Tokyo life starting with painting

In fact, Tonoji's life was not particularly happy after that.

Although he found the scapegoat Chinatsu Yamayama to help oversee the operation of the p station, it was impossible for Higashinoji to just leave the entire operation of the p station to her.

From time to time, he would go up and review some drawings, and see if any of the user's submissions were metaphors or metaphors for some sensitive aspects.

Fortunately, so far, Higashinoji has basically not found anyone seeking death like this.

Apart from sensitive things, what surprised Tonoji was that someone finally started to submit articles in the always deserted r18 creative area of ​​his p station.

This really surprised him.

After all, the p site has only been in operation for five days. Many users who have just joined the p site and become registered members are still cautious and as pure as a piece of white paper. They don’t dare to think about R18 at all and just send some to them. Very normal work.

Now R18 suddenly has seven or eight more works, and they are all posted by one user.

This is particularly conspicuous, and it feels like standing out from the crowd.

Naturally, Higashinoji became a little interested and wanted to see who was the first GHS person in the p station.

So I clicked on the other person's work page, and found out that this guy seemed to be a slightly famous artist. He seemed to be a GHS artist who could set up stalls at some Japanese fan exhibitions.

Of course, if you compare the other party with Higashinoji, they are not on the same level.

After all, GHS is just a hobby, and Higashino is a serious professional in drawing comics, and he is even a big shot in this profession.

But then again.

"This painting is really good."

Higashinoji looked at the pictures sent by the other party with a somewhat critical spirit, and found that the other party's drawings were indeed pretty good.

He really looked at the other person's paintings with a critical eye.

From his point of view as a professional painter and comic book author, the shadow details and human body proportions of the other party are all in place, but there are some places that make people feel uncomfortable.

"It's too realistic."

Higashikata looked at it and shook his head.

The opponent's human body proportions are indeed well grasped, and it seems that he must have a certain foundation in art.

But since the expression technique of comics is used, if it is too realistic, the whole picture will not have that "comic" feeling.

However, Higashinoji thought about it and realized that after all, these were some GHS techniques from 2005 and were not as good as those used by painters in 2020. Of course, they were acceptable.

He casually left his own comments below (using a trumpet that had nothing to do with him, of course), stopped looking at the artist, and turned to look at manuscripts from other sections.

I have to say that there are indeed a lot of GHS experts in Japan.

Even if no one dares to go to Area R18, other areas can be said to have opened Higashinoji's eyes.

Just say it simply.

Station p has a labeling system.

Under the girl tag, there are 467 works, accounting for half of the entire site. In addition to this, there are also entries for Lily, JK, etc., totaling more than 600 paintings.

In other words, most of the people who contributed to these P stations drew girls.

This made Tonoji a little funny.

Sure enough, creation with a touch of color is the driving force behind this group of people.

But Tonoji didn't care.

After all, the grading system of station p is very complete. If something is really revealed, even if he doesn't set the label to R18, Chinatsu Shanxia here will classify it as R18.

As of the end of today, the overall number of registered users on site p has increased by 876, and the cumulative number of submissions at the end of the day is 164.

This amount is considered to be a lot.

Shanxia Qianxia was almost delirious while reviewing the manuscript.

The main reason is that the level of these contributors is high or low.

The lowest level is considered mental pollution. A person can draw like the Zerg in Star Wars.

As for those with high skills, they are not that high. After all, Shanxia Chinatsu usually learns painting from Higashinoji. After seeing Higashinoji's paintings, she basically can't stand the paintings painted by others.

It was also Higashinoji who brought in another person from the studio to help, and finally managed to solve her urgent need.

That is, in this busy situation.

After a day or two of persuasion by Yano Ryu, he finally found seven or eight people with art skills and work intentions to maintain the normal operation of the p station.

He also found two network security engineers who specialize in maintaining web page error reports.

The contract was signed and the seal was stamped, and the operation of the pixiv website was finally no longer just a big cat and a kitten, but was now officially operational.

This made Chinatsu Yamayama relieved - she finally no longer had to read one or two hundred manuscripts every day.

It's still fun to go to the Shuiyishui forum after finishing the original painting and scold those trolls who are shady to Higashikata.

