Tokyo life starting with painting

Shanxia Qianxia was really dumbfounded, and it took a while before she came back to her senses.

And Higashinoji next to her didn't say much, just continued to draw slowly with the pen in hand.

In the eyes of ordinary people, they might just see Chinatsu Yamayama standing stupidly by the window holding a thermos cup, and then after a while she suddenly started to giggle.

But in Higashinoji's eyes, the entire scene seemed to have become a canvas of distinct colors.

The oppressive sky is zinc-titanium white, and the overall picture needs to be brighter, otherwise the coldness cannot be expressed.

A girl's smile should be warm enough and cheerful, so add a blush to her fair face and make her eyebrows more curved.

Only when the raindrops, as transparent as teardrops, slide down can they have enough contrast and charm.

As for Yamayama Chinatsu's silly smile as she looked out the window and her stiff and motionless posture just now, these were automatically ignored by Tonoji's brain.

Originally, painting is never just about copying the scene in front of you, but also about adding some mental processing and imagination.

This is what the semi-finished picture looks like.

But even Shanxia Qianxia was completely stunned by this half-finished picture.

This is no longer a matter of copying. Even if I put this painting in front of her and ask her to draw it, she feels like she can't paint it.

As the saying goes, this may be the feeling of looking up to the mountains.

But Chinatsu's eyes on the mountain soon became strange.

Is it possible that Tonoji made himself stand just now just to draw this painting?

But when did I become so beautiful?

No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like it.

She couldn't help but touch her face, she couldn't help but fall into the stage of self-doubt.

Although I have always been quite confident about my face, Higashinoji's painting is too beautiful, which is seriously inconsistent with her original appearance.

It's just that she, the 'original product', doesn't dare to disturb Higashinoji anymore.

After all, the other party didn't hold her accountable for being distracted at work, so it was better to leave early.

She swallowed her saliva and left in a timid manner.

Higashinoji, on the other hand, continued to draw with his head down, sketching out details one stroke at a time.

He drew very seriously. After all, this was the first time for pixiv.com to be active. As the actual owner of the pixiv website and the current pixiv brand, of course he couldn't relax.

He continued painting with his head down until noon when the studio members took a break.

"Huh, it's time to go to the convenience store on the other side to buy something to eat." Tonoji put down his pen, looked at the illustration that already had a rough draft, and couldn't help but nodded.

Perhaps due to the habit of painting in oils, he always subconsciously leaves some room for modification in areas that are slightly difficult to paint.

"Let's come over later and perfect it."

Higashino thought to himself that he was not in a hurry to finish the painting at this time anyway.

He took a sip of water and then took the elevator downstairs.

At this time, Seo Daigo, who had already asked the operations department to help register an official Tonoji account, came over.

He wanted to see how Higashinoji's illustrations used to stir up the atmosphere were doing.

By the way, I asked Higashinoji and Yano Ryuichi to go to dinner together to get in touch with this young boss and discuss the next matters.

After all, they are the only three people in charge of the entire Dongye Studio.

But when he walked to the Higashino studio area, he realized that Higashinoji was not there.

It seems like he should take a step forward to eat.

"Forget it, since I'm not here, then Yano-san and I will go together." Seo Daigo muttered to himself, just about to take a step forward.

But I haven't taken two steps yet.

He was attracted by the illustrations placed on Higashinoji's desk.

Um.?

This is?

Seo Daigo looked at this illustration of a girl looking out of the car and smiling, and he was entranced as he looked at it.

The smell of moisture, the cold mist, the girl with a sentimental smile, and the tram moving forward quietly.

An indescribable feeling of depression arose in my heart.

And Seo Daigo didn't know what technique Higashinoji used to outline the overall lines so delicately.

And the raindrops that replaced the girl's tears were more like a flash of spiritual pass.

"Can I just say that you are worthy of being Mr. Higashino?" Seo Daigo couldn't help but shake his head when he looked at this painting.

This artist is indeed very good. No wonder some people outside call him the strongest comic book artist of the new generation.

Although this title sounds a bit twee, it is not unreasonable.

He sighed long and short here, which also attracted Yano Ryuichi, who had just cleaned up the data and was about to go have something to eat.

