[Item: George Berryman's "Anatomy of the Human Body"]
[Quality: Knowledge Card]
[Special Effect: After obtaining the knowledge card, you will clearly understand its corresponding content. 】
[Equipment requirements: Sketch·Professional Level 1]
[About the Master: George Berryman was born in the nineteenth century. He is the world's most famous and authoritative anatomical painter.
He taught anatomy at the University of the Arts in New York for nearly half a century, and his students included Will Eisner, the godfather of American comics, and Norman Rockwell, the legendary illustrator who influenced tens of millions of people during World War II. Berryman's creative inventions used a range of life drawing techniques. 】
[Note: The paintbrush is a scalpel for dissecting the soul. Sometimes... it can also dissect the body. 】
"Human Anatomy?"
In the long Middle Ages, there were three types of people who would risk being burned on the rack to steal corpses and dissect them for study.
Madmen, doctors and painters.
Human body painting has been the most important category of painting since its birth.
From the twisted sacrificial Nuo dances engraved on the walls of tomb chambers in ancient Neolithic relics, to the divine sun gods and pharaohs who will be resurrected from the dead recorded on the stone slabs of the ancient Egyptian pyramids. From the majestic and noble portraits of feudal emperors to today's comics that sell tens of millions of copies.
Characters are the eternal theme of painting.
Imagine if you were a medieval painter.
At that time, it was generally believed that everyone's leg bones had a natural curvature, that men had one more rib than women, and that everyone had a piece of immortal bone that was used for resurrection in religious legends...
In that century, which was firmly controlled by the clergy, this was not a fairy tale, but an objective fact that water could be drank and birds could fly.
When you were drawing, wouldn’t it be weird if you specifically erased the symmetrical rib lines of a man?
When you fictionalize that unique piece of hard resurrection bone and firmly believe that you really saw it, won't you feel a little bit confused?
Even if not,
Don’t you want to know how the bulging muscles of a warrior hold up his robe when he swings a sword? How the graceful arc of the collarbone of a young lady should be accurately outlined when she lowers her head to cover her face...
How can we really draw the best of a person?
Practice repeatedly, invite models to your home to observe, or... really dissect a cadaver.
In the era when the church ruled the world, the structure and lines of the human body were hailed as the secrets given by God to mankind, and should not be explored casually. Stealing autopsies was a crime worthy of being burned at the stake.
But this obviously cannot stop people from pursuing the truth.
Countless innocent souls died in the thick smoke that enveloped the continent from those pine fire racks.
In the centuries since the Renaissance, anatomical drawings have always been the intersection of art and science. Countless doctors have held brushes in front of the sketch pad, and countless painters have held scalpels in the morgue.
Historical records show that the reason why Leonardo da Vinci was able to depict moving arcs and precise muscle lines in oil paintings was that in addition to studying various anatomical diagrams that were gradually circulating in the world at that time, he also personally dissected at least three There are more than ten corpses. Some believe that he once cooperated with the local medical school. Many scholars believe that Leonardo da Vinci, like many of his predecessors, also privately engaged in tomb robbing.
Coincidentally, it seems to be closely related to anatomy.
It has the same status as the most famous legendary oil painting "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre Museum that has been visited by hundreds of millions of people in human history. Rembrandt, the author of "The Night Watch", one of the three most famous paintings in the world, is also dissecting A lot of time was spent in the room.
Rembrandt's famous work is even an oil painting called "Professor Dupu's Anatomy Lesson", which is now displayed in the Maurice Royal Painting Gallery in The Hague.
Gu Weijing felt that all kinds of information were washing through the memory area of his brain, and various pictures of human muscles and corresponding painting techniques poured into his mind.
These drawings and lines quickly re-formed into an adult body in my own consciousness.
In his mind it stretches, twists, joins muscles and Achilles tendons, pecs tremble slightly, countless tiny muscles lengthen, shorten, swell on their own, forming smaller wedges or joining with larger, stronger ones. The blocks come together to form a variety of different shapes.
