Chapter 194: Character Design

After deciding to draw "Soul of Chess", Shen Xin has been thinking about a problem.

How to perfectly combine "Soul of Chess" with Chinese culture.

"Soul of Chess" took place in the 11th district, and he is now serialized in Huaxia's magazine, so no matter the background or the name, he has to make adjustments. In addition, there is another troublesome place, that is, the processing of Zuowei's image.

Satoshi Fujiwara is one of the most critical characters in "Soul of Chess", his importance is no less than that of Hikari Shinto, and his popularity should still be higher than that of Hikari Shinto. Therefore, it is very difficult for Zuowei to change, but Fujiwara Zuowei has to make changes.

The name is fine, Huaxia has the surname "Zuo", so it can be directly called "Zuowei". The difficulty of Zuowei's modification lies in the clothing.

His clothes are very similar to that of an onmyoji, but in fact, this kind of clothes is not something only an onmyoji can wear.

Its name is hunting clothing, as the name suggests, it is clothing worn during hunting, because it is more convenient to wear, so people with status prefer it.

In the Heian period in the 11th district, the official clothes were casual clothes, and Fujiwara Sakai was from the Heian period, so he appeared in "Spirit of Go" in the appearance of wearing a hunting suit.

But now that "Soul of Chess" is moved to Huaxia, we will face a problem. Huaxia does not have hunting clothes, so it is not appropriate to wear hunting clothes.

This is also the reason why Shen Xin asked Wang Wenhong for the address of the library. He had to find clothes suitable for Fujiwara Sakai.

The reason why Zuo Wei is loved by the majority of fans of "Soul of Chess" is because of his delicate and handsome appearance. At the same time, it has a lot to do with his gentle and elegant personality and noble temperament.

Once such a character appears, it is easy to be loved by readers.

In Shen Xin's opinion, among Chinese costumes, Hanfu should be the most suitable for Zuowei. However, the Han Dynasty was too long ago, and the time was not suitable. Moreover, there were no folding fans in the Han Dynasty.

After thinking about it, Shen Xin decided to use straight embellishments, while Zuo Wei's head should either be a hairpin or a scarf. This requires drawing a few more characters and comparing them before making a decision.

After Wang Wenhong handed over the contract with the official seal to Shen Xin, he also started negotiating with the homeowner, and finally settled on 380,000 yuan for 4 years, with the remaining 20,000 yuan, he bought tables and chairs, computers and printers.

"You didn't use any tricks, did you?"

After seeing the porters put the tables and chairs away, Shen Xin felt a little worried.

Wang Wenhong smiled wryly, "There's no trick here, it's just two drinks. The owner also has real estate elsewhere, and he can't live here. You didn't see it, and there isn't much furniture. How much can you ask for?"

That's right.

"How is it? Is there any progress on the drawing?" Wang Wenhong asked.

"Now I'm just making a character design, I haven't made a name yet." Shen Xin waved at Wang Wenhong, and at the same time picked up the drawing on the desktop. Which of these character designs do you think is better? "

Wang Wenhong took the sketch and glanced at the character design, his expression changed slightly.

"Wait... Teacher Shen, don't you draw Go?"

"Um."

"These people pretend to be Confucian scholars. Could it be ancient Go? Mr. Shen... The sense of substitution in ancient Go is not as good as modern Go." Wang Wenhong said.

"Who said you want to draw ancient Go?" Shen Xin asked puzzled.

"But you... isn't this an ancient character?" Wang Wenhong pointed to the character,

Surprised.

"This is a very important character in comics." Shen Xin patiently explained.

"That's it..." Wang Wenhong nodded slightly, "I understand."

"You understand now?" Shen Xin looked at Wang Wenhong in surprise, but he didn't say anything?

"Well, you are going to use anti-time travel, and the ancient characters travel to the present world. It's like "Shaky"." Wang Wenhong said quite confidently.

It's not the same at all, okay?

Shen Xin muttered in her heart, but said in her mouth: "Look at these character designs, which one is better."

"Which one? It's really hard to say." Wang Wenhong frowned slightly, staring at the draft in his hand, "These hats look more rigorous... Uh, maybe it's more appropriate to say they're 'pedantic'. This net towel is also good. , but since you said that he is an important character, then I think it is better not to use a net towel, otherwise, it will be very cumbersome to draw the character—the image of the main character must be distinctive without being too cumbersome.”

"That's true." Shen Xin agreed with Wang Wenhong's statement

With less unnecessary workload, he can have more energy to focus on other details of the comic.

However, according to Wang Wenhong, whether it is a Confucian scarf, a square scarf, or a net scarf, they don't quite fit Zuo Wei's image.

"How about using jade hairpin?" Shen Xin said in a low voice, while lowering her head and redrawing the sketch.

Zuo Wei is gentle and elegant, but he has an arrogance in his heart, and his dedication to Go is far beyond others. At the same time, when Zuo Wei is serious, his aura makes people feel majestic and noble.

Rigorous, persistent, gentle and elegant, elegant...

These temperaments gradually appeared on Shen Xin's paper.

In addition to clothing, Zuo Wei also has one of the most important props - the five-bone bat fan.

This kind of fan is also a product of the Heian period, and it was also passed from the 11th district to the Song Dynasty in China, but since then, the folding fan in China is different from the five-bone bat fan, with more fan bones.

Considering Zuo Wei's elegant image, Shen Xin chose the incense fan.

Generally speaking, Zuo Wei's image is somewhat magically changed, but Shen Xin has no choice but to try to make Zuo Wei more in line with his requirements.

It took almost 50 or 60 pages of manuscript paper, and after reading more than a dozen books related to clothing, I finally set up a satisfactory Zuowei.

After confirming Zuo Wei's image, Shen Xin was relieved.

As a popular character in "Soul of Chess", Shen Xin has to be more careful about Zuo Wei. As for the other characters, the character design is much simpler, just use the characters from the original work.

After Wang Wenhong saw the character design, he was overjoyed, and couldn't wait to read Zuo Wei's text introduction, and was a little dazed for a moment.

"Wait, you mean, this character named 'Zuo Wei' didn't come from time travel, but a soul?" Wang Wenhong asked in surprise.

"I didn't say he came from time travel, did I?" Shen Xin asked back.

"That's true." Wang Wenhong looked at the character design in his hand, suddenly curious about the development of the story, "When will name come out?"

"The names of the first three episodes will be released soon, but after drawing the names of the first three episodes, I need a period of preparation, about two months."

"So long? Why?"

"You probably forgot that since it's a Go manga, there must be a game record in it, but I don't know how to go. Therefore, I need to find some professionals to provide the game record. Conduct supervision and check for mistakes. By the way, you may also go to the dojo or chess academy to observe. Therefore, please make some preparations in advance." Shen Xin explained.