Gu Weijing made a special trip back home and put the mahogany photo frame sent to him by Mr. Chen on his bedside.
Putting the promise of a big collector somewhere you can see every day when you open your eyes to motivate yourself to work hard will inevitably seem a bit tacky.
After all, no matter how mild-tempered Gu Weijing is, he is only about to turn eighteen years old, and he is not an immortal who can carelessly favor and disgrace everything.
Mr. Cao Xuan said that painters should cultivate three aspects of Qi in their hearts.
If a fairy were to paint, he would probably not be able to create any emotionally moving paintings except for being indifferent.
Double happiness today,
"The Little Prince" is about to be released, and relying on his solid painting progress, he has attracted the love of business tycoons such as Boss Chen.
There was a somewhat high-spirited feeling in his chest now.
So by the time Gu Weijing took care of all these things and arrived at the Lucky Orphanage, it was already close to noon.
Little Jasmine is still stuck with her sister Sakai.
The other way around is not bad either.
Sakai Shengzi listened to Gu Weijing's suggestion that she find a living model to get close to.
All she had to do was come to the orphanage.
They tend to circle around little girl Jasmine.
Sometimes Katsuko would patiently look at the other children and chirp a few alien words with the fat doll Bu Dao, but obviously, Sakai Katsuko preferred Jasmine.
Minus psychological biases.
No one can hate Jasmine.
She is the kind of person who is always well-behaved and doesn't cry or make trouble. If you play with her, she will smile at you. If you don't play with her, she will walk away quietly. She is so sensible that you can even stare at her. Guilty little girl.
It's only been a few days,
Sakai Katsuko is almost ready to raise Jasmine as her biological sister.
After arriving at the orphanage.
She spent more time with Jasmine than she did with her real boyfriend Gu Weijing.
"Hi!"
Gu Weijing had just opened the door of their small studio and saw two girls, one older and one younger, laughing together on the beanbag sofa sitting side by side in front of the window sill.
Crayons and whiteboards were placed around them, and large amounts of sketch paper were spread on the ground like snowflakes.
Ms. Sakai must have just given Jasmine an art class in the morning, and now both of them are resting. There are food boxes of sushi and rice balls on the coffee table next to them, and a piece of dried lemon gradually stretches out in the water glass.
Each of the girls held an NS game console handle in their hands, staring at the small console screen next to them, giggling non-stop.
After becoming each other's lover,
Gu Weijing discovered many little habits in Sakai Katsuko's life that he didn't know before.
Ms. Katsuko likes to use hazel-shaped brushes and cooler-colored paints when creating. She likes to drink a glass of lemonade when eating, and she dances two thousand ropes every morning.
She is even a big fan of the cartoon fighting game Super Smash Bros.!
When I learned that Sakai Katsuko was so classical that she didn't even need makeup and was not very interested in anything other than painting, she became a young painter.
I actually play games for a little while every day.
Gu Weijing suddenly felt that Miss Shengzi was a little cute and cute.
In fact,
Katsuko Sakai has very nimble fingers and plays very well.
She is one of the top 1.7% players in the world of the cartoon game "Super Smash Bros." and is good at using Jigglypuff, the cat-eared Pokémon known as the "Glass Cannon" in the game.
He and Ms. Sakai played five games together during their break.
In the first three games, they were beaten and cried for their fathers and mothers, but in the next two games, they were evenly matched.
no way,
Sakai Katsuko is the kind of girl who is so gentle that she will give in to him even if she plays games with him.
When he found out that his girlfriend was secretly having sex, Gu Weijing's self-esteem was hurt.
"Hi, you're here? I brought you some fresh sushi from the hotel...Wow, what's her name? Can I hug her."
In most cases, pets are a magical tool to please girls when they are in love.
Miss Shengzi, who has a cold personality, turned her head and saw Awang in Gu Weijing's arms, her eyes slightly bent.
Jasmine was already holding her clothes and jumping up.
She ignored the game console she was having fun with just now, and stared at the striped tabby cat with her big black pearl-like eyes without blinking.
"Of course, be good."
Gu Weijing gently pinched Awang's spine twice and handed the civet cat to Sakai Katsuko.
Sakai Katsuko put down the controller and held Awang in her arms like a child.
Awang turned over in dissatisfaction, raised her paws and bared her lower teeth, trying to show that she was not just a random cat.
Unfortunately, it struggled and hesitantly glanced at Gu Weijing, and finally buried its head in the undulating arms of Shengzi as if resigned to its fate.
"This cat is so heavy."
Sakai Shengzi stared at Awang in her arms.
Professor Sakai has no special feelings for pets. But Mrs. Sakai is a die-hard cat lover. They have six cats of different breeds in their house in Japan, and they have dedicated servants to take care of them.
Shengzi carefully scratched the soft flesh on Awang's chin, which made the cat itchy and couldn't help but open its mouth.
