After learning that Li Shi was an adult beginner with zero foundation and hoped to receive high-quality sketching system training in a short period of time, Guo Ying recommended his girlfriend Gao Mei to him.
"My girlfriend's sketching skills are no worse than mine. She once taught sketching at a well-known training institution in Sichuan Province."
Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts is also one of the eight major art academies in China. Li Shi immediately asked: "Where is your studio? Can I try a class first?"
Guo Ying: "Of course, our studio is in Tianjiao Huafu Community next to the West Bus Station in Zhaoyang County. Just contact me in advance before you come over."
Li Shi was stunned. His hometown was in Zhaoyang County.
I attended Zhaoyang County No. 9 Middle School for three years of high school.
"Then if you go to the experience class, you can go back and see your mother."
In the afternoon, after Li Shi received a call from the 4S store, he stopped studying and took Wang Yuelan with him to the Automobile City in the south of the city to pick up a white BYD Han.
The next day, he drove his Volvo xc90 to his hometown of Zhaoyang County.
More than two hours later, the car came off the Shanghai-Kunming Expressway, passed the toll station, and drove into a very ordinary small county town.
In the past, every year when I returned to the village, I would change trains in the county. Because I could see it every year, I felt that nothing had changed. But if you compare it over time, you will find that there are actually a lot of changes from when you first came to high school.
For example, when you get off the expressway, there are seven or eight more commercial and residential communities in the area next to the high-speed rail station and the West Bus Station. Each building is twenty or thirty stories high.
And I heard that in the south of the county, it is also expanding outwards, with many commercial residences being built, as well as sports fields, shopping malls and so on.
Ten years have passed, and the average house price in this small county has risen to four to five thousand.
But after all, it is just an ordinary county town. No matter how big it is, it is limited. I walked out of the toll station and drove for a few minutes according to the map navigation. Then I arrived at the Tianjiao Huafu Community not far from the West Bus Station. I parked the car on the side of the road and walked to the gate of the community. , made a call to Guo Ying.
After a while, a young man in his late twenties, tall and thin, walked out of the community.
"Hello, I am Guo Ying, and you are Mr. Li, right?"
"Yes, hello, just call me Li Shi."
Saying hello, the two of them walked into the community.
As Li Shi walked, he looked at the environment of the community and found that the community was very clean and the greening was very good.
Arriving at Unit 1 of Building 7, we took the elevator to the 18th floor, 1803.
There is also a sign hanging at the door that reads "Baoqing Guo Film Studio".
Li Shi said with a smile: "When I saw the word Baoqing in your studio, I thought you were operating in the city at first."
Guo Ying explained: "At first, I really wanted to open it in the city, but my girlfriend's hometown is your Zhaoyang County, and we happened to recruit a few candidates here, so we finally opened it here."
After entering the door, the first thing you see is a large living room, which is very spacious. There is a whole floor-to-ceiling window in the front. There is a long workbench in front of the window. There are some desks in the middle, and some painting tools are placed on them. and materials, and there are some decorations around it. For example, the shelves in the corner are filled with various plaster models, making the entire living room look like a learning atmosphere.
This is a family style studio.
There are only two teachers in the studio. Besides Guo Ying, there is his girlfriend Gao Mei, a petite girl who is less than 1.6 meters tall and wears a pair of big black glasses.
"Xiaomei, this is Li Shi introduced by Teacher Wang."
Gao Mei knew that Li Shi was from this county, and immediately started chatting with Li Shi enthusiastically in the local dialect.
"You graduated from the Ninth Middle School, and I graduated from the No. 1 Middle School. But if I pass the exam next year, I will most likely be assigned to be a teacher in your Ninth Middle School."
"Teacher Gao also plans to take the exam for editing."
Guo Ying next to her said with a smile: "She just wants to go back to her hometown to take the exam, otherwise..."
Before he could say the next half sentence, Gao Mei slapped him on the back.
"Otherwise what?"
Gao Mei glared at him, remembered that Li Shi was still there, and quickly changed the subject: "Okay, let's stop chatting, let's start class."
During class, Guo Ying went to another room, leaving the living room space for the two of them.
As the saying goes, a connoisseur can tell when something is wrong.
Gao Mei's experiential class also talked about the concepts and line basics of sketching, but her lectures were very general, concise and pointed to the essence, which was a bit too high-level.
Li Shi knew that only teachers with a certain level of professional understanding could teach such a class.
"If you want to really learn sketching, instead of just playing it for fun, it's best to stick to the line arranging exercises... I'll show you my usual practice works."
Guo Ying, who was in the room, had been paying attention to the activities in the living room. When he heard his girlfriend's words, he couldn't help but smile, knowing that she was going to "pretend" in order to keep this student.
Gao Mei turned out two pieces of sketch paper.
Li Shi stared at the two paintings Gao Mei took out for a long time.
These are two portraits, but both use lines to form faces to express the relationship between light and dark on the face. The proportions of the shapes are very precise. At first glance, it looks like a work that only a master of sketching can draw.
He immediately concluded that if these two works were really painted by Gao Mei, then her sketches were probably of a (professional-) standard.
The trial class lasted for forty minutes. Once it was over, Li Shi decided to buy one-on-one private lessons from Gao Mei.
There were two reasons. In addition to Gao Mei's sketching and teaching skills being really good, he also thought that if he returned to the county to study, he could take advantage of this period of time to put the rebuilding of his hometown house on the agenda and thoroughly Improve mother's living environment.
Tentatively, there are sixty classes, and the tuition is 16,000.
After coming out of the studio, Li Shi walked in the community, thinking again, sixty classes, even if he had two classes a day, it would take a month. He couldn't run to a village dozens of kilometers away every day. During this period, Where to live?
"Li Shi?!"
Suddenly there was a shout from the side.
Li Shi turned around and saw two women walking not far away. They were both in their mid-twenties. One was wearing a black suit, a white shirt, a red tie, and a ponytail. She was tall and at least one foot tall. She is over 72 meters tall and has long legs.
Judging by his uniform and badge, he was probably a civil servant working in the Public Security Bureau.
The other one next to him is much shorter, but he is also over 1.6 meters tall, a bit fat, and dressed quite decently, wearing a long-sleeved sweater and jeans.
Li Shi suddenly recognized who called him.
Although she has changed a lot, it is hard to forget that in high school, she was the tallest girl in the class, much taller than all the other girls, and even sat at the same table with her.
"Gu Shuting?"
"It's really you, Li Shi. You've become so handsome, I almost didn't dare to recognize you!"
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