and fell asleep on the tatami, covered with her little quilt.

Higashino Hirosawa sat aside, flipping through the comic tutorials in his hands from time to time.

There is drawing paper and pencils and erasers on the table. The drawing paper is filled with various character outlines and shapes.

Drawing comics is not an easy task. Many comics authors have been persisting in drawing and improving their drawing skills for many years.

It often takes them several years to get started, and their submissions are noticed by the editors of comic book clubs, and they start to have the opportunity to serialize short stories.

That's right, it's just an opportunity to serialize short stories.

It is almost impossible for a newcomer to serialize a long novel from the very beginning.

Even the popular King One Piece was just a short story at first. After being serialized, the response was pretty good, and then he began to restructure the plot characters and serialize it into a long series. Finally, he set numerous records and became a young Pirate King for a generation.

Not only One Piece, many famous novels, such as "Slam Dunk" and "Yu Yu Hakusho", all started from short stories to test the waters.

People like Higashino Hirosawa set out to make a lot of money through long-form serialization from the very beginning. If the manga authors who are working hard for serialization know that they will give him a big look without mercy.

This is daydreaming.

But in fact, Higashino Hirosawa's learning progress is extremely fast.

With the drawing ability of LV7 and the super memory ability of LV4, he himself has read a lot of classic comics, and he can master all the techniques mentioned in the tutorials.

After a little practice on the manuscript paper, Higashino Hirosawa has mastered it roughly.

In just three hours, Higashino Hirosawa mastered most of the basic knowledge and techniques for drawing comics.

These comics tutorials naturally not only teach the skills of drawing comics, but also use various examples to point out how to embark on the path of professional cartoonists.

Higashino Hirosawa had never understood this aspect of knowledge before, but based on the famous cartoonists he knew, he felt deeply convinced after reading it.

Generally speaking, whether a comic can be popular depends mainly on the plot setting and character creation, secondly on the storyboards, and thirdly on the painting skills.

When it comes to drawing comics, drawing ability is not the most important thing.

This is also the reason why many comics authors never become popular even though their drawings are pretty good.

And a cartoonist like Yoshihiro Togashi, whose plot setting and character creation is superb, is obviously a semi-eunuch. He has been on hiatus for many years, and when he resumes publication, he just messes around with drafts. However, he is still sought after by countless fans, and every time he resumes publication, he is always on the page.

Hot search.

Storyboarding is also very important.

Storyboarding refers to breaking down the plot to be drawn into individual shots and drawing them on manuscript paper.

For the same story, if the storyboarding is not done well, people will be confused after reading it, but if the storyboarding is done well, it can turn the bad into magic, and people will not be able to stop watching it.

The most typical storyboard is the battle between Shohoku and Sanno in "Slam Dunk".

If we use words to describe the last few dozen seconds of the game, it means that Xiangbei seized the opportunity, broke through the siege, and turned defeat into victory.

It's a very ordinary story, with no gorgeous battles and no wonderful superpowers.

But under the pen of the author Kazuhiko Inoue, the silent scenes, without a single word, make people excited and excited.

This is the charm of storyboards.

"In the tutorial, these are summarized as the three basic skills of a cartoonist. Unfortunately, there are very few people who can possess these three basic skills at the same time."

Higashino Hirosawa closing tutorial.

Countless cartoonists take this as their goal and constantly hone themselves to become real cartoonists.

However, as a porter standing on the shoulders of giants, Higashino Hirosawa naturally does not need to do this.

Take out a new piece of manuscript paper.

Having almost mastered the basic knowledge and skills, Higashino Hirosawa is ready to enter actual combat practice.

The first film Higashino Hirosawa plans to draw is "Dragon Ball".

Higashino Hirosawa has not done any research on the style characteristics of various comic magazines in the world.

But in his opinion, as long as "Dragon Ball" is drawn, there is no reason why it will not become popular.

In the original world, "Dragon Ball" only serialized a few episodes before its popularity began to skyrocket.

During the 11-year serialization period, its popularity continued to rise and it became the absolute mainstay of the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, driving the magazine's sales to soar.

Even after Dragon Ball ended, the sales of Weekly Shōnen Jump plummeted by 1.5 million copies, which is terrifying.

