Saint-Exupery's painting skills are actually quite average, and the watercolor illustrations in the original text are at the level of elementary school students' simple drawings.
If there is anything special.
That might be... This French writer created a set of beautiful simple drawings of elementary school students.
Don't underestimate "good-looking", this is a simple evaluation.
It is not difficult for ordinary people and amateurs who have not experienced professional training to draw things for their own entertainment. But from the perspective of art, it is almost impossible to take a closer look.
There are even fewer good-looking works that can meet the standards of commercial invitations.
To be honest,
The original illustrations by Saint-Exupéry have received a good response from the market over the years, and some readers really like these illustrations.
In addition to the natural subjective bonus brought by the original author's handwriting,
Considering the level of painting skills of an amateur painter, the performance of the final product is not too bad, and it even has a sense of innocence like children's paintings.
The main characters of each illustration are composed of very sparse lines, and the backgrounds are often extremely simple curves. Combined into the picture, it looks very comfortable.
Gu Weijing didn't understand why this way of using brushes that did not conform to art standards could achieve such an artistic effect.
Now he somewhat understands——
The secret lies in composition.
Although the original author's painting skills are mediocre, the artistic conception is very interesting and has a wild imagination.
Art learning attaches great importance to drawing inferences from one example and drawing inferences by analogy.
Today collector Chen Shenglin gave me guidance on composition. Gu Weijing gained a lot and gained some understanding of the structure of the painting.
He found,
Sometimes, composition does not necessarily have to adhere to certain normative art theories. Instead, it can achieve better results by being more adaptable to local conditions, flexible, and incorporating your own understanding.
No one has a deeper understanding of the work than the original author.
Amateurs like Saint-Exupéry lacked the constraints of theory.
When designing the structure of the picture, it is entirely based on natural imagination, and it may be easier than a professional painter to break out of the old-fashioned craftsmanship.
Just like Chen Shenglin, who has not held a paintbrush for many years, the oil painting compositions he designed are more energetic and lively than the works he painted strictly according to the triangular pyramid composition method.
After designing the drafts of the works that I will participate in the art exhibition, I looked back at these illustrations and found that the proportions of the "Little Prince" are very interesting.
These illustrations often include large areas of white space and exaggerated proportions.
unprofessional,
The shape is simple, but the composition is quite Zen-like.
Compared with his not so good painting skills, this composition is the essence of Saint-Exupéry's art and the emotional portrayal of his works.
If it were not limited by the original artist's limited painting skills after he started writing, the look and feel of these works would surely be even better.
"interesting."
After discovering this, Gu Weijing decided to basically retain the general structure of the original work of "The Little Prince" while making detailed fine-tuning to better suit the visual proportions.
After all, there are specialties in the art industry.
Saint-Exupery was not a professional painter. Although the composition is imaginative, it is still a bit rough in many places.
It is obvious that the structure can be optimized, and Gu Weijing does not necessarily have to follow the script.
Combined with Gu Weijing’s completed pen sketch.
Soon, he had a mature idea in his mind and picked up the oil painting knife again.
Time flows slowly.
When the moon reached its zenith, Gu Weijing had completed a row of illustrations in front of him.
He put the palette aside and studied his work.
[Title of work: "The Little Prince-The Lonely King"]
[Painting Technique: Drawing Knife Painting·Legendary Level]
[Emotion: Feeling something in my heart]
——
[Title of work: "The Little Prince - Garden with Roses in Bloom"]
[Painting Technique: Drawing Knife Painting·Legendary Level]
[Emotion: Feeling something in my heart]
——
[Title of work: "The Little Prince-The Chaotic Drunkard"]
【……】
A dozen drawings waiting to dry take up almost an entire wall.
The painting method with the oil painting knife is so fast. As long as you have a clear idea, it only takes a few hours to finish so many illustrations.
Not surprisingly, the emotional rating of each picture reaches a level that makes people feel deeply.
This is the most beautiful set of illustrations Gu Weijing has ever drawn.
"Mr. Sloth, I have finished drawing a new batch of illustrations. Can I send them to you?"
Gu Weijing scanned these illustrations one by one into electronic versions and sent them to his agent.
He was very satisfied with these paintings.
Both in terms of technique and emotion, he has reached the limit of his mastery, and the composition is in line with the true intention of the original author.
