Sakai Katsuko's fingers shook slightly and she typed a wrong letter.
She looked at the spelling errors and grammatical problems that were highlighted in red by the Office document's automatic error correction function on the screen.
After reading a few sentences, she gave up her struggle and prepared to correct it when she got home.
"No, maybe writing it again would be the faster option."
Sakai Katsuko was a little absent-minded.
Ever since she caught a glimpse of Gu Weijing drawing on the sketch paper facing her, the girl's mind was no longer on the paper in front of her.
"Sketch a simple drawing? But the line shape is different from the traditional sketch."
"It looks like I can use the pen well...wait a minute, is he drawing me?"
"Oops, oop, oop, my hair is a little messy."
Sakai Katsuko’s mind was in a mess;
Somewhat overwhelmed.
She was worried that her hair was messy, and she thought that the pink kitten hairpin on her short hair looked a little childish.
After a while, Sakai Katsuko began to regret it again. Next time before going out in the morning, she should remember to use her mother's many bottles and jars to put on simple light makeup.
If it were the past,
Whether it is choosing a painting model or her own daily life, as a young painter who prefers a classical style, Sakai Katsuko doesn't really like makeup.
What is natural is beautiful,
She always feels that artificial foundation will cover up the natural texture of the skin, and there is no need for eye shadow.
She threw all the cosmetics her mother had given her in the past into the bottom drawer of her bedroom. Apart from applying some skin care and moisturizing lotion on her skin, Sakai Katsuko had always disdained various makeup techniques.
But now,
Sakai Katsuko seemed to have a small tambourine in her heart, beating it nonstop.
This is Gu Weijing's first painting with her as a model.
She was inexplicably worried that she was not as charming as other girls of her age.
Fortunately,
As the daughter of a great painter,
Katsuko Sakai has been working as a model for Uncle Sakai's paintings almost since she was still lying in her crib.
She knew that what she should do now was just to stay quiet, not to move, and to give Gu Weijing a better painting experience.
But she had no intention of writing the paper anyway. In the past ten minutes, she had mostly just maintained the posture of "typing on the keyboard in front of the computer".
"By the way, Katsuko, I have something to discuss with you."
Sakai Katsuko was a little panicked when she heard the boy's voice in her ears, and the tambourine in her chest beat louder.
In the reading room in the afternoon, in the quiet world of two people, the boy is drawing pictures for the girl.
This scene is indeed romantic and somewhat ambiguous.
Is this a confession?
We have only known each other for more than a month, so the progress is a bit too fast.
Sakai Katsuko's breathing tightened, but the corners of her lips involuntarily curled up in a sweet arc.
Facing Gu Weijing at this time, and facing the painting given to her by Komatsu Taro, Sakai Katsuko's inner feelings were completely different.
They have more common language and better understanding.
Many times, Sakai Katsuko couldn't even feel the passage of time when she stayed with him.
"Well...I do."
Sakai Katsuko hummed with a thin nasal voice, her face was as red as a peach blossom.
"What?"
Gu Weijing failed to understand the meaning of the girl's words.
"I mean, I'd love to be able to help you."
Sakai Katsuko knew that she would be wrong.
A trace of imperceptible disappointment flashed across her face, but fortunately she reacted quickly and immediately changed her tone.
"You haven't heard why you are so busy." Gu Weijing said.
"it does not matter……"
Sakai Shengzi turned her head and stared into Gu Weijing's eyes.
"As long as I can do it, I'm happy to help you." She said in a very soft voice.
Gu Weijing was a little moved.
Even though he was a little slow about feelings, he still realized at this time that Sakai Katsuko's attitude towards him was indeed different.
After Mrs. Sakai's conversation with him last week, Gu Weijing even felt that the other party was a little pretentious.
Somewhere in his heart, Gu Weijing had always felt that it was ridiculous that Miss Sakai would fall in love with him.
It's not that he belittles himself, but that he is sensible.
A girl like Katsuko Sakai, who is particularly favored by fate, has a world of outstanding peers for her to choose from.
There are many candidates who are more handsome than him, richer than him, and better off than him, waiting in line.
Who is Gu Weijing?
If nothing else,
When Mrs. Sakai arrogantly praised Taro Kosatsu in front of her, Gu Weijing was not actually angry.
If you have a daughter,
He also hopes that his daughter will choose a well-matched boy as her lover.
but now,
Gu Weijing was clearly aware of Miss Sakai's affection for him.
