Chapter 23 (1/2)

Old Huang was worried. “Would it work? Even though Teacher Chen Qi is a big shot within our industry, he might have forgotten something from a year ago. Are you sure he even remembers you?”

“Besides, all of these industry veterans would usually charge a fixed and high price for advertising and they wouldn’t lower their personal values. If we ask them for help in advertising Ghost General without offering anything in return…”

Ruan Guangjian shook his head. “That’s not for sure. Based on my observations, these veterans are usually easygoing. Even though they take on a lot of paid advertising deals, it’s also common for them to help one another advertise on Weibo.”

“The important thing is whether or not they would like our work.”

“If they do, someone would definitely be willing to share it. But if they don’t, there’s nothing we can do about that.”

Old Huang nodded his head. “Seems like we can only try.”

Ruan Guangjian opened the group chat and Old Huang took a look – indeed, there were all sorts of talents in it.

The owner of the group was called Chen Qi. He was someone who had already made a name for himself within the domestic games original arts artist circle a couple of years back. He was always invited for various concept art competitions for games, typically as a judge.

As for the other admins within the group, they were all famous characters.

Some of them were famous within the domestic animation circle.

Some of them specialized in concept designing.

There were even game designers, producers and novelists et cetera.

These were all people from Chen Qi’s network with the majority being artists while the rest were in the games, animations or other sectors.

Ruan Guangjian felt a mountainous pressure crushing on him just by even leaving a single message in such a group chat with this many big shots.

He thought it through. If he were to just state that he was asking for their help in advertising the game outright, no one would do it and it would seem rude of him as well.

“Hi, everyone. I am an arts student in my fourth year. I’ve recently produced a set of original arts and would like to seek all the opinions of you veterans on the flaws of it and how I could improve further. Could I do that?”

Ruan Guangjian had an extremely polite tone.

Even though he was confident in his own skills, he was a junior at the end of the day and he had to be humble when there was a need for it.

The group wasn’t particularly active and most of the big shots were mindful of conversing or advertising overly.

As such, Ruan Guangjian’s message was not pushed up right away and it lingered in the group chat for some time.

After two minutes, someone called Painter Old Liu replied, “Sure, send it over.”

Ruan Guangjian posted some of his works that he was particularly fond of in it. “Thank you for your esteemed guidance, veteran!”

Painter Old Liu: “Don’t worry about it, we’re all in the same trade. Interaction helps us to grow together. I’ve only entered the trade a couple of years before you.”

A few minutes later.

Painter Old Liu: “!!!”

“… I take back what I said earlier, you’re the veteran! Those shadows, that style, the details! Are you sure you’re really only a fourth year student?”

Before long, the other lurkers were lured out by these images.

“Yet another veteran who’s pretending to be a rookie? This guy’s calling himself a rookie with such skilled techniques? If you’re a rookie, what am I?!”

“His foundation is so solid!”

“The presentation style is really unique! That dragon is Guan Yu? Even though the style seems really overhauled, it doesn’t come across as glaring and it’s really natural!”

“This is a really epic feeling! Be it the character or the background, everything looks so grand!”

“Are all rookies so monstrous?!”

“I can’t even give any opinions in terms of technique for an original art of this level. This is just gifted!”

“This gave me the feeling of an overseas veteran’s art! Even Fantasy World’s original arts aren’t as stellar as these!”