Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 18 Other Ways

After dinner, Higashino Chihaya had to watch TV for a while before going to bed, so he stayed in the living room.

And Higashinoji returned to the room, facing a table of manga tools and meditating.

Thanks to the art talent of your previous life in the system, you can quickly get started with any painting and painting-related techniques. 'Higano Division bought a lot of manga tools and got started quickly.

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

Curves have curve boards, and the main drawing is with a dipped G pen—the kind used by professional cartoonists.

This G nib has complex and changeable strokes, and the lines drawn are very expressive.

but-

This thing is really hard to use.

Higashinoji thought of the time when he had just used the G nib.

This thing either forked and split directly from the middle, or because the tip of the pen was too sharp, it directly poked a mark on the manga manuscript paper.

Higashino Division almost swallowed this thing alive.

But this is life, and no job is easy. Even with the talent and foundation of painting, it took Higashino a week to master the usage of the G-nib—it’s not like you can be invincible with a system.

As for the others?

Everything else is fine.

Manga tools are cheaper than professional drawing tools. A set of [-] sheets of manga manuscript paper is only [-] yen. Higashinoji bought [-] sets and stocked them at home, and used up a set of manuscript paper when practicing using the G pen.

And the G pen will not be worn out after these proficient use.

"let's start."

Higashinoji picked up the G-pen and started to work on the clean manuscript paper.

What he drew was the original draft of the second chapter of "Midnight Ring", which is actually more than half completed now.

The second episode is different from the first episode of "Midnight Ring", which introduces the cause of Yuko's death, and then leads to the heroine Reiko Asakawa and the cursed video tape.

The full length is 21 pages, which is the standard number of pages for serial comics.

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

The number of pages serialized in the first chapter of Japanese manga is about 40 pages.

This sounds like a lot, but it’s actually not, because in the first chapter, you need to explain the world view, explain the plot, and show the interesting points of your comic. More than 40 pages can only be said to be no less than enough, which happens to be enough use

For example, the first chapter of Higashinoji's "Midnight Ring" used 48 pages, just right.

But some novice authors, when they draw manga for the first time, just scratch out more than 100 pages.

This kind of author is called the type of author who feels good about himself, and is similar to those web writers who feel that they can write "Lord of the Mysteries" for the first time when they write web articles.

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 by yourself.

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

No other manga has such a strong presence, and a single chapter takes up a quarter of the magazine's pages.

Even if your work is really good, you have to cut it into more than 40 pages obediently.

And the manuscripts of the second chapter that will be sent to the publishing house later will be in the range of [-] manuscripts to [-] manuscripts.

Higashino Division once again used the painting skills of empathy.

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

When drawing the twisted and terrified death scenes of comic characters, Higashinoji also felt a chill in his back.

This skill is really evil.

The pen in his hand seemed to have an inexplicable magical power, as if it could pull Higashino into the weird and terrifying world of "Midnight Ring".

During the trance, Higashino could even hear his own heartbeat

No, it's not the sound of a heartbeat, but——

There was a rush of phone ringing!

Higashino raised his head.

A pair of cold scarlet eyes were staring at him.

Seeing this, Higashino just put down the pen in his hand, squinted his eyes, showing a sense of calmness, and then made a sound like driving away bedbugs: "Go, go."

The cold and scarlet eyes scattered like clouds.

Dongyesi came back to his senses.

On the table is page 19 of the manuscript of "Midnight Ring" that has already been drawn.

One page took 90 minutes.

The death of the supporting role in the screen is looking at this side with horrifying venomous gaze as if it can shoot out reality.

"A page and a half." Higashino squeezed his chin.

That's a fairly standard length of time.

The kind of monster in a novel that draws thirty or forty pages in one afternoon

Honestly, not in real life.

After all, it is not too much to cut a grid paper with a utility knife and keep improving.

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

Higashino yawned.

He has to deal with too many things today, and he is not an iron man, so he is naturally tired.

Tomorrow, I will meet with the editor of Urashima Publishing House. If I guess correctly, it should be to discuss the serialization of "Midnight Ring".

After all, if he was shot dead by the publishing house, there would not be a special call to inform him, nor would he ask for a meeting.

At most, when replying to the letter, he mentioned in the letter vaguely that 'your cartoon is very good, but it is still a little bit short of being published in our magazine'.

And it's just this 'little bit'. I don't know how many comic authors have died.

But Higashinoji didn't panic at all.

He has always been very confident, one is his own painting skills, and the other is confidence in the script of "Midnight Ring".

As for the hallucination he saw just now

He had seen that thing long ago.

It seems to be using the effect of the skill 'Empathy'.

Dong Yesi felt that some specific people would probably have the hallucinations just now after reading his painting "Midnight Ring".

I don't know who are the lucky ones?

Dong Yesi muttered something, and then glanced at his wardrobe.

Previously, the Higashino family still had 50 yen.

Aside from the expenses these days and the subsidy for selling paintings by Higashino Division

"Do you have 40 yen left?"

Tonoji muttered to himself.

This 40 yen is definitely not much.

Gas, water and electricity bills total [-] yen.

The mobile phone fee is [-] yen, the daily travel food is [-] yen, and the national insurance fee of [-] yen must be paid.

Calculate it like this

40 yen can't last for two months at all.

This is without regard to rent.

"It was too rich to be able to study abroad back then."

Higashino Division sighed, but his heart didn't fluctuate much.

If we can negotiate with Urashima Publishing House tomorrow, then the cost of living should not need to be calculated so carefully.

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

"However, just the Tokyo National Youth Awards Student Group Gold Award feels that the right to speak is not enough."

Dong Yesi sighed.

Chihaya Higashino's situation is very special. Tsukasa Higashino only won the gold prize in the student group. It is estimated that Yoshimine Ryuichi can only make some concessions, but this concession is definitely not big

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

Higashino made a decision in his heart.

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