"Seo-san, what's wrong?" Yano Ryuichi came over from the other side and asked without understanding.

"No. Yano-san, come and take a look at Mr. Higashino's illustration. It's really beautiful. I feel it fits the theme of this time perfectly."

Seo Daigo waved, signaling Yano Ryuichi to approach.

"Really? Is it that exaggerated?" When Yano Ryuu saw Seo Daigo's appearance, he felt that he was making a fuss.

Because Yano Ryuichi himself came here like this before.

At that time, Higashinoji had just established Higashino Studio, and he watched Higashinoji paint a lot of paintings. He couldn't help but admire Higashinoji's paintings.

But now, Yano Ryuichi feels that he has almost adapted.

Although Higashinoji's works are still excellent, it is still a bit difficult to make yourself scream as surprised as before.

He approached Seo Daigo with a smile, and then glanced away——

"Well"

Yano Ryuichi came to his senses after a while.

Then he glanced at Seo Daigo with a complicated expression: "Well, it's really good-looking. Mr. Higashino has made progress again."

No. Is this because Higashinoji has made progress or has he been hiding it?

Yano Ryuichi always knew that Higashinoji was an excellent painter, but when he saw this illustration, he felt that he seemed a bit young.

He originally thought that the Higashinoji he saw was Higashinoji showing all his strength, but he didn't expect that he was hiding it too deeply.

I can't understand this person at all.

"Well, to be honest, the level of this illustration is really high. This is the first time I see an inexplicable artistic sense from this kind of illustration."

Seo Daigo couldn't help but say something.

Originally, animation was just something to entertain the public, and illustrations were naturally the same. The more beautiful the drawings, the better. There was no need to pay attention to any artistic sense at all.

But although Higashinoji's illustrations use expression techniques such as comic illustrations, it always gives him an indescribable sense of art.

Looking at Higashinoji's illustrations is like looking at some kind of oil painting.

This is a feeling that other illustrators cannot give him.

"Teacher Higashino seems to be very good at oil paintings too."

Yano Ryuichi added, and then continued to ask: "How long did it take Mr. Higashino to complete this illustration?"

"It took almost a morning. I didn't expect that it took just one morning to come up with a finished product of this level."

Seo Daigo sighed and just wanted to say hello to the employees around him and ask them to put the painting into the scanner to scan and upload it to the p station.

But before he could take action——

"What are you doing?"

From a distance, Higashinoji saw his two capable men discussing something in front of his desk. Seo Daigo even wanted to take the semi-finished product he had just drawn two-thirds into the scanner to scan and upload.

Is this okay?

Higashino cut it off cheerfully: "There are still some areas of this painting that need to be improved. I'll finish it in another hour and upload it myself."

Is there still room for improvement?

To be honest, they both understood every word of what Higashinoji said, but when it came to forming a whole sentence, Seo Daigo and the others were still a little confused.

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"Does this painting still need to be improved?" Seo Daigo asked.

He didn't understand what the world in Higashinoji's eyes was like.

But in the eyes of Seo Daigo, this painting is already perfect, and there is no need to improve it anymore.

"Although I'm very happy with your compliment, Seo-san. But of course it's necessary to improve it. I left a large part blank and didn't deal with it. You should be able to tell this, right?"

Higashino smiled and pointed to a few places that were slightly lighter in color.

Can I tell?

What can I see? Are you particularly good at drawing?

Seo Daigo and Yano Ryuichi couldn't answer for a long time.

To be honest, the blank spaces that Higashino pointed out were so small that you couldn't even spot them if you didn't look carefully.

Those who didn't know it thought this was Higashinoji's unique painting technique.

In addition, Higashinoji's painting skills are so proficient that the things he draws naturally have a sense of maturity.

Such minor mistakes are easily covered up by Higashinoji's almost perfect overall appearance.

"Teacher Higashino is still a little dissatisfied with this painting, right?" Yano Ryuichi asked.

"What's the point of being satisfied? The most important thing is that the viewer is satisfied. That's why refinement is needed."

The most important thing is to satisfy the viewer.

This sentence made the two of them feel that they had benefited a lot.