"She ate a little too much hard food and her gums were damaged, leading to mild stomatitis. She would feel uncomfortable."
Shengzi gently took a piece of soft and light salmon sushi from the food box, threw it into Maomao's mouth, and said with some distress.
"My girl, the piece of sushi you just threw into its mouth would cost it a normal year's worth of food."
Gu Weijing shrugged.
He sat on the sofa and picked up all the manuscript papers that had been dropped when they were playing games.
There are some crayon drawings with Jasmine's green brushwork, and two highly finished pen sketches.
[Title of work: Jasmine (No.16)]
[Sketch Technique: Level 4 Professional Level 1 (4730/5000)]
[Emotion: A simple work]
"I have painted 16 paintings."
Gu Weijing looked at the signature number in the corner of the sketch paper.
"I drew about 20 pictures in total. I was not satisfied with some of them, so I deleted them."
Sakai Katsuko is looking forward to Gu Weijing’s comments.
"What do you think of my painting?"
Gu Weijing shared with Ms. Sakai the ideas that Mr. Cao taught him to practice sketching.
Shengzi made a practice plan for herself to draw a hundred sketches for Jasmine in thirty days. While playing with Jasmine, whenever she felt something in her heart, she would start writing immediately.
On average, I make three pen sketches every day.
"The painting is really nice."
Gu Weijing looked at the neat and rhythmic lines of the pen in his hand and praised softly.
"That's because you are a good teacher and you flatter me less. It still doesn't have the same feeling as your works."
Sakai Shengzi handed Awang to Jasmine, who was looking forward to seeing him. He wiped his hands with wet wipes and sat down against Gu Weijing.
"Open your mouth and I'll feed you."
She took sushi from the food box and fed it to her boyfriend while saying, "If you could tell me what the problem is, it would make me happier than complimenting me."
"No problem, it's not flattery. It's my true feelings. In fact, I think all you need is time."
Gu Weijing's evaluation comes from the heart.
Katsuko's sketching skills have improved compared to when they drew the Shwedagon Pagoda together, and numerically they are very close to breaking the bottleneck leading to Level 5.
certainly.
There is only a few hundred experience points difference between the two in the system list.
After reaching the tip of the pen, the two of them drew the same work again, and it felt like the current Gu Weijing was obviously better.
Maybe the sketches drawn by Lv.4 (4700/5000) and Lv.4 (4999/5000) look very similar.
But the difference between Lv.4 professional level one (4999/5000) and Lv.5 professional level two (1/10000) is not just a numerical point or two.
It’s more like an all-round sublimation.
The promotion of skill proficiency at each stage under the system division is a process of breaking the bottleneck and entering a new level.
Otherwise there would be no need for grading.
Normal painters will always encounter bottlenecks.
It may be because of insufficient talent, insufficient effort, or even more cruelly, insufficient luck. They will be stuck at a certain skill level for a long time and find it difficult to break through to the next level.
It’s been a long time.
If you sail against the current, you will retreat if you don't advance.
Even for a man as famous as Renoir, 1900 was a dividing line in his career.
Before the 20th century, Renoir liked to use bright and transparent colors to express the trembling of sunlight and air and the bright atmosphere.
At that time, he had a unique style and created almost all the important works of his career.
After 1900, Renoir also encountered a creative bottleneck in his personal career and was unable to make a breakthrough.
The old man later changed his career to painting nude female models.
There is still a view that the emotional and technical depth of Renoir's nude paintings in his later years were not as good as those of his youth.
Although these works are also hung in the Louvre, they are at best the second sensual Rubens, not the refreshing Ray Noir of Impressionism.
You must know that Renoir in 1900 was still in the prime period of his career, and he did not have physical problems like Monet and Degas.
But he was still defeated by the painting bottleneck.
The system was able to silently ignore the bottlenecks between levels as if they did not exist, and directly upgrade Gu Weijing to the next level of painting, which is incredible in itself.
"Your problem is just that your painting is too good, your art theory is too solid, and your brushwork is too neat. I have nothing to teach you. If I have to say it, it's just not 'loose' enough. The painting is as tight as a string stretched to its longest length. There is no room for relaxation in the string of the bow, and there is no room for emotion.”
Gu Weijing gave the experience of people who have experienced it.
He flicked the sketch paper in front of him with his fingers, as if to make the neatly drawn lines on the painting a little looser.
Genius is the product of sweat and hard work.
She has to draw a lot of the same sketches every day, but Ms. Sakai is still extremely patient with each drawing.
This pen sketch of "Jasmine" is not complicated, but it took a lot of effort.
Other than using a pen.
Whether it's focus changes, motion capture, composition structure...everything is perfect.
Gu Weijing only had some credit for his proficiency in writing, but he was still not as good as Shengzi in many other aspects.
