Cartoonist's Dream

It was morning, and it was the beginning of another comic class.

In a large classroom of Nanhua University, a figure stood in front of the podium, and there was an extra camera on the stage.

200 students are sitting on the ladder chairs. The rather curved steps make the classroom look a bit like a theater. This design allows students sitting in the corners to focus on the middle of the stage.

"I'm glad that someone can draw 384 of my images. I don't need a perfect draft. It's okay to draw 16K or 5*5 characters. Finding flexible ways in the unlimited rules is also a part of creativity. "

Li Mu fiddled with the stack of drafts under the camera equipment—the drafts of all his deformed images, which were projected on the blackboard and hung down on the curtain.The young man with yellow hair on the stairs rubbed his hands happily with a very happy smile. [

"Here I would like to ask, can I start from the hands and feet when drawing comic characters?"

"That goes without saying, of course."

The students sitting on the steps were silent, and the yellow-haired boy answered on the steps.

With dyed yellow hair and casual tone of conversation, everyone thinks that he is probably not a decent guy.Although there are quite a few hair dyers here, but looking at him is a bit unpleasant.

"Drawing characters..." Li Mu nodded and said beside the projector.

When drawing a character, whether it is a caricature or a portrait, 95% of the cases start with the head.Use the cross reference line of the head and face as the positioning, draw the outline of the head and the cross line before drawing the outline of the torso.However, there are exceptions. When a cartoon character punches or kicks, according to the rules, the focus should be drawn first.

In the final analysis, the focus of a manga picture is the person, and the focus of the character is the face... The focus of the face is the eyes. As the saying goes, the eyes are the door of the soul.The characters in excellent cartoons all have good eyes, or look at the people in front of the picture like Mona Lisa, or annotate Jesus in the picture like Judas.

When drawing, there is always 'what do I want to draw.What do you want to convey to your readers?If the characters in the comics do not have a clear intention before drawing, then the picture drawn is meaningless.For example, the full-body portrait is mostly used to express the overall image of the character, even if it is added with action meaning, it is still the same...

"Teacher, we all know these things, and we are not fledgling students. You have taught a theoretical class for a week, and now you can actually skip some of the content and start directly from the parts we don't understand."

Said the young man with yellow hair who seemed to think he knew Li Mu very well.This sentence touched the hearts of most students, and it was enough to teach the theory class for a week.The sketch class also needs to be said for a week?

The young man with yellow hair looks a little smug, but in fact he is Li Mu's supporter in class.

"Since you understand, then you can teach everyone to draw a vivid character on the spot."

Li Mu stared at the student meaningfully, and said with an unhappy expression.

"A piece of cake—"

The young man with yellow hair didn't seem to receive the little teacher's complaints at all. He walked down the stairs with a smile, took out a pencil from his pocket, and twirled it twice with his fingers.When I came to the podium, I picked up a piece of white paper and began to draw under the camera.

He first draws an ellipse, takes the midline straight to the bridge of the nose as the positioning, and draws the eyeliner horizontally at the upper middle of the face.After determining the orientation of the face with the crosshairs, start to draw the eyes, nose, mouth, and ear pinna in order, and extend the neck from below the ear pinna as the pen tip moves.

Because it cannot be in place in one stroke, "uncertain lines" that slide back and forth often appear on the same line segment.

It doesn't matter how many uncertain lines there are on the sketch, as long as you recognize the lines that need to be drawn when you enter the sketching stage.Wait until the drawing ink for the outline is dry.The eraser will erase all uncertain lines.

The neck extends to the shoulders. In order to keep the left and right shoulders parallel in the sense of view, the young man with yellow hair draws the reference line of the shoulders.Drawing step by step, the width of the shoulders on the half side becomes narrower, and the distance between the left shoulder and the neck becomes shorter.When the chest is drawn, the basic feeling of the body comes out, and it only takes one glance to see whether it is good or bad. [

After that, the chin and neck are trimmed according to the position of the midline... The midline is the ridge line that divides the face into two parts, the left and right, and it does not only affect the face.It can also be extended to the entire torso according to the overall needs.

The three elements that show the charm of a character are: expression, movement and dress.

The young man with yellow hair drew very carefully, not to say that he drew beautiful lines.Instead, carefully consider the direction of the eyes on the face, the size of the mouth opening, and the layout of local balance and overall balance.He considered very carefully before painting, and the characters in the painting are expressing implicitness in a half-profile form.

It took him 5 minutes to draw the parts above the chest, and 4 minutes to draw the torso and movements below the chest, which is considered very fast for a single-person painting that draws a whole 16 manuscript paper.

The yellow hair will draw the pocket with a pencil.The painting on the projector has been completed, and all the students present couldn't help holding back their laughter.If it wasn't for Li Mu's pair of evil-looking glasses, the students would probably burst into laughter.

"Puff puff puff"

On the drawing paper is an ancient woman sitting upright by the bed, with a three-flower bun in the Eastern Han Dynasty standing on her head.Like the ribbon of a fairy descending to earth, the bun is wrapped around the back of the neck, and the two delicate temples hang down gently from both sides of the neck.The thin lips sighed, the legs wrapped in the soft skirt were slightly closed, and the slender hands gently touched the knees.

What a fresh and beautiful classic shape.The only problem is that the painting on it is the little teacher!Although the draft is not so clear, the art students have a strong brain power, and they can tell at a glance that it is the female form of the little teacher.

Embarrassed...

Riki thought regretfully.I knew that I should specify the figure to be drawn for the collar, because according to the plan, all I have to do next is to draw another more perfect painting.

"Ahem, students, what do you think of his painting? How does his painting method and painting skills compare with yours?"

"not good"

"It's definitely not good."

"too poor."

Facing Li Mu's question, although the group of older students couldn't speak in unison, they all echoed his mood and gave the answer.

"Since you don't think it's good, if anyone thinks it's good, come up and draw a picture, I'll give you 10 more minutes."

Under Li Mu's natural questioning, the students all smiled shyly.To be honest, it is estimated that they will not be able to draw such a picture in another 10 minutes. It is really hard to imagine that the young man who is full of ruffian from head to toe has such ability.

"Is it good or not? You can't even tell the objective reality? Now answer me again."

With an impatient attitude, Li Mu pointed to the four red-letter slogans [seek truth from facts] on the blackboard. These slogans have existed since the 80s.

#Shan, do you want to say yes or no?

#I do not know.

#……[

Huang Mao's paintings are better than theirs. In fact, they know best in their hearts, even if they say no, they can't hide their evaluation of Huang Mao's "this guy draws very well".

For an art student who has studied painting for at least 3 or 4 years, in fact, few people will directly throw pens and admit defeat in painting competitions that are not very different, but they dare not compete on stage under the watchful eyes of the public.

Originally, Li Mu didn't want to hit them, they already had all the drawing skills, and they knew what ordinary painters and cartoonists should know.Although they don't say it during the lecture, they are somewhat pretentious inside, and Li Mu just wants to eliminate this mentality...that's all.

He looked at the "smug" yellow hair beside him, took a few deep breaths as if disappointed, and suddenly shouted at the yellow hair:

"Hmph, you think you have reached the peak, so you don't need to learn it?"

After finishing speaking, Li Mu pulled a piece of manuscript paper from the edge of the podium, spread it under the camera to set an example for them to see the painting skills of "world-class painters", without using any real painting skills of gold coins.

The blond-haired young man beside him had slanted eyes, raised his chin slightly, and held his toes high, looking supercilious.Playing the big bad beyond the ordinary, playing out what's on their minds with pure arrogance. (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.)