[About the story background]
I have been studying in Paris for four years, and it has been four years since I returned to China. Many details in my memory are not clear, but the strange feeling brought by the exotic atmosphere has always been there. However, many of the places I visited back then are no longer clear in my memory. If there is any discrepancy between the descriptions in the text and the reality of Paris, everyone will regard them as artistic re-creations, and there is no need to take them seriously.
The art school in this article is based on the one I studied at that time.
A small school with not many classrooms, each class is in a different classroom, and even the bathrooms are shared by men and women - this is actually nothing to be used to, even French boys rarely urinate in such public toilets Chi, everyone closes the compartment door, there will be no embarrassment.
I can also vividly recall gathering together at noon every day in a small dining room to heat up meals in the microwave, waiting for coffee in front of that very inefficient coffee machine.
I forgot how many steps there are outside the school gate, but it looks like five. Every time between classes, a group of students gathered outside the door to chat, drink a cup of coffee and smoke a cigarette or something.
About the weekly challenge.
In fact, we call it "workshop", but I am not used to the appearance of foreign words in the text, so I changed it to "weekly challenge".
Shuffle the class, make random matches, and create a story in a week. A graphic research report, a complete storyboard, and three highly-completed paintings are really a lot of work. In fact, it took us two days to determine the story, and the rest of the time was spent painting draw drawing...
Of course, it's boring to write the story like this, so let them research for a few more days and find more places to cultivate their feelings! you know!
The theme of "steps" was also drawn by me back then, but French children actually have their own perseverance, so in the end, the stories I thought were torn down, let's dismantle them, and rub them together, and in the end, I myself Can't recognize it. However, the end result is actually pretty good.
And in this kind of teamwork, there is one person in each group who does nothing but gives opinions, and there is always one person who has to worry about everything.
Unfortunately, I am the latter.
[About the characters]
Hugo.
At that time, our class really had a big boy with a face full of drills, but he was neither girly nor mainstream, but his temperament was extremely clean. He wears a ball head all the year round and likes to wear loose fittings, such as low-crotch harem pants with a very Moroccan style, but his tall and thin figure will never make him look sloppy.
In short, he is a person with a very strange temperament, which is refreshing and refreshing. He can really combine clean, clear and exotic style seamlessly.
I didn't even change his name, anyway, in France, there are a lot of people named "Hugo".
Cheng Ke Song.
I gave him the name Croissant with some wickedness—that kind of French Croissant. This idea stemmed from an ultra-short and beautiful comic that I drew when I was studying abroad in France.
The name of the comic is "Good Morning, Croissant! 》
In my design, Cheng Kesong is a typical introverted boy. In fact, it is somewhat like the state I was in when I was studying abroad.
Not completely introverted either, he can have a good conversation and even jokes if you approach him. In project cooperation, he can express his views and opinions well, but his emotional expression will never be as direct and exaggerated as French children.
The expression of the French is really exaggerated!
And they will really sing and dance face to face if they disagree! It's also a trivial matter to sing a couple of operas or popular anime songs!
At least there are a lot of classmates around me who are so out of touch. I don't know if it is related to studying art.
And I put the confidence of French children in Hugo. For example, when you praise them, if they think it makes sense, they will indeed proudly admit that you are right!
Very cute.
These two protagonists, one is more flamboyant and the other is more restrained, but neither is extreme. You could say they're normal people.
I didn't set their attack and attack, leave it to everyone to reverie!
[Some bridges]
Many of the passages in the article are my personal experiences while studying in Paris.
Such as being knocked down by a huge suitcase flying in from the sky on the subway steps. Without little Hugo's help, I fell directly under a series of steps, and the scene was very bloody. And that aunt still hasn't compensated me for my medical bills!
For example, what Cheng Kesong said about going to IKEA to buy a bunch of things, but the subway elevator was overhauled. I was a delicate little boy (at least at that time), carrying a dozen kilograms of packing boxes, and took two bus trips, one subway trip, and one tram ride. When I climbed home, I felt like my bones were about to fall apart. !
For example, I have painted the Louvre Museum and the Opera House. Of course not during the workshop, but when I was sketching outdoors. It is very good that many attractions in Paris are free for students, and there are many museums here. I like it.
For example, the rose-flavored ice cream ball that I will never forget!
I still remember that taste until I have been back home for several years now! It's a pity that the store is not as written in the article. They provide rose ice cream every early summer. They only made it that time. When I asked about it the next year, the waiter told me that the cost was too high and they stopped making it.
Very disappointed.
[Replenish]
Add a picture.
The research report mentioned in the article is different from the plain text report. What we asked for at that time were all clip art reports. And I haven't been able to do well, probably because I don't know what to write, and my French is terrible.
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