Almighty painter

Chapter 132 The Charm of Details

"What do you think I will teach you in this class...how to show your personal creativity in the portfolio? Composition inspiration, layout design?"

In class, Professor Vatel wrote down the word PORTFLIO (portfolio) on the blackboard with chalk.

"No, these are all bullshit!"

The old gentleman turned around, faced the faces of many students in the art classroom, and pointed the podium with chalk and said.

"Are these things important?"

"Of course it's important, but this is what you should have learned over the past 13 years at Dulwich. Now you only have the last few months of your secondary school days. If you expect to go to the improvement class, it's like the Philosopher's Stone Can turn stubborn iron into gold. Sorry, I have neither the ability nor the reality."

Vettel stretched out a finger and said coldly: "The only thing I can teach you is... the details."

In addition to independent professional courses such as oil painting, sketching, and still life painting, Dulwich International Secondary School will only offer themed courses in two grades to hone painting skills and improve painting details.

Or it is a preschool class where the teaching objects are a group of five-year-old dolls.

The teachers will hold the hands of the first-grade students and draw various curves and broken lines on the paper, which is similar to the process that Comrade Leonardo da Vinci practiced drawing eggs when he was a child.

Either a Year 13 student.

They have received a complete set of art education, and the teachers have taught everything that should be taught, and the rest is the continuous polishing of the details of the portfolio.

"Don't think it's easy. Most of you have been studying for so many years. The details of painting and the ability to use a pen are still terrible. When a university admissions teacher sees a lot of people's portfolios for the first time, within three seconds , the poor details of the pen have already given it a death sentence." Professor Vatel shook his head.

Many in the classroom seemed unimpressed.

Gu Weijing listened very carefully.

The radical improvement brought about by painting skills made him more and more aware of the importance of the ability to use a brush.

details make a difference,

Just a single sketch line segment, people with good drawing skills and people with poor drawing skills may fall on the paper and there is no difference at all.

But a painting has hundreds of line segments stacked together, and thousands of tiny unobtrusive gaps will bring about a difference in expressiveness.

The reason why his knife painting is legendary is that the details are almost flawless.

If Gu Weijing's other painting techniques also have legendary abilities, even "only" has the ability to use Menzel's basic painting experience.

There is no need for Mr. Cao's guidance, nor is there any need to study the painting techniques of ancient or modern fusion painting predecessors.

Gu Weijing may be able to easily eliminate the sense of fragmentation when he draws fusion paintings only by relying on his control over details.He can use strong control to forcibly integrate different painting styles seamlessly.

Just like two pieces of plasticine, his current painting technique is only enough to pinch the surface of the plasticine together like a baby's hands, and it will shatter at the slightest touch.

Therefore, Gu Weijing needs to practice the special targeted drawing method of line drawing and sketching, try rubbing and twisting at various angles, and make the two pieces of plasticine mesh more tightly.

If so, his ability to control the details is strong enough, and the baby becomes a strong man or even a hydraulic machine, and he can pinch these painting methods together casually.

The same is true when applying to college.

Many students will work hard on the creativity of their portfolios. For example, Mona's father hired a family professor, or simply hired a special study abroad agency to design his portfolio.

It cannot be said that it has no effect.

However, even a second-tier European academy of fine arts like the University of Rotterdam receives tens of thousands of portfolios from applicants from all over the world every year.

Everyone wants to draw something new.

The admissions teachers have long been tired of all kinds of pretentious and novel tricks.

The better the Academy of Fine Arts, the more difficult it is to win by relying solely on novel and creative designs.

Finally, it is necessary to return to the painting technique itself.

Yangon does not have the art entrance examination of Dongxia, the art examination of Dongying, or the Art and Design examination (art design examination) of the United States, which are unified examinations that test students' painting skills.

Therefore, when enrolling students, the teachers of the university review the portfolios submitted by Dulwich students, and pay more attention to the students' drawing skills and line details to judge their true drawing skills.

