Almighty painter

Chapter 436 The Real World

Gu Weijing still didn't raise his head, sitting quietly at the workbench and continuing to complete the painting.

The breakthrough from semi-professional to first-level professional is mostly a subtle and silent process.

It's not like taking a magic pill and suddenly having a successful seed.

If there is no system prompt.

It is likely that Gu Weijing needed one or two paintings to experience carefully before he could feel the essential progress in his painting techniques.

But now.

He actually figured out some flavors.

Gu Weijing has more than one skill as a professional painter. This is not the first time that a certain painting skill has reached Level 4, but there are still some mysterious and special features that can be carefully studied.

The sea of ​​clouds is long and the breeze is light.

The traces drawn by the fingertips began to become smoother and smoother because the old muscle memory was broken, and new muscle memory was formed.

Gu Weijing studied it carefully for half a minute.

Gu Weijing carefully studied the instructions on the panel.

[Do you want to confirm the equipment-limited skill "Real World"? Please note that because of its higher level, this skill will overwrite the skill you currently have - "Adolf von Menzel's Basic Painting Experience"? 】

He intentionally made the bottom edge of the clouds as irregular and interesting as possible, naturally extending beyond the boundaries of the painting.

The novice bonus he received, the introduction and tips on Menzel's painting techniques were all changed.

Except that the watercolor technique level on the system bar has been changed to professional level one.

From this moment on, watercolor techniques have become part of Gu Weijing's personal life and professional work.

The process of painting cannot be said to be light and easy.

Behind the watercolor paintings, he began to have personal emotions and styles, instead of just mechanically waving his right hand according to the painting guide in the textbook.

He finished another cloud in hand.

Gu Weijing selected this line for prompts.

He hesitated no more.

You can't tell just by looking at it. You have to try it out by drawing it yourself to know the effect of the skill.

[Introduction to the master: He is a world-famous sketch pioneer, the most accomplished watercolor painter in Germany in the 19th century, one of the most famous historical painters and genre painters in Europe, an all-around painter, and the pride of Prussia. 】

Gu Weijing chose to confirm.

But just look at the finished lines.

What Gu Weijing is thinking about - "This skill can be combined with "Menzel's basic painting experience (equipped)" to obtain the limited watercolor skill: "Real World""

"The realism and variability are good. This should be the most satisfying cloud I have ever painted today."

You can even add some personal references to the creation of clouds.

[Quality: perfect]

[Note 3: After the free use time is exceeded, free experience points and skill use time can be exchanged at will at the ratio of 1 experience: 1 second. 】

[Skills equipped! 】

Sure enough, it was just as he thought.

[Special effects: You will become extremely proficient in Adolf von Menzel's sketching and watercolor painting techniques. Painters of later generations, have you ever felt the soul of that two-hundred-year-old painting master begin to pulse in you? 】

Professor Wattel is still giving lessons to the students, and this is a quiet and good place for painting without being disturbed by others.

【备注2：该技能可每天使用1000秒，当前剩余1000秒。（剩余时间将在每天子夜00点00分01秒时刷新）】

The key to a career is the development of muscle memory.

It is different from drawing with a knife or activating the sketching skill. You can draw whatever strokes you want, and stroll in the courtyard without any deviation.

In an instant, the display on the system panel changed.

Gu Weijing still needs to be serious and focused to express the structure of the clouds well.

This time.

Satisfied with the smudge effect of the pen, I put the brush aside and leaned against it on the palette, reopening the system panel with a hint of expectation.

It has also changed from unusable gray to usable orange.

"The real world? Compared to the previous sentence 'You will master the basic techniques of Menzel's painting', the current sentence on the panel is 'You will become extremely proficient in Adolf von Menzel's sketching and watercolor painting techniques'. This description seems like It is indeed fully upgraded!”

Water vapor and fog are changing with the wind, and Gu Weijing injects this sense of movement into the paintings he writes.

Instead of looking like a solid cloud, it looks like it's being buffeted by a gust of wind.

