Almighty painter

Chapter 250 Needle Painting

Gu Weijing made a special trip home and put the mahogany photo frame sent to him by Mr. Chen on the bedside.

Putting the promise of a big collector in a place where you can see it every day when you open your eyes, and use it to motivate yourself to work hard, it will inevitably seem a bit tacky.

After all, no matter how indifferent Gu Weijing's temperament is, he will only be full, and he is not a fairy who can lightly favor or humiliate everything.

Mr. Cao Xuan said that painters need to nourish their hearts.

If you really want a fairy to paint, apart from being indifferent, you probably won't be able to create any emotionally moving paintings.

Today is double happiness,

"The Little Prince" will be released soon, and relying on his solid painting progress, he has attracted the love of business tycoons like Boss Chen.

There is a somewhat high-spirited feeling in his chest now.

So when Gu Weijing took care of all these things and arrived at the Lucky Orphanage, it was almost noon.

Little girl Jasmine is still sticking to her sister Sakai.

The reverse isn't bad either.

Sakai Katsuko listened to Gu Weijing's suggestion that she find a live model to get close to.

All she has to do is come to the orphanage.

Often it will revolve around the little girl Jasmine.

Sometimes Shengzi will patiently look at other children, and accompany the fat doll Budao to chat a few alien words, but obviously, Sakai Katsuko likes Jasmine more.

Deduct psychological bias.

No one can hate Jasmine.

She is the kind who is always obedient and clever, doesn't cry or make trouble, if you play with her, she will smile at you, if you don't play with her, she will go away quietly, so sensible that you can even stare at her. Guilty little girl.

It's only been a few days,

Katsuko Sakai is about to raise Jasmine as her own sister.

After arriving at the orphanage.

The time she spent with Jasmine was longer than the time she spent with her genuine boyfriend Gu Weijing.

"Hi!"

Just as Gu Weijing pushed open the door of their small studio, he saw two girls, one big and one young, laughing together side by side on the bean bag sofa in front of the window sill.

They were surrounded by crayons and whiteboards, and copious amounts of sketch paper were scattered on the floor like snowflakes.

Ms. Sakai should have just given Jasmine an art class in the morning, and now the two of them are resting. There are food boxes containing sushi and rice balls on the coffee table beside them, and a slice of dried lemon is gradually stretching in the water glass.

Each of the girls held a controller of an NS game console in their hands, staring at the screen of the small console next to them, giggling non-stop.

After becoming each other's lover,
Gu Weijing discovered many little habits in Sakai Katsuko's life that he didn't understand before.

Ms. Katsuko likes to use hazel-shaped brushes and cool-colored paints when creating, likes to drink a glass of lemonade with meals, and jumps [-] ropes every morning.

She's even a big fan of the fighting cartoon fighting game Super Smash Bros.!
When I learned that Sakai Katsuko is so classical that she doesn't use cosmetics, she is a little painter who is not very interested in anything other than painting.

Even playing a little game every day.

Gu Weijing suddenly felt that Ms. Shengzi was a bit cute in contrast.

In fact,
Katsuko Sakai has very nimble fingers and plays very well.

She is a top 1.7% player in the cartoon game "Star Smash Bros.", and is good at using the cat-eared Pokémon Fatty, known as the "glass cannon" in the game.

He and Miss Sakai played five games together during their breaks.

In the first three rounds, the abused cried father and mother, but in the next two rounds, they were evenly matched.

no way,
Who told Sakai Katsuko to be the kind of girl who was so gentle that she would let him play games with him.

Gu Weijing's self-esteem was once hurt when he found out that his girlfriend was secretly releasing water.

"Hi, are you here? I brought you some fresh sushi from the hotel...Wow, what's her name? Can I give her a hug."

In most cases, pets are a magic weapon to please girls when they are in a relationship.

With a cold personality like Miss Shengzi, she turned her head and saw Awang in Gu Weijing's arms, her eyes slightly bent.

