The best-selling classic comic strip "Railway Guerrilla" in history - Ding BinZeng and Han Heping paintings

Appreciation of Comic Strips (11) "Railway Guerrilla" - Paintings by Ding BinZeng and Han Heping

Famous comic strip artist Ding BinZeng (1927-2001)

Ding BinZeng (1927-2001) was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Famous comic strip artist, good at comic strips.

He graduated from the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. He was a creative member of Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House and the art editor of "Chinese Comic Strip Series".

His work "Railway Guerrilla" (cooperation) won the first prize of the first national comic strip creation, and "Sha Jiabang" won the second national comic strip award. The first comic strip he created was "Daddy Hunting" published by the East China People's Publishing House in 1952.

Famous comic strip artist Han Heping

Han Heping was born in Harbin in 1932. Famous comic strip artist, Chinese painter and oil painter.

He graduated from the East China Branch of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art) in 1953 and later served as a creator at the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. He is now a member of the China Artists Association, a national first-class artist and professor, and one of the founders of Jinshan peasant painting and the enlightenment teacher of the first batch of peasant painters. He is one of the inheritors of China's intangible cultural heritage, comic strips, and enjoys a high reputation in the comic strip world.

In the creation of comic strips, "Railway Guerrilla" is the one that Ding Bin has spent the most energy and time with Han Heping. In order to create a good comic strip of "Railway Guerrillas", Ding Bin and Han Heping went to Shandong five times in succession, going to Jinan Railway Station, Lincheng, Weishan Lake, Zaozhuang and other places to deeply experience the situation of the railway guerrillas fighting and living in those years. Through experiencing life in the field, they drew a large number of sketches and sketches, and they mastered and accumulated a wealth of first-hand information, laying a solid foundation for the creation of this set of comic strips.

The comic strip "Railway Guerrilla" uses a one-line white drawing technique. On the one hand, this technique is a traditional national form, which is easier for the people to accept; on the other hand, it is easy to make the picture clear when making plates with white painting. In the process of creation, Ding Bin was responsible for the styling creation of pencil drafts, and Han Heping hooked the line. Draw the eighth episode to be mature, and then redraw the first five episodes. It took eight years to complete all ten volumes.

The first work in the creation is "Night Attack on Lincheng", in the performance of the plot of the night battle, the painter encountered a thorny problem, that is, this kind of plot is not easy to express in a single line, just when they were confused, looking for a way, the famous painter Cheng Shifa proposed that the painter learn from the martial arts expression technique of the Peking Opera "Three Forks", And the inspiration given to them by Teacher Cheng Shifa benefited the painter a lot, so that the author successfully completed the creation of "Night Attack on the City".

Mr. Gu Bingxin, a famous comic strip artist, said in his discussion of "Railway Guerrilla": "The online drawing adopts a corresponding smooth and rhythmic outline, which can not only delicately depict the delicate expression of the character's face, but also vividly outline the changeable posture of the character; this line is like an iron line drawing without being sluggish, like a nail-headed rattail drawing without emphasizing setbacks, thus forming its own line drawing characteristics and becoming an important part of the success of this comic strip work." ”

Painter Ding Bin Zeng (left), a photograph of Han Heping as he experiences life

This comic strip is divided into ten volumes, which lasted 8 years before and after its creation, and was widely acclaimed and greatly influential after publication, and won the first prize of the first national comic book award in 1963. Later, this set of books was reprinted more than twenty times, with a total of more than 36 million copies, which is the largest printed work in the history of comic strips, and can be said to have influenced an entire generation.

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