Almighty painter

Chapter 238 Sketch Copying
Take the elder route.

Whether it's the art world or the sports world, the circle of agents has long since summed up a set of common rules.

In the face of potential stocks who become famous at a young age, visiting their families more often and gaining the favor of their elders is a very effective way to get twice the result with half the effort.

They became famous too early and made too much money.

The eldest brother, father, and grandfather in the family often act as economic consultants, life planners, and lawyers in a certain sense in their later lives, influencing many of their decisions.

Because I am not a professional, these decisions may not be correct in general.

But if you have to be a little stupid, professional hunter agents have more room to operate!

The life trajectories of sports superstars such as Schmeichel Jr., Hamilton, Mbappé, and Harry Kane have repeatedly proved this point.

"Mr. Gu, you want to draw."

Seeing that Gu Weijing took a set of paints and canvases, Hanks walked towards the small studio in Gu's Book Gallery.

The agent's eyes lit up.

Gu Weiguo didn't have much time to paint at home in the past week.

Hanks wants to see Gu Weijing's level of painting with his own eyes, but he hasn't found a suitable opportunity yet.

The agent artist is an important asset of the gallery,

Originally, before Hanks signed a contract with an amateur painter, according to the process, he needed to spend some time to observe the working status of the artist when he was painting with his own hand, to see if there would be any unexpected problems.

It's the same as football players needing a physical examination before transferring to a club.

however.

Ma Shi III directly made a phone call and issued a death order to sign Gu Weijing, so these inspections were omitted.

Maybe today is a good opportunity.

To fully evaluate the grinding ability of an animal, it is not impossible to just look at the amount of flour it pulls out.

But if you don't watch it put on the rope and run around the mill twice.

Hanks always felt that something was missing in his heart, very unreliable.

"I'll get it, I'll get it, you want to draw, and I can just be there to help Mr. Gu."

Hanks ran over to take what Gu Weijing was holding.

He pretended to want to help, and prepared to sneak into the studio with Gu Weijing.

"Mr. Ma Shi, let the young man paint and let him paint? There is nothing to help, so don't go in."

Gu Tongxiang coughed lightly twice.

Even if Mr. Gu Tongxiang is flattered and flattered every day, he is still never sloppy when it comes to his grandson.

In the study and studio of great ancient painters, apart from his own disciples, even the sons and concubines of concubines were not allowed to come near them.

If you sneak in without permission, you have to hit the board according to the clan rules.

There are a lot of smart people who will steal from teachers and learn from them by taking the opportunity of serving tea and water!
On this issue, Gu Tongxiang prefers to be a villain on the bright side.

Still the same sentence, the art field steals your painting methods, steals your creativity, and plagiarism, from the art awards in the primary school class to the top of the pyramid at the level of Picasso and Monet.

None of which could be called news at all.

"I'll just take a look. Would it be possible for me to leak Mr. Gu's painting ideas in advance? He's from our Mashi Gallery!"

Hanks looked resentful.

The young manager looked at Gu Tongxiang with the eyes of "I'm very good", scolding his mother in his heart.

He took so much trouble to lick this old guy, he chatted in the store during the day, and helped sell the goods in the gallery store when customers came to his door.

In the evening, I practice Chinese on Duolingo (Note: a commonly used language learning software), and I also apply for an online one-on-one Chinese teacher to practice oral English for an hour every day in my free time.

Just to make Gu Tongxiang beautiful.

Only the two idioms of "flowers bloom and wealth" and "both form and spirit" are used.

Hanks practiced so much last night that he almost gave his tongue a bald skin, and he licked it with such professional dedication, this old thing still guards against him like a thief!
"It's not official yet."

Mr. Gu pretended not to see the resentful look on Hanks' face, turned his head and said slowly.

"Forget it, Grandpa, if Mr. Hanks wants to come in and take a look, just come in and take a look."

Instead, Gu Weijing stood at the stairs, stopped, and said to the manager, "Go in."

No need to hide it.

He understood his grandfather's caution.

When a painter is painting in a public studio outside, he really needs to be smarter to protect himself from being copied by someone, and it is still unclear.

Brokers and painters are a community of interests.

A few months later, it is certain that I will officially become the agent painter of Ma Shi Gallery.

It's no point guarding against Hanks now.

Showing your painting skills in front of Ma Shi Gallery will also strengthen the gallery's confidence in yourself.

Except for those exposure opportunities agreed in the contract in black and white.

Will the gallery be willing to devote more resources to push you, give you the choice of saving costs or not, and whether they are willing to spend more money and be more attentive.

After all, it still comes down to the confidence of the galleries in their represented artists.

In addition,

Gu Weijing is not planning to draw his own fusion painting today.

"okay!"

Hanks immediately felt that young people who have not been beaten into old fritters by society are cute and conscientious.

