The cartoonist Inoue Junichi shared a rumor:

Listen, student baby, you can buy the new iPad Pro without hesitation. This is not to be overwhelming, not too poor, just right. .

(.https://twitter.com/KEUMAYA/status/1057413626988978176).

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These words are spoofed in the classic food comics “Delicious Big Challenge” in the “Pig Row Mussy” one time in the famous line. .

Like I am different, I don’t have to hesitate, I know I can’t afford iPad Pro. .

Of course, the positioning of the iPad Pro is a productivity tool. Since I don’t do the production that requires it, even if I can’t afford it, it’s not big deal. However, there are many creators who could not do without the nature of their work. Don’t say that it is difficult to support themselves by buying a tablet with thousands of dollars. .

A few days ago, Song Shanyang, the president of the game development company CyberConnect2, and the teachers of the special school met and learned that the cartoon classes of these specialized schools are getting more and more people, because many young people are not good at conceiving stories. So, use the elimination method and choose to go to the illustration class. .

Songshan listened, and did not fight in one place, roaring these teachers: How can you let these students leave their brains to choose the wrong path? Is this not a mistaken child? It is because you are so irresponsible that it will lead to the current situation! .

Songshan is painful in the blog post: the price of the illustration is very low, the price of a black and white illustration is only 3,000 to 10,000 yen, the color insertion is 5,000 to 20,000 yen, and the card face price of mobile games can reach 50,000. 100,000 yen. .

A picture of 100,000 yen sounds very profitable, but to draw a card illustration, you need to confirm the other’s world view and settings, draw a few sketches to the customer to confirm, this confirmation time will be spent A few days. After the customer confirms, the revised comments will be given, and the opinions, manuscripts, and other opinions will be revised according to the customer’s opinions. After the process of line drafting, coloring, and finishing, each step must repeat the above process of modifying opinions, modifying, and then waiting for comments. So it takes ten days and a half to complete a picture. .

Suppose an illustration price is 50,000 yen, 10 days to complete, 3 can be received in a month, and the monthly income is only 150,000 yen. You have to pay taxes and pay taxes, which can’t sustain life. Go to work and have nothing to do with the illustration. And once you start working, you are finished. Working also requires physical strength, interpersonal relationship, you will have no time to think about what illustrations are not illustrations, and gradually will start to think “can not hold, reduce the work of illustrations.” At this point, you are no longer a “professional: illustrator”. .

Of course, some people have been selected to paint the cover of light novels, and the light novels have been animated, which has led to the illustrator’s fame in income. But how many such illustrators can there be? Can you name a few illustrators and game designers who have survived the illustrations? Can you tell ten? There are more than 100,000 people in the world who want to be one of these ten people. This is a literal choice in the literal sense! .

Songshan Warning: If you just want to experience the feeling of drawing money for a time, then you can become a precious memory when you are young. But choosing an illustrator as a lifelong career is not that easy. .

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The road to illustrators is so hard, so why did the specialized schools that met with Songshan know that these students thought the work of the illustrators too simple, but did not correct their misconceptions? .

The answer of the cartoonist Matsuyama is very simple: because I am afraid of breaking my own money. .

Songshan said that in the view of specialized schools, 90% of students are just “customers.”

Although the best of these students are now at the creative scene – such as Matsuyama himself graduated from the Yoyogi Animation Academy – so he can’t completely deny the value of a special school; but it is because of the vast majority The “customer” students who have been ignorant of their creations can maintain their operations in specialized schools. .

And the University of Fine Arts, the same is true, 90% – maybe even more students, are “customers.” .

(.https://twitter.com/seijimatsuyama/status/1057437444256149505).

There is no doubt that Songshan’s blog post does not “dismiss” all young people who want to be illustrators indiscriminately, but hopes that they can recognize the reality and seriously consider whether they have the necessary conditions for success. Make a choice that will determine your life. .

So, how can we become a successful cartoonist in “Wanzhongyiyi”? Let us have a successful illustrator representative of sushi. .

Sushi said that the students in Songshan Bowen, “because they are not good at conceiving stories, they go to be illustrators”, this idea is inexplicable. To draw an illustration, you must have a setting that allows people to feel the story from the characters in the painting. If you can’t make such a setting, you can’t design a character. If you don’t design the image, you can’t draw the original picture, you don’t have the right to the character image, you can’t make any money. .

Just the “hands-on” paintings have entered the society and are not useful at all. The same is true for cartoonists and animators who are just painting well. The important thing is to create the imagination (creation) power of the image and the story. Even if you don’t paint well, you can grow as long as you have creativity. Conversely, people who are not creative, even if they paint well, can only receive work that everyone can do. .

The industry people who have survived are full of creativity and creative desire. For those who have exhausted their creativity, the pictures they draw will become increasingly lacking in content and eventually disappear from the industry. .

A master has also said: “It doesn’t matter if you draw badly. What is important is whether you can understand it. Can you understand that creativity is not enough? If you can’t understand it, he won’t know more. Understand, this sets a decisive dividing line. Here is a world where only understandable people can survive.”

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