Higashinoji didn't know that Fujiwara Aoi and the others had a subtle change in their views on him.

At this time, he was staying in his bedroom and starting to draw the draft storyboard of "The Lonely Gourmet".

The surprise of finding a street shop just now, the joy of discovering delicious food, the happiness of eating it in your mouth...

These feelings are all drawn into drafts and storyboards...

Inokashira Goro is probably a middle-aged uncle. He looks quite calm on the outside, even a bit dull. He has his own paranoid pursuit of food and is tired of dealing with interpersonal relationships...

Higashinoji incorporated his own personal feelings into it, but he also did not forget to use several long shots to express Inokashira Goro's feeling when he was fasting.

"I'm hungry." On the draft, Inokashira Goro muttered to himself after dealing with a difficult customer.

He raised his head, half-opened his mouth, and stared blankly at the empty Tokyo streets in front of him——

This is followed by an elongated storyboard with appropriate phonetic words next to it.

Boom, boom, boom.

With these crisp sounds, the story in the comic entered the store exploration stage.

Yes.

In the first half of "The Lonely Gourmet", Higashinoji intended to depict Inokashira Goro who worked hard and struggled for life.

He felt exhausted after dealing with one after another strange and even silly customers.

This first half highlights the Japanese black humor, which is enough to add interest to the story.

After all, even if you have the skill of "drawing tastes and recognizing shapes", a monthly magazine with forty or fifty pages full of pictures of food will definitely be boring.

After the standard line "I'm hungry", the story enters the second half, where Inokashira Goro walks on the streets of Japan looking for food.

In this way, a TV drama-like interpretation method was formed.

The final effect is also very good. In terms of the performance effect of the comic alone, it is actually better than "The Ring".

Higashikata is very satisfied with this.

In addition, the manuscript for the fourth episode of "The Ring" is almost ready...

"It's okay, the night is quite long."

Higashikata muttered to himself.

The fourth episode of "The Ring" is only 21 pages long. Higashinoji can draw four to five pages of the original manuscript at night, and "The Lonely Gourmet" is due before the middle of next month. He spends one to two hours every afternoon before going home.

Doing wood carving in school... just squeeze in a little bit, and there is no problem in terms of time.

Higashikata is very satisfied with this arrangement.

And for some reason, he still had the same feeling he had when he was completing the homework assigned by his tutor when he was in school.

“If you persuade people to study medicine, they will be struck by lightning; if you persuade people to study Dharma, they will be cut into pieces by a thousand cuts.”

Toyoji felt inexplicably happy. He smiled cheerfully and started working again without stopping.

I feel happy when I think of happy things.

The so-called men are probably like this.

The days that followed were relatively smooth.

I went to class, sculpted after school, went home to cook, and after eating, I painted "The Ring" and "The Lonely Gourmet" in my room.

Although busy, it is still quite fulfilling.

It is worth mentioning that the third episode of "Midnight Ring" by Higashinoji once again won the first place in the "Cold" rating.

The current ranking has become almost stable. After all, "Between Dolls" couldn't beat "The Ring" even with OVA promotions last month, and now Urashima Publishing has begun to allocate promotional resources, not to mention it.

In this way, at school, in the wood carving studio, and at home, Tonoji fell into a three-point and one-line cycle.

The days are passing...the final announcement day of the Tokyo Youth Art Prize is coming soon.

...

As an official art education association, the judging process of the Tokyo Youth Art Awards organized by the Japan Art Education Association is relatively formal.

The review content is divided into the following four links.

The first is the audition, which means that 1,500 oil paintings will be selected from one to two thousand oil paintings to enter the preliminary round.

What it means is that four judges line up to take a rough look at the oil painting.

In other words, each of the four judges has four opportunities to be evaluated. As long as it is affirmed by one of the judges, the painting can be left to participate in the next screening session.

When it comes to the screening process, it is estimated that there are only about 500 works left.

And here, the more detailed selection process begins.

From these works, the final twenty or so works were selected to participate in the final selection.

Roughly calculated based on the number of participating students in Tokyo...a work that reaches this point can be said to be scouring the waves for sand, scouring for sand and then scouring for gold, and after scouring for gold, picking the one with the most gold.

This sounds a bit strict, but it is actually the case.

And the lineup of the judging panel this time is quite luxurious.

Not only are there four active painters, but the most important thing is that one of them is Yamauchi Ichiro, a highly respected lecturer at Mutono Art University.

He has been nominated for the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award.

Although he was not selected in the end, he was considered to be the most valuable judge among the judges this time.

At this time, the four judges were sitting at the small square table, their expressions were not serious, and two of them even had quite relaxed expressions.

After all, the Tokyo Youth Art Prize is not a large-scale competition for them, and at this time they are selecting the works of the student group.

The so-called student group refers to things drawn by high school students, which are quite different from their levels, so you can basically tell who is better and worse at a glance.

So there is nothing to worry about.

“I didn’t expect that there would be such a good talent participating in this competition.”

On the first floor of Yamauchi, looking at the impression paintings with a harmonious mix of warm and cold colors placed in front of him, he couldn't help but mutter to himself.

The sun floats in the sky like a blazing luminous object, the cool air wraps it up like water waves, and the brilliance of the setting sun is like the mist on the sea reflecting the fine particles in the air. Everything seems so perfect and harmonious, leaving only one "

Beautiful impression.

""Tokyo Sunset·Impression"." Looking at the title in the lower right corner, Yamauchi nodded with satisfaction.

The author's brushwork is very sophisticated, and the level of this painting is already beyond the level of many of his students.

But it cannot be ruled out that this is an inspired work that the other party has been preparing for several months before finally coming up with.

After all, the level of painting is never constant, but fluctuates slightly.

but--

"This painting is indeed well done. It is an outstanding talent. I give this painting my vote. It is a gold medal standard."

That's right, even if there are slight fluctuations up and down, it can't change the fact that this is an excellent painting, Yamauchi first floor simply raised his hand and said.

This result did not surprise everyone. After all, they had also seen the painting "Tokyo Sunset·Impression", so it was absolutely no problem to win the gold medal in the student group.

Now that the gold reward has been finalized, there is no debate about the subsequent silver reward, bronze reward and special reward.

After deciding one by one, they turned to look at the works on the other side.

The student group is just an appetizer.

The most important thing is where they are looking now——

Works from the adult category...
Chapter completed!