The free gifts for the single volume of "Hongming Longque" include not only a poster, but also a bookmark.

Both of these are included in separate volumes as gifts accompanying the book.

The characters on the bookmarks are cut from the posters, one for each book, and the two protagonists Hong Ming and Mansion Longque are randomly placed together to form a complete poster picture.

Shi Yin thought at the time that this design was amazing.

She herself has a little bit of a collecting habit, and there must be some people who, because of such a design, want to collect the bookmarks of the two protagonists, Hong Ming and Mansion Longque, and buy a second book.

Of course, people without this kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder will not be affected in any way.

Because time was so tight before the New Year and I couldn't finish the poster, I only made a draft of this picture before, and Shi Yin drew it during the Chinese New Year.

On the seventh day of the new year, as soon as the printing factory started working, she handed in the documents directly. It has been more than a month now.

The production cycle of magazines is generally advanced. For a monthly magazine, this month's publication started last month, and it should take more than a month, which is about the same time as the time it took her to draw this poster.

Li Nian draws fantasy-type girl comics, and she is a cartoonist that Cong Yang is currently focusing on training. It is not surprising that the first few comics of the new year will give her color page covers.

The composition of the whole picture is almost exactly the same as Shi Yin's poster. She painted that one for a long time, so she remembers it very clearly. It's just that the two male protagonists, Hong Ming and Mansion Longque, have become the male protagonist and the female protagonist. The others,

The actions are the same.

Shi Yin froze completely. He climbed out of bed and ran into the living room barefoot. He sat on the sofa and opened the sample book he just got in the morning. He took out the posters and stacked them together for comparison.

It's indeed almost the same.

Shi Yin's mind was pounding, and he was completely confused, sitting on the sofa in a daze.

If it were someone else, Shi Yin would even think that this was a coincidence. After all, the composition is something that cannot be explained clearly, and there are still some differences in the painting styles of the two people, and some details are also different. The entire picture of Li Nian

The whole thing looks harmonious, with no sense of dissonance at all.

But since this person was away from the New Year, Shi Yin would inevitably not think more about it.

The two people in the front had a series of unpleasant incidents, and the two in the back produced similar paintings. If it was a coincidence, it was too coincidental. Moreover, Shi Yin knew exactly what Li Nian's comics were like.

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Shi Yin rushed to the printing factory as soon as possible.

When she arrived, Gu Congli happened to be there too. Shi Yin was stunned when she saw him: "Why are you here?"

Gu Congli stood at the door smoking, raised his eyes, and said calmly: "Why didn't you call me?"

"I forgot, and I asked you to come and I have to wait for you. Why don't I walk faster by myself," Shi Yin walked in with a sad face, "No one saw that poster before I gave it to you."

She turned her head and said aggrievedly: "I really don't know what's going on with Li Nian, unless -"

After a pause, my heart skipped a beat.

Her poster was drawn in a coffee shop, unless someone saw her sketch or composition when passing by and then went back to copy it.

But it's useless to think about it now.

This kind of thing itself is troublesome. A painter who messes with the composition is like someone who writes a novel who messes with the outline and framework. A novel has hundreds of thousands of words, but a painting is just like a picture, which is equivalent to starting from scratch.

The scene of the car accident where the car hit the rear was horrific.

Even if the time can be calculated to be almost the same, this is a trouble in itself, and her single book has not yet been released, while the magazine of Li Nian has been published over there. Preconceived notions enter the eyes of readers, and everyone will feel,

Li Nian is the earlier one.

Even if she shows the time of her draft in the end, proving that she is the earlier one, many people will not look at it. If your poster has the same composition as others, this in itself will greatly reduce people's expectations.

It's sad.

The only way is for her to come out with a new picture now and replace the colorful picture on the poster.

Shi Yin took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and watched as Gu Congli went in to call the staff and whispered something to him.

Shi Yin looked around, then turned to look at Gu Congli: "If the sample book was just received today, it shouldn't have started printing yet?"

Gu Congli smoked his cigarette and followed her in: "Not yet, but the materials -" he paused, "the posters and bookmarks have been printed."

Shi Yin's face turned pale.

Because of the popularity of her book "Hongming Dragon Bird", Yaoguang Society was very kind and even gave her a first printing of 30,000 yuan.

Shi Yin only has one complete work. Although he has been painting for several years, it was only this year that he painted "Hong Ming" and some comics on Weibo. It can be said that he has gained some popularity in the circle.

Although comics are on the rise now, the first printing of a single volume of 30,000 can still be said to be very, very good.

Not everyone is Teacher Qi'an. With his terrible print volume, he can be regarded as someone at the top of the pyramid.

