Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 181 It's Not God Helping Me (4000 words)

Art Creation Award.

This is an art competition jointly organized by the five major art academies in Tokyo. It is aimed at young people from all over Japan, not just for young people in Tokyo like the Tokyo Youth Painting Award that Higashino participated in before.

The last time I went to Musashino Art University for exchange and study, the first floor of Yamauchi had already invited Higashino Tsukasa to participate in this competition.

And Higashino Division agreed without even thinking about it.

After all, it was a competition for young people, and the scale was so big, he had to join in the fun no matter what.

However, times have changed, and it has been too long since the time of exchange and study, and Higashino has been busy with the "Midnight Bell" animated film, "The Winner Is Justice" and "The Lonely Gourmet" comics.

So just forget about it.

It wasn't until today that the first floor of the mountain took the initiative to mention it, and Higashino slapped his head and suddenly realized-oh, so there is such a thing.

"Well, although I think Higashino-san won't forget about this, I haven't received any entries submitted by Higashino-san, so I was a little worried, so I asked." Yamauchi First Floor said on the phone.

He still has great confidence in Higashino Division.

Because unlike other lifeless student works, the things drawn by Higashino Division are very spiritual, as if they can make the whole body feel the emotions expressed in oil paintings

To be able to do this is truly remarkable.

But Higashino Division did not submit the work for a long time, and he didn't say why, so he was a little worried. Could it be that Higashino Division has no inspiration?

——It's very possible!

After completing a particularly outstanding work, people's brains are easily in the bottleneck period, and they cannot surpass the previous works in a short time, and they are not satisfied no matter how they draw, which leads to the loss of inspiration.

Otherwise, why didn't Division Higashino submit his work?It can't be forgotten, can it?

"Hehe, Mr. Yamauchi was joking. Of course, I can't forget about the Art Creation Award. It's just that I've been thinking about how to come up with something new from the very old theme of 'growth'."

This is indeed a good excuse. The theme of 'growth' is really difficult to come up with new things, and most art creators are people who don't like to follow the steps, so it's normal to struggle with this.

Yamauchi Yirou over there also expressed his understanding: "It is true that the theme of growth has been used badly in many grand prize competitions. It is very difficult to come up with new ideas, but this is also my negligence. In fact, this competition In addition to 'growth', a new theme emerged later."

"New theme?"

Higashino Division became interested.

It is estimated that the five major art academies in Tokyo are a little dissatisfied with the clichéd theme of "growth", and feel that it does not match the level of this competition, so they thought of a new one.

"The new theme is 'regret for the passing of something good'." Yamauchi first floor told Higashinoji another theme of the competition, and at the same time said: "Whether you use the theme of 'growth' or the latter 'for a certain Expressing regret for the passing of such a beautiful thing' is in line with the rules of the Grand Prize, but as I said before, two copies cannot be submitted at the same time."

"Okay, Mr. Yamauchi, please tell me this."

"Hehe, the world now belongs to you young people. These days Higashino-san, your Kumamon bear has set off a craze again. Keep working hard." Yamauchi Yirou replied on the phone with a smile, and then gave a few words to let Higashino The company tried to submit the work as early as possible, and then hung up the phone.

Higashinoji hung up the phone, and then let out a breath, thinking about the new theme that the first floor of Yamauchi just said besides growth—expressing regret for the passing of something beautiful.

At first glance, this topic may seem abstract and difficult, but in fact, it is considered to be of ordinary difficulty in Higashinoji's opinion.

There are actually many definitions of the regret of the passing of a good thing.

For example, a flash in the pan appears overnight, and flowers fall everywhere the next day, or a shooting star that hastily streaked down the sky before making a wish, or a Koshien baseball game that burned youth and sweat, but was full of regrets and did not win Competition with Kendo Yulong Banner.

Another example is the scorching summer of the Celestial Dynasty, the figure of many students working hard towards the university gate, but in the end they died without any problems.

Walking in this society, people have many goals that have not been realized. These regrets are buried in their hearts, and they are all "regrets for beautiful things".

