"I just forgot to mention it in class. You, you, you... and you, hand me the portfolios you prepared. If you didn't bring them today, then bring them to the next class. I have some free time on the weekend, so you can check them. Check out the progress of your portfolio.”
Professor Wattel returned to the classroom without even looking at the classmates who were playing games under the table or sleeping secretly.
He just walked between the desks and called a few names.
Starting from a week after the course started, the classwork was actually very sparse.
Drawing grids with a sketch pencil is quite a laborious task.
In terms of practicing techniques, it is not too difficult. It is not as difficult as painting complicated still life arrangements, and it is not as difficult as painting the complicated little wrinkles on the faces of old men and old ladies.
But it's boring.
The main test is calmness.
Every practitioner needs to be able to calm down and endure loneliness.
It is definitely not easy to paint well and quickly, and you need to be at the level of a professional painter. These high school students blindly pursue speed and are prone to lose sight of the other, resulting in a mess.
But if you are serious enough, you are not afraid of taking a long time to paint, and you can stabilize your mind and paint slowly one stroke at a time.
So even a beginner who has just started to learn art can still start such exercises and draw well.
"It depends on whether they have this intention." Teacher Watter thought to himself.
"Teacher, this is not fair! Why did you only show it to these students and not to the rest of us?" Some students were dissatisfied with the sketch teacher's blatant treatment of classmates and muttered in a low voice.
Professor Watter shook his head, his square face full of disdain.
"Who else wants me to see your portfolio? The assignments you all handed in are still in my office. Go look for them now. If you can find more than eight assignments that you think are serious, I won't sleep today. I'll change it for you. If you can't find it, shut up."
Vatel suppressed all the dissatisfaction with one sentence without expression.
He didn't like those flat students who had neither talent nor even the most basic efforts.
If you want to stay in the art industry for a long time, hard work is the bottom line for success.
Only by putting in 99% of your efforts can you be qualified to win the 1% chance of luck and recognition from noble people.
Otherwise, how can you compare with those talented geniuses who are born to eat this bowl of rice?
This is not a game of the tortoise and the hare.
Other geniuses might be better than you in private!
Professor Watter himself is the kind of art student who has worked hard but still hasn't had enough luck.
He knew that his sketching skills were above the qualification level required to be signed by a gallery, but he was not lucky enough to be noticed by a hunting agent.
In the end, I could only work as an art teacher in a private school with a moderate monthly salary.
Therefore, Professor Vatel has a little more understanding and sympathy in his heart for those children who are not lucky enough to be selected by Mrs. Sakai's advanced class, but still work meticulously.
We are all just ordinary people who work hard enough but are not lucky enough.
In the past few days, he was planning to select a few students in the classroom who had listened carefully to the lectures and handed in their homework seriously.
Teacher Wattel hopes that they can hand in the portfolio of works they are preparing and review it themselves.
Meticulous follow-up and revision of student art collections is also very energy-consuming.
Teachers teaching large classes are not responsible for providing private instruction.
Professor Wattel was still willing to give them a small talk, telling them about his personal creative experience and some tips when applying for interviews.
God helps those who help themselves.
A child who is willing to seize every opportunity to work hard. As a teacher, when he can help, he is willing to take the trouble to help.
"Gu Weijing?"
Professor Wattel walked around the classroom and finally walked to the corner of the classroom.
He was satisfied when he saw Gu Weijing practicing carefully on the sketch paper.
Just as he was about to reach out and knock on the desk to remind the boy, Professor Wattel's hand suddenly stopped.
The sketching professor stared at the tip of Gu Weijing's pen.
When Watter first took a look when he walked in, he just realized that Gu Weijing's drawing method on the sketch paper was not what he requested.
The final painting effect seems to be pretty good.
What attracted the professor even more was that when he was writing and using his pen, he had a confident temperament all over him.
"You are not very old, but you are a bit like an artist when you are painting." Professor Watter smiled kindly in his heart.
But when Professor Watter stood in front of Gu Weijing and looked at it carefully.
The whole person is in a state of excitement.
"Well……"
His breathing paused suddenly, his pupils were shaking, and his fluffy and messy blond hair was about to explode from the roots.
Professor Wattel felt like he had been hit by a big mouth. He was dizzy and in a daze.
What is this?
Hey, is this the sketching class assignment I assigned?
How can this thing be painted like this?
Huh,
How on earth was this drawn?
Professor Wattel looked at the squares on the paper that were covered with various lines. The fine lines emanated from the center point and radiated out to the surroundings, forming triangular planes with different shadow details.
