Chapter 145 - 144: Adults Don’t Have Summer Vacation
Time rushed into July, and although the initial excitement had worn off, Qin Guanglin didn’t slacken. In the mornings, he would bring breakfast and fresh vegetables to He Fang’s place, and in the evenings, they would go running after dinner before dawdling a bit and then heading to sleep.
Busy yet not boring.
He had completed half of the overall progress of the comic in his hands, and had stopped coloring a week ago, planning to leave it till all the drawings were finished.
As his understanding deepened slowly, he would find many flaws when he looked back at the earlier drawings. If he had colored them, he would have had to start over entirely, which was too troublesome. But with just the line drawings, it was much easier to modify earlier scenes, dialogue, and character placement. Just redoing a drawing would suffice.
Qin Guanglin finished a Chapter, stood up to grab a cup of water, and came back flipping through his earlier drawings while drinking.
His progress was obvious. He was quite something.
He happily finished his water and set down the cup to examine the drawings in earnest.
There was a term called ’idiocy rate’, simply put, it means looking back at your past self after a while and thinking how idiotic you were.
For instance, when looking back at what you posted a year or two ago on social media, most people would feel: Holy shit, was that really me? Why was I so silly? What the hell was I thinking?
In essence, the ’idiocy rate’ is a measure of the speed of growth. The shorter the cycle, the faster the growth. If you don’t feel this way after several years, you’re probably beyond help.
Qin Guanglin didn’t exaggerate to the point of finding his work from the previous day childish, but after nearly a month, he found several issues with his work at the outset, simply by giving it a causal scan.