Recently, one of the most popular works is called "Chang'an Fantasy Night", which is a good blend of ancient and rococo styles, with delicate brushwork and soft colors, and has been highly sought after by many people, and her die-hard FANS have opened a posting bar in Baidu, which has as many as 13 pages of postings. Her main works are: "When Boy Meets Girl", "Suffering Baby", "Bao'er Behave Yourself Door Open", "Angel Fly", "The Great Battle", "Fairytale of Paradise Lost", "Baptist Food", "Black Tea", "1945 War Revelation", "Lost Wall", "Lost Mirror", "Lost Lips", "Sin", "Battle of Valentine's Day", "Angels and Demons", "The Heart of the Buddha", "The Card Game of Four", "Hunger", "Bone Eaters", "The Bone Eaters", "The Bone Eaters", and "The Bone Eaters". Hunger, Bone Eating Butterfly, Hospital Zero, Smoke, Demon Fox, and Ekou. She is now a contracted artist for Manga Friends, and is very active with over one hundred illustrations for Manga Friends.
BENJAMIN
Ben name: Zhang Bin
Birthday: May 16
Zodiac sign: Taurus
Hometown: Heilongjiang Province
Education: Dalian Institute of Light Industry (DILI), majoring in Fashion Design
Favorite movie: "The Graduate"
Date of debut: 1999
Debut Works: "Officer SENA" (originally titled "SENA and Lover")
Representative Works: One-shot "Remember", "ONE DAY", "BENJAMIN Computer Comic Techniques"
Author's Biography
BENJAMIN is a boy from Northeast China, his father is a military man, and his mother is a teacher. He is now pursuing his own comic path in Beijing, an avid comic book fan with a bad habit of spraying nosebleeds!
In college, I majored in costume design, and these days it seems like everyone is studying costume. Since there was no comics department, I did the same.
Lived in something like a wolf's den with a few comic book friends. Often shuffled down the street in a pair of slippers. Liked tight shirts, we called them "sansho" shirts. I love punk rock and hero music, and the music of PANTERA makes me write like crazy. I have a VENSON guitar, which must be crying because I can't even play "Romance of Love" all the way through.
Love the American style skateboarding, biker party. Although I can only ride a "two eights" to go biking. My dream of rock and roll is to draw a comic like this sooner or later! The cartoonist who had a great influence on me is Taiwan's Jun Blamei. When Mr. Jin Cheng of Comic Book Club introduced her drawings to me, she was still considered a newcomer, but in less than a year, Jun Blamei has become so popular. It is said that her manga style is the most imitated in the south.
When I get tired of drawing, I lift dumbbells, first 25 kilograms and now 40 kilograms. It's amazing how no matter how sleepy you are, just lifting a couple of sets lifts your spirits very much up! A lot of guys who draw comics have a sports fetish, some run several kilometers a day, some vow to win the taekwondo championship. The sicker ones I've known.
So far I've published 118 pages of manga as BENJAMIN, which is pathetic, if it's a Japanese manga artist it's probably only a week's work. It is said that this is the real gap between Chinese manga and Japanese manga. But it should be much more than that!
New Neocon cartoonist BENJAMIN close file
BENJAMIN graduated from the science class, the work is super realistic, strong sense of immersion, the hustle and bustle of the city love tragedy, completely national goods (from drawing tools to the selection of topics to the style of the setting and the virtual society of the national goods). Don't be too happy, grandpas, this "national product" doesn't mean wearing ancient costumes and using ink to educate children and teenagers. Rather, it means that the object of expression is purely Chinese new people: a group of Japanese and Korean people who play with computers and watch TV programs about foreign houses and sports cars, who live in illegal buildings that have been passed down from generation to generation for eight hundred years, and who think that the highest modern science and technology is going to leave the country tomorrow, but still use squatting toilets; and those who are old enough to think that "they are just a small group of people", and those who are middle-aged enough to think that "Chinese cultural education should be strengthened". "to strengthen Chinese cultural education", young people are all guys. This national product is not another national product. The real Chinese national conditions. The latest cartoonist is a real one! Look at him rushed manuscript boiling red eyes but no name, no identity, no one knows the red-haired boy really can't bear ...... no no - is "infinite" really can't bear!