How long did Gu Weijing get the system virtual panel?
Sakai Katsuko has received the best art education in the world since she was a child.
From an artistic point of view, he was not qualified to act like a big-tailed wolf in front of Miss Sakai.
But on the other hand.
This kind of art education surrounded by famous teachers and paying attention to the "rules" of brushwork have become obstacles for Sakai Katsuko to incorporate her own emotions into the paintings.
Painting is Zhang Sanfeng doing Tai Chi.
Sometimes you just have to forget the rules in order to be on your own.
Be able to follow the rules when it is time to do so, and dare to break the rules when they should be exceeded.
Forget the advice and routines of famous artists and follow the inner guidance of the pen tip, only then can you truly let your own emotions and passion fill the entire paper.
Fu Lei, the great literary critic of the last century in the Eastern Xia Dynasty, believed in the "Fu Lei Family Letter" written to his son -
This aura that goes beyond the norm is precisely the real advantage of Yeluzi painters compared with disciples of famous painting schools. Masters such as Van Gogh and Gauguin are the best in history.
if not.
If artists could be trained like craftsmen according to certain rules, the great painters would have been monopolized by the training system of the Holy Court or royal painters.
It was not easy for Gu Weijing to paint his first "feeling" work.
But in retrospect,
All he did was dance with Jasmine all afternoon.
Sakai Katsuko has not had a breakthrough for so long, largely because her foundation is more solid and thicker, and the effort required to fight against the shackles in her chest is far greater than that of Gu Weijing.
“Seeing these paintings, you are not far from your official breakthrough.”
From the moment he heard Katsuko Sakai's giggle when he opened the door, Gu Weijing realized that Miss Katsuko, who was like a porcelain doll, was gradually coming out of her closed artistic life.
She is getting closer to life.
Fields other than painting are also becoming more vibrant.
painter, painter,
People and paintings change together.
Gu Weijing passed the sketchbook and flipped through the 16 pen sketches drawn by Shengzi in the past few days. Looking at these 16 sketches together, it is obvious that there is a kind of vigorous vitality constantly gathering and accumulating at the end of the pen.
Something is taking root and sprouting on the paper, and the jasmine in Sakai Katsuko's paintings is becoming more and more vivid and lively.
I probably don’t even need to complete these hundred pen sketches.
The moment when this accumulating vitality truly takes shape under the pen and breaks through the paper - that is the moment when Ms. Sakai breaks through herself, integrates empathy into the pen, and paints works that "feel from the heart".
"The painting is scattered? Come and draw one, Gu Jun, I like to watch you paint."
Sakai Katsuko turned her head and thrust the drawing board into Gu Weijing's hand with a hint of coquettishness in her voice.
"Don't worry about us, just play with the cats yourself."
Gu Weijing originally planned to paint a new exhibition painting now to test whether both techniques could significantly improve the look and feel of the fusion painting after upgrading to the second level of the profession.
But he really couldn't refuse Katsuko's request.
He said hello to Jasmine, who was looking over, and twirled the pen in his hand.
"Huh? This one?"
Gu Weijing took off the cap of his pen.
When he first saw the pattern on the sketch paper, Gu Weijing discovered that the ink lines used by Sakai Katsuko were very thin, as if they were weaving the outline of Jasmine's character with hair.
Only now did he realize that what he was holding was a needle pen with the logo of [UNI Mitsubishi Corporation] printed on it.
Pen sketching is just a general term to distinguish pencil sketching, which refers to an ink-based drawing pen tool that cannot be erased with skin.
You don't have to use a pen.
It is true that some older generation painters do all their pen and ink drawings with real pens.
But more often than not, I use drawing pens, ballpoint pens, gel pens, whatever I have.
The fiber syringe pen Ms. Katsuko uses on her desk has a pen tip that is just like a hospital injection needle. When it comes to taking photos, tweeting, and posting on Instagram, it is no better than the rose gold drawing pens from Parker, Baileys, and Montblanc.
It is more professional than those luxury toys.
Needle pens are specially made for drawing.
This kind of pen is much more sensitive to changes in pressure than a rollerball pen, can leave unique concave marks on the paper, and can also draw rich dark luster.
If necessary when traveling, you can cut the pen tube directly and mix it with alcohol-based cosmetics such as hairspray to make a simple liquid pigment that can be used to make single-color prints.
The disadvantage is that good tools must be in the hands of a good painter to exert sufficient magic.
The tip of this pen is extremely fine and the lines drawn are extremely precise.
If the painter's hand is not steady enough, the lines will not obey his command.
If the lines drawn are not neat enough, they will become messy and smudged together like a mess of fine wool. If the lines drawn are too rigid, they will lose their flexibility.
It's hard to grasp the sense of proportion.
In short, it is a tool that requires a lot of line skills from the user.
