Cartoonist's Dream

The calendar rolls quietly like mud under the green river.

Half a year has passed in a hurry, and Li Mu has entered the age of 12-year-old spoon dance, and the Adam's apple in his throat has become more and more obvious.

Muzi, who was 3 years older than him, began to move from the age of Jiji to the age of breaking the melon; Mo Moxin and the four daughters of Shangguo were all in the age of Huaxin.

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"Of course. What I draw is the brainchild of my five years of hard thinking and meditation. I have wanted to draw very much since middle school...so I drew!"

"Drawing for your own desires... well, you can sit down, and I can say from that alone that you are a very good cartoonist, but you can be better."

In the past, Li Mu was very similar to him. There was a voice in his heart urging him to paint. It was a kind of "paint or die" mood. If you don't draw manga for a week or two, you will feel like dying.

The young man with yellow hair smiled shyly.He returned to his position obediently.Pear wood finally started class

"Drawing for yourself is a kind of state. In a book I read but don't remember the name, I once gave this definition: 'Drawing comics is to express the emotions in my heart and express my own meaning.' However, he The explanation is too general, and I personally don't agree with that book very much.

"So, my students have given many answers to the question 'Why do you draw manga'. I summarized their thoughts

"The first one is to create fantasy instead of reality. The representative said, 'Because I can't live in the real world, just to express my dream world more intuitively.' It is undeniable. Her answer is very pertinent, and I am also very optimistic about her. Familiar It is said that pressure is motivation, as long as the source of stress still exists, her motivation will always exist.

"The second is the continuous development of personal preferences. The idea is a bit similar to that of the collar, 'making up stories by myself is interesting, but I am not interested in words, only in pictures', 'interest, I think comics can be used as a career, and I will be happy for a lifetime. !' If you still maintain this idea after one year in the industry, congratulations, you are not far from success.

"The third type is to make a lot of money from comics. This girl who pretends to be cute said, 'Comics, woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo To Be China's Tax Tax No. 1'." So as far as I am concerned, her idea is unrealistic, especially when the domestic comic business is in a downturn.

"In contrast, I would say this: drawing comics requires a prerequisite, and you have to use money to support yourself, and you can only draw comics if you support yourself. If I have money, I will continue to draw until I am old. It doesn’t matter. I can only do this to make a living, but as long as I have a chance, I don’t want to be separated from comics, because comics are already a part of my life, and if I lose them, I will be a walking dead without a soul.”

In the end, I uttered a sentence like reciting a poem, and I was quite surprised as a student.Many female students leaned back on their chairs and closed their eyes.Following his tone of voice, I comfortably admired his words.

"Does it sound more sincere? Don't worry too much about the law of saying too much, and I prefer the second answer when I also pay attention to the economy. It can make me feel quite relieved. Just one or two more One sentence will make me feel a 180-degree change, but it's a pity that no one has ever told me so comprehensively."

Li Mu showed a frowning expression, but immediately looked away and sighed.Casually continue to say:

"The fourth type of person wants to revitalize the national spiritual industry. He told me clearly that he is 'to make China read cartoons drawn by Chinese people in the future.' What he said is exactly the wish I entrusted to you, but I think this is not a task that can be accomplished by one person, it needs the efforts of all to bear fruit.

"With the participation of [-] of you, our country will add [-] new comics next year. By then, I hope your comics will be as good as the previous batches of senior brothers and sisters. The popular "Our Existence" in "Girls Fly" magazine It was painted by your senior Yishan, and he is still working hard in the dormitory and studio of the first student.

"The fifth is to satisfy one's own vanity, 'I like the sense of accomplishment after finishing the painting, and others' compliments can satisfy my own vanity, that's all." I don't want to comment here, I just hope he's right road.

"The seventh type is to leave a name after death: 'I hope to leave something after death so that some people will not forget it, and leave a cartoon so that others will remember my name.' Actually, I want to say

"I am worried about this student's life. First of all, his answer is relatively negative. He is painting with his own 'death' as ​​the premise. Secondly, practice has proved that tens of thousands of cartoons have long been drowned in the long river of history, and they cannot be named. Ah, anyway, I can’t name it so I won’t give an example here.”

#Ha ha ha ha……

Seeing Li Mu's sad expression again, the class burst into laughter. [

Li Mu silently thought with puzzlement on his forehead: I didn't tell any jokes, it's because I was drowned that I couldn't call out my name.

"In short, his road is obviously not easy to walk. In the middle of his career, he can't know whether he has succeeded before and after his death, and he will eventually fall into confusion on the road of comics. Instead of holding this idea , it’s better to be in a daze, ‘I don’t know, I just want to draw and just talk’, that’s good...

"...

"The answers to the above are varied. I also talked to them individually.

"Although you don't know which senior said it, I hope you don't spread it. Now, if you ask my students again the question 'Why do you draw manga', they will definitely tell you It is to draw manga for readers.

"Maybe some people think that they can't draw cartoons according to their own ideas, which is flattering. This is similar to the two behaviors of 'selfishness' and 'altruism', which is higher. The boundary of distinction is actually very clear. There is no doubt that altruistic behavior is more serious. For nobleness. 'Drawing for yourself' and 'painting for others' are two forms of behavior.

"I think some of you have seen our company'rems "Dream Eater"." There are two people, "Jiang Chengxin" and "Jia Gaomu". It's not actually his own story, but one drafted by Takagi, so sincerely can't be called a manga artist.

"But we can only say that he is not an independent manga artist, because they started drawing with the premise of 'let's become manga artists together'. You can see that in the drafting process of manga stories, Takagi didn't think of 'I What to draw' but 'what readers want to see', and then sincerely follow the painting..."

After finishing speaking, Li Mu stopped and asked the students who were ten years younger than him to chew on his ideas.This concept is called "service spirit", which is the spirit of "killing must die" in Japanese.

The exuberant "サビス" spirit is the foundational concept that dominates Japan and Japanese manga, from whether the painting is serious to who is the manga drawn for?Why do you paint?Both serve readers as the initial benchmark. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)