Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 323 Niu Lao’s new work

"This senior brother is really stingy. If you look too much, you won't lose a piece of meat!"

"That's it! I just scanned it and I didn't even have time to pay attention to the details!"

After Li Zhiqing left, several other assistants continued to talk nonstop.

Speaking of which, although Li Wannian's assistants have different personalities, they are all of the same age and have similar interests, so there is no such situation as infighting or fighting with each other.

"Ding dong!"

Just as they were chatting animatedly, the doorbell rang again.

"What's going on? Did Senior Brother Li forget to bring the key?"

Even though Xu Jingchen said this, everyone tacitly agreed not to speak anymore. They all closed their mouths and waited for Xu Jingchen to open the door.

However, after opening the door, Xu Jingchen was surprised to find that the person outside was not Li Zhiqing.

"Are you the new junior brother?"

"Niu...Senior Brother Niu?"

The person who came was short, as skinny as a stick, and looked as if he was malnourished. His glasses were even wider than his whole face. He was Li Wannian's former assistant, Mr. Niu.

"Hahaha, you know me, that's great. Is the teacher here?"

"In the!"

"Can you take me to see the teacher?"

"Of course there's no problem!"

It has been more than three months since Xu Jingchen came to work as Li Wannian's assistant.

Compared with other students who either go to college or work as designers in advertising companies, Xu Jingchen's salary is obviously good.

Let's talk about the salary first. It is no worse than ordinary white-collar workers. More importantly, the opportunity to get Li Wannian's guidance is much more important than any salary.

In addition, they can also meet many well-known cartoonists. He has already met Ma Rongcheng and Aoyou Xiang before. Unexpectedly, he can meet Niu Lao again this time!
Of course, because he saw many cartoonists, Xu Jingchen was not too excited about Mr. Niu's appearance.

Speaking of which, within the Hong Kong comics circle, Niu Lao's status is a bit embarrassing. Although he is the second cartoonist on Hong Kong Island who can serialize comics in Neon, everyone knows that he relies on Li Wannian's original works. Everyone expressed doubts about his personal ability.

Even in the eyes of some people, Niu Lao is just lucky. If he had been allowed to draw this comic, he could still have it serialized in Neon!

Not long after, Mr. Niu knocked on the door of Li Wannian's studio.

"Come in!"

"teacher!"

After Mr. Niu entered the door, he bowed and said to Li Wannian.

"Old Niu, why are you here?"

Li Wannian, who was drawing, saw that it was Mr. Niu, and decisively put down the pen in his hand, stood up and greeted him.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, teacher? Come and see you! This is some tea given by a friend. I'll take it to honor you, teacher!"

With that said, Mr. Niu placed the two boxes of tea he was carrying on the coffee table.

"Okay, let's go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. Is this guy trying to help you?"

Li Wannian didn't even look at the tea leaves on the coffee table. He sat directly on the sofa and stared at Mr. Niu with a smile.

"Hehe, as expected, I can't hide anything from you, teacher!"

Mr. Niu smiled awkwardly and scratched his head, then took out a stack of manuscript paper from his backpack and handed it to Li Wannian.

"Teacher, this is a new comic I drew. I would like your help and advice!"

"Oh? The new comic has been drawn?" After hearing the news, Li Wannian suddenly became interested.

Since "The Rogue Teacher" ended, Mr. Niu has stopped drawing comics and has been in retreat to conceive new comics.

It's also thanks to the fact that he made a lot of money while serializing "Rogue Teacher", otherwise he probably wouldn't be able to support his expenses without working for a year.

Therefore, Li Wannian is very interested in the new comics that Niu Lao has been thinking about for a year!

"Is it really "Young and Dangerous"?"

When he took the comic from Mr. Niu and glanced at the cover, it turned out to be the name he imagined.

As Niu Lao's most famous comic and one of the most famous comics in Hong Kong, its main popularity actually comes from movies, not comics.

In the comics, both Chen Haonan and Pheasant's character settings are completely different from the movies.

In the movie, Chen Haonan is a passionate, righteous, flesh-and-blood, positive person, while in the comics, he is a very deep-seated and ruthless person.

It can be said that compared to the movie, Chen Haonan in the comics is more real and fuller.

As for Pheasant, Pheasant in the comics did not finally reconcile with Chen Haonan like in the movie. Instead, he turned against Chen Haonan and became the biggest villain in the later stages of the comics. He formed an alliance with Dong Ying in an attempt to defeat Hong Xing, and was finally defeated by Da Fan. (Hongxingshe people in the comics) Kill.

At this time, Li Wannian's "Young and Dangerous", which was born eight years ahead of schedule, was different from the comics of the original time and space.

The original comic begins with the neon "Iwakai" Tachibana Masahito assassinating the fourth generation leader of the "Yamaguchi-gumi" Takenaka Masahisa and absconding to Hong Kong Island, and then introducing the Hongxing Society where Chen Haonan is located.

But the comics at this time started directly from Hong Kong Island. Although the protagonist is Chen Haonan, his image and personality are completely different from the previous two.

The story tells the story of Chen Haonan's struggle with foreign gangs because of his unique skills. The content of the story itself is also quite exciting. The fight obviously draws on Li Wannian's storyboards in "Dragon Ball" and is very smooth.

However, Li Wannian frowned more and more.

"What's wrong? Teacher? Is there any problem?"

Seeing Li Wannian's expression, Mr. Niu felt very uneasy. As soon as Li Wannian finished reading, he quickly asked.

"Honestly, there is nothing wrong with your technique. The main problem is your comic creation idea. Can you tell me what you think?"

Hearing the teacher talk about his creative ideas, Mr. Niu could only explain: "Although I have never been in the industry, I know a lot about this industry, so I want to expose how cruel this industry is and tell everyone how to be young and Dangerous." There are no good people! Of course, there will be no shortage of exciting plots!”

"Let me talk about your problem first. First of all, no matter what your protagonist does, he must be a good person!"

"This……"

Niu Lao immediately became suspicious of Li Wannian's suggestion. After all, it was fundamentally different from his creative ideas.

"I understand what you mean, but if you want your comics to be successful, you must do this. Even the bad guys must be the kind who can't help themselves! Remember, no matter what your protagonist does, he must get Only with the reader’s consent can we do it!”

The creative techniques mentioned by Li Wannian here are actually somewhat similar to those in movies and TV series.

No matter what kind of art work it is, as long as it wants to achieve sales success, it must conform to the values ​​​​of the majority of people.

"Secondly, get rid of the exclusive product thing. I know that many young and Dangerous boys do this, but it must not be touched in your works!"

"I……"

"I know what you are going to say. The protagonist in the work must not be touched. This is a red line issue!"

"Yes!"

Mr. Niu nodded reluctantly again.

"As for the outline of the entire comic, it also needs to be optimized..."

After listening to Li Wannian's explanation, Mr. Niu's whole mood sank to the bottom. This was equivalent to overthrowing all the ideas in his entire comic. While he was angry, Mr. Niu also had doubts about his abilities. doubted.

Do you know how to draw comics?It took almost a year to create such a piece of garbage?
(End of this chapter)