Gu Weijing sat up slightly, fixed a piece of sketch paper on the drawing board in front of him with masking tape, and casually drew a line.
"I plan to first draw the action relationship between Jasmine and the cat from the right side to strengthen the depiction of the body, then draw the basic light and shadow tones of the portrait, and finally emphasize the texture outline of the shadow details..."
Gu Weijing said a few words, then smiled and said to Sakai Katsuko: "Of course, I don't need to explain this kind of thing to you. You must understand it better than me."
"Are you going to draw the shadows as well? Do you want me to get you a pencil?"
Sakai Katsuko listened to Gu Weijing's explanation of painting ideas and captured the key words.
Because she had to draw many sketches every day, the paintings she gave Jasmine only drew the outlines and line relationships of characters, without changes in light.
As long as you are willing to put effort into it, you can also draw beautiful contrasts of black, white and gray through skillful intersecting polyphonic lines.
The workload will be correspondingly much greater, and there will be more places where it is easy to make mistakes with the pen.
In terms of the complexity of the painting, it cannot be considered a sketch.
During the process of painting the 16 jasmine paintings by Katsuko Sakai, three or four paintings were scrapped due to mistakes in using the pen.
Gu Weijing painted well, and Shengzi knew it.
It's just that Gu Weijing wanted to draw so thinly and to show the looseness of the lines, so the difficulty curve began to rise straight up.
If you make a mistake with pencil, you can use an eraser. If you make a mistake with charcoal, you can rub it with a piece of bread.
If there is something wrong with the lines drawn by the pen.
Otherwise, just pretend you didn't see it and continue talking, or else just throw away the painting and start over from scratch. There is no third option.
"It doesn't matter, just add a few more sets of lines. A thin pen has the advantage of a thin pen. No matter how sharp the pencil is, it will never be able to draw such fine and even lines."
While talking,
Gu Weijing's pen tip has begun to weave a line structure according to the ideas in his mind, and he looks confident.
He did have faith in his heart.
A second-level professional sketching level is like a substitute forward who can play in a weak team in the second-tier league like the English Championship.
It is not worthy of too much attention from the media, and in the entire industry, it is already considered a breakthrough.
As long as it is within the scope of sketching, regardless of the type of tool, there are not many painting methods that can make Gu Weijing feel fearful.
Instead, he can start to consider creating a more suitable painting strategy based on the characteristics of different brushwork and local conditions.
The weak are mastered by tools, the strong master the tools, and the master transforms the tools.
Have you ever heard of sketching with a brush?
Masters from the Shanghai Art College during the Republic of China developed the "rendering hybrid method", which combined the lines of the pen with the smoothness of the brush. It breaks the traditional sketch effect of black and white polarization, making the picture combine the delicacy of pencil sketch and the uprightness of pen drawing.
Gu Weijing is not yet at the level where he can transform tools.
Give full play to the fine lines of the needle pen, adjust the density of different light and shadow lines, be careful when processing the dark parts, and use appropriate white space to highlight the bright parts.
He thought he could still meet these requirements.
…
Time passed by minute by minute.
Gu Weijing captured the cute scene of Jasmine hugging the cat and holding the cat with her head on top, looking at each other.
Awang weighs nearly 6 kilograms, and the little girl holds it like a dough bag.
Awang's two hind legs were resting on the ground, and his expression was a bit impatient, like "I don't want to play with you, but I can't escape, damn it!" He tilted his head to one side and swayed his beard.
Jasmine's eyes were filled with the excitement and excitement of successfully masturbating the cat, and she was so happy that little pink hearts were about to pop out of her head.
Gu Weijing could read the emotional state of the two people as naturally as he breathed.
Start using appropriate light and shadow to fully present the volume and density of the characters.
He used short lines with a pen to outline the figure of Jasmine holding the cat, and used different levels of arranging lines to express the different textures of the skin of the little girl and the big cat.
Ngawang's hair is very unique. The hair on his face is short and thin, and the hair on his body and limbs can be as long as the tail finger of a five- or six-year-old child.
Either silver or black, long and slender in bunches.
Therefore, the key point of painting its hair is to be "loose", fluffy but not compact, and not to the point of being knotted. Only the fine strokes of a stylus pen can completely draw this kind of hair.
Compared with civet cats, Jasmine's skin is much smoother.
Although the little girl is a bit dark, her reflection of indoor light is much stronger than that of a furry cat.
This makes the image of jasmine brighter in people's eyes.
So Gu Weijing used slanted straight lines to show the details of Jasmine's character, and in some places simply used white space to express highlights.
Compared with pencil drawing, needle pens save the process of sharpening pencils and constantly correcting. The number of simple lines is not as many as that of the latter. It takes more effort to draw and does not take long to draw.
About dozens of minutes passed.
Except for having to change a new pen because he ran out of pen fluid, Gu Weijing completed all the wiring smoothly.
(End of chapter)
