Li Shi briefly said two points.
1. Drawing the human body of men, women, old and young is the basic skill of painting and sculpture. Usually in the eyes of a true artist, everything in the world is beautiful, and people are the most beautiful. The human body carries all human experiences, personality and emotions. If the human body cannot be drawn well, it will be difficult to express the beauty of the human body.
It's like writing an essay. If you don't know how to form words and sentences, how can you write a good article?
Li Shi tried his best to tell it in the simplest and most popular terms. When it came to this, he thought about it, and then confessed and continued to talk about the second reason: "In addition, artistic creation also pays special attention to talent, and for me personally, Among all types of painting, the talent for painting female portraits is the highest, so I need to dabble in this area.”
In fact, it also involves some artistic human anatomy matters. Li Shi didn't mention it, mainly because he felt that the term "human anatomy" was too scary for ordinary people.
Both sisters were smart and understood.
Ailan didn't speak for a while, but Aiya who was driving blurted out: "I understand, this is just like how we study coffee. If we want to brew high-level coffee, we must study coffee beans. Brother Shi, if you want to do this in painting, To go further down the road, we must also study the female human body?"
Li Shi's eyes couldn't help but widen a little.
He didn't expect Aya to use coffee as an example.
After a moment of silence, he said, "That's pretty much what it means."
In the passenger seat, Ailan blinked, suddenly turned around and asked with a smile: "When we study coffee, we have to study many varieties of coffee beans. Different origins and different roasting techniques will lead to different flavors of coffee beans. Brother Shi, what are you doing?" Don’t we also have to study... and draw a lot of female human bodies?"
Li Shi shook his head: "The ordinary ones do require a lot of drawing, but there is no need for human body sketching. One or two are enough. The main thing is to gain relevant creative experience in this area, just like when we used to take math classes when we were studying, we learned a few example."
At least that's the case at this stage.
If you really choose painting as the impact master in the future, that's a different story.
Seeing that the two girls were not disgusted with body art, he also started chatting: "And it's not just about finding a female model. This is very troublesome."
Alan asked curiously: "Is it because there are very few female models willing to do this kind of body painting?"
Li Shi shook his head and said: "The main reason is that I have relatively high requirements for models. I need to find models who can inspire me. This is the most difficult thing."
To be honest, in today's money-driven society, whether it's a female mannequin, a male mannequin, a young model, or an elderly model, as long as you can afford the price, you can easily find a bunch of people who are willing to take off their clothes.
Just like when he found a model to cooperate with the bone touching.
But this time Li Shi is not touching bones or simply understanding and studying the structure of the human body. Instead, he wants to create real art and use the human body to express images and show his understanding of beauty.
This kind of thing can't be done without inspiration.
Ai Lan asked Li Shi curiously what his specific requirements were.
Li Shi thought for a while and briefly said a few points.
Aiya, who was driving, said subconsciously: "Brother Shi, it turns out you are also a beauty control!"
Li Shi smiled and did not refute.
In the artistic creation of "female beauty", whether it is photography or painting, he is indeed a "face control".
An hour and a half later, we arrived at An Giang service area.
The sisters got off the car and went to the bathroom. Li Shi reviewed "Berryman's Human Structure" on his mobile phone in the car.
The basis for supporting human body sketching is naturally the artistic human body structure. After realizing that this aspect was the shortcoming of his current upgrade, he naturally wanted to find ways to strengthen it. It was very necessary to consolidate basic knowledge before formal sketching.
In addition to "Berryman's Human Structure", his collection also includes books such as "Anatomy for Sculptors", "Understanding the Human Form", "Body Drawing: Design and Creation", and "Dynamic Sketching of the Clothed Human Body".
Some of these monographs he had already read and studied before, and some he had just collected and not read yet. Now it was time to read through these books before finding a suitable mannequin.
While reading, I occasionally chat on WeChat.
Of course, Chen Qiuye and Wang Yuelan's WeChat messages must be replied to. In addition, Li Shi also refused Ding Mian's invitation to open a black game. In addition, Mi Wei, a female international student he met recently, also talked to him intermittently about painting.
At the door of the restroom in the service area, Aiya was searching for something on her mobile phone. After Ailan came out, she immediately walked up, took her sister's arm, and walked slowly to the parking lot.
After walking a few steps, she suddenly leaned into Ailan's ear and whispered: "Sister, when we were chatting in the car earlier, did you ever think about being... that kind of model for Brother Shi?"
