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It was as if he had been painting with this hand for decades; he was very skilled in all kinds of painting techniques and knew how to control the pressure and speed of his brushstrokes.

He casually drew more than a dozen lines, and they were all the same length, and their thickness and length were almost identical.

He drew several more circles, which at first glance looked as if they had been drawn with a compass.

He then drew several eggs from various angles, which were lifelike and perfectly rendered.

"Indeed, no matter what profession it is, once you reach S-rank, it's a qualitative change, and you can be called a god in that profession."

Holding the pen, Bai Qianqu laid out a new sheet of sketching paper and pondered for a moment: "I'll draw Bronya for this first sketch. It'll be a perfect gift to apologize to her."

Bronya has been ignoring him, and Bai Qianqu is also looking for an opportunity to ease the tension between the two.

In these situations, girls are often too shy to speak up, so boys should take the initiative.

Bai Qianqu memorized the principles in the book and regarded them as truth.

After all, he had never been in a relationship, and what he read in the book made a lot of sense.

He took a deep breath to clear his mind and tried to recall Bronya's face—

five minutes later--

"Damn it! Why am I getting more and more agitated and hot-blooded the more I think about it?"

"Are you even letting people draw anymore?"

Bai Qianqu sighed, then rested her chin on her hand and thought for a moment.

Sketching sounds simple, but it's actually quite difficult to do.

Because sketching is the foundation of painting, and figure sketching is the essence of it, it is not an easy task to draw a person's appearance realistically.

Many beginners who are just learning to paint need to find a reference object to draw from when painting portraits. In other words, they need a model so that they can directly observe the various forms of the person and find the feeling.

Bai Qianqu didn't need to bring Bronya over to draw for him. With his S-level drawing skills, he only needed to try to recall Bronya's appearance in his mind.

But the more he thought about it, the more he felt he was about to get a nosebleed; his mind was filled with nothing but erotic images of Bronya.

Chapter 153 Initial D

After finally calming down and stopping her wild thoughts, Bai Qianqu picked up her brush and began to paint.

It took Bai Qianqu two full hours to complete this first portrait sketch.

Two hours isn't actually a long time for a painting; for an artist, a single painting can take months. And some people spend several hours just copying a single picture.

Of course, there are also times when a drawing can be produced in ten or fifteen minutes, but strictly speaking, that is not a sketch, but a quick sketch, which is fundamentally different from a drawing.

Bai Qianqu stood up and carefully admired her painting, a satisfied smile appearing on her face.

On the paper, Bronya is wearing an exquisite cheongsam that perfectly hugs her figure, making her curves very pleasing to the eye. She has a gentle smile on her face. The whole picture, whether it is the light and shadow or the lines, is very concise and expresses the character's expression perfectly. It is obvious that it is the work of a master.

"It's exactly the same!" Bai Qianqu exclaimed. "No wonder it's S-rank. I must master this technique completely!"

And with this skill, if I were to secretly draw in my notebook in the future—

We're sure to make a fortune!

[A solemn declaration once again! No erotic content allowed!]

Hearing the system's words, Bai Qianqu pouted, feeling utterly helpless.

"Damn it, fine, I won't draw it then!"

"According to the task, we also need to submit our work to some kind of online drawing competition."

Bai Qianqu turned on her computer, entered keywords to search, and quickly found information about the competition.

"The organizers are actually Yaedo and Pilipili?"

Bai Qianqu was somewhat surprised. After carefully examining the information, she confirmed that it was Inazuma's Yaedo.

"Isn't Yaedo a novelist? Why is he organizing a drawing competition?"

He specifically clicked on Yaedo's official website, only to realize that he had made a mistake.

Although Yaedo is a publishing company like World Serpent, Yaedo mainly focuses on light novels and is the world's largest light novel publisher. And when it comes to light novels, illustrations are naturally indispensable.

Yaedo has a high demand for illustrations, not only for illustrations in light novels, but also for illustrations when light novels are adapted into manga, requiring a large number of original illustrators to create artwork.

Every year, almost half of the anime on the market are adapted from Yaedo's light novels, so it's no exaggeration to say that Yaedo is the holy land of anime.

This so-called online illustration competition is a tradition of Yaedo, held annually with a different theme each year.

This competition has almost no restrictions on participants; people of all ages and genders can participate. If you can create a good work, you might even be noticed by Yaedo and become a contracted artist with Yaedo.

That would be considered a meteoric rise to fame and fortune. As the largest light novel publisher in the industry, Yaedo would naturally offer the best treatment.

