Almighty painter

Chapter 37 Body Painting
[Item: George Berryman's "Anatomy of the Human Body"]

[Quality: Knowledge Card]

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

[Equipment Requirements: Sketch·Professional Level [-]]

[Master Profile: George Berryman was born in the nineteenth century.He is the most famous and authoritative anatomical painter in the world.

He has taught anatomy at the University of the Arts in New York for nearly half a century. His students include Will Eisner, the godfather of American comics, and Norman Rockwell, a legendary illustrator who influenced tens of millions of people during World War II.Berryman's inventive invention uses a range of body drawing techniques. 】

[Remarks: The paintbrush is a scalpel that dissects the soul, and sometimes... it can also dissect the body. 】

"Human anatomy?"

In the long Middle Ages, there were three kinds of people who risked being burned to the stake to steal corpses for dissection and research.

Madman, doctor and painter.

Body painting has been the most important category since the category of painting was born.

From the ancient Neolithic relics engraved on the tomb wall twisted sacrificial Nuo dance, to the stone slabs recorded in ancient Egyptian pyramids full of divinity of the sun god and the pharaoh who will be resurrected from the dead.From the oppressive and noble portraits of feudal emperors to the comics that have sold tens of millions today.

Figures are the eternal theme of painting.

Imagine if you were a medieval painter.

At that time, it was generally believed that everyone's leg bones had a natural curvature, that men had one more rib than women, and that everyone had an immortal bone that was used for resurrection in religious legends...

In that century, which was firmly controlled by the church, this was not a fairy tale, but an objective fact that water can be drunk and birds can fly.

When drawing, don't you find it strange that you deliberately erase the symmetrical rib lines of men?

When I fictionalized the unique hard resurrection bone and firmly believed that you really saw it, wouldn't there be a little bit of confusion?
even if not,

Don't you want to know how the bulging muscles of the warrior lift up the robe when he swung his sword, and how the graceful and moving arc of the collarbone should be accurately outlined when the lady lowers her head to cover her face...

How to really draw a person to the best?
Practice repeatedly, invite a model to come to the house to observe, or... really dissect a dead body to see.

In the era when the church ruled the world, the structure and lines of the human body were hailed as the secrets given to mankind by God. They should not be explored at will. Stealing autopsies is a crime enough to be burned on the stake.

But obviously this can't stop people's pursuit of truth.

Countless innocent souls died in the thick smoke of those pine stakes that hung over the continent.

For centuries after the Renaissance, anatomical drawings have always been the intersection of art and science. Countless doctors have held paintbrushes in front of the sketch pad, and countless painters have held scalpels in the morgue.

According to historical records, the reason why Da Vinci was able to depict moving arcs and precise muscle lines in oil paintings was that in his life, besides studying various anatomical diagrams that were gradually circulating in the world at that time, he also dissected at least three muscles by himself. There are more than ten corpses. Some believe that he once cooperated with the local medical school, and many scholars believe that Da Vinci, like many predecessors, also engaged in tomb robbery in private.

Coincidentally, it seems to have formed a source of incomprehension with anatomy.

It has the same status as the most famous legendary oil painting "Mona Lisa" in human history visited by hundreds of millions of people in the Louvre. It is also one of the world's three famous paintings "Night Watch" author Rembrandt, he is also dissecting A lot of time was spent in the room.

Rembrandt's famous work is even an oil painting called "Professor Dupu's Anatomy Lesson", which is now in the Maurice Royal Painting Gallery in The Hague.

Gu Weijing felt that all kinds of information were flushing in the memory area of ​​his brain, and various pictures of human muscles and corresponding drawing methods flooded into his mind.

These drawing methods and lines are quickly reconstructed into an adult body in his own consciousness.

It stretches, twists, joins muscles and tendons in its own mind, pectorals quivering slightly, countless tiny muscles themselves elongate, shorten, swell, forming smaller wedges or with larger, stronger ones Together the pieces form a variety of different shapes.

The "Mojie Notes" that has been obtained is more of a description of the nature of the text, and the specific pigments need to be matched by Gu Weijing himself. The impact of the acquisition is obviously not as good as this anatomical atlas.