Ailan looked around subconsciously, twitched the corners of his red mouth a few times, and said, "Well, I thought about it, but I rejected it myself."
"What if I'm wearing a bathing suit?"
"ah?"
Ailan looked at her sister in confusion.
Aiya squinted her eyes and showed a mysterious smile: "I just checked on the Internet. Human body sketching does not necessarily have to take off all... naked. Just like some female stars take bold photos, sometimes Cover the key parts, and wear swimsuits or tulle..."
Alan blinked.
If you are wearing a swimsuit, then——
She felt she could accept it.
In today's society, it is very common for girls to wear swimsuits to soak in hot springs, go swimming in swimming pools, and swim at the beach in public.
She'd done that before.
Inexplicably, excitement flashed through her eyes, as if she had imagined herself lying in front of Li Shi in a swimsuit and letting him paint her portrait.
"Ah, Ailan, Ailan, why do you get fever so easily recently?"
Ai Lan blushed, feeling that she had fallen a bit recently.
After getting in the car, the two sisters changed their ways, with sister Ailan driving and Aiya sitting in the passenger seat.
After driving forward for another half an hour and passing the Huaihua service area, Aiya used her mobile phone to contact the B&B she had booked before. She added the WeChat account of the B&B housekeeper and asked about parking in detail.
An hour later, at 10:30, we got off the expressway exit and drove to the parking lot in the scenic area according to the directions sent by the B&B housekeeper.
Because they had contacted them in advance, Xiao Jiang, the B&B housekeeper, was already waiting for them.
Xiao Jiang is a boy in his twenties. When he saw the Ailan sisters coming out of the car, he was obviously stunned. He obviously didn't expect that today's guests would be such a pair of beautiful twins, and his eyes couldn't help but shine a little.
It wasn't until he saw Li Shi getting off the car from behind that he quickly calmed down, greeted him warmly with a professional smile, then helped carry his luggage and led the way. Not long after walking, he came to a B&B by the river.
"Our B&B is very close to Hongqiao. You can see Hongqiao from the windows of the rooms upstairs. Whether it's at night or on a rainy day, you have the most beautiful scenery in Phoenix."
Xiao Jiang helped them check in while introducing the surrounding environment.
The room is okay, not big, but the decoration is more artistic and warm, in the style of logs. The windows of the two rooms are raised by more than ten centimeters with logs to make balconies. There are coffee tables and wooden chairs outside the windows. It is Tongjiang, Hongqiao and the stilted buildings along the coast.
Li Shi focused on the hygiene and found it was quite clean.
He turned around and asked the B&B housekeeper: "Is there anything to eat now?"
Xiao Jiang immediately said: "Of course, you can go to nearby bars and night snack bars to sit. If you are tired and don't want to move, I can also arrange to send it to your room."
The three of them communicated for a while. It was already past eleven o'clock and they didn't want to go out, so they ordered some barbecue and asked Xiao Jiang to send it directly to Li Shi's room.
"Want something to drink?" Xiao Jiang asked.
Eating barbecue is almost boring if you don’t drink some wine or something.
"Any recommendations?"
“In addition to ordinary beer drinks, as for specialty drinks, we have walnut wine and glutinous rice wine from Xiangxi. I recommend glutinous rice wine. It tastes very good, is sweet and refreshing, and the alcohol content is not high. It is suitable for girls to drink. A little drink at night is also good. Helps with sleep.”
After Xiao Jiang finished the introduction, Aiya, who usually likes to drink red wine, immediately asked: "Is kiwi wine sour?"
"It's not very sour. Overall, it's sweet and sour."
"Then take some walnut wine and glutinous rice wine."
After the housekeeper left and Li Shi went to the next room, Ai Lan said to Aiya: "You don't have a good drinking capacity. Why did you order so much wine? What if you get drunk..."
Aya said carelessly: "It doesn't matter if I'm drunk, I still have you."
Then he seemed to remember something, blinked and smiled: "And I'm not afraid that Brother Shi will take the opportunity to eat my tofu. In fact, I quite want to eat his tofu. He is always serious - what if he gets drunk, hehe."
Seeing her sister's pensive expression, Ai Lan was speechless for a while.
However, she couldn't help but feel a little hopeful in her heart.
If Li Shi is really drunk, should he eat or...
Thinking of what happened during the day when she was painting at the Langshan Zixia Cave Scenic Area, she couldn't help but smile, thinking that if that was the case, she would definitely still have to eat.
