Stay Around You Now And Forever novel (Hunter Jackson)

Chapter 199 I Love You

Everybody could see how hardworking Aryan was, even from the audience area.

Another half an hour had passed, and the storyboard was finally nearing completion.

But as long as the storyboard was not completed, it would be hard to carry out the initial sketching later.

Half of the time for this competition had passed by.

Not far away, Nina was looking relaxed on her seat as she was leisurely completing her drawing.

She was indeed talented. She was putting down strokes after strokes with ease and accuracy too.

Her outline was very pretty. Although this was just the initial outline, one could see how the final artwork would look like just by laying eyes on her outline.

She had only brought two assistants with her, and these two assistants were tasked with erasing excessive strokes of drawing after she had completed a few scenes of the storyboard.

Basically, Nina’s drawing couldn’t be faulted at all, and there was nothing extra about it. Therefore, she didn’t need to bring a lot of assistants to help her. Her current assistants looked vacant too as they were seated on her sides.

She lived up to her name as a talented artist. She was able to cement her position in the industry mainly because of her talent and capability.

Emily removed her gaze from Nina on the big screen and continued to watch Aryan intently.

Compared to Aryan, Nina would still lose in terms of speed. Despite that, Nina was almost done with the whole artwork while Aryan was still struggling with the storyboard.

Sally who was on the side was now nervous with beads of sweats covering her forehead, “What should we do now? What if he can’t complete it in time?”

“Emily, what do you think we should do? If this situation persists, we can’t know for sure that our team will advance to the next round.”

“If we can’t advance this afternoon, we don’t need to come anymore tomorrow.”

“Lois should just start with the sketch like usual. He doesn’t have time to worry about Rufus Graham this time.”

“We can talk about Rufus’ part tomorrow. If we can’t break through our current predicament, our future strategies all won’t be of any use.”

“But, can Aryan hear s? Emily, is there any way we can inform him not to care about Rufus’ part and focusing on advancing today?”

“What should we do? The storyboard is not completed yet…”

“What should we do?”

After some time, all the worries and complaints finally ceased to exist near Emily.

Sally was not complaining anymore. She looked unreadable, but it was a relief she was not calling out unnecessarily anymore.

It felt like Sally had expanded in size because they had been stuck together although there were only the two of them sitting next to each other.

However, Emily didn’t bother to find out about the reason Sally had been forcing herself on her despite they had enough space around their seats. She didn’t want to find out why Sally had somehow

expanded in size and made them feel packed.

She couldn’t care about trivial matters now as all her attention was focused on Aryan at the moment.

Aryan’s speed was incomparable to his usual speed when he was constructing the storyboard today.

Despite that, in Emily’s eyes, he had already done his best.

Somehow, his storyboard was constructed with even greater details compared to how he had done it normally. Time was ticking fast, and it was already one hour and forty minutes since the commencement of the competition.

Finally! Aryan finally started to work on sketching the outlines!

“Wow!”

Suddenly, there was an uproar stemming from the crowd.

Emily’s heart contracted as her gaze was fixed on the big screen. She couldn’t even bring herself to breathe normally!

She finally understood why Aryan was slower than usual when drawing the storyboard.

It turned out that he wasn’t just merely slower, he was actually adding in an additional procedure hidden within his movements. He was setting up reference points for the sketch later on!

For the uninitiated, they would not understand why Aryan was randomly scribbling dots after dots from the screen. Besides Aryan himself, nobody could discern his real motive.

They all thought that he was just randomly leaving behind small dots!

But Emily could finally see it now!

Those dots were not random dots; they were in fact the reference points for his sketch now!

After Aryan had finished with his storyboard and was now working on the sketch, those dots were finally being put into use.

This time, each character’s face, limbs and figure could be instantly produced by using the reference points. He didn’t even need to think too much about the process!

Furthermore, with how his artwork looked like at the moment, there was no need for others to add in strokes of lines later on!

“My God! Is he… still human? He’s more like a machine now!”

Someone from the audience area exclaimed.

“Is the legendary artist from September Drawing Club finally showing his true colours? He’s too scary, how did he manage to do that?”

The burst of discussion among the audience had somehow distracted Nina who was focused on her artwork.

She would never distract herself with anything when she was drawing, but this time, she couldn’t help throwing a gaze at the big screen herself.

When she saw what was happening, she felt herself going completely numb!

The person on the screen looked like he was on fast forward mode like a video one could see on Tiktok.

She even suspected that with Aryan’s current speed, he was even faster than a video being put on fast forward eight times! No, it was more accurate to say that this was ten times faster!

The pen flew all over the drawing pad, and the initial sketch was completed in no time.

He didn’t even need to use stickers for the background as he simply sketched them using his bare hands. It was as if the image was already there unbeknownst to every onlooker. All he had to do was using his magical pen to glide past the drawing pad and the image would be conjured instantly.

He was too amazing and scary…

“Miss Marsh, stop looking!” The assistant next to her urged her, “Someone is close to handing in their work!”

Nina snapped her head around and saw that someone from one of the teams was already handing in the artwork!

She couldn’t believe that she was not the first one to complete the artwork!

Nina immediately grasped her pen as she looked at her artwork which was also nearing completion. She wanted to breeze through this easily at first.

But at this time, her whole mind was stuffed with images of Aryan breezing through his artwork on his drawing pad, and she could even hear the sound of his pen flying all over his pad. She suddenly found herself unable to continue her own work somehow.

“Miss Marsh…”

“Shut up!”

Nina shut her eyes, wanting to calm her nerves. No matter how hard she tried, she found herself unable to calm down!

He was too fast, just too fast!

She had never seen someone who could draw so fast. She had never met such a formidable opponent previously!

“Miss Marsh, you have to continue no matter what!” Her assistant reminded her again while bracing herself for more reprimands.

Of course, Nina knew she had to continue at this point.

But somehow, she couldn’t move her pen at all!

She couldn’t continue her artwork!

In the end, she suddenly stood up and handed her pen to her assistant while barking, “You draw in my place!”

Although the assistant was stunned, but judging from her condition, he could see that somehow she was unable to finish her artwork.

He helplessly took over the pen and took Nina’s place in order to finish her artwork.

At the same time, Nina was scrutinizing at the guy not far away. Her fingers were even trembling at the moment after watching his speedy fingers.

In the audience area, those who were planning to leave the arena because of the duration of the competition stopped in their tracks after watching Aryan’s performance on the big screen.

Most of them even returned to their seats to continue watching the competition.

They were witnessing a legend in work at the moment. In just seven minutes, Aryan was able to complete sixty scenes of sketches in one go.

Among these sketches, close to forty scenes were even completed with stroking too. The only step left was to colour the scenes.

This was not something a mere mortal could have done.

When the bell rang to signal the end of the competition, a huge uproar erupted following Aryan’s last stroke of brilliance.

“This is too amazing!”

“Too amazing!”

“It is a legend in action…”

His last stroke had somehow touched Emily’s heart too.

“He’s done! The artwork is really done!”

“This is great, Aryan! This is amazing!”

She was so excited that she was even hugging the person next to her and kissing her.

It felt like everybody had become so adorable. Even for Sally, who was always noisy, she looked so adorable that even Emily wanted to get a piece of her.

She really planted a kiss on Sally!

“I love you; I love you guys so much!”

But strangely enough, why did Sally feel so tall right now?