I have read many books written by Japanese manga artists on how to draw manga, such as Osamu Tezuka's "Anyone Can Draw Manga", Fujiko Fujio and the original manga writer Kazuo Koike's manga teaching book, Araki Hiruhiko's "Manga Technique" is the most interesting.
"Araki Hiroohiko's Manga Technique" came out of 2015, 34 years after he first published the "Armed Poker" award in 1981, and the book not only has manga experience, but also growing up experience and life insights, which can be read repeatedly as a memoir, which is quite rewarding.
Jin Yong's martial arts novels often have "martial arts secrets" in the world, which can be greatly advanced in martial arts, but the more extreme the martial artist, the more he discovers the true meaning of no tricks to win, at that time, the grass and trees are sharp blades, as powerful as the East is undefeated, and an embroidery needle can also play with several masters such as Ren I Xing, Xiang Qingtian, and Ling Hu Chong.
Some people also have the opportunity to get secret books such as the "Sunflower Treasure Book", but they will always become the huashan sword sect qi sect dispute due to short-sightedness and experience, and even entangled in the entry style of the self-palace, and they cannot be integrated, even if they reach the hundred feet pole after all, they cannot go any further.
"Comic Art" belongs to such a secret book, those who have the heart can understand the magic of it, and after reading it, they have the pleasure of opening up the second vein of Ren Dou, while some people can only be limited to understanding a certain part of the book, such as chicken ribs, and there is a feeling of pity for chewing tastelessness and abandonment.
The following is a specific interpretation of some of the wonderful points in "Comic Art", learning from each other, and encouraging everyone to do so.
Preface: What are you going to do? How? What is success?
Araki in the preface first intimidated some hot-selling authors, successful works, should be able to stand the test of time, by the generations of people like the work, even if a moment of luck, the creation of a momentary hot works, if he is not diligent and hardworking, just hang er Lang Dang's attitude, it is absolutely impossible to succeed.
Araki recommended a book in the preface, he said, this book in the dark to support themselves, even if they encounter difficulties, not recognized, can still insist on being themselves, insist on their own ideas is correct.
In the end, I succeeded and entrusted the blessing of this book.
The book is Truffaut and Hitchcock's Dialogue
Araki said that the book's "laying method of foreshadowing", "delicate technique of psychological description", and "full of inspiring discoveries" allows himself not to lose even when criticized by editors, and to maintain morale and confidence.
Chapter 1: Comparison, Correction
Araki mainly talks about his own experience in the main text - the role and drawing method of the first picture of the manga, by extension, it can also be seen as the first glance of the interview, the first side of the date, the first day of employment, that is, the first time it is difficult to get started.
If you don't do it well enough, as Araki said, the other party may directly say "This boy can't do it" and other things to directly scare you, without the slightest concern for your mood and take care of your self-esteem.
On the contrary, if you do it well enough, the other party will immediately have the idea of "just him".
Interestingly, Araki made a formula "5w1H = what time, place and who is doing what", no matter what kind of homework you hand over, this can not be bypassed.
But the most important sentence is: do no one set foot in the field, everyone thinks about it, immediately will think of the meta-universe, sharing bicycle god horse.
Chapter 2: Compare the popularity
In the second chapter, Araki gives some examples of manga, Such as Bug Master, Lonely Foodie, Akira, Miss Conch, and Oolong Police Station.
Comparing popularity, Araki used this method when he first drew manga at the age of 16, comparing the works of the masters, counting the distance between himself and the master, and then correcting.
In fact, entrepreneurship and employment are like this, just like when you open a store, you have to go to the same industry storefront to step on the point, see how people's stores are displayed, how to serve, how to purchase goods, what advantages, and make up.
Want to find a good job, see what friends around you do now, which industry is the most promising, the salary is relatively high, a few years ago to do self-media is, there are many things do not have to look at the academic qualifications and age gender.
Chapter 3: Making Man
Does it make sense for people to live?
At the beginning of the third chapter, Araki begins to intervene in philosophical problems, and before he draws a work, he will list a character in detail, classifying 60 items, and finally you will discover the meaning of a person's existence.
Araki concludes that even the evil-free bad guys have their own philosophy of survival and goals for progress, and that "depravity" and "evil" go by.
There are a lot of such villains in JOJO.
For example, the main villain in "JOJO Sea of Stones", Enrique Pucci, his ultimate goal is to make all mankind happy, how? Isn't it awesome?
Araki also has a point of view, heroes are lonely, you can extend to "genius is lonely", or the hard people are lonely, anyway, as long as you feel lonely, it proves that you have some talent in some aspect.
Can carry the lonely gap and continue to move forward, in order to finally achieve positive results.
A while ago, the very popular "loop" TV series "Beginning", the original author's intention was to create an ordinary person who stumbled to save the world, this savior is both ordinary and lonely, and sometimes even assumes that he (she) himself may have died, all of which is a fantasy.
With this realization, it is also very helpful for you to create other works such as novels.
Chapter 4: The Unfathomable Destiny
Araki used "JOJO Stardust Fighter" as an example, no one knows whether the enemy encountered is strong or weak, so it is interesting, and there is no need to constantly have strong enemies like "Dragon Ball", and some weak chicken enemies appear, which is also a good suspense.
Life is also like this, you can't predict what the future will be, many possibilities, there is no need to blindly increase the burden on yourself, this will only become more and more difficult, happy is the most important!
Chapter 5: Invisible does not equal nothing
Araki said that he would draw ripples in the manga like this invisible thing, listen, draw the invisible thing!
Isn't it awesome?
In fact, there are many very mysterious things in reality, you see, they are illusions, and not seeing them is not that they did not happen, things are like this.
Sometimes when you see it, you have to pretend not to see it, and if you don't see it, you have to pretend to talk nonsense and open your whole body senses, which is the law of survival.
Chapters 6 and 7: See with your own eyes!
When drawing "Stardust Fighter", there is a route from Japan to Egypt in the manga, and Araki personally walked the route from Japan to Egypt, so you can see a lot of realistic landmark buildings in the manga.
Although Araki's painting style is not realistic.
In this chapter, Araki gives an example, the day of the sushi shop owner, the life of the sushi shop owner, not all of which are running sushi shops, he will also be in a daze, go to the river for a walk, do something inexplicably strange and meaningless.
If you were to draw a manga of a sushi restaurant owner, no one would care about the details of the corners, which is probably the distance between reality and art.
For other insights, you can look at Araki's manga more, after all, I still think that his manga is much more fulfilling than this book, after all, he is a manga artist.
The 60-year-old Araki, who is still young, most wanted him to talk about how to take care of his eyes and maintain them, but he didn't say a word.