Tokyo life starting with painting

After dinner, Chihaya Higashino wanted to watch some TV programs before going to bed, so she stayed in the living room.

Higashinoji returned to the room and meditated in front of a table of comic tools.

Thanks to the art talent in your previous life in the system, you can quickly master any painting and painting-related techniques. ’ Higashino bought a lot of comic tools and got started quickly.

Shadows are cut out with specific dot paper and a utility knife. Many professional cartoonists do not draw shadows and directly paste them on dot paper, which is convenient and beautiful.

For curves, there is a curve board, and the main drawing uses a water-dipped G pen - the kind used by professional cartoonists.

This G pen tip has complex and varied strokes, and the lines drawn are very expressive.

But—

This thing is really difficult to use.

Higashinoji thought of the time when he just used the G pen tip.

This thing either bifurcated and cracked directly in the middle, or because the pen tip was so sharp, it directly made a mark on the comic original paper.

Higashinoji almost ate this thing alive.

But this is life, and no profession is easy. Even if he has the talent and foundation of painting, it took Higashinoji a week to master the use of the G pen tip - it is not like having a system and making him invincible.

As for the rest?

Everything else is pretty good.

Comic tools are cheaper than professional drawing tools. A set of 20 pieces of comic manuscript paper only costs 1,000 yen. Higashinoji bought ten sets and kept them at home. One set of manuscript paper was consumed when he practiced using the G pen.

The G pen will not be worn out after you use it skillfully.

"let's start."

Higashinoji picked up the G pen and started working on the smooth manuscript paper.

What he drew was the original draft of the second episode of "The Ring", and it is actually more than half completed now.

The second episode is different from the first episode of "The Ring" in that it introduces the cause of Tomoko's death, and then introduces the heroine Reiko Asakawa and the cursed video tape.

The total length is 21 pages, which is the standard number of pages for serialized comics.

This can be regarded as an unwritten rule of comic serialization.

The first serialized chapter of the Japanese manga has about forty pages.

This may sound like a lot, but in fact it is not, because in the first chapter you need to explain the world view, explain the plot, and show the interesting points of your comic. For more than 40 pages, you can only say that it is neither good nor bad. It just so happens that enough

For example, the first episode of "Midnight Ring" by Higashinoji lasted forty-eight pages, which was just right.

But some new authors draw more than a hundred pages for the first time.

This kind of author is called a self-feeling type of author, which is similar to those Internet article authors who feel that they can write "Lord of the Mystery" when they write an Internet article for the first time.

For this kind of author, the answer given by the publishing house is basically - if you can draw, it is recommended to publish a book yourself.

There is no way, a weekly magazine only has more than 400 pages, and a large issue only has more than 500 pages.

No comic can be so impressive, with one chapter occupying a quarter of the magazine's page.

Even if your work is really excellent, it still needs to be chopped into more than 40 pages.

The manuscript for the second episode that was later sent to the publishing house was roughly in the range of seventeen to twenty manuscripts.

Higashinoji once again used his empathetic painting skills.

During the use of the skill, he could clearly feel that he had become Reiko Asakawa in the painting.

When he drew the twisted and horrifying death of the comic character, Higashinoji also felt a chill on his back.

This skill is really weird.

The pen in his hand seemed to have some inexplicable magic power, pulling Higashinoji into the strange and terrifying world of "The Ring".

During the trance, Toyoshi could even hear his own heartbeat.

No, it’s not the heartbeat, but——

There was a rapid ringing of the phone!

Tonoji raised his head.

A pair of cold, scarlet eyes were staring at him.

Seeing this, Higashinoji just put down the pen in his hand, glanced sideways, showing a sense of calmness, and then made a sound like chasing away bed bugs: "Go, go."

The cold scarlet eyes spread out like clouds.

Higashikata suddenly came to his senses.

On the desktop is page 19 of the original manuscript of "The Ring".

One page takes 90 minutes.

The dying figure of the supporting character in the picture is looking ferociously and horribly, and his malicious eyes seem to reflect reality.

"One and a half hours per page." Higashino held his chin.

This is considered a relatively standard length of time.

The kind of monster in a novel who paints thirty or forty pages in an afternoon

To be honest, it is not possible in real life.

After all, just use a utility knife to cut a grid paper, and it only takes ten or twenty minutes to keep improving.

"Let's find a chance to draw the rest tomorrow."

Tonoji yawned.

There were too many things to deal with today, and he was not an iron man, so he was naturally tired.

Tomorrow I will meet with the editor of Urashima Publishing House, and if I guess correctly, they will discuss the serialization of "The Ring".

After all, if you are shot dead by the publishing house, they will not call you specifically to notify you, nor will they ask for a meeting.

At most, when replying to the letter, he mentioned vaguely in the letter, "Your comics are very good, but they are still a little short of being published in our magazine."

And just this ‘little bit’ has killed countless comic book authors.

But Higashikata didn't panic at all.

He has always been very confident, firstly in his painting skills, and secondly in the script of "The Ring".

As for the hallucination he just saw

He had seen that thing a long time ago.

It seems to be the effect of using the skill of ‘Empathy’.

Higashinoji felt that some specific people would have the same hallucination after watching his painting "Midnight Ring".

I wonder where those lucky ones are?

Higashinoji muttered something, and then took another look at his wardrobe.

The Higashino family still had 500,000 yen before.

Put aside the expenses of these days and the subsidy from Tonoji selling paintings

"Is there still 400,000 yen left?"

Higashikata muttered to himself.

Four hundred thousand yen is definitely not much.

The gas, water and electricity bills total 10,000 yen.

The mobile phone fee is 1,500 yen, the daily travel expenses go up to 100,000 yen, and the national insurance fee of 4,000 yen must be paid.

Calculating it this way

Four hundred thousand yen cannot last two months.

This is without considering the rent.

"Those who could study abroad in those days were too rich."

Higashino sighed, but his heart didn't waver much.

If we can reach an agreement with Urashima Publishing House tomorrow, we won't have to worry about living expenses so carefully.

He can also concentrate on preparing for the Tokyo National Youth Awards.

"However, I feel that just receiving the gold medal in the Tokyo National Youth Awards student category is not enough to have a say."

Higashikata sighed.

Chihaya Higashino's situation is very special. Just winning the gold medal in the student category will probably only allow Ryuichi Yoshimine to make some concessions, but this concession is definitely not big.

"Sure enough, we still have to think of other ways."

Higashikata made a decision in his mind.

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