Gu Weijing used a little force and used a pencil to eliminate a dozen small grids.
Koko stretched her head and glanced at the podium. When she saw that the teacher was not in the classroom, she relaxed completely.
She turned her head sideways, put her right wrist under her cheek, lazily scrolled through her phone, and glanced at her homework progress from time to time.
This kind of close and generous viewing, even if she had become numb to Gu Weijing's speed, it was still a completely different feeling.
"Honestly... your proficiency in sketching techniques and pens is far superior to that of most of your classmates."
Koko narrowed her eyes and couldn't help but say: "I think your coloring speed is almost the same as when the teacher demonstrated on the podium just now."
"Strictly speaking, it's still a little bit worse."
Gu Weijing rotated the pencil and began to deal with the last blank space on the sketch paper.
Mr. Wattle is a senior art professor at Dulwich College. Looking at the whole of Yangon, he is among the best in sketching.
After Gu Weijing started school, he once used the [Calligraphy and Painting Appraisal Technique] to glance at the teachers' works in the school exhibition column.
Professor Watter's sketch level system panel can reach the first level of profession, and the experience value is about 4500.
It is already quite close to the second-level professional level.
From a purely numerical perspective, Gu Weijing still has some shortcomings.
"What Professor Vatel showed before should not be at the limit of his speed, and he drew while standing and bending under the projector, which will also affect the force exerted by the pen."
Gu Weijing thought for a while and explained: "It will take some time before I can catch up with Teacher Vatel's level."
"In a few days... This understatement is like saying that I will go to the school gate for a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Mr. Wattle graduated from a prestigious European art school! Classmate Gu has such a loud tone."
Kou Kou raised her eyebrows in a disdainful manner: "Sure enough, I am no longer satisfied with killing our classmates instantly. Hum, now I am ready to challenge the teacher."
Gu Weijing didn't want to explain anything to the little girl.
He lowered his head and continued to concentrate on finishing the work of toning the last small square.
Gu Weijing noticed,
Now the speed of gaining experience points has begun to drop slightly compared to the first practice.
If you do this kind of practice at the beginning, you can gain experience points at a speed almost similar to when you activate Menzel's skills.
After practicing these thirty grids, the speed at which he gained experience points was only about 80 to 90 percent of the initial rate.
This is not a bad thing,
Just because Gu Weijing has a background as a professional painter, he can quickly make up for the deficiencies in the details of his brushwork.
It is estimated that after another month of practice, he should be able to control the length of the lines completely at will.
By the time,
Under the influence of marginal effects, the speed of gaining experience points from this kind of practice may degrade to the point where it is almost the same as normal sketching.
Come to think of it,
If such a simple exercise could maintain such efficient improvement without decay, Professor Vatel, who invented this method, would not just be a high school teacher in a small place like Yangon.
He thought the conversation was over.
The next second, Kou Kou suddenly waved her fist: "But, I still believe in the ability of Mr. Gu who can take a limousine to Bistrot 1836 to enjoy a luxurious dinner. Come on."
Gu Weijing raised his head in confusion: "How did you know?"
"Didn't someone say that it was a coincidence that I met a Bentley? Is it also a coincidence that I booked a meal at a high-end Italian restaurant?" Kou Kou did not answer, but curled her lips and accused: "Liar."
"Are you following me?"
Gu Weijing frowned in displeasure. This little bastard must be too curious.
"That's not true, don't be angry."
Koko pushed the phone over with a smile: "It's not a waste to write homework for me, although the biscuits are not delicious. But this piece of information is worth the price of admission!"
"Your little girlfriend went to have a candlelight dinner with another man behind your back. Don't blame me for not reminding you. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to bear it."
Koko blinked her big eyes to tell the news.
Gu Weijing took the phone and found that it was a TikTok international account called [Mona's Painting Cottage].
Of course he knows this account.
Gu Weijing is still the administrator of its live broadcast room.
The TIKTOK account was created by Gu Weijing and Mona, and originated from the after-school homework of the "Internet Art Marketing" elective course in school.