In other words, the bookmarks and posters have been printed, a total of 30,000 sets. If they need to be replaced, all of them will be discarded.

Shi Yin's little face wrinkled together bitterly: "If, I mean if, I draw a new picture now and replace these, how much does it cost for 30,000 sets of posters and bookmarks? I can pay for it.

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Gu Congli glanced at her: "The cost of posters and bookmarks is relatively low. This doesn't cost much. The key is that we don't have enough time."

He continued quietly: "It's been so long since the pre-sale, and the time has been released. The publicity and distribution department's promotional posters were all finished a few days ago, and the dates have been set with the cooperative bookstores. You can redraw them here.

Once a color picture is color corrected and sent to the factory, it will be too late to print it out.”

Shi Yin licked his lips: "Two days."

"Two days?" Gu Congli repeated slowly.

Shi Yin nodded: "I'll go home and draw a new one now. I'll give you the new picture tomorrow. If it's a little faster, there should be enough time. You can communicate with the printing factory."

Gu Congli narrowed his eyes: "You want to draw a color picture before the day after tomorrow, and do you want to have the same degree of completion as before?"

Shi Yin fell silent.

Her previous picture took almost the entire New Year holiday to draw. All the colors of the entire picture, the body of the protagonist, and some small details of the background were all cut out bit by bit.

But this was the only way she could think of.

She didn't even want to be on par with Li Nian. The new picture had to be better than the current one.

After making the decision, Shi Yin immediately returned home and called Liang Qiushi over.

The overall progress of the project was delayed by two days, and many things needed to be negotiated and arranged. Gu Congli went to find the person in charge of the printing factory, and the two of them went their separate ways for the time being.

Shi Yin was very nervous before. He was thinking about the composition all the way in the car. The composition was more brilliant than the previous one, and the picture was more impactful than before. He needed to improve the body movements of the two protagonists and so on.

More catchy.

This is a shounen manga. Although the two protagonists, Hong Ming and Mansion Longque, already have a strong sense of CP. There are a lot of CP pictures of the two of them on various original artist websites on Weibo, but Shi Yin’s original work itself

, all the lines, storyboards and interactions are indeed without any corrupt elements.

Therefore, when Liang Qiushi suggested adding something like this to the poster, Shi Yin simply refused.

It's not because she doesn't like this kind of thing, she actually likes it quite a lot, and has even drawn jokes on Weibo, but since this is an orthodox shounen comic, she doesn't want to put something else to attract everyone's attention.

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Shi Yin turned on the computer and sat at the table, holding the tablet in her hand high, thinking about what she could draw.

She has two very popular protagonists. The previous poster showed the two protagonists meeting for the first time, standing on the edge of a cliff.

Because the painting is about knives and swords, there are many supporting characters, including Zhan Lu, Chi Xiao, Tai'a, Xintinghou, and even every supporting character is very popular.

When is the time when a shounen manga series is most popular?

At the end.

Because the ending is the final battle, the ending, the characters who have appeared in each unit before will appear on the scene, the multi-party melee, the protagonist and supporting characters, the protagonist team and the villain, every character is in that scene.

Shi Yin blinked, grabbed a pen and quickly sketched out a rough sketch of the whole, and sent it to Gu Congli: "I want to draw one like this, so I just draw all the characters, knives and swords that have appeared so far."

Drawing it in, in fact many readers even prefer the supporting characters to the two protagonists, which seems to be better than the previous one.】

Gu Congli was probably busy too, so Shi Yin couldn't wait for his reply, so he simply started painting.

Almost half an hour later, he replied: [Yes.]

Shi Yin was about to be happy.

[Gu Congli: Have you finished the painting? 】

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Shi Yin silently counted the positions of all the characters that had appeared on the sketch.

One, two, three, four, five, six, including the two protagonists, there are a total of eight characters to draw.

In two days, eight people, the degree of completion must reach the same level as before.

From now on, it doesn't seem impossible to paint for two days and one night without eating, drinking or sleeping.

Shi Yin painted the last stroke in the early morning of the third day before the printing factory opened.

Gu Congli has not been back home in the past few days. He brought a change of clothes from home. After Shi Yin finished painting, he called him hoarsely: "Gu Congli! Gu Congli!"

Gu Congli came in with a cup of warm milk, flicked his pen, and completely collapsed in the chair. He took the milk in his hand, drank it with a gulp, then leaned down on the table and tapped his chin towards the computer screen.

I don't want to say a word.

A vertical poster with eight people on it, headed by the protagonist, followed by six people of different shapes, sitting or standing, some young and childish, some cold and mature.
To be continued...