Almighty painter

Chapter 117 Going Further

Sakai Katsuko's fingers trembled slightly, and he mistyped a letter.

She looked at the spelling mistakes and grammatical problems on the screen that were highlighted in red by the automatic error correction function of Office documents.

After reading a few sentences casually, she gave up struggling and was ready to make corrections when she went home.

"No, maybe rewriting it would be the quicker option."

Sakai Katsuko was a little absent-minded,

Ever since she saw Gu Weijing drawing on the sketch paper facing her, the girl's mind was no longer on the paper in front of her.

"Sketch stick figures? But this line shape is different from traditional sketches."

"It looks good with a pen... Wait, is he drawing me?"

"Oops, oops, oops, is my hair a little messy?"

Sakai Katsuko's mind was in a mess,
Somewhat at a loss.

For a while, she was worried about her messy hair, and felt that the pink kitten hairpin on her short hair looked a little childish.

After a while, Sakai Katsuko began to regret again. Before going out in the morning next time, she should remember to use her mother's large pile of bottles and jars to put on a simple light makeup.

If in the past,
Whether it is choosing a painting model or her own daily life, as a small painter who tends to the classical style, Sakai Katsuko doesn't like makeup very much.

What is natural is beautiful,

She always feels that artificial foundation will cover up the natural texture of the skin, and there is no need for eye shadow or the like.

She threw all the cosmetics that her mother gave her in the bottom drawer of the bedroom. Apart from applying some skin care and moisturizing lotion on the skin, Sakai Katsuko has always been dismissive of various makeup techniques.

But now,

Sakai Katsuko seemed to have a tambourine in his heart, beating up and down non-stop.

This is Gu Weijing's first painting using her as a model.

She was inexplicably worried whether she was not as attractive as other girls of her age.

Fortunately,

As the daughter of a great painter,

Katsuko Sakai has been a model for Uncle Sakai's paintings almost since she was still lying in the crib.

She knew that what she should do now was to keep quiet and not move around, so as to give Gu Weijing a better painting experience.

But anyway, she didn't have the heart to write the thesis at all. In the past ten minutes, she was more just maintaining the pose of "typing the keyboard in front of the computer".

"By the way, Katsuko, I have something I want to discuss with you."

Katsuko Sakai was a little flustered when she heard the boy's voice next to her ear, and the tambourine in her chest was beating even louder.

In the reading room in the afternoon, a quiet world for two, the boy is drawing pictures for the girl.

This scene is indeed romantic and somewhat ambiguous.

Is this a confession?

We have only known each other for more than a month, isn't the progress a bit too fast?

Sakai Katsuko's breathing was tight, but the corners of his lips involuntarily curled into a sweet arc.

Facing Gu Weijing at this time, and facing the painting that Komatsu Taro gave her, Sakai Katsuko's inner feelings are completely different.

They have a more common language and a tacit understanding.

Many times, Sakai Katsuko doesn't even feel the passage of time when she's with him.

"Well... I would like to."

Sakai Katsuko hummed in a nasal voice, her face was as red as a peach blossom.

"what?"

Gu Weijing failed to understand the meaning of the girl's words.

"I mean, I'd love to be able to help you."

Sakai Katsuko knew that she would be wrong.

A trace of imperceptible disappointment flashed across her face, but fortunately she reacted quickly and immediately changed her tone.

"You haven't heard what's busy." Gu Weijing said.

"it does not matter……"

Sakai Katsuko turned his head and stared into Gu Weijing's eyes.

"As long as I can do it, I'm happy to help you." She said in a very soft voice.

Gu Weijing was a little moved.

Even though he was a little slow to feelings, he still realized at this moment that Sakai Katsuko's attitude towards him was really different.

After Mrs. Sakai talked with him last week, Gu Weijing even felt that the other party was a little sentimental.

In a certain part of his heart, Gu Weijing always thought that it was absurd that Miss Sakai would fall in love with him.

It's not that he underestimates himself, but that he is sensible.

For a girl like Katsuko Sakai who is especially favored by fate, there is a world of outstanding peers for her to choose.

There are many candidates who are more handsome than him, richer than him, and better than his family.

How old is Gu Weijing?

Don't say anything else,

When Mrs. Sakai admired Taro Komatsu in front of her, Gu Weijing was actually not angry.