Jasmine was already holding the hem of her clothes and jumping up.

She didn't care about the game console she was playing happily just now, and looked at the striped raccoon cat with her big black pearl-like eyes without blinking.

"Of course, be good."

Gu Weijing gently pinched Awang's spine twice, and handed the raccoon cat to Katsuko Sakai.

Sakai Katsuko put down the handle, and took Awang into her arms like a child.

Awang turned over in dissatisfaction, raised her paw and bared her teeth, trying to show that she was not just a random cat.

Unfortunately, it struggled and hesitantly glanced at Gu Weijing, and finally buried its head in Shengzi's undulating arms obediently as if accepting its fate.

"This cat is heavy."

Sakai Katsuko stared at Ngawang in his arms.

Professor Sakai has no special affection for pets.But Mrs. Sakai is a diehard cat lover. They have six cats of different breeds in their house in Japan, and they are taken care of by dedicated servants.

Shengzi carefully scratched the soft flesh on Awang's chin, which made the cat itch and couldn't help opening its mouth.

"She's eating a little too much solid food and has a mild stomatitis from damaged gums, which she'll be uncomfortable with."

Katsuko gently took a piece of soft and light salmon sushi from the food box, threw it into Maomao's mouth, and said with some distress.

"My girl, the nigiri sushi you just threw into its mouth has cost it a year's food expenses."

Gu Weijing shrugged.

He sat on the sofa and picked up all the manuscript papers that had been dropped when they were playing games just now.

There are some crayon drawings of Jasmine's youthful brushwork, and two pen sketches with a high degree of completion.

【Work Title: Jasmine (No.16)】

[Sketch technique: Lv.4 professional first level (4730/5000)]

【Emotion: A Simple Work】

"I have drawn 16 pieces."

Gu Weijing looked at the signature number on the corner of the sketch paper.

"A total of about 20 pictures were drawn. I was not satisfied with some of them, so I deleted them."

Sakai Katsuko is looking forward to Gu Weijing's comment.

"Look at my drawing?"

Gu Weijing shared with Ms. Sakai how Mr. Cao taught him how to practice sketching.

Shengzi made a practice plan for himself to draw a hundred sketches for Jasmine in 30 days. During the process of playing with Jasmine, whenever he felt something in his heart, he would start writing immediately.

On average, I draw three pen sketches every day.

"It's a really nice drawing."

Gu Weijing looked at the neat and rhythmic lines of the pen in his hand, and praised softly.

"That's because you, a teacher, teach well and don't flatter me. It still doesn't have the feeling of your work."

Sakai Katsuko handed Awang to the eager Jasmine, wiped his hands with a wet towel, and sat down next to Gu Weijing.

"Open your mouth, I'll feed you."

She took sushi from the food box, and while feeding her boyfriend, she said, "If you can tell me what's wrong, it will make me happier than complimenting me."

"No problem, no flattery. Just how I really feel. In fact, I think all you need is time."

Gu Weijing's evaluation comes from the heart.

Katsuko's sketching skills have improved compared to when they drew the Shwedagon Pagoda together, and they are already very close to breaking the bottleneck leading to Lv.5 in terms of numerical values.

of course.

In the system list, the difference between the two people is only a few hundred points in experience points.

After falling to the end of the pen, the two of them drew the same work again. It feels that the current Gu Weijing is obviously better.

或许Lv.4(4700/5000)和Lv.4(4999/5000)，画出来的素描观感很接近。

可Lv.4职业一阶(4999/5000)升到Lv.5职业二阶（1/10000）的差距不只是数值上的一两点。

More like an all-around sublimation.

The promotion of skill proficiency at each stage under the system division is a process of breaking through the bottleneck and entering a new level.

Otherwise, there would be no need for grading.

Normal painters will always encounter bottlenecks.

It may be because of insufficient talent, it may be due to insufficient hard work, and it may be more cruel just because of insufficient luck.They will be stuck on a certain skill level for a long time, and it is difficult to break through to the next level.

