in the studio,
Gu Weijing repeatedly made sure that the brightness of the paint on the canvas after his trimming finally did not dissatisfy him.
So I continued to follow the established order of copying, from deep to shallow, describing the distant view, main body and close-up view of the painting "Old Church".
Be it color dots or ribbons.
The brush strokes of Impressionist works are generally characterized by ups and downs, thin and short brushwork style, and bright colors.
There are suitable different painting methods to express different lighting conditions.
Gu Weijing used a slanted brush mixed with titanium white and lemon yellow to express the changes in color and texture of the main body of the building.
This is to create the hard majesty of the church wall and to reflect the subtle weathering that has been eroded by time.
When depicting building roofs, he added a slight hint of phthalocyanine blue.
Phthalocyanine blue can change part of the roof from dark red to magenta, reflecting the cold light of thunderclouds in the sky on the cathedral dome to create a mysterious feeling, which is just right.
"The technique of sketching is indeed the foundation of Western art."
Gu Weijing nodded lightly.
His thoughts when matching these paints are the same as the reason why he just used an oil painting knife to paint the originally dark sky looser and more breathable.
It's all about following your inner intuition.
The painter's sense sounds mysterious and unreliable, but in fact it is the artist's sixth sense developed from accumulated experience after practicing thousands of times.
very useful.
After improving his sketching skills, Gu Weijing's precise control of light and dark details allowed him to be more imaginative when copying and correct past shortcomings.
Gu Weijing has copied the painting "Old Church on a Thunderstorm Day" countless times.
The macro structure of the entire picture is very familiar to him.
Now he only needs to strengthen these details to a deeper level, and he can easily obtain a painting with wanton brushwork and an astonishing level of detail.
"[The current copying painting - "Old Church on a Thunderstorm Day" has been completed!]"
"[The similarity of this copying: 61.2%, you have obtained an intermediate treasure chest in the system.]"
As Gu Weijing used an oil paint brush, he finally added a touch of thunderstorm water vapor to the surface of the linen as the finishing touch of the copying.
The system prompts came from the virtual panel in a timely manner.
"I got another intermediate treasure chest."
Regarding this point, Gu Weijing felt that it was reasonable.
He focused more on the evaluation of the copying similarity of “61.2%”.
On that thunderstorm night, when he and Shengzi copied the original work together, the similarity reached 59%. It seems that Gu Wei achieved a 2% increase after spending so much effort.
In fact, they are completely different concepts.
Impressionism is a painting school that pursues the creation of real scenes in the wild.
That night, I copied the weather conditions and the scenes in "The Old Church" created by Ms. Carroll to an extreme degree.
When Gu Weijing usually creates, it is difficult to reproduce such good external conditions.
Without the help of the weather, in the past few weeks of copying, he had only received an intermediate treasure chest reward once, and the rest were all elementary treasure chests.
The works on the easel in front of Gu Weijing are completely imitations that he copied behind closed doors in his small studio at home.
This not only means that he has exceeded the 60% mark for the first time.
It also means that with Gu Weijing's current painting techniques, he can very stably produce copy paintings that have most of the brilliance of Carroll's brushwork without relying on the assistance of external mirrors.
While the frequency of obtaining intermediate treasure chests became higher, he also took a step closer to the ultimate reward of this mission.
"[Ray Noah—Fragments of various ghosts in the world.]"
Gu Weijing glanced at it with eager eyes. This was the highest reward the system could give for this Impressionist limited mission.
He still doesn't know what "ghost fragments" are.
Sakai Katsuko once said when chatting - in her heart, when an art student walks forward courageously on the path of the senior masters, he reaches the end.
When you re-create at that time, it's like the senior masters in the grave passing through the dust and smoke of history and clinging to you to write for you.
To achieve the effect of resurrection from the dead in a sense.
Gu Weijing didn't know if this system reward was a similar concept to what Shengzi said.
Anyway, it looks awesome!
He still remembered that when he obtained the legendary Baiyi Tree, the words "Henri Rousseau's "Childish" Ghost Fragment" appeared on the lottery page.
The so-called ghost fragments should be legendary items of the same level as the Baiyi Tree.
Henri Rousseau is not the famous pioneer of enlightenment, the Rousseau lying in the Pantheon in France.
Just the same name.
Although he was also an important painter in the 19th century, he should be ranked close to the top ten among the great Post-Impressionist painters.
But regardless of his painting skills and artistic status, he is completely unable to compare with the founder of a sect like Reanut.
Compare this.
In theory, the reward on the system panel should be more awesome.
Gu Weijing opened the intermediate treasure box at hand with secret expectations for the future.