The lonely and arrogant king, the rose full of fantasy and longing to be loved, the drunkard who indulges in alcohol all day long in order to forget the pain...
The pictures are bright but not vulgar, and the lines are gorgeous but not frivolous.
Compared with the first illustration he sent to Mr. Sloth, in addition to being visually intuitive and beautiful, it also has a more three-dimensional feel.
The beauty of this set of illustrations is no longer simply stunning, but has a richer temperament.
This mysterious feeling is difficult to explain directly in words.
After injecting emotion, the characters in the picture became vivid in an instant. They were no longer just a two-dimensional oil painting, but seemed to have a living soul injected into it.
This is the highest pursuit of illustration, the so-called sense of communication.
Art speaks for itself.
The paintings in front of me have a direct and natural sense of communication with the audience, without the aid of additional words. The illustrations themselves seem to be telling something.
Clumsy and childish, the dream is psychedelic.
"Well, okay, let me download it first." Mr. Sloth motioned to Gu Weijing to wait.
But in a few minutes.
There was an additional message on Gu Weijing's cell phone.
"Splendid! (Magnificent excellence)"
After a while, Mr. Sloth probably thought that this word was not enough to describe the excellence of this set of illustrations, so he added.
“To my eyes, these paintings literally sparkle.”
"Thanks for your help." Gu Weijing thanked him.
"No, it should be thank you for giving me a chance to participate in these works. I can no longer evaluate them based on pure excellence."
Mr. Sloth's tone between the lines was a little touching.
"Saint-Exupéry said that the stars shine so that everyone can one day find their own star."
Mr. Sloth said with a poetic temperament: "As a long-time fan of "The Little Prince", I see that countless readers will find their own stars in these shining and bright works."
"Thank you, Ms. Detective Cat, I love them. This is a set of illustrations that have the magic to create classics."
…
Myanmar and the UK are separated by half a daylight time zone.
When Gu Weijing was painting at night, Scholastic Group's European headquarters building on London's Financial Street was still brightly lit during evening office hours.
"In the 31st round of the Premier League, West Ham United and Manchester City started a tie-break match at Upton Park..."
The fat assistant was wearing headphones. Seeing that no one was paying attention around him, he secretly called up the Sky Sports football broadcast on the screen and leaned lazily on the chair.
Helping leaders do "bad things" may be an easier way to build closer relationships than flattering others.
Ever since he secretly reviewed the draft of the illustrator Detective Cat under the instruction of the president, his status in the project team has changed significantly.
This can be regarded as handing in the certificate of voting.
From then on, he was President Osborne's man.
Maybe a big boss like the group president is too far away to look down on a fat guy like him.
But the project director of "The Little Prince" who is also Osborne's younger brother in the office has been obviously much more amiable to him this week.
The office door was pushed open.
A proofreading editor rushed into the collective office of the project team with a sweaty face and a lot of Starbucks coffee.
The fat assistant paused the live broadcast of the event.
He snapped his fingers and instructed the other party to put his share of coffee on the table, then comfortably took out a donut from his briefcase and gnawed on it.
The fat assistant burped contentedly.
Now, not only can I go to work and do some fishing, but my supervisor also assigns all the daily tasks of running errands upstairs and downstairs to a proofreading editor.
These things are not big in themselves, but they can be much more relaxing. At the same time, the happiness they increase is real.
He was so happy that he gained another two pounds.
only,
It is said that……
Director Charlie was very unhappy.
There has been a lot of turmoil in the art department recently, and everyone is in danger. The sound of breaking things can often be heard in the big boss's office.
"Who is Mr. Wesson Cole, the project assistant of the "Little Prince" project team?"
The fat assistant was thinking wildly in his mind when suddenly several men in black wearing thick-soled leather shoes burst into the project team's office.
"Group Internal Affairs Department, we would like to ask Mr. Cole to come to our place for a brief chat."
The leading man in black showed his ID to the supervisor who came up to him, and the atmosphere in the office suddenly turned cold.
"What's the matter?"
"No comment." The guy from the internal affairs department said coldly with a straight face.
The back office department is the regulatory and audit department within a large company, equivalent to the court in a business empire like Scholastic.