It's been a long time.

Traveling against the current, retreating if not advancing.

Even as famous as Renoir, 1900 was a dividing line in his career.

Before the [-]th century, Renoir liked to use bright and transparent colors to express the vibration of sunlight and air and the clear atmosphere.

At that time, he had a unique style and created almost all important works of his career.

After 1900, Renoir also encountered a creative bottleneck in his personal career, and was unable to make a breakthrough for a long time.

Later, the old man simply changed his career to painting nude female models.

There is still a view that Renoir's nude paintings in his later years are inferior to those in his youth, both emotionally and technically.

Although these works have also been hung in the Louvre, they are at best a second sensual Rubens, rather than the fresh impressionist Ray Noir.

We must know that Renoir in 1900 was still in the golden period of his career, and he did not have physical problems like Monet and Degas.

But still defeated by the bottleneck of painting.

It is incredible that the system can be silent, ignore the bottleneck between levels as if it does not exist, and directly upgrade Gu Weijing to the next level of painting.

"Your problem is that the painting is too good, the art theory is too solid, and the brush is too neat. I have nothing to teach you. If I have to say it, it is not 'scattered' enough. The picture is tense like a stick stretched to the longest There is no room for slack in the bowstring, and there is no room for emotion."

Gu Weijing gave the experience of those who have experienced it.

He flicked the sketch paper in front of him with his fingers, as if he wanted to loosen the lines that were neatly drawn on the screen like a ruler.

Genius is the crystallization of sweat and hard work.

I have to draw a lot of the same sketches every day, and Ms. Sakai is still very patient with each drawing.

The pen sketch of "Jasmine" is not complicated, but it also took a lot of thought.

Beyond the pen.

Whether it's focus changes, motion capture, composition structure... everything is fine.

Gu Weijing also had a little bit of proficiency in using a pen, and in many other aspects he was still inferior to Shengzi.

How long did it take Gu Weijing to get the virtual panel of the system.

Katsuko Sakai has received the best art education in the world since she was a child.

In terms of artistic theory, he is not qualified to pretend to be a wolf with a big tail in front of Miss Sakai.

On the other hand, however.

This kind of art education surrounded by famous teachers and the emphasis on "rule" brushwork have actually become an obstacle for Sakai Katsuko to integrate her own emotions into the picture.

Painting is Zhang Sanfeng practicing Tai Chi.

Sometimes it is necessary to forget the rules in order to be self-contained.

Be able to follow the rules when the rules should be followed, and dare to exceed the rules when the rules should be exceeded.

Forget the advice and routines of famous artists, and follow the inner guidance of the pen tip, so that you can truly fill the entire paper with your emotions and passions.

In the "Fu Lei Family Letter" written to his son, Fu Lei, a great literary critic of the last century in Dongxia, thought that——

This aura beyond the law is precisely the real advantage of Yeluzi painters over the disciples of famous schools of painting. Masters such as Van Gogh and Gauguin are the best in history.

if not.

If artists could be cultivated according to certain rules like craftsmen, great painters would have been monopolized by the training system of the Holy Court or royal painters.

It was not easy for Gu Weijing to paint the first work of the level of "feeling from the heart".

But in retrospect,

All he did was Molly dance all afternoon.

Sakai Katsuko has not broken through for so long, largely because her foundation is more solid and thicker, and the effort required to fight against the shackles in her chest is far more than that of Gu Weijing.

"Seeing these paintings, you are not far from a formal breakthrough."

Hearing Katsuko Sakai's giggles when she opened the door, Gu Weijing realized that Ms. Katsuko, who was like a porcelain doll, was gradually coming out of her closed artistic life.

She is getting closer to life.

In fields other than painting, it is also becoming more vibrant.

painter, painter,
People and paintings change together.