However, Tonoji didn't care what they thought, he just smiled and waved his hand: "Let's not talk about this anymore, Yano-san, Seo-san, you two go to have a meal quickly, you will have to work again later."

Higashinoji doesn't have any company cafeteria, it's too rigid.

Instead, he gave the members a half-hour break at noon. As long as they could get back in time, he would not say a word even if they flew to Nagoya for dinner at noon and flew back again.

Yano Ryuichi and Seo Daigo had already wasted half an hour, so of course he had to remind them.

After watching Yano and Seo leave, Tonoji also finished the rice balls in threes and threes, then went to the toilet to wash his hands, and then started to continue coloring.

This process lasted until three or four o'clock in the afternoon. Higashinoji officially stopped writing and looked at the illustration in front of him.

After repeated refinements, the painting finally reached a level that satisfied him.

The car window is glowing with white mist, and the girl is brushing away the mist with her hand. If you zoom in on the picture and look at it in the crystal clear raindrops, you can even see the girl reflected in it - of course, it is a very blurry color shadow.

This is called striving for excellence.

As for what this painting should be called.

Higashinoji thought about it for a while and decided to name it "Only Rain Knows", and also marked his name and the date of painting below.

Higashinoji was very satisfied and then opened the officially certified account that Seo Daigo had registered for him in the morning.

What surprised Higashinoji was that even though he hadn't uploaded his work yet, his fan following had already exceeded 8,000, and was heading towards 10,000 at this time.

"Is this Mr. Higashino's account?"

"No way? Mr. Higashino has never had any social media account. This should be the account created by Higashino Studio in conjunction with this illustration competition, right?"

There are many discussions like this.

However, most people think that this should be a tool account created by Higashino Studio. There is a high probability that Higashino will not submit works on this account.

After all, Higashinoji himself has updates for "Naoki Hansawa" and "The Lonely Gourmet", so how can he have extra time to draw illustrations?

But even so, many people still came to pay attention.

You must know that there are only 23,000 registered users in p station now, and he alone accounts for almost half of the entire p station users. This is indeed an exaggeration.

And what’s even more exaggerated is yet to come.

Higashinoji had just submitted his picture "Only the Rain Knows" to the p site, and many users directly used this picture as their avatar.

This move was so fast that before Toyoshi could see clearly, someone had already replaced his illustration as his avatar.

But he didn't care. Anyway, as long as it was not for commercial use, it didn't matter what it was used for.

He quickly posted, ‘This illustration is not participating in the pixiv Grand Prize Competition. I took the time to draw it today. I hope you will not use it for commercial purposes. ’ announcement.

Then he turned off the computer and got up to go home.

He ignored the comments below. After all, it was too late now. Chihaya Higashino would have to go home if he continued.

But just because Higashinoji doesn't care, it doesn't mean that the comment section won't explode.

"Only Rain Knows" has only been posted for an hour, but the comment area has already exceeded 7,000 comments, reaching 10,000, and the number of likes is even more exaggerated. In just one hour, it has already received 10,000 likes, and it has reached the P station. ranked first in the rankings, it can be said that it beats everything.

But just like this one-hour exaggeration of data, no one felt that Higashino had used his background authority to swipe the data.

the reason is simple.

"Only the Rain Knows" is indeed very good. In addition, it is Higashino's first time submitting a work on the p station, so it is normal for it to be so popular.

There is even a fan creation of this painting.

The provocative version is that the tram the girl was sitting on did not start. She couldn't bear the sentimental emotions in her heart, so she got off the car and hugged the boy she loved, expressing her unwillingness to leave.

The hot-blooded version is that the girl is actually an officer of a certain interstellar army, wearing a military uniform. This time she is preparing to go to the front line to fight against interstellar aliens - Higashino painted the carriages so that they have been transformed into a cyberpunk style, and it also has its own projection.

In addition, there are also spoof versions and funny versions.

Even some registered illustrators at p station made a special trip to ridicule Higashinoji's work.

The rain-themed grand prize competition, which was already very popular at Station P, has become even more popular under this situation.

The popularity of p station has certainly attracted the attention of other website companies in Japan.

Just a few days later, some websites that imitated p-sites appeared quietly.