Anatomically speaking,
Human pupils can contract or expand 6 to 7 times in tens of milliseconds when emotions such as ecstasy, excitement, sadness, etc. change dramatically in a short period of time.
This is the organ most closely related to mood in the physiological structure of the human body, and is not subject to human subjective will.
Even those masters of micro-expression management who have received professional anti-interrogation training and can control the subtle facial muscles to achieve the situation of "thunder in the chest, but a flat lake in the face".
The changes in their pupils can still clearly reflect the ups and downs of their inner emotions.
The eyes are the windows of the soul,
Western painting schools have always paid great attention to people's eyes.
The eyes can express the character's mood, the mirror can express the complex overlap of spatial structure, and the lights and candlelight can express the color, light and shadow.
These three points were repeatedly emphasized by the teacher in the oil painting class. They are difficult and key points that need to be paid attention to when copying the works of famous masters.
The Oriental School of Painting has a level of depiction of the characters' eyes that is almost pathologically demanding.
Painting people and eyes is the finishing touch.
Zhang Yanyuan, a famous official from the Tang Dynasty to the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, once mentioned in his book "On the Six Methods of Painting" which commented on the merits and demerits of famous painters in the past dynasties - "There are methods for painting, and there is a spiritual eye for observation." "This view.
I believe that in Chinese paintings, if the audience can see the aura and spirit in the eyes of the characters, then the painting is organized.
Figuring out the different eyes of a model and using a brush to reproduce them on paper is the eternal pursuit of oriental painters of all ages.
Oriental art works,
This feature can be clearly seen in various schools of Chinese painting, Gandhara Buddhist art influenced by the Eastern Xia cultural circle, Central Asian art styles, and even some Greek murals and sculptures.
Gu Weijing had read relevant art theory books and asked Professor Lin Tao for advice on this issue.
Professor Lin Tao thinks.
Whether it is the early Gandhara Buddhist art or the figure paintings of the Eastern Xia Dynasty for kings, princes and generals, they all pay great attention to the solemnity and majesty of the figures.
The painter wants the viewer to feel awe and not dare to blaspheme.
In order to express solemnity, these painting schools are accustomed to flattening portraits and even sculptures.
Whether it is a Buddha statue with divinity, or the common portraits of emperors in the Qing Dynasty palace, or the maps of famous officials, almost all of them are full-face portraits sitting majestically. This is the reason.
Unofficial History of the Qing Dynasty,
The Italian Castiglione once presented a Western-style sitting portrait oil painting to Emperor Kangxi, the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty.
He focused on spatial perspective and painted "lifelike images, with every detail of the eyebrows, eyes, and facial features clearly visible", hoping to please the ruler of the Eastern land.
As a result, Emperor Kangxi became furious and
I think the figures in the picture have empty sitting postures, unclear light and shade, no majesty, no form, no spirit, and extremely tacky! Order this painting that damages the Holy Face to be destroyed.
Master Lang finally accepted his fate and switched to studying new body painting.
Characters in Chinese paintings often do not have rich changes in facial features, nor are they accustomed to using large areas of shadow or perspective to express a true sense of space like Western oil paintings.
This further tests the artist’s level.
If it is too solemn, it will appear dull and lose popularity.
Therefore, the spirit, agile temperament and elegant expression of all characters require the painter to use superb skills to highlight a pair of eyes.
Look at the heart through the eyes, and then look at people.
This is what Eastern painters call the "mental image" of emphasizing meaning rather than form.
Gu Weijing understood the principles, but he was always somewhere between understanding and not understanding exactly how to draw.
It's like learning physics formulas but not being able to solve problems.
What kind of eyes should you draw that can reveal your inner emotions?
He can't be like an electronic scanner, scanning the model's pupils on the paper bit by bit.
Professor Lin Tao helplessly told him that the master led him in and cultivation depends on the individual.
The truth has been taught to him, and the rest can only be understood by Gu Weijing himself.
If you are a painting master like Mr. Cao Xuan,
Naturally, with nearly a hundred years of painting accumulation and the vicissitudes of time in my heart, and the energy nourished by the mist and mist of the world, I can create a shocking look in the mural out of thin air.