This made it difficult for him to even talk about what was going to happen next.
"Can I ask you to recruit an extra classmate to Mrs. Sakai's improvement class?" Gu Weijing hesitated for a moment, then asked.
"Oh, who is it?"
Sakai Katsuko tilted her head.
"You have just transferred here, so you probably don't know her yet. She is a student in our school. Her name is Mona Sandanu."
"It's the female student council president."
"Do you know Mona?"
Gu Weijing said in surprise.
"Well, that's a really beautiful girl." Sakai Katsuko made an unexplained nasal sound from her nose.
She was silent for a few seconds, seemingly unwilling to do so: "I heard from people at school that you had a good relationship before, but I feel like she seems to be ignoring you, and seems very cold and difficult to get along with... …I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said bad things about her behind other people’s backs.”
"Mona is a very good girl. We are friends, good friends since childhood."
Gu Weijing shook his head: "She just has a little temper."
"Can I ask you to do this for me?"
Gu Weijing looked at Sakai Katsuko: "She is a very serious girl. Maybe she is not very talented in painting, but if Mrs. Sakai is willing to give Mona a chance, I guarantee that she will be a good student. "
"This is an improvement class for my mother. She is not an easy person to talk to."
Sakai Katsuko turned her face away and bit her lower lip.
The first time you spoke to me, was it because you wanted me to give a "female" friend of yours a childhood sweetheart through the back door?
please,
Do you know that this makes me feel cheap in your mind?
This made Katsuko Sakai, who had just experienced the feeling of liking someone for the first time, feeling a little aggrieved and a little angry.
"Gu Jun, I am willing to do this for you, but my mother is an independent woman who is very stubborn about her own decisions. Not even my father can interfere with her work. If I point fingers, she will Getting angry with me."
Sakai Katsuko said.
"I see."
In Gu Weijing's mind, Mrs. Sakai's face, which always had a bit of arrogance in her temperament, appeared.
"You know it's going to be difficult for me, but you still want to ask me for that Mona?"
"I'm sorry, Katsuko. I have no other way. If I go find Mrs. Sakai myself, it may not work very well."
Gu Weijing's tone was very sincere.
"The only person I can ask for is you. And it would be a pity if I could do anything for my friend but choose to stand by and do nothing."
"Friend...is this so?"
Sakai Katsuko was silent for a moment.
She had heard too many sweet words and flattery from boys.
In the past, when I met peers of the opposite sex, I only had to smile at them.
Who wouldn't want to have wild dreams and wish he could kick his current girlfriend to please him right away?
Girls are very complicated creatures. They not only hope that their sweethearts will fall in love with them at first sight, but they also hate men who like the new and hate the old.
Looking at Gu Weijing's sincere eyes, Sakai Katsuko felt that she really couldn't get angry, but actually liked him more.
At least he must be a very good friend.
"Feel sorry."
Gu Weijing's tone was full of apology.
"Do you also consider me a friend?" Sakai Katsuko asked.
"certainly."
"If I were that Miss Mona, would you also be willing to do these things for me?" Sakai Katsuko asked in a serious tone.
"Yes. But I don't think Miss Katsuko, you will need me to do anything for you. I'm just a Yangon student who can only draw."
Gu Weijing didn't think that the daughter of a great artist would need his help.
"Then there's no need to apologize. I'm willing to help you, and I'm happy to be your friend." Sakai Katsuko smiled playfully, "I only want a small reward."
"remuneration?"
Sakai Shengzi turned her eyes to the sketch paper Gu Weijing had in hand and said with a smile: "Can you give this painting to me after you finish it? It's so beautiful."
"Well……"
With Mona's incident, Gu Weijing felt psychologically affected even if he gave the girls paintings.
He never expected that Miss Sakai Katsuko, who had seen countless works of art since she was a child, would ask for his paintings.
And compared with the full-length portrait he had painted for Mona for a long time, the unfinished manuscript he had on hand was not a very good gift.
This was just a sketch he drew casually in order to complete the progress bar of the task when Katsuko Sakai was revising his thesis.
The sketch paper was half a sheet that I had just torn out from a used charcoal sketchbook, and it looked cheap everywhere.
"If you don't mind it, I'll paint you a new one, a more formal oil painting."