"I hope I can open another blessing candle."
The previous intermediate treasure chest he opened had about 400 oil painting experience points.
The experience value range is much higher than the 50 to 300 points that are often found in entry-level treasure chests, which translates into several thousand dollars.
But no matter what, it is not as useful as a small candle.
This kind of small candle can increase inspiration. After all, it is always better to have as many as possible.
Gu Weijing couldn't tell when it would be used.
What's disappointing is that the system panel is not Gu Weijing's voice-controlled game after all.
The intermediate treasure chest is opened.
It's not experience points, nor is it a one-time skill to bless the little candle.
Three silver playing cards-like cards floated in front of Gu Weijing.
[Choose one of the three knowledge cards as the reward for this intermediate treasure chest. 】
[Award 1: "Detailed Explanation of the Architectural Drawings and Decorative Art of the Palace of Guell" - Antoni Gaudí]
[Reward 2: Interpretation of the muscular posture in the famous painting "The Wrestler" - Thomas Akins]
[Reward 3: "Pet Mind Reading - Twelve Tips to Find Out whether Your Cats and Dogs Are Happy" - Louis Piquet]
Intermediate treasure chests are just different.
The knowledge cards opened in front of me are actually much more conscientious than the elementary treasure chests.
It is no longer the case that the system just randomly stuffs him with a strange and unpopular knowledge card that he doesn’t know how to use. Instead, Gu Weijing was given three options to choose according to his own needs.
Gu Weijing glanced at the three options.
These knowledge cards are actually quite useful.
It seems to be much more reliable for painters than the damn thing "Purple Blue Macaw Feather Specimens and Skeleton Anatomy" he found in the primary treasure chest before.
On the road of art, he can bring a lot of help to Gu Weijing.
It is clear,
The two options, Reward 1 and Reward 2, respectively correspond to the two main common categories of painting themes: architectural painting and figure painting.
Antoni Gaudí is a wonder like Leonardo da Vinci in the history of architectural art.
He was both an architect and a sketch painter, and a representative figure in the Art Nouveau movement.
Any building whose design drawings are signed with the name of this master is almost equivalent to a world cultural heritage-level scenic spot.
Spain's Palazzo Guell, throughout the 19th century, also became famous for its rich decorative details and innovative designs such as mosaic tiles with clever curves.
If you choose this reward.
In the future, if he wants to create architectural paintings with the Palace of Guell as the main body of the palace, he must be extremely realistic and accurate.
If you want to draw other famous buildings designed and created by Gaudí, such as the Sagrada Familia and Apartment Mira, where countless art students squat outside every year to sketch, you can also draw parallels.
The second reward is not bad.
Generally speaking, regardless of whether they are engaged in art or literature, Europeans naturally look down on their American cousins.
This implicit discrimination still existed in cultural circles from the Revolutionary War to the end of the twentieth century.
"Wrestlers" is an exception. It is one of the few native oil paintings in American history that has been sold.
Thomas Akins is the father of American art, a figure that all North American students cannot avoid when studying art history.
His contribution in depicting the lines of the human body is no less than that of Mr. Berryman, but his creative direction is more inclined to express the subdivision and classification of "muscle force during human movement".
Whether it is UFC or WWE, Uncle Sam has always had a passion for the scenes of strong men wrestling with each other's shirts, which is difficult for people in other countries to understand.
"The Wrestler" almost takes the oil painter's delicate expression of human muscles to a new level.
The most inconspicuous thing is the reward three given by the system.
The first two options,
Gaudí and Aikins are two masters that all art students are familiar with, and the value of the knowledge cards goes without saying.
The third reward is that Gu Weijing was stunned.
"What is this?"
He took out his mobile phone to check, and found out on the Internet that this "Piquet" should be a tenured professor of the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California.
This guy doesn't even have a wiki page.
On the other hand, the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis, where he works, has ranked first in the QS professional rankings for the past three years.
The name of the book "Pet Mind Reading - Twelve Tips to Find Out whether Your Cat or Dog is Happy" sounds unserious, like one of those junk books on Amazon for housewives to kill time in their spare time.
The relevant introduction to the network said.
It is actually a very serious academic tome on pet behavior, and it is also one of the required textbooks for students in the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California.
Gu Weijing was also in a public video class of Professor Piquet on the Internet when he saw a student claiming to be from the University of California complaining - this guy was like a pervert, giving them different pictures of pet expressions in every class. , there are even X-ray skeletal structures and anatomy diagrams, allowing students to submit a short paper after class on the analysis of the cat or dog behavior patterns in this courseware.
It’s so tortured!
