Almighty painter

Chapter 240 New Intermediate Treasure Chest
in the studio,
Gu Weijing repeatedly confirmed that the lightness of the paint on the canvas after his trimming finally did not make him dissatisfied.

So I continued to follow the established order of copying, from deep to shallow to describe the perspective, subject and close-up of the painting "Old Church".

Either color dots or ribbons.

The strokes of Impressionist works are generally characterized by ups and downs, short and thin strokes, and bright colors.

There are suitable different painting methods for expressing brushstrokes in different light conditions.

Gu Weijing used a slanted brush mixed with titanium white and lemon yellow to express the color and texture changes of the main building.

This is to shape the hard majesty of the church wall and reflect the subtle weathering after being eroded by time.

When depicting the roof of the building, he mixed a slight touch of phthalo blue.

Phthalocyanine blue can change part of the roof from dark red to magenta, and the mysterious feeling of reflecting the cold light of thunderclouds in the sky on the curved dome of the church is handled just right.

"The technique of sketching is indeed the foundation of Western art."

Gu Weijing nodded slightly.

His idea of ​​mixing these paints now is the same as the reason why he just used an oil paint knife to paint the originally dark sky more loosely and become more breathing.

It's all about intuition.

The painter's sense sounds mysterious and unreliable, but it is actually the artist's sixth sense formed by the accumulated experience after thousands of practice sessions.

very useful.

After improving his sketching skills, Gu Weijing's precise control of light and dark details allows him to be more imaginative when copying, and repair the shortcomings of the past.

Gu Weijing has copied the painting "Old Church in a Thunderstorm" countless times.

The macroscopic structure of the whole picture can be said to be familiar to him in his mind.

Now he only needs to strengthen these details to a deeper level, and he can easily obtain a painting with wanton brushwork and amazing details.

“[Currently copying the painting - "The Old Church in Thunderstorm" has been completed!]"

"[Similarity of copying this time: 61.2%, you have obtained an intermediate treasure chest from the system.]"

Following Gu Weijing's oil brush, he finally added a little thunderstorm water vapor on the surface of the linen as the finishing touch for copying.

A timely system prompt came from the virtual panel.

"I got another intermediate treasure chest."

For this point, Gu Weijing thinks it is reasonable.

He focused more on the evaluation of "61.2%" copying similarity.

On that thunderstorm night, when he and Shengzi copied Shi's works together, the similarity reached over 59%.It seems that Gu Wei got a [-]% increase after spending so much money.

It's actually a completely different concept.

Impressionism is a school of painting that pursues the creation of real scenes in the wild.

That night, I imitated the meteorological conditions and the scenes in "The Old Church" created by Ms. Carroll were extremely restored.

It is difficult for Gu Weijing to reproduce such good external conditions when he usually creates.

Without the help of the weather, in the past few weeks of copying, he has only been rewarded with an intermediate treasure chest once, and the rest are all elementary treasure chests.

The works on the easel in front of Gu Weijing are completely copied in the small studio at home behind closed doors.

It doesn't just mean that he has broken the 60% mark for the first time.

It also means that with Gu Weijing's current painting techniques, he can draw very stable imitation paintings that have more than half of the brilliance of Carroll's brushwork without relying on the assistance of an external ring mirror.

While the frequency of obtaining mid-level treasure chests has increased, he has also moved one step closer to the ultimate reward of this task.

"[Ray Noah - fragments of ghosts in various forms in the world.]"

Gu Weijing glanced at it greedily, the highest reward that the system can give for this Impressionist limited task.

He still doesn't know what the "ghost fragment" is.

Sakai Katsuko once said in a chat - in her heart, when an art student goes forward courageously on the road of the senior masters, she reaches the end.

When you create again at that time, it is like the old masters in the grave passing through the dust and smoke of history, attaching to you and writing for you.

To achieve the effect of resurrection in a sense.

Gu Weijing didn't know if the system rewards were similar to the words in Shengzi's mouth.

Anyway, it looks great!
He still remembered that when he got the legendary Hundred Art Tree, the words [Henry Rousseau's "Childish" Ghost Fragment] appeared on the page of the lottery.

The so-called ghost fragment should be a legendary item of the same level as Baiyishu.

Henry Rousseau is not the famous pioneer of enlightenment, the Rousseau lying in the French Pantheon.

Just the same name.

Although he was also an important painter in the [-]th century, he should be ranked near the top ten among the great post-impressionist painters.

However, regardless of the strength of the painting method and the status of the art, they are completely incomparable with the masters who established the school like Leano.

So compare.

Theoretically, this reward on the system panel should be even better.

