I'm sorry, but obviously there are other adjectives (such as detail demon, brain hole man or whatever) or chose this sentence as the title. It is really because of the selfish preference for Asano.
Asano Ichi20 is the youngest author of Naoki Urasawa to date, and although he was young and senior, he was born in 1980 at the age of 17 with the name kikuchi それはちょっとやりすぎだ!! Debuted, now has been in the industry for nearly 20 years.
Asano Ichi20 is arguably one of my favorite manga artists. However, his masterpiece "Good Night Bubu" is too dark and distorted, and he is a little bit unacceptable. Other works, especially his short and medium stories, are all things that I love and sincerely recommend to you. I once read a sentence: "Healing and depressed idol painters", and I think this sentence is also suitable for Asano 120.
The color of Asano 120 always has a desperate and dark background, whether it is "The End of the World and Before Dawn", or "Rainbow Plain", "City of Light" or "Music and Road", "Goodnight Bubu", as if there is always a desperate little beast in the heart desperately trying to break through the surface of the waves and not to scream desperately. But after the struggle, everything returned to the most familiar and kind, calm and tired daily life. In this cycle of pain and redemption, people are given a different kind of healing. He said in an interview that the earliest commercial success of "Music and Road" is actually a work that deliberately changes the style in order to please the public's taste. Therefore, "Music and Road" is a rare fresh and sunny style in his works. Even so, people can still feel the heaviness of social reality.
The film version of "Music and Road" starred Aoi Miyazaki and Kengo Takara
The classic line at the beginning of "Music and Road" is: "I think the so-called adults are the bricks condensed into 'okay, forget it'." "When Bud Yizi is desperately working hard for her boyfriend and shining on the stage, what she feels in the applause and noise is transcendent" That's it, it's all over. Then at the very apex, it abruptly stopped, returned to daily life, and became the most ordinary "brick" I have ever said. Such a bud dress, but finally revealed a sincere smile. Watching Asano's manga is like waiting for dawn and watching the sky light up little by little. No matter what kind of darkness you have experienced, the dawn will always come to everyone fairly.
Because of this, Asano clan in my brain is a bearded uncle, always with a bad smile at the corner of his mouth, and takes pleasure in cruelly playing with the fate of his characters. And when I saw "Man Mian", I was stunned, but it was a shy and shy little handsome man with yellow hair who was still very beautiful?! It's hard to imagine that such a person can create so many dark works, and what a sullen heart there is under the appearance of an otaku (laughs).
After appearing in "Man Mian", there is another cute point outside the work: Asano clan is not only a good looking person, but also very good-looking hands! The close-up of the painting shot in the film is called a hand-controlled benefit. Feel free to cut off your paws to feel it
The fingers are slender and pale, and it is a pleasure to watch these two-handed paintings. But the habit of smoking while painting is not good!
Flower idiot perfect hand, or to say something serious. Ichi20 Asano revealed two characteristics of his creation in "Man Mian": one is the detail demon, obsessed with changing various pens to paint the details to the extreme, and even claims that "where it can be refined, it wants to continue to refine".
The second is to have original CG skills, love hand drawing can also play with new painting tools. The ultimate goal of both is the pursuit of realism in the work.
Anyone who has seen Asano's works knows that his style of painting is extremely exquisite, from the background to the characters are meticulous, which can be called the new sea makoto in the manga industry. People often sigh while watching: "How did such a big workload get done?!" "If you divide manga artists into freehand schools (not referring to rich adulterers) and gongbi schools, Asano 120 is definitely the kind that sincerely loves to depict details. G pen, round pen, syringe pen used in turn, the girl's hair, the fur collar of the clothes, the lush grass, the intricate city overlooking the background, he painted happily, even Naoki Urasawa could not help but marvel.
He himself said: "It is not tiring at all to do such a simple and repetitive thing", but in mechanical labor, he can empty his head and achieve a "Zen" realm in a little plump and delicate picture. People who concentrate on doing one thing must understand this experience.
On the other hand, Asano is also very knowledgeable about CG painting, and has created a photography + CG processing + hand-drawn painting method, which makes the work full of "visual wonders" that are impossible to achieve with traditional painting.
Before painting a complex background or fantasy scene, Asano first takes a camera and shoots around looking for inspiration. For example, his latest serial work, Demolition, is a science fiction work and his first challenge to the SF genre, so he will look for inspiration from the small things around him. He saw that the camera equipment of the photographers was lined up outside, and the dense electronic screen and line arrangement were very scientific and technological, so he put forward the requirement of taking a photo reference, and then applied it to the rocket launch console scene in the work.
Taking pictures is only the first step, and then you need to choose the most suitable one in the computer, process the photo, and change it into a black and white pen drawing style. This also saves a lot of time for drawing details, and the background converted from the photo is more realistic. In fact, this is the same as Makoto Shinkai's animation production method, and it is not entirely hand-drawn.
After processing the picture, print it out, add detail to the hand painting on it, and then draw the characters. Constantly groping, Asano 120 has been able to perfectly combine CG and hand-drawn, so that it is natural to see no trace of the photo. From the comparison of the campus scenes from "Goodnight Bubu" to "Demolition", it can be seen that the former tables and chairs still have a sense of violation, and the latter has been very well combined. This is also the result of his continuous experiments to adjust CG and hand-drawn.
After the final work is completed, can you see that the launch console in the picture below is actually the prototype of the staff camera?
If this is acceptable, what about alien spaceships based on wooden fish and ashtrays? Anyway, I can't look directly at the spaceship anymore... How to see is a wooden fish flying hahahahaha ~ ~
CG has a unique advantage in challenging effects that are not possible with traditional painting methods. For example, countless small aliens descended from the spaceship like snowflakes scattered pictures, in order to achieve visual shock, Asano 120 first drew more than a dozen kinds of small aliens himself, and then let the assistant draw twenty or thirty kinds. After scanning them into the computer, they are adjusted back and forth through the sequential placement to achieve the ideal dense visual effect.
People who don't know how to draw, when watching anime and manga, often arrogantly say, "I still like the texture of hand-drawn." In fact, as stated in "White Box", CG and hand-drawn are just "tools" to achieve the goal, and there is no better or worse. Although CG reduces repetitive work, it is not simply copied and pasted, and it still needs to be carefully adjusted, even sometimes more energy than hand-drawn. The use of CG is also only to better represent what the author wants to express. As Asano says, "Without CG, maybe I wouldn't have wanted to challenge such a big cross-page scene." "All efforts are made to better convey the work to the eyes of the reader."
The result is truly stunning. People feel that if they don't buy a magazine to treasure, they are sorry for the sweat of the author.
Asano laughs and says that the characters he painted are all working towards a sense of reality, so not only are the names extremely ordinary, but they will not beautify the characters more. "Other cartoonists don't draw girls with runny noses, but I think girls who cry a lot and have a nose out of their noses are more real and cute." Thank you to the reader for allowing me to draw a girl with a runny nose. "Asano Sang, who said this, is the cutest thing (laughs).
Always painting dark and cruel stories, I still believe that Asano 120 has a gentle and compassionate teenage soul. The 36-year-old Asano clan is still young, so please continue to cheer on the road ahead!
Text: Wind erosion mushrooms