It wasn't so painful for him to study his girlfriend's facial micro-expressions!
Based on this information, Gu Weijing understood that Professor Piquet was a top expert on animal behavior in the field of veterinary medicine.
Veterinarians and painters are two completely unrelated professions.
It seems that Professor Piquet is no longer comparable to the first two great artists.
That being the case.
Gu Weijing studied on his mobile phone for a while, and finally figured out what the contents of the three rewards were.
Without any hesitation, he chose...
Reward three.
joke!
The first two rewards are also very good, but compared with the third reward, they are not good at all.
This is a reward for showing him how to draw cats and dogs well!
No art student would give up such an opportunity.
"The system still has such good things."
Just hearing that it contained the same anatomy of cats and dogs as Mr. Berryman's character sketch cards was enough to surprise Gu Weijing.
No matter how complex architecture and the human body are, art students will have professional learning opportunities in the future.
Painters who dissected corpses were not uncommon in the Middle Ages.
Study the anatomy of cats and dogs...
Well, this is a bit difficult for the modern public to accept.
Just a joke.
In today's public opinion environment in Western society, if you learn that the painter bought cats and dogs to dissect and study, the sentence will probably be even more severe than if you secretly went to the forensic morgue to secretly dissect the body and cut it up for fun.
Of course, you don’t have to dissect yourself to study cats and dogs.
It’s just that art students usually don’t have any channels to learn this aspect.
It is often used when painting.
In history, the animal that has been most often used as a model by painters on the canvas is undoubtedly human.
Secondly, there are two kinds of pets, cats and dogs.
For Eastern literati painters, it was also important to be able to draw horses.
The remaining rhinos, gorillas, whales, tigers, camels, and sika deer have also been painted, but the total number of famous paintings is no more than a dog hair.
The emotions the artist gives to animals in his brushstrokes are no less than the emotions he gives to nature.
The history of keeping pets can be traced back to at least 15,000 years ago.
From the ancient Egyptian murals 7,000 years ago, when residents on both sides of the Nile River used sharp stone bricks to try to carve simple patterns on the walls, the image of pets began to appear.
Painting cats and dogs has existed throughout the entire history of human art.
Frequently, sky-high-priced works of art with the theme of cats and dogs appear in auction houses.
Artists are often divided into two distinct schools: the dog school and the cat school.
In the delicate court painting style represented by Rococo art, various breeds of hounds can often be seen.
In modern times, Andy Warhol and even fashion designers like Chanel's Lafayette are all pure cat slaves.
Picasso belongs to the fence-sitting group who loves both cats and dogs and likes to paint.
In general, I draw more when I draw cats.
"Dora Maar and the Cat", "Jacqueline Sitting on the Chair and the Cat", "The Cat Eating Birds"...these world-famous paintings with average transaction prices currently ranging from 50 million to 95 million US dollars have all left the market. Do not open the figure of the cat.
Balthus, the French painter whom Picasso admired most, devoted himself to observing various stray cats and painted them for half his life. Countless famous paintings were bought and collected by art museums at high prices.
Drawing pets is a science.
Animals also have their own looks and expressions.
In many cases, humans can get more emotional comfort from pets such as cats and dogs than from the same kind.
Not just painting.
Yuncuomao and Yunsugou videos on Bilibili, Douyin, and YouTube, which often have millions of fans and tens of millions of views, are the embodiment of this mass psychology.
Gu Weijing's finger tapped on the surface of the reward three option card on the system panel.
The other two rewards disappeared directly.
The third reward is the same as the knowledge cards Gu Weijing received in the past, turned into a more detailed introduction panel.
[Item: "Pet Mind Reading - Twelve Tips to Find Out if Your Cats and Dogs Are Happy" - Louis Piquet]
[Quality: Knowledge Card]
[Special Effect: After obtaining the knowledge card, you will clearly understand its corresponding content. 】
[Equipment requirements: None]
[Introduction: Bacon said that only when you understand a person's heart and learn to think in the other person's way can you truly be able to use words to depict his outline on paper.
In the same way, only when painters really understand the facial expressions and moods of pets can they accurately capture their spirit with their brushes.
Contemporary experts on animal behavior have gradually mastered the key to interpreting their body messages. It is better to be friends with a thinking pet than with a confused person. 】
[Note: Art belongs to humans, and art also belongs to cats, but in the final analysis, it belongs to cats—meow. 】
Gu Weijing felt a large amount of information pouring into his mind like an electric current.
His head was stinging from the stuffing, and he subconsciously held on to the wall next to him.
The amount of information contained in this knowledge card is considered to be very large among the knowledge cards he has obtained in the past.