These words are not moaning without illness, but most people are like this.

No matter how hard you toss, you will always lose something in life, and what you lose is really lost, and it will be gone in a roll of water.

But this thing is not difficult to say, but it is still a bit difficult to draw!

It is more difficult to draw new ideas on this theme than 'growth'!

There can be many images expressed by growth, and even if you can't express it, you can create one yourself.

But 'beautiful things' is different from growing up, it is strictly regulated, some people have different opinions, and the wise see wisdom.

Higashino guessed that the contestants for this theme of the Art Creation Awards competition were either landscape paintings of epiphyllum, lotus, and shooting stars, or representative scenes such as Koshien Baseball Stadium.

After all, these things are the things that can most evoke the little bit of literature and art in the hearts of Japanese people.

But this fell into a cliché.

Higashino Division frowned, thinking over and over again.

It is indeed difficult to finalize the theme, but at this time, I can't call Yamauchi Yirou and say that I won't participate-wouldn't that be annoying to others?

"You still have to think about it." Higashino sighed, and decided to look for material recently.

This is also his usual practice.

Rather than sitting dry, it is better to walk around, observe the surrounding environment, maybe see something, suddenly a flash of inspiration, and the brain has a feeling?

Just do it.

Higashino Division did not hesitate, adhering to his always vigorous and decisive style, resigned from his job in Kumamoto Prefecture, and rushed back to Tokyo overnight

This led to the fact that after the celebration banquet, the Dongye Group that had just been established also fell apart immediately, leaving only the "Remnants of the Dongye Group" in the office of the marketing group. You looked at me, I looked at you, and I was a little dumbfounded-why did you just leave? ?It's only been a week.

They really enjoyed the feeling that Higashino Si alone led their marketing team to take off, but now Higashino Si left, it was really inexplicably reluctant, a bit regrettable.

Higashino, who had already left, naturally couldn't hear what they were thinking. He returned to his daily life while thinking about the theme of the competition.

Of course, when Beiyiju High School has already started, Higashinoji did not continue to stay in the production team of "Midnight Ring", but sent the original painting drawn today to "Midnight Ring" by fax machine every afternoon. Production team.

A fax machine is a rare thing for Chihaya Higashino.

When Higashino Si bought it back, Higashino Chihaya looked left and right, walked around several times, touched it, and cried out in surprise when something happened, calling Higashino Si's name repeatedly.

This made Higashino couldn't help but patted her head with a smile.

In addition, Beiyishu High School has already started, and the first problem faced by the school is naturally the division of classes.

Higashinoji's luck is obviously not that good. He was not assigned to the same class as Konoe Suzuka at the beginning of the semester. On the contrary, he was a little unlucky. Lucky is in the same class as her two buddies Fujiwara Aoi and Takahashi Yumi.

But Higashino thought it was nothing, he had already settled with Asami Mamanaka, and if he behaved timidly, it would seem that he had a ghost in his heart.He smiled and greeted Asami Furanaka several times.

Just like this, another week has passed.

"I still can't think of a good theme." Higashinoji squeezed his chin, shook his head and erased what he had just scribbled on the sketchbook with an eraser, and then turned to the next page.

It's not that he has nothing to draw, but he feels that drawing those things makes him very dissatisfied, and he doesn't have the feeling of 'OK, it's absolutely fine to draw' in his mind.

This made Higashino Division inexplicably entangled.

He is a bit of a perfectionist. If you want him to paint something that is not very good, it is better not to paint.

Konoe Lianghua who was sitting next to him saw his frowning, so he pursed his lips, stretched out his hand and gently rubbed his shoulders, trying to make him feel better.

The relationship between her and Higashinoji is well known. The last time when the moonlight was beautiful, someone came to ask Higashinoji curiously. Higashinoji also generously admitted his relationship with Konoe Lianghua.

Higashino Siben can be regarded as a celebrity in the school, so when he mentioned the unknown Konoe Lianghua, everyone had only a kind of inexplicable feeling-who is this person?Does our school have this person?