With a secret expectation for the future in his heart, Gu Weijing casually opened the intermediate treasure chest at hand.

"I hope to open another blessing candle."

In the previous intermediate treasure chest, he opened about [-] oil painting experience points.

Compared with the 50-300 points of experience value range that is often opened by primary treasure chests, it is much more, and it is several thousand dollars in conversion.

But in any case it is not as useful as a small candle.

This kind of small candle that can increase inspiration, after all, it is always better to have as many as possible.

Gu Weijing is not sure when it will be used.

It is a pity that the system panel is not Gu Weijing's voice-activated game after all.

The middle-level treasure chest is opened.

Not experience points, nor is it a one-time ability to bless the small candle.

Three silver poker-like cards floated in front of Gu Weijing.

[Choose one of the three knowledge cards as a reward for this intermediate treasure chest. 】

[Reward [-]: "Architectural Drawings of Palazzo Guell and Detailed Explanation of Decorative Art in the [-]th Century" - Antoni Gaudí]

[Reward [-]: Interpretation of Muscular Strength and Posture in the Famous Painting "The Wrestler"——Thomas Eakins]

[Reward [-]: "Pet Mind Reading - Twelve Tips to Find out if Your Cat and Dog Are Happy" - Louis Piquet]

Intermediate treasure chests are different.

Compared with the low-level treasure chest, the knowledge cards opened in front of me are much more conscientious.

It's no longer the system randomly giving him a strange card of unpopular knowledge that he doesn't know what will come in handy.Instead, Gu Weijing was given three choices for him to choose according to his own needs.

Gu Weijing glanced at the three options.

These knowledge cards are actually quite useful.

It looks much more reliable than the "Purple and Blue Macaw Feather Specimen and Skeleton Anatomy Diagram" that he opened in the primary treasure chest before, which is much more reliable for painters.

On the road of art, they can bring Gu Weijing a lot of help.

It is clear,
There are two options of Reward [-] and Reward [-], respectively corresponding to the two main common categories of architectural painting and figure painting in the painting theme.

Antoni Gaudí is like Da Vinci in the history of architectural art.

He is both an architect and a sketch painter, a representative figure in the Art Nouveau movement.

The name of the master is signed on the design drawings of any building, which is almost equivalent to a world cultural heritage-level place of interest.

The Palazzo Guell in Spain, throughout the nineteenth century, also became famous for its rich decorative details and innovative designs such as mosaic tiles with clever curves.

If you choose this reward.

In the future, if he wants to create architectural paintings with the Palace of Guell as the main body of the palace, he must be extremely realistic and accurate.

If you want to paint other famous buildings designed and created by Gaudí, such as the Sagrada Familia and Mira Apartment, there are countless art students squatting outside every year to paint and sketch.

Reward two is not bad.

Generally speaking, whether they are engaged in art or literature, Europeans basically naturally look down on their relatives in the United States.

This implicit discrimination persisted in cultural circles from the Revolutionary War to the end of the twentieth century.

"Wrestlers" is an exception. It is one of the few native oil paintings in American history that have been sold.

Thomas Eakins is the father of American art, a figure that all North American students cannot avoid in studying art history.

His contribution to depicting the lines of the human body is no less than that of Mr. Berryman, but his creative direction is more inclined to express the subdivision of "muscle force during human body movement".

Whether it's UFC or WWE, Uncle Sam has always had a passion that people in other countries can't understand for the scenes of brawny shirtless scuffles.

"The Wrestler" almost brought the oil painter's delicate expression of human muscles to a new level.

The most inconspicuous thing is the reward three given by the system.

the first two options,

Gaudí and Ekins, the two master art students, are all familiar with it, and the value of knowledge cards is needless to say.

The third reward is to directly stupefy Gu Weijing.

"What is this?"

He took out his mobile phone to check, and found out that "Piquet" should be a tenured professor of veterinary medicine at the University of California.

This guy doesn't even have a wiki page.

On the contrary, the University of California, Davis, where he works, has ranked first in the QS professional rankings for the past three years in the Department of Veterinary Medicine.

That "Pet Mind Reading-Twelve Tips for Finding out if Your Cat and Dog Are Happy" sounded unseriously titled, like one of those crap books on Amazon for housewives to pass the time in their spare time.

The relevant introduction of the network said.

It's actually a pretty serious academic tome on pet behavior, and one of the required textbooks for veterinary medicine students at the University of California.

Gu Weijing also saw a student claiming to be from the University of California in a video public class taught by Professor Piquet on the Internet. This guy is like a pervert, and he gives them different pet expression pictures in every class , and even X-ray skeletal structure and anatomical diagrams, allowing students to submit short papers on the analysis of cat or dog behavior patterns in this courseware after class.