Now that online media is so developed, the working style of art workers has long ceased to be the traditional practice of staying in the studio and focusing on painting alone.
As early as before the millennium, high-end professional painters in Europe and the United States basically had their own official accounts, personal websites, BBS homepages, etc. operated by dedicated personnel.
Nowadays, there are more YouTube channels, Douyin live broadcasts and many other contents.
Uncle Sakai and Miss Katsuko’s studio photo wall on INS, as well as Mr. Sloth’s podcast salon, all fall into this category.
Dulwich College has launched relevant elective courses early.
When they were in the eleventh grade, Mona judged that there was a future in art and self-media marketing, so she took Gu Weijing to sign up for this elective course.
The teacher requires each study group to choose one of YouTube, Douyin, or Twitch (foreign live broadcast platform) and create a self-media account.
The final score will be calculated based on the number of viewers.
Thanks to Mona's beauty, their account had more than 10,000 followers by the end of the semester, and one video was viewed more than 150,000 times.
Were the only study group to get an A+ in that class.
After the semester ended, the two of them have been operating this account to this day.
During the Spring Festival this year, the number of fans on the account just exceeded 37,000, which is pretty good for middle school students. Occasionally, they can also receive some local meal orders.
This made his cousin Gu Lin, who also likes to shoot short videos and dreams of becoming a video celebrity, very jealous.
Gu Weijing discovered that Mona had updated a new video last Friday night.
Strange, why didn’t I receive the relevant reminder?
He took out his mobile phone, opened TIKTOK, and found that not only did he not receive new video reminders, but their TIKTOK accounts that were originally pinned to the top of his list of followers also disappeared.
Gu Weijing manually searched for the account name "Mona's Painting Cottage", but could not find the corresponding information at all.
If it's not a software problem.
Then there was only one answer left... He was directly blocked after Mona removed the administrator rights.
That's why he couldn't find any relevant information.
Gu Weijing was silent for a moment, and then he picked up Kou Kou's cell phone.
He first clicked on Tiktok's work section and simply swiped down.
They mainly do art sharing columns on this account. They occasionally post about the daily life of art students, and there is also a five-episode video series for beginners on how to get started with crayon painting.
Different from Mr. Sloth's high-end podcast column, Gu Weijing and Mona's videos are less in-depth, and the audience is not even professional. In fact, most of them come to watch the pretty ladies.
Gu Weijing is often only responsible for the planning, recording and editing of videos. He has only appeared in a few videos.
even so.
Mona seemed determined to eliminate all traces of Gu Weijing from her life.
The few videos on Douyin that contain Gu Weijing-related content have been removed from the shelves.
The personalized signature on the original account's homepage - "Mona and her good friend Gu Weijing share their interesting art life with everyone."
It was also changed to - "New life, new beginning, my new artistic journey."
Gu Weijing clicked on the new video released by Mona last Friday.
After only a few seconds, he understood why Kou Kou beside him knew that he had gone to a high-end Italian restaurant in the embassy district for dinner on Friday.
I didn't expect such a coincidence,
While she and the accountant from Schonbrunn Palace were discussing the contract details on the second floor, Mona was also dining downstairs.
She made a short video to record the dishes of this Italian restaurant, which was awarded two Michelin stars.
The camera at the beginning of the video specifically scanned over a row of official cars with the embassy logos of various countries outside the restaurant door, and finally landed on the blue Bentley he was riding in, giving a close-up of more than ten seconds.
"Hello, my friends..."
Mona explained to the audience watching the video that Bistrot 1836 is the most famous restaurant in Yangon, famous for providing the most authentic Italian cuisine.
Diplomats from various countries and international celebrities or wealthy people often come to dine in this restaurant. Today, an unknown Bigwig (bigwig) booked the entire second floor.
She pointed suggestively at the luxury car outside the door, which symbolized wealth and status, pursed her lips, and said with a little show off that she was here for dinner with her friends today.
Jerry's sunny and handsome face appeared in the camera.
Gu Weijing clicked on the comment.
"Wow! One pound of steak costs 300 dollars. This is simply robbery! Those who study art are indeed rich people."
