because i'm pretty

For a mature social animal, busyness is the sharp edge against all hypocrisy and embarrassment.

In the new week, the two quickly forgot all that happened on the weekend, and even at work, their way of getting along had reached a certain tacit understanding—Li Yikai still showed no mercy to Yuan Zhiming, and because of Yuan Zhiming's carelessness, His criticism was even harsher than that of others.

But Yuan Zhiming will no longer be angry about this, and has learned to send messages on WeChat to ask for advice when Li Yikai is not busy, and he can get patient guidance every time.

Qin Xiaoen was very confused when he found out about this: "When everyone first came to the company, they all avoided Kevin, and you actually secretly asked him to make a fuss?"

Li Yikai didn't let him dig deeper, and asked first: "Aren't you looking forward to stealing this laziness?"

Qin Xiaoen thinks about it too. He and Yuan Zhiming, two people who lack language skills, are indeed worryingly inefficient when communicating. I don’t know how Li Yikai said it to Yuan Zhiming. The immediate boss sits back and reaps the rewards.

Of course, Yuan Zhiming didn't notice any progress, he just felt like a poor seedling, being dragged and dragged by Li Yikai to grow taller.

What's even more speechless is that he can't absorb others' gentle irrigation. Although Li Yikai's sarcastic remarks make people shiver with cold, they can be understood inexplicably, and he will quickly draw inferences from one instance.

After the main elements are drawn, it is time to enter the next assembly line—Qin Xiaoen chose the two directions of peach blossoms and streams, and extended two sets of brand logos and visual systems based on them.

It's like starting to arrange the backbone on the canvas, and build the most basic colors, lines, and light and shade relationships.

Yuan Zhiming has almost never been in contact with such a systematic design. He is an illustrator, and design is strictly two types of work.

But in Li Yikai's team, everyone can have their own strengths, but he is never allowed to be ignorant of other links.

So Yuan Zhiming had to bite the bullet and help Qin Xiaoen, doing simple extension work for practice;

Then because of various reasons such as misalignment, inconsistent size, and irregular layout, Li Yikai ruthlessly attacked;

Then, under his "humbly asking for advice", Li Yikai patiently explained to him the necessity of each step——

"If the proportion of the logo is not clearly defined, someone will definitely create it again," Li Yikai said while crackling, while finding out those horrible negative cases.

"Is this a real event?" Yuan Zhiming looked at the picture, and a brand logo with colorful effects and golden light appeared in the center of the poster.

"I took this photo in a supermarket, and it's a chain supermarket," said Li Yikai. "Our design is not exhibited in an art gallery, but for countless professional and non-professional people to use. The venue is for consumers to see and understand, you are the commander, but not the only spokesperson."

"Understood?" He asked immediately after finishing speaking.

"Understood", Yuan Zhiming glanced at his eyes, then quickly lowered his head and started to create a new Illustrator canvas, drawing a grid drawing one by one, repeating the most troublesome work he had done before.

Sometimes he suspects that he is from Stockholm, and sometimes he feels that it is from the bottom of his heart—so repeated plucking, watering and fertilizing, the sapling of Yuan Zhiming gradually tasted the fun of this kind of work, and the artist fell into the mortal world , I began to look forward to what these hard-working ideas would look like when they landed in everyone's real life.

Then, after the main elements and the brand frame are built on the canvas, it is necessary to start thinking about how to fill the painting with color and how to display it in order to attract more people to watch it.

Generally speaking, shooting commercials, holding press conferences, and holding some activities in that "paradise" are the most commonly used methods.

But Yuan Zhiming, who has no experience, has a different way of thinking.

The autumn leaves were about to fall. When he walked out of the office building together with Li Yikai and Qin Xiaoen, he suddenly looked at the bare tree trunks and said, "Next spring, we will see the mall take on a new look."

"Optimistically yes", Li Yikai replied very pessimistically.

When Yuan Zhiming was in a trance, he spoke in a trance: "When the ice and snow melt, spring will come, and our paradise will appear. It seems that spring is born from ice."

"Will Frozen 3 come out again? My daughter really wants to see it," Qin Xiaoen said.

Li Yikai ignored him, turned to look at Yuan Zhiming: "What are you thinking?"

"I want to make installation art," Yuan Zhiming said, "I freeze the new logo signboard with ice cubes. It should start to melt in March, and it will completely melt in April, and then the real logo will be revealed little by little. face."

As he spoke, he became lost in thought, gesticulating on the gray-black road: "It would be even better if the trajectory of melting can point to the secret base behind the shopping mall."

Qin Xiaoen responded: "It's really a paradise."

"The two-dimensional surface of the signboard is a logo, and the depth surface can be made into an arrow. What is projected from top to bottom is a guidepost." Li Yikai quickly built a three-dimensional model in his mind. He was worried that the two graphic designers and painters would not understand. I plan to go back and get a pen and paper to draw.

But Yuan Zhiming quickly continued: "The dripping water is also in the shape of an arrow. It would be great if the ground can be made of a material that changes color when it encounters water. Will there be such a material?"

"..." Qin Xiaoen was suddenly stared at by Li Yikai, not knowing why this question was thrown to him.

"Didn't you specialize in offline exhibitions before? I haven't heard of it either." Li Yikai said.

"Then I'll ask back," Qin Xiaoen said helplessly.

Yuan Zhiming seemed to come back to his senses at this time, a little flattered: "Ah? Do you think it's possible to do it? I think it's too..."

"It's a bit idealistic," Li Yikai helped him add the wording of the second half of the sentence.

"Whether it can be realized or not, we have to ask, and we need to cooperate with the communication to make this performance art have a drainage effect. In addition, there is a high possibility that customers will not understand, or the cost is too high to make them unwilling to understand..."

Li Yikai quickly listed.

