Almighty painter

Chapter 363 Cover dyeing
Gu Weijing thought for a while, then split the screen and placed this unfinished work next to the previous one "Hercules of the Sea".

Carefully compare where the problems and gaps appear.

The legendary painting techniques perfectly reflect Gu Weijing's creative intentions.

In the scanned photo, the sun looks like an orange, warm poached egg.

The sky and the sea seem to be made of silk collage of various colors.

Even the roaring giants and the burning fire of the broken battleships look a bit soft and cute.

All the thick cream-like paste paint applied with a pear-shaped oil painting knife seems to be a hazy lens of melancholy or fantasy added by the editor in front of the camera during post-processing.

The advantages and disadvantages of Hua Dao Hua lie in the inescapable psychedelic quality.

For example, the same fighting scene.

The expression method of knife drawing makes the final style of the illustrations it draws somewhat similar to family-friendly youth movies such as "Lord of the Rings" or "Harry Potter".

Under Gu Weijing's paintings, there is always a romanticized fantasy war.

As long as the artist wants to, watercolor painting can become a mature realistic style similar to war documentaries or even "Black Robe Picket".

Presenting a stronger emotional impact.

Either bloody or dark.

This set of illustration tasks definitely doesn’t have to draw any restricted-level bloody content.

Thinking carefully before starting to paint, the focus of watercolor painting is on creating an "epic feel".

He tried to make the expression between the giant's brows and eyes, the dust and scars on his body, and the texture of his crotched arms more agile and vital.

The Duchess of Newcastle spent a lot of writing describing the power and power of her giants during the war.

Gu Weijing once discussed with Mr. Sloth whether the image of "Sea Giant" was derived from Poseidon, the god of the sea in Greek mythology, or from his younger generation "Gulliver's Travels" published a few decades later. The Kingdom of Giants and the Kingdom of Lilliput are similar, both alluding to British political parties.

Mr. Sloth didn't completely rule out the possibility.

however.

She actually prefers to put aside these specious and complex interpretations.

Combined with the feminist tone of the entire novel, the so-called giant is directly regarded as the duchess’s literary expression of the symbol of “man”.

In real history, she was the first woman allowed to join the Royal Scientific Society, but she was relatively unpopular with President Hook, so she formed a different world Royal Scientific Society in the novel to poke fun at Hook. scientific point of view, and the protagonist himself will be the president.

same.

As a great aristocrat, the queen's close friend and bridesmaid, considering the social environment in Europe at the time, there was no political space for "Her Majesty Margaret I" to play.

I can only place my love in the world of literature.

She imagined that the male congressmen and generals would obediently listen to her, and she would lead the way across foreign lands, and she would have a sex-turning Caesar addiction while writing books.

Gu Weijing wanted to draw the giant's simple and resolute, iron-blooded appearance and toned muscle curves to express the temperament of a manly warrior.

Hua Dao Hua is a little bit "soft" in this aspect.

For the vivid and detailed depiction of muscles, no matter how skilled you are with a metal painting knife with a width of centimeters, it is not as convenient as a small and fine pencil and a watercolor brush.

Being able to carve patterns on tofu with a nine-ring broadsword just means that you are highly skilled in martial arts.

If you have any choice.

There are specialists in the art industry. Even if the technique is two or three levels weaker, the effect will probably be better if you use professional small brushes.

The problem lies here too.

Compared with the oil painting knife, Gu Weijing's watercolor painting technique is obviously weaker by more than two or three levels.

Looking at the final painting effect, there might be more than five or six major levels.

The longest board in watercolor versus the shortest board in knife painting.

The results haven't been compared yet.

This is embarrassing...

Gu Weijing's eyes swept between the drawings on the left and right sides of the IPAD screen.

When he paints knife paintings, he always starts painting directly after thinking about the basic composition of the picture.

When I paint watercolors on a tablet, I carefully draft the outline in advance.

There are no big problems with the draft.

Even without using Menzel's basic painting experience.

The sketching skills of the second-level profession are not very high, but among the group of illustrators who are at the lower reaches of the disdain chain of painting art, they can still kill many of their peers in an instant.

Knowledge cards for "Anatomy of the Human Body".

During the drafting stage, he more faithfully restored the imaginary body details of the giant, especially the powerful stretched body during battle.