She returned to her job happily, and Higashino Tsukasa on the other side fulfilled her promise and taught Akisa Kuromiya a lot about manga drawing techniques.

Similarly, Higashinoji was also a little curious about what Akisa Kuromiya planned to do after graduation.

As a student at a prestigious school like Musashino Art University, she can easily find a job as soon as she leaves school - in the Japanese workplace, academic qualifications can crush many competitors.

but

She can't find a job and draw comics to make money.

Her "Desolate Island" has now been serialized to one or two hundred chapters, and she can be said to be a pillar author of Tomishima Publishing House.

"After graduation?" Kuromiya Meisa heard Higashinoji's question without hesitation, and simply looked at Higashinoji with her big eyes.

"Huh?" Higashikata was stunned, and it took a few seconds to finally understand what she meant: "You mean like me?"

Higashinoji is now half a professional painter and a full comic book author.

Akisa Kuromiya obviously wants to follow his path.

"Yeah. I don't want to give up either oil paintings or comics."

".Really?" Higashino glanced at the other party and did not make too many comments.

But speaking from his experience, he doesn't think Kuromiya Akisa can really take this path.

You must know that he came through time and was born with more than 20 years of painting experience than others. This is an advantage that no one can change.

But even so, he only knows a little more about oil painting and comics than others. Both of them require a lot of time.

So Higashinoji doesn't think Akisa Kuromiya has that much time.

However, Higashino also remembers that the opponent is a talented player, a little genius. Higashino finds it difficult for her to take this path, but it is not impossible.

Regardless of what Akisa Kuromiya plans to do after graduation, there is a new development in the P station on the other side.

It's just a trivial matter that the R18 area starts to be filled. The most important thing is

"Are there any registered users from Tianchao now?"

Higashino glanced at the standard Chinese message and finally couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

It seems that this website has finally caught the attention of Chinese netizens.

After all, the registered address is in Japan, but the supported languages ​​are "Chinese, Japanese and English". This may be the first time they have seen it.

You must know that the external network in 2005 was completely incompatible with China. When such a website suddenly popped up, Chinese netizens were probably a little curious.

This is the memorable first registered user from outside Japan!

Higashinoji was also refreshed and wanted to see what the first message from Datianchao netizens on the p site was.

Then

"Hey, why can't I enter the R18 adult area? How can I get in?"

Seeing this familiar Chinese language, Higashinoji really couldn't laugh or cry.

Okay!

The first message from the first Chinese user, which is full of commemorative significance, is how to enter the R18 area?

Higashinoji really wants to say that GHS is indeed the driving force for many creators.

And what if I let a minor like you under the age of 18 enter the R18 area?

Just study it slowly.

Looking at this comment, Higashikata couldn't help laughing.

This made Yano Ryuichi next to him unable to help but glance sideways at Higashinoji: "What's wrong? Mr. Higashino? Do you understand Chinese?"

"Not only can I understand it, I can also speak it."

Higashinoji looked away with a smile, but at the same time he did not forget to ask: "By the way, Yano-san, what are the current number of registered members of site p and the number of daily registrations, and the approximate number of manuscripts submitted?"

"Pixiv has been operating for seven days now, and the number of registered users per day has stabilized at around 1,100, with a total of 6,889 registered users."

Yano Ryuichi glanced at the data.

At this rate of increase, they will be able to bring Seo Daigo over by about the tenth day.

Ten thousand registered members are nothing.

Even the P station in the previous life has never experienced such a terrifying increase.

Yano Ryuichi continued: "So far, the cumulative submissions on site p are 3689, and the number of submissions today is 861."

The current p station has entered a virtuous cycle stage.

Painting enthusiasts take the initiative to promote it, and then attract a group of enthusiasts to come.

Then create works, and at the same time use these works to attract a group of fans who like comics.

Similarly, there are many people who know each other and are friends in the p station. This illustration exchange website plays a perfect role.

The news at station p has also affected many domestic media in Japan.

From the trial operation with more than 100 people a day, people took the initiative to promote it, and now there are more than 800 submissions every day, and the number of registered people every day exceeds 1,000. Of course they will not let such a big news go.

Especially the owner of this website and the page designer.

Is it Higashinoji again?

