It was morning and it was the beginning of another comics class.

In a large classroom at Nanhua University, a figure stood in front of the podium, with additional photography equipment on the stage.

200 students sat on chairs on the stairs. The rather curved stairs made the classroom look a bit like a theater. This design allows students sitting in the corners to focus their attention in the middle of the stage.

"I'm glad someone can draw 384 images of me. I don't need a perfect manuscript. It doesn't matter if I draw 16-open or 5*5 characters. Finding flexible solutions in unlimited rules is also one of the creativity."

Li Mu fiddled with this stack of drafts under the camera equipment - drawing all his deformed images, projecting them on the blackboard and hanging on the curtain. The young man on the stairs rubbed his hands happily with a happy smile.

"I would like to ask here, can I start with my hands and feet when drawing cartoon characters?"

"That's all right, of course."

The student sitting on the stairs remained silent, and the yellow-haired boy immediately answered on the stairs.

With yellow hair and casual tone of conversation, everyone thought that he was probably not a decent guy. Although there were several people who dyed their hair, they were a little disliked when they looked at him.

"Draw characters..." Limu nodded and said while standing at the projector.

When drawing characters, whether they are comics or portraits, 95% of the cases are drawn first from the head. The cross-base lines of the head and face are used as positioning, and after drawing the head contour and cross-line, the torso contour is depicted. However, there are exceptions when the characters in the comics punch or legs are punched. According to the rules, the focus should be drawn first.

After all, the focus of the comics is on people, and the focus of the characters is on the face... The focus of the facials is on the eyes. As the saying goes, the eyes are the windows of the soul. The characters in excellent comics have good eyes, either looking at the person in front of the picture like Mona Lisa, or annotating Jesus in the picture like Judas.

When drawing, there is always the idea of ​​"What do I want to draw and what do I want to convey to the readers". If the characters in the comic have no clear intentions before drawing, then the picture drawn is meaningless. For example, the whole body image is mostly used to express the overall image of the character, even if it adds meaning to action, it is so...

"Teacher. We all know these. We are not a fledgling student. You taught a theoretical class for a week, but now you can actually skip some of the content and start teaching directly from the part we don't understand."

A young man with yellow hair who seemed to think he was very ripe with pear wood said. This sentence touched the hearts of most students. It would be fine to teach theory classes for a week, but also to say sketch classes for a week?

The young man with yellow hair looked a little proud. In fact, he was the one who helped Li Mu in class.

"Since you understand, then you can teach you how to draw vivid characters on the spot."

Limu stared at the student meaningfully and said with an unpleasant look.

"A piece of cake--"

The young man with yellow hair seemed to have not received any complaints from the teacher at all. He walked down the stairs with a smile and took out a pencil from his pocket, and turned his fingers twice. He came to the podium and picked up a piece of white paper and started painting under the camera.

He first drew an ellipse, positioned it with the center line that directly through the bridge of the nose, and took the eyeliner drawn horizontally at the upper middle of the face. After using the crosshairs to determine the direction of the face, he began to trace the eyes, nose, mouth, and auricles in order, and extend from the bottom of the auricles as the tip of the pen moves.

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

It doesn't matter if there are too many uncertain lines on the sketch. Just recognize the line that needs to be drawn when entering the line-drawing stage. After the drawing ink of the line-drawing dry, the eraser will erase all the uncertain lines.

The neck extends to the shoulders. In order to keep the left and right shoulders parallel in the view, the yellow-haired young man draws the baseline of the shoulders. He draws step by step, the amplitude of the shoulders on the half side becomes narrower, and the distance between the left shoulder and the neck becomes shorter. When he draws on the chest, the basic feeling of the body comes out, and you can tell whether it is good or bad at a glance.

Then, the chin and neck are trimmed according to the center line... The center line is the edge line that divides the face into two parts. It not only acts on the face, but also extends to the entire torso according to overall needs.

The three main elements that show the charm of the characters are: expressions, movements and dress.

The young man of yellow hair painted very carefully, not that he drew beautiful lines. Instead, he thought carefully about the direction of his face and eyes, the size of his mouth, and the layout of local and overall balance. Before drawing, he thought very carefully, and the characters in the painting expressed implicitly in a semi-sided form.

It took him 5 minutes to draw the part above his chest, and 4 minutes to draw the torso and movements on his chest. It was already very fast for a single painting with a whole 16-manuscript paper.

Huang Hai hand-drawn his pencil in his pocket. The painting on the projector had been completed. All the students present couldn't help laughing. If Li Mu hadn't swept over his evil glasses, the students would have burst into laughter.

"Puff-puff-puff-puff-"

On the drawing paper is an ancient woman sitting upright by the bed. She has a three-flowered bun from the Eastern Han Dynasty on her head. She wraps her hair bun from the back of her neck like a ribbon from the fairy descending to earth. Her two delicate temples gently hang down from both sides of her neck. She sighs with a thin lips as if there is nothing, her legs wrapped in a soft skirt are slightly together, and her slender hands are gently caressing her knees.

What a fresh and beautiful classical beauty. The only problem is that the little teacher is drawn on it! Although the draft is not so clear, the art students have strong brain-stimulating ability, and you can tell at a glance that it is the real girl shape of the little teacher.

——I’m embarrassed…

Rimu thought regretfully. He had known that he should have defined the human figures to draw on the collar, because according to the plan, what he had to do next was to draw another more perfect painting.

"Ahem, classmates, how do you think he is drawing? How do you compare to your painting skills?"

"not good--"

"It's certainly not good."

“It’s so bad.”

Facing Li Mu's question, although these older students could not speak in unison, they all agreed with his feelings and gave the answer.

"Since you think it's not good, whoever thinks it's good comes up and draws it. I'll give you ten more minutes."

Under Riki's natural questioning, the students smiled embarrassedly. To be honest, they probably wouldn't be able to draw such a painting for another ten minutes. It's really hard to imagine that a young man who was rascal from head to toe had such ability.

"Are you still good or not? You can't even tell the difference between objective reality? Now I'll answer me again."

Limu looked impatient and pointed to the four red slogans on the blackboard [Seeking truth from facts]. This slogan has been around since the 1980s.

#Shan, do you want to agree on whether it is good or bad?

#I don't know.

#...

How yellow hair is painted better than them? In fact, they know the best in their hearts. Even if they deny it, they cannot hide their evaluation of yellow hair, "This guy is painted very well."

For an art student who may have studied painting for at least 3 or 4 years, in painting competitions where the difference is not very large, few people will directly admit defeat, but they dare not go on stage to compete in full view of the public.

Originally, Limu didn't want to attack them. They already had all the skills of painting. They could do some things that ordinary painters and cartoonists should do. Although they didn't say it during lectures, they were a little pretentious in their hearts. Limu just wanted to eliminate this mentality... that's it.

He looked at the "successful" yellow hair beside him, took a few deep breaths like a disappointment, and suddenly shouted at the yellow hair:

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

After Limu said that, he pulled a piece of manuscript paper from the side of the podium and laid it under the camera to set an example to let them see the painting skills of "world-class painters" and not practical to use any real painting skills of gold coins.
Chapter completed!