The words Super Saiyan have become synonymous with powerful combat power.

Decades after the manga ended, Dragon Ball is still one of the most popular and profitable anime IPs, with annual IP sales of about 100 billion yen.

Dragon Ball is a real killer. If Higashino Hirosawa can draw it, there is no need to worry about not being asked for it by magazines.

But for magazines in this world, it's best to pray that you will be the lucky one.

The first two pages of Dragon Ball Chapter 1 have very little content and cannot be used as a training exercise.

Higashino Hirosawa chose the third page, a six-frame storyboard of Little Wukong practicing his martial arts to chop wood piles, to start drawing.

As the picture appeared in Higashino Hirosawa's mind, the pencil in his hand began to draw rapidly.

The outlines of characters, scenery and objects are all done in one go, appearing on the manuscript paper like printing.

About five minutes later, Higashino Hirosawa put down his pencil.

He drew the first draft of a six-frame comic in just five minutes.

This is just the first draft. If you want to turn it into a comic that ordinary readers can see, it still needs a series of processing.

Use a dip pen to blacken the contour lines, color and black the character's hair, clothes, background and shadows, and draw various auxiliary lines to create a sense of speed and power in the picture.

A dip pen is a special ink pen for comics. The pen tip and pen body can be separated. The pen tip can be large or small and used to draw lines with different thickness effects.

Higashino Hirosawa had no money, so when he was buying second-hand comic magazines and tutorials, he bought a second-hand dip pen with only a thick nib.

As taught in the tutorial, Higashino Hirosawa used a dip pen to blacken the first draft and blackened the characters and background.

After doing this, you need to use a ruler, grid paper, and dot paper to further process the background and characters.

After all these are completed, it will be a complete comic manuscript.

Higashino Hirosawa was not familiar with these comic tools before and did not purchase them.

Without tools, Higashino Hirosawa thought for a while and tried to draw directly with a dip pen.

"It seems that you don't need these various tools, you can just use a dip pen to draw similar effects."

After Higashino Hirosawa tried it for a while, he muttered.

Not only those post-processing tools, Higashino Hirosawa felt that it was redundant to draw the outline with a pencil and then use a dip pen to draw the black.

Ordinary cartoonists use a pencil to draw the outline and then use a dip pen to outline it. This is because the pencil lines are easy to modify and are suitable for drafting.

But Higashino Hirosawa's paintings don't need to be modified at all, just use a brush dipped in water.

Higashino Hirosawa immediately started trying.

The drawing is still the third page of Dragon Ball Chapter 1.

The six-frame storyboard drawn in black ink quickly took shape.

really.

Pencil outlines are redundant!

With the blessing of LV7 painting ability and LV5 physical strength ability, Higashino Hirosawa's control of the tip of the dip pen is surprisingly fast, stable and accurate.

Those auxiliary lines, grid points, shadows, etc. that should have been drawn by using various auxiliary tools, he can draw the picture effect in one stroke, and the paper effect can directly reach the final draft.

Even for thin lines that require a thin pen tip, Hirosawa Higashino can render them stably by reducing the strength and contact area of ​​the dip pen.

Eight minutes!

After finishing one page, the picture effect is almost the same as the one in Higashino Hirosawa's mind, but Higashino Hirosawa only took eight minutes!

This is not yet proficient, the time can be shortened, much shorter!

Higashino Hirosawa follows the content of the first chapter of Dragon Ball comics and continues to draw.

Time passed, and Higashino Hirosawa drew pages of manga manuscripts at an astonishing speed and threw them on the ground to dry.

Higashino Hirosawa's movements are becoming more and more proficient, and his painting speed is getting faster and faster.

Xiao Qianhe had slept for three full hours. She rubbed her eyes and got up from the ground.

After waking up, she quickly looked around and felt relieved when she saw Higashino Hirosawa still in the room.

She touched her belly and felt that she was not hungry yet, so she sat down and lowered her head to twist the Rubik's Cube in her hand.

She is not twisting it randomly, Higashino Hirosawa has shown her how to twist the same color onto the same surface.

She had been playing for a while at noon, and she had roughly memorized some of how the color positions would change after twisting them.

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In the room, two people, one large and one small, were quietly busy doing their own things.
To be continued...