Almighty painter

Chapter 251 Breakthrough and control fusion painting
Sakai Katsuko saw that Gu Weijing started painting, so he stopped talking and disturbing.

She held a glass of lemonade and looked at it quietly with her head turned sideways.

Ms. Katsuko had a straw in her mouth, and she hadn't really drank for a long time from the moment the work on the sketch paper began to take shape.

Sakai Katsuko unconsciously gnawed on the wall of the paper straw with her teeth, and the liquid level rose and fell slightly with her breathing.

The afternoon sun outside the window is just right, and the teak floor has an amber luster.

The little girl hugs the cat and sits on the floor to play without contending with the world. All she can hear is the rubbing sound of the pen tip falling on the rough paper and the occasional two impatient "meows" of the cihuamao.

Ms. Katsuko felt that the surrounding atmosphere was peaceful and serene, with a hazy golden luster, like a watercolor landscape painting of the Hudson River School.

Time has become very slow at this moment, it seems that in this third world country that has suffered from wars and turmoil all year round, this beautiful scene that is so peaceful that it is unreal can be kept forever.

Also appearing unreal are the pen drawings in the hands of the boys around me.

"It's not like something a young man could draw."

Shengzi thought to himself.

This comment is often placed on her own body by the media.

But compared with Gu Weijing's works in front of her, she felt that the other party was more qualified to be praised like this.Looking at Gu Weijing's paintings, Sakai Katsuko felt as if he was looking at an ancient temple of fallen leaves, where young monks were chanting sutras.

It will not feel stale because of the old-fashioned, and there is a Zen in youth that is inconsistent with the age.

In front of Sakai Katsuko, Gu Weijing was weaving a spot on Mao Mao's forehead with the interlaced and fine shadow tones like a fishnet.

In the pen and ink, there is a pen spirit of its own that is forming.

It probably won't take many years to form its own unique style of brushwork.

It seems to be the first trace of water on the sky during the high tide.

there is always a moment,
It will turn into waves that touch the sky and hit the shore.

Shengzi began to be slightly lost in thought.

she imagined.

Many years later, in the evening, they walked arm in arm between some splendid art museum.

It was a very grand exhibition hall, the reporter's spotlights were flickering, surrounded by his paintings and hers.

A mobile multimedia screen hangs on the pillar of the exhibition hall, and it says "Congratulations to Gu Weijing & Katsuko Sakai for their opening of a themed art exhibition in a certain art museum".

so-and-so?

She wondered whether the art museum should be the Vatican, the Metropolitan or the Louvre.

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't really matter at all.

The important thing is that at that time Gu Weijing was turning her head and talking to herself, she couldn't hear the specific words clearly, she just felt that the two of them looked at each other, imagining that her face was a little red.

Sakai Katsuko's face is also a little red now.

She didn't shyly let this kind of girl's sleep talk slip out of her mind, but let her body follow the throbbing of her heart, and began to want to draw something.

Sakai Katsuko didn't even want to take the time to get up and look for other painting tools, so she picked up the IPAD at hand.

She opened the Procreate painting software, adjusted the brushwork and subconsciously drew it directly on the electronic screen.
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"I think I look a little old? But... next time your brother says that anyone who draws with an IPAD is not a real artist, you can show him this painting and then blow his dog's head off. "

Gu Weijing put down his drawing board.

He looked at the IPAD screen in Sakai Katsuko's hand, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

"Victor."

"Ok?"

Sakai Katsuko was also staring at the drawing board in front of her. She pinned a lock of hair behind her ear and made a slight nasal sound.

"You're a real genius, heartfelt comment. I thought you'd have to paint for a few more weeks to fully get the feeling, but you've done it now."

Gu Weijing said softly.

【Work Title: Untitled Work】

[Crayon Technique: Normal]

【Emotion: I feel something in my heart】

Katsuko Sakai used the simplest and fastest crayon brush in Procreate to capture the feeling at that moment in her heart.

