Almighty painter

Chapter 134 Art Exhibition Composition
With a little force, Gu Weijing wiped out another dozen small grids with a pencil.

Kou Kou glanced at the podium, seeing that the teacher was not in the classroom, she relaxed completely.

She turned her head sideways, resting her right wrist under her cheek, lazily swiping her phone, and glanced at the progress of her homework paper from time to time.

This kind of close-up and generous viewing, even though she has become numb to Gu Weijing's speed, still has a completely different feeling.

"To be honest... Your proficiency in sketching techniques and pens is far better than most of your classmates."

Kou Kou narrowed her eyes and couldn't help but said, "I think your coloring speed is about the same as when the teacher demonstrated on the podium just now."

"Strictly speaking, it's still close."

Gu Weijing twirled the pencil and began to deal with the last blank space on the sketch paper.

Mr. Vatel is a senior art professor at Dulwich College. Looking at the whole of Yangon, he belongs to the category with the best sketch skills.

After Gu Weijing started school, he once used [Painting and Calligraphy Appraisal Technique] to glance at the teachers' works in the school exhibition column.

Professor Vatel's sketch level system panel can reach the first professional level, and the experience value is about 4500.

It is already quite close to the level of the second-tier professional.

Purely from a numerical point of view, Gu Weijing still has something to lack.

"Professor Vettel's previous display should not be the limit of his speed, and he was standing and bending over to draw under the projector, which will also affect the force of the pen."

Gu Weijing thought for a while, and explained: "It will take a while for me to catch up to Mr. Vatel's level."

"In a few days... this kind of understatement is like saying to go to the school gate to have a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Mr. Vatel graduated from a prestigious European Academy of Fine Arts! Student Gu speaks so loudly."

Kou Kou raised her eyebrows in disdain: "Sure enough, I'm not satisfied with killing our classmates in seconds, hehe, I'm ready to challenge the teacher now."

Gu Weijing didn't want to explain anything to the little girl.

He put his head down and continued to concentrate on finishing the last small square of the tone.

Gu Weijing noticed,

Compared with the initial practice, the speed of gaining experience points has begun to drop slightly.

If you do this kind of practice at the beginning, you can achieve a speed of gaining experience points that is almost similar to when you activate Menzel's skills.

After these thirty grids of practice, his rate of gaining experience points is only about 80.00% to 90.00% of the initial speed.

It's not a bad thing,
It's just because Gu Weijing has the background of a professional painter, and he can quickly make up for the lack of details in his brushwork.

It is reckoned that after another month or so of practice, he should be able to control the length of the lines completely as he likes.

By the time,
Under the influence of marginal effects, the speed at which this kind of practice gains experience points may degenerate to the point where it is almost the same as the normal sketching method.

Think about it too,

If such a simple practice can maintain such an efficient improvement without fading, Professor Vatel, who invented this method, will not just be able to be a high school teacher in a small place like Yangon.

He had thought the conversation was over.

In the next second, Kou Kou suddenly waved his fist: "But, I still believe in Mr. Gu's ability to take a courtesy car to Bistrot 1836 to enjoy a luxurious dinner. Come on, come on."

Gu Weijing looked up suspiciously: "How do you know?"

"Didn't someone say that it was a coincidence to run into a Bentley? It's also a coincidence to go to a high-end Italian restaurant to book a meal?" Kou Kou didn't answer, curling her lips and accusing: "Liar."

"You follow me?"

Gu Weijing frowned unhappily, this little eighth woman must be too curious.

"That's not true, don't be angry."

Kou Kou smiled and pushed the phone over: "It's not a loss for me to do my homework, although the biscuits are not delicious. But this information is worth the fare!"

"Your little girlfriend went to have a candlelight dinner with another man behind your back. Don't blame me for not reminding you. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to bear it."

Kou Kou blinked her big eyes to report the news.

Gu Weijing took the phone and found that it was a Douyin TikTok international account called [Mona's Painting Cottage] (Mona's Painting Cottage).

Of course he knew the account.

Gu Weijing is still the administrator of its live broadcast room.

