Chapter 204 The Assistant's Surprise

( ) "His name is Ma Ning, and he has a certain background in painting. He once published works in "Youth Dreamer". However, he has not drawn any comics suitable for serialization since then. Now he is temporarily working as an assistant, and he is studying and submitting manuscripts at the same time." Wang Wen Hong and Gao Hang had nothing to say and forced themselves to change the subject.

"Hello." Ma Ning bowed slightly, his face a little reserved.

"Everyone works hard together. By the way, have you ever been an assistant before?"

"It's been a while." Ma Ning said.

"Then trouble you to paste the screen dot paper and apply the effect line."

"Yes, no problem." Ma Ning nodded immediately.

Gao Hang also came over at this time and told Ma Ning the precautions related to the dot paper, mainly the corresponding relationship between the dot paper and the original mark.

With all two assistants present, "Soul of Chess" can also be on the right track.

Different from drawing "Y's", the drawing progress of "Soul of Chess" is not only related to Shen Xin's drawing speed, but also influenced by Xie Shiqi. At the bottom of each game record, it is marked on which page and which scene to use.

In addition, Xie Shiqi also sent photos of the chess club and the Go classroom. The scenes in them are similar to the background of "Soul of Chess". Considering being close to reality, Shen Xin decided to use the building in the photo as the background.

Two days later, Xie Shiqi once again commissioned Wang Wenhong to send a stack of photos, this time the photos were a panoramic photo of "Xie Chengbo Go Dojo", almost all of them were taken from the inside to the outside.

Shen Xin printed two copies of these photos, one was given to Gao Hang so that he could spare time to practice copying the background, and the other was kept for herself.

Although the background is mainly drawn by Gao Hang, before handing over the manuscript to Gao Hang, he has to draw the line draft first, including the background of the comic.

Furthermore, it is very risky to hand over all the troublesome work to assistants. Any assistant will leave the studio for some unavoidable reason.

If Gao Hang submits his resignation to him, he can't stop drawing the original manuscript because he is not proficient in the background, right?

It was only a year since Ruan Ying and Qiao Yu were poached, but he did not forget it.

Shen Xin stretched her waist, touched the coffee on the table, and suddenly found that it was empty, so she casually threw it into the trash can.

Downstairs, Gao Hang is painting the background of the Ming Dynasty, which is antique and has a sense of elegance.

After Gao Hang separated from him for three or four months, his strength has increased a lot. It seems that Gao Hang has not let up in the past few months.

As for Ma Ning, he is mainly responsible for dot paper and effect lines.

The dot paper used now is transparent dot paper, one side is sticky, and the other side is printed with dots. Therefore, pasting the screen dot paper is a test of the assistant's technique of using the screen cutter. Sometimes in order to pursue the effect, it is necessary to use techniques such as scraping the screen and stacking the screen.

The effect line is also not simple. In addition to the concentrated line, there are also streamlined and curved effect lines, and there are even dark surroundings and white highlights in the middle. In addition, to draw the ideal effect line, the assistant must be proficient The use of ruler and cloud ruler.

If the basic skills of the painter are not solid, the effect line and dot paper may not be able to do well.

After watching for a few minutes, Shen Xin judged that Ma Ning's strength in this area was not as good as Lu Ning's, but better than Qiao Yu's.

However, just like the strength of cartoonists will improve, the level of assistants will also improve over time, so he is not worried about Ma Ning's strength at all.

Shen Xin put a can of coffee in front of the two of them, and said, "If you are tired, take a rest."

"Mr. Shen, I remember you rarely rest." Gao Hang opened the coffee and looked at Shen Xin with a smile.

"Isn't this serialized yet? When it's officially serialized, I guess there will be less rest time." Shen Xin yawned.

Holding a can of coffee, Ma Ning looked down at the drawing and kept silent. After struggling for more than ten seconds, he raised his head, "Teacher..."

"Huh?" Shen Xin, who was about to turn around, turned around and looked at Ma Ning in surprise.

"Teacher, what can I do to be serialized in "Comic Future"? I think I have done a good job, why... can't I pass the serialization of "Comic Future"?" Ma Ning looked up at Shen Xin with a serious face.

"I don't know." Shen Xin shook her head.

"Eh? I don't know?" Ma Ning was a little confused, "But, you have already been serialized in "Comic Future"..."

"Yeah." Shen Xin raised her head slightly, "But I was serialized in another magazine before, and this year I just came to Comic Future."

"Then you were in "Manga Fly" before?" Maning speculated.

"No." Shen Xin shook her head, "Is it in a second-tier magazine? "New World", I guess you haven't heard of it?"

""New World"? Somewhat familiar." Ma Ning frowned, "I remember that at last year's comic festival, the cartoonist of "New World" seemed to have won an award... Ah, I remembered, you were last year's 'Rookie King'!"

Ma Ning made a sound of surprise, and Shen Xin forced a smile, a little embarrassed.

In the sea of ​​clouds, no one would show such surprise.

The reason why cartoonists in the two places behave differently is related to the atmosphere of cartoons in the two places.

Every year, there are too many new cartoonists to debut in Hongchuan, and the best among them are as powerful as well-known cartoonists. Therefore, Ma Ning is well aware of the difficulty of winning the "Newcomer Award".

Take the currently serialized "Hunting Abyss" as an example, it has already ranked third in "Comic Future", but even with such strength, it still failed to win the "Newcomer Award", but lost to "Y's".

When Ma Ning knew that Shen Xin was the author of "Y's", he was full of surprises.

At the same time, he is a newcomer who aims to be serialized, so he has a glimmer of hope in his heart.

"So, teacher, how do you think a cartoonist can be serialized?" Ma Ning asked impatiently as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.

how could I know?

Shen Xin didn't know either.

"Ahem... Do you really want to be a cartoonist?" Shen Xin asked.

Ma Ning nodded again and again, "I dream about serializing."

"Although saying this will hurt your confidence, let me say in advance that drawing manga is gambling. If you succeed, you can indeed make a lot of money, but if you fail, you will really lose everything. This is not Scaremongering, or attacking potential opponents, in fact, there are many people who aspire to become cartoonists, but eventually disappear into the crowd."

"I know...but I...I don't want to give up yet." Ma Ning showed determination.

"Then think of a good story...an interesting story. In the final analysis, no matter whether it is comics, novels or movies, they are just the carrier of the story. Only a good story can attract readers." Shen Xin said seriously.