Those Steps We Walked Together

【About the background of the story】

I have studied in Paris for four years, and it has been more than four years since I returned to China. Many details are not clear in my memory, but the strange feeling brought to me by the exotic atmosphere is always there.However, my memory of many places I visited back then is not clear. If there is any discrepancy between the description in the article and the reality of Paris, everyone will treat it as an artistic re-creation, and there is no need to take it seriously.

The art school in this article is based on the one I attended.

In a small school, there are not many classrooms, each class is in a different classroom, and even the toilets are shared by men and women - this is actually nothing to get used to, even French boys seldom use such public toilets Urinals, everyone closes the cubicle door, there will be no embarrassment.

I can also vividly recall gathering in the small restaurant at noon to heat up meals in the microwave and waiting for coffee in front of the very inefficient coffee machine.

I forgot how many steps there are in the steps outside the school gate, but it is about five steps.Every time between classes, a group of students would gather outside the door to chat, drink a cup of coffee and smoke a cigarette.

About the weekly challenge.

In fact, we call it "workshop", but I am not used to foreign words in the text, so I changed it to "weekly challenge".

Disrupt the class, match randomly, and complete a story creation in a week.A graphics research report, a complete storyboard, and three paintings that require a high degree of completion, the workload is really not small. In fact, it took us two days to determine the story, and the rest of the time was spent on drawing draw draw draw...

Of course, it would be boring to write the story like this, so let them investigate for a few more days and find a few more places to cultivate their relationship!You understand!

The theme of "stairs" was also drawn by me back then, but the French children actually have their own persistence, so in the end, the few stories I thought were dismantled and mixed with theirs. In the end, I myself Can't recognize it.However, the end result is actually pretty good.

And for this kind of teamwork, there is one person in each group who does nothing but give advice, and there is always one person who has to worry about everything.

Unfortunately, I am the latter.

【About characters】

Hugo.

At that time, there was really a big boy in our class who was full of nails, but he was neither feminine nor unconventional, and his temperament was extremely clean.He wears a ball head all the year round, and likes to wear loose styles, such as low-crotch harem pants with a very Moroccan style, but his tall and thin figure will never make him look sloppy.

In short, he is a person with a strange temperament, which is eye-catching and refreshing, the kind who can really combine cleanliness and exoticism seamlessly.

I didn't even change his name, anyway, in France, there are a lot of people named "Hugo".

Cheng Kesong.

I named him a croissant with some bad intentions-it is the French Croissant.This idea originated from an ultra-short BL manga I drew when I was bored while studying in France.

The name of the comic is "Good Morning, Croissant!" "

In my design, Cheng Kesong is a typical introverted boy, actually a bit like my state when I was studying abroad.

Not completely introverted either, if you ask him for a conversation he can have a good chat and even crack a joke.In project cooperation, he can express his views and opinions very well, but his emotional expression will definitely not be as direct and exaggerated as the French children.

The expression of the French is really exaggerated!

And they will really sing and dance face to face if they don't agree with each other!Singing a few lines of opera or popular anime songs casually is also a trivial matter!

At least there are a lot of students who are so jumping around me, I don't know if it is because of studying art.

And I put the self-confidence of French children in Hugo. For example, when you praise them, if they think it makes sense, they will indeed admit that you are right!

Very cute.

Of the two protagonists, one is more flamboyant and the other more restrained, but neither is extreme.It can be said that they are all normal people.

I didn't set their attack and receiving, I leave it to everyone to imagine!

[some bridges]

Many bridges in the article are my personal experience when I was studying abroad in Paris.

For example, being knocked down by a huge suitcase flying from the sky on the steps of the subway.I didn't have little Hugo to help me, so I fell directly down a series of steps, and the scene was bloody.And that aunt still hasn't compensated me for my medical expenses!

For example, what Cheng Kesong talked about was that he went to IKEA to buy a lot of things, but the subway elevator was overhauled.I’m a delicate little man (at least I was at the time), and I carried a packing box of more than ten kilograms by myself. I took two buses, one subway and one tram. When I climbed home, I felt that my bones were about to fall apart. up!

For example, I have been to the Louvre and the Opera House to paint.Of course, I went there not during the workshop, but when I was sketching outdoors.It is very good that many attractions in Paris are free for students, and there are so many museums here, I like it.

For example, the rose-flavored ice cream ball that I can't forget!

I have been back to China for several years now, and I still remember the taste!It's a pity that the store is not like what is written in the article. They provide rose ice cream every early summer, and they only make that one time. When I asked about it the next year, the waiter told me that because the cost was too high, they would no longer make it.

Just disappointed.

【Replenish】

Add a picture.

The research report mentioned in the article is different from the pure text report. What we asked for at that time were all cut-and-paste reports.And I haven't been able to do it well, probably because I don't know what to write, my French is too bad.

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