For such a large group with tens of billions of dollars, if the internal rules, regulations and risk control rely solely on the police, the efficiency will be very low, and if something goes wrong, the day lily will often be gone.
Theoretically, all systems related to company regulations fall under the jurisdiction of the back office department.
It can be as big as suspecting that a certain member of management embezzled 20 million US dollars of public funds to go to Las Vegas, or catching the commercial espionage planted by a rival company within the group, or as small as receiving a report that someone is flirting with a female colleague. Investigative responsibilities of the Internal Services Department.
However, small matters generally depend on the situation. Either the police will be called to handle it, or the other party will be ordered to go to the human resources department for an interview.
It is often serious disciplinary violations that can be investigated by the Internal Affairs Department.
Many colleagues in the office looked at the fat assistant with curiosity, surprise, and strange eyes.
The fat assistant's face suddenly tightened.
He immediately thought of the detective cat.
Someone reports themselves for disciplinary violations?
However, the supervisor looked calm and patted the assistant on the shoulder to ask him to follow him first.
"Is it about the detective cat?"
On the way to the back office department, the fat assistant felt a little panicked and couldn't help but ask.
"Mr. Cole, how do you know that we are looking for you because of the detective cat?" The guy from the back office department immediately stopped and his tone was playful.
"Uh... I've just been dealing with these tasks recently."
The fat assistant knew that he had said the wrong thing, and his heart skipped a beat.
He raised his wrist and looked at his watch in a panic: "It's almost time to get off work now. Well, we shouldn't talk for too long."
"The group stipulates that we will pay three times the overtime pay per hour."
The guy from the Internal Affairs Department shrugged: "Of course, Mr. Cole, we have no right to restrict your personal freedom. If you don't want to talk, you can leave at any time."
"It's just that the next time I talk to you may be the police. Because of personal subjective malice, the group has lost significant property. I would like to remind you that such high-value financial crimes will go to criminal court."
The younger brother said lightly: "Even if you don't have to go to jail, with such a civil record, it will be difficult to find another job."
The fat assistant, who was still a social animal, gasped in horror at the threat.
"Because of personal subjective malice, the group has suffered a huge loss of property. How can it be so serious." He licked the corner of his mouth.
"Haha, because of some people's selfish interests, the first-line well-known illustration studio Wehrlein Studio, which had already reached a preliminary cooperation intention, was kicked away, and the contract was authorized to an unknown garbage online painter through a secret operation."
A gloomy voice said: "The potential losses to the group's market due to the works of garbage painters may be as high as tens of millions of dollars. Just prepare to spend your days in jail picking up soap until you die."
Charlie, director of the art department of Scholastic Group, was leaning against the open door of the back office talk room, lighting a thick black cigar with fragrant wood chips.
He put the cigar in his mouth and took a deep drag.
Then he blew out a provocative smoke ring at the fat assistant with a vicious look in his eyes.
"Fat boy, if you don't want to rot in prison with that bitch Detective Cat, I advise you to tell all about Osborne's secret deeds."
Charlie believes,
For Osborne to put so much effort into promoting an online illustrator, there must be some shady insider trading involved.
He originally did not want to report Osborne to the Internal Affairs Department for suspicion of disciplinary violations.
First, Charlie had no direct evidence.
Secondly, the management's overt and covert struggles are generally within a controllable range, and it will be completely broken when it comes to the back office department.
You can report it, and others can report it. The contract that Charlie handed over to Wehrlein Illustration Studio on a daily basis is not very clean, even if it is full of twists and turns.
But Osborne's stealing behavior of wooing Deputy Director Schubert has completely exceeded the bottom line that Charlie can tolerate.
Fortunately, the most important thing for illustrators is to let their works speak for themselves, which is similar to some technical jobs.
What can attract the audience is good, and what cannot attract the audience is bad.
It is true that the "Little Prince" project had already reached a preliminary cooperation intention with Wehrlein Studio, and it is also true that it was suddenly authorized to an online painter.
No matter what the findings are.
As long as you have a first-tier studio like Wehrlein in your hands, you can produce better works than Detective Cat.
Charlie believes that no matter what the outcome of the investigation is, he will be in an invincible position.
Now that Osborne has crossed the line.
Even if Charlie goes to the board of directors, he will definitely kick Detective Cat out.
(End of chapter)