Mr. Cao is not far away from being a hundred years old.
A century of training is enough for an art master to reach the point where his skills are almost perfect. Even if he draws casually, his facial features will still be vivid.
But for a kid like Gu Weijing,
Whether it is skills or life experience, they are all too young.
Forget about the finishing touches.
Even when it comes to painting people, it is still too far to forcefully draw a portrait of a blank puppet, point out the temperament that seems to come to life, and forcefully give it a soul.
If you want to draw a truly moving gaze,
Well, he must at least find a suitable model.
Professor Lin Tao said that it depends on opportunity.
When Gu Weijing really found that pair of eyes that contained rich emotional changes, he understood without the need for a teacher to teach him.
Excellent models are hard to find.
Painting, especially realistic-style subjects, is just like a photojournalist who wants to win a prize in a news competition. Outstanding works are the mutual achievement of excellent creators and excellent models.
Not only do you have to look hard, but you also have to try your luck.
Such things as art models,
If the painter's requirements are only appearance, it would be too simple.
Tall, short, fat and thin, some beautiful, some ugly, some weird.
As long as you have money, no matter how weird your needs are, your agent or gallery can easily find them for you, no matter how beautiful they are.
For $100,000, it would be easy to find a Victoria's Secret supermodel to paint an unclothed portrait.
If you happen to be an internationally renowned painter.
Sorry, countless model agents will contact you without spending any money.
If you are a big sister, you might even take the initiative to directly set your drawing as your Twitter homepage and pin it to the top of the social platform.
On the chain of contempt between elegance and style,
In modern society, the only people in the West who can compete with great painters are some prestigious classical symphony musicians and members of the royal family.
After Prince Harry and Meghan Markle began to take the B route of Netflix's ethical drama, even the royal family may be half a step behind.
Mom, I have a slim waist and a curvy butt. It’s very impressive that I can be a nude model for a great painter!
It's much more stylish than hoping to become famous in a TV series or shoot a cover advertisement of luxury clothing. If a painter is willing to paint you, he really looks up to you.
But if your demand is: "The model's soul has a sense of hierarchy and her eyes are full of emotions", this is a mysterious and mysterious statement.
Then your agent will vomit blood.
Can it be found? Once found, can the model really express the emotions that meet the artist's requirements?
hehe,
This is completely like looking for a needle in a haystack and resigned to fate.
Even when Gu Weijing was painting portraits of two children, Jasmine and Budao, he didn't feel any strange feeling when painting eyes.
Jasmine's eyes are certainly very beautiful,
They are just children, happiness is happiness, and grievance is grievance.
Their hearts are still childish, very clean and refreshing, like a clear clear spring.
Touching, but lacking in layering.
Especially the younger classmate Budao,
Gu Weijing could only feel in his eyes - wanting to eat, wanting to play, wanting to lift high... such very simple emotions.
At this time, seeing Uncle Alai's eyes gave Gu Weijing a very surprised feeling.
Like a dark green to jet black ultramarine pigment ore thrown into the pool,
Slowly, slowly, layers of cyan hazy colors overflowed from it, rendering the surrounding environment a melancholy cyan color.
“That’s the look of richness!”
Like a monk ringing a big brass bell in his mind, Gu Weijing's mind clicked, and he instantly understood what Professor Lin Tao told him about the rich and layered look in his eyes.
Obviously Uncle Alai's expression now is no different from before.
There was no neurotic expression of cynical hatred of unfair fate in his eyes.
His eyes were so calm, so empty,
But there were layers of gentle sadness that overflowed. The moment you looked at him, it was like you were seeing Uncle Alai's past thirty years.
I once had a good time and thought that I could change my destiny. I was the future master of this city and this country.
I drove through the streets of the downtown area in a car issued to high-ranking military officers. People's faces in the reflectors were full of envy and admiration.
I also hit rock bottom, lost my faith, lost my honor, lost everything, and had my feet broken like a poor creature.
In the end, I wasn't even left with an object of hatred, and it only allowed me to recognize this dirty world.
so,
I don’t want to get rich, I don’t want to be a master anymore, I just want to live a good life as an orphanage volunteer and be a clean and good person.