But he didn't say it out loud, but he had to admit that a scene of melting ice and snow and the blooming of a paradise really touched his romantic nerves.

"But I still want to give it a try. Proposal." Qin Xiaoen was caught in the middle, patted Yuan Zhiming, racked his brains to act as a kind leader, so as to complement Li Yikai, and not to hit the newcomer too much: "I think this idea is worth it. Make a set of plans and demos."

Li Yikai may be too optimistic about Yuan Zhiming's psychological endurance, but turned to Qin Xiaoen: "First look at the possibility and cost of realization, if it is too high, don't waste time."

Qin Xiaoen felt three black lines on his forehead, and looked at Yuan Zhiming: "But, this idea is really good..."

"It's very good," Li Yikai said, "I'm just saying that you can't waste time doing airplane drafts."

"Aircraft Draft Gets You Bids".

"Then the successful bidding is equivalent to digging a hole for yourself, and you can't achieve the desired effect at all." Li Yikai understood Qin Xiaoen very much, and his tone softened a little: "Old Qin, I don't mean to say that the creativity is bad."

"I know, I know", Qin Xiaoen went to the smoking area to light a cigarette, and decided to give up maintaining this relationship.

Only then did Li Yikai feel relieved, and turned to answer the phone.

"Don't be discouraged, Kevin has been hit in this area before, sometimes he overcorrects and his mind is too rational," Qin Xiaoen secretly explained to Yuan Zhiming.

"Ah?" Yuan Zhiming raised his head suddenly, with no trace of frustration in his expression: "Oh, ok."

Qin Xiaoen finally realized that he was redundant.

Li Yikai came back with the takeaway bag, and Yuan Zhiming was the only one standing at the door.

"Where's Lao Qin?"

Yuan Zhiming said: "Teacher Qin said that he wanted to walk around by himself again, so he wouldn't eat with us."

Li Yikai got used to his sudden self, so he thought: "Go back to eat? Or do you want to bask in the sun for a while?"

Yuan Zhiming yawned, took the bag, turned around and walked towards the room.

He has been sleepy for the past few days, under the pressure of Li Yikai during working hours, and strives for excellence with 100% energy—anyway, Director Li's attitude is very clear, no matter what his personal relationship is, even if he understands Yuan Zhiming's life difficulties, as long as When working here with him, it is impossible to relax at all.

And spare time is even more tense—the copy of the NYX art exhibition is much more difficult than work, and there is no bad-tempered but patient director who can give clear and effective guidance. Art creation is a road without street lights , Yuan Zhiming often walked alone in front of the computer or the canvas until dawn, and when the sunlight came through the curtains, he remembered that he had to go to work the next day, and there was not much sleep time left.

So the daily lunch time has become a rare opportunity for him to take a nap.

Li Yikai didn't have time and didn't like to dine with chattering girls, so gradually they became regular lunch partners.

"Although Lao Qin has worked for so many years, sometimes he is very simple, and he will be excited when he encounters a good idea." Li Yikai hopes that Yuan Zhiming understands his battle line: "So I partner with him, and I need to always pull him back to reality. .”

"Well, you complement each other very well," Yuan Zhiming said, "I also think that if this idea is presented to people who don't understand it, or if it's just on paper, it's better not to mention it."

Li Yikai smiled, thinking that you and I complement each other very well, and it turns out that we have reached the same goal by different routes.

Yuan Zhiming ate the nutritionally balanced meal ordered by Li Yikai in a trance, his mind drifted away from this topic, and he suddenly asked, "Does the kitten's adopter want to meet?"

Li Yikai remembered and was about to discuss with him: "There are two families who want to meet, but I think we will all work overtime this weekend, so I notified Zhou Xing, and let him go if we don't have time."

"Ah?" Yuan Zhiming rolled his eyes.

Li Yikai said: "Although Zhou Xing is unreliable most of the time, he is very accurate in judging people, and he will send detailed family information."

"Well, it's not that I'm worried about Brother Zhou Xing," Yuan Zhiming said, "It's just that I don't want to part with it."

"It's not the last time we meet, and there are still two shots of vaccines to be given, so you can go and see them more after you've been busy." Li Yikai opened the black chicken soup, put a spoon on it and gave it to Yuan Zhiming, "Besides, I can return to visit later."

Yuan Zhiming looked at the soup bowl that fell to his hand, took it with a hum, and drank it down in one gulp.

I silently counted in my heart that this is the first time Li Yikai has invited guests, and I must remember to order meals in advance tomorrow.

Li Yikai on the opposite side didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly smiled softly

Yuan Zhiming was interrupted by the laughter, raised his head and cast a questioning look, Li Yikai touched his nose with his index knuckles, coughed and explained: "I feel like a father in the old society, looking for my children one by one. In-laws."

Yuan Zhiming came back to his senses and smiled softly.He didn't ask Li Yikai who would be the mother in a situation like this.

Only when Yuan Zhiming got acquainted with him would he reveal his taunting personality.

He thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Then you are considered impossible to experience."

Li Yikai was stunned for a moment, and after realizing it, the tips of his ears turned red.

Yuan Zhiming is making fun of his sexual orientation?

After he was "forced to come out of the closet", the two had no communication at all about it, and even thought it was a week after they deliberately ignored each other, how could Yuan Zhiming make such a joke with him so naturally?

This reaction really made Li Yikai feel that his progress was unexpectedly smooth and natural.

Li Yikai felt that his adrenaline was slightly elevated, he was a little anxious, and maybe he should pass the words back when the atmosphere was right.

He tapped the screen with his finger, and the information of the two families came out, and the mobile phone was sent to Yuan Zhiming's eyes.

Li Yikai pretended to be relaxed and cheerful and asked, "Would you like to experience the experience?"