Sakai Katsuko saw Gu Weijing starting to paint and stopped talking to disturb him.
She held a glass of lemonade and looked at it quietly with her head tilted to the side.
Ms. Katsuko had a straw in her mouth. From the moment the work on the sketch paper began to take shape, it had been a long time since she had actually drank.
Sakai Katsuko unconsciously bit the wall of the paper straw with her teeth, and the liquid level rose and fell gently with her breathing.
The afternoon sunshine outside the window is just right, and the teak floor has an amber luster.
The little girl hugged the cat and sat on the floor playing indifferently. All she could hear in her ears was the friction of the pen tip on the rough paper and the occasional two impatient "meows" from the civet cat.
Miss Katsuko felt that the surrounding atmosphere was peaceful and serene with a hazy golden sheen, like a watercolor landscape painting of the Hudson River School.
Time slowed down at this moment, as if it could maintain this unreal and peaceful scene forever in a third world country that has been suffering from war and turmoil all year round.
What also seemed unreal was the pen drawing in the hand of the boy next to him.
"This doesn't look like something a young person could draw."
Katsuko thought to herself.
This comment is often placed on herself by the media.
But compared with Gu Weijing's works in front of her, she felt that the other person was more qualified to be praised in this way. Watching the paintings for the sutras, Katsuko Sakai felt like looking at an ancient fallen leaf temple with young monks chanting sutras.
It doesn't feel stale just because it's cliche, and its youthfulness reveals a Zen spirit that is inconsistent with your age.
In front of Sakai Katsuko, Gu Weijing was weaving a mark on the cat's forehead with shading patterns that were as dense as a fishnet.
The pen and ink has its own style and soul that is taking shape.
It probably won't take many years for him to develop his own unique style of writing.
It seems like the first trace of water appearing on the horizon during spring tide.
There comes a time,
It will turn into waves that reach the sky and hit the shore.
Katsuko began to be slightly lost in thought.
she imagined.
Many years later, in the evening, they were walking arm in arm through a magnificent art gallery.
It was a very grand exhibition hall, with reporters' spotlights flashing and surrounded by his paintings and her paintings.
A mobile multimedia screen hanging on the pillars of the exhibition hall reads "Congratulations to the artist couple Gu Weijing & Sakai Katsuko for opening a theme art exhibition at a certain art museum."
So and so?
She was fascinated by whether the art museum should be the Vatican, the Metropolitan or the Louvre.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't really matter at all.
The important thing is that at that time, Gu Weijing turned her head and said something to herself. She couldn't hear the specific words clearly. She only felt that the two people were looking at each other, and she imagined that her face was slightly red.
Sakai Katsuko's face is also a little red now.
She didn't shyly let this kind of girl's sleep talk slip away from her mind. Instead, she suddenly let her body follow the beating of her heart and began to want to draw something.
Katsuko Sakai didn't even want to take the time to get up and look for other painting tools, so she picked up the iPad at hand.
She opened the Procreate painting software, adjusted the brushstrokes and drew directly on the electronic screen subconsciously.
——
"I think I'm a bit old, right? But... next time your brother says that anyone who draws on an iPad is not a real artist, you can show him this painting and then blow his head off. "
Gu Weijing put down his drawing board.
He looked at the IPAD screen in Sakai Katsuko's hand and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
"Katsuko."
"Um?"
Sakai Katsuko was also staring at the drawing board in front of her. She tucked a lock of hair behind her ear and made a slight nasal noise.
"You are really a genius, your comments come from the heart. I thought you would have to paint for a few more weeks to fully find the feeling, but you have done it now."
Gu Weijing said softly.
[Title of work: Untitled work]
[Crayon Technique: Normal]
[Emotion: Feeling in the heart]
In order to capture the feeling of that moment in her heart, Katsuko Sakai casually used the crayon brush, which is the simplest and fastest way to draw in Procreate.
She only drew a profile of a man's face, with only a few faint strokes on his facial features.