If you have a daughter,
He also hoped that his daughter would choose a well-matched boy as a lover.

but now,

Gu Weijing was clearly aware of Miss Sakai's affection for him.

This made it difficult for him to even speak about what happened next.

"Can I ask you to ask Mrs. Sakai to recruit an extra classmate?" Gu Weijing hesitated for a moment before asking.

"Oh, who is it?"

Sakai Katsuko tilted his head.

"You have just transferred from another school, so you probably don't know him yet. She is a student in our school. Her name is Mona Sandnu."

"It's the girl student council president."

"You know Mona?"

Gu Weijing was surprised.

"Well, that's really a beautiful girl." Sakai Katsuko let out an inexplicable nasal sound from his nose.

She was silent for a few seconds, as if a little unwilling: "I heard from people in the school that you used to have a good relationship, but I think she seems to be ignoring you, she looks very indifferent and difficult to get along with... …sorry, I shouldn't have bad-mouthed her behind other people's backs."

"Mona is a very good girl, we are friends, good friends since childhood."

Gu Weijing shook his head: "She just has a little temper."

"Can I ask you to do me this favor?"

Gu Weijing looked at Sakai Katsuko: "She is a very serious girl. Maybe she is not very talented in painting, but if Mrs. Sakai is willing to give Mona a chance, I guarantee that she will be a good student. "

"This is my mother's improvement class. She is not a good talker."

Sakai Katsuko turned her face away and bit her lower lip.

The first time you opened your mouth to me, you want me to let a "female" friend of your childhood through the back door?

please,

You know, it makes me feel cheap to you.

This made Katsuko Sakai, who had just experienced the feeling of liking someone for the first time, a little aggrieved and angry.

"Gu Jun, I am willing to do this for you, but my mother is an independent woman who is very stubborn about her own decisions. Even my father is not good at interfering with her work content. If I go to point fingers, she will Get mad at me."

Sakai Katsuko said.

"I see."

Mrs. Sakai's face with a bit of arrogance always appeared in Gu Weijing's mind.

"You understand that it will be difficult for me, and you still want to ask me for that Mona?"

"I'm sorry, Katsuko. I have no other choice. I'll go to Mrs. Sakai myself. It may not work well."

Gu Weijing's tone was very sincere.

"The only one I can count on is you. And if I could do something for my friend and end up doing nothing, I'd be sorry."

"Friend...is that so?"

Sakai Katsuko was silent for a moment.

She has heard too much sweet flattery from boys.

When meeting people of the opposite sex and the same age in the past, as long as you show a smile to each other.

Who is not wishful thinking, wishing to kick his current girlfriend immediately to please himself.

Girls are very complicated creatures. They hope that their sweetheart will fall in love with them at first sight, but they also hate men who like the new and dislike the old.

Looking at Gu Weijing's sincere eyes, Sakai Katsuko felt that she really couldn't get angry, and instead liked him a little more.

At least he must be a good friend.

"Feel sorry."

Gu Weijing's tone was full of apology.

"Do you also consider me a friend?" Sakai Katsuko asked.

"of course."

"If I were that Miss Mona, would you be willing to do these things for me?" Sakai Katsuko asked seriously.

"Yes. But I don't think you will need me to do anything for you, Miss Shengzi. I'm just a Yangon student who can only draw."

Gu Weijing didn't think that the daughter of a great artist would need his help.

"Then there is no need to apologize, I am willing to help you, and I am very happy to be friends with you." Sakai Katsuko smiled playfully, "I just want a small reward."

"remuneration?"

Katsuko Sakai turned his gaze to the sketch paper in Gu Weijing's hand, and said with a smile, "Please give this drawing to me after it's finished, it's so beautiful."

"Uh……"

With the matter of Mona, Gu Weijing even sent out psychological shadows when he sent girls paintings.

He never expected that Miss Sakai Katsuko, who had seen countless works of art since she was a child, would ask for his paintings.

And compared with the long-drawn full-length portrait for Mona, the unfinished manuscript in his hand is not a very good gift.

This is just a random drawing for the progress bar of the task when Katsuko Sakai was revising the thesis.

The sketch paper is half a sheet that I have just torn off from a used charcoal sketchbook, and it is cheap everywhere.

"If you don't mind, I'll draw you a new one, a more formal oil painting."

