As early as at Zhongshan North Primary School in Nanning, when studying in Nanning No.2 Middle School, Lei Dezu was the main force of wall newspaper in the school. At that time, the headlines of the school newspaper, such as the red scarf, the praise of the new wind, the good man and the hymn of the Great Leap Forward, were all painted by Lei Dezu. There are mastheads painted with colored chalk, posters painted with gouache pigments, comic books and cartoons painted with ink lines. Since then, Lei Dezu's interest in painting has been "put into use" since childhood.

From 65438 to 0959, accompanied by his grandfather, Lei Dezu entered Guangxi Art College and was admitted to the High School Attached to Guangxi Art College with excellent results, from which his artistic development began. After three years of hard study and life in the affiliated middle school, 1962, Lei Dezu was admitted to the undergraduate printmaking major with excellent results. Lei Dezu felt like a duck to water after stepping into the door of the Art Institute. Under the guidance of his teacher, he diligently studied basic skills such as sketching, sketching, composition and color.

When studying in the attached middle school, Lei Dezu set high requirements and standards for himself: "We should catch up with the undergraduate level within one year and reach the national level within three years". Lei Dezu, who was only 16 years old at that time, was regarded as a "white college student" and almost lost his studies in order to put forward such a slogan.

In order to achieve his goal, Lei Dezu often does not rest at noon and uses it for painting. In the evening, he also painted to the college to turn off the lights and sleep. He was still lying in bed pecking at how to express the structure of this muscle and that bone ... After seven years of strict basic training and self-study, Lei Dezu laid a solid foundation for himself on the road of artistic creation. Because of his solid basic skills such as sketching, sketching, composition and color, he felt very comfortable when he picked up a pen to create. 1964, when he entered the second year of undergraduate course, he drew his first cartoon debut "Wheel Flying" for Tianjin Fine Arts Publishing House. This is the first set of cartoons in Lei Dezu's life, all of which were drawn by traditional sketching techniques. The painter's application of traditional techniques and layout in this set of cartoons is very mature, which shows that he has a solid foundation in traditional techniques. Then he drew a cartoon "The Story of Fishing Nets". Because the unhealthy trend against "white experts" was very serious at that time, I was worried that I would be labeled as "white experts" again. Therefore, when Lei Dezu painted these two sets of cartoons, he hid in his parents' home or his brother's dormitory during holidays and spare time to complete the manuscript, and he dared not publicize the works in the college after they were published.

Since then, Lei Dezu has formed an indissoluble bond with comic creation. The success of writing after class does not affect his professional study. 1966 graduated with honors from the printmaking department of Guangxi Arts University, and his graduation work "Yankee Go Home! (Printed matter) was published by Art magazine and People's Daily. When Lei Dezu graduated, he faced the "unprecedented Cultural Revolution". Fortunately, his study is over, his artistic wings are full, and no amount of wind and waves can blow it down and swallow it. From 65438 to 0969, Lei Dezu was assigned to the company to exercise for two years. The hard life and military training in the company have accumulated a lot of sketches and life materials for his future creation of military themes. He took part in the national art exhibition on the drawing No.035 of 1973, and made his mark in the cartoon industry, which was well received. Later, it was selected to go abroad for exhibition. At that time, Guangxi TV station broadcasted a whole set of cartoons one by one on TV station for the first time, which caused great repercussions in the art world and society. The successful creation of No.035 is the first milestone of Lei Dezu's successful creation of comic books by using black, white and line techniques. Yang Zhiguang, a professor at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, pointed out in an article that Lei Dezu's "Figure 035" is a typical example of the combination of line and surface in comic and illustration art. Thanks to the recognition and encouragement of the society and the art world, Lei Dezu is more determined to take the artistic road of combining black, white and line. Later, this technology was basically used in cartoons and a large number of illustrations, such as Enemy on Qingtian Reef, Two Wanderers, Faithful Soul in Guangdong Sea and Steel Made in this Way.