"Rich woman, rich woman, please support me!"
"It's quite difficult to book a seat at this restaurant. Although it's not a three-star Michelin star, the several Southeast Asian travel podcasters I follow who have millions of followers have not been able to book a seat at Bistrot 1836."
"Where is the guy who worked with you before? I saw that all the content about him has been deleted. Are you having any conflicts?" - This comment mentioning Gu Weijing was personally replied by the UP owner yesterday .
Mona's reply was also very concise: "It's not a contradiction, it's just inappropriate, so everyone is fine."
Below are the various chat responses.
"Wow! Sister, congratulations, I have been following you for three years. I have always felt that he is not worthy of you. The girl deserves better, and the handsome guy next to me now looks much better." A message from an old female viewer road.
"The relationship between the two of them was just ordinary classmates..."
"I don't care, I declare that I will be responsible for the smile of the young lady!"
Gu Weijing turned off the phone screen.
"You're so heartless. People look down on you."
Koko playfully licked the corner of her mouth, fanning the wind and lighting the will-o'-the-wisp.
Gu Weijing said nothing.
He was in a strange mood now.
Gu Weijing feels that he has no position to criticize Mona's behavior. Does he like Mona?
You should like it, right?
If Miss Mona hadn't been deliberately acting aloof, they might have been together long ago.
But to put it bluntly, from beginning to end, they were just good friends.
I even had an affair with Ms. Sakai.
What qualifications does such a person have to accuse other girls of being heartless?
Gu Weijing wisely thought that he shouldn't feel so uncomfortable, but he really felt uncomfortable now.
He subconsciously wanted to ask Mona about her account. When he opened the chat software and saw the message reminder, he realized that they were no longer social friends.
Gu Weijing switched to text messaging and entered Mona's mobile phone number.
"I saw the account thing, Mona, are we still friends?" Gu Weijing looked at the chat box, hesitated for a long time, and only edited this line.
A few minutes later, the phone vibrated.
"I checked yesterday and found that the total cumulative revenue of TikTok in the past three years was approximately 5.7 million kyats. Thank you Gu Weijing for your help. Send me a card number. If you want, the money will be yours."
"Don't worry about this account from now on. We all have different paths in life. Don't get entangled with each other. It's easy to get together and part ways," Mona replied.
…
Gu Weijing came to Lucky Orphanage in the afternoon.
Although his mood was a little low, he still had a lot of things to do, such as preparing for the upcoming art exhibition.
Even though Fusion Painting is still difficult for him to control now, it doesn't mean that there is nothing to do now.
There are less than five months left before the submission date for the Lion City Biennale.
Painting large paintings is time consuming.
In addition to the time spent on painting itself, there is also the early composition and creativity.
Compared with putting pen to paper, conceiving ideas requires more energy.
Even if he was painting a simple scene, Monet, the master of impressionism, once stood on a street in France for half a year to paint a certain church, observing the various changes in the church's bell tower in the sun every day.
Often without eating or drinking, I spent a whole day trying to figure out the nuances of color.
In the end, he was almost sent to a mental hospital by his friends who thought he was crazy.
Gu Weijing is preparing to create a character painting for the Lion City Art Exhibition with the Good Luck Orphanage as the background.
Compared with scenery, figures can more easily reflect the painter's emotions.
The fusion painting "Good Luck Orphanage Under the Sun" that he tried to paint for the first time was such an attempt.
The reason why the painting is poor is due to Gu Weijing's ability. There is actually nothing wrong with the conception.
After repeatedly studying the painting, Gu Weijing concluded that in addition to the fusion painting techniques that needed polishing, the emotions of the characters also needed work.
The painting method is eye-catching, and the whole painting must reach the emotional level of "feeling something in the heart", so that it can win some awards at the International Art Biennale where there are many masters.
As for the character's emotions...unless he only planned to include Jasmine as a small model in the picture.
Otherwise, based on Gu Weijing's understanding of other people in the orphanage, it would be difficult to achieve empathy.
He has to find a few more models.
Fortunately,
There's no shortage of interesting goals like this in the orphanage.
(End of chapter)