The mistake was in the coloring.

The layer-by-layer coating sounds simple, but the knowledge contained in it is not small.

Dulwich's watercolor teacher often says that painting in oil is like a mason applying cement to a wall, while painting in watercolor is like decorating a house with layers of almost transparent colorful lace at Christmas.

Much more delicate and delicate!
If the richness of the details of the work is used as the evaluation criterion.

The emperor's throne should be occupied by painters who paint watercolors, and those who paint oil paintings should be queens.

Gu Weijing has always believed that this sentence reflects the stereotyped prejudice of watercolor teachers against oil painting teachers, and that the oil painting and sculpture departments of prestigious art schools often have higher art test score requirements than the watercolor department. They even merged with the oil painting department and did not open a separate watercolor department at all. Jealousy.

But not rude.

It also shows that watercolor has a very high transparency and is as light as gauze.

Theoretically, no watercolor paint is completely opaque. No matter how many layers of paint are covered on it, the base color below will mix and penetrate into the eyes of the viewer.

Because of this feature.

Watercolor artists who paint landscapes sometimes specifically use earthy yellow puree watercolor paper instead of pure white watercolor paper as the painting substrate.

In this way, after the watercolor paper passes through the layers of pigments and the colors are mixed well, it will have the unique texture of plain soil or sunset.

While translucent, watercolor is also very delicate.

Oil painting can cover many layers of paint.

During the Renaissance, painters of the generation of Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael liked to use thin coating methods, applying each layer of paint very thinly and applying many layers.

In extreme cases, restorers used X-rays to scan some antique Renaissance paintings.Canvases that have been repeatedly dyed and whitened thirty to forty times have been found.

It’s hard to do that with watercolor.

Once the brightness of the color is not well controlled during over-dying, or if there are too many layers of over-dying, the watercolor work will be like a water glass with too much pigment dissolved, directly turning into chaos.

In the physical realm, colorful lights can turn into pure transparent colors when mixed together.

In the field of art, colorful watercolor paints mixed together become a dark and dirty failure.

Gu Wei often uses colored pencils to draw sketches in order to avoid the problem of mixing multiple layers of paint.

at this time.

Such a bad thing happened to the watercolor painting Gu Weijing just painted.

Some places were too translucent, and the giant's muscular chest exuded a translucent texture.Sissy as hell.

In some places the color mixing failed.

His facial features, mouth, nose, facial features, and robes were dark and dirty. He looked more like a coolie miner who had just come up from the black coal mine than a warrior fighting for the Queen.

Still like a fake girl.

"Well, the colors I mixed are not quite right, and the brushwork of the painting is not quite right either."

Gu Weijing turned the stylus, shook his head and sighed.

The iPad is more friendly to the mixed color overlay dyeing of watercolors. This painting looks so dirty, mainly because of the problem of pressure sensitivity, and the strength of his brush strokes is not controlled well enough.

But it's the same if you switch to real watercolors, and even the results won't be as good as what you see now on the iPad.

"Looking at it now...the effect of such a comparative exercise is not very good."

The gap between my watercolor technique and knife-drawing technique is too big. It's just the result of being crushed crazily, but I can't achieve any comparative improvement.

The painting is not good.

Gu Weijing could still bear it.

But the giant who had just spent most of the class showing watercolor techniques on the system panel had only received a [+7] improvement.

This progress is a bit slow.

It shows that the improvement obtained through practice is not too much.

"Well, it seems that I need to find a good teacher to teach me."

Professor Lin Tao has dabbled in Chinese painting and oil painting, but is not famous for watercolor.

Mr. Sloth is an art agent. He gives himself more advice on knowledge and is not good at techniques.

Moreover, as a detective cat, he is so good at sketching and drawing.

The result is a bad watercolor, although it is not impossible.

But in front of Mr. Sloth, Gu Weijing still has a little idol baggage.

Besides, he also hopes to see if he can use watercolor techniques to take orders and make money after equipping the skills... It would be best to find someone else.

"Katsuko? I remember that Katsuko's watercolors should be at least a first-level professional level."

Ms. Sakai will most likely not dislike her watercolor painting, and she will definitely be willing to teach her.But most of the time they spent together was busy preparing for the Singapore Art Exhibition. In addition, she said that she would go back to Japan this week to visit her father...

