"Just throw some bait at your leisure."
The underworld godfather didn't take it seriously: "It's the best if you win. It doesn't matter if it doesn't work."
The bald head nodded,
Before he turned around and left, he still couldn't help but ask: "Do you really don't need me to ask my men to tie him up? I won't hurt him either. The Golden Triangle drug lords like to use heroin injections to control their informants. Once they get involved, they are guaranteed to be better than dogs." You're still obedient. You kill your own father without batting an eyelid. You don't like this method, Brother Hao, but a middle school student doesn't need to be drugged. Just starve him for two or three days and he will definitely be honest."
"It means you still don't understand."
The smile on Brother Hao's face was full of lasting meaning.
He held a handful of fish food and slowly stretched his hand into the ornamental tank, shaking it while slowly opening his palm.
"This is still the idea of raising ordinary carp. What an artist wants is this precious spirit. If you drug him, the person will be useless. If you don't feed him, he will be hungry if he is hungry. This essence The energy may be gone."
"If you want to hold this koi in your hand, you can't use a hook, let alone use a harpoon or a harpoon roughly. If you knock it, hurt it, or touch it, it won't be worth a lot of money."
"You have to use the bait slowly, be patient, and be willing to take the bait. Only then can you hold Mr. Gu obediently in your hands with all his beard and tail."
Brother Hao slowly used force and pinched the three-color koi that was eating bait in his hand tightly.
Wow...
The carp came out of the water and flicked its tail crazily, but couldn't move.
"Don't worry, he can't run away."
The middle-aged man smiled.
…
[Can I fly freely like a bird one day? 】
[Is it the sunrise and sunset in the same instant? 】
[Or within one week, one hundred weeks, one thousand weeks? 】
[Or is it the time of the Spring and Autumn Period, when the sea dies and the stone dies? 】
【……】
Gu Weijing gently used the tip of his pen to outline the figure of a little boy wearing a golden scarf, sitting on the beach and looking at the stars.
The sound of ethereal music accompanied by a tambourine came from the computer speakers next to me.
I don't know why,
Mr. Sloth seems to hope that Gu Weijing can speed up his painting progress recently, and he has increased the time he spends reading to himself by more than half an hour every day.
The book of "The Little Prince" is not very thick to begin with.
The selected key paragraphs have been read to the end.
Today, Mr. Sloth changed the way he wired.
He did not read certain passages to himself as before.
Instead, he played "Equation", the theme song of the French cartoon "The Little Prince" with the highest IMDB animation rating in 2015, for Gu Weijing.
"The protagonist of a fairy tale is the sum of the intersections of all the characters in the story. I think that sometimes, the song may be more penetrating than the voluminous words. Ms. Detective Cat, do you see the shadow of the little prince in your heart? ?”
On the other side of the computer, Anna paused the music.
She has always liked the theme song of this cartoon, which is ethereal and has a fairy tale feel.
Among all the music adapted from "The Little Prince", Anna actually loves the soundtrack of the 2002 version of the French stage musical the most, followed by this song.
The musical's soundtrack is more quaint.
When she was a little girl, her aunt took her to watch the live version of this stage musical in the VIP box of the Opera Garnier in Paris.
Today, the study still has a collection of vinyl records produced by Sony for this musical.
but,
That stage play was too long.
Illustrations should be concise, easy to understand, eye-catching, and consistent with the essence of popular music.
Even if the plot of the cartoon is compared with Saint-Exupéry's original work, and there are many elements of subjective adaptation by the director, the lyrics themselves still fit the artistic temperament of "The Little Prince" quite well.
So Anna thought for a long time and still chose the song "Equation" for Detective Cat Sister.
Anna's cell phone ringtone is this song.
If it weren't for the fact that her original voice was not suitable for appearing at this time, she would even prefer to sing this song for Ms. Detective Cat herself.
Gu Weijing glanced at the sketch and nodded with satisfaction.
"Well, I think I have captured the fairy tale images of all the characters in "The Little Prince". I should be able to draw the cover picture."
cover painting,
Scholastic Group's requirements are not complicated, and are similar to the angles chosen for most "The Little Prince" publication covers or movie posters.
"The background is the desert, and the protagonist, the little prince, is looking up at the stars." - reads the document instructions in the contract.
