In the early 1960s, after assiduously studying China's traditional line drawing techniques, he created his masterpiece Great Changes in Mountain Villages, which was a combination of ideological and artistic features, and formed his own unique style, winning high praise from the art world. He Youzhi, who lost her mother since childhood, was raised by her aunt in the countryside. He entered a primary school in Dawangguan, and then transferred to Qixin Primary School to continue his studies. At that time, Qi Xin Primary School was located in the dilapidated Guandi Temple known as the "Pavilion", and the hardships of the school building were imaginable. But there is a mottled stage in the ruined temple, and the paintings of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are faintly displayed around the stage. Fascinated by these lifelike paintings, he carefully described, compared, thought and revised them over and over again. With these self-study and tinkering practices, his performance in art class is far ahead of that of primary school students. From 65438 to 0937, he graduated from Qixin Primary School, which coincided with the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and dropped out of school with his father's unemployment. He worked as an apprentice in a small iron factory and a printing factory, and also worked as a rural primary school teacher for a period of time. In the country, he felt that he couldn't seem to mix anything, so he decided to go out and make a trip to Shanghai! Because he likes painting very much, he set foot on the pier of Shiliupu, so he looked around for places where he could paint. He found an art club and said he could draw. The owner of the art club asked him to draw some pictures. Hey, it was really interesting, so he took him in. Here, a painter named Chen Zaixin accepted him as an apprentice and became his first teacher, teaching him to draw trademarks with commercial value. His artistic creation began with painting trademarks. Later, some relatives saw that he liked painting and the characters he painted were passable, so he was introduced to a painter who specialized in drawing cartoons. Since then, I have embarked on the road of comic creation.
His first work was Fu Gui, which was adapted from Zhao Shuli's novel. If you want to change a novel into a cartoon, you have to write a script. He just compiled the scripts one by one with the books he read in primary school for several years. Of course, because he is a painter, he has given full consideration to the picture when writing the script, just let the text briefly explain the meaning that the picture is difficult to express. A comic book needs to draw at least 200 pictures. He has never painted so many at the same time before. In order to shape his first painting, he had never even heard of the word "composition", so he painted in the morning and in his sleep. For a time, the humble room he rented was full of paintings! At this time, because he has been involved in the art publishing industry, when he finished painting, an art dealer quickly recognized his debut, printed the draft into a cartoon and entered the market. Seeing that his paintings have become commodities, he has been paid for his survival, and he can stand in the vast Shanghai. He danced with joy and didn't sleep a wink for days. To his surprise, he stepped into the "threshold" of comic creation and became a professional comic artist! He Youzhi, who later became a cartoonist, humbly learned from famous painters Liu Jiyou and Gu Bingxin. Many well-known works, such as Stick to Tomorrow, Fight on the Train, Searching for Mother in Six Thousand Miles, Zoya and Shula, Ascending to the Third Class, Sun Yat-sen's Suffering in London, Yang Gensi, Sending Leaflets and New Friends, are all trying and exploring various forms of expression. In the early 1960s. After studying and studying China's traditional line drawing, he found his own way, and created his masterpiece Great Changes in Mountainous Areas with high ideological and artistic quality and unique style. The publication of this work has not only been widely loved by readers, but also attracted the attention of the national painting circle. It won the first prize of the National Comic Award with 1963, and became a learning model for beginners and a precious collection for art lovers. Some readers even changed their original view of belittling comics and admitted that it is an art worthy of "elegance". The achievement of "Great Changes in the Countryside" has made people pay attention to He Youzhi's creative path and artistic characteristics. He Youzhi also began to explore the law of creation more consciously. From the choice of theme content to the use of expression, we strive to reduce blindness and make hard work achieve the expected effect as much as possible. Many experts praised He Zhizhi's achievements in creation as "ingenious ideas, wonderful characters and good environment." He Youzhi found that as a story painter, he must learn to "play". The so-called drama is to start from the overall situation of the story, tap the inner personality conflicts of the characters, and choose and capture expressive visual images in life. In the cartoon Li Shuangshuang, Li Shuangshuang and Hope make up after quarreling. He Youzhi designed the details of two children handing Hope the key to open the door, which was quite vivid. At the beginning of the script of the fifteenth biography, it was stated that Hulu opened a butcher shop and was addicted to alcohol. He Youzhi didn't count the picture as: You Hulu, with a chest and a belly, struggled to pounce on the meat case, waving a fan to drive away the buzzing flies on the stinky pig's head, and his dry daughter Su Duan came to him with a wine tray. This ingenious idea, "playing", can not only draw the vision, but also increase the capacity, not only because of "drinking too much", but also because the butcher shop is not doing well, the stinky pig head can't be sold, and the shopkeeper is upset and unhappy.
He Youzhi's creation shows that his "acting skills" are both interesting and authentic. After 396 years of great changes in rural areas, the words, deeds and actions of people living in rural areas in Hunan are described with strong local characteristics and are interesting and natural. This shows that the artist's creative method of "acting" from life is correct and brilliant. He Youzhi's cartoons are very famous at home and abroad. Some representative works have been exhibited in Britain, France and other countries, and have also been invited to give lectures at the French Academy of Fine Arts. 1980, when the Department of Comic New Year Pictures was established in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, He Youzhi was invited as an adjunct professor. 1985 12, People's Fine Arts Publishing House published "On He Youzhi's Comic Book Creation". In the following years, Selected Short Comics by He Youzhi, He Youzhi Painting Yourself and chinese comic Classic He Youzhi were published in Beijing and Shanghai. His name is included in the encyclopedia of China. His image and representative figures were made into floor tiles and laid on the square of the National Comic and Image Center in Gulaim. Among many successful painters in China, he is the only one who has won this honor. In 2002, 80-year-old He Youzhi created a masterpiece "Jiang Shen Customs Record", which described the noise of small streets and the prosperity of business with its unique charm. At the end of 2003, according to his childhood memories, he created a group of paintings for his hometown elders and donated the original works to Beilun Museum.
He Youzhi often said that the landscape of my hometown raised me, and my childhood in my hometown was my inexhaustible source of creation. The old man has been wandering in Shanghai for more than 60 years, missing his hometown, buying a new house next to his original ancestral home base, and often going back to his hometown from Shanghai to see, meet and catch up with his hometown folks. He Youzhi's childhood memory is the basis of the hometown scenery shown in Qi Xin Old Street Customs. Many people marvel at the feelings of the elderly and the clear memory of their hometown!
Anyone who has seen He Youzhi will deeply feel the old man's cheerfulness and humor. The twists and turns of his life have given the old man a kind of wisdom and generosity, which is enough to make him laugh at the changes in life. He often laughs at himself: "Comics are naive" and calls himself "a cartoonist at best". Apart from the truth of humor, the old people are indifferent to all kinds of despicable and vulgar world situations in society. He has a self-portrait He drew himself an exaggerated elongated ear, a pair of wise, sharp and honest eyes, and looked at the world from above his glasses. The subtext is: "Ha, nothing escapes my eyes!" This 80-year-old man still has a pair of clear and innocent eyes!