Almighty painter

Chapter 41 Critical Realism
Gu Weijing's pen tip jumped on the paper.

"The position of the rectus abdominis is from the pubic bone to the rib cartilage, that is, between the fifth muscle and the seventh muscle. Its function is to stretch the chest. His left muscle is slightly thicker than the right muscle, and it should be exercised. Problems caused by uneven force..."

"In a relaxed state, the bony ridges and shoulder blade heads are hidden under the skin, but his arm is swinging the bill, slightly contracted and sunken with force, and the large bones supporting the forearm swing around the hinge at the elbow."

He muttered to himself, and the paintbrush in his hand was like a sharp scalpel, quickly cutting the man in the bat coat in the photo into a string of flesh and bones.

This is the muscle on the trunk.

These are the muscles in the limbs.

This is the line at the neck,

This is the ratio of knuckles with gloves on.

……

Soon, a large stack of drawing paper appeared in Gu Weijing's hand.

In order to test the effect, Gu Weijing specially used art wax paper.

Wax paper is translucent and can transmit light. Although the texture is not good and is too smooth, it can be compared with the original painting after painting. It is often used by children to copy on picture books.

Gu Weijing stacked the drawing papers together, placed them in front of the iPad screen, and compared them one by one with the characters in the photos.

The texture of each muscle can subtly overlap the curves in the photo, and it is sharper and clearer than the photo.

This is the advantage of painting over photographs. Gu Weijing reconstructs the anatomy of the other party's body lines, and achieves the point of drawing materials from reality and detaching from reality.

The only fly in the ointment is that there are many traces of modification in the picture, a large black mass erased by the eraser.

[Human Body Anatomy] The equipment requirement for this knowledge card is the first level of sketching, but the first level of sketching is only the most basic requirement.

Gu Weijing can't always draw the desired lines perfectly.

Sometimes it is obvious that what you think in your heart is the same thing, but when you actually express it, it has a completely different effect.

This is a typical situation where the brain knows it, but the hands don't learn it, just like an old-fashioned inkjet printer with gears stuck.

Fortunately, Gu Weijing now has an overall impression of the muscular figure of this little brother in a bat suit.

He is confident that he can draw himself again, whether it is zoomed in or zoomed out, there will be no major problems.

All that remains is to wait for the skill to cool down. When the skill can be activated tomorrow, draw a small-scale color illustration with colored pencils according to the proportion required by Heporion1077.

Gu Weijing put down his paintbrush, stretched his waist, and browsed around Fiverr for a few more times. After confirming that no suitable employer approached him for a draft, he turned off his computer.

He did not continue to stay in the studio painting and practicing sketching as usual.

Gu Weijing found that after reaching the professional grade rating, he seemed to have encountered a certain bottleneck, especially in the expression of emotions.

It seems that trying to adjust the emotional state in the process of painting is far more difficult than exercising the skills of using a pen.

He obviously put enough effort into painting, but unfortunately the pointer on the mood panel keeps hovering up and down while painting.

Gu Weijing has already emptied his mind and has no other distractions, but it is a pity that his emotions cannot be improved by sitting in front of the drawing board.

He wanted to put his emotions into the picture scroll, but found that he didn't even know what emotion he wanted to express.

This troubled Gu Weijing very much, and only when he launched [Menzel's Basic Painting Experience] every time, the state of concentration could allow him to reach the rating of [Simple Works].

But this is already the limit.

Emotions are like a child throwing a tantrum, you can't force it yet.

This is like a paradox, every time Gu Weijing feels that he has entered the state of painting, he wants to take a look at the mood panel.But when he was thinking about it, the pointer on the panel would quickly return to zero in the center.

Maybe he was still wandering up and down in [casually], but when he paid attention to the mood table, it suddenly became [perfunctory].

The painter strives to pursue the emotion of painting, just like a monkey looking for the moon in the sea, the more deliberate, the more polar opposite it will be.

On the contrary, sometimes when he was jogging in the morning, he saw the sun shining on the sparkling Yangon River, the birds flew through the sky, and the cruise ship blew its siren.

This simple scenery moved his heart.

There were even a few short moments when the pointer on the panel reached the point of [feeling something in the heart], but it was only a few seconds, and it was fleeting.

When Gu Weijing rushed home to take a drawing board and brush to sketch by the Yangon River, this feeling disappeared again.

With the reminder from the panel, Gu Weijing simply thought about it, and he planned to change his mood.

Among the several panels, the one that I use the least frequently is the panel for exchanging experience points and wealth.

For one thing, his current income from selling paintings is not high, and he can't get too many orders on Fiverr.

To increase the redemption ratio by 100 XP, a good deed worth $1000 is required.

And the same experience value is just a few days of sketching practice, or the improvement that can be exchanged for learning Chinese painting with Mr. Cao.

I am not a great painter whose time is more valuable than money, with millions every minute.This exchange panel doesn't seem like a good deal right now.

Secondly, after Claire got tricked by the water fund that time, he also had a long memory.

But now Gu Weijing thinks further.

In the eyes of the system, this charity panel should not be as simple as exchanging wealth for experience points.

It is telling Gu Weijing that art does not always only have spring and snow, luxury and various abstract aesthetic concepts.

In addition to painting portraits of great people, recording the suffering of society is also a kind of social mission of painters.

"Father" and "Trackers on the Volga" are such masterpieces.

The Russian school of critical realism is such a group of people. They left the comfortable Academy of Fine Arts, set out from the amber Moscow palace, and left the warm St. Petersburg. They walked on the vast land of Siberia, observing and recording the hard life of the serfs in Tsarist Russia. .

This is a peak of Russian art, and it can almost be called the golden generation of Russian art together with Chernyshevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky, these giants in the history of literature.

The art students of Gu Weijing's generation rarely have the courage of their predecessors.

Art seems to have turned back to the sound of hammers falling in the auction house.

Gu Weijing hopes that after a while, he can buy some things and go to the orphanage, take a walk and have a look.

……

On the second day, he completed the drafting of the illustration of Batman. After he understood the muscle lines and curves, he drew it very easily, which can be regarded as a matter of course.

It may be his most satisfying painting recently.

After passing the scanned version, the other party did not ask him to revise the manuscript, but made other requests.

That Hyperion1077 is really a strange guest.

This kind of online drafting and illustration does not require original manuscripts, only electronic versions.

After all, it was far across the ocean, and the postage was a lot of money, and a painting only cost 10 dollars, so the other party didn't feel that the original manuscript was much cherished.

But this Hyperion1077 asked him to ship the paper version as well, and he also took expedited air transportation.

To be honest, the shipping cost alone was worth the cost of one of his paintings.

"What an odd guest."

Customer is God,
Anyway, I don't pack postage.

Gu Weijing shrugged his shoulders, confirmed repeatedly that the other party would pay for the freight, and then made an appointment for the door-to-door pickup service of DHL Express on his mobile phone.

As the illustration traveled across the ocean, soon, he almost forgot about it.

(End of this chapter)