The "Mojie Notes" that has been obtained is more of a textual description. The specific pigments still require Gu Weijing's own attempt to match them. The impact when obtained is obviously not as good as this anatomical atlas.
Gu Weijing closed the panel and raised his head.
Almost subconsciously, as he moved, the muscles affected by the movement of raising his head and back and the corresponding drawing methods flooded into his mind.
"The sternocleidomastoid muscle contracts bilaterally, the manubrium of the sternum and the medial end of the clavicle contract, ending at the mastoid process of the temporal bone. The brush should pay attention to the shadow of the clavicle to highlight the muscle stretch, so that the picture has a sense of volume and reflects the width and thickness of the muscle. .The erector spinae muscle comes from behind the sacrum..."
A series of complex muscle transformations emerged in his mind. Gu Weijing had never thought that the subconscious action of raising his head would be so vivid.
He even felt that if it did not involve deeper topics such as the internal organs of the human body, some medical students who had just entered university would not be familiar with muscles, skin and fat alone.
In fact, Gu Weijing knew.
It is only in modern times that the professions of sketch painters, illustrators, anatomy doctors, and forensic doctors were separated from each other.
Drawing has been a required course for medical students in many medical schools for centuries.
At that time, there was no invention like a camera that could quickly record the surgical scene. Even in modern times, the early daguerreotype cameras had to keep the person being photographed motionless for more than ten hours or even dozens of hours. A picture may have to be taken. It takes several afternoons for a person to sit motionless to develop an image.
If it's such a long time in hot weather, the corpse might be all smelly, so you must have good sketching skills.
Not just doctors.
Scientists and naturalists in the natural sciences... all require a good sketch. Darwin relied on a pencil to record the anatomical specimens of various animals around the world in his notebook.
Painters, in order to pursue extremely precise lines, would also study anatomy for excellence. This tradition continued until the Victorian era.
Considering issues such as medical ethics, anatomy as a required course for artists began to dim until the 20th century.
Mr. Berryman is the master of the last few generations to master that science and technology.
During his time, the Philadelphia Medical College was still open to painters to study and observe anatomy. Similarly, there is the painter and doctor Eakins. His understanding of muscle tissue allowed him to paint the tense muscles in his famous painting "The Wrestler" more detailed and clearer than the face of the wrestler.
This exaggerated performance of vitality was almost unsurpassed by anyone until later.
Gu Weijing felt that compared to the "Notes of Mojie" which was more like various painting tips, this book "Human Anatomy" by Berryman should be more useful for his painting career.
At least, he has easily mastered the secrets of human body muscle lines that many painters have spent their entire lives studying.
Gu Weijing uploaded the painted colored pencil head of the kitten to the computer using a high-precision scanner available in the calligraphy and painting shop, and submitted it to the housewife. The order was completed.
Then he scrolled down the remaining unread messages, most of which were of little value.
Gu Weijing looked at it for a while.
Overseas websites are like this, with a lot of spam.
Anyone who wants to add friends on Telegram (foreign encrypted communication software) is most likely a scammer selling virtual currency, so delete them directly.
There are those who claim to be jewelry merchants who want to chat with me and see their treasures. They will be deleted, blocked, and reported for sexual harassment in one step.
Occupation Jeweler (Jeweler) - This thing is similar to the small advertisements posted on the streets of East and Xia in the early years about rich women from Hong Kong and Taiwan asking for a child with a lot of money.
A group of old white male losers aged 20 to 35 claim to be rich widowed jewelers on Fivver, Twitter, and various pen pal chat software. If they casually chat with each other, the other party will ask for a date [beep-], or make a big deal. There are indeed many little girls and...boys who don't understand the standard video requirements and are fooled.
After sifting for a long time, there was only one person who wanted him to paint a building. The order was worth looking at. The drawings given by the other party were very complicated with light and shadow. The painting to be painted may take several days, and the price was not high.
Just when Gu Weijing chatted with the other party for a few words and hesitated whether to take the order.
There happens to be a new message on Fiverr.
"Can I make an appointment? Do you want a painting for ten dollars?" - Buyer account Hyperion1077 sent a message from San Francisco.
