In the student era in which everyone remembers, there seems to be one or two classmates who are good at painting in the class. In the age when other children are still keen on laughing and joking, it seems that they have the power of adults, and they are constantly on the table. Among such young people, there will always be a few professional painters with amazing paintings in the future. One of them is the protagonist to be introduced below, the famous Japanese cartoonist Xiao Yujian

Since the ancient heroes, a young boy who is still in his childhood, he has shown extraordinary fanaticism about painting. According to his recollection, he was obsessed with drawing at the earliest, about 3 years old. In those days, Xiaoxi’s children wanted to let their parents buy toys such as robots and monsters, but it was estimated that family conditions were limited and parents rarely bought them. Therefore, the unsuccessful Xiaoxuan “turned grief into strength” and adopted the method of “painting cakes to fill the hunger” to seek spiritual comfort. In order to maximize the purpose of “fake the truth”, from that moment on, he made up his mind to do everything possible to restore “reality” with the pen and paper in his hand. To this end, he began to draw the first goal of symmetry in his hand, and launched the first special training in life

And when Xiao trained to sharply capture the “symmetry” of the eyes of the fire, but also in the daily life showed a variety of picky … For example, in the imitation of the masked knight with a scarf, Xiao Yan can not stand the knot after the knot The length of the two ends is not equal, so it is always necessary to adjust the correction to the left and right completely equal length, and then willing to give up, which makes the onlookers both good and helpless. In short, since then, Xiao Yan has fallen into the “root of disease” where everything is symmetrical

When I was in elementary school grades 1, 2, I was asked by my friends in the class to draw the characters in the animation and comics. Because of his outstanding painting skills, he also painted the original prototype of “CYBORG Grandpa G” in the academic newspaper. In the classroom, compared to reading and getting up every day, Xiaoxi’s classmates love to be in the blank space of textbooks, notebooks, sketching comics, or some movie scenes that are impressive

For him, to become a professional cartoonist, it is not so much inspired by some kind of creative inspiration, it is better to say that it has long been derived from the inner desire to “support yourself by selling pictures.” When this eagerness accumulates in the second year of junior high school, the qualitative change has finally taken place, and Xiao has strengthened the direction of struggle in the future. Of course, there is no way in his mind that he will go to work in the company 9 to 5 in the future, which is another important reason. Moreover, when Xiao was able to receive many paintings and models from the friends and acquaintances, he was convinced of the “making a living”. Therefore, in the mind of the teenager, he became a cartoonist. The vision of being an office worker is much more reliable

It turns out that the business scope of Xiaoyan’s self-employed business is not limited to painting, but also includes the matching and painting of plastic models. In particular, “customers” have individualized requirements for the finished quality of the painting process, or want to have the same effect as the animation setting, or like the realistic feeling after the body becomes dirty. According to Ogaki’s own aesthetic, the smear of the body is best to point to it, but he will still respect each other’s wishes

When Xiao clearly wants to take the road of professional cartoonists, he stipulates that he must finish painting a finished painting every day, and set various topics for himself, such as ink painting, or only black and white pencil painting. When I was in high school, I was exhausted from the training of the baseball team every day. I still insisted on taking the rest of the day after I finished my day. According to the description of the parties, once the pen is written, the whole person will soon be put into it. The highly concentrated state will make the body and mind infiltrate into the intoxicating pleasure, and then enter the special frequency band of “the more the painting is smoother, the more the painting is more and the more you want to paint”..

The cool little man who loves to draw cartoons is naturally interested in the art courses set in high school. For a while, he also considered to be able to report to the class. He is also very interested in some of the paintings printed on the textbooks. However, he has never directly linked the “orthodox art learning and painting comics” in his mind

Here, the student who has done a good job in painting, who did not regard the illustrator as a volunteer alternative, was not because the cartoon characters in the eyes could not tolerate the sand, but because of the thought of the world. The painting profession is only a simple cognition of the cartoonist. In addition, Otaru has not practiced the basics of orthodox painting, and therefore lacks confidence in occupations such as illustrations and fine arts

During the school year, he has already submitted the award-winning Xiao Yan, in order to achieve the ideal of professional cartoonists. After graduation, he left his hometown to go to Tokyo to work hard. At first, he spent a difficult period hitting the wall. It is said that there are mountains outside the mountains, people outside the people, after entering the comics’ studio, Xiao discovered that no matter the various painting skills that need to be mastered at work, or the speed of writing to meet the deadline for the deadline, the room is the same. The cartoonist and the assistant of the predecessor, their strengths have been crossed by several streets

Familiar with Xiao Xiaojian’s readers should understand that after the debut, Xiaoxuan worked as an assistant under the teacher of Nakahara Takashi. This initial work made him realize for the first time the fullness of making money. At the same time, Xiao realized that he is very suitable and good at performing various painting tasks assigned by others. I remember that he was responsible for a comic background and effect line work called “Special Traffic Suit Team SUPER PATROL”. At the work site, I also specially invited professional assistants to draw cars and motorcycles. Just watching people work at the side, I was very excited

After two and a half months of help for the second teacher, Xiao entered the second stop of his career and came toにわのまこと(Tingye Zhenqin) Under the teacher’s door, this time, it is 2 years. No matter which studio, for the fledgling little cockroaches, the eyes are fresh, so each day is quite fulfilling. At that time, Mr. Tingye was just serializing “THE MOMOTAROH”. Xiaoyan not only learned the full technical dry goods from the teacher, but also experienced the full-time work atmosphere of all the staff. Mrs. Tingye is outgoing and approachable, and often takes the initiative to talk with his assistants. This makes Xiao encouraged and works hard to make a living. In addition, according to him, the concept of “CYBORG Grandpa G” was also set when he was a teacher of Tingye

As an assistant, all the instructions given to the employer must be rejected, but Xiao Yan said frankly that when he was assigned to the background of the professional wrestling venue, he directly smashed. There is no concept in the small camp for the kind of venue, and I don’t know where to draw it. This experience also made him deeply understand that drawing realistic comics is really impossible for people who don’t understand

It is said that Xiao’s work has been praised by all the teachers. For this, Xiao said that he did not hear it. However, the era of assistants was indeed praised for “fast hand speed” and made him happy. Moreover, at that time, he was very clear that the teachers were counting on the efficiency of their paintings, so they worked harder. According to his recollection, when he painted “THE MOMOTAROH” because he could not find a man, usually 10 of the 15 pages had to be completed by him

When asked if there is any studio that I want to join, the teacher replied that I really wanted to go to Moritaまさのり(Mori), I really want to Hand-paint the realistic comics. Then Xiao Yan broke the news. In fact, once, Morita teacher temporarily summoned him because of the lack of assistants who painted the color pages. So he rushed over and painted the color page with sincerity and fear, but for various reasons, the page was not actually published… and even more regrettable, since that time, Morita did not contact him again

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