Almighty painter

Chapter 149 What is painstaking effort
"Just throw a handful of bait at your leisure."

The godfather of the underworld didn't take it seriously: "It's the best if you win, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't work."

Bald nod,

Before he turned around and left, he still couldn't help asking: "Is there really no need for my subordinates to tie him up? It won't hurt him either. Golden Triangle drug lords like to use heroin injections to control their informants, and it's guaranteed to be better than a dog after getting it on." You are obedient. You don’t even blink when you kill your relatives. Brother Hao, you don’t like this method, but a middle school student doesn’t need to be drugged. If he starves him for two or three days, he will definitely be honest.”

"It means you still don't understand."

The smile on Brother Hao's face was full of meaning.

Holding a handful of fish food, he slowly stretched his hand into the ornamental tank, and slowly opened his palm while shaking it.

"This is still the idea of ​​raising ordinary carp. What an artist wants is this precious spirit. If you give him medicine, this person will be useless. If you don't give him food, he will be hungry if he is hungry. This spirit The spirit may be gone.”

"If you want to hold this koi in your hand, you can't use a hook, let alone use a speargun or harpoon roughly. If it's knocked, hurt, or touched, it's worthless."

"You have to use the bait slowly, be patient, and be willing to pay. Only then can you hold Mr. Gu's beard and tail obediently in your hands."

Brother Hao slowly squeezed the three-color koi that was eating bait firmly in his hand.

wow...

The carp came out of the water and flicked its tail frantically, but couldn't move.

"Don't worry, he can't escape."

The middle-aged man smiled.

……

[One day, can I fly freely like a bird? 】

[Is it a moment, sunrise and sunset? 】

[Or within a week, a hundred weeks, a thousand weeks? 】

[Or a round of spring and autumn, after the sea has dried up and the rocks have died? 】

【…】

Gu Weijing lightly sketched with the tip of a pen a little boy wearing a golden scarf sitting on the beach looking at the stars.

From the computer stereo next to him, there was the ethereal music accompanied by a tambourine.

For some reason,
Mr. Sloth recently seemed to hope that Gu Weijing could speed up his painting progress, and added more than half an hour to his reading time every day.

The volume of "The Little Prince" is not thick.

The selected key paragraphs have been read to the end.

Today, Mr. Sloth has changed the way he connects.

He didn't read certain passages to himself as he used to.

Instead, he played the theme song "Equation" for Gu Weijing, the theme song of the French cartoon "The Little Prince" with the highest rating in the animation category of IMDB in 2015.

"The protagonist of a fairy tale is the sum of all the characters in the story. I think, sometimes, the singing voice may be more penetrating than the voluminous text. Ms. Detective Cat, do you see the shadow of the little prince in your heart? ?”

On the other end of the computer, Anna paused the music playing.

She has always liked the theme song of this cartoon, it is ethereal and full of fairy tale feeling,
Among all the music adapted from "The Little Prince", Anna actually loves the soundtrack of the 2002 version of the French stage musical the most, followed by this song.

Musicals have a more quaint soundtrack.

When she was a little girl, she was taken by her aunt to watch the live version of this stage musical in the VIP box of the Opera Garnier in Paris.

Today, there is still a collection of vinyl records produced by Sony for this musical in the study.

but,

That stage play was too long.

Illustrations should be concise, easy to understand, and eye-catching, which coincides with the essence of popular pop music.

Even if the plot of the cartoon is compared with Saint-Exupéry's original work, there are many elements of the director's subjective adaptation, the lyrics themselves still fit the artistic temperament of "The Little Prince".

So Anna thought for a long time, and still chose the song "Equation" for Sister Detective Cat.

Anna's cell phone ringtone is this song.

If it weren't for the fact that her original voice was not suitable to appear at this time, she would even prefer to sing this song for Ms. Detective Cat herself.

Gu Weijing glanced at the sketch in his pen and nodded in satisfaction.

"Well, I think I've captured the fairy-tale image of all the characters in The Little Prince. I should be able to paint that cover art."

cover art,
The requirements of the Scholastic Group are not complicated, and are similar to the angles selected by most of the publication covers or movie posters of "The Little Prince".