The media
BENJAMIN in the mainland original cartoon industry is a "geek". Often times, it is impossible to define him by a precise "position". He has been designing, making web pages, publishing picture books, drawing comics, writing articles, and doing almost everything else. As a new generation cartoonist in China, the men in his works often smoke, drink, play the piano, play the gun, play the drums, have a long body, wear low-waisted jeans, in short, all the way to the wild and unrestrained, of course, to attract cartoon fans is also this "COOL". Comic culture to "new" as the call, to create the domestic strength of the cartoonist, had a super cool drawing skills to pick "Comic Friends" the first "DOUBLE!" original cartoon awards champion title, with its magnificent colors, perfect character portrayal, With his magnificent colors, perfect characterization, and personalized atmosphere, he has swept away the dreary situation in the domestic comic industry, and played an important role in promoting the fashionable process of the mainland's animation.
BENJAMIN's representative work is "Flowers Without Summer" published in May 2000, which laid the foundation for his future style of work, and also won the enthusiastic response of the majority of readers, and BENJAMIN jumped to become one of the most influential authors in the country. 2001, he published "Pigeons Flying Silently", and in 2002, he and Comic Book Culture launched the personal collection "ONE DAY". In 2001, he published "Pigeons Flying Silently", and in 2002, he and Comic Culture launched the personal collection "ONE DAY" and "BENJAMIN Computer Comic Techniques". In 2004, with the work "No One Will Fly, No One Will Remember", he won the Best Story Comic Gold Medal of the First Golden Dragon Award (OACC) Comic Part Competition, and in the same year, he and Comic Culture launched the second single book of his personal comic book career, "Remember", and the recent comic book version poster of "Seven Swords", made with Tsui Hark***, made it even better to make it more popular in China. Seven Swords" comic version of the poster has made him the center of attention.
Silent Land
Original Name: Zu Yale
Gender: Female
Hometown: Chengdu, Sichuan
Date of Birth: June 22, 1983
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Interests: Doodling, watching movies, listening to music, writing
Dream: To be able to live an easy, rich life and draw forever!
Favorite Manga Artists: Benjamin, Yao Feira, Osamu Tezuka, Hikaru Araki, Rumiko Takahashi
Specialty: 2002 Grade Illustrated Books
Illustrations: The Secret of Beibei Bear, Hand in Hand, etc.
Beginning in 2002, I started to publish my manga works, short stories, and illustrations in various manga magazines, and began to publish in best-selling magazines in June 2003, when I started to work in the best-selling magazines in the world. In June, 2003, she started to serialize her work "My Way" in the best-selling magazine "Xinlei-STORY100". With the fresh and warm drawing style, infectious colors, and warm and sad words, the work was very well received by readers, and quickly became a new force in Chinese comics.
In 2004, the illustrated comic book "My Way" became the top seller of mainland China's illustrated comic books and was reprinted as many as 9 times. 2005 saw the publication of "My Way 2 The Time Ocean", which had a remarkable sales record and was reprinted 5 times in three months, becoming one of China's most appealing comics in terms of market appeal. As of May '06, the cumulative sales of the My Way series exceeded 100,000 copies.
My Way 3 Blue Cookie will be published at the end of May, 2006. Currently "My Way" series has acquired Malaysia Singapore copyright. And it has been favored by several French publishers, and the French version is currently under negotiation with Manga Culture.
"Emotional color magician" Silent Earth: a new generation of picture book artist who warms the heart
In 2004, a shining new star in the mainland animation industry jumped into the limelight all of a sudden.
In June 2004, Silent Earth, who was only 20 years old and studying at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, started to publish a picture book cartoon "MY WAY MY WAY" in the magazine "Xinlei-STORY100", which was launched, and its colorful as well as delicate emotions immediately attracted the attention of readers from all walks of life, and received an overwhelming response. In October of the same year, by virtue of its high popularity, "MY WAY MY WAY" grandly launched a single-volume book, in addition to six major cities in Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Kunming, Wuhan, Guangzhou, hot sales, its national sales results to catch up with the illustrated works of several meters, the work of the single-volume market in half a year has been reprinted a number of times.
Also in 2004, MY WAY MY WAY won the first Golden Dragon Award for Best Illustrated Comic Book, and in 2005, it won the second Golden Dragon Award for Best Illustrated Book of the Year.
