"Yeah, I did."
Sakai Katsuko put down the charcoal stick, took Gu Weijing's hand, and looked sideways at the sketch on the canvas.
This level of sketching technique is a field that countless ordinary painters have struggled to pursue throughout their lives.
For Ms. Sakai, it is just a small starting point of her career, just like the first small hill to climb in her life.
Many, many years ago.
Katsuko Sakai had the courage to declare to the most famous art master in the world in a huge art museum with people coming and going that one day she would become a greater and more famous artist than Takashi Murakami.
Sakai Katsuko never doubted that one day she would be able to overcome the art bottleneck that troubled her.
The highest peak in the field of art, no matter how high the mountain is or how deep the snow is, she will eventually climb up step by step until the end of the sky.
It's just that Lian Shengzi himself didn't expect that this day would come so quickly.
On this spring afternoon when she was seventeen years old, she decided to sprint towards the Singapore Art Biennale.
Because of the boys around me, everything happened just right.
Sakai Katsuko quietly stood up on her tiptoes and put her head on Gu Weijing's shoulder in a gentle and virtuous manner.
"Gu Weijing?"
"Um?"
"We can also raise a cat together in the future. Awang looks very cute. I wonder if it would be better to buy her a cat-shaped bow headband."
Katsuko Sakai wanted to talk about sketching, art, and the competition and challenges in the upcoming art exhibition.
When the words came to his lips, he lost interest in saying these things.
The girl narrowed her eyes slightly.
What should come will always come, and now, she just wants to enjoy the breeze blowing on her cheeks on this quiet spring day.
Life is wonderful.
"Awang? He's a bit fierce. By the way, Mr. Wu is very sad about your pampering of his cat. He has already set his sights on the can of Cheese Cat that I brought over, and he wishes he could take it for himself as a snack. Chewed.”
Gu Weijing recalled an interesting incident.
The last time the old man next door used his mobile phone to scan the canned meat in front of his local cat, he found out that it was selling for 116 dollars a can on Amazon. Old man Wu's eyes almost popped out of his head.
honestly.
Awang's current food expenses are higher than the per capita monthly salary of ordinary people in this country, and he is not better off than more than 90% of the people in this country.
This continues.
The day when Aqing and her master would fight over canned food was not far away.
"I'll buy whatever the old gentleman wants to eat, so he doesn't eat from Awang, okay?" Sakai Katsuko just pursed her lips and smiled mischievously.
Gu Weijing and Sakai Katsuko laughed a little for a while. While chatting, his eyes were constantly staring at the draft on the drawing board in front of Shengzi.
"Hi, what are you thinking about?"
Sakai Shengzi noticed Gu Weijing's hesitant expression, straightened her hair, and took the initiative to ask.
"I have a small suggestion." Gu Weijing walked to the drawing board, "If this is the draft of your exhibition painting, I'm thinking, maybe..."
He reached out and broke off a small piece of oatmeal bread on the table.
Oatmeal bread is not a snack when painting, but a part of the painting equipment.
It is difficult to erase the sketch marks on the canvas with an ordinary eraser. The surface of the baked bread is full of unique fiber texture, which is an excellent item for absorbing charcoal powder.
From the time of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings.
Painters and draughtsmen always kept a loaf of bread on hand as they worked.
This tradition continues to this day.
From the effect point of view, soft bread crumbs and charcoal powder are almost a perfect match. The ability to absorb black powder cannot be replaced by PVC rubber.
Gu Weijing sometimes uses canvas erasers produced by drawing pencil brands such as Faber-Castell instead of bread to draw.
It's not that the effect is better, it's just based on cost considerations.
A piece of industrial eraser costs only a few dollars at best, and using soft bread to erase paintings year after year has actually been quite a luxury from the Middle Ages to the present.
Sakai Katsuko's painting method is very classical and willful.
She is still the same as the great painters hundreds of years ago, always keeping a few pieces of oatmeal bread beside her easel.
"You want to modify my drawing? Do you have any better suggestions?"
Sakai Katsuko asked.
It's not that she is proud and complacent, but that she is really satisfied with her manuscript.
"No major changes are made, just the line proportions of some characters. A slight adjustment would probably be better."
Gu Weijing saw Sakai Katsuko indicating with his eyes that he could operate directly on this canvas.