The TIKTOK account was created by Gu Weijing and Mona together. It originated from the homework of the elective course "Internet Art Marketing" in school.

Nowadays, with the development of online media, art workers have long given up the tradition of staying in the studio and painting on their own.

Before the turn of the millennium, high-end professional painters in Europe and the United States basically had their own official accounts, personal websites, BBS homepages and so on.

Now there are more YouTube channels, Douyin live broadcasts and many other contents.

Uncle Sakai and Ms. Katsuko’s studio photo wall on INS, as well as Mr. Sloth’s podcast salon, all belong to this category.

Dulwich College opened relevant elective courses early.

When they were in the 11th grade, Mona judged that art and self-media marketing would be promising in the future, so she dragged Gu Weijing to enroll in this elective course.

The teacher asked each study group to choose one of YouTube, Douyin, or Twitch (a foreign live broadcast platform) and create a self-media account.

The end-of-term results are verified based on the number of viewers.

Thanks to Mona's beauty, their account had more than 1 followers at the end of the semester, and one video had more than 15 views.

Was the only study group to get an A+ in that class.

After the semester ended, the two of them have been operating this account until today.

During the Spring Festival this year, the number of fans on the account just exceeded 7000. For middle school students, it is very good, and occasionally I can receive some local orders for Qiafan.

This made his cousin Gu Lin, who also likes to make short videos and dreams of becoming a video celebrity, very jealous.

Gu Weijing discovered that Mona had updated a new video last Friday night.

Strange, why didn't I receive relevant reminders?

He took out his mobile phone, opened TIKTOK, and found that not only did he not receive a reminder of the new video, but in his few follow lists, their TIKTOK accounts that had been pinned to the top also disappeared.

Gu Weijing manually searched for the account name "Mona's Painting Cottage", but could not find the corresponding information at all.

If it is not a software problem.

Then there was only one answer left... He was blocked directly after Mona removed the administrator privileges.

That's why he couldn't find any relevant information.

Gu Weijing was silent for a moment, then he picked up Kou Kou's cell phone.

He first clicked on Tiktok's work column and swipe down briefly.

They mainly do art sharing columns on this account, and occasionally post some daily life of art students, and there is also a five-episode series of videos for beginners to get started with crayon painting.

Different from Mr. Sloth's high-end podcast, Gu Weijing and Mona's videos are less in-depth, and the audience is not professional. In fact, most of them come to watch beautiful ladies.

Gu Weijing is often only responsible for the planning, recording and editing of videos, and he has only appeared in a few videos.

even so.

Mona also seems to have made up her mind to erase all traces of Gu Weijing in her life.

In the few episodes of Douyin, the videos with Gu Weijing related content have been taken off the shelves.

The personalized signature on the homepage of the original account - "Mona and her good friend Gu Weijing share interesting art life with you."

It was also changed to - "New life, new beginning, my new artistic journey."

Gu Weijing opened the new video released by Mona last Friday.

After only a few seconds, he understood why Kou Kou beside him knew that he had gone to a high-end Italian restaurant in the embassy district for dinner on Friday.

I didn't expect such a coincidence,

When I was discussing the details of the contract with the accountant brother from Schönbrunn Palace on the second floor, Mona was also dining downstairs.

She took a short video to record the dishes of this Italian restaurant, which was selected as a Michelin two-star restaurant.

At the beginning of the video, the shot specifically swept over a row of official cars with the logos of embassies from various countries outside the restaurant, and finally landed on the blue Bentley he was riding in, giving a close-up of more than ten seconds.

"Hello, my friends..."

Mona explained to the audience who were watching the video that Bistrot1836 is the most famous restaurant in Yangon, known for providing the most authentic Italian dishes.

This restaurant is often visited by diplomats from various countries, international stars or rich people. Today, an unknown Bigwig (bigwig tycoon) took over the entire second floor.

She pointed suggestively at the luxury car outside the door that symbolized wealth and status, pursed her lips, and said with a little flamboyance that she came here for dinner with her friends today.

The handsome face of Jerry Sunshine appeared in the camera.

Gu Weijing clicked on the comment.

"Wow! A pound of steak costs 300 knives, which is a robbery! Sure enough, those who study art are rich people."