Unlike oil pastels, crayons have a weak ability to stack colors, and the paintings they draw will not be too realistic.
Gu Weijing could see his own shadow on the side of his face.
For some reason, there seemed to be shallow wrinkles on his forehead. He looked like he was about thirty years old. The key was the look in his profile.
The eyes are the windows of the soul.
In this painting by Sakai Katsuko, most of the energy is spent on the eyes on the side face, and there seems to be colorful light reflected in the eyes.
Ask yourself,
Gu Weijing thought it was difficult for him to make such a daughter-like look.
In reality, how complex are the external lighting conditions required to reflect such colorful colors on human eyes?
However, Picasso also painted his wife with three legs, which does not prevent this from being a very touching painting.
As early as the first time I saw the paintings on the iPad screen.
Gu Weijing immediately understood - Sakai Katsuko finally succeeded in integrating her emotions and brushwork, and painted a painting that the audience can empathize with.
Use the calligraphy and painting appraisal technique to take a look.
As expected, he saw the comment "I feel something in my heart".
"ah."
At this moment, Sakai Katsuko was completely freed from the reverie in her mind.
She looked at the work she had just drawn on the hand-drawing board, stared at it for a few seconds, and let out a slight exclamation.
The artistic problems that have troubled her over the years, including her father's comment that painting "has a body but no soul, it is difficult to become a master", are troubles that she has been unable to overcome despite years of hard work in the studio.
At the moment when this painting is completed,
All disappeared.
Without saying a word, Sakai Katsuko gently hugged Gu Weijing's shoulders, buried her head in the boy's arms, and just held him like that.
Little girl Jasmine and Awang both turned their heads and looked at the young couple on the sofa.
"My brother and sister's matters, please don't look around."
Like a little adult, Jasmine blocked the eyes of the civet cat with her palms, ignoring Awang's extremely dissatisfied meows of protest.
The little girl herself opened her eyes hard, with shyness and curiosity, staring at Sister Sakai and Brother Gu Weijing without blinking.
There are no intense scenes that children may imagine.
Sakai Shengzi just hugged Gu Weijing silently, holding him very hard, as if she wanted to rub him into her body.
"I'm very happy. Thank you, Gu Jun, you are such a good teacher."
Half a minute later,
Sakai Katsuko let go of her arm.
Her breathing was still rapid, and there was still a blush on her face, but she had regained her composure.
"Actually, it's not as exciting as I thought. I thought I would cry." Sakai Katsuko touched her hot face.
A student with a score of 580 will suddenly step on the bullshit. Only after passing the college entrance examination and passing Tsinghua University can it be easy to get rid of it as happily as Fan Jin passed the exam.
Katsuko Sakai was originally a candidate with a score of 700.
When Ms. Sakai followed the instructions of the Sutra and began to practice continuously, and felt that her soul and the model were constantly getting closer, she had a vague premonition of this moment.
When Ms. Sakai was drawing on the iPad, she didn’t even consider any drawing technique issues at all.
It's just that the warmth in my heart makes the warm feeling flow continuously along the tip of my pen.
Her soul dwells in the middle ground between reality and imagination.
The whole person felt peaceful and happy, as warm as if he had returned to his mother's amniotic fluid.
Therefore, when I came back to my senses, I saw that I had really painted a very good work.
After the initial surprise, Sakai Katsuko only had the peace of mind that the fruit trees she planted finally blossomed and bore fruit under her tireless watering.
"It's a pity that it was an electronic version drawn on an iPad, and I'm not very proficient in crayon drawing."
Sakai Katsuko sniffed regretfully.
Without the tactile feeling of being able to touch the delicate texture of paper works, it is still somewhat less interesting.
"Anyway, it's just random doodles. For some of the first works, if you find a way and reflect on this feeling more, it will be much easier to draw in the future. You don't have to pay too much attention to it. If you don't like it, just delete it."
Gu Weijing said comfortingly.