All kinds of halos came to "MY WAY MY WAY", Silent Earth's name quickly rang all over the country, and was praised by all sides. MY WAY MY WAY" has not only exported the authorized Malaysian copyright, but also by Europe and the United States and other countries publishers attention, with this debut work of Silent Earth gradually promoted to become a Chinese cartoon society in the circle of the new star, but the more brilliant future is gradually unfolding in front of her.
After a year's gestation, "MY WAY MY WAY 2" was born in November 2005, also planned and produced by Manga Culture. Also planned and packaged by Mangyou Culture, MY WAY MY WAY 2 has a deeper connotation and higher collection value than MY WAY MY WAY. MY WAY MY WAY 2" has been refined and has formed its own unique series, which has become an important milestone in Silent Earth's creative journey, and it deserves the throne of NO.1 original picture book in Mainland China.
With the success of Silent Earth, major media magazines across the country have reported and serialized Silent Earth's works. Sina, Nanfang, 21CN, MangaFan.com, Southern Metropolis Daily, Guangzhou Daily, and Girlfriends, Silent Earth's name can be seen in all these familiar media. On the Internet, Silent Earth's personal blog "Time Ocean" has been established since March 2005, the hit rate has been more than 40,000 times, about Silent Earth's news and blogs are even more numerous.
However, the story of Silent Earth is still going on, in 2006, "MY WAY MY WAY 3" appeared in front of everyone, and once again warmed our hearts with its unique way--
Silent Earth is like a "magician of emotional color".
Silent Earth is like a "magician of emotional colors", a young girl who is good at creating soft tones and emotional images by using contrasting colors, and who is still studying hard at school. She is doing her best as a student, and is taking on the pressures of life on her own. Although her parents' divorce and the death of her beloved mother had filled the world of Silent Earth with gloom, this strong girl has melted and absorbed all the trials and tribulations of life. In her writing, we can't see a trace of sickness, we see warmth, sunshine and hope!
Awards
Best Illustrated Book Award of the 1st OACC Chinese Animation Competition
Best Mainland Illustrated Book of the Year of the 2nd OACC Chinese Animation Competition
Weng Ziyang
Birth Year: March 1975
Hometown: Wuhan, Hubei Province
Character: Pisces
Blood Type. Type O
Preferred Season: Summer
Preferred Color: Red
Preferred Food: Wine
Representative Works: The Ballad of Cile, The Moonlight Phantom
Preferred Illustrator: Justin Swete
Weng Ziyang, a man whose name is full of poetry, studied at the Hubei Fine Arts Institute from 1993 to 1997. From 1993 to 1997, he studied Chinese Painting at Hubei Academy of Fine Arts and taught at Wuhan University in 1997, and has ten years of creative experience. His CG illustrations are mostly expressed in Chinese ink painting, with a cool and poignant style, and he is known as an ink CG master among domestic cartoonists. In his drawings, there are Wu Hook, Beauty, and Heshi Bi in Spring and Autumn, the grand unification of Qin and Han that swallowed the mountains and rivers, and also the flourishing great country scrolls of Tang, Song, and Five Dynasties, for which some people evaluate him as the most dazzling illustrator in China after Benjamin, and will even surpass the former. At the same time, he is also a stout, long-haired handsome man, self-proclaimed "a perm of the classical man". Ask him again are you very classical, he replied: no, stay two years of braids just cut, not that handsome.
"I love to draw, before taking the master's degree, there is a period of no drawing. A very good friend drunkenly said me, why don't you draw it, you can always draw ah. That day I remembered what I said when I was young, that I wanted to draw pictures for the rest of my life, that creating was the happiest thing I'd ever done, that everything was beautiful, always in the sunshine of Provence."
But the Road to the Song of Long Hate
Weng Ziyan's task at hand is wrapping up the manga "Song of Long Hate". He had read the book ten years ago. Weng's grandfather had been the president of Tongji University in Shanghai, and he had a unique understanding of the human condition in old Shanghai. As he describes the heroine Wang Qiyao, "Every little place is won, but the whole life is lost." As for Mr. Cheng, he just "fell in love with the Wang Qiyao in the photo".