To be honest, many home entertainment newspapers were confused when they saw this name.

The "Girl Who Doesn't Exist on Earth" (Sakai Izumi Incident) some time ago has already allowed Higashinoji to gain another exposure.

And now this website that is suddenly gaining momentum in China is actually owned by Higashinoji?

They intuitively felt that there was big news here, so they made a special trip to find out Higashinoji's phone number and applied for an interview with him.

If things go as usual, Higashino may even agree to two media outlets that have a good relationship with Higashino Studio.

However, because they were too busy these days, neither Higashinoji nor his family agreed.

However, Higashinoji's neglect did not make these media reporters who were relegated to the "limb" feel disappointed. On the contrary, they were more interested in the operation and development of p station.

In particular, this terrifying number of daily visits is currently only comparable to that of pixiv, the top website in Japan.

These media and newspapers were obviously interested and began to publish articles about pixiv frequently.

Higashinoji, on the other hand, didn't have much time to pay attention to them, and instead came up with some operating methods from the previous life of p station: "Yano-san, I plan to hold an event when p station has 10,000 members registered."

"What activity?" Yano Ryuichi asked curiously.

"Illustration Creation Award."

Higashinoji said with a smile: "We set a theme and let the creators of P station draw illustrations according to the theme. Similarly, there must be monetary rewards."

Listening to Higashinoji's words, Yano Ryuichi nodded without hesitation: "I agree."

This activity can mobilize the enthusiasm of some registered users in the p station and produce more good works.

At the same time, it also has a publicity role.

It’s just about the reward amount.

Yano Ryuichi was still thinking about how to stipulate the amount and what awards to stipulate.

Next to him, Higashinoji had already asked another person for paper and pen, and started writing quickly.

The movement was so fast that Yano Ryuichi couldn't help but open his eyes wide.

After almost a few minutes, Higashino handed the paper in his hand to Yano Ryuichi.

Yano Ryuichi couldn't help but glance at the content above.

The theme prescribed by Higashinoji is: rain. There are one gold award, two silver awards, three bronze awards, and one incentive award (an encouragement award).

As for bonuses.

"Four million yen for the gold medal winner?"

Looking at this number, Yano Ryuichi couldn't help but wiped his eyes and opened his mouth.

Isn’t this too much?

So much so that he, the animation director, felt a little excited and wanted to participate in this competition.

After all, even if you can't get the 4 million yen of the gold reward, you might be able to get the 1.5 million yen of the silver reward. Not to mention that even the bronze reward has 1 million yen as an incentive to reward 500,000 yen.

In total, it will cost more than 10 million yen to host this event.

Yano Ryuichi couldn't accept it.

On the other side, Higashinoji just smiled: "Yano-san, this is the first event of Station P. You must not be stingy in terms of bonuses."

Yes.

In the previous life, the pixiv website also held many illustration award competitions.

It's just that the bonus is not as generous as Higashinoji's, and the gold reward is only two million yen.

But considering this is pixiv’s first event, it’s not so hard to accept spending a small amount of money.

After all, the first time is memorable, and after returning to normal, the gold reward is two million yen.

Yano Ryuichi also heard what Higashinoji meant. He thought for a while and then nodded: "I understand, then let's follow this standard."

He discussed with Higashinoji for a while and finalized the candidates for judges, event supervisors, etc.

The event supervisor is Yano Ryuichi, while the judges are entrusted to Higashinoji and Kuromiya Meisa, who he has a good relationship with.

This lineup can be considered relatively luxurious.

After all, professional manga authors such as Tomishima Publishing House’s main pillars and Xiao Taizhu came to serve as reviewers.

In addition, there are various situations such as event copywriting, posters, and identity verification that need to be decided.

They were busy like this until the tenth day of official operation of the p station came——

"Teacher Higashino! The number of pixiv registrations exceeded 12,000!"

Yano Ryuichi waved his arms, his face full of excitement.

Really did it!

The number of registrations at station p is rising like a rocket.

And after listening to Yano Ryuichi's words, Higashinoji also stood up.

he knows.

It's time for him to pick up Seo Daigo, the editor-in-chief of the Tensei department.

Thanks for the reward from Yuanfen Qiansheng! Thank you so much!