Almighty painter

Chapter 163 Mission Completion
Anatomically speaking,
Human pupils can shrink or dilate 6-7 times in tens of milliseconds when the mood changes drastically in a short period of time, such as ecstasy, excitement, and sadness.

This is the organ most closely related to the mood in the physiological structure of the human body, and it is not transferred by human subjective will.

Even those masters of micro-expression management who have received professional anti-interrogation training and can control the subtle facial muscles so as to achieve the state of "thunderbolt in the chest, but the face is as flat as a lake".

The changes in their pupils can still clearly reflect the ups and downs of their inner emotions.

The eyes are the windows of the soul,

The Western painting school has always paid great attention to people's eyes.

The eyes that can express the state of mind of the characters, the mirror that can express the overlapping and complex space structure, and the lights and candles that can express the color, light and shadow.

These three points are repeatedly emphasized by the teacher in the oil painting class, and they are the difficulties and points that need to be paid attention to when copying the works of famous masters.

The oriental school of painting is even more descriptive of the eyes of the characters, which has reached the point of being morbidly demanding.

Draw people and draw eyes, make the finishing point.

Zhang Yanyuan, a famous official from the Tang Dynasty to the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, once mentioned in his book "On Painting Six Laws" which commented on the merits and demerits of famous painters in the past dynasties-"There is a law for painting, and there is a spirit for seeing the eyes. "This point of view.

I think that in traditional Chinese painting, if the audience can see the aura and spirit in the eyes of the characters, then the painting has rules.

Trying to figure out the different eyes of the models and restoring them on paper with a brush is an eternal pursuit pursued by oriental painters in all dynasties.

oriental works of art,

This feature can be clearly seen in various schools of Chinese painting, Gandhara Buddhist art influenced by the Eastern Xia cultural circle, Central Asian art styles, and even some Greek murals and sculptures.

Gu Weijing has read relevant art theory books and consulted Professor Lin Tao on this issue.

Professor Lin Tao thinks.

Whether it is the early Gandhara Buddhist art or the figure paintings made by the kings and generals in Dongxia, they all pay great attention to the solemnity and majesty of the figures.

The painter wants the viewer to be in awe and not dare to profane.

In order to express solemnity, these painting schools are used to planarizing and flattening portraits and even sculptures.

Whether it is a Buddha statue with divinity, or the portraits of emperors and famous officials in the courts of the Qing Dynasty that we often see, almost all of them are majestic sitting upright faces, which is the reason.

Unofficial History of the Qing Palace,

The Italian Castiglione once presented a Western-style portrait oil painting of Emperor Kangxi, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

He focuses on spatial perspective, and his paintings are "lifelike, with every detail of eyebrows, eyes and facial features", in order to curry favor with the ruler of the eastern land.

As a result, Emperor Kangxi was furious,
I think the sitting posture of the characters in the picture is vain, the light and shade are unclear, bold and majestic, tangible and godless, extremely vulgar!Order the destruction of this painting that discredits the holy face.

Only then did Mr. Lang accept his fate, and changed his career to study new body painting.

Characters in traditional Chinese paintings often do not have rich changes in facial features, nor are they used to use large areas of shadows or perspective to express a real sense of space like Western-style oil paintings.

This will test the artist's level even more.
If it is too solemn, it will appear dull and lose popularity.

Therefore, the spirit, agility and elegant demeanor of all characters require the painter to use superb skills to point them out on a pair of eyes.

Observe the heart from the eyes, and then observe the people.

This is what the oriental painters call the "mind image" that focuses on meaning rather than form.

Gu Weijing understands the principles, but he has always been between a vague understanding and a non-comprehension of how to paint.

It's like learning physics formulas but not solving problems.

What kind of eyes should be drawn, the eyes that can reveal the inner emotions?

It's impossible for him to scan the model's pupils on the paper bit by bit like an electronic scanner.

Professor Lin Tao told him helplessly that the master led the door, and the practice was up to the individual.

The truth has been taught to him, and the rest can only be understood by Gu Weijing himself.

If it is a painting master like Mr. Cao Xuan,

Naturally, relying on the accumulation of nearly a hundred years of painting and the changes of the years in the heart, and the breath of the misty rain in the world, you can point out the shocking eyes of the viewers in the murals out of thin air.