So, he carefully glued away some lines and added some lines with charcoal.
Judging from Gu Weijing's current perspective, there is nothing wrong with the girl's composition and painting ideas.
It is both lively and interesting, and contains a Zen meaning.
Compared with before Boss Chen’s guidance, his original composition idea for “Good Luck Orphanage Under the Sun” was no longer as good as it was before.
It's just that there is a trace of disharmony in the sketch lines.
It stands to reason that both of them are at LV.5 sketching level, and their line structure ability is evenly matched. In terms of art accumulation and artistic vision, Sakai Katsuko has the advantage.
However, Gu Weijing possesses two completely unreasonable knowledge cards: "Anatomy of the Human Body" and "Pet Mind Reading".
When it comes to mastering the anatomical drawing knowledge of human figures and cat squinting muscles, there are only a few painters in the world who can defeat Gu Weijing.
Even if the sketching skills of the second level of the profession cannot bring out the full power of the knowledge cards, it is still very easy to slightly change the drawing of Sakai Katsuko.
The sketch does not have complicated charcoal shading and is originally painted very lightly.
Gu Weijing spent a short time and slightly changed a dozen lines, then put down the charcoal and nodded and said, "Okay, isn't this better?"
Sakai Katsuko stared at the canvas and didn't speak for a long time.
I am afraid of comparison in everything.
No matter how proficient in lines, Kosomatsu Taro was not that incompetent in sketching among painters of his age, but when he presented the treasure to Sakai Katsuko, he was said to be full of mistakes.
Ms. Katsuko has painted over 1,800 plaster models and human models. She is very confident in her ability to depict muscular bodies.
However, now in front of Gu Weijing, Sakai Katsuko felt once again the feeling of being struck by talent.
It's hard to say what major changes Gu Weijing made to the line draft.
On the canvas in front of me, there are still faint traces of the gray remaining traces of my original lines before modification.
The trends of the old and new lines overlap almost completely, with only a slight difference in arc curvature and an azimuth shift of one or two millimeters.
In fact, Sakai Katsuko’s lines on the rough sketch of the characters on the canvas were already very good.
It would be surprising if there were any big changes.
Just a shift of one or two points produces a visible difference in expressive effect in the sketch sample.
It's hard to say which modification made the difference compared to the line draft I made before.
All the changes for boys are very minor.
The curvature of Jasmine's spine has been increased by one point, and the apex of the toes and arches of her feet has been pulled up a few millimeters. The direction of the cat's tail swing and the tangent arc between the ears and round face have been slightly changed.
Just between the deviations of these fragmentary lines, the picture suddenly became clear - the sketch on the linen canvas became as vivid as the moon through the clouds!
“What a finishing touch.”
Sakai Shengzi put Gu Weijing's arm into her arms and sniffed.
"This is not the finishing touch. Compared with the masterpieces that really make the whole painting come alive, I just slightly adjusted a few lines based on my feeling. You have already painted 99% of the painting, and I can only add the last 1 % shortcomings.”
Gu Weijing is not being modest.
He'd seen the real finishing touch before.
In front of Mr. Cao Xuan's miraculous effect on the mural in front of the Shwedagon Pagoda, his girlfriend praised him as "the finishing touch" when he changed the lines based on the knowledge cards.
It's a bit embarrassing to show off a big sword in front of Guan Gong's gate.
pity,
Sakai Katsuko is a girl, so some Buddhist temples and areas of the Shwedagon Pagoda are inaccessible, so she did not have the opportunity to see the extremely shocking scene with her own eyes.
"Sketch is the reflection of personal emotions and experiences on paper. The 1% of your aura is more important than the 99% of my efforts. Compared with the current sketch, my original painting is just a plastic man in a department store The plush toys in the shape of cats sold in the shopping mall.”
Sakai Katsuko's serious correction.
She knew that Gu Weijing's muscle lines were drawn extremely accurately.
But it was only when he personally changed the drawing for himself that Shengzi could so clearly feel the gap in understanding of muscle lines between the two people.
"Real" and "living" works have completely different appeal to the audience.
This is a difference in perceptual cognition.
After a few minutes of modification, Gu Wei added at least 30% more color to the final effect of this work.
It is because of understanding this.
Ms. Sakai Katsuko's toes are now curled up in her socks in surprise.