"Rich woman, rich woman, please take care of me!"

"It's quite difficult to book a seat for this restaurant. Although it's not a three-star Michelin star, the several Southeast Asian shop-exploring travel bloggers I follow with millions of fans haven't booked a seat at Bistrot 1836."

"Where's the little brother who worked with you before? I saw that all the content about him seems to have been deleted. Are you in conflict?" ——This comment mentioning Gu Weijing was personally replied by the UP master yesterday .

Mona's reply was also very succinct: "It's not a contradiction, it's just inappropriate, so everyone stay safe."

The following are responses to various chats.

"Wow! Sister, congratulations, I've been following you for three years. I've always felt that he's not good enough for you. The girl deserves better, and now the handsome guy next to me looks much better." A message from an old female viewer road.

"The relationship between the two of them was just ordinary classmates..."

"I don't care, I declare that the young lady's smile is in charge of me!"

Gu Weijing turned off the phone screen.

"It's so unfeeling, people look down on you."

Kou Kou licked the corner of her mouth playfully, and fanned the ghostly wind to light the will-o'-the-wisp.

Gu Weijing didn't speak.

He is in a strange mood now.

Gu Weijing felt that he had no position to criticize Mona's behavior. Does he like Mona?
You should like it, right?
If it wasn't for Miss Mona's deliberate indifference, they might have been together long ago.

But to put it bluntly, from the beginning to the end, they were just good friends on the surface.

I even have some ambiguity with Miss Sakai.

What qualifications does such a person have to accuse other girls of being unfeeling?
Gu Weimang rationally thinks that he shouldn't be so uncomfortable, but he really doesn't feel well right now.

Subconsciously, he wanted to ask about Mona's account, opened the chat software, and saw the message reminder, and realized that they were no longer social friends.

Gu Weijing switched to a text message and entered Mona's cell phone number.

"I saw the account, Mona, are we still friends?" Gu Weijing hesitated for a long time facing the chat box, and only edited this line.

After a few minutes, the phone vibrated.

"I checked yesterday. The total cumulative income of TikTok in the past three years is about 570 million kyats. Thank you Gu Weijing for your help. Send me a card number. You can return all the money if you want."

"In the future, you don't need to worry about this account. Everyone's life path is different, so don't get entangled with each other, so we can get together and get apart." Mona replied.

……

Gu Weijing came to the Lucky Orphanage in the afternoon.

Although his mood was a little low, there were still many things to do, such as preparing for the upcoming art exhibition.

Even though Ronghe Painting is still difficult for him to control now, it doesn't mean that there is nothing to do now.

The submission date for the Lion City Biennale is less than five months away.

Drawing large paintings is time consuming.

In addition to the effort consumed by painting itself, there are also early composition and creativity.

Compared with writing, it takes more energy to conceive inspiration.

Even for simple landscape paintings, Impressionist master Monet once stood on a French street for half a year to paint a certain church, observing the various changes of the church’s bell tower under the sun every day.

Often do not eat or drink, try to figure out the nuances of color, one stop is a day.

In the end, he was almost sent to a mental hospital by his friends who thought he was crazy.

Gu Weijing is preparing to create a figure painting for the Lion City Art Exhibition with the Lucky Orphanage as the background.

Compared with the scenery, the characters are more likely to reflect the painter's emotions.

The fusion painting "Good Luck Orphanage in the Sun" that he tried for the first time before was such an attempt.

The reason why the picture is bad is due to Gu Weijing's ability, and there is nothing wrong with the conception.

After studying the painting repeatedly, Gu Weijing judged that in addition to the technique of fusion painting, the emotions of the characters also need to be polished.

The painting method is brilliant, and the whole painting must reach the emotional level of "feeling something in the heart", so that it can win some awards at the International Art Biennale where there are so many masters.

And the emotions of the characters... unless he only planned to include Jasmine as a small model in the picture.

Otherwise, based on Gu's understanding of other people in the orphanage, it is difficult to reach the point of empathy.

He needs to find more models.

Fortunately,

There is never a shortage of such interesting objects in the orphanage.

(End of this chapter)