Gu Weijing felt that this half-finished sketch, which he had just drawn for a few minutes, was a bit difficult to use.
"No, I want this one, I like it."
Sakai Katsuko gently pulled off the cap of the pen and put it into Gu Weijing's hand: "Just finish the painting. Do you want me to continue typing in front of the computer to be your model?"
"That's not necessary. I've already completed the general positioning and contours. I just need to fill in some decorative lines."
Gu Weijing took over the brush and continued to put the finishing touches on the painting.
"Your sketching skills have improved a lot, which is really enviable."
Sakai Katsuko took a close look at Gu Weijing's painting method: "But the pen used seems to be different from that of a normal line sketcher. The lines are more streamlined and more expressive."
"This is a line drawing sketch, a special painting method in the Eastern Xia painting circle."
"Line drawing sketch?"
Sakai Katsuko raised an eyebrow.
"The line drawing technique combines pen sketching and Chinese painting. Do you know line drawing?"
Gu Weijing answered casually.
"Well, early Japanese Ukiyo-e paintings were divided into wood-block paintings and pen-and-ink paintings. Among them, the flesh-brush painting techniques in pen-and-ink paintings borrowed from the line drawings of Chinese paintings."
Sakai Katsuko nodded.
"Here, my hair tends to be thin and soft, with a little less obvious curl. The curve here can actually be denser. I suggest you use diagonal curves..." She stared at the sketch paper.
"If the diagonal curves cross repeatedly, will there be a problem with the gray scale?"
"I think as long as you control the distance, it won't be a big problem..."
It was a cloudless afternoon, and bright sunshine poured in from the windows of the study room.
Gu Weijing was drawing with a pen, and Sakai Katsuko was watching him draw with her chin on her wrist.
Sometimes the two people will simply exchange some opinions, and sometimes they won't say anything at all.
Gu Weijing originally liked to be quiet and immersed in his own little world when painting. He didn't like to be disturbed or watched.
But this time,
Although Katsuko Sakai was talking to him on the side, he seemed very at ease.
Sometimes he could smell the warm fragrance of Katsuko Sakai on the tip of his nose, and out of the corner of his eye he could see the pink Hello Kitty hairpin swaying in the girl's hair.
The sunlight passed through Miss Katsuko's hair, casting a shadow of a kitten on the paper.
Plain and pleasant.
"it's over."
Gu Weijing put down the last stroke and heard the prompt sound from the virtual panel.
[Current task content: Complete one hundred character line drawings with different themes. (Note: The works that reach the rating of "heartfelt feelings" need to be more than twenty)]
[Current mission progress——]
[Character line drawing: (23/100)]
[I feel something in my heart (5/20)]
After gradually becoming familiar with this painting method that combines line drawing and sketching, Gu Weijing began to become more efficient in drawing this style of line drawing and sketching.
He basically paints when he has free time. Sketching is called sketching because it is one of the shortest ways to consume time.
In the past two days, Ling Ling has drawn about twenty drawings.
However, difficulties were encountered in the emotional rating of "feeling something in the heart".
A heart-felt emotional evaluation requires Gu Weijing not only to be in good condition, but also to have a deep understanding and understanding of the characters he writes.
It's not easy.
Among his previous line drawing sketches, four works have reached the rating of "emotional feeling". Except for Jasmine and Mona, only Gu Weijing's painting of his grandfather Gu Tongxiang reached the same requirement.
The portraits he painted of his cousin Gu Lin and his uncle were not touching, but the money-greedy philistine aunt also provided a heart-felt evaluation.
did not expect,
This painting also meets this requirement.
"For you, Miss Sakai."
Gu Weijing handed the painting to the other party.
"Are you a little fatter?"
Sakai Shengzi looked at the girl on the screen and commented. When Gu Weijing wanted to say something, she smiled again, with two dimples showing on her face.
"I'm just teasing you. It's great. This is the happiest gift I've received this year."
Sakai Katsuko carefully took the sketch with both hands and stared at the paper as if it was some kind of precious work of art.
"By the way, I suddenly remembered something about our thesis topic."
Sakai Katsuko carefully clamped the sketch paper into her notebook and said casually: "What do you think is Impressionism?"
"We don't depict gods, we only record sunshine and air. We don't follow dogma, because beautiful things will remain, but pain will eventually pass away."
As soon as Gu Weijing said this, he subconsciously felt bad.
(End of chapter)