Gu Weijing closed the panel and raised his head.

Almost subconsciously, following his movements, the muscles affected by the movement of raising the head and leaning back flooded into his mind, as well as the corresponding drawing methods.

"The sternocleidomastoid muscle is contracted on both sides, the manubrium of the sternum and the medial end of the clavicle are contracted, ending at the mastoid process of the temporal bone. The brush should pay attention to the shadow of the clavicle, highlight the stretching of the muscles, make the picture full of volume, and reflect the width and thickness of the muscles. .the erector spinae from behind the sacrum..."

A series of complex muscle transformations emerged in his mind. Gu Weijing never thought that the subconscious movement of raising his head would be so vivid.

He even felt that if the internal organs of the human body were not involved, the familiarity with muscle and skin fat alone would not be familiar to some medical students who had just entered university.

In fact, Gu Weijing knew.

The professions of sketch painters, illustrators, anatomists and forensics have been separated from each other since modern times.

In many medical schools with a history of centuries, sketching has always been a compulsory subject for medical students.

At that time, there was no invention such as a camera, which could quickly record the surgical scene. Even in modern times, the early daguerreotype camera had to keep the subject motionless for more than ten hours or even dozens of hours, and a picture might have to be taken. It takes several afternoons for a person to sit motionless to develop images.

If it takes such a long time in hot weather, the corpses may all smell bad, so you must have good sketching skills.

Not just doctors.

Scientists in the natural category, naturalists...all require a good sketch, and Darwin recorded the anatomical specimens of various animals all over the world in his notebook with a pencil.

And painters, in order to pursue extreme line accuracy, will also learn anatomy with excellence. This tradition continued until the Victorian era.

Considering issues such as medical ethics, it wasn't until the 20th century that the beginnings of anatomy as a compulsory subject for artists dimmed.

Mr. Berryman is the master of that science and technology in the last few generations.

At the same time, the Philadelphia Medical School was still open to painters to study and observe anatomy.Similarly, there is the painter and doctor Eakins, whose understanding of musculature enabled him to draw more detailed and clearer tense muscles than wrestlers' faces in his masterpiece "The Wrestler".

This exaggerated performance of vitality has been unsurpassed by almost no one until later.

Gu Weijing feels that, compared with the "Mojie Notes", which is more like various painting tips, for the painting career, this "Human Anatomy" by Berryman should be more useful.

At least, he has easily mastered the mysteries of human muscle lines that many painters have spent their entire lives studying.

Gu Weijing uploaded the colored pencil portrait of the kitten to the computer with the high-precision scanner in the calligraphy and painting shop, and submitted it to the housewife, which means the order was completed.

Then he pulls down the remaining unread messages, mostly of little value.

Gu Weijing looked at it for a while.

Foreign websites are like this, with a lot of spam.

If you want to add Telegram (foreign encrypted communication software) friends, there is a high probability that you are a liar who sells virtual currency, so delete it directly.

Someone who claims to be a jeweler wants to chat with him, and wants to see the other person's big baby by himself, delete, block, and report sexual harassment in a one-stop process.

Occupational Jeweler (Jeweler) - this thing is in the same nature as the small advertisements posted on Dongxia Road in the early years that Hong Kong and Taiwan rich women spend a lot of money to seek children.

A group of 20 to 35-year-old white male dicks claim to be rich widowed jewelers on Fivver, Twitter, and various pen pal chat software. If you chat with each other casually, the other party will propose a date [beep—], or big There are indeed many little girls and... little boys who don't understand the requirements of the standard video.

After screening for a long time, there was only one order value who wanted him to paint buildings. The light and shadow of the pattern given by the other party was very complicated. The painting to be painted may take several days, and the price is not high.

Just when Gu Weijing chatted with the other party for a few words, he was hesitant to accept the order.

There just happened to be a new message on Fiverr.

"Can I make an appointment, do you want ten dollars a piece?" ——The buyer account Hyperion1077 sent a message from San Francisco.

(End of this chapter)