Cao Lao is not far from a hundred years old.

A century of tempering is enough for an art master to reach the point where his skills are close to Taoism. Even if he draws casually, his eyebrows and eyes are still vivid.

But for a child like Gu Weijing,
Whether it is skills or life experience, it is too young.

Forget about finishing touches.

Even if it is a human painting, it is too far away to forcibly draw a portrait of a blank doll, point out the temperament that seems to come alive, and forcefully endow it with a soul.

Want to draw truly moving eyes,
Well, at least he needs to find a suitable model.

Professor Lin Tao said that it depends on the opportunity.

When Gu Weijing really found that pair of eyes that contained rich emotional changes, he would understand without the teacher's teaching.

Good models are hard to find.
Drawing, especially painting realistic subjects, is just like a photojournalist who wants to win an award in a news competition. Outstanding works are the mutual achievements of excellent creators and excellent models.

Not only do you have to bother to find it, but you also have to try your luck.

Such things as art models,

If the painter's requirement is only appearance, then it is too simple.

Tall, short, fat and thin, beautiful long, ugly long, and oddly shaped.

As long as you have money, no matter how weird the demand is, your agent or gallery can find it for you easily, no matter how beautiful it is.

At a price of $[-], it is easy to find a Victoria's Secret supermodel without clothes.

If you happen to be an internationally renowned painter.

Sorry, there are countless modeling agents who will contact you without spending any money.

Maybe my big sister will take the initiative to directly set your drawing as the Twitter homepage and pin it to the top of the social platform.

On the elegant and forceful contempt chain,

In modern society, the only ones in the West who can wrestle with great painters are some hall-level classical symphony musicians and members of the royal family.

After Prince Harry and Meghan and his wife started to take the B-route of Netflix dog blood ethics dramas, even the royal family may be a little weaker.

My old lady, I have a thin waist and a slim buttocks, so I can make a nude model for a great painter, what a face!

It is much more stylish than expecting to become famous in a TV series or to shoot a set of cover advertisements for light and luxurious clothes. People's painters are willing to paint you, and they really look down on you.

But if your demand is: "The model's soul has a sense of hierarchy, and there are rich emotions in the eyes", this kind of mysterious rhetoric.

Then your agent will vomit blood.

Can it be found, and whether the model can really express the emotional feeling that meets the painter's requirements after finding it——

Ha ha,

This is a state of finding a needle in a haystack and resigning oneself to fate.

Even when Gu Weijing painted portraits of Jasmine and Bu Dao, the two children, he didn't feel any strange feeling when painting eyes.

Jasmine's eyes are certainly very beautiful,

It's just a child, happiness is happiness, and grievance is grievance.

Their hearts are still childish, very clean and refreshing, like a transparent spring.

Impressive, but lacking in depth.

Especially Bu Dao who is younger,

Gu Weijing can often only feel it in his eyes - wanting to eat, want to play, want to hold high... This very simple emotion.

At this time, seeing Uncle Alai's eyes gave Gu Weijing a very surprised feeling.

Like a dark blue to black ultramarine pigment ore thrown into the pool,

Slowly, slowly, layers of hazy cyan color overflowed from it, rendering the surrounding environment into a melancholy cyan color.

"This is the rich eyes!"

Like a monk knocking a big brass bell in his mind, Gu Weijing instantly understood what Professor Lin Tao told him, what is meant by layered and rich eyes.

Obviously, Uncle Alai's expression is no different from the past.

Nor did the eyes show any nervousness of cynical hatred for unfair fate.

His eyes are so calm, so empty,
But there is a layer of light sadness and sadness, overflowing, and the moment I look at him, it seems that I have seen Uncle Alai's past 30 years.

I used to be beautiful, thinking that I could change my destiny, and it was this city and the future master of this country.

I drove the car assigned to senior military officers through the streets of the downtown area, and all the faces in the mirror were people's envy and reverence.

I hit rock bottom too, lost my faith, lost my honor, lost everything, and got my legs broken like a wretch.

In the end, I didn't even have a single object of hatred left, only let me recognize this filthy world.

Therefore,
I don't want to get rich, I don't want to be a master anymore, I just want to live a good life as a volunteer in an orphanage, and be a clean and good person.