"Don't blame me for not reminding you, every year, parents spend thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars to hire an overseas study agency to design a portfolio idea and composition for their children, but because of a bad drawing, they didn't even get an admission offer. Case."

"What's a great detail that catches the eye...Let me give you an example that all of you young people should have heard of."

Professor Vatel pressed the electronic pointer in his hand, and a sketch was projected on one side of the screen.

"This is……"

"The illustration in the video of the Internet celebrity Mr. Hyperion."

"It's called Detective Cat, right?"

There were discussions among the students in the classroom, and they were all impressed by the popular videos on Youtube during the holidays.

Gu Weijing sat up slightly.

On the projection screen, what appeared was his Batman illustration for Thomas.

"Hey, have you watched the video of [Mr. Hyperion]? That judge's sister is awesome." Someone bumped Gu Weijing's shoulder.

Kou Kou still has that cool look.

Her seat was pushed far away from the desk, the back of the chair leaned back against the back wall of the classroom, her body leaned back, proudly showing two straight long legs that had practiced dancing under the skirt of her school uniform.

The ankles wrapped in white stockings were put together, attracting many boys to secretly look sideways.

Especially the group of Jerry's younger brothers.

Apart from the smooth thighs of the campus cheerleader, their eyes were also on Gu Weijing who was beside her.

Ever since Kou Kou opened the chair next to Gu Weijing and sat there before the class started, they couldn't figure it out.

The bumpkin on this campus.

The family is poor, and he is not very handsome.

In the eyes of his classmates, Gu Weijing's only advantage was his ability to study well.

As a result, Mrs. Sakai didn't even enter the genius class this time, so I had to come to the big class with them.

Logically speaking, such a person belongs to the little transparency that anyone can step on.

Why do you always attract the attention of pretty girls in school?

"It's very beautiful and very impressive." Gu Weijing nodded in agreement.

"Hehe, you guys are all like this." Kou Kou showed a sneer of successful fishing law enforcement, "It's a serious art video, a big sister who lives in Africa and sells illustrations for ten dollars online, treats art by herself With her pious heart, she defeated famous illustrators worth thousands of times her worth to win the championship."

"Such a moving story, but the most impressive focus of your attention turned out to be the long and beautiful judges."

Kou Kou twitched the tip of her nose, and commented in a contemptuous tone: "Vulgar."

Gu Weijing twitched his face, speechless.

Sure enough, he couldn't figure out what was going on in Kou Kou's mind.

"Quiet, my class is not for discussing YouTube celebrities."

The sketch professor suppressed the increasingly divergent discussions in the art classroom with the violent sound of knocking on the table: "Seeing this illustration, what can you think of?"

"The details are beautiful, and the muscle lines are drawn accurately." Some students said.

"Yes, very beautiful? It's not very beautiful, it's because he [beep-] is too beautiful."

Professor Vatel looked at the enlarged version of the photo taken from the video on the projector, and rarely used swearing at the beginning of F that did not meet the teacher's norms in class.

"Let's look at the intersection of the two lines here. This is a photo magnified more than ten times under the high-definition camera in the video. Look here..."

The old man circled a circle on the curtain screen with an electronic pen, and zoomed in on that position.

Then he turned on the slide projector on the other side, and put a piece of plastic-wrapped sketch paper on the viewfinder frame of the projector.

"The upper right corner of the screen is the work of Miao Angwen, who got an A+ in Dulwich's sketch class last year. Among the Dulwich students, he is already a person with outstanding sketch talent. Let us compare the same. Note, the slide The magnification of the film projector is currently only half of this picture."

Many students gasped.

At this time, they have been able to clearly capture the gap in the "details" that the professor said.

Even at such a large magnification, the pencil line details of Detective Cat's Batman illustration are still very clean.

Each converging contour curve ends abruptly at the point of intersection without any burrs or distortions.

However, even if the magnification of Dulwich students' excellent works is only half that of the former, the gap in details after magnification is already very obvious.