The little prince looking at the stars in the desert can be said to be the most classic public impression of the character of the little prince.
Don’t look at the cover. The request for manuscripts is very simple.
Mr. Sloth asked him to put this painting at the end of the task.
You need to have a deep understanding of all the characters and have a solid grasp before you can start writing.
The cover painting is the most critical piece of illustration for book publishing. It is equivalent to the face of a beautiful model or the trailer of a commercial movie.
Whether an illustration can attract an audience depends largely on a cover.
If the cover is messed up, even if the inside is painted as a flower, you can't save it.
For this cover painting alone, the publisher's quote was as high as US$25,000, accounting for almost one-fifth of the total remuneration in the contract.
"Very good, I believe in your ability. Can you hand over this cover illustration to me before the end of this week?" Mr. Sloth asked.
"Actually, we should be able to do it today. Are you in a hurry?" Gu Weijing heard that there seemed to be something else in the other person's tone.
The project team of the publishing house "The Little Prince" has been urging Anna repeatedly.
Illustration takes no time.
Wehrlein Studio handed over the cover illustration to the group on Monday.
The entire printing project cycle has been very rushed, and they are also urging Detective Cat to hurry up here.
Anna did not tell the detective cat the news.
She had not even mentioned the important matter of "Weillein Illustration Studio will participate in the competition" with her agent artist.
As long as Detective Cat plays normally, she sees no chance of losing.
Anna believes that a qualified agent should withstand the pressure at this time and not let such nonsense affect the artist's creative state.
"It doesn't matter. You can just follow your own pace. Paint well with peace of mind and leave the rest to me." Anna replied calmly.
After Gu Weijing hung up the Internet phone call, he stared at the sketch of the protagonist, the little prince, that he had just completed, and thought quietly for a few minutes.
He was in no hurry to write immediately.
With the early illustrations of fairy tale characters as a basis, Gu Weijing was already very familiar with the entire painting process.
Mr. Sloth reads to himself, draws line drawings of characters, and then turns these pen and ink drawings into canvases with splashes of ink and knife drawings.
Just follow this streamlined operation.
Gu Weijing will soon be able to harvest an exquisite knife painting at the level of [feeling in the heart].
However, after drawing so many knife illustrations, Gu Weijing was a little unsatisfied with works of this level.
In his mind, he once again pictured Mr. Cao using his brush to put the finishing touch on an ordinary wall, painting the mysterious effect of a Bodhisattva opening his eyes and all ghosts retreating.
This kind of master's handwriting does not need the help of any calligraphy and painting appraisal skills at all.
Any bystander who saw that scene could clearly feel the shocking visual impact.
There are even monks wearing cassocks, meditating and becoming enlightened.
This is the master-level painting skill. What is great is not only the technique, but also the thoughts and emotions.
Gu Weijing believes that he has the blessing of legendary knife painting, and his skill level is no longer an obstacle to expressing such moving effects.
His shortcoming is still emotion.
If you want the picture to have enough emotional impact, it is not enough to just "feel something in the heart" based on empathy.
Gu Weijing needs a more touching emotional rating.
He opened the virtual panel and looked at the next stage [heart-breaking] on the emotion meter pointer.
Working hard...
After all, what does it mean to work hard?
Gu Weijing came to the studio, put the little prince's line drawing aside, and prepared the drawing board as usual.
Only this time, he did not start painting immediately, but stood silently for a long time facing the blank canvas.
think,
Keep thinking,
Gu Weijing stared at the line drawing of the little prince, hesitated for a moment, and then took out the sketch of the king, the sketch of the rose, the sketch of the fox, and then the drunkard, the bread tree, the astronomer... from the sketch folder in the cabinet...
With the little prince as the center, he put aside all the line drawings he had accumulated over the past few days.
The characters in these illustrations may look majestic, may be naive, or may be shy and sensitive.
The works are lined up and gathered around the little prince. The characters on every sketch paper seem to be telling something to the little prince.
The protagonist of the fairy tale,
He is always the character with the richest plots, the most profound themes, and the most difficult to grasp in fairy tales.
A book's divine will, seven to eight points, must be focused on the protagonist.
"The protagonist of a fairy tale is the sum of the intersections of all plot characters."
