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Not long after five o'clock the next day, as it was time for the twice-a-week morning practice of the school football team, Brett struggled to get up under the pressure of several alarms, and rushed left and right even while washing up. The sound of pinging and bang made Cheng Yi have to be woken up even if he didn't want to.

He half-closed his eyes and looked at Brett who was swaying back and forth, feeling depressed. Although he knew that for a person like Brett who never thought of others, it was really a matter of letting him know his scruples. It's an extremely difficult thing, but Qi Qi still wants him to slap this bastard to death.

When he hurried out the door, Cheng Yi was so noisy that he couldn't sleep. It was quite bright in late spring and early summer, so he leaned against the head of the bed for a while, then got up to wash, and then sat on the desk , continue yesterday's work.

After seven o'clock, when my sister came to remind me, I put aside my comic work, packed my things in my schoolbag and left the room. Since there was no Brett holding me back, I had a leisurely and harmonious breakfast. At 07:30 Cheng Yi bid farewell to his mother and sister, went out and waited for the school bus to arrive, and then drove to school, continuing his boring and boring schoolwork.

Fortunately, now that he has the job of creating comics, Cheng Yi is not so repulsive about going back to school and being a student in the school of the United States. At least this journey can give him some creative materials, which is not bad. The class was so boring that he fell asleep several times, or wanted to take out comics to pass the time, but finally held back under the rational reminder.

However, apart from being able to cope, Cheng Yi spent all the rest of his time creating his own superhero comics, which can be called sleepless nights.

But drawing comics is not an easy task. After finishing the character setting and plot, you still need to draw a draft of the storyboard, and then refine it according to the draft of the storyboard. After the final completion, you need to add dots and lines , light and shadow, etc.This is the completion of a manga. If it is in color, coloring is also a very hard work.

Most cartoonists, especially the famous cartoonists, have a few assistants to help him refine, add dots, arrange lines and color, and even draw simple storyboards for some exaggerated ones, and the rest are all done by The assistant is done.

Since Cheng Yi has no assistant, he can only finish it by himself. In order to shorten the time and improve the efficiency of the finished manga, Cheng Yi can only regretfully give up the color manga, choose black and white manga, and simplify some unnecessary parts. Background images such as landscapes.

Fortunately, these are all within the controllable range, so the impact on the readability of comics is not too great, but it has indeed increased the speed greatly.

After working so hard for nearly a month, Cheng Yi finally completed the basic outline, designed the images of all important characters and villains that may appear in the early stage, and completed the first five episodes, each about twenty pages.

And these five chapters also constitute the first plot, that is, explain the reason for the mutation, and introduce the protagonist from the initial rejection and fear, to the limelight because of this, and finally accept this matter.

The plot is not too complicated, but Cheng Yi tries his best to make each chapter very readable, and there is suspense at the end of each chapter, so as to improve readers' desire to follow up.

However, although he has the manga skills of the original body behind him, it took him a lot of energy to complete this job, and it also made him realize that it is not such an easy job to be a manga artist, even though he has tried his best. The method that can be lazy to the greatest extent is used.

The manga manuscripts drawn during this period were discarded many times and revised many times. If Cheng Yi hadn't closed his eyes at the end and didn't want to revise any more, he could even draw the first chapter for a year.

Fortunately, after the first main story is completed, the basic tone of the storyline is set. If we continue to draw later, the work will not be as much as the initial period, and it will not be so hard in the future. Otherwise, he would really I am worried about whether I am competent in my current student status.

Cheng Yi repeatedly read the comics he drew several times. Although he always had the idea that it could be more perfect, but despite his inner perfectionism, the content of these few chapters can be regarded as high-quality, even if it is sold in the market Compared with all the current superhero comics, it is definitely not inferior, and even better than most of them.

After all, compared to most of the current superhero stories that are almost reduced to assembly lines, Cheng Yi's "Druid" is definitely fresh and natural, full of eBay, especially for teenage comic fans, it almost satisfies their interest in comics all requests.

Moreover, in order to cater to the youth market he focuses on, the overall tone is brighter, the language style is also playful and interesting, and the characters are all suitable for ordinary middle school students in the United States. With these advantages, this comic will definitely make people's eyes shine.

However, although Cheng Yi has extreme confidence in his work, whether it can be popular or not, it still has to be put on the market, and let the market test the quality of this comic.

When it comes to the market, Cheng Yi has to think carefully about where to invest in this comic. First of all, because it is a teenager-oriented superhero comic, he first excludes newspapers and periodicals that are political satire and short stories.

Secondly, those emerging comic companies must be excluded. Although these newly established comic companies are full of momentum and can even have an impact on established comic companies, and relatively speaking, copyright is more free, but the market share is too small, and they want to get enough in the short term. In terms of profit, it is difficult, and the most important thing is that in order to squeeze out the market, most of these companies go too far in terms of storylines, making the tastes of fans who follow their comics relatively inconsistent with their own comics.

In addition, there are some established comic companies, especially DC Comics and MV Comics. Due to their long history, they own a large number of popular superheroes, occupying half of the entire comics market.

If you want to be recognized in the shortest time, you will naturally join any one of them, but since their status is respected, it means that they are more stringent in copyright. What's more, as a newcomer, copyright is not his priority. The most realistic thing is to get real benefits-the royalties of these two comic companies are extremely impressive in the entire comic market.

After confirming this point, there is nothing to say. Cheng Yi found the submission addresses of mv and dc comics, recorded it, and then put the first five chapters of the comic that he had re-proofed——"Druid" went in and then mailed them separately the next day.

In his mind, if there is no reply after a month, then he will make multiple copies of the comics and send them to the second-class comic company he recorded during his previous inquiry.

In the following time, Cheng Yi did not stop his work at this point, but he was no longer as desperate as before. After all, the most basic and critical work has been completed, and the follow-up work tends to be mechanical. As a result, I spent too much time in the unknown, and if I failed again in the end, it would only make me feel more uncomfortable.

Perhaps it was because he was no longer fully focused on the manga work, Cheng Yi noticed that there was an undercurrent at home at some point, and he could even clearly smell a storm that was about to come.

But obviously he was the only one among the three brothers and sisters who felt that there was a string in Brett's mind, and he would suddenly realize "oh" unless Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, and his sister Michelle was still in elementary school. If she can find it, then it is not an undercurrent, but a bright one.

Just a few days after Cheng Yi was so terrified, what was supposed to come was finally coming. On an evening at the beginning of summer, mother Catherine did not go to the supermarket to work overtime, but sat there with a look of hesitation, watching Watching Cheng Yi and the others finish their dinner—hamburger, fries and Coke, they opened their mouths and said, "I think we need to talk."