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Chapter 10 The Process of Drawing Manga
"She knows you." Akemi Akimiya came out from behind Higashino and whispered.

"You said my name," Higashino pointed at her messy clothes, "Is it okay?"

"what!"

So as soon as I came out, I went back to Toriyama's house to change clothes.

……

Pencil, black ink, white ink, g pen, cloud ruler, dot paper...

There are many tools scattered here and there.

The painting table with a large area also became messy.

I heard that there is a tool called digital board, which is much more convenient than hand-drawing. The technology in 1993 is still too backward.

"Draw the background first, Higashino-kun."

Akira Toriyama doesn't like to draw the background of the battle, which is very tedious and meaningless work.

After the third World No. [-] Budokai, Akira Toriyama changed the setting of Monkey King to Saiyan.

As the combat power increases, and the character becomes a character and flies into the air to fight, there is a reason why there is no need to paint the background.

Higashino nodded, and accepted Akira Toriyama's request.

"Dragon Ball Z" is currently serialized in the "Majin Buu Chapter" "Satan escapes, and the angry Majin Buu appears".

Akira Toriyama asked Higashino to draw a very classic temple that appeared many times in "Dragon Ball".

Little Wukong and Mr. Bobo had a very exciting battle here.

In Higashino Hibiki's view, it was no worse than the battle in the No. [-] Budokai in the world.

The square floor tiles, trees, and the temple behind it, after 20 minutes, Higashino finished painting.

He handed it to Akira Toriyama.

At this time, Akira Toriyama had just finished watching Akemi Akimiya's painting.

"Well, the painting is very good," Toriyama Akira said, "I will leave the assistant work to you in the future."

"Yes, Teacher Akira Toriyama!" Akemi Akimiya bowed excitedly.

As the daughter of an ukiyo-e master, she has cultivated her interest in painting since she was a child.

Her drawing skills are very good, better than Higashino, a high school student.

It's just that the brain is not good enough to create interesting stories.

Afterwards, Akira Toriyama took Higashino's painting and looked at it for a long time.

"You're fine, too."

He didn't praise anything, he said calmly: "In the future, if you don't understand anything, you can ask me."

……

Drawing manga is very hard work.

Today, Hibiki Higashino, Akira Toriyama, and Akemi Akimiya drew for a total of 10 hours, and only completed 6 pages of draft.

Readers watch for 1 minute and it's over.

A story has just begun.

But it takes three people to work hard behind the scenes for a long time.

Thinking of the scene when he was serializing, Higashino shuddered.

Comics are not just paintings, before that, you need to create storyboards.

Under normal circumstances, jump's weekly comics need 3 days to draw the storyboard, that is, after the story is conceived, each shot is drawn with sketches.

The size and shape of each frame, the actions of the characters, the arrangement of the dialog boxes, the sentences of the dialogue... etc., must be clearly expressed.

It can be said that apart from the more refined paintings, it is already the entire content of the comics.

After creating these, it is tedious work.

One-stroke paintings.

Draw the characters, draw the background, paint black, paste the appropriate dots...

Higashino Hibiki finally went through the process today.

The "Battle of Man and God" painted by the original master is more of a taken-for-granted creation.

He didn't even know to storyboard.

So the story quickly went off track.

Not to mention dot paper, all the backgrounds are drawn one by one.

All in all, I learned a lot.

"Thank you for your hard work today." Akira Toriyama clapped his hands and ended today's work.

"Mr. Toriyama, thank you for your teaching."

Higashino Higashi and Akimiya Akemi said.

Akira Toriyama stood up, stretched his waist, and asked with a smile: "There is still about an hour before dinner, do you want to go out for a stroll?"

"Excuse me," Higashino said, "I want to familiarize myself with the usage of the g-pen."

"Well, me too! I want to sum up the knowledge I have learned." Akemi Akimiya looked at the storyboard and pondered Akira Toriyama's thoughts.

"It's good to be young, really hardworking. Then I won't bother you, I'll go out and look at the distant horizon, ah, my eyes are dry and uncomfortable."

"You walk slowly."

Higashino used to like the works of Takeshi Obata.

"Soul of Chess", "Death Note" and "Dream Eater".

And "Dream Eater" tells the story of two male protagonists, one is the original work, the other is the painter, complement each other, work together, and work hard in drawing comics.

So I also described a lot of comic content.

There are regrets among them, such as the tallest uncle of the hero, Masaki Nobuhiro.

His dream is to confess to the girl he likes after he has made some achievements in manga.

Mashiro Nobuhiro's story is not bad, but his drawing skills are too bad.

Because when I started drawing comics, I didn't understand the importance of the g-pen, and when I wanted to redeem it, I couldn't get used to using the g-pen.

So his painting is always far worse than others.

This is a very big disadvantage. After all, the biggest difference between comics and novels is that the story creation of comics is expressed with paintings.

Your drawing skills are not as good as others, and unless the story is very interesting, you can make up for this disadvantage.

So now, Higashino waved the g-pen, hoping to get acquainted with this thing as soon as possible.

Its pen tip is soft, with a fork in the middle, and the thickness of the line can be drawn with the strength of the hand.

Quite difficult to master.

Fortunately, when the original master drew "Battle of Gods and Men", he had the experience of using a g-pen, which gave Hibiki Higashino some foundation.

Otherwise, you have to practice for at least 2 months before you can use the g-pen normally.

Immersed in painting, I don't know how long it has passed, until Akira Toriyama came to the studio to announce that it was time to eat, Higashino regained his senses.

"Drawing manga is also very interesting." He said to Akemi Akimiya.

"Of course it's interesting!" Akemi Akimiya took it for granted.

Otherwise, a young lady like her would not have come to the countryside.

When a teacher teaches students, isn't it good to be comfortable?

With Dad's great reputation, no matter what his ability is, he can still be boasted as a great painter.

The profession of painter is much more difficult to distinguish than that of writer.

……

Time passed like this, and on Thursday afternoon, the latest episode of "Dragon Ball Z" finally came to an end.

The next three days were the time for Akira Toriyama to conceive the storyboard, and Higashino and the others didn't need help.

As the most powerful manga artist, Akira Toriyama does not need Higashino Hibiki's "idea".

For the end of Z, he may have had an idea during the summer vacation in 1993.

Akira Toriyama's previous job in manga was designing leaflets and posters.

Because he thinks this profession is free and creative.

It's a pity that there is still a layer of leadership above, as well as Party A.

They would make other demands, seriously interfering with Akira Toriyama's creative freedom.

As a result, he, who was born as a country boy, resigned after working for three years.

After that, draw manga.

"I hope I can draw whatever I want, but the business model is not like this. The manga is no longer under the control of the author. To be honest, I don't like the manga "Dragon Ball"."

Says Akira Toriyama, creator of the world's most valuable manga.

(End of this chapter)