The information Gu Weijing obtained in the past was closely related to the field of painting, which he had been exposed to since childhood.
Otherwise one or more anatomical drawings.
As for the knowledge cards this time, the system seemed to have put a complete unfamiliar subject into Gu Weijing's mind, as if the academic results summarized by a great professor over the years.
His mind was instantly filled with all kinds of knowledge about pets.
Bowing, baring teeth, wagging tail, licking nose.
The meanings represented by countless common body movements of companion pets. And when they make these movements, the muscles and bones of the whole body operate like a precise gear set, and the laws of contraction and relaxation are like thousands of teaching slides with detailed notes, which are played in Gu Weijing's mind one after another.
Balthus is known as the "cat painting expert" in the history of art and is sought after by collectors because the painter is used to sitting in front of the apartment building on the Seine River to observe various stray cats, and depicts the cats in different states when they are moving and eating. Write it down in a handy sketchbook.
Balthus persisted in this habit for forty years of his life.
Probably the one who knows the most about cats of all artists.
It's a pity that Balthus doesn't have a system and can't open or close it.
Gu Weijing was confident that Balthus' forty years of observation and accumulation of cats was still no match for the effect of a knowledge card.
Those who draw cats are not as professional as the zoological scientists who study cats.
The knowledge card divides the pet's expression into different emotional expressions such as joy, anger, sorrow, hunting, defense, vigilance, courtship, etc. Each expression has pupils dilating to capture more visual information, and tiny muscles in the hair follicles contracting to make the hair stand upright. Wait for the corresponding physical state.
The wealth of knowledge and information he has gained is enough to serve as a professional psychologist for pets.
Gu Weijing took out his mobile phone.
He clicked on his profile picture on Fiverr.
Their family runs a calligraphy and painting shop, and it is not like the rich and famous artists who can keep their home environment and studio separate, raise cats and dogs, and have dedicated people to take care of them.
Grandpa Gu Tongxiang thinks it is unsettling to have a pet.
All kinds of random drilling and hair loss, if the cat is in heat and paws on the unprotected paintings in the gallery, it will be a headache.
Therefore, it is forbidden to keep pets at home.
To be fair, Gu Weijing himself likes small animals.
When he registered an anonymous artist account, he casually named him "Detective Cat" and his avatar was a female cat wearing a monocle.
Gu Weijing's understanding of cats is much higher than when he created the detective cat avatar.
At this time, there is an encyclopedia of cats in my mind, including British shorthair cats, orange cats, tabby cats, ragdoll cats, cats that sleep, yawning cats, cats that chase butterflies, and cats that catch lice.
He looked at his Fiverr profile picture and immediately saw that the one he drew casually was a...
Hemiplegia, a strange-looking mottled, demented cat.
Gu Weijing shrank his neck.
He had goosebumps all over his body!
The coat color is wrong, there is no natural hair color matching and the stripes look like the color pencil sketch, which is still a small problem.
The key is that the proportion of the eyes is wrong, and the distance between the eyes and the tip of the nose is too wide.
The sphenoid bone is too long, the mandible is too narrow, and when the cat squints in the bright sunlight, the vertical pupils should look like a dyed olive with gradient colors. The squinted pupils of the cat in my painting are very strange, and the overall expression on the face is also strange.
This painting is not a real cat, but just a work that Gu Weijing spliced based on the stereotype of small animals in his mind at the time.
If the subject is a human being,
This painting has a crooked mouth, slanted eyes, no neck, a protruding chin, a protruding forehead, a very long nose from the upper lip, half of the face is straight, and the other half has a weird smile, which looks exactly like Cthulhu It's so similar that it makes people feel sick.
Many cartoon animal illustrations or serious artworks with wrong body proportions and muscle lines can also bring negative emotions to the audience.
The graffiti portraits are disgusting to the audience and are worthless.
Doodling animal portraits often doesn't get such a big reaction, just because ordinary people are far less familiar with animals than people.
As long as you are familiar enough with animals, you can still see the uncanny valley effect if you don't look at the right animal paintings.
Even if it doesn't feel disgusting.
The animal paintings in front of me can only convey the abstract concept of "this thing is a cat".
In any case, the audience cannot see the cute inner feelings that are unique to fluffy and soft elves and make you involuntarily feel happy.
It lacks the "aura" of true nature.
Gu Weijing couldn't stand it after watching it for a while. He was speechless. He just drew a cat. He didn't think it was anything before, but now he feels that his avatar is really ugly.
He secretly made up his mind to change to a new profile picture in a few days.
(End of chapter)
