Gu Weijing knew that sooner or later someone would wonder about this question.
If you keep only accepting the simplest illustration tasks online, someone will soon feel strange and confused.
Since Thomas’s videos went online, his Fiverr store has been receiving invitations from various galleries to sign up.
Even the Komatsu Gallery in the home of the very unhappy Komatsu Taro sent an invitation to Gu Weijing.
Although these contracts currently have relatively high commissions, they are not without contracts that appear to be very sincere.
For example, a headhunter from a medium-sized gallery on Chelsea Street, a famous art district in New York, sent Gu Weijing an invitation to join the other gallery.
Gu Weijing chatted briefly and found that the other party was quite sincere.
The other party has very low requirements for himself, and the commission is only 35%. This includes a series of cooperation expenses such as premiums for future paintings, publicity fees, service fees and tax deductions. For this kind of new painter, it is considered Very friendly.
It's not that he doesn't want to sign these contracts.
It is a great thing that an art master like Mr. Sloth wants to be his own agent.
However, the time he can use Menzel's skills is limited, and the limitations of painting are very large. He cannot afford these contracts for the time being.
Professional illustrators are the type where you have to draw whatever your employer asks you to draw, and you don’t have as much choice as an oil painter.
It is important for people to know themselves.
I am Mr. Nan Guo, who only has a half-hour artist experience card every day.
If he were to meet the demands of a professional painter's schedule, at least for now, he would still be unqualified.
If he only painted for half an hour every day, there was really no need for Gu Weijing to tie himself to a certain contract.
"As long as others know my paintings, there is no need to know me."
Gu Weijing thought for a moment and answered.
"Although joining a gallery is a debut for a painter. But after all, a painter is not a pop singer, so he won't have many social arrangements."
Anna wants to persuade this stubborn painter to embrace the modern art system.
"I want to keep a quiet life, and being a detective cat is fine."
"Then go anonymously to the gallery as a detective cat. This kind of thing is not unprecedented. Mystery is sometimes a good thing."
In the circle of literary and artistic works, this style of anonymous creation also has a historical tradition.
In the classical period, painters from the same school shared the same author's name.
As for the disciples who ghostwrite under the name of their masters, there are a lot of them among great painters in both China and the West.
Many literary and artistic workers like to remain mysterious.
For cases like Detective Cat, in the past ten years, the most famous case in the literary and art circles should be Elena Ferrante.
She is the author of "The Neapolitan Quartet" and was nominated for the Booker Prize, the highest award in English literature. She was selected as one of the 100 most influential people of our time by Time Magazine, including "My Brilliant Girlfriend" It was also adapted into a best-selling American TV series.
But to this day, hundreds of millions of fans around the world only know Ferrante as a pseudonym. No one knows who her real name is, who her true identity is, or even whether she is a boy or a girl.
In short, the work speaks for itself. If you don't draw well, you will be laughed at. If you draw well, it will become a good talk.
Anna doesn't think the detective cat can't cope with the complex painting tasks.
"But I don't want to be bound by a contract. If I sign with a gallery, I may be asked to paint a lot of things I don't want to paint... For me, money is just a tool to improve my painting skills."
Gu Weijing replied.
The first half of the sentence was the truth to him, and the second half... was actually the truth as well.
Anna was silent.
Shakespeare once wrote in "King Lear" that greed for money is the greatest enemy of art.
How many masters or geniuses have been burdened by fame throughout their lives. People who are not popular want to be popular, and people who are popular want to be more popular.
Countless talented artists have exhausted their inspiration in the pursuit of fame and wealth and become mediocre people.
She could think of many examples.
But the master in front of him really did this.
If Miss Anna's previous love for the other party was more of a love and strange possessiveness for a hidden gem she discovered.
Now, she respects him more from the bottom of her heart.
Anna thought about how the other person was willing to sell illustrations online for ten dollars a piece even though he had the same skills as an artist. She felt relieved and a little pity at the same time.
It seems normal for such a master to be unwilling to be a slave to money and contracts.
Thinking about it this way, she felt happy and even a little ashamed.
She felt that the copper-smelling price of 500 euros an hour she proposed was disrespectful to the master.
"Miss Anna Elena, when did you become like those art dealers, thinking only about money?"
She reflected in her mind.
Anna typed on the keyboard: "Admirable accomplishments."
“But if you really reject all the gallery offers, some dealers will not be able to sign you and will instead want to denigrate your artistic style.
You originally won Mr. Hyperion's $1 to $1 Million Challenge as an online illustrator. This matter is very controversial.
Have you considered the doubts you are about to face? "
Anna was afraid that the other party would be scolded as autistic by the trolls on the Internet.
"What can I do?"
Gu Weijing shook his head.
His Fiverr mailbox alone has been flooded with countless trolls questioning the shady nature of the work in the past few days, as well as craftsmen who think they can only paint without emotion.
He was just good at sketching, but he couldn't compare with the master at all.
After all, Detective Cat is just an online illustrator, which is fundamentally different from painters in the mainstream calligraphy and painting world.
"Illustrators have always been questioned and considered not to be part of the art of painting. Moreover, I don't care about being scolded."
Gu Weijing replied.
Illustration itself is the most ingenious type in the painting world.
Public opinion generally believes that art requires freedom and independence, and illustration is just an extension of the employer's will, which is even worse than comics.
I also adopt a traditional painting style of realism.
This kind of photographic precision would be considered opportunistic and crooked in today's calligraphy and painting circles.
Gu Weijing would not feel comfortable being trolled on the Internet, but there was nothing he could do about it.
This is the current state of the industry.
Even Leng Jun, the legendary painter in the Eastern Xia calligraphy and painting world, a super painter whose paintings can easily sell for millions of dollars, has been constantly questioned over the years because of his hyper-realistic style.
Columns such as the Singapore International Art Biennale may have unpopular sections such as spray painting, but there is no illustration section.
Besides, people are criticizing Detective Cat for being a deviant. What does it have to do with the orthodox painter Gu Weijing who is about to become the disciple of Mr. Cao?
"No... there is a way to solve it."
Anna made up her mind in a flash.
"If one day you find that you need a painting agent, please do consider contacting me."
"I won't disturb you now to create art in peace."
…
Austria,
Elena Manor.
Anna closed the computer, picked up the phone on the desk, and started dialing.
"Hey, is this the Oil Painting Magazine? This is the senior editor of the visual arts section of the magazine, Anna Elena."
“I want to update the website about an illustrator. Yes, you heard me right, it’s an illustrator... Of course I know that generally we don’t write investment advice for illustrators, and illustrations are not accepted by mainstream painting art. "
"But I still stand by my opinion."