"It's just not perfect, there's nothing I don't like. I'm not willing to delete such a memorable painting." Sakai Katsuko rolled her eyes at her boyfriend who made a straight-faced statement that didn't understand the girl's thoughts.
She carefully preserved the crayon doodle.
Not only are they saved locally in the Procreate software, they are also carefully backed up in Apple's ICloud.
"This painting is called "Tomorrow"? The name is quite interesting."
When Gu Weijing saw Sakai Katsuko naming the work, he pondered for a few seconds and entered the tag "Tomorrow".
"Well, that's the name. I made a little wish when I was drawing."
"What is it?" Gu Weijing was curious.
"I won't tell you, but the old monk who sells peace guards in Sensoji Temple told me that this kind of wish will not work if you say it."
With a rare playful smile, Miss Sakai refused Gu Weijing's request.
She did not explain the meaning of the painting to her boyfriend.
Sakai Katsuko secretly hoped.
She hoped that one day, when they would hold a joint art exhibition together, no matter how far her skills had progressed at that time, no matter how grand the art exhibition would be.
When the time comes, this crayon graffiti "Tomorrow" will be the first work in the exhibition.
"Don't just look at me, bring your painting over too, let's take a look at it together?"
Sakai Katsuko just felt that Gu Weijing must have painted an extremely excellent work.
After the other person painted to the end, she also started to draw her own crayon paintings. She had not yet fully appreciated the jasmine painted by Gu Weijing.
"Give."
Gu Weijing picked up the drawing board from the bean bag sofa.
He didn't even handle the masking tape and handed it to his girlfriend intact.
Sakai Katsuko's eyes slowly followed the pen line across the sketch paper.
She admired the pen drawings, while Gu Weijing admired Katsuko Sakai.
Girls always look good when they are serious. They have beautiful nose bridges and long eyelashes like light-colored butterflies, ready to spread their wings and fly.
"well……"
Katsuko, who was looking at the painting, suddenly sighed.
"Did you make a mistake in the painting?"
"No, they are very cute. Jasmine is cute, Mao Miao is cute, and the paintings are also very cute."
Ms. Sakai placed Gu Weijing's paintings next to the IPAD screen, stared at the two paintings, and shook her head with subtle disappointment.
I really need to work harder!
A strong sense of urgency arose in Sakai Katsuko's heart.
Gu Weijing's progress was too fast.
Not only was he better at sketching than her, but his familiarity with muscle texture was as if he had "cut" someone with a scalpel, it was so natural and incredible.
Regarding the level of muscle lines that Miss Sakai has seen during this period after the Spring Festival.
The most powerful thing is the detective cat in the [Mr. Hyperion Channel] video, which is truly as accurate as a medical textbook.
Secondly, it turned out to be Gu Weijing beside him.
It doesn’t matter if you “cut” someone else, it seems like you have even “cut” Mao Mi!
From hair to demeanor.
The lines drawn by the pen look like a cat jumping into the paper and rolling out.
Some painters focus on the accuracy of objects and images, and must accurately grasp even a hair; some painters give up small relationships, focus on big relationships, and focus on motion capture; some painters pursue the contrast of light and dark, and insist on depicting the brightness of the picture. And light transmittance...
All roads lead to Rome.
There is no right or wrong way to do this. I could talk endlessly for three days and three nights about the different starting points of theory and painting, but we can achieve the same goal by different paths.
Regardless of the painting method, you can tell at a glance whether the picture is alive or not.
This pen drawing just "lives".
The advantages of the fine lines of the needle pen are fully reflected by the boys - the cat's whiskers squinting in the air, the tiger's teeth gently clicking, the small shadows on the light dimples on the little girl's cheeks...
Every frown and every smile is expressive.
Sakai Katsuko didn't know whether she should be happy or disappointed now.
Obviously she has just made such a big breakthrough, but her works are still inferior to those of many people around her.