The strokes of the other sketch were enlarged, twisted like a messy ball of wool split by a kitchen knife, and all kinds of pencil lines that had not been processed were messy and dirty.

The difference is clear at a glance.

"No matter what rumors you read on the Internet, I think Detective Cat deserves to win this challenge."

Vettel stared at the photo on the projector: "In your portfolio, the details of the sketch pen can reach one-third of the former's level. Even if the creativity of the portfolio is a piece of shit, as long as the teacher of the admissions office My brain is not broken, and I will definitely not lack the opportunity to go to a prestigious school, and I am responsible for this conclusion."

When the old gentleman first saw this video in the popular recommendation column of Youtube, he was simply shocked.

This level is not inferior to the works of famous artists in some art galleries.

You have to be a famous sketcher. Some great painters who are not good at lines may not have this level of sketching.

After all, he was a professional art professor who taught sketching, but he was killed by an online artist so quickly that he didn't know where he went.

Professor Vettel is a little skeptical about life.

He also understood the accusations made by the judge Miss Elena on this painting.

Such a fine piece of work is poorly preserved.

Assuming that Vettel was a judge, he couldn't accept it either.

"Teacher, how should we exercise and test our ability to grasp the details of the pen?" Kou Kou stared at the illustration on the projector with great interest, and asked, "Is there any secret recipe?"

"Good question, I can't talk about the secret recipe, but there are still ways to strengthen training and test your ability to arrange cables."

"Student, come up here."

Professor Vatel casually ordered a boy sitting in the front row of the classroom to go to the podium and put a sketch paper under the projector.

This sketch paper is different from ordinary sketch paper, with a row of small grids of moderate size neatly arranged on it.

"You come to adjust the tone in the marked space. Arrange the lines with parallel short straight lines, and require one stroke to the end. There should be no blank spaces, and no line segment burrs beyond the grid."

Professor Vatel ordered: "You have five minutes."

The boy took the sketch pencil from the old gentleman's hand, and didn't think there was anything too difficult.

Upgrading can also be simply understood as coloring with a pencil.

Everyone is a professional art student, just using pencils of various hardness, adding up to [-] if not [-].

The coloring of this small square without any shadow change is really not a difficult requirement.

He thought there was plenty of time.

however,
Boys know that they are too young after the first stroke on the grid under the projection.

The size of the squares is obviously carefully designed.

It's not too big, but it's slightly beyond the range of motion of the upper-grip pen-holding method with the palm rest on the table and the wrist as the center of rotation.

He had to hang his wrist off the paper to gain more flexibility, which reduced the stability of the pen.

At the same time, the frame of graph paper is extremely thin, only about one millimeter thick.

When adjusting the tone of daily sketches, whether it is thick paint or flat paint, it is more about pursuing an overall picture feeling.

There are no special requirements for the accuracy of the cables. In rough places, each cable is one centimeter long and half a centimeter short.

Coloring the small squares was not difficult at first.

However, it is very difficult to achieve a single stroke without any blank space or any part beyond the boundary.

With the boy's first swipe, it went beyond the frame.

The second stroke stopped some distance away from the border of the grid.

The relaxed look on his face disappeared immediately, and he frowned.

Unfortunately, the proficiency of using a pen does not change according to human will.

Because he was too nervous and didn't grasp the strength well, the boy's third stroke broke in the middle of the line.

He raised his head in embarrassment and glanced at Mr. Vatel.

"It's okay, you continue."

Teacher Vatel waved his hand, as if he had expected the student's embarrassment for a long time.

"This is a small tradition that I am improving my class. Every year, I invite a random student to give a presentation. I have been teaching at Dulwich for so many years, and there are only four students who can complete it within the specified time of 5 minutes. These four people Among them, the worst one was also admitted to the No.90 No. 4 Academy of Fine Arts in the world that year. As for the one that can be completed in less than [-] minutes..."

Teacher Vatel glanced at the students in the class and pouted.

"So far, none."

(End of this chapter)