It was too much torture!

He couldn't even study his girlfriend's facial micro-expressions so painfully!
Based on this information, Gu Weijing understood that Professor Piquet was a top veteran expert in animal behavior in the field of veterinary medicine.

Veterinarians and painters are two completely unrelated professions.

It seems that Professor Piquet is no longer comparable to the previous two great artists.

That being the case.

Gu Weijing studied on his mobile phone for a while, and after he figured out what the contents of the three rewards were all about.

Without any hesitation at all, he chose...

Reward three.

joke!

The first two rewards are also very good, but compared with the first three rewards, they are not good at all.

This is a reward for showing him how to draw cats and dogs!

Any art student will never give up such an opportunity.

"The system still has such good things."

Just hearing that there are cats and dogs with the same anatomy and anatomy as Mr. Berryman's sketch card, is enough to surprise Gu Weijing.

No matter how complex the architecture and human body are, art students will have professional learning opportunities in the future.

Painters of dissecting corpses were not uncommon in the Middle Ages.

Studying the anatomy of dogs and cats...

Well, that's kind of hard to get accepted by the modern public.

Just kidding.

In today's public opinion environment in Western society, knowing that the artist bought cats, cats and dogs for dissection and research, the sentence is likely to be even harsher than secretly going to the forensic morgue to dissect the corpse for fun.

Of course, you don't have to dissect yourself to study cats and dogs.

It's just that art students usually have no channels to learn this aspect at all.

It is often used when drawing.

The animals that have been put on the surface of the canvas by painters in history and are most often used as models are undoubtedly human beings.

Followed by cats, dogs two pets.

For Eastern literati painters, being able to draw horses is also very important.

The remaining rhinos, gorillas, whales, tigers, camels, and sika deer are also painted, but the number of famous paintings added up is no more than a dog's hair.

The emotions given to animals by the artist in his brushstrokes are no less rich than those given to nature.

The history of pets being kept by people can be traced back at least 15000 years ago.

From the ancient Egyptian murals 7000 years ago, residents on both sides of the Nile River tried to engrave some simple patterns on the wall with sharp stone bricks, and the image of pets began to appear.

Painting cats and dogs runs through the entire history of human art.

There are often sky-high prices for cats and dogs in the auction house.

Artists are also often divided into two schools of dog school and cat school.

In the exquisite style of court painting represented by Rococo art, you can often see various breeds of hounds.

In modern times, fashion designers like Andy Warhol and even Chanel's Lafayette are all pure cat slaves.

Picasso belonged to the fence-sitting school that both cats and dogs loved and liked to paint.

In general, I draw more cats.

"Dora Maar and the Cat", "Jacqueline and the Cat Sitting on a Chair", "The Cat Eating Birds"...these world-famous paintings with an average transaction price of between US$5000 million and US$9500 million are all far away. Do not open the figure of the cat.

The French painter Balthus, whom Picasso admired the most, devoted himself to observing all kinds of stray cats. He painted for half his life, and countless famous paintings were bought by art museums at high prices.

Drawing pets is a big science.

Animals also have their own demeanor and expressions.

Even in many cases, humans can get more emotional comfort from pets such as cats and dogs than from their own kind.

Not just painting.

Bilibili, Douyin, and Youtube, which have millions of fans and tens of millions of views, are the manifestation of this popular psychology.

Gu Weijing's finger clicked on the surface of the reward three option card on the system panel.

The other two rewards disappeared immediately.

The third reward is the same as the knowledge cards obtained by Gu Weijing in the past, and it has been turned into a more detailed introduction panel.

[Item: "Pet Mind Reading - Twelve Tips to Find out if Your Cat and Dog Are Happy" - Louis Piquet]

[Quality: Knowledge Card]

[Special effect: After obtaining the knowledge card, you will understand the corresponding content clearly. 】

[Equipment requirements: none]

[Introduction: Bacon said that when you understand a person's heart and learn to think in the other's way, you can really use words to describe his outline on paper.

In the same way, only when painters really understand the expressions and moods of pets, can they accurately capture their spirits with brushes.

Experts in contemporary animal behavior have gradually grasped the key to interpreting their body information.It's better to be friends with a thinking pet than one who doesn't. 】

[Remarks: Art belongs to humans, and art belongs to cats, but in the final analysis, it belongs to cats—meow. 】

Gu Weijing felt a lot of information pouring into his mind like an electric current.

His head was tingling from being stuffed, and he subconsciously supported the wall beside him.

The amount of information contained in this knowledge card is considered to be very large among the knowledge cards he has obtained in the past.