Go out and have fun, the most important thing is to have fun.
"Sister, what are you thinking about? Why are you smiling more than me? Are you also thinking about how to eat Li Shi Tofu, haha!"
"Xiao Nizi, what are you talking about? You're looking for trouble!"
Li Shi didn't know that the sister next door was actually thinking about eating his tofu. After he returned to the room, he took a quick shower, then sat on the balcony with his cell phone, admiring the night view outside the window. waiting.
After about ten minutes, Xiao Jiang brought the midnight snack.
A bunch of barbecue, two boxes of Xiangxi pickles, and two jars of wine.
A jar of glutinous rice wine and a jar of kiwi fruit wine. After the others left, Li Shi talked to his sisters in the WeChat group, picked up the wine jar and looked at it. There was no trademark on the glutinous rice wine, it was self-brewed, kiwi fruit The wine jar says "Meng Jingyun Kiwi Wine", and the alcohol content is 30 degrees.
Soon, Ailan and Aya came from next door.
The three of them sat in front of the coffee table on the balcony, drinking wine and eating barbecue, looking at the ancient city illuminated by lights outside, and chatting.
There are various bars on both sides of Hongqiao, most of which are still open at the moment.
They had their windows open and could hear the din coming from the bar.
At first, Li Shi drank kiwi wine, and sisters Ailan and Aiya drank glutinous rice wine. But the girl Aiya, seeing how delicious he tasted it, also filled herself a disposable cup. A glass of kiwi wine.
After one cup, it’s time for a second cup.
After finishing the third glass, she was immediately drunk.
Li Shi looked at the time and saw that it was almost twelve o'clock. He picked up Aiya, who was sleeping on the back of a wooden chair, and took her to the next room under Ailan's guidance.
"Go to sleep. I don't have any other plans tomorrow. I'll just play in the ancient city and sleep until I wake up naturally."
"Um."
Ai Lan sent Li Shi outside the door. After closing the door, she hesitated and stood at the door for a while. Finally, she pursed her lips, but still did not have the courage to open the door and chase him out.
Returning to the bed, he helped Aya take off her shoes and socks, who was lying motionless. Thinking of what she had said before, she couldn't help but smile angrily.
You're so drunk and you're still eating shitty tofu!
Ailan covered her sister with a quilt, went into the bathroom to wash up, and then came back and lay next to her.
After tossing and turning for a long time, I still couldn't fall asleep. I couldn't help but sit up a little irritably. I looked at my sister who was sleeping soundly. After more than ten seconds, I suddenly muttered: Hum, I will always be your sister.
Then, she took out her phone from under the pillow, unlocked it, found Li Shi's WeChat account, hesitated for a moment, edited three words, and sent it with the inexplicable dryness in her chest.
"have you slept?"
After a while, Li Shi replied to the message, and she quickly clicked it to check: "Not yet, taking a shower."
bath?
That's not actually...
Ailan immediately remembered the hard back and abdominal muscles that his left hand had touched when he was in Langshan during the day, and his mouth suddenly felt dry.
"Is the barbecue tonight a bit salty?"
After Li Shi returned to his room, he wiped out the remaining barbecue on the coffee table, then cleaned up.
After that, he sat by the window and drank alone.
After two sips, I felt that drinking alone was not interesting, so I took out my mobile phone and continued studying.
He had already finished reviewing "Berryman's Human Body Structure" in the car before, and now he was reading "Dynamic Sketching of the Clothed Human Body". This book talks about the corresponding folds of clothing in different states of movement of the human body.
"A woman wearing a form-fitting skirt and blouse, research on two-way direct stretch pleats."
…
"If so, it can create engaging folds that reveal the bulge of the breasts."
…
This was Li Shi's first time reading this book, but he flipped through it quickly in light of his previous accumulation.
After studying for a while, he felt that there was residual greasy and alcoholic smell from the barbecue. He got up and went to the bathroom to take another shower.
As soon as I took off my clothes, the cell phone on the sink rang. I picked it up and saw that it was Ailan.
Li Shi chatted with her for a few words and was suddenly stunned.
"I can't sleep anyway, why don't I go for a walk or paint?"
He glanced at the time on the phone screen and saw that it was already past 12:30 in the morning.
Just go out for a walk.
But painting?
He stretched out his right hand and lightly scratched his temple with his index finger.
Not to mention, after drinking a little wine, you will indeed have a creative impulse.