She only depicted a man's side face, and the facial features were just a few faint strokes.

Crayons are different from oil pastels in that they have weaker color stacking ability, and the drawn pictures will not be too realistic.

Gu Weijing could see his shadow on the side face.

I don't know why, but there seems to be shallow forehead lines on the forehead. She looks about 30 years old, and the key is the eyes on the side face.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.

Katsuko Sakai spent most of her energy on the eyes of the side face in this painting, and it seems that there are flying colored lights in the eyes.

Ask yourself,

Gu Weijing thought it was difficult for him to make such a daughter-like look in his eyes.

In reality, how complicated the external lighting conditions are to reflect such colorful colors on human eyes?
However, Picasso also painted his wife with three legs, which does not prevent this from being a very powerful painting.

As early as seeing the first sight of the painting on the iPad screen.

Gu Weijing immediately understood that Katsuko Sakai finally succeeded in blending her emotions with her brushwork, and created a painting that could empathize with the audience.

Use the painting and calligraphy identification technique to take a look.

Sure enough, he saw the comment of [feeling something].

"what."

It was only at this moment that Sakai Katsuko was completely separated from the reverie in his mind.

She looked at the work she had just drawn on the hand-painted board, stared at it for a few seconds, and let out a soft cry.

The artistic problems that have plagued her for so many years, her father's comment that "with body but no soul, it is difficult to become a master" in painting, have been difficult for her to overcome after years of hard work in the studio.

At the moment when this painting is completed,
All vanished.

Sakai Katsuko gently hugged Gu Weijing's shoulders without saying a word, buried her head in the boy's arms, and just hugged him like this.

Miss Jasmine and Ngawang Qiqi turned their heads and looked at the young couple on the sofa.

"Little Maomi, please don't mess around with your brother and sister."

Like a little adult, Jasmine blocked the cihuamao's eyes with her palm regardless of Awang's extremely dissatisfied meowing.

The little girl herself stared her eyes wide, with shyness and curiosity, staring at Sister Sakai and Brother Gu Weijing without blinking.

There are no intense scenes that are not suitable for children as imagined by children.

Sakai Katsuko just hugged Gu Weijing silently, hugging him very hard, as if wanting to rub him into her body.

"I am very happy. Thank you, Gu Jun, you are such a good teacher."

half a minute later,
Sakai Katsuko let go of his arms.

Her breathing was still rapid, her face was still blushing, but she had regained her composure.

"Actually, I'm not as excited as I imagined. I thought I'd cry." Sakai Katsuko touched her hot face.

A student with a score of 580 suddenly stepped on shit. Only after getting the score of the college entrance examination and getting into Tsinghua University can it be easy to pass with joy like Fan Jinzhongju.

Sakai Katsuko was originally a 700-point candidate.

When Ms. Sakai began to practice continuously according to the guidance of taking care of the model, and felt that the soul and the model were getting closer, she had a vague premonition of this moment.

In the process of drawing on the iPad, Ms. Sakai didn't even consider any problems in painting techniques.

It's just that the heart is so warm, so that the warm feeling flows continuously along the pen.

Her soul is immersed in the middle ground between reality and imagination.

The whole person was safe and happy, as warm as returning to the mother's amniotic fluid.

Therefore, when I came back to my senses, I saw that I had really drawn a very good work.

After the initial surprise, Katsuko Sakai could only calm down with the tireless watering of the fruit trees she had planted, which finally blossomed and bore fruit.

"It's a pity that it turned out to be a digital version drawn on an iPad, and I'm not very proficient in crayon drawing."

Sakai Katsuko sniffled regretfully.

Without the tactile feeling of being able to touch the delicate texture of the paper works, it is more or less less meaningful.

"Anyway, it's just random graffiti. For some of the first works, if you find a way and relive this feeling more, it will be much easier to draw in the future. You don't need to pay too much attention. If you don't like it, just delete it."

Gu Weijing said in relief.