Gu Weijing repeated what Mr. Sloth told him over and over again in his mind, and new creative inspiration gradually emerged.
Gu Weijing slowly picked up the oil painting knife.
He wanted to change his painting method to depict this little prince who liked to wander around the stars.
think about it,
This little boy wandered alone in the vast universe, meeting strange strangers one after another among the miniature stars that were no more than the size of a cottage house.
The king who wants to make the little prince his minister, the sensitive and arrogant girl who secretly likes his roses, the little fox who wants to be tamed...
They each have their own quirks and loneliness.
Everyone's encounter and separation with the little prince left their own reflection on him.
When the little boy sat in the desert and looked at the stars, what was he thinking about?
The home of the asteroid codenamed B162? Or his friends among those shining stars?
Gu Weijing used an oil painting knife to draw out the black sky on the paper, and then used the side edge of the knife tip to point out the stars in the sky with bright paint, followed by the sand sea in the distance.
The desert is like gold dust and the stars are as bright as silver.
The little prince sat sideways on a sand dune, looking up at the universe. The silver starlight shone from the sky, leaving a long shadow on the sand sea.
Gu Weijing recalled his feelings when he painted the inhabitants living on the stars in the sky. While using layers of extremely thin and fine paint pressed with a painting knife, he repeatedly laid out the shadow of the little prince under the starlight.
In the past, when he drew the characters in the "Little Prince" series of illustrations, he would only focus on the single emotion of the character.
Either aloof, sensitive, or confused...
These emotions are all about empathy for a certain mental state of the characters, and they are also the cornerstone of the expressive power of the picture to give the audience a sense of communication.
Like a drink that tastes either sour or sweet.
But a truly living character will never have only some kind of pure happiness or sadness, an emotion that can be summarized in a single word.
Everyone's mood at all times is composed of many complex emotions.
Just like a cup of tea, the bitter, astringent, sweet aftertaste of the herbs is twisted into a refreshing fragrance.
The Buddha said that ordinary people have the five aggregates and seven emotions, joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and surprise. They are always entangled by the seven emotions and six desires like wool, and they cannot be freed.
Psychology believes that feelings are actually as complex as an onion. When one layer is peeled off, there is another layer.
Gu Weijing tried to incorporate the impressions of all past characters into the profile of the little prince.
Just like in fairy tales,
The shadows these characters leave on the little boy.
then,
This painting really seemed to come to life.
As Gu Weijing painted, on the virtual panel that he was not paying attention to, the emotional pointer began to climb quietly, starting from the area pointing to "feeling in the heart" and slowly rising again.
The little prince on the sand dunes has a "life" in him.
In the picture, the person sitting on the beach is still the little boy looking up at the stars.
But the little prince seems to have become more agile, as if he has an illusion that he will turn his head and talk to you at any time.
People often use lifelike to describe the painter's superb skills.
Reality is not animation, and painters are not magicians. Of course, the works they create cannot really come alive.
However,
The work feels alive, like it has a soul and can come back to life at any time, but it really exists.
Art textbooks will tell you that in the "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre, no matter how you look at it from any angle, the lady with her arms on her chest seems to be looking at the tourists.
The special visual effects of "Mona Lisa" also form part of Leonardo da Vinci's legendary story.
Sensory illusions caused by paintings or sculptures,
It is also a classic part of urban supernatural stories from both East and West throughout the ages.
The characters in the oil paintings speak to you, the sculptures in the opera house sing in the middle of the night, and the spirit of the wild fox and ghost written by Pu Songling in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" resides in the portraits on the wall.
This is of course due to the rich emotions the creator has given to the work.
Rigorous modern science explains these situations as visual deviations caused by the painter's exquisite compositional proportions.
As for various auditory hallucinations and fantasies, the inner emotions of the audience and the emotions of the painter produce a subtle chemical effect, which makes people feel excited and mistake the artwork for a living thing.
This is also the reason why some people with mental illness, delusion, autism, or people who have just lost love enjoy enjoying art exhibitions more.
Their emotions are more turbulent and they are more easily touched by the life of the artwork.
At this moment,
There was a vitality sprouting on the canvas in front of Gu Weijing like a sapling.
(End of chapter)