"The painting is so good. I still remember when we said goodbye in the parking lot. I told you not to be left too far behind. It has only been two months, and I will be the one left behind."
"You drew..." Gu Weijing wanted to speak.
"No, I don't need you to comfort me, it's just not as good as that."
Sakai Katsuko calmly turned her head and shook her hair.
She is a proud girl and does not need others to make excuses for her: "I am happy for your progress, but I don't need you to stop and wait for me."
"Moli, have you finished your homework today? If so, could you please be my sister's model for a little while?"
Sakai Katsuko put down the drawing board and stood up, waving to Jasmine.
"I'm going to paint. Gu Jun, just take a big step forward."
The girl turned her head and leaned forward.
Shengzi rubbed her nose against Gu Weijing's cheek, and she whispered in his ear in a gentle but firm tone: "I will catch up by myself, I promise."
Mom was right.
Love should be like a peacock, trying to show the most glorious and gorgeous side of yourself to your lover.
Ms. Sakai hopes to reach the highest level of art accompanied by the people around her.
Her pride is not willing to be abandoned by others midway.
"Let's go, Jasmine, the sunshine is nice now. Today we will go to the outdoor yard to paint. I want to feel the wind flowing on my face. You can bring the cat with you."
Gu Weijing didn't know that he had inadvertently inspired Sakai Shengzi's fighting spirit.
He watched Katsuko Sakai stepping on her white sneakers with pink flowers, holding her painting tools in one hand and holding Jasmine in the other.
Jasmine holds the cat.
The two of them and their pet just disappeared at the door.
Gu Weijing smiled and stood up. He filled an espresso capsule into the coffee machine. After making a cup of coffee, he stretched out and took out a roll of canvas.
The career of a painter seems to be very leisurely.
It takes three years to paint one painting, and one painting lasts three years. This statement is actually an exaggeration.
Unless it takes three or five years to prepare for a very important art exhibition.
Otherwise, professional painters who are basically still in the creative cycle must come up with new works of art every year to ensure market popularity and collectors' familiarity with your name.
There is also the issue of eating.
No matter how popular your past works are in the market, no matter how much they increase, collectors and galleries will make money.
Painters, as producers of art, usually only make money on new works.
Great painters seem to have high incomes, but their consumption is also high.
There are private jets to keep, supermodels to hang out with, and islands in the Pacific to buy.
If you want to open a large-scale art exhibition with great imagination, and the gallery is unwilling to pay or is unwilling to pay all the money, it will easily cost millions.
Painters are often short of money.
Exceptions include Manet, whose father, the chancellor, left an inheritance of about one million francs. At that time, let alone playing with yachts, it was enough to just buy a main battleship.
And Monet, Matisse, Seurat... almost in the twilight years of their careers, they still often painted new works and sold them to art dealers and familiar collectors.
But some great painters can paint three or four paintings a year, and one painting can last for several months.
This is not uncommon in the industry.
An oil painting, acrylic painting, or watercolor painting can take a few hours if it's fast, and 20 hours of pure working time should be enough if you deduct the time of waiting for it to dry if it's slow.
The accumulated working hours in a quarter are less than one day, which sounds very enviable.
In fact,
Kung Fu lies outside the theater.
Behind such important fine paintings are often hundreds of scraps and practice works destroyed by the artist. The various time costs are greater than the hours spent on painting the final piece of work itself.
More than ten times more.
Picasso was like an emotionless printing press. He processed nearly 40,000 works of art in his lifetime. It took more than a hundred years to complete one piece every day.
But Lao Bi's truly exquisite works are all the result of repeated practice, repeated conception, and repeated redrawing, which took weeks or even months to complete.
Read the book a hundred times, and its meaning will become apparent.
Painting pursues not only the instant enlightenment of a sudden enlightenment, but also the hard work of grinding the iron inkstone through the ink pool and dyeing it thoroughly.
Gu Weijing's systematic help saves you the trouble of training your pen proficiency.