"In the field of muscle line interpretation, you are enough to be my teacher." There was a rare hint of heartfelt reverence in the tone of the girl in the skirt.
Love is a mixture of passions.
Hugo believed that it included the worship of the body and the worship of the spirit.
Katsuko is such a proud genius.
It's hard to like someone, and it's even harder to truly admire or even admire a person of the same age.
The more knowledgeable you are, the more proud you are. When you ponder the works in front of you, you can taste the horrible and terrifying flavor.
There is nothing terrible about the shortcomings of your own pictures.
What's really scary is that she didn't even realize the problem existed!
Katsuko felt before that her paintings were very coordinated and realistic.
Therefore, the character image in the draft just now is the limit of her ability to draw muscle lines, and even the limit of her vision and understanding.
Gu Weijing discovered a problem. I casually corrected the problematic lines and drew a "guidance painting".
Be ignorant, discover problems, and correct problems.
They respectively correspond to three completely different realms of mastering the anatomy of painting.
The gap between each realm is like cloud mud.
"I'm so happy to be your girl." Sakai Katsuko's cheeks were filled with love that was about to drip out. She closed her eyes slightly and rubbed against Gu Weijing's chest.
Gu Weijing saw Shengzi's cuteness and became jealous, so he couldn't help pinching the girl's pink earlobe with his fingers.
Sakai Katsuko blushed.
But she didn't dodge. Instead, she turned her head slightly to allow Gu Weijing to squeeze more easily.
"Nice to be your boyfriend too."
Gu Weijing felt that Shengzi was really fun and obedient, so he couldn't help but want to take a bite.
he does not know.
In fact, Miss Katsuko would only show this soft and waxy feeling in front of her.
Sakai Katsuko has never been the kind of soft-tempered person who clings to others like a feather.
She may have a good personality.
However, in the eyes of outsiders, Katsuko is the precious daughter of a top artist.
She is confident, powerful, and unattainable.
Tsunamasa Sakai, the younger brother of the same mother, had his hair dyed in a very unconventional way, but Katsuko was able to treat him submissively. Compared to Mrs. Sakai, whose mouth is as poisonous as a knife, Tsunamasa Sakai is actually a little afraid of the elder sister who has been better than him in everything he has done since he was a child.
Compared with his famous sister, Tsunamasa Sakai felt that he was just a bonus.
The same is true for Dulwich College. After the initial curiosity about transfer students dissipated, invisible class barriers appeared in everyone's mind.
Regardless of family background, appearance, or talent.
In every aspect, Katsuko Sakai is so beautiful that she has an aura that is hard to get close to.
People with a slightly inferior self-esteem would feel uncomfortable even sitting at the table next to Katsuko to eat. In addition to being a bit social, Kou Kou, who is also a girl, relies on her shamelessness to become Sakai Katsuko's chat software friend.
Such as Jerry, a prodigal in love.
He dared to form a band at the opening ceremony to confess to Mona in public, but he didn't even have the courage to strike up a conversation with Miss Sakai.
Komatsu Taro has known Sakai Katsuko for much longer than Gu Weijing, but it is a pity that he will never have the opportunity to see Miss Katsuko, who is so sweet and caring.
same,
Komatsu would not believe that the cold and unapproachable goddess in her eyes would turn her face sideways and obediently let a boy scratch her ears.
The only one who could make Sakai Katsuko make such a gesture was Gu Weijing.
Only this person of the same age, from the first moment they met, kept giving me one surprise after another, refreshing my understanding of him again and again.
This sense of mystery is like a cloud shrouded in mist, and she occasionally reveals magical abilities that make her admire her. Among all the boys Miss Shengzi has known in her life, only Gu Weijing can do it.
So much so that the girl felt conquered.
Therefore, only Gu Weijing has the blessing and luck to see such a touching side of Sakai Katsuko.
Miss Sakai leaned next to Gu Weijing, her whole body numb with tension. She closed her eyes and waited for a while, her heart beating like a drum.
Gu Weijing's hand seemed to be rubbing her earlobe persistently.
Sakai Katsuko opened her eyes with three points of joy and three points of regret again.
Gu Weijing didn't know that he had just missed a good opportunity to kiss Sakai Katsuko.
Based on Miss Katsuko's state of mind just now, if her boyfriend really wanted to ask for a kiss, she would actually not refuse.
(End of chapter)