The two-dimensional plane shows the texture of the three-dimensional space.
Obviously there is just a small square grid in front of you.
But Professor Vatel can even artistically imagine it to look like the Pyramid of Khufu overlooking Egypt from the sky at sunset.
Sunlight flows across the surface.
The different mottled surfaces of the square pyramid form different contrasts of light and dark due to the different intensity of light.
This sketch is an exercise in brushwork—no, this kind of small grid filled with Gu Weijing’s personal creativity, in Professor Wattel’s eyes, can already break away from the scope of practice and can be regarded as a simple geometric sketch.
The sketch itself was good, but not to the point where Professor Wattel should be so shocked.
Be reasonable,
It's just a top view of a four-sided pyramid with light and shadow effects.
Drawing geometric plaster models, cones and spheres and even various crooked and asymmetrical figures are the basic skills for art students to learn sketching.
The base is a square pyramid with no curved surface, and the changes in light and shadow are not complicated.
Any child in Dulwich's Year 6 or 7 art class can draw such an overhead view without shadows.
What really made Professor Wattel feel so shocked that he wanted to swallow his tongue into his mouth was...
He could tell that all the strokes in this sketch from beginning to end were drawn by Gu Weijing with an ordinary 2B pencil!
Due to different production processes of graphite pencils, the larger the B value, the thicker and softer it is, and the larger the H value, the harder and lighter it is.
The soft and hard texture of the pen tip can also bring lead with different adhesion, leaving different thicknesses of picture grains on the sketch paper.
Theoretically,
When painting on a brighter surface and when you need to modify the details of the work in depth, it is suitable to use high-hardness lead core.
Use a darker graphite pen for the backlit flat surface.
Usually pencils from 6B to 4H are a common choice for art students when drawing sketches, and are used to draw different light and shadow changes.
At the moment, Gu Weijing most likely did it for the convenience of drawing grids. He only used a sketch pencil to complete all the work.
Well done!
The three colors of black, white and gray that can be seen in the top view of the square pyramid can be seen in the picture.
Essentially, a pen creates different layers of lead attached to the paper based on the density of the lines and the weight of the strokes, thus showing the gradient of light and shadow.
The precision of this pen is simply amazing!
"That's outrageous."
Professor Wattel has always been proud of the level of his sketching skills.
Even compared to professors on the campuses of Dulwich College in more developed cities such as Cairo, Bangkok, and Yokohama, Wattel said that his sketching level was comparable.
Looking at the whole of Myanmar, there are absolutely few people who can have his skill with a pen.
Wattle quietly assessed in his mind,
If he was given enough time, he might be able to draw at most the level of the student in front of him with a sketch pencil.
And Gu Weijing even drew it in a small square that was restricted everywhere in the short period of time in class!
All the traces of his brushstrokes are "full".
It neither crosses the line nor falls short of the mark.
The dryness stopped abruptly at the border of the square, as if it had hit a wall of air.
The charming swirling lines drawn by Gu Weijing on other grids reminded Professor Wattel directly of Van Gogh.
It's just that the whirlpool of Gu Weijing's brushwork does not have the impulse and passion of Van Gogh, but it is more regular and concise than Van Gogh.
Van Gogh liked to use swirls to depict thick and compact pines and cypresses.
The lines drawn by Gu Weijing are as fine as the gentle wind mowing the grass.
There is a flowing rhythm in the still pictures.
The curves are infinitely close to each other with an accuracy of half a millimeter but yet separated from each other, making Professor Wattel's eyes seem to be easily caught.
God!
Professor Vatel opened his mouth. He had thousands of words to say, and his mind seemed to be filled with a whole movie of One Hundred Thousand Whys.
The words were stuck in my throat. In the end, by some strange combination of circumstances, he transformed into the vocabulary he had learned a few years ago from the parent of an Eastern Xia businessman who had been engaged in jade and stone gambling business in Yangon for a long time——
"NewBee(awesome)."
The old professor let out a sincere sigh of praise.
Gu Weijing was painting so well that he didn't even notice Professor Wattel running up to him.
This sudden "awesome" sound startled him so much that he didn't even throw the pencil away.
When he turned around, he saw the sketch professor staring at him with his big eyes like bells.
Professor Wattel took away the sketch paper in front of Gu Weijing.
The teacher didn't speak either.
The professor just stared at the sketch paper in front of him for a few seconds, then turned to glare at Gu Weijing, then stared at the sketch paper, and then stared at Gu Weijing.
It just keeps looping with weird behavior, like a buggy robot.