Gu Weijing felt that this semi-finished sketch, which had just been drawn for a few minutes, was a bit unhandy.

"No, I want this one, I like it."

Sakai Katsuko gently removed the cap of the pen and stuffed it into Gu Weijing's hand: "Let's finish drawing it, do you want me to continue typing in front of the computer to be your model?"

"That's not necessary. I have already completed the general positioning and contour lines. I just need to fill in some decorative lines."

Gu Weijing took the brush and continued to finish the painting.

"Your sketching skills have improved a lot, which is really enviable."

Sakai Katsuko looked at Gu Weijing's painting method closely: "But the brush used seems to be different from the normal line drawing of life. The lines are more streamlined and more vivid."

"This is a line drawing sketch, a special drawing method in the Dongxia painting circle."

"Line drawing sketch?"

Sakai Katsuko raised an eyebrow.

"The line drawing technique that combines pen sketching and Chinese painting, do you know line drawing?"

Gu Weijing answered casually.

"Well, the early Ukiyo-e in Japan were divided into woodblock paintings and pen-and-ink paintings. Among them, the meat brush painting techniques in pen-and-ink paintings borrowed from the line drawing of Chinese paintings."

Sakai Katsuko nodded.

"Here, my hair tends to be thin and soft, with a little unobvious natural curl. The curves here can actually be a little denser. I suggest you use oblique curves..." She stared at the sketch paper.

"The oblique curve crosses repeatedly, will there be a grayscale problem?"

"I think as long as the distance is controlled, the problem will not be big..."

It was a cloudless afternoon, and bright sunlight came in from the study room windows.

Gu Weijing draws with a brush, and Sakai Katsuko rests his wrist on his chin to watch him draw.

Sometimes two people will simply exchange some opinions, and sometimes they will not say anything.

Gu Weijing originally liked to be quiet, immersed in his own small world when painting, and didn't like to be disturbed or watched by others.

But this time,

Although Katsuko Sakai was talking to him, he painted with peace of mind.

From the end of his nose, he could sometimes smell the vaguely warm fragrance of Katsuko Sakai, and from the corner of his eyes, he could see the pink Hello Kitty hairpin dangling between the girl's hair.

The sunlight passed through Miss Katsuko's hair, casting a shadow of a kitten on the paper.

Plain and pleasant.

"ended."

Gu Weijing made the last stroke, and heard the prompt sound from the virtual panel.

[Current task content: Complete one hundred sketches of characters with different themes. (Note: More than [-] works are required to reach the rating of heartfelt feelings)]

[Current task progress——]

[Character line drawing: (23/100)]

【Feeling in my heart (5/20)】

After gradually becoming familiar with the combination of line drawing and sketching, the efficiency of Gu Weijing's line drawing and sketching in this style began to increase.

He basically draws whenever he has free time, sketching is called sketching because it is one of the shortest time-consuming drawing methods.

In the past two days, I have drawn a total of twenty or so sketches.

However, it has encountered difficulties in the emotional rating of "feeling in the heart".

Emotional evaluation with feelings requires Gu Weijing not only to be in a good state, but also to have a deep understanding and experience of the characters in his works.

It's not easy.

In his previous line drawing sketches, among the four works that have reached the rating of feeling, except for Jasmine and Mona, only Gu Weijing met the same requirement when he drew his grandfather Gu Tongxiang.

The portraits of his cousin Gu Lin and his uncle did not reach the level of feeling, and even the money-grubbing philistine aunt also provided a feeling evaluation.

did not expect,
This painting also meets this requirement.

"For you, Miss Sakai."

Gu Weijing handed the painting to the other party.

"Are you getting fatter?"

Sakai Katsuko looked at the girl on the screen and commented, when Gu Weijing wanted to say something, she smiled again, with two dimples on her face.

"Just kidding, it's awesome, this is the happiest gift I've received this year."

Sakai Katsuko carefully took the sketch with both hands, staring at the paper, as if it was some kind of precious artwork.

"By the way, I suddenly remembered something about the topic of our thesis."

Katsuko Sakai carefully sandwiched the sketch paper in her notebook, and said casually, "What do you think is Impressionism?"

"We don't portray gods, we only record the sun and the air. We don't follow dogma, because the beautiful will stay and the pain will die."

Just after Gu Weijing finished saying this, he subconsciously felt that it was going to be bad.

(End of this chapter)