The student Zhang Xiaopiao
The heroine in the cartoon is a spicy, vivid, typical image of a Chongqing woman, but she is from Hubei. "I painting skin" named Zhang Xiaoping, born in 1980, husband "pig head" Huang Jianchun is Hechuan people, they are Shijiazhuang Postal High School classmates. "i painting skin" is a "post 80", graduated from Southwest University College of Foreign Languages, married to Chongqing Hechuan husband "pig head". Undergraduate study postal communications, postgraduate study of English, "I painting skin" and painting actually began to copy and "chase the stars". Her earliest is to copy some cartoon, and then learned a while PHOTOSHOP software. In graduate school, the Internet has been popular PS spoof, she began to join the spoof army, for spoof and constantly improve the level of software.
September 1997, the first night of school, the class introduced themselves, "pig head" on the "I painted skin" love at first sight. After that, no matter where "I painted skin", there must be a follower behind: queuing up for meals, open the water and other physical work was he took over; every night, he also went to the girls' dormitory work. The "I painting skin" was impressed and became his girlfriend.
Graduating from college in 2000, they each returned to their home post offices. "The pain of longing is very difficult, but our feelings are not affected by the distance, in addition to the network and telephone, every one or two months, he will thunder from Chongqing to Jingmen to see me." "I painting skin" words reveal happiness. Boyfriend for the pursuit of chapter small painting decided to go to graduate school. In order to "chase" her boyfriend, in 2003, she went to graduate school to enter the School of Foreign Languages at Southwest University, and her lover reunited in Chongqing.
Two years ago, they ended a 10-year love run, into the marriage hall, and in the new district of Chayuan purchased a set of love nest, sweet life together. Today, "I painted skin" is a teacher in a college in Yubei District, "pig head" is a private enterprise marketing manager .
"Our life every day there are funny things happen, he is a very cute person, every time we meet we always love to hip-hop jokes, and even hit each other, each other derogatory ...... "" I painting skin "I joked that her husband is a typical Chongqing good man, love his wife, to her in every way humble, and she loves to make a little sex, and sometimes even tease, "insult" lovely husband. The couple's life is full of fun.
The sweetness of life - Zhang Xiaopu listening to her husband on the phone
At that time, she fell in love with Huang Haibing, in the bar, forums, often PS Huang Haibing's picture, in the "ice fans" circle is very famous. When Huang Hai Bing got married, he also commissioned her to help PS some of the fans to send candy greeting cards. These photos are still on Huang Haibing's blog, leaving the "by painting" signature. "I Painted Skin" says that this is something that gives her a special sense of accomplishment. She does not like the story type of Japanese comics, only like humor and funny comics, online the latest comics such as "invincible little wife", "black back apocalypse", "80 small couple", etc., she not only catch up with the reading, out of the book but also buy to see.
Because she liked the genre, she decided that she wanted to draw this type of work herself. Especially when she knew that the author of "Invincible Little Wife" was a pure amateur, a housewife who had never learned to draw, she was even more encouraged, "after reading more, I felt that my own story is not worse than other people's, and if people can draw it out to be so funny, so can I."
At the moment, she is not only a fan of this genre, but also a fan of the "80s Little Wife" genre.
Currently she takes classes 3 days a week. When she's not working, she sleeps until she wakes up at noon to eat, paints in the afternoon and evening, and goes to bed before midnight. "The project is not really tiring at all because I go for a break after an hour or two of painting to rest my eyes, hands and back."
But right now, she feels she needs to be more efficient at drawing first. Most of "Spicy Fresh Wife" is four-panel comics, and it usually takes her four hours to draw a set out, "if there's nothing else, there's no problem drawing one a day.
"I've never been in contact with comics, a year ago in the Tianya community inadvertently saw a lot of comics, and fell in love. Later not only see, but also hands do notes, hook line, from copying other people's drawings to have their own style of drawing, but a month time." "i painted skin" said.
"These stories are from our lives, I will not deliberately to conceive, but is and 'pig head' to say a certain paragraph, or is doing certain things, I think it is suitable to enter the caricature, I began to unconsciously giggle, leaving behind the uncertainty of the ' Piggly Wiggly' and draw it right away." "i Drawing Skin" said that at first, "Pigs Head" found it puzzling, but then she took one look at her giggling and realized that she was inspired. "'Porky' is extroverted, I'm introverted, but we both **** the same characteristic is love of funny, that's why there are so many funny things."
Now there are four publishers to find "i draw skin", want to publish a book for her, there is a network company in Shanghai to let her design cartoon LOGO, plus their own cartoons are greatly sought after by netizens, so she has a sense of accomplishment. This sense of achievement in Yubei, a college teaching "i painted skin" intends to resign to focus on painting at home, which was supported by her husband. "I love comics more than my current job, and I've found what I want most." I have found what I want most," said "i painting skin". At present, a cultural company in Beijing decided to publish Zhang Xiaodiao's cartoons.
It has been reported in Chongqing Morning Post, Changjiang Weekly, and CCTV-10 People and Society.