Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 70 "The Lonely Foodie"

The time soon came to the afternoon.

After perfunctory, Harazhong's meaningless questioning, Higashinoji walked to the innermost right side of the third floor of the club activity building according to what Aiko Mujo said.

Yoshiko Okano has already notified him that he doesn't need to go to the studio to report, but just complete the woodcarving exhibits.

But one day is definitely not enough.

In fact, half a month is still very tight - at least there is no need to count on painting and coloring.

Tonoji shook his head.

Fortunately, Urashima Publishing House's new monthly magazine is scheduled to be published in the middle of next month. Otherwise, these miscellaneous things are crowded together, and there must be no time to draw "The Lonely Gourmet".

Higashinoji took out the key, opened the door of the empty classroom, and took a look inside.

Huh——Kojo Aiko has prepared quite a lot of things.

On the ground were brand-new arc knives of various types, as well as tools for hammering, and a whole piece of polishing wax was placed beside it.

Of course, the most important thing is the piece of wood about 20cm long, 15cm wide, and 30cm high.

Higashino Division did not give Mutiao Aiko the detailed dimensions yesterday because he hadn't thought of what to carve, but now it is different, he probably has an idea, and the piece of wood in front of him has been processed and the bark has been removed

"It's barely enough."

Higashino Division nodded, and then began to stuff the wood into the storage box to fix it. Then he estimated it in his heart, and took out a needle pen with a larger size to draw an irregular circle with a gap on the wood. If you look carefully, The overall shape looks like a cracked eggshell.

But since it directly accounts for two-thirds of the wood, the whole is more like the shape of a broken ostrich eggshell.

That's right, a broken eggshell with the lower half intact, this is what Higashinoji wants to carve.

Now that the theme of maturity and independence has been decided, the sculptural image of the chick shedding its shell just fits this theme.

No matter what country the students are from, sooner or later they will get out of the 'shell' that protects them, and stretch out their hands ignorantly to the outside world

Maybe they will suffer unimaginable painful experiences, or they may be cornered by reality

But this is a process from childishness to maturity, and no one can escape it.

Yes, it is painful to get out of the 'shell', but it is also not because of the fear of pain that you stay in the 'shell' all the time.

The image of Higashinoji's "shell" can be a school, a family, or something that protects high school students all the time.

Of course, if it is a person who can easily inherit hundreds of millions of fortunes without hard work-this is what Higashinoji didn't say.

The same is true after the blue bird takes off.

Flying out of the 'shell', the only thing facing it is the helplessness and pain in reality.

The college entrance examination, university, and post-university work issues are a series of things that I have never considered before like a torrential rain.

This is the theme that Tonoji wants to express - maturity and independence.

But it wasn't enough to be certain—maybe others would be satisfied, but at least Higashinoji wasn't.

Because this is an art festival of Beiyishu, if there is no "Beiyishu" as the key carrier, it will be somewhat unsightly.

To this end, Higashino Division also made a special trip to bring the map of Beiyi School.

That's right.

He wanted to carve a shortened version of Beiyiju in this eggshell.

Playground, community activity building, gymnasium, student canteen, canteen

This is where the students of Beiyi School have been living.

And this is also the starting place for the broken shell blue bird to enter the society.

This is Tonoji's idea.

The 'shell' is the protection of the blue bird, and the 'North Yijuk' is the starting point for the students and the carrier for cultivating their 'spirit'.

Then the title of this wood carving should be——

""Blue Bird"."

Higashinoji muttered to himself, and began to cut out the approximate shape with the jigsaw.

Although there is no directly expressed image of 'bird', the damaged egg shell and the feathers scattered around the egg shell do not mean that the blue bird has broken out of its shell and flew into the distant sky.

It's just that although the pine wood is not too hard, the center of the sawn eggshell still needs to be hollowed out with tools, and the edges are also very rough, and there are wooden thorns that are very sticky to the touch.

But Higashino didn't care.

The center edge is smoothed with sandpaper, and finally a layer of polishing wax is applied to make the whole smooth.

As long as the post-processing is good, "Blue Bird" is definitely a good work.

"But it's kind of a waste."

Higashinosi looked at a large part of the wood that needed to be hollowed out, and couldn't help thinking.

The eggshell with the simple Beiyiju in the middle is about [-] centimeters high and has a maximum diameter of [-] to [-] centimeters.

This is the idea of ​​making and matching an exhibit base Higashinoji.

However, since a large piece needs to be dug out from the middle, the wood in the middle will inevitably be wasted.

In the past, Dong Yesi would not be so prodigal when he was a student. After all, wood is terribly expensive, and no one would be so prodigal and dig a piece for carving.

"Even if this part of the hollowed out wood is used to decorate with eggshell fragments and feathers, there is still a lot of waste"

Higashino thought for a while, and then thought of today's Konoe Suzuka trio.

Anyway, these leftovers don’t spill much, so let’s use these leftovers to make something for them

After all, "The Lonely Gourmet" will probably have to ask them for help every time it goes out to collect stories.

Dong Yesi had an idea in his heart, but his subordinates did not stop.

Beat slowly with a hammer and arc knife to try to make a smoother surface of the eggshell.

The feet of Dong Yesi were gradually filled with fine sawdust.

In the later stage, I will use Mutiao Aiko's grinder to smooth it out. The sandpaper is at most used to repair the details. This kind of large round surface still needs to be polished smooth with the help of a machine.

It took more than 50 minutes to do this work before Higashino put down his sweaty hammer and wiped the sweat off his face.

I have to say that doing this job on a hot day is really torturing myself. Although there is an electric fan turning around on the top of the head, the hot air that turns out can only slightly quench the thirst - Higashinoji is still sweating profusely.

He basically knocks for 10 minutes and then puts down the hammer to take a rest, otherwise his wrist will be too sore, which will affect the drawing of manga at night.

"That's about it for today."

Seeing the eggshell that had become an irregular semicircle, Higashino put it down, then simply washed his palms covered with sawdust, and then put on the stand-up collar uniform that he had taken off because of the heat.

"Let's go."

The work here has come to an end for the time being, and I'm almost going to collect songs for "The Lonely Gourmet".

I hope Konoe Lianghua and the others can really bring some surprises to themselves.

Thinking of this, Higashinoji picked up his shoulder bag and walked towards the direction of Class D of the first year.

　Thank you for the 410 starting point coins from the apex of the indigenous gods!Thank you so much!Thanks to bobo teapot [-], He Ang, addictedloss, Luoxue Miyao, Sanmu Liang, Nanfeng Crossing, Lily's Mengyin, Master Li Zi, Monk Daoyi, Lingmo Qianhanyu for their rewards!Thank you so much!

　　

　

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