Chapter 9 "The Sword of the Yue Girl" and "The Seven Weapons"
The G-pen used by professional cartoonists is actually very difficult to use. Many newcomers who are just starting to draw comics use the word "challenge" to describe it. However, if you don't use G-pen and use a dip pen that is easier to get started, although the lines drawn can be easily made the same, in that way, you will lose the most important atmosphere and taste of the comics.
This can actually be compared to the writing style of a novel. If you can use G-papers well and have good painting skills, it is equivalent to having excellent writing style. It can make the description of the environment and character in the text more full, with a sense of substitution, and let the readers be immersive!
But the very difficult G-brush is easily controlled by An Yi. Her talent in painting is really outstanding. Whether it is artistic painting or commercial comics, she has the confidence to draw them well!
Before drawing a comic original, you must first draw a rough draft with a pencil, and then spend a lot of time and energy to create the most important storyboard, and then draw the original based on the storyboard.
The reason why the storyboard takes time and energy is naturally to create the plot, and then consider composition and division so that it is attractive as both the whole and the part!
For a serialized professional cartoonist, before drawing the original manuscript, he must first discuss the storyboard with his editor. No matter how many times he repeats it, he must create it until the editor agrees. Only recognized talented cartoonist can directly create the storyboard for the editor to see.
I have never heard of any cartoonist who dares to directly upload the original manuscript without drafting or drawing a storyboard...
But now An Yi is doing such a thing that goes beyond all comic book knowledge!
She had already figured out the story of her contributing to the "Rise Show" Newcomer Award. Now the Spring Festival is over, it is mid-February, and there are two weeks left to be the deadline for the "Rise Show" Newcomer Award to submit, and it is also the day when she will start school.
She is planning to draw two short martial arts works to contribute to this "Rise of the Future" Newcomer Award, with a total of 62p originals. This huge amount of creation is equivalent to the workload of a weekly magazine with four or five assistants that caricatures have three weeks of work!
Many weekly comics serialized cartoonists feel that time is extremely tight when they have assistants!
The weekly series of cartoonists’ fatigue and fatigue are hard for ordinary people to imagine!
But now, she is doing it alone, whether it is the background, effect painting, or the outlets!
Her evil and convenient situation is that all her storyboards can be completed in her mind. What she has to do is to draw the storyboards in her mind into originals!
She clearly saved the first two most time-consuming and energy-consuming steps...
In a sense, her talent is already considered a supernatural ability. Novelists do not write out the outline, but they do it in one go. Of course, there are some who can write the detailed outline in one go, but they have never heard of any cartoonist who can draw a perfect manuscript in one go. At most, what they can draw is just graffiti.
But, I can do it!
The two short comics she wanted to draw, one was Jin Yong's "The Sword of Yue Girl" and the other was Gu Long's "Seven Weapons" "The Sword of Eternity". She hoped that the latter could be drawn and published.
The work "The Sword of Yue Women" is based on the historical background of Wuyue War. Wu is better than Yue, and Goujian adopted Fan Li's strategy to defeat Fuchai. Just as he was close to success, he encountered setbacks in sword making and swordsmanship. The swordsmen of Wu not only have skilled swordsmanship, but also good at using military tactics, and the Yue people were defeated.
However, the sheep-herding girl A Qing who appeared at this time easily defeated the four swordsmen of Wu. Fan Li took A Qing to the mansion and finally let the swordsmen of Yue observe the shadow of the "Divine Sword". With the shadow of the "Divine Sword", the swordsman of Yue is invincible in the world!
On the other hand, under Xue Zhu's guidance, Yue State also created tens of millions of sharp swords. When the conditions were ripe, Goujian could no longer hold back and finally defeated the Wu army.
In Fan Li's heart, breaking the Wu Kingdom was not the only purpose. He wanted to see Xi Shi, a beautiful woman presented to Fuchai. When the two met, Ah Qing appeared because she had fallen in love with Fan Li and injured Xi Shi with her sword energy. But in the end, she left sadly because of Xi Shi's beauty...
For two thousand years, people have known that "Weizi holds the heart" is the most beautiful image in the world.
To be honest, this "The Sword of Yue Girl" is not Jin Yong's most famous work, but it is indeed a masterpiece among short and medium-sized martial arts novels, and is just used to adapt it into a short and martial arts comic.
The protagonist in this novel is undoubtedly A Qing. Many Jin Yong fans even believe that A Qing is the strongest actual combat character in all Jin Yong’s martial arts novels, nicknamed Sword God!
Ah Qing was originally a shepherd girl from Yue Kingdom. When she was shepherding, she happened to meet a white ape that could use bamboo sticks. Since then, she has often fought with it with bamboo sticks, so she has learned superb sword skills.
Her image is based on "Zhao Virgin" who is the leader of the thirty-three musketeers in "Wu Yue Chunqiu". Zhao Virgin, who was taught by the white ape, who was transformed into a sword fairy, is a deified character.
Defeating the white ape, a bamboo stick swept across thousands of troops in his hand, creating the myth of "Three Thousands of Mars invincible" (there are also saying that the 1,000 swordsmen led by Fan Li at the beginning did not count, but Ah Qing was one enemy of 2,000).
The original description in "The Sword of Yue Girl": "Suddenly there was a shout outside the palace gate, followed by a choking sound. It was the sound of weapons falling to the ground. The sound came straight from outside the palace gate, like an extremely long snake, swimming quickly, and the sound of weapons falling to the ground also sounded on the corridor. One thousand armored soldiers and one thousand swordsmen could not stop A Qing."
But Ah Qing did not kill him, but just shot down his opponent's weapons one by one. However, the sound of the weapons landing can be connected into a group and cannot be distinguished. It is really incredible!
There is no doubt that it is this super record of one person vs. the two thousand soldiers that many people think that she is the strongest character in Jin Yong’s martial arts novels.
Of course, An Yi would draw such a plot that shocked countless readers. The expressiveness of this comic is originally stronger than that of the novel. In addition, she has such superb painting skills, it is easy to imagine how people will react when they read this plot!
After all, the martial arts in this world, no, should be martial arts comics and kung fu comics. Take the most popular "Xiaying" on the market today. Its setting is more realistic and feels like an old-school martial arts. When fighting, it is a very hard-core one. It does not have the mysterious elegance of new-school martial arts at all...
Therefore, the "Sword of the Yue Girl" she was going to draw is definitely a milestone work!
Chapter completed!