A perfect life starting from a light novel writer

"You want to read my comics?"

Mo Ran blinked when he heard this.

If someone else raised this question, she would still be a little worried about whether the plot of her unserialized comic would be plagiarized.

But she was quite reassured by Xia Yan's words.

After all, the painting work cannot be plagiarized, but the plot.

Considering Xia Yan's creative ability, this possibility is pitifully low.

Mo Ran just hesitated for a moment, then got up and ran to the bag she placed next to the activity classroom and took out a stack of drawing papers.

This stack of paper is very thick, roughly forty or fifty pages.

"The Green Years"

When Xia Yan saw the title of the work, he knew without thinking what type of comic she was drawing.

Girls' comics

Open the first page of the comic and enter

It is a gorgeous and exquisite black and white cartoon picture.

Even the heroine's hair accessories are not the kind of black and white, but a bun is drawn for her one stroke at a time.

The background, flowers and plants are not like some cartoons that are too lazy to draw or just draw them casually.

Xia Yan's eyes widened slightly.

Have you never eaten pork or seen a pig running?

After reading so many comics, I generally have some aesthetic standards in my mind.

"Your comic style is so exquisite."

"Right." A trace of pride flashed on Mo Ran's expression.

"After all, I have been obsessed with comics since I was four years old. I have been copying drawings of famous domestic cartoonists since I was a child. The reason why I chose the art exam is because I was influenced by comics.

"Then when did you start submitting articles to these comic magazines?"

"First year of high school."

"First year of high school?" Xia Yan was stunned for a moment, and then asked again.

"That guy has created several comic works from his freshman year in high school to his sophomore year."

"Seven parts."

"Seven works have been submitted to thirty-six comic magazines in total, but these magazines have no vision and have not approved my comics for serialization even once." Mo Ran said this and expressed some anger.

"By the way, I'm not always rejected. When I was in my hometown in Jingzhou, the person in charge of a small comic book club was very interested in my drawing skills and said that my heroine was very beautiful. He said he was willing to sign me, but he hoped that the works I created could match the style of an adult comic monthly magazine of their comic book club. Of course, I didn’t agree.”

"Adult. Comics" Xia Yan was silent after hearing this.

He probably understood what it was.

Something's wrong. If nothing else, Mo Ran's drawing skills mean that it's not a big problem to debut in the comics industry.

Xia Yan picked up her comic manuscript and read it.

five minutes later

Xia Yan raised his head in confusion.

What did I watch?

After reading dozens of pages of comic manuscripts, Xia Yan couldn't even figure out who the male protagonist was?

Is this work about love, youth, or friendship?

A little bit of everything was mentioned, but nothing was touched upon without digging deeper.

After reading so many pages, Xia Yan could not remember the name of the heroine, but also the names of the main male characters.

"How is it?" Mo Ran looked at Xia Yan expectantly.

"The painting style is very good."

"What else?"

"The heroine's character is very beautiful."

"What else?"

“The character designs of the supporting characters are also very beautiful.”

"." Mo Ran.

"Apart from the style of painting, don't you have anything to comment on?"

"Well, the main reason is that your cartoon style is too outstanding and it covers up other advantages too deeply." Xia Yan said with an embarrassed smile.

High emotional intelligence statement: The painting style is too prominent and other advantages are not obvious.

Low emotional intelligence statement: Except for the style of painting, everything else is a piece of shit.

Mo Ran was not stupid, she noticed what Xia Yan meant.

"You also think this story is quite boring, don't you?" Mo Ran paused and said.

After seeing Xia Yan's smiling and silent expression, her eyes gradually dimmed.

In fact, she herself knows that many editors from comic book clubs have told her that there is nothing wrong with her painting style, but the difference is that the plot creation is really bad.

That's why she had an idea when she recognized Xia Yan in the coffee shop and wanted to drag Xia Yan into the comic club.

She did not teach Xia Yan music and painting knowledge for free. Her real purpose was to make Xia Yan owe her a favor, and then Xia Yan would teach her the knowledge and details about plot creation.

After all, the comics also need to talk about some drawing skills, and the novels are really about the plot. Xia Yan was able to get first place in the New God Ascension novel selection. There is no doubt about his ability in plot creation, maybe not all The Dragon Kingdom was the best, but at least among all the people she, Mo Ran, could come into contact with, Xia Yan was the strongest.

Mo Ran hoped that Xia Yan would help her improve her plot creation skills, even if it couldn't be done quickly

College is still a long time away, and it's hard to say how much you can learn from members and subordinates of your own club in three or four years.

"Actually, Senior Mo Ran, have you ever considered this question?" Xia Yan said after carefully looking at Mo Ran's comic manuscript.

"Your plot creation may indeed not be that outstanding."

It can be said that it sucks. Xia Yan complained in his heart.

If a person has been drawing comics for several years and still has this level of plot, then it is not a question of whether he is a novice or not.

It’s a matter of talent in plot creation.

Don’t blame other comics journals for not serializing your work. No matter how good the painting style is, it still doesn’t work if the plot is so out of the ordinary.

"But your painting skills are really great." Xia Yan turned around and praised.

Otherwise, she would not have been favored by the editor of the small comics company and invited to draw comic books.

"You can find someone who is talented in plot creation to cooperate with?"

Xia Yan said seriously.

"Some people are good at drawing, and some are good at plot creation. If the two are combined, wouldn't that solve the problem perfectly?"

During such a long time, Xia Yan also knew the situation of many cartoonists in the parallel world in the memory of "Genqing".

There is one person among the top cartoonists in the island country. His painting style is varied and delicate. He is praised by the industry as a rare comic genius in decades.

But he is too short in plot creation.

His apprentice at that time, who served as his comic assistant, was Nobuhiro Watsuki, who became famous with Rurouni Kenshin.

And Nobuhiro Watsuki's comic assistant Eiichiro Oda, later became famous all over the world with One Piece

His disciples and grand disciples have become top cartoonists in the industry, but he is still not very famous, so he once doubted his life.

This person is called Obata Takeshi.

Although his early comic career was a bit ups and downs, he was focused on creating his own original plots.

But he later realized that he was not good at telling stories, so he focused on drawing and worked with others to create comics.

So he later worked with an ordinary housewife in the island country, "Yumi Horita", to create the classic comic work "Hikaru no Go". ”

He also collaborated with Ohba Tsugumi to create two classic comics, "Death Note" and "Dream Eater".

Although in these works, Obata Takeshi was just drawing comics and was not responsible for the plot conception.

But this did not affect Obata Takeshi's outstanding comic painting and became the top cartoonist in the island country.

For comics, you must have excellent painting skills first, and then others will want to understand the plot of your work.

Just like the original author of One Punch Man, One.

The style of his original One Punch Man was so bad that it could be called the level of middle school students' graffiti. When he put the original One Punch Man on the Internet for serialization, it could only be said that it had a small audience.

It was not until he cooperated with Murata Yusuke and jointly launched the remastered version of One Punch Man that this work became completely popular with Murata's excellent comic quality and One's genius plot blessing, and it became popular in the parallel world.

For the subject of comics, plot and painting skills are indispensable.

"Find a collaborator to be responsible for the plot? "Mo Ran was stunned when he heard this.

"You resist this approach?" Xia Yan asked.