[Limited Skill: Real World]

[Note: "Adolf Menzel, you are my best court painter. Because of your outstanding painting contribution, I will award you the Black Eagle Medal on the 6th of next month and canonize you as a knight. From now on, you will Become Adolf von Menzel" - Friedrich Wilhelm IV]

This feeling is different from entering the second level of the profession.

It never feels too heavy, artificial, or laborious.

[Equipment requirements: Sketch Level Lv.4, Watercolor Level Lv.4]

Gu Weijing took a slight breath and directly activated the skill.

Countless bits of information surged through his mind.

It was as if dust from history had traveled through time and space, and it was like a handful of ice mist that penetrated from between Gu Weijing's skin. A cool feeling ran through his body, and Bach's solemn, deep, and dexterous music seemed to echo in his ears. A grand symphony of jingling ornaments.

What wets my body like an electric shock is not the ice mist, but the cold wind blowing through the Berlin City Palace in winter.

What jingled was not the keys of a piano, but the sonorous German syllables.

Gu Weijing knew nothing about German, but he still seemed to understand the mixed sounds.

"Menzel, our family will move to Berlin next year. Your father is expected to open a stone engraving factory with Mr. Fisher. You go to study art and work for the family in the future..."

"Menzel, there is a wealthy gentleman who wants you to illustrate Goethe's poetry collection and paid 30 marks as an advance. Can you complete this task?"

"It's so outstanding. This child's works are full of the talent God gave him. He is a real genius. The Berlin Academy of Fine Arts will admit him to the Academy of Fine Arts under special circumstances. Let him come to school with us without paying a copper!"

"The Complete Biography of Frederick the Great will require hundreds of exquisite paintings depicting court life. Knight, I have won this task for you..."

"I want to visit the factory. The flowing molten iron and flying sparks make me feel the strong vitality."

"..."

The prompt on the skill introduction on the system panel reads, after activating the skill, can you feel a trace of the rhythm of the soul of your predecessors in your body?

Gu Weijing really felt it.

Just for a moment.

It seems like a thousand years have passed.

Those hallucinatory sighs that echoed through history faded from his ears, and Gu Weijing blinked.

He subconsciously looked back at the work at hand.

The clouds that had made him so complacent just now had become rough and unsightly in an instant.

Just like a candidate who tried his best, scrawled, corrected, racked his brains, and sweated profusely, he got a 600-point exam in the same model.

He may feel that he has performed extremely well. But when I took this paper and took the exam in each subject, I was so bored that I fell asleep for half an hour, but I could still get the top score of 690 or 700 points.

It will still feel awkward.

When the skills were not activated, Gu Weijing knew clearly that his skills were far from perfect, and there were still many areas that could be polished and considered.

But he still felt that the painting was pretty good, and he didn't know how to improve it.

just now.

He can clearly see the uncontrolled spread of paint on the paper and every uncontrolled ups and downs when controlling the brush.

Where the water is thicker, where the brush strokes are dry.

There is also something wrong with the way I use the brush. There is a trace of split ends and messiness between the peaks of the brush and the flat application.

Gu Weijing's most proud line control is the most highly praised in the history of art. He has practiced his line ability to the extreme in front of the long painting master.

The so-called first level of profession is still only at the very low level of beginners.

He looked at the same painting with experience and vision that were several dimensions higher than before. The originally smooth and flawless plane became as rough as a sand dune when he was carefully examined under a high-power microscope.

Gu Weijing resisted the urge to crumple up the painting in front of him and throw it away.

Lift the pen.

Dye gently and slowly.

He tapped the paint with the tip of his pen and pushed away the water vapor with his side blade.

Gu Weijing no longer painted clouds, but let the sea of ​​blue clouds flow out along the peaks of the squirrel hair.

All this happens in a matter of seconds.

As freely as if he was playing in childhood, he pulled out a soft lint flower from his torn sleeve with his fingers and threw it into the air.

All painted.

Gu Weijing discovered that he didn't even clean the pen, but he made perfect use of the little pigment mixed in the tip of the pen when blending, creating a light yellow sunlight that reflected from the lower layer of the white sea of ​​clouds and was slowly plated. There is a layer of subtle purple-gray feeling.

