What does inspiration look like?

Higashinoji doesn't know about others, he only knows about his own state of inspiration.

For example, Higashinoji's daily creation must go through the following steps - seeing something, generating a certain desire to create, forming the desire to create into a specific idea in his mind, and finally drawing it...

But if inspiration comes, Higashinoji can basically omit the two steps of 'generating the desire to create' and 'creating the desire to create ideas in the mind'.

In other words, there is no need to think at all, just take out the things in your mind and draw them.

And the quality of the finished product is very high, sometimes even surpassing a painting he carefully prepared and crafted.

Some people may think it is an exaggeration, but in fact it is not an exaggeration.

A simple example is like playing a game. When you are in bad shape, you may not be able to beat a silver player, but when you are in good shape, you may even have to kill a diamond player.

This is what is called a state.

And Higashinoji is now in this state of inspiration explosion.

His senses seemed to be amplified. How the brushstrokes under his hand would appear and what the picture would look like had been rehearsed in his mind, just waiting for him to take it out.

He painted very easily, with a relaxed and freehand feeling.

After staying in this state for almost an hour, Higashino took out a breath, stopped writing, and looked at the oil painting in front of him.

Warm-colored Tokyo streets, flamboyantly dressed pedestrians, rickety Japan, a dream-like era, and——

Higashinoji looked at the middle-aged man leaning on the telephone pole in the center of the picture.

It was so lively all around.

There was only a middle-aged man leaning on the telephone pole, crying and laughing.

The strong contrast between warm and cold tones highlights the subject of the middle-aged man.

The whole picture may seem out of place at first glance, but at the second glance, the middle-aged man will take away his attention, and the whole picture of the oil painting becomes particularly serious, with a strong sense of irony.

This middle-aged man not only uses Tamura as an image, but also has the images of office workers and down-and-out homeless people that Higashino saw in Tokyo in the past two months.

The meaning of this painting is actually very simple.

Whether it is the glamorous and impetuous side of the upper class or the dark and depressing side of the lower class, they all belong to Tokyo.

It's like this everywhere, full of two sides.

So the title of this painting is -

Tonoji reached out and wrote the title.

"Tokyo".

Then he wrote his name below and called it a day.

Of course, this is just a first draft, and some of the colors above still need to be refined. It will probably take four or five coats of paint before it is officially finished.

This painting is for the adult category of the Tokyo Youth Art Prize, and there is absolutely no problem with its quality.

If we talk about the painting "Tokyo Sunset·Impression", it depicts the scenery of Tokyo as seen by Higashinoji.

So this painting "Tokyo" depicts all kinds of people that Higashinoji came into contact with.

Higashino took back his hand with satisfaction, then turned sideways and whispered his thanks to the female college student next to him.

In the middle of the painting, he actually noticed that there were people around him and gathered around him. It was the female college student on the street whom he met for the first time who kindly dispersed the crowd.

And I also used the other party’s painting tools, canvas, and paints.

"Sorry, I will pay." Tonoji thanked him and took out 10,000 yen from his wallet and handed it to the other party.

But what Higashinoji didn't expect was that the female college student actually shook her head slightly, and just curiously pointed at the oil painting painted by Higashinoji.

"You mean you want to take a look?" Higashino asked, moving away.

The female college student nodded.

She seems to be the type who likes to talk too much and is very quiet.

But unlike Konoe Ryoka who doesn't dare to speak, she just doesn't like to talk. She looks generous and gentle.

She looked at the painting drawn by Higashino. After a while, she nodded gently to Higashino: "The painting is very good."

"Really? I think it's okay, but there are many shortcomings. It's just a draft and needs to be refined." Higashino nodded.

"It's just a draft..." This gentle girl seemed a little unable to accept it, but she quickly took out her phone and looked at Higashinoji with her big eyes that seemed to be able to speak.

"You want to take pictures?"

Higashikata understood what she meant.

The other party said 'hmm', then tilted his head slightly, holding a flip phone with a pink shell in his white palm, and looked up: "No?"

Higashinoji naturally agreed.

After all, the other party's paints, painting tools, and everything else were used. It would be too much to not even take a picture of the other party.

"Thank you." The other party thanked him, and with a serious expression, he picked up his phone, pointed it at the oil painting, and took two pictures.

Then he consciously walked to the other side under Higashinoji's gaze and looked at him eagerly.

"Ah? Are you finished now?"

Higashinoji originally wondered if the other party would go around and take a look at the painting again, but unexpectedly she took a photo and then consciously gave up her position.

"Well, that's enough." The female college student nodded.

This is really a girl with personality.

Higashikata couldn't help but look at the other person.

Her long, straight black hair fell down her shoulders, and her two strands of hair on her temples were tied with a band, making her look very demure.

She has an oval face, a small nose, and a pink face with glasses, which makes her appear to be intellectually serious—but her breasts are a bit small, and compared to college students of the same age, she looks flatter.

She watched Higashino remain silent, then pointed at the easel, expressing only one meaning - the photo is taken, you can move the painting away.

Seeing that the other party had no intention of accepting his money, Higashino thought for a moment and thanked him again: "Thank you very much this time."

"...No." The female college student rarely shook her head. She looked thoughtfully at the name on Higashinoji's oil painting for a long time, and finally shook her head: "Just move the painting away."

After saying this, she had no intention of talking to Touyesi.

Seeing her like this, Higashino had no intention of disturbing her any more.

After all, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and it took him a lot of time to draw this sketch.

He left a contact information for the female college student, saying that he remembered that she had helped this time, and that he would also help if the other party had anything to do.

"..."

Looking at Higashinoji's leaving figure, the female college student couldn't help biting her thumb gently, and then spoke in a soft and soft voice with a bit of unwillingness:

"He is Mr. Higashino who painted "The Ring"?"

"You can also paint oil paintings so well..."

Her face, as calm as water, rarely wavered.

She turned to look at the big bag she had brought.

It's filled with comic manuscripts...

Those are the original comic manuscripts of "Between Dolls".

I'm so unwilling...

She bit her thumb gently again, looking in the direction of Higashinoji who was leaving with watery eyes.

I heard from the editor that he is only sixteen years old and has just entered high school... Why is he so powerful?
Chapter completed!