Gu Weijing went through the sketchbook, flipping through the 16 pen sketches drawn by Shengzi in the past few days, and looking at these 16 sketches together, it is obvious that there is a kind of vigorous vitality that is constantly gathering and accumulating at the end of the pen.

Something is taking root and sprouting on the paper, and the Jasmine described by Katsuko Sakai is becoming more and more lively.

It should not be necessary to draw all these hundred pen sketches.

The moment when this accumulating vitality really gathers and forms in the pen and breaks through the paper—that is the moment when Ms. Sakai breaks through herself, integrates empathy into the pen, and draws the work of "Feeling in the Heart".

"The painting is loose? Come and draw one, Gu Jun, I like to watch you draw."

Sakai Katsuko turned her head, and stuffed the drawing board into Gu Weijing's hand with a bit of cuteness in her voice.

"Don't worry about us, just play with the cat yourself."

Gu Weijing originally planned to draw a new exhibition painting now, to test whether the perception of fusion paintings can be greatly improved after the two techniques have been upgraded to the second level of professional skills.

But he really couldn't refuse Shengzi's request.

He greeted Jasmine who was looking over, and twirled the fountain pen in his hand.

"Huh? This one?"

Gu Weijing took off the pen cap.

When he just saw the pattern on the sketch paper, Gu Weijing found that the ink line used by Katsuko Sakai was very thin, as if the outline of Jasmine was woven out of hair strands.

Only now did he realize that what he was holding in his hand was a needle pen with the [UNI Mitsubishi Corporation] logo printed on it.

Pen sketching is just a general term to distinguish pencil sketching, which refers to an ink-based painting hard pen tool that cannot be wiped off by the skin.

You don't have to use a pen.

It is true that all the pen drawings of some older generation painters were really drawn with pens.

But more people use drawing pens, ballpoint pens, gel pens, whatever you have.

Ms. Shengzi uses a fiber needle pen with a nib just like a hospital injection needle on her desk. When it comes to taking pictures, tweeting, and posting on Instagram, it is no match for the rose gold drawing pens of Parker, Bailey, and Montblanc.

It is more professional than those luxury toys.

Needle pens are specially made for drawing.

This pen is much more sensitive to changes in pressure than a rollerball pen, and can leave a unique sunken impression on the paper, and can also draw rich dark gloss.

If necessary when traveling, the pen tube can be cut directly, mixed with alcohol-based cosmetics such as hairspray, and dyed. It is a simple liquid pigment that can be used to make monochrome prints.

The disadvantage is that good tools must be in the hands of good painters to exert enough magic power.

The nib of this pen is extremely thin, and the lines drawn are extremely precise.

A painter whose hands are not steady, the lines will not follow his command.

If the drawn lines are not neat enough, they will become very messy like messy fine wool threads.If the line drawn is too rigid, it will lose its agility.

It is difficult to grasp the proportion.

In short, it is a tool that requires high line skills of the user.

Gu Weijing sat up slightly, fixed a piece of sketch paper on the drawing board in front of him with masking tape, and drew a line casually.

"I'm going to draw the action relationship between Jasmine and the cat from the right side first, to strengthen the depiction of the shape, then draw the basic light and shadow tone of the portrait, and finally emphasize the texture outline of the shadow details..."

Gu Weijing said a few words, then smiled and said to Sakai Katsuko: "Of course, I don't need to explain this kind of thing to you. You must understand better than me."

"Are you going to draw even the shadows? Shall I get you a pencil?"

Sakai Katsuko listened to Gu Weijing's explanation of painting ideas, and captured the key words.

Because she had to draw a lot of sketches every day, the drawings she gave Jasmine only drew the outlines and line relationships of the characters, without changes in light.

As long as you are willing to put your mind to it, pen drawings can also draw beautiful black, white, and gray contrasts through skillful cross-polyphonic lines.

The workload will be correspondingly larger, and there will be more places where it is easy to make mistakes with the pen.

In terms of the complexity of the picture, it is not a sketch.