This year's competition is a collaboration between Yaedo and Pilipili, mainly to select a character illustration for Pilipili's mascot. Therefore, this year's theme is "[Pixiv Mascot]".

After reading all this, Bai Qianqu finally understood what was going on.

However, he didn't care much. He only needed to submit his work to the competition to complete the task; he didn't necessarily have to win an award.

This painting of Bronya is naturally not suitable for submission as an artwork.

However, since the goal is to create a mascot for Pixiv, Bai Qianqu has a good idea.

He worked for another half hour, drawing and completing a sketch of 2233, which he planned to upload directly to the submission page.

However, to participate in the competition, one also needs to register a Yaedo account. After registering, Bai Qianqu pondered for a moment in the ID field.

She definitely couldn't use her real name. Bai Qianqu looked at other people's IDs, and they were all whimsical names.

He himself developed a name-choosing problem.

The original names Quyin and Qianjian were derived from the saying, "Practice a thousand songs before you understand sound, observe a thousand swords before you recognize their quality," which comes from Liu Xie's "Wenxin Diaolong: Zhiyin" from the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Now they're asking him to come up with another ID, but he can't. They can't just keep trying to get it from this sentence, can they?

Call me: Xiaoshi?

It looks like a car crash!

"Fine, let's just call him Zhiyin."

Bai Qianqu ultimately chose a homophone, taking the homophone "之音" from the name "知音" (Zhiyin), which was at least somewhat usable.

I uploaded my work, but the AI ​​review quickly rejected it, stating that the reason for rejection was that one image could only have one mascot.

Bai Qianqu scratched his head. There was nothing he could do but draw 22 Niang separately and upload it first.

But he still felt unsatisfied, so he drew 33 Niang again and tried to upload it.

He made up his mind that if that didn't work, he would create another account and upload 33niang.

22 and 33 cannot be separated!

Fortunately, the screen quickly displayed that the upload was successful.

It was only then that Bai Qianqu realized that an account could actually upload a maximum of three works, and that she had been terrified.

[Ding! Mission complete! Reward: Permanent S-rank drawing skill! Reward: One comic book blind box! Rewards have been issued, please check.]

Bai Qianqu nodded in satisfaction and then closed the browser.

With such amazing drawing skills, why would you need to hire an artist?

I'm worth three people by myself!

Something seems off.

Bai Qianqu frowned and thought for a moment, then her eyes widened.

Isn't this just exploiting yourself?

Okay, I'll just handle it myself for now, and we'll hire more people when the workload gets heavier.

Bai Qianqu then looked at her other prize—a blind box of comic books!

The system describes it as follows:

[Comic Book Blind Box: Shout "Open Sesame!" to open and randomly receive a comic book!]

Bai Qianqu:

Why does this system seem to like making people shout out embarrassing slogans lately?

Who taught him this? He's not learning anything good! All he does is create these flashy, nonsensical things!

"Open the sesame box!"

As Bai Qianqu's voice fell, the box in front of them instantly shone with golden light!

The box opened with a "bang" and transformed into a golden light, landing in front of Bai Qianqu.

Bai Qianqu's face lit up with joy: "This is gold?"

[Congratulations, host! You have won the manga prize, *Initial D*!]

"what?!"

He suddenly stood up and looked at the prize in front of him.

"It's this!"

As a seasoned racing game enthusiast, Bai Qianqu is naturally very familiar with Initial D.

Initial D, a manga about racing on mountain roads, has been serialized since 1995 and later adapted into anime and movies of the same name. It has become popular all over the world for its tense and exciting plot, intense battles and realistic scenery.

Anyone who's ever frequented Bilibili (a Chinese video-sharing website) has heard of "Catch the Shrimp" and "Rage Your Dream".

These two songs are hailed as must-have anthems for car enthusiasts. They once dominated Bilibili and remain popular to this day. Whenever the background music plays, whether you're driving a van or a bicycle, you can feel like you're in Formula One.

Of course, there are more than just these two songs in the manga version; there are many other great songs. After all, the anime "Initial D" is often jokingly referred to as a music anime.

As for the movie's theme song, it's an absolute killer; almost everyone has heard it.

The most famous of them are "All the Way North" and "Drift".

Among them, "All the Way North" has been hailed by countless people as a breakup anthem, and some even jokingly call "Initial D" a Mercedes-Benz advertisement, since even the fastest AE86 can't catch up with a Mercedes.

If we could produce comics, anime, and movies, we could come up with several blockbuster songs.

P.S.: Extra update! One extra chapter at 6 PM tonight!

Chapter 154 The Will-o'-the-Wisp Girl (Additional update 1/30)