Uncle Alai stopped talking,
But the moment you meet his eyes, you can't help but want to cry.
Gu Weijing suddenly understood.
He grabbed the pen and began to write down quickly. The skin of the fingers holding the drawing pen turned slightly white from the exertion.
Gu Weijing didn't even dare to take a deep breath, for fear that this precious understanding would slip away from his mind before he could record this look on paper.
Uncle Alai tilted his head, looking at the drawing paper in the hands of the middle school student, recalling the past half a life, and his thoughts continued.
Unlike the semi-illiterate top soldiers under many warlords in Myanmar,
Alai has a high level of cultural attainment. If he was admitted to the best national military academy in Myanmar, his academic qualifications are already higher than 90% of the people in this land.
Moreover, Uncle Alai stayed in Tel Aviv for a long time.
This city in Israel, which has long been shrouded in the shadow of war, is not only the place with the highest degree of militarization of the people, but also the place with the strongest artistic environment.
Tel Aviv is one of several centers of modern art in the world, with a dazzling array of art galleries and art and creative parks. The walls of military base dormitories are covered with various graffiti and spray-paints. Uncle Alai even learned two sketches from an Argentine non-commissioned officer in the same dormitory during his vacation.
So, he knows how to draw quite well.
Uncle Alai saw that the work on Gu Weijing's drawing paper was almost completed. It didn't look like a sketch, nor did it look like the painting method of the vendors he had seen selling pen drawings to tourists on the street.
The lines are much more concise and precise, and every curve of the pen is like a skeleton, supporting the work from the paper.
The moment the janitor saw Gu Weijing's drawing paper, he felt like he was seeing himself in the mirror.
Some are high-spirited, and some are desolate.
Two emotions that should be in conflict are cleverly blended together, like fire wrapped in ice and fire burning in the ice. A large number of rich emotions are like water stored in a sponge. When the audience looks at the painting, they are squeezed out of the paper and rush into the audience's heart.
The self in the picture seems to be smiling, and seems to be crying again. When I first look at it, I feel happy, but when I look closely, I feel sad. After careful consideration, I only feel lonely.
Uncle Alai has heard someone say that Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is said to have very layered emotions.
Some people can see the joy, some viewers can see the sadness.
Countless musicians and writers have created many works of art inspired by the look and feel of this famous painting.
Uncle Alai has never been to France, and naturally he has no chance to look at this famous painting with countless legends and stories in the Louvre Museum to distinguish the authenticity from the fake.
However, the gatekeeper really discovered this feeling in the writing of this middle school student who looked like he was not even an adult yet.
It seems like my whole life is condensed and printed on this small sketch paper.
He stretched out his hand to touch the surface of the sketch paper, but then retracted his hand as if he was electrocuted, not daring to disturb Gu Weijing's drawing.
[Title of work: "Alai, the caretaker of Good Luck Orphanage"]
[Sketch Technique: Lv.4 Professional Painter·First Level (2307/5000)]
[Chinese Painting Techniques: Lv.4 Professional Painter·First Level (1056/5000)]
[Emotion: Feeling (fulfillment)]
Gu Weijing put down his pen,
Following the cover illustration of The Little Prince, Gu Weijing once again reached the pinnacle of his current painting mood.
"Another level of perfection that is felt in the heart."
Gu Weijing looked at the pair of meaningful eyes drawn on his sketch paper with some regret.
This painting of his feels very good, and I thought it would be rated as "painstakingly painstaking".
It seemed that the system's evaluation standard for the emotional level of a painting was higher than he imagined.
I am still too young and lack enough understanding of life.
When I heard Uncle Alai's story, it felt more like the excitement of watching a surprising story, but it still lacked the last bit of soul-piercing shock from "Heart-breaking".
Fortunately,
As soon as Gu Weijing finished this line drawing sketch, he heard the reminder in his mind that the task was completed.
[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: (100/100)]
[I feel something in my heart (20/20)]
[The first phase of the series of tasks - The sea embraces all rivers (1/3) has been completed! 】
A new message prompt appears on the system panel.
[Current mission reward: Knowledge card - "Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting" Lang Shining, is now available for collection! 】
(End of chapter)