The process of these 16 pictures of Jasmine drawn by Katsuko Sakai was due to mistakes in the use of pens, and three or four of them were drawn as waste drafts.

Gu Weijing draws well, and Shengzi knows it.

It's just that Gu Weijing wanted to draw so thinly and to reflect the slackness of the lines, so the difficulty curve began to rise in a straight line.

You can use an eraser if you make a mistake with a pencil, and rub it with a piece of bread if you make a mistake with a charcoal pencil.

If there is a problem with the line drawn by the pen.

Otherwise, just pretend that you didn’t see the continuation, or just throw away the painting and start over. There is no third choice.

"It doesn't matter, add a few groups of lines, thin pens have the benefits of thin pens, no matter how sharp the pencil is, it can't draw such fine and uniform lines."

talking room,
Gu Weijing's pen tip has begun to weave lines and structures according to the ideas in his mind, looking confident.

He did have confidence in his heart.

The level of sketching at the second level of a career is like a substitute striker who can play in a second-tier league like the English Championship.

It is not worthy of too much attention from the media, but it has already entered the room in the entire industry.

As long as it is in the category of sketching, no matter what kind of tool it is, there are not many drawing methods that can make Gu Weijing feel afraid of difficulties.

On the contrary, he can start to consider the characteristics of different brushwork and create a more suitable painting strategy according to local conditions.

The weak are mastered by the tool, the strong master the tool, and the master transforms the tool.

Have you ever heard of sketching with a brush?
During the period of the Republic of China, the masters of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts once developed the "rendering hybrid method", which combined the lines of the pen with the smoothness of the brush.It breaks the traditional black and white polarized sketch effect, and makes the picture have both the delicacy of pencil sketch and the straightness of pen drawing.

Gu Weijing has not yet reached the level of being able to transform tools.

Give full play to the delicacy of the thin lines of the needle pen, adjust the density of different light and shadow lines, be careful when dealing with dark parts, and use appropriate white space to set off when dealing with bright parts.

These requirements, he thinks he can still do it.

……

Time passed minute by minute.

Gu Weijing captured the lovely scene when Jasmine hugged the cat, and the cihua cat put their heads together, looking at each other.

Awang's weight is close to 6 kilograms, and the little girl holds it like a noodle bag.

Awang's two hind legs rested on the ground, his expression was a little impatient like "I don't want to play with you, and I can't escape, damn it!", his head was tilted to one side, and his beard was shaking.

On the other hand, Jasmine's eyes were filled with the excitement and excitement of successfully stroking the cat, and she felt so happy that a little pink heart was about to pop out of her head.

Gu Wei read the emotional state of the two people as naturally as breathing.

Begin to use appropriate light and shadow to fully present the sense of volume and density of the characters.

He used short lines with a pen to draw Jasmine's posture holding the cat, and used different levels of line arrangement to express the different skin textures of the little girl and the big cat.

Awang's hair is very unique. The facial hair is thin and short, and the hair on the body and limbs can be as long as the little finger of a five- or six-year-old child.

Or silver or black, slender bunches.

Therefore, the main point of its hair painting is to be "loose", fluffy but not compact, and not to the point of knotting, and only the fine strokes of a needle pen can completely draw this kind of hair.

Compared with cihuamao, Jasmine's skin is much smoother.

Although the little girl is a bit dark, the reflection of indoor light is much stronger than that of the furry cat.

This makes the image of Jasmine brighter in the eyes of people.

Therefore, Gu Weijing used slanted straight lines to show the details of Jasmine's character, and in some places simply used blank space to represent highlights.

Compared with pencil drawing, the needle-tube pen saves the process of sharpening the pencil and continuous correction, and the number of simple lines is not as large as the latter. It takes a lot of effort to draw, and the drawing time is not long.

About 10 minutes passed.

In addition to replacing the pen with a new one because he ran out of pen water in the middle, Gu Weijing completed all the wiring smoothly.

(End of this chapter)