But when the good students found Lianghua Konoe, many students were shocked that Lianghua Konoe was too beautiful, right?It's okay to say that the face of an angel is fine, and that figure is not right!

The girls in Dongyesi's class had complicated faces. Dongyesi found a girlfriend from another class, which made them feel like their pigs were being raped by other vegetables.

At that time, this topic continued to be hot for a while, and it was not suppressed until the Kumamon bears became popular again recently.

"Are you so entangled? Higashino-sensei?" Takahashi Yumi looked at Higashino Shikuruya's sketchbook while eating lunch, and asked incomprehensibly.

She didn't understand the art creation award, but she was very confident in Higashino, and felt that nothing could stop him, a genius in the industry, so she went on to say: "Accordingly, Mr. Higashino, you just 'click' Can’t you finish drawing all at once? Like a printer.”

After hearing her words, Dong Yesi felt speechless.

Higashinoji is quite happy to have confidence in him, but are you a little overconfident?

Also 'click', like a printer?

This wonderful metaphor made Higashino Division somewhat want to laugh.

He also understands that Takahashi Yumi's words cannot be taken seriously, her position in the trio is like a pistachio, the kind specially made to make everyone happy.

So Dong Yesi basically listened to half of what she said and kept half of it.

Higashino Division ignored her, but that didn't mean Fujiwara Aoi remained silent. Fujiwara Aoi raised her head in disdain and mocked her: "Idiots are idiots, as expected, they don't understand anything."

"Stinky dwarf! What are you talking about?" Takahashi Yumi slowly stopped the hand holding the vegetables, and cried out angrily.

What she hates the most is when others say she is a fool, Fujiwara Aoi is just poking her sore feet.

"I said you're an idiot, you don't even know what the Art Creation Award represents!" Fujiwara Aoi didn't back down at all: "That's an event jointly held by the five major art academies in Tokyo! The target audience is all Japanese youth—you Do you know what I mean?"

"Really? That's really powerful." Takahashi Yumi doesn't understand the concept of the five major art schools in Tokyo, but she still understands the concept of all Japanese youths.

So she pointed at herself, and said with surprise: "So I can also participate in the gold prize?"

cough cough cough...

Fujiwara Aoi was unable to speak the line she had planned because of her sharp turn, and almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

You go to a competition of this size?Don't embarrass me!

Aoi Fujiwara did not dare to stay on the topic of the competition, so she quickly turned her head and explained: "Excellent works participating in the Grand Prize can also be exhibited in the Tokyo National Museum of Art, which is also known as the joint exhibition of the five major art schools in Tokyo. "

As I introduced a long time ago, the Tokyo National Museum of Art is a non-profit art museum, where many excellent works of college students can also be exhibited.The annual "Five Beauties Exhibition" of Tokyo's five major art academies is basically held at the Tokyo National Museum of Art.The abstract painting painted by Meisa Kuromiya was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum of Art.

"But seeing Mr. Higashino thinking so hard, I think I still have to study hard and prepare for the exam." Takahashi Yumi sat down again, muttering while eating a bento: "Isn't the central exam starting soon this year? Well, I really don't know what the end result will be."

"General entrance examination?" Dongyesi had a flash of inspiration when he heard the term, and raised his head.

He still knew the meaning of this sentence.

The so-called general entrance examination is the method by which the vast majority of Japanese students enter the university threshold. It is not an exaggeration to regard its importance as the college entrance examination in Japan.

Generally, the entrance examination is divided into two parts.

The first part is the 'Central Examination', which is similar to China's college entrance examination. The national unified test questions and the same test papers are used throughout the country. The results will be used as an important standard for admission reference.

The second part is the 'Second School Examination', which is similar to the independent enrollment in China. Candidates have the right to choose a school independently.

The vast majority of Japanese students are admitted to universities through these two exams.

Among them, I don't know how many people will regret failing the ranking.

This made Higashino Division suddenly interested——

I was just about to draw the theme of 'regret for the passing of good things', and then came a central exam?

Isn't this God helping me? !

The pain of Japanese friends - will become the nourishment of Higashino Division!

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