Without waiting for Gu Tongxiang to express his opinion, he walked into the studio quickly.

Gu Weijing waved casually to his grandfather, signaling his reassurance, and walked in.

"I'll stretch the canvas for you."

Hanks wasn't kidding.

His main purpose is to appreciate Gu Weijing's on-site painting skills, but when he said he would do it, he really did it.

Hanks unfolded and took the canvas from Gu Weijing's hands, wrapped the four corners of the canvas quickly and fixed, and then used wide stretching pliers to flatten and fix the four sides one by one.

After a few brushes, a canvas is stretched.

Neat!
Gu Weijing looked at Hanks in surprise.

The golden retriever agent looks like the type who talks and laughs with big collectors every day while holding a champagne glass, and he is really skilled in stretching the canvas.

Stretching the canvas is both a technical job and a manual job.

It has to be stretched tightly and neatly, and it can't be deformed.

The secret is to use enough force, but not forcefully, to fix the cross evenly at the four corners.

Art students who are slightly thinner often sweat profusely when stretching the canvas.

Gu Weijing poked the canvas in front of him.

Sometimes after he stretches himself, he can't achieve the state where the warp and latitude of the linen canvas are perfectly parallel to the four frames of the easel like Hanks.

"After graduating from university, I worked as a junior assistant in the painting studio of a painter represented by Ma Shi Gallery. I stretched the canvas for half a year. This technique is superb, tight and elastic. There will be no problems at all. .”

Hanks smiled triumphantly when he saw Gu Weijing's surprised eyes.

gallery tradition,

These gallery employees from the Marsh family often worked as assistants to major painters for a period of time before becoming full-time brokers.

It can not only cultivate contacts, but also allow you to have a closer understanding of the artist's work and creation status.

With this experience, the agent can "think what the painter thinks, think what the painter thinks" in his future career.

This is a practical theory that no matter how many art criticism courses you take in college, you can't learn it.

In the gallery industry, there is a revolving door between brokers and professional personal assistants.

For example, Lao Yang.

He hoped that he could finish his job as Mr. Cao's assistant, and with this springboard, he would directly become a top agent with an annual income of one million in the future.

"In addition to stretching the canvas, I know how to paint it. If you need it, you can let me do it next time." Hanks showed his advantages.

The canvases that Gu Weijing uses are semi-finished acrylic canvases.

The surface is machine-coated with acrylic when it leaves the factory.

Many bigwigs think that acrylic industrial paint lacks "aura", is rigid and does not have the luster of oil painting in the sun.

So semi-finished raw linen is used and coated with chalk and lithopone by hand.

Some painters who pursue antiques also use Tempera or natural rubber made from native animal bones.

Playing is a high force style.

Great artists are the center of the art field, and some have power and financial resources to be willful.

It's too troublesome to want a good effect, so it's not a problem at all to hire a few assistants to stretch the canvas and paint for yourself.

"awesome."

Gu Weijing enviously imagines the life of a high-end artist who will take care of the canvas and paint for you as soon as he opens his eyes.

It's so sweet that you hire two physical therapists to massage your shoulders while you're painting.

Grandpa and his painters from poor families used to use even a single canvas repeatedly.

This is the class gap.

"What is this? You haven't seen the truly self-willed place of artists..."

Hanks is funny.

The little local painters I don't know are really cute.

This is where to go.

The person who wanted to travel around the world in a hot air balloon suddenly lost his mind, crying and shouting that he wanted the gallery to find a team for him. The scriptures, went to the Indian Ocean to fish for the treasures of shipwrecks in the ancient Arab world.

Just think about the "wonderful ideas" of those giant babies.

Hanks felt like he was going to have a heart attack.

If the weird thoughts in the minds of great artists are limited to hiring a few assistants to stretch the picture frame for him and painting white powder for him, these are high-quality and cheap hobbies.

The big gallery owners can wake up with a smile when they dream at night.

"Even if you need it now, I can help you find an assistant? With an annual salary of about [-] U.S. dollars, you can hire a professional assistant who can help you with daily chores, food, clothing, housing, transportation, and painting. Ma Shi Gallery can temporarily Help you pay your salary, and then deduct it from the sales of artworks."

Hanks asked casually.

Gu Weijing shook his head.

He is not yet so extravagant that he spends [-] US dollars a year just to let others serve him to paint and book air tickets and hotels for himself.

Gu Weijing also has his own assistant.

Uncle Alai's hand is missing a little finger knuckle, and it is very likely that he will not be able to do such a delicate job as stretching the canvas for him.

Usually very safe.

If you don't eat or drink his food, you won't be able to spend five hundred dollars a month, which is really cost-effective.

Hanks just said it casually, and he didn't care if Gu Weijing refused.