First the play "Long Hate Song" was staged, then the movie "Long Hate Song" directed by Guan Jinpeng, and then the TV series "Long Hate Song" started shooting, and this old work of Wang Anyi became hot again. When the publishers were ready to publish the comic book "Song of Long Hate", they searched all over Shanghai but could not find a suitable candidate, until they thought of Weng Ziyan in Wuhan.
"To draw a comic book that can still be read after 10 or 20 years." That's Weng Ziyang's goal. He usually makes black-and-white drawings with a very fine marker pen, and then processes them into color drawings with Photoshop. When conceptualizing the characters of The Song of Long Hate, he decided to focus on realism, supplemented by tonal rendering in the style of ink painting. When he began to create the work, he said that the most difficult thing to capture was the women's eyes at different ages. "Twenty years old is clear; thirty years old can see through you at once, and then slowly turn back; forty years old, let me think again ......" Now faced with the same problem, he just says the problem has been solved, and you can just look at the paintings.
Weng Ziyang is very busy, in addition to the "Song of Eternal Hatred", he also has a not-so-light teaching task, teaching animated comics, game production, basic art and other courses. With the comic book industry on the rise, the school is also interested in opening a bachelor's and even a master's degree in related majors. Therefore, although he claims to be on the Internet, but really met on the Internet, threw him a good question, his answer is usually only one or two words. After a few times, the cartoonist then seems to get upset and sends you a heavily illustrated packet with his work and a detailed personal questionnaire.
In it, I came across these two paragraphs, "I love drawing and hadn't done it for a while before I took my master's degree. A very good friend said to me drunkenly, why don't you draw anymore, you can keep on drawing. That day I remembered what I said when I was young, I said I want to paint pictures all my life, creating is the happiest thing I've ever done, everything is beautiful, always in the sunshine of Provence." "If we are not meant to be Mozart, do not give up the delight of playing."
In it, there are also several CG paintings of Nuwa, Nezha, Daji, and other mythological figures, in enchanting and gorgeous and even bizarre styles. There was also an illustration from "Moonlight - Phantom" of two swordsmen leaning against each other, their gazes chilling, and I didn't hesitate to set it as my computer desktop.
My paintings are drunk
Weng Ziyang once said that his paintings are drunk, so they are casual and forthright, chivalrous, reminiscent of Jing Ke and Gao Jianli, with their white coats fluttering, and by the Yishui River, where the strongest warriors are gone for good, or perhaps Li Bai's "Wine Will Be Entered" and "Chivalrous", and of all the martial arts novelists of all times, such as Ancient Dragon, Jin Yong, Wen Rui'an, Liang Yusheng, and Lord of the House of Returning Pearls. Asked whether he likes Gu Long or Jin Yong, or even which martial arts character, he replied in a big, general way, "Anyone who can drink is good." By implication, he is also a character who can drink. Then asked him how much alcohol, he casually replied: okay, white wine almost a catty. This can only drink some beer for me, still think it's marvelous. He then asked: you will not write about this, right? Now that I'm older, I can't drink too much, and we've just had a medical checkup.
Asked him what hobbies he usually has. Just say no time. "Oh, like to play ball." Always thought a meter eight or so he should be playing basketball. Who expected him to say: is badminton. Let me surprised for a while.
Such a cool teacher should be very popular with the students. "Generally average." Weng Ziyang says he leaves after class and doesn't have much time to soak up the students. "But I am very rowdy and crazy in class." I can't figure out what kind of state this is, but it's a fact that his elective course "History of Western Art" has a high attendance rate at WU. When he was delayed on a business trip, several classes were put together, and the students often complained about it.
Weng Ziyang answered the question bluntly, under the first talk quite embarrassed, after a few back and forth realize that this is called frankness. For example, after painting so many ancient, asked him to feel and in the mind of the ancients whether it fits. He threw over a sentence: Zhang Jizhong has not been to the ancient world, not according to shoot the eagle?
CG can stand side by side with oil painting
How did he come to draw comics when he studied Chinese painting? I guess many people have asked Weng Ziyang the same question. I doubt my question was met with his disdain. Still, a few days later, he talked seriously about it. "My feeling about oil painting and Chinese painting is that the former is very thick, and the latter has deep roots in China. At that time I thought there must be a new kind of painting that combines them. When CG popped up, I thought it would be a good vehicle to get rid of the reliance on white paper and become more popular. It's actually hard for the average person to access oil paintings, think about how many times a year you see oil paintings and Chinese paintings. But CG comics can be encountered in magazines, books, movies and TV shows. I think in the future CG can stand shoulder to shoulder with oil painting and Chinese painting."