"It's just not perfect, I don't dislike it. I don't want to delete such a commemorative painting." Sakai Katsuko rolled her eyes and pretended to be a boyfriend who didn't understand a girl's mind and spoke like a steel straight man.

She kept this crayon doodle carefully.

Not only saved locally in Procreate software, but also carefully backed up in Apple's ICloud cloud.

"This painting is called "Tomorrow"? The name is quite interesting."

When Gu Weijing saw Katsuko Sakai title the work, he pondered for a few seconds and entered the tag "Tomorrow".

"Well, that's the name. I made a little wish when I was painting."

"What is it?" Gu Weijing was curious.

"I don't want to tell you, the old monk who sells peace guards in Sensoji Temple told me that this kind of wish won't work if you say it."

Ms. Sakai, with a rare playful smile, refused Gu Weijing's request.

She did not explain the meaning of the painting to her boyfriend.

Sakai Katsuko secretly expected.

She hopes that one day, when they really hold a joint art exhibition together, no matter how advanced their skills are at that time, the art exhibition will be grand.

At that time, this crayon graffiti "Tomorrow" will be the first work in the exhibition.

"Don't just look at me, bring your painting too, let's have a look together?"

Sakai Katsuko just felt that Gu Weijing must have drawn an excellent work.

At the end of the other party's drawing, she also started to draw her own crayon drawing, and she hadn't fully appreciated the Jasmine drawn by Gu Weijing.

"Give."

Gu Weijing picked up the drawing board from the bean bag sofa.

He didn't even deal with the masking tape, and handed it to his girlfriend intact.

Sakai Katsuko's eyes slowly slid across the sketch paper along the trajectory of the pen line.

She admired the pen drawing, while Gu Weijing admired Sakai Katsuko.

A serious girl is always good-looking, with a beautiful bridge of the nose and delicate, long eyelashes like a light-colored butterfly, ready to fly at any time.

"Ugh……"

Katsuko, who was looking at the painting, suddenly sighed.

"Did you draw something wrong?"

"No, very cute. Jasmine is cute, Maomi is cute, and the paintings are also cute."

Ms. Sakai placed Gu Weijing's paintings next to the iPad screen, stared at the two paintings, and shook her head in subtle disappointment.

Really need to work harder!

A strong sense of urgency rose in Sakai Katsuko's heart.

Gu Weijing's speed of progress is really too fast.

Not only is the sketching better than hers, but the familiarity with the muscle texture is completely like "cutting" people with a scalpel, which is naturally incredible.

After the Spring Festival, during this period of time, Ms. Sakai has seen the degree of portrayal of muscle lines.

The most powerful thing is the detective cat in the [Mr. Hyperion Channel] video, who deserves the accuracy of medical textbooks.

Secondly, it turned out to be Gu Weijing who was by his side.

It's okay to "cut" people, but it seems that even Maomi has "cut"!

From hair to demeanor.

The lines drawn with the pen seem to be like a raccoon cat jumping into the paper and rolling out.

Some painters focus on the accuracy of objects and images, even a hair strand must be accurately grasped repeatedly; some painters give up small relationships, pay attention to large relationships, and focus on motion capture; some painters pursue the contrast of light and dark, and insist on depicting the brightness of the picture and translucency...

All roads lead to Rome.

There is no right or wrong way to do this.The difference between the starting points of theory and painting can be endlessly talked about for three days and three nights, but the same goal can be achieved by different routes.

Regardless of the painting method, you can tell whether the picture is alive or not at a glance.

This pen drawing is "live".

The advantage of the fine lines of the needle pen is fully reflected by the boys - the cat's beard fluttering in the air, the canine teeth slightly raised, the small shadow on the dimple on the little girl's cheek...

Every frown and smile is expressive.

Sakai Katsuko didn't know whether she should be happy or disappointed now.

Even though she has just made such a big breakthrough, her works are still inferior to those around her.