There are some things that can only be drawn into your heart after you draw them ten or a hundred times, but you still can’t save them.
Let’s compare his latest painting “Good Luck Orphanage No. 5 in the Sun” with the original sketch he drew under the guidance of Mr. Chen, the collector.
The painting is still the same, but many small details have become more refined.
The undulations of the leaves are more natural, and the faces of the characters are fuller.
It's like a 3A game manufacturer adding a texture module with higher definition after the game is released.
In particular, the finger smear method developed by Sakai Katsuko to transform the picture - Miss Katsuko provided a very good idea, but the specific operation requires Gu Weijing's own continuous understanding in practice.
Gu Weijing stretched the canvas, casually wrote an Arabic numeral 6 on the blank space at the end of the canvas, and started painting.
Drafts, base drawings, coloring.
Follow the steps.
A painter who can follow the steps when painting is actually worthy of celebration.
Extraordinary performance or something like that is a good thing that can burn three candles of incense.
Being able to finish the work step by step means that your painting ability is fully demonstrated.
When art students draw, they will always encounter unexpected situations of one kind or another. The colors are too light, the thinner is added too much, and the beauty painted looks like Zhu Yuanzhang...
The creation of art students is to struggle with various mistakes.
The more difficult the drawing, the more so.
Problems may occur not only within the painting, but also on the painter.
Knocking over the easel, shoveling the wrong oil with shaking hands, or even taking the important art exam every year, you can be confident and bring only warm-toned paints to the exam room, and then find out that the question asks you to use cool-toned paints to paint a painting. , I couldn’t believe the careless examinee who cried bitterly.
In fact,
Step by step is a lot more difficult than imagined.
If you take the art joint entrance examination, following the steps means that all your efforts have been paid off.
If you are at the graduation exhibition, following the steps means that your work will usually graduate normally.
If you paint a fusion painting like Gu Weijing - step by step means that you are gradually able to fully master the painting method in your hand.
"Master fusion painting? Huh!"
After Gu Weijing discovered this change, he became more energetic.
When he was painting fusion paintings some time ago, it was like driving a heavy truck downhill, fighting with the brush in his hand all the time.
Nowadays it seems that this painting method is not so difficult.
Many details that used to take a long time to consider can now be drawn in a few clicks without much thinking at all.
Use the pen as you wish, draw faster and draw better.
"The role of sketching techniques."
Gu Weijing used a paintbrush to highlight the color blocks of the tree trunks in the middle ground, and used brush strokes to easily cut out the divisions between the leaves and the distant roof tiles of the church.
In the composition, the leaves and the roof together form a large color block transitioning from the mid-range to the long-range.
Even if they are the same gradient color block, Gu Weijing does not want them to look like a mass of paste with no distinction.
You can see the role of professional second-level sketching technology in the painting process by using a pen here.
Sketching brings accurate drafts, precise drafts bring more informative base drawings, and more informative base drawings bring ease in the painting process.
The artist becomes more confident because of this information when painting with a pen.
The sketch directly supports the entire skeleton of the painting. It would be weird if the effect of the painting cannot be more spiritual.
Unconsciously, Gu Weijing began to paint faster and faster.
It used to take him two to three hours to make a base map.
Today, it was the moment when Gu Weijing finally used his fingers to dye the transition between the clouds in the sky, and displayed the sixth painting "Good Luck Orphanage Under the Sun" before his eyes. Less than five hours had passed since he started writing.
Even the evening sun has not completely faded from the horizon. He has finished this painting.
The virtual panel raised by the system appeared in front of Gu Weijing.
[Title of work: "Good Luck Orphanage under the Sun"]
[Sketch Technique: Lv.5 Professional Painter·Level 2 (501/10000)]
[Oil Painting Technique: Lv.5 Professional Painter·Second Level (701/10000)]
[Chinese Painting Techniques: Lv.4 Professional Painter·First Level (2921/5000)]
[Emotion: A simple work]
(End of chapter)