"Um, wait?"

Gu Weijing grabbed the Apple pencil spinning on his fingertips.

He thought he had thought of a good ready-made candidate.

"That's it."

Gu Weijing put the tablet computer into his backpack and lay on the table for a short nap.

15 minutes later, the get out of class bell rang.

Gu Weijing immediately walked out of the classroom without looking back.
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"On part sans savoir (We come into the world without knowing it)."

“Où meurent les souvenirs (Where will I be buried).”

“Notre vie défile (our life).”

"En l'espace d'un soupir (Short as a sigh)."

Nos pleurs, nos peurs (No tears, no tears.)”

"..."

The sound of humming musical numbers echoed throughout the empty auditorium backstage.

The girl tilted her head, her long wavy hair hanging around her face.

She put on makeup carefully, and under the fill light in front of the mirror, even the tiniest hairs on her face were white and almost transparent, and her entire skin seemed to be carved from a piece of rich, transparent gel.

"Mirror, mirror, who is the cutest girl in the world?"

She finally took care of her hair, stared at the mirror sideways, and asked in a deep tone.

Then the girl put her hands to her ears again and replied in a rough voice: "Master, master, of course it's you, Kou Kou, bang -"

She puffed up her cheeks, and the red bubble gum expanded and exploded from her mouth, making the same bubbly sound as when a ribbon tube was sprayed.

Kou Kou is such a changeable girl.

The way she was humming a musical just now was as ethereal as a phantom lingering in the opera house, and now she looked funny, like a comic actress in a Japanese variety show.

Even the other girls who were changing clothes next to them were awed by the cute appearance of their cheerleader.

A girl ran over and couldn't help but pinch Kou Kou's cheek and said teasingly.

"Kou Kou is so cute, come on, open your mouth, and give you an apple for me to eat."

"Damn it, don't pinch, don't pinch. What if you pinch too much and your cheeks become asymmetrical? You have to pay next time." Kou Kou slapped off the paw hanging on her body, "Ten dollars for pinching once, no matter what. On credit.”

"Hmm, it's quite expensive, but the beauty is worth it. Come on, let me touch the one with a hundred dollars first. If you buy more, are there any special services for free?"

Everyone burst into laughter again.

It's like bursts of silver bells.

In British and American international schools, cheerleaders are almost the coolest and most popular group among girls.Many boys are proud to have a cheerleader as their girlfriend when they were students.

at the same time.

The training intensity of the entire cheerleading team is also very high.

Not only is the competition fierce, there are professional dance teachers who teach, and strict requirements for body fat percentage and graceful body shape are required, but for a wealthy international school like Dulwich College, the main job of the cheerleading team is not cheering at the stadium.

Like professional school orchestras, they have special winter and summer camps during the winter and summer vacations, and fly to universities in Europe, the United States and even the Cairo campus to participate in exchange and visit activities.

We will also participate in some highly professional cheerleading competitions.

Winning prizes in these competitions is the same as winning prizes in various physics and mathematics competitions. They are highlights on your resume and can add a lot of points when applying for college.

Gu Weijing's cousin Gu Lin coveted a position on the cheerleading team, but was always turned away.

Then again, even if she joins.

Given Gu Weijing's family's original living conditions, they may not be able to afford the registration cost of a summer camp in New York, which costs around one million kyats per trip.

Being able to join the cheerleading team is a privilege but also a pressure for beautiful girls.

Even if you are in the graduating grade, you will still have to train as usual during lunch breaks and school breaks if you have not chosen to withdraw from the club.

"It's so tiring. In a short while, the school recruitment fair will be held, and I have to prepare a portfolio. If I didn't want to be more glamorous at the last campus dance, I wouldn't want to train."

The cheerleading girl next to me is also a 13th grade student, and she said casually. "Koko, what school are you going to apply to? Many of us are going to apply to the University of Rotterdam. By the way, with your family background, it would be good to study locally. Maybe you can become a female mayor in the future."

"Forget it, the pressure of being in politics is too much. I plan to continue studying art and just live my life."

Koko shook her hair and said nonchalantly.

"I heard that the University of Hamburg is good, but I don't know if I can apply for it... I think I can."

(End of this chapter)