Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 289 Imagining the Future
"cheers!"

The three wine glasses clinked together too hard, causing a lot of the wine in the glasses to spill onto the dishes on the table.

DreamWorks is still very efficient and responded to them in just two days!
The three of them undoubtedly won the jackpot!
Two became Long live's assistants, and one became He Zhiwen's assistant.

Although being a cartoonist's assistant will not allow you to become a successful person and make a lot of money right away, due to the existence of a special circle in the Hong Kong cartoonist industry, once you become a cartoonist's assistant, it will mean that you have officially entered this circle, which is very important for your future development. ,Significant.

At present, the cartoonists on Hong Kong Island are divided into the "Guards" series and other cartoonists. The other cartoonists are mainly Huang Yulang and the Shangguan family. Their cartoons adopt the OMI assembly line model.

If you are an outliner, you will be doing outlines for the rest of your life. If you are a background painter, you will be painting backgrounds for the rest of your life. It can be said that these people are no different from workers screwing screws in a factory, repeating boring work.

Even if you are really talented and become the editor-in-chief of a magazine and can draw comics, the ownership of the comics still belongs to the magazine, not the individual!
As a result, any cartoonist with some ability is unwilling to go to their magazine.

On the other hand, in the "Guards" department, especially those who become Li Wannian's assistant, although they can also do these simple tasks, they can learn from the cartoonists. Generally, after a few years, they can go to Two-dimensional magazine. Comics were published in magazines.

Once you become a cartoonist of a popular comic strip, your income will immediately double and you will even become financially free.

Almost every year, you can hear the news that someone published a comic strip and paid hundreds of thousands in taxes.

Therefore, years of publicity have given everyone a stereotype, that is, if you want to make a lot of money, you should go to Two-dimensional magazine for serialization. If you want to be serialized, you should first work as an assistant to those cartoonists!
Therefore, when they heard the news, they happily ran out to have dinner together all night long.

It felt like others in the class were still studying hard to prepare for the college entrance examination, but I had already received an admission spot from Wudaokou Vocational and Technical College.

Don't be too cool!
"Oops, let it go!"

"Quick wipe!"

"You're stupid! How do you wipe this? Eat it!"

"How do you eat this?"

"Anyway, they still have to be mixed together in the stomach. What's the difference?"

Several people spilled their wine, so they were busy for a long time, and finally settled down.

"I never thought we would be here today!"

Sitting back on the chair, Xu Jingchen couldn't help but sigh.

Unlike the other two, Xu Jingchen's family is not well-off. The reason why he came to the advanced class of Gezhi Academy was not because of his painting talent, but because he had a scholarship, which could reduce the burden on his family.

Moreover, in terms of painting talent, Xu Jingchen is not as good as the other two because of his weak foundation.

Therefore, in order to make up for his own shortcomings, in addition to his usual studies, he began to look for cartoonists who suited him to imitate.

Forget about Li Wannian, all the painting students in Hong Kong are imitating Li Wannian, but no one imitates him like him!

After some searching, Xu Jingchen finally found a cartoonist suitable for him to imitate, and that was Neon's famous cartoonist Ikegami Ryoichi.

As a famous cartoonist of the neon realism school, his works follow an adult line. His character modeling style, composition and storyboard techniques, story structure, etc. have influenced many subsequent cartoonists, and even some gangster-themed Hong Kong cartoons. Island Cinema was also influenced by his work.

After Xu Jingchen's painstaking imitation, he is now 90% similar to the original in terms of painting style, composition and story. He is nicknamed Chishang Jingchen by his classmates.

It was precisely because of this imitation that he was favored by Li Zhiqing, and finally succeeded in becoming Li Wannian's assistant.However, Xu Jingchen also knows that with his imitation skills alone, he can be a good assistant now. As for the cartoonist, he is still far away!
He is not a fat guy, he is a genius!

"Tch, how could you not think of this? When we came to this class, weren't we just here to become cartoonists?"

Speaking of this, Wen Riling suddenly felt confident, with his hands on his hips as if he was pointing out Jiangshan's passionate words.

"Hey, it's nice to be young!"

Liu Yunjie on the side complained listlessly.

Compared with the beautiful Wen Riqian and the calm Xu Jingchen, Liu Yunjie is very uneasy.

Among those who are learning to draw, which one doesn’t like Li Wannian’s comics, and which one doesn’t want to be Li Wannian’s assistant?

And now that he has become He Zhiwen's assistant, he has become He Zhiwen's apprentice and Li Wannian's disciple.

After all this calculation, doesn't he become the nephew of these two guys in the future?

Good guys, I treat you as brothers, but you actually want to be my uncle?

"Yunjie, don't take it too seriously. There is nothing wrong with being an assistant to He Zhiwen! He is currently the leader of "Girls Weekly". With him, you can be serialized in "Girls Weekly" in the future, and "Girls Weekly" The competitive pressure of magazines is much less than that of "Youth Weekly" and "Youth Weekly"!"

"Yes! The competition pressure is much less, and the money given is much less!"

Nowadays, "Boys Weekly" and "Youth Weekly" have sales of 30 to [-], while "Girls Weekly" only has sales of about [-].

Although it still sells more copies than other comic magazines, it is not taken seriously within Two-dimensional magazine.

Therefore, although He Zhiwen is already the well-deserved leader of "Girls Weekly", his income is not among the top three cartoonists of "Girls Weekly".

Of course, this does not include film and television copyright income. In this part, He Zhiwen's "Boys Over Flowers" and "Hong Kong Island Love Story" made a lot of money. Even if Li Wannian took the lion's share, He Zhiwen still made a lot.

Therefore, everyone knows that if you want to make a lot of money by drawing comics, you still have to draw shonen comics and youth comics!
"You guys, you haven't even entered this circle yet and you want to become famous?"

Xu Jingchen saw that Liu Yunjie was a little depressed, so he comforted him with teasing.

"Snapped!"

At this time, Wen Ritu slapped Liu Yunjie on the back.

"Yunjie, don't listen to him, we will definitely become famous! There is nothing wrong with thinking more now, but I think we can concentrate on it again after you succeed. Who stipulates that your first comic should be a girl's comic, and the following Do you have to draw girl comics?"

It has to be said that Wen Rili's comfort method is more suitable for Liu Yunjie.

After listening to Wen Riling's comforting words, Liu Yunjie's confidence finally returned!
Yes, as long as I work hard, I may not be worse than the two of them in the future!

Who said that if you become He Zhiwen's assistant, your future achievements will be inferior to others?

(End of this chapter)