Hong Kong Comic Master

"This senior brother is really stingy. It won't hurt to look at it more!"

"That's right! I just glanced at it and didn't have time to pay attention to the details!"

After Li Zhiqing left, the other assistants continued to talk.

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Speaking of which, although Li Wannian's assistants have different personalities, they are all of similar age and have similar interests, so there is no intrigue or mutual quarrel.

"Ding Dong!"

Just when they were chatting enthusiastically, the doorbell rang again.

"What's the matter? Did Senior Brother Li forget to bring the key?"

Although Xu Jingchen said this, everyone tacitly stopped talking and shut up, waiting for Xu Jingchen to open the door.

However, after opening the door, Xu Jingchen was surprised to find that the person outside was not Li Zhiqing.

"Are you the new junior?"

"Niu... Senior Brother Niu?"

The man was not tall, skinny, and looked like he was malnourished. His glasses were even wider than his cheeks. He was Li Wannian's former assistant, Niu Lao.

"Hahaha, you know me, that's great, is the teacher here?"

"Yes... yes!"

"Can you take me to see the teacher?"

"Of course no problem!"

Xu Jingchen has been working as Li Wannian's assistant for more than three months.

Compared to other students, who either go to college or work as designers at GG Company, Xu Jingchen's treatment is obviously good.

Let's talk about the salary first. It's not worse than that of ordinary white-collar workers. More importantly, being able to get guidance from Li Wannian is much more important than any salary.

In addition, they can also meet many well-known cartoonists. He has met Ma Rongcheng and Ao Youxiang before. Unexpectedly, he can meet Niu Lao again this time!

Of course, since he has met many cartoonists, Xu Jingchen was not too excited about Niu Lao's appearance.

Speaking of which, within the Hong Kong comics circle, Niu Lao's position is somewhat awkward. Although he is the second cartoonist in Hong Kong who can serialize comics in Japan, everyone knows that he relies on Li Wannian's original work. Everyone doubts his personal ability.

Some people even think that Niu Lao is just lucky. If he draws this comic, it can still be serialized in Japan!

Not long after, Niu Lao knocked on the door of Li Wannian's studio.

"Come in!"

"Teacher!"

After entering the door, Niu Lao bowed to Li Wannian.

"Niu Lao, why are you here?"

Li Wannian, who was drawing, put down the pen in his hand decisively and stood up to welcome him.

"Haven't I seen you for a long time, teacher? Come to see you! This is some tea sent by a friend. I'll use it to honor you, teacher!"

As he said that, Niu Lao put the two boxes of tea in his hand on the coffee table.

"Okay, I won't come to you for no reason. You, you must want me to help you again, right?"

Li Wannian didn't even look at the tea leaves on the coffee table. He sat on the sofa and stared at Niu Lao with a smile.

"Hehe, I can't hide anything from you, teacher!"

Niu Lao smiled awkwardly and scratched his head, then took out a stack of manuscript paper from his backpack and handed it to Li Wannian.

"Teacher, this is my new comic. I would like to ask you to give me some advice!"

"Oh? Is the new comic finished?"

Hearing this news, Li Wannian immediately became interested.

Since the end of "Rogue Teacher", Niu Lao has not drawn comics again, but has been in seclusion to conceive new comics.

It's also thanks to the fact that he made a lot of money when he was serializing "Rogue Teacher", otherwise he would not be able to support his expenses for a year without work.

Therefore, Li Wannian is very interested in the new comic that Niu Lao has been thinking about for a year!

"Is it "Young and Dangerous"?"

When he took the comic from Niu Lao and took a look at the cover, it was indeed the name he imagined.

As Niu Lao's most famous comic, one of the most famous comics in Hong Kong, its main popularity actually comes from movies, not comics.

In the comics, the character settings of both Chen Haonan and Shan Ji are very different from the movies.

In the movie, Chen Haonan is a very positive person with affection, righteousness, flesh and blood, while in the comics, he is a man with deep thoughts and ruthlessness.

It can be said that compared with the movie, Chen Haonan in the comics is more real and more full.

As for Shan Ji, Shan Ji in the comics is not like in the movie, and he finally reconciled with Chen Haonan, but turned against Chen Haonan and became the biggest villain in the late comics. He allied with Dongying to try to flatten Hongxing, and was finally killed by Dafan (a member of Hongxing Society in the comics).

At this time, Li Wannian's "Young and Dangerous", which was born 8 years earlier, is different from the comics in the original time and space.

The original comics started when Masahiro Tachibana of the Japanese "Iwakai" assassinated the fourth-generation leader of the "Yamaguchi-gumi" Takenaka Masahisa and fled to Hong Kong Island, and then introduced the Hongxing Society where Chen Haonan was.

But the comics at this time started directly from Hong Kong Island. Although the protagonist is Chen Haonan, his image and personality are completely different from the previous two.

The story tells about Chen Haonan's struggle with foreign gangs because of his uniqueness. The content of the story itself is also exciting. The fighting is obviously inspired by Li Wannian's storyboards in "Dragon Ball", which is very smooth.

However, Li Wannian frowned more and more as he watched.

"What's wrong? Teacher? Is there any problem?"

Seeing Li Wannian's expression, Mr. Niu felt very uneasy. As soon as Li Wannian finished reading, he quickly asked.

"Honestly, there is nothing wrong with your technique. The main problem is your comic creation idea. Can you tell me what you think?"

Hearing the teacher talk about his creative ideas, Mr. Niu could only explain: "Although I have never been in the industry, I know a lot about this industry, so I want to expose how cruel this industry is and tell everyone how to be young and Dangerous." There are no good people! Of course, there will be no shortage of exciting plots!”

"Let me talk about your problem first. First of all, no matter what your protagonist does, he must be a good person!"

"this……"

Niu Lao immediately became suspicious of Li Wannian's suggestion. After all, it was fundamentally different from his creative ideas.

"I understand what you mean, but if you want your comics to be successful, you have to do this. Even the bad guys must be the kind who can't help themselves! Remember, no matter what your protagonist does, he must get something. Only with the reader’s consent can we do it!”

The creative techniques mentioned by Li Wannian here are actually somewhat similar to those in movies and TV series.

No matter what kind of art work it is, as long as it wants to achieve sales success, it must conform to the values ​​​​of the majority of people.

"Secondly, get rid of the exclusive product thing. I know that many young and Dangerous boys do this, but you must not touch it in your works!"

"I……"

"I know what you are going to say. The protagonist in the work must not be touched. This is a red line issue!"

"yes!"

Mr. Niu nodded reluctantly again.

"As for the outline of the entire comic, it also needs to be optimized..."

After listening to Li Wannian's explanation, Niu Lao's whole mood sank to the bottom. This was equivalent to overthrowing all the ideas in his entire comic. While he was angry, it also made Niu Lao have doubts about his abilities. doubted.

Can you draw comics yourself? It took almost a year to create such a piece of garbage?