Berlin is an industrial city.

It is not a tourist destination like Austria or Scandinavian Switzerland, which completely pursues beautiful mountains and rivers. The air quality in Germany is not good in Europe.

Even if Berlin’s air quality is not the first in Germany...it is second to last in Germany, which is certainly not the first.

Various European travel guides often describe Paris as beautiful, Vienna as elegant, and Venice as romantic.

Such words have never been applied to Berlin.

It's not that Berlin is bad, but that in most cases, people only use one specific word to describe it - sexy.

Think about the difference in style between beautiful girls, elegant girls, romantic girls and sexy girls.

Plus knowing it's the techno and party capital of the world.

It is easy to feel the urban temperament of Berlin.

Long before the Berlin Wall fell.

It is world-famous for its loud electronic music, sex, and endless underground parties.

Many young and artistic young men and women who come here to travel, engage in rock music, and engage in modern art come here because of its a little dirty and chaotic sense of vicissitudes.

Even its air was tainted with this restless atmosphere.

Contamination in the true physical sense is the kind of air pollution.

It's certainly not as thick as the smog of Victorian London, or the photochemical smog of Los Angeles.

It's very dirty, which makes it worse.

The air in Berlin in the photo is not clear either. It feels slightly gray and gray, neither choking soot nor clear white clouds.

Away from the sun, the clouds are almost pure white.

Where the closest sun meets the distant horizon, the clouds are bright yellow, and are vaguely dyed with a layer of blue-gray that is almost imperceptible to the naked eye, but it is real if you look closely.

This is a special visual effect caused by sunlight passing through clouds and refracted between a small amount of dust particles in the underlying atmosphere.

The hazy, seemingly absent light and shadow rendering is the most difficult part to deal with in the painting process.

How difficult is it?

To put it simply, Professor Vatel cannot paint the realistic details of Museum Island because he cannot handle the subtle changes in light and shadow details that are the most delicate on the surface of the museum building, whether in technique or color.

And these subtle changes in atmospheric color.

Compared with the mottled surface of the building, it is more delicate and more demanding in painting.

It is extremely difficult and extremely difficult to portray it perfectly.

This almost completely indescribable subtle brushstrokes and colors are the most complex and difficult aspect of photorealistic watercolor painting.

No textbook can tell you what kind of air pollution index, what kind of time, what kind of sun position and what kind of air flow and wind speed, what kind of color mixing ratio and pen technique should correspond to it.

Completely different from Western cooking guide.

Even if Gu Weijing searched through all the information and all the watercolor courses with videos teaching people to paint, he could not find anyone who would teach you step by step how many spoons and grams you should scoop out, or use a measuring cup to measure out a few drops of rose red or cobalt blue to add to the mixture. on the color wheel.

The most difficult thing in the world is to rely on feelings.

The watercolor guide by Terumi Suzuki that Professor Vatel has in hand has a whole chapter and hundreds of pages teaching people how to find the right color feeling.

Judging from the page turning marks on the book, the various notes between the pages, and the wear and tear on the corners.

Professor Wattel is almost ready to read this chapter.

but.

When it's time to draw, I just stare and can't draw. Even after ten years of drawing, I still can't draw.

If you mix it less once, you won't feel it. If you mix it more, the whole painting will be stained.

If it's clean, it's unnatural.

Dirty is too deliberate.

It's not what it looks like in the photos.

If you miss something, you will miss it a thousand miles.

Gu Weijing not only instantly expressed the diffuse feeling of sunlight in the dust, it was neither light nor heavy, just right.

What's even scarier is.

Gu Weijing discovered that he had already finished the painting in his breath without even any deliberate thinking.

The hands even move faster than the brain.

After playing around with the painting, he became more and more surprised as he looked at it. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that there was so much flavor in these two simple strokes.

The name of this limited skill is [Real World].

With the blessing of skills, Gu Weijing seemed to be able to pick a corner of the world out of the photo and put it on the paper with just a few strokes of his hand.

(End of this chapter)