Uncle Alai stopped talking,

But the moment I met his eyes, people couldn't help but want to cry.

Gu Weijing realized it all at once.

He grabbed the pen and began to write quickly. The skin of the fingers holding the drawing pen was slightly white due to too much force.

Gu Weijing didn't even dare to take a deep breath, for fear that this precious insight would slip away from his mind before he recorded the gaze on paper.

Uncle Alai turned his head sideways, looking at the drawing paper in the middle school student's hands, recalling the past half his life, and his thoughts were full of thoughts.

Unlike the semi-literate soldiers of many warlords in Myanmar,
Alai's cultural accomplishment is very high. If he can be admitted to the best national military academy in Myanmar, his academic qualifications have already surpassed 90.00% of the people in this land.

Moreover, Uncle Alai also spent a long time in Tel Aviv.

This city in Israel, which has been shrouded in the shadow of war for a long time, is not only the place with the highest degree of militarization of the people, but also the place with the strongest artistic environment.

Tel Aviv is one of the centers of modern art in the world. It has a wide range of art galleries and art and creative parks. The walls of the military base dormitories are covered with various graffiti and spray paintings.Uncle Alai even learned two sketches from an Argentine non-commissioned officer in the same dormitory when he was on vacation.

So, he knows how to draw.

Uncle Alai saw that Gu Weijing's almost finished works on the paper did not look like sketches, nor did they look like the peddlers he had seen on the street selling pen drawings to tourists.

The lines are much more concise and precise, and each curve of the pen is like a skeleton, supporting the work from the paper.

The moment the gatekeeper saw Gu Weijing's drawing paper, he felt as if he saw himself in the mirror.

Some are high-spirited, and some are depressed.

The two emotions that should have been in conflict are subtly blended together, like ice wrapping fire, and fire burning in ice.A large number of rich emotions are like water stored in a sponge. When the audience and the painting look at each other, they are wrung out from the paper and rushed into the hearts of the audience.

The self on the screen seems to be laughing and crying again, joyful at first glance, sad at closer inspection, and lonely after careful consideration.

Uncle Allais has heard that Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is very emotionally layered.

Some people can see joy, some viewers can see sadness.

Countless musicians and writers have created many works of art based on the look and feel of this famous painting.

Uncle Alai has never been to France, so he naturally has no chance to look at this famous painting with countless legends in the Louvre to distinguish the real from the fake.

However, the janitor really found such a feeling in the pen of this middle school student who doesn't even look like an adult.

It seems that my whole life has been condensed and printed on this small sketch paper.

He stretched out his hand to touch the surface of the sketch paper, but withdrew his hand like an electric shock, not daring to disturb Gu Weijing's drawing.

[Title of the work: "Alai, the Caretaker of the Lucky Orphanage"]

[Sketch Technique: Lv.4 Professional Painter First Level (2307/5000)]

[Chinese Painting Technique: Lv.4 Professional Painter First Level (1056/5000)]

【Emotions: I feel something in my heart (satisfaction)】

Gu Weijing put down his pen,

After the cover illustration of The Little Prince, Gu Weijing once again reached the pinnacle of the current painting mood.

"It's another kind of consummation at the level of feeling."

Gu Weijing looked at the pair of meaningful eyes drawn on his sketch paper, feeling a little regretful.

The feeling of his painting is very good, and he thought it could reach the evaluation of "painstaking painstaking effort".

It seems that the system's evaluation standard for the emotional level of a painting is higher than he imagined.

I am still too young and lack sufficient understanding of life.

The story of Uncle Alai was heard by myself, and it was more of the thrill of watching a surprising story, but Li [Painful and Hard Work] still lacked the last bit of shock that could penetrate the soul.

Fortunately,

As soon as Gu Weijing finished this line sketch, he heard a reminder that the task was completed in his mind.

[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: (100/100)]

【Feeling in my heart (20/20)】

[The first stage of the serial mission——Hai Na Bai Chuan (1/3) has been completed! 】

A notification of a new message appears on the system panel.

[Current task reward: knowledge card - "Summary of the Essence of New Body Painting" Lang Shining, ready to receive! 】

(End of this chapter)