Weng Ziyan has drawn many pure and beautiful covers for comic magazines. In the forum, there are many Fans who are fascinated by them. Weng Ziyang is very conscious of this, and has a clear distinction between market requirements and self-requirements. He even called these cover illustrations meaningless. "I will stop in the second half of the year." Compared with not bothering to draw illustrations, Weng Ziyang pours more effort into the styling of game characters. One of the game designs he is most proud of is Korea's Inkigayo.
He has a long list of favorite characters: musicians ranging from Mozart and Bach to Kitaro, who created the Silk Road; literary figures such as Yukio Mishima; painters such as Katsushika Hokusai, the Japanese ukiyo-e painter; Klimt, the master of Symbolist paintings; and Leben, the great Russian peasant painter. He also included Lin Hwai-min, who founded the Cloud Gate Dance Theater in Taiwan, as well as traditional Chinese inscriptions, Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera. His favorite subjects range from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, to the distant lands of Rome, Egypt, and the Kamakura Shogunate. Inspiration comes from sources other than music, dance, kunqu, miscellaneous writings, travel, and even sleep is said to help.
After dealing with computers for so long, he has plans to return, "More and more I want to paint on frames and rice paper, but unfortunately I don't have the time. In the second half of the year, I'll be making small sculptures, or more accurately, toys with a Chinese flavor of ink. I'm just doing it for fun, I haven't gotten involved in commercial operations yet." When it comes to more specific future creative operations, he only said three words: draw slowly
SHEL
Birthday: May 20
Birthday: May 20
Hometown: Guangdong
Horoscope: Taurus
Main creative experience: In mid-2003, he began to publish illustrations in the Manga Friends-STORY100 (now Xinlei STORY100), which is a magazine that publishes illustrations for the Chinese comic book industry, and he has also worked on a series of books for the Chinese comic book industry. STORY100) since mid-2003. He was awarded the Gold Medal for Best Illustration at the 2nd Golden Dragon Awards (OACC2005) for his illustration "Children of Heaven".
Works published in the "Manga Friends" department: "Success Misplaced", "The Final Year of Summer", "Whom You Meet", "Dinner for Three - Four Seasons Suite", "If Voices Don't Remember" series of illustrations. Several Naruto homages.
Favorite Manga Works: Naruto, Bugmaster, GOKUSEN
Favorite Manga or Illustrator: Rumiko Takahashi, Hiroaki Shamura, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Kenji Tsuruta, Lisbeth Zwerger
Favorite Anime Characters: Hagi Kakashi, Sasuke Uchiha... ...
Favorite movies/music/literature: Shawshank Redemption, The Horseman on the Roof, Schindler's List... ...
Preferred Colors: Red, White, Blue
Preferred Animals/Plants: Wolves, Cats, Sunflowers, Roses
Preferred Things Other Than Manga: Watching Movies, Playing Games, Surfing the Internet, Cooking
As the illustrator of the earliest Manga Friends STORY100, SHEL's delicate drawing style and clear characterizations are a great example of how to make the most of a manga's history. As an illustrator from the earliest days of "Manga STORY100", SHEL's delicate drawing style and beautiful character modeling have been widely praised by readers, and gradually became the chief illustrator of "Xinlei STORY100". 05 years, she cooperated with the popular author of the book "those warm and beautiful things in life" published by the youth fall in the book hot sales so that more readers know and become her die-hard. Since she has been studying at the Film Academy Animation School, she has been involved in a number of large-scale animation production, including the CCTV animation "Dreamer" and other professional work. Recently, the collection of SHEL's own love of "Naruto" homoerotic drawings - "Oath of Yan" has been published by Taiwan, SHEL's popularity is also broadcasting the overseas Chinese market. 06 October by the Comic Culture launched the "wind color Clover" is the summary of the classic works of the past and review of SHEL, so let's *** with the expectations! SHEL will bring us more surprises and classics in the future!