"The painting is really good. I still remember when we parted in the parking lot. I said boldly that I wanted you not to be left too far away. It has only been two months, and the one who was left will become me."

"You drew..." Gu Weijing wanted to speak.

"No, I don't need you to comfort me, it's not as good as it is."

Sakai Katsuko turned her head frankly and shook her hair.

She is a proud girl, and she doesn't need others to make excuses for her: "I'm happy for your progress, but I don't need you to stop and wait for me."

"Jasmine, have you finished your homework today? If so, can I trouble you to be my sister's model for a while?"

Sakai Katsuko put down the drawing board and stood up, beckoning to Jasmine.

"I'm going to paint. Gu Jun, you can just take a big step forward."

The girl turned her head and leaned forward.

Shengzi rubbed the tip of her nose against Gu Weijing's cheek, and she whispered in the other's ear in a gentle but firm tone: "I will catch up by myself, I promise."

Mom was right.

Being in love should be like a peacock, showing your most radiant and gorgeous side to your lover as much as possible.

Ms. Sakai hopes to walk to the highest point of art with the people around her.

Her pride is not willing to be abandoned by others halfway.

"Let's go, Jasmine, it's sunny now. Today we're going to paint in the yard outside. I want to feel the wind blowing on my face. You can bring the cat with you."

Gu Weijing didn't know that he inadvertently inspired Sakai Katsuko's fighting spirit.

He watched Katsuko Sakai stepping on her white sneakers with pink flowers, holding her painting utensils in one hand and Jasmine in the other.

Jasmine hugged the cat.

The two of them disappeared at the door just like that.

Gu Weijing smiled and stood up. He filled an espresso capsule into the coffee machine. After making a cup of coffee, he stretched himself and took out a roll of canvas.

The career of a painter can seem quite laid-back.

It takes three years to paint one picture, and one painting takes three years. This statement is actually suspected of exaggeration.

Unless it takes three or five years to prepare for a very important art exhibition.

Otherwise, professional painters who are basically still in the creative cycle must come up with new artworks every year to ensure the popularity of the market and the familiarity of your name to collectors.

There is also the issue of eating.

No matter how popular your past works are in the market, and how much the increase is, collectors and galleries will make money.

Painters, as producers of works of art, usually only make money for new works.

Great painters seem to have a high income, but their consumption is also high.

There are private jets to maintain, supermodels to date, and small islands in the Pacific Ocean to buy.

If you want to open a large-scale art exhibition that is imaginative and unconstrained, if the gallery is unwilling to pay or is unwilling to pay all the money, it will throw in millions of dollars at every turn.

Painters are often very short of money.

Except for Manet, his father, the justice, left an inheritance of about 100 million francs.At that time, let alone playing yachts, it was enough to directly buy a main battleship.

And Monet, Matisse, Seurat... They almost reached the end of their careers, and they still often painted new works and sold them to painters and acquainted collectors.

But some great painters can paint three or four paintings a year, and one painting takes several months.

This is not uncommon in the industry.

An oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolor painting, a few hours in the fast case, deducting the time to dry in the slow case, 20 hours of pure working time should be enough.

The cumulative working hours in a quarter are less than one day, which sounds enviable.

In fact,
Kung fu is outside the play.

Behind such important fine paintings are often hundreds of scrapped manuscripts and practice works destroyed by the artist.All kinds of time costs are more than the hours spent on painting the last completed work itself.

More than ten times more.

Like an emotionless printing press, Picasso assembled nearly 100 works of art in his lifetime, and it took more than [-] years to complete one piece every day.

However, all of Lao Bi's truly fine works are painstaking efforts that took weeks or even months to complete after repeated practice, repeated conception, and repeated redrawing.

Read the book a hundred times and see its meaning.

Painting not only pursues the instant fame and enlightenment, but also pursues the painstaking efforts of grinding the iron inkstone through the ink pool over and over again.
Gu Weijing's systematic help saves the trouble of practicing pen proficiency.