His current attention has been completely attracted by Gu Weijing's movements.

"Don't you draw pictures for the exhibition?"

"No, I want to study this Impressionist oil painting again today."

Gu Weijing turned on the fill light on the wall and adjusted the color temperature, so that the original oil painting of Ms. Carroll on the wall looked close to the state of the sun slanting in the early morning sunlight.

Gu Weijing had already sent a text message to his grandfather before returning home.

Ask him to take out "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm Day" from the safe, and hang it in a suitable position with the mirror wire on the wall.

Gu Weijing did not go to the Lucky Orphanage today because he hoped to copy an original painting by Carroll again after his sketching skills have been promoted to the second level of professionalism.

The progress of sketching is not only able to draw delicate polylines in small squares.
When copying paintings, there are also many benefits.

Copying the master's work is to move the brushwork of the predecessor artist to his own canvas, move the line shape of the predecessor artist to his own canvas, and finally move the soul of the predecessor artist to his own canvas.

Accurate sketch modeling skills are like a calm lake.

It can accurately shape the lines of the master's works and perfectly reflect them in the hearts of the copyists.

"Want to copy?"

"Correct."

"Copying is also very good. Your previous copying painting looks great."

"Thank you."

"You picked up this oil painting from a painting and calligraphy stall with almost no money?"

"Calligraphy and painting public offering, $2500."

"That means you didn't spend any money. This vision is amazing. I heard that Ms. Sakai is still co-writing a paper with you. It's just..."

"Mr. Hanks—"

Gu Weijing took out a carbon strip, ready to replace the sketch pencil to draw on the canvas.

But he really couldn't stand Hanks asking this and that by his side like a curious baby.

So Gu Weijing stopped what he was doing and looked at Hanks: "I don't really want to be rude. It's just that I'm used to concentrating when drawing, so please keep quiet, okay?"

When Gu Weijing paints, he likes to be quiet.

Absolute silence is not necessarily required.

The key is to separate people.

Ms. Sakai Katsuko chatted occasionally, analyzing and analyzing the colors on the canvas, and exchanged a tacit look with each other.

Gu Weijing felt very warm, it was a kind of positive emotional support.

If it was Hanks, even though the blond brother kept praising himself, Gu Weijing still felt a little noisy.

"My fault, be quiet, understand, be quiet."

Hanks wasn't angry either.

He pinched his thumb and index finger and pulled them over his lips, smiling and making a gesture of zipping his lips.

The painter is the absolute monarch before the canvas.

Some painters like to listen to the painting of the symphony, and some painters like to listen to the students' advocacy and flatter in front of the students in the studio. The more they paint, the better they are.

There are also some painters who like to be quiet like Gu Weijing.

Hanks thought that young painters of this age would like others to lick him.

He didn't mind Gu Weijing telling him to shut up.

As long as the painter is fast, it is his right to paint however he wants.

If one day Gu Weijing's paintings can be sold for the price of Uncle Sakai.

Even if he asked himself to dance pole dance and sing the opera "Turandot" beside him while painting.Hanks is also willing to go all out without hesitation.

Gu Weijing, who finally had his ears calmed down, began to make a draft with a pencil on the sketch canvas.

"sand……"

Gu Weijing drew several sets of intersecting lines on the linen canvas straight and lightly with a charcoal pen.

Intersecting lines criss-cross in space, cutting out different vertical, horizontal and oblique spaces on the canvas, and finally meet in the depth of the picture.

Following Gu Weijing's careful drawing of various vertical and complicated scaffolding-like lines on the linen canvas.

The two-dimensional linen canvas immediately becomes three-dimensional.

Hanks looked at Gu Weijing's sketch paper and opened his eyes slightly.

"Are you locating the vanishing point and the horizon line? Do you need such a complicated sketch to copy an oil painting?" He couldn't help asking.

Vanishing point and eye level are both sketching terms.

The vanishing point refers to the intersection point where the extension lines of each point of the three-dimensional figure extend toward disappearance, and the eye level line is a line that divides the visual field up and down when the painter observes the scene.

Western paintings are more realistic and similar to traditional Eastern Xia paintings because there is a complete set of human eye imaging principles based on physical optics behind the sketches.

When drawing buildings,
Whether it is single-point perspective, two-point perspective, or multi-point perspective, it is necessary to position and draw the vanishing point and the horizon line.

Locating the focus of imaging is not uncommon.

What is strange is that when Gu Weijing was dealing with a copy of a painting, the line draft of the sketch was also typed too carefully and meticulously!

Unless it's a complex portrait of a character.

Isn't this kind of pencil and charcoal draft just a rough drawing of two rough positioning lines and outline drafts, and then you can start drawing directly?
"Is it really necessary to make it so complicated? This is just an impressionist painting."