Gu Weijing was a little embarrassed by the old gentleman.
"Professor, I'm sorry, I want to try a different painting method myself. Do you have any good guidance or suggestions?"
Gu Weijing took the initiative to break the weird atmosphere.
"Sorry? It's like this. What do you have to apologize for?"
Professor Wattel chuckled and shook the paper in his hand. "I'm sorry that Dulwich College can only send teachers of my level to teach you?"
"Ask me if you have any good guidance, classmate. I can't draw such a picture. Heck, I've been lecturing on stage for so many days without shame." Professor Watter smiled bitterly.
"Otherwise, you should teach me. There is no need for you to take this class."
He was joking, but there was a hint of sincerity in his tone.
In modern schools,
It is not surprising that students are stronger than teachers in academic subjects.
Whether due to extracurricular self-study or tutoring classes, many top students can solve problems that teachers cannot solve.
If you compete in the Olympiad, you can win provincial prizes or even join the national training team, and it will not be easy to kill an ordinary high school physics and high school chemistry teacher in seconds.
Art is a special case.
Because art is really a purely technical subject.
Whether it is art or music, the accumulation of skills requires time.
At the same time, if students do not have the guidance of a better teacher than him. The pace of progress will slow down, and you may not even know where the direction of your efforts should be.
Ordinary people don't have such a simple and crude way to add experience to the system.
The general rule is that art subjects often need to change teachers after they have learned a certain level.
Those students who are musical geniuses and art geniuses in history, and the first violinists of symphony orchestras can be admitted to the four major art academies - it is common for them to have five or six private teachers at different stages of study since they were young.
At the beginning, I studied with a certain teacher. I learned so well that the teacher could not teach me. It is not uncommon in the art industry to be recommended to study with a teacher’s teacher.
Otherwise, like Katsuko Sakai, he studied with famous masters since he was a child.
"Nowadays, every student draws like this. Damn, with such a high standard, I, as a teacher, am under a lot of pressure!"
Although I don’t want to admit it.
But after carefully studying Gu Weijing's works, Professor Wattel came to a conclusion.
This guy's sketching skills should be better than mine.
Teacher Wattel's appearance was noticed by all the students, and there were murmurs of surprise in the Dulwich classroom.
They have been taking classes in school for so many years. How could they ever see the arrogant German sketch professor showing such an expression on a student's work?
Gu Weijing is one of those with good grades, and his evaluations in sketching classes are often A's.
It's just that he's not the only one who can get an A.
Among those who were selected by Mrs. Sakai to improve the class, none of them had ever made Professor Wattel so rude.
Could it be that this kid suddenly chewed the elixir?
"You're overly flattering."
As the central focus of people's discussion, Gu Weijing was a little embarrassed to be praised by Professor Vatel.
This old gentleman still took good care of himself in the past.
"I've also thought about reputation. I have great line skills and can draw whatever I have the time to do. The pen and ink on the paper are the least deceptive. It's hard for me to draw this sketch so well."
Professor Wattel clicked his tongue in surprise.
Faced with such a level of sketching, Professor Vatel even felt a little guilty.
I really don't deserve to teach such students. I just want to mislead others and delay others.
In addition to being embarrassed, Professor Vatel was more confused and puzzled.
He was clear about the overall level of graduating students. Gu Weijing was considered one of the good prospects, but his level still needed to be polished.
It’s only been a holiday since I’ve been gone,
The painting in Wattle's hands now has grown from a good seedling to a trunk, branches and leaves.
The towering trees are so popular that they can be seen as the prototype of a mature artist.
It also grows too fast.
"Gu Weijing, did your family hire an external tutor for you during the holidays, or did you attend some art training classes?"
Professor Wattel guessed.
He was curious about what kind of sketching tutor could have such good results.
If you really have a famous teacher to train you, your progress will be as strong as taking an aphrodisiac.
Professor Wattel was also planning to turn around and enroll himself in a class, even if it cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, he would be happy to do so.
After all, Professor Wattel spent most of his life on a pencil.
At his age, he doesn't really think about signing for galleries or anything like that. Simply touching the higher realm of sketching techniques is always very good.
"I just figured it out on my own, and I got a feel for it as I drew."
"That's it, that means you suddenly realized it. Your enlightenment is a bit fierce."
Teacher Watter's face showed a layer of disappointment.
The professor had an answer in his mind.
The art industry is about inspiration and enlightenment.
The urban legend that Mozart fell down the stairs when he was a child and hit his head and turned into a musical prodigy is not very credible.