Some sentiments can only be drawn to the heart after painting ten or a hundred times, which cannot be saved.

Let's compare his newly completed "Lucky Orphanage No. 5 in the Sun" with the sketch drawn by Mr. Chen, the original collector.

The painting is still the same painting, but many small details have become more refined.

The undulations of the leaves are more natural, and the faces of the characters are fuller.

It's like 3A game manufacturers have added higher-definition texture modules after their works are released.

In particular, the finger smearing method developed by Sakai Katsuko has provided a very good idea for the transformation of the picture - Ms. Katsuko provided a very good idea, and the specific operation still needs Gu Weijing's continuous understanding in practice.

After stretching the canvas, Gu Weijing randomly wrote an Arabic number 6 on the blank space at the end of the canvas with a pen, and started to draw.

Draft, basemap, coloring.

On schedule.

When a painter can paint step by step, it is already worth celebrating.

Extraordinary performance or something is a good thing that can burn three candles.

Being able to complete the work step by step means that one's painting strength has been fully demonstrated.

When art students paint, they will always encounter unexpected situations of one kind or another. The color tone is lightened, the thinner is added too much, and the beauty is drawn like Zhu Yuanzhang...

The creation of art students is to wrestle with all kinds of mistakes.

The more difficult the painting method, the more so.

What can go wrong is not only in the picture, but also in the painter.

I knocked over the easel, shook my hands and shoveled the wrong oil, and even in the important art exam every year, I would be full of confidence and only bring warm-toned paint to the exam room, and then found that the question was to paint a painting with cool-colored paint , I can't believe the careless candidates who are crying bitterly.

In fact,
Step by step is a much more difficult thing than imagined.

If you are in the art entrance examination, step by step means that all your efforts have not been let down.

If it is in the graduation exhibition, step by step means that my works can usually graduate normally.

If you draw a fusion painting like Gu Weijing's - step by step means that you are gradually fully mastering the painting method in your hand.

"Master fusion painting? Huh!"

After Gu Weijing discovered this change, his whole body became more energetic.

He painted fusion paintings some time ago, as if he was driving a heavy truck downhill, fighting with the paintbrush in his hand all the time.

Now it seems that this method of painting has become less difficult.

Many details that used to take a long time to think about can now be drawn in two or three strokes, without much thinking at all.

Use the pen to do whatever you want, draw faster and better.

"The Role of Sketching Technique."

Gu Weijing used a brush to point out the color blocks of the tree trunk in the middle ground, and easily cut out the division of leaves and roof tiles of the church with brush strokes.

In the composition, the leaves and the roof together form a large color block that transitions from the middle ground to the distant view.

Even if it is the same gradient color block, Gu Weijing does not want them to look like a mass of paste, without distinction.

Using a pen here, we can see the role played by the second-level professional sketching technique in the painting process.

Sketch brings precise drafts, precise drafts bring more informative basemaps, and more informative basemaps bring ease in the drawing process.

When a painter draws with a pen, he becomes more confident because of this information.

The sketch directly props up the skeleton of the whole painting, and the effect of the picture cannot become much more energetic, which is a strange thing.

Unknowingly, Gu Weijing began to paint faster and faster.

It used to take him two to three hours to make a base map.

Today, when Gu Weijing finally dyed the transition between the clouds in the sky with his fingers, he showed the sixth piece "Lucky Orphanage in the Sun" before his eyes.It was less than five hours before he started writing.

Even the evening sun had not completely faded from the horizon.His painting is finished.

The virtual panel raised by the system appeared in front of Gu Weijing's eyes.

【Work Title: "Lucky Orphanage in the Sun"】

[Sketch technique: Lv.5 professional painter · second level (501/10000)]

[Oil painting techniques: Lv.5 professional painter · second level (701/10000)]

[Chinese Painting Technique: Lv.4 Professional Painter First Level (2921/5000)]

【Emotion: A Simple Work】

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