"It can bring me better pen positioning and spatial structure."

Gu Weijing explained casually.

Hanks actually knew the answer to this question in his heart.

Of course it is necessary.

Even when drawing oil paintings, people often only make a few rough sketches, but a good sketch drawing can bring a lot of information to the creator in the subsequent painting steps.

Don't look at the Impressionists who tend to pay more attention to light and shadow, and don't put too much effort into realism.

But a real sketch master can mark and plan the light and shadow contrast changes of the entire picture in the process of drawing a sketch.

Wait until it's time to switch to a soft pen.I am completely confident in my heart.

No matter how scattered the color dots on the canvas, no matter how rapidly the light and shadow changes in the painting, the whole picture will not appear messy and disorderly.

As it should be, it will definitely not be easy to achieve this level.

If the drawing is not good, the more messy the various sketch lines on the final draft will cut the picture, the more annoying it will be after drawing.

It's like putting together a Lego toy. There is also a Death Star-themed model, one with [-] parts and one with [-] parts.

In the eyes of experts, the more parts and the more complex the structure, the more delicate the final effect will be.

Ordinary people looked at such a large pile of broken parts, and immediately vomited blood and returned the goods, and they didn't even have the courage to fight.

Forcibly fighting is also one piece less for a while, and one piece more for a while, and you end up in a hurry.

Such a detailed sketch is even rarer in copying.

Copying often only needs to grasp the general outline relationship, but what Gu Weijing did is more like completely dismantling the painting in front of him and creating it from scratch.

Hanks glanced at Gu Weijing.

Is the other party really confident in his sketches, or is he just trying to show off in front of him?
Don't overdo it.

Gu Weijing glanced at Hanks and reminded again: "Please be quiet."

"There won't be a next time."

Hanks patted his mouth and stared seriously at the canvas in front of the young man.

Regardless of whether Gu Weijing's next painting is good or bad, he has already been aroused by the other party's curiosity.

Gu Weijing continued to focus on the canvas.

This is also the first time he has typed such a complicated draft.

Because of the lack of sketch modeling ability and trying to speed up the progress.

When Gu Weijing first copied the old church, he liked to use a projector to directly scale the picture of "The Old Church in a Thunderstorm" to a suitable size and project it onto a blank canvas.

Then slowly according to the picture, he traced a few simple curves of the old church in Carroll's pen, as the positioning of the pen when painting.

Just painting like this is only a temporary shortcut, not a long-term solution.

After copying several works of Ms. Carroll, and gradually getting familiar with the structure of "The Old Church", Gu Weijing threw away the "crutch" of the projector, and began to try to manually depict the relationship between Ms. Carroll's pen and case.

In the past, when Gu Weijing was copying, the sketch shape would only be sketched out before formally using oil paint brushes.

He will not pursue how exquisite the painting is.

With the improvement of sketching skills, Gu Weijing changed his mind.

Gu Weijing found that thunderstorm and candlelight, which are very particular about oil painting brushwork and pigment blending, have now made a lot of progress.

Only the main building still has many imperfect and uncoordinated places.

Sketching should help him improve on that.

Architecture and sketching have been intertwined with each other since their birth.

Today, with the development and convenience of CFD and various electronic graphic modeling software, sketching is still a compulsory course for most architectural majors.

Students who are admitted to universities in ordinary cultural classes also need to learn sketching.

If you find that you don't have the talent for art, you can't draw well no matter what. In the past, many universities were forced to change their majors.

Pushing forward to the 21st century,
Skills such as sketching and drawing are necessary professional skills for architects and cartographers, just like eating and drinking.

An architect who can't draw is like a soldier who can't shoot, not an architect at all.

The graphics born of all outstanding buildings are sketches drawn one by one on paper.

There is a medieval saying that the gravity of the earth and the lines of a charcoal pencil are the father and mother of castles, palaces and churches.

The artist's modeling ability supports the soul of line in the core of architectural drawings.

"Sketch technique: Lv.7 master level one."

The evaluation of calligraphy and painting appraisal on the accuracy of Ms. Carroll's pen and ink, whether it is oil painting or sketching, is at the level of a master.

The brush of oil painting allows her to capture the chaotic bright thunderclouds and the ethereal candlelight that seems to be woven with colored silk.

The sketch pen defines the architectural structure and grasps the contrast of the overall light and dark atmosphere of the picture.

Gu Weijing raised his head and stared at the picture frame on the wall.

From the oil painting in front of him, he can imagine the delicate draft hidden under the paint.

He imagined Miss Carroll, a female painter with golden-red hair, drawing the circular dome of the church little by little with misty, layered pencil lines, weaving this fresh shape. The red-walled buildings appear on the canvas.

Gu Weijing's own hands also started to move.

(End of this chapter)