Courtyard House: Drunk and tipsy, the whole courtyard exposed at the start.

Little boys like poop and pee jokes and homophones; that's all the fun they have, they don't have any bad intentions.

Then everyone started chatting excitedly. Da Biao's reputation is indeed quite good now, especially when it comes to fighting and motorcycles.

If you boast about how rich your family is, how much money you have, or that someone in your family is a government official, then people will keep their distance from you.

But if you say you own a car or a motorcycle, and you can beat ten people in a fight, then you're incredibly awesome, especially junior and senior high school boys, who value that the most.

The greatest respect between men is expressed with the phrase, "You're awesome!"

While chatting and laughing with them, Zhang Dabiao arranged the painting supplies and mentioned that the Ministry of Light Industry was looking for factories to produce them, and he estimated that they would be available in about half a month.

Students are completely powerless against these art supplies, just like a chef is powerless against a good knife and a good pot.

After Zhang Dabiao finished setting things up, he started using a pencil to draw reference lines and close-up views on a large A4 sheet of paper.

That's right. Today, he'll start by drawing the character designs for "Nezha Conquers the Dragon King." After all, he'll be drawing a whole book, so he needs to set the character design standards first to avoid the design going astray while he's drawing.

A senior student with slightly longer hair and an artistic air happened to walk over carrying a container for washing brushes and stood behind Zhang Dabiao for a while.

"Junior, what are you drawing? The movements are so stiff, there's no spirit at all."

The long-haired senior spoke with a slightly condescending tone, like a senior in a superior position.

Zhang Dabiao rolled his eyes at him. "Trying to act like a senior in front of me?"

Wow, you've got some nerve!

Zhang Dabiao explained unhurriedly, "This is a three-view drawing of a character design. I want to draw a comic strip, and the character needs to remain stable, so I first drew a standard version of the character's front, back, side, and various expressions."

"This way, you can look at it more often when you draw it and it won't go astray."

"The three-view drawings for character design don't need to be visually appealing, but rather they need to meet drawing standards. For example, how many heads are needed to measure the body length, and whether the front, back, and side views are accurate. In more detail, there are coloring specifications, such as what colors to use, what pigments to use, and what labels to use, etc..."

These days, animated films are still in production, and Shanghai Film Studio mainly focuses on ink-wash animation. So Zhang Dabiao's standards are like a game-changer for these vocational school students; they've never even heard of them!

But I can understand it!

The students around him immediately understood that this method was probably useless for those master-level experts. Their foundation was already there, so firstly, they didn't need it, and secondly, this kind of habit didn't exist these days.

But when these students used this method to draw comic strips, the stability improved dramatically.

Everyone was a shrewd person and understood immediately, so none of them dared to speak and watched Zhang Dabiao continue his performance.

The senior with long hair was a little annoyed when he saw the first-year junior casually refute his so-called "spirit and energy," but he wasn't stupid enough to criticize him directly. He just stood there watching to see what this "character design three-view diagram" was all about.

For Zhang Dabiao, the character designs for "Nezha Conquers the Dragon King" were a piece of cake. Last night, he rewatched the entire animated film, focusing mainly on the characters' styles, clothing, weapons, and so on, which were very simple.

But it's not so easy to capture that expression well, because the references are in the "little nest" database, and it's impossible to just take them out and draw them directly.

Therefore, Da Biao added a lot of his own interpretation, but overall it still followed the standards of the animated version of "Nezha Conquers the Dragon King".

Then the side, the back—well, let's add some underwear to the back, otherwise, his bare butt looks rather unsightly…

Once the three-view drawing was completed, and a few animated expressions were quickly drawn and arranged next to it, a standard comic strip version of the "character design" (which was not much different from the animated version) was produced.

When everyone looked, they realized it was true!

The students who drew the picture were stunned.

Awesome!

Then, the long-haired guy started nitpicking again.

"What kind of character design is this? It's a mess, what are you even drawing?"

To be fair, although it's technically a game-changer, just having three-view drawings isn't as impactful as a comic book with a story behind the visuals. It lacks narrative content, so it's a level below.

"Nezha?"

"Nezha Conquers the Dragon King? What's so interesting about that story?"

"That's not the task we received from the publisher."

"Drawing Nezha is not as good as drawing the Monkey King..."

"Exactly, what's so interesting about drawing a brat?"

"..."

Zhang Dabiao got annoyed. That long-haired guy was like a fly buzzing around his ear...

No, it's a swarm of flies, because a number of older students have gathered around him, and they look down on Zhang Dabiao's unconventional painting style.

If you don't care, then don't care. Zhang Dabiao never expected to gain the recognition of these people. He was just making preliminary preparations for making comic books.

I really want to pull their intestines out and tie a knot around their necks, like that—

The whole world will then be peaceful.

But... we can't do that.

Therefore, Zhang Dabiao's pupils contracted—

Come out!

Poster for the animated film "Nezha Conquers the Dragon King"!

Don't leave after school! I'm going to give you guys something big today!