All-rounder Artist

Chapter 364: Chapter 343: Change to a Different Cover Than_1

Luo Wei laughed, “Almost a year.”

Lin Yuan was taken aback, “A year of what?”

Luo Wei continued smiling, “Have you forgotten the agreement we made? I lost to you in the traditional painting contest that day and agreed to be your manga assistant for two years. It’s almost a year since then, I’ve even graduated from university!”

“Still a year left?”

Lin Yuan realized, “I’m in my fifth year!”

It was July. Lin Yuan had just begun his summer vacation after his fourth year. Although he hadn’t officially started his fifth year, he would be a true fifth-year student once September came. However, Lin Yuan had taken so many leaves that he hardly noticed this.

“Huh?”

Luo Wei blinked her eyes, “You can’t even remember your academic days, let alone our other agreement. You promised that if I did a good job as your assistant, you’d teach me traditional painting. I suppose I’ve done pretty well, haven’t I?”

Lin Yuan: “…”

He really had forgotten about that.

However, Luo Wei did remind Lin Yuan that he had said all those things.

The main reason Lin Yuan agreed to teach Luo Wei traditional painting was because he received a task from the system.

The task required him to raise his painting prestige to over 300,000 in a year!

The task reward was a Gold Treasure Chest containing Master Level painting techniques!

Now, the deadline for the task was looming very close!

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan said to Luo Wei, “After the release of ‘Death Note’, I’ll make time to teach you traditional painting.”

“Okay!”

Luo Wei nodded excitedly.

She certainly loved manga, but her love for traditional painting never faded.

Lin Yuan didn’t continue chatting with Luo Wei, but silently thought:

“System, could you give me some hints about the time limits on tasks in the future?”

Many of the system’s tasks have time restrictions.

Last time, he went overtime on the apprentice task.

Although the system eventually gave in, Lin Yuan felt that the system may not always be so accommodating. What a pity it would be to miss the task deadline due to timing issues.

The system’s mechanical voice replied, “Okay.”

Lin Yuan made a face, then said to Luo Wei who was getting up to pack and go home, “Let’s start drawing ‘Death Note’ officially tomorrow.”

Luo Wei was surprised, “Why the rush?”

Lin Yuan said, “You don’t need to know the specific reason. The earlier it is released, the sooner you can learn traditional painting.”

Luo Wei put on her backpack, “Well in that case, I’m pumped up!”

Lin Yuan nodded, “Let’s start tomorrow then.”

With a little more than two months left for the task of raising his painting prestige to over 300,000 within a year, Lin Yuan plans to release ‘Death Note’ before the deadline.

Lin Yuan’s current painting prestige sits at 270,000.

In other words, Lin Yuan is still lacking 30,000 prestige points to complete the task.

If ‘Death Note’ is successfully released, wouldn’t those two or three ten thousand points of prestige be easy to gain?

This is why Lin Yuan is suddenly eager to release ‘Death Note’.

Tasks are difficult and become null and void if they expire.

Considering the rich returns this task could bring, it was a Master Level painting technique!

According to the system’s determination, Master Level is the peak of any industry.

…

Driven by the task, the studio was buzzing with activity from the second day onwards, and a number of drafts for ‘Death Note’ were successfully completed.

Lin Yuan was also hard at work at the studio.

He was placing more and more trust in Yi Chenggong and Shen Qing, so the number of times he had to supervise the set was reducing. He only needed to go over when the dogs were required for the shots.

“Instead of calling myself a screenwriter, I would rather say I am a dog trainer.”

Anyway, Lin Yuan believed so. The film crew didn’t need him most of the time.

While creating ‘Death Note’, Lin Yuan let Jin Mu and Tribe Comics discuss the distribution of royalties in the manga contract.

After the success of ‘Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma’, Lin Yuan had the capital to increase the price.

“It’s okay to raise the price, but I guess it won’t be too much.”

Jin Mu said bitterly, “Mainly, the comic artists from Chu Continent are so powerful that it has impacted our later results.”

Why did ‘Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma’ lose its steam in the later period and lose its position as the pillar of the platform?

The first reason was that the manga caused aesthetic fatigue.

The second reason was that the people of Chu entered the scene!

The Chu people are best at animation.

When Chu joined the merger, Tribe Comics attracted dozens of manga GOATs.

These GOATs from Chu land released new works one after another, with several of them making a big impact, directly suppressing the Qin and Qi people.

All they could do was sigh that the Chu people were born invincible in the field of animation.

Just like the Qin people were good at music, it was unbeatable.

Lin Yuan wasn’t necessarily aiming for a high price either: “You do what you think is best.”

“Okay.”

Jin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, then asked, “So, is our manga scheduled to be released in August?”

“How about August?”

“Alright, August is not bad.”

Lin Yuan was puzzled, “What’s good about August?”

Jin Mu explained, “August is the summer vacation and there are many students around. The majority of the manga audience are students. If we release the manga at this time, the level of attention will be higher.”

“Oh.”

“But while August is a good time, it also means that competition will be intense in August. I just checked, and some quite powerful Tribe Comics artists have already announced that they’ll be releasing new works in August. Among them are two heavyweights who are famous comic artists from Chu land.”

“I see.”

Of course, Lin Yuan knew what Jin Mu meant by intense competition. The website generally promotes new manga releases, but these promotional resources are limited. The top resources of the same period are generally assigned to the hottest comic artist-

It’s a mechanism to compete for a recommended position.

If there are no more popular comic artists during the same period than Lin Yuan, the best resources of course would be assigned to Lin Yuan. But if there are two more comic artists who are not inferior to Lin Yuan, then those resources would be competed for by Lin Yuan and the other two.

Of course, the best resources would be given to whoever’s new work is hotter. After all, Shadow really isn’t worse off compared to the two comic artists from Chu land.

“Hmm.”

Lin Yuan was not worried at all.

Of course, Jin Mu didn’t know about Lin Yuan’s calmness. He was still a bit worried.

But he was good at comforting himself:

“Boss, don’t worry too much. After all, you are quite formidable in the field of manga. If we can win this new publication period, we can restore some face for our Qin people’s manga. The people of Chu have been very smug about suppressing our manga.”

Lin Yuan: “…”

This kind of regional rivalry certainly wouldn’t easily disappear just because the states were merged. People always subconsciously compared with each other.

Speaking of which.

This was not the first time he had been compared with Chu people. It was just a different alias this time.