It often happens that an art student suddenly seems to have an enlightenment while painting, and his painting skills suddenly jump to a higher level in a short period of time.
Faced with the facts before us,
Professor Wattel can only attribute the answer to this reason.
"Look at this painting. I asked you to use a pencil to fill in the small grids, but you all find it hard, tired, and unwilling to practice. At first glance, you all seem to be able to draw three melons and two dates in your painting. It’s on the countertop.”
"Look at the sketches of some of your classmates who come to class every day with a schoolbag on their backs. I don't ask you all to draw like Gu Weijing, but I ask you to open your eyes and take a good look. Look at the smoothness of the pen and the exquisite control. Who said that if you are not selected by Professor Cruz, you can't shine on your own!"
Professor Wattel felt a little happy looking at this sketch.
He couldn't help but show off the paper in front of him to all the students present.
In the teaching profession, there are very few teachers who don’t like good students.
They are so dizzy when they grade failed homework every day, but their eyes and ears are clear when they see a perfect score paper.
In addition to the "bonuses" and "outstanding teacher" titles you can get for teaching students from famous schools, it is also very satisfying to simply look at their homework.
It's like practicing the trumpet in the game and practicing the perfect trumpet.
Professor Wattel is really excited right now.
"It's great. This painting showing the basic skills of sketching can be hung directly on the school's publicity board to show the results of our school's sketching teaching!" he said.
"Wow, it's so beautiful."
"This whirlpool makes my eyes dizzy."
Some students echoed.
"You didn't ask us to draw like this. It's just that the lines are a little messy. If you draw slowly, everyone can draw it." Some people still disagree.
Appreciating beauty is also a kind of cultivation.
And such cultivation is never possessed by everyone.
"Can everyone draw it?" Professor Watter laughed angrily, "If you don't look at anything else, just with this sketch, the interviewer at the school recruitment fair will snatch him away, believe it or not."
The professor didn't say the last half of the sentence.
Just this sketch... most, maybe all, of everyone else here, probably wouldn't be able to draw it in their lifetimes.
The art industry is so cruel.
"You don't need to pay attention to my homework from now on. This painting of yours is useful to me, so I took it."
Professor Wattel was not interested in explaining the beauty of Gu Weijing's pen to those losers who were unwilling to lower their heads to appreciate the masterpieces before their eyes.
He took away Gu Weijing's sketch paper, turned around and walked out of the classroom.
…
"Hey, classmate Gu. Why are you avoiding me?"
Gu Weijing walked out of the classroom that started to become noisy.
This was originally a class assignment. Since he wanted to draw it like this, he expected that Professor Vatel would be surprised.
I just didn’t expect Professor Wattel to deal with his work in such a high-profile manner.
Gu Weijing was not used to dealing with this kind of scene where classmates were surrounding him. He quickly walked around a few corners and hurriedly walked into a secluded corridor.
He suddenly felt someone tapping his back.
Gu Weijing turned his head and saw Kou Kou standing behind him.
I have to say that the style of dressing is really the innate ability or talent of some girls.
Although everyone wears the same school uniform every day, the cheerleaders can wear it differently every day.
Today, Kou Kou did not wear her favorite iconic cool little skull earrings. Instead, she had a small sequin-like ear patch stuck to her ear lobe.
He wears a baseball cap on his head, and his long hair is braided from the back of his head to his shoulders.
She wore the pants she wore during the life drawing class today, and there were several holes in her knees and calves.
Don't be surprised, the girl did it on purpose.
Kou Kou manually transformed the cotton school pants into trendy ripped jeans. Paired with the white magnolia brooch on her chest, it looks like a mix of fashion and sports.
Sometimes, it really makes people feel sad that it would be a pity not to be a versatile female star in the future.
"Professor Vatel actually doesn't require much classwork now, and many students in the class don't take drawing too seriously. So I don't think you need to ask me to do your homework, Kouko."
Gu Weijing smiled.
Since half a month ago, he has deliberately avoided the seat next to Kou Kou.
Kou Kou rolled her eyes at Gu Wei Jing.
She took a step forward, pushed Gu Weijing to the wall, stretched out her hand and leaned against the wall.
Practicing dance and fencing has made Kou Kou's body very smooth. Her figure is originally taller than Katsuko Sakai, about 1.72 meters. When he stood on tiptoes, he was on the same level as Gu Weijing.
Kou Kou succeeded with a wall-dong.
"Answer my question." Kou Kou leaned her arms forward and leaned against the wall with one hand, looking directly into Gu Weijing's eyes: "Why are you avoiding me."
(End of chapter)