"The background is the desert, and the protagonist, the little prince, is looking up at the stars." ——It was written in the document instructions in the contract.

The little prince looking at the stars in the desert can be said to be the most classic public impression of the character of the little prince.

Regardless of the cover, the request for drafting is very simple.
Mr. Sloth asked him to put this painting at the end of the task.

It is necessary to have a deep concept of all the characters, and only when you have a certainty of confidence can you start writing.

The cover art is the most critical piece of book publishing illustration, which is equivalent to the face of a beautiful model or the trailer of a commercial movie.

Whether the illustration can attract the audience mostly depends on a cover.

The cover is messed up, and even if the inside is painted as a flower, you can't get it back.

For this cover painting alone, the publisher's quotation was as high as [-] US dollars, which accounted for almost one-fifth of the total remuneration of the contract.

"Very good, I believe in your ability, can you give me this cover illustration before this weekend?" Mr. Sloth asked.

"Actually, it should be fine today. Are you in a hurry?" Gu Weijing heard that there seemed to be some other meaning in the other party's tone.

The project team of the publishing house "The Little Prince" has repeatedly urged Anna.

Illustration takes no time.

At Wehrlein Studio, the cover illustration was handed over to the group on Monday.

The entire printing project cycle is already very rushed, and they also urged Detective Cat to hurry up here.

Anna did not tell Detective Cat the news.

She didn't even mention the fact that "Wehrlein Illustration Studio will participate in the competition" and her agent artist.

As long as Detective Cat plays normally, she sees no possibility of losing.

Anna believes that a qualified agent should withstand the pressure by himself at such a time, and don't let such crap affect the artist's creative state.

"It's okay, you can follow your own pace, draw with peace of mind, and leave the rest to me." Anna replied lightly.

After Gu Weijing hung up the Internet phone, he stared at the line sketch of the protagonist, the little prince, which he had just completed in his hand, and thought quietly for a few minutes.

He was not in a hurry to write immediately.

Gu Weijing is already familiar with the whole painting process based on the illustrations of fairy tale characters in the early stage.

Mr. Sloth reads books for himself, he draws line sketches of characters, and then turns these pen drawings into paintings on canvas with splashes of ink.

Just follow this pipelined operation.

Gu Weijing will soon be able to harvest an exquisite knife painting of the [feeling from the heart] level.

However, after drawing so many knife illustrations, Gu Weijing is not satisfied with this level of work.

In his mind, Cao Lao used a brush to paint the finishing touch again, and on an ordinary wall, he painted the mysterious effect of Bodhisattva opening his eyes and all ghosts receding.

This kind of master's handwriting does not need the help of any calligraphy and painting appraisal technique at all.

Any bystander who saw that scene can clearly feel the shocking visual impact.

There are even monks in cassocks who meditate on the spot and become enlightened.

This is the painting skill of a master. What is great is not only the skill, but also the thought and emotion.

Gu Weijing believes that he has the blessing of legendary knife painting, and his skill level is no longer an obstacle to expressing such moving effects.

His shortcoming is emotion.

To make the picture have enough emotional impact, it is not enough to just [feel from the heart] based on empathy.

Gu Weijing needs a more touching emotional rating.

He opened the virtual panel and looked at the next stage [Devotion] on the pointer of the mood gauge.

painstakingly...

After all, what is painstaking effort?
Gu Weijing came to the studio, put aside the sketch of the little prince, and prepared the drawing board as usual.

Only this time, he didn't start painting right away, but stood silently facing the blank canvas for a long time.

think,
keep thinking,
Gu Weijing stared at the line drawing of the little prince, hesitated for a moment, then took out the sketches of the king, the sketch of the rose, the sketch of the fox, and then the drunkard, the bread tree, the astronomer...

Taking the little prince as the center, he put aside all the line drafts he had accumulated these days one by one.

The characters in these illustrations either look majestic, naive, or shy and sensitive.

The works are lined up and surrounded by the little prince.The characters on each sketch paper seem to be talking to the little prince.

fairy tale protagonist,
It is always the character with the richest plot, the deepest theme and the most difficult to grasp in fairy tales.

A book is so magical that seven or eight points will be concentrated on the protagonist.

"The protagonist of a fairy tale is the sum of all the characters in the plot."