The information that Gu Weijing obtained in the past is closely related to the field of painting, and he has been exposed to it since he was a child.

Otherwise, one or more anatomical drawings.

And this time the knowledge card, the system seems to have completely stuffed the academic achievements of a great professor for many years, a complete unfamiliar subject, into Gu Weijing's heart.

His mind was instantly filled with all kinds of knowledge about pets.

Arch your waist, bar your teeth, wag your tail, and lick your nose.

What the body gestures common to countless companion pets represent.And when they make these movements, the musculoskeletal muscles and bones of the whole body operate in the order of contraction and relaxation like a precise gear set, just like thousands of teaching slides with detailed notes, which are played sequentially from Gu Weijing's mind.

Balthus is known as the "cat painting expert" in art history and is sought after by collectors because the painter is used to sitting in front of the apartment building on the Seine River to observe various stray cats, and to describe the different states of cats when they are exercising and eating. Write it down in your handy sketchbook.

Balthus persisted in this habit for 40 years in his life.

He should be the one who knows the most about cats among all artists.

It's a pity that Balthus doesn't have a system, so he can't open it.

Gu Weijing is sure that Balthus's 40 years of observation and accumulation of cats are still no match for the effect of a knowledge card.

Those who draw cats are not as professional as zoologists who study cats.

In the knowledge card, the expression of pets is divided into different emotional expressions such as joy, anger, sorrow, hunting, defense, vigilance, and courtship. For each expression, the pupils are dilated to capture more visual information, and the tiny muscles in the hair follicles contract to make the hair stand on end. Wait for the corresponding physical state.

The wealth of knowledge and information he has acquired can almost serve as a professional psychologist for pets.

Gu Weijing took out his phone.

He clicked on the avatar on his Fiverr homepage.

Their family opened a calligraphy and painting shop, and it was not like a rich and famous artist who could separate the home environment from the studio, raise cats and dogs, and have someone to take care of them.

Grandpa Gu Tongxiang believes that keeping a pet is usually unsettling.

All kinds of random drills and all kinds of hair loss, if the cat is in heat and then claws at the unprotected paintings in the gallery, it will be a headache.

So keeping pets at home is prohibited.

In all fairness, Gu Weijing himself likes small animals.

When he signed up for an anonymous artist account, he picked up the name "Detective Cat" and his avatar was a female cat with a monocle.

Gu Weijing's understanding of cats is much higher than when he created the head portrait of the detective cat.

At this time, there is an encyclopedia of cats in my mind, including British shorthair cats, orange cats, raccoon cats, Ragdoll cats, sleeping cats, yawning cats, butterfly chasing cats, and lice-catching cats.

He looked at his Fiverr avatar, and immediately saw that the one he had drawn casually was a...

Hemiplegic, strange-looking mottled demented cat.

Gu Weijing shrank his neck.

Goosebumps all over his body stood up looking at it!

The color of the fur is wrong, there is no natural hair color and stripes, and it is still a small problem to grow like in my colored pencil sketch.

The key is that the proportion of the eyes is wrong, and the distance between the eyes and the tip of the nose is too wide.

The sphenoid bone is too long, the mandible is too narrow, and the vertical pupil of the cat under the bright sunlight should look like a dyed olive with a gradual change of color. The pupils of the cat in my painting are very strange, and the overall expression on the face is also very strange.

This painting is not a real cat, but Gu Weijing's collage based on the stereotypes of small animals in his mind at the time.

If the subject is human,

This painting is a crooked mouth with slanted eyes, no neck, a rounded chin, a protruding forehead, a huge nose from the upper lip, half of the face is straight, and the other half of the face shows a weird smile, which is exactly like Cthulugu It's so godlike, it makes people feel sick.

A lot of body proportions, cartoon animal illustrations or serious artworks with wrong muscle lines can also bring negative emotions to the audience.

Doodle portraits viewers feel that Shen Ren is disgusting and loses three values.

Doodling animal portraits often doesn't have such a big response, just because ordinary people are far less familiar with animals than people.

As long as you are familiar enough with animals, you can also see the uncanny valley effect if you look at wrong animal paintings.

Even if it doesn't feel bad.

The animal paintings in front of me are purely able to convey the abstract concept of "this thing is a cat".

In any case, the audience can't see the kind of cute and cute inner feeling that belongs to the fluffy and soft elves that makes you can't help but feel happy.

It lacks the "spirit" that belongs to true nature.

Gu Weijing couldn't take it anymore after watching it for a while.He was speechless, drawing a cat, he didn't think it was anything before, but now he thinks his avatar is too ugly.

He secretly made up his mind to change to a new profile picture in a few days.

(End of this chapter)