Gu Weijing repeatedly pondered the words Mr. Sloth told himself in his mind, and gradually a new creative inspiration emerged.

Gu Weijing slowly picked up the oil painting knife.

He wanted to change the way of painting to portray this little prince who likes to wander around the stars.

think about it,
The little boy was wandering alone in the vast universe, and met strange strangers one after another among the miniature stars that were no more than the size of a cottage house.

The king who wants to make the little prince a minister, the sensitive and arrogant rose who secretly likes him, the little fox who wants to be domesticated...

They each have their own eccentricities, and each has their own loneliness.

Everyone's meeting and parting with the little prince left their own projection on him.

When the little boy sat in the desert looking at the stars, what was in his heart?

The hometown of the asteroid code-named B162?Or among those shining stars, those friends of his?
Gu Weijing used an oil painting knife to draw out the black sky on the paper, and then used the side edge of the knife to point out the stars in the sky with bright paint, followed by the sea of ​​sand in the distant view.

The desert is like gold powder, and the stars are as bright as silver.

The little prince sat sideways on a sand dune, looking up at the universe, the bright silver starlight sprinkled from the sky, leaving a long and drawn projection on the sand sea.

Gu Weijing recalled his previous feelings when he painted the residents who lived on the stars in the sky.On the one hand, the shadow of the little prince under the starlight is laid out repeatedly with layers of extremely thin and fine paint pressed by a painting knife.

When he used to draw the characters in the "Little Prince" series of illustrations, he would only focus on the single emotion of the characters.

Or lonely, or sensitive, or confused...

These emotions are Gu Weijing's empathy for a certain mental state of the characters, and they are also the cornerstone for the expressiveness of the screen to enable the audience to have a sense of communication.

Like a cup of sour or sweet drink.

But a real living character will never have only a certain kind of pure happiness or sadness, an emotion that can be summed up in a single word.

Everyone's mood all the time is made up of many kinds of compound emotions.

Just like a cup of tea, the bitterness, astringency, and sweetness of herbs... all kinds of aftertaste are twisted into a fragrance.

The Buddha said that ordinary people have the five aggregates and seven emotions, such as joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and shock.

Psychology believes that feelings are actually a complex state like an onion, peeling off one layer, and another layer.

Gu Weijing tried to integrate the impressions of all past characters into the silhouette of the little prince,

like in a fairy tale,
The projections left by these figures on the little boy.

then,

The painting really seemed to come to life.

As Gu Weijing painted, on the virtual panel that he didn't pay attention to, the emotional pointer began to rise quietly, from the area pointing to the [feeling in the heart], it slowly rose again.

The little prince on the sand dunes was born with "anger".

In the picture, the person sitting on the beach is still the little boy looking up at the starry sky.

But the little prince seems to have become more agile, as if he has an illusion that he will turn his head and talk to you at any time.

People often use lifelike to describe the superb skills of painters.

Reality is not animation, and painters are not magicians. Of course, the works created cannot really come alive.

however,
The work feels alive, as if it has a soul that can come alive at any time, but it really exists.

Art textbooks tell you that the "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre, no matter from any angle, the lady with arms folded on her chest seems to be looking at tourists.

The special visual effects of "Mona Lisa" also constitute a part of the legend of Da Vinci.

sensory illusions caused by paintings or sculptures,

It is also a classic bridge in the East and West, ancient and modern urban fantasy stories.

The characters in the oil paintings talk to you, the sculptures in the opera house sing at midnight, and the spirits of wild fox ghosts in Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio" live in the portraits on the wall.

Of course, this is all due to the rich emotions that the creators have given to the works.

Rigorous modern science interprets these situations as visual aberrations caused by the painter's delicate compositional proportions.

All kinds of auditory hallucinations and fantasies are caused by the subtle chemical effect between the audience's inner emotions and the painter's emotions, which makes people's heart skip a beat, and they mistake the artwork for a living thing.

This is also the reason why some patients with mental illness, paranoia, autism, or those who have just lost their love can enjoy viewing art exhibitions more.

Their emotions are more turbulent, and they are more easily touched by the life of the artwork.

Right now,

There was a burst of vitality sprouting on the canvas in front of Gu Weijing like a sapling.

(End of this chapter)