Almighty painter

Chapter 438: Adding color and the second legendary skill

It's easy to understand.

The total amount of market cake that can be divided as a whole must be small, and the average price will not rise.

There are many oil painters on the market who can sell a single painting for US$20. Every time I throw a stone into the guest area of ​​the European Art Annual Meeting, I wish I could hit two of them.

But any watercolor painter who can sell a single work for 100,000 US dollars is a super top artist in the field of watercolor.

No matter how many times you count in the international market, you can’t count the number of people on your hands.

At the very least, it has to be Uncle Sakai's status in the oil painting circle, which can be compared to the watercolor circle.

Gu Weijing and even Detective Cat's net worth cannot support this price.

It has nothing to do with whether the painting is good or not, it only has to do with professional status.

Anyway, he can't do it now.

When he used sketching skills in the past, he felt as rigid as a computer program.

But it was more like Gu Weijing telling the system what he wanted to draw.

This means that he has more creative space.

The brushes are like thousands of golden and silver threads winding and intertwining, and the color smudged by each squirrel hair on the tip of the brush is highly controlled.

The word "basic" in the skills disappeared.

Menzel's sketching ability is Level 9 Master Level in the system classification.

In other words, it is a painting skill that can only be possessed by the best painters in the world.

Gu Weijing was still more or less heartbroken.

The moment he activated the skill, he really had the illusion that he was Menzel.

Gu Weijing was calculating in his mind.

Gu Weijing lowered his gaze back to the work board.

Gu Weijing's enlightening sense of clarity when he painted watercolors was the same as when he first started drawing pencil sketches.

This gave him the sense of freedom that he felt when he activated the legendary sword-drawing skill.

There is nothing to say about the painting effect under the blessing of skills.

And now.

The watercolor pen at Gu Weijing's fingertips can always draw the most delicate and accurate lines.

It is system skills that dominate creation.

Except it's too expensive.

He did not have much independent right to refer to the whole process of painting creation, just like tourists on a train have no right to interfere with the movement of the train.

"It seems that if you want to send paintings to galleries or sell paintings on an online store, it is definitely not cost-effective to use the real world. This skill is for use in some key situations with high profits."

Even if art is priceless.

Whether it was a human portrait or a cat squinting, he seemed to have boarded a sleeper train leading to a distant place.

"Perhaps... when using skills, the restriction that was permanently fixed in [Simple Work] has disappeared?"

It was just like the feeling of sketching when he activated [Menzel's basic drawing skill] before... but not exactly the same.

To be more precise, it's much better than that.

Just thinking about it was equivalent to burning hundreds of dollars just because he was in a daze.

Better does not mean that the skill level is numerically higher.

But when he activated the skill, Gu Weijing always felt like he was being dragged by a galloping horse and disappeared.

Although Gu Weijing is still drawing with a pen, he can still gain a lot of experience and painting experience.

The astronomical cost of burning two hours of skills is enough for him to upgrade any of the three to the third level of his profession in sketching, oil painting, and Chinese painting.

Gu Weijing's heart skipped a beat.

As soon as I close my eyes and open them again, I'm done painting.

They should all be skills around the level 9 limit.

His mastery of watercolor is what pushes this technique to a deeper dimension, bringing narratives to life in all brush strokes.

Than using it to paint a one-time watercolor. This was obviously much more attractive to Gu Weijing.

He savored the feeling when he just painted, and came up with a guess that surprised him.

Only important occasions that have the final say are worthy of the expensive additional use of [Real World].

Even without the expansion of the watercolor section, the scope of application of Gu Weijing's skills is much wider than before simply based on Menzel's sketching techniques.

The key is not whether the painting method has become more advanced, the key is that Gu Weijing is no longer a human puppet serving as a carrier of skills.

Throughout the painting process, his subjective creative desire can intervene.

Before and after his upgrade, his skill level was perfect.

He was quite curious. Most of the sky map in front of him was drawn at the Level 3 semi-professional level, and the remaining quarter or so was drawn at the Level 4 professional level.

There are only two strokes at the end, which are also the two most critical strokes. They were wiped out with a master's third-level technique that may be as high as Level 9.

These three very different techniques are combined in one painting.

What kind of comprehensive evaluation will the system give?

Lv.3 or Lv.9?

It is certainly not common for two painters with vastly different skill levels to create the same work.

Not too rare either.

One is the joint creation of two or more artists, creative art exhibitions, and large-scale murals.

Repin Academy of Fine Arts has been undertaking Orthodox mural projects all year round.

For a long time, some bosses in Dongxia Jiangnan liked to put these things on the walls of hotels.

Generally, you can start with seven or eight million.

According to the article, the size of the wall and whether it is a dome painting.

The budget can range from 30 to 40 million or even hundreds of millions.

These days, there are very few large-scale dome paintings like those in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, when only one artist could paint them for ten years.

For very large works, a large team of painters is basically sent over.

Multiple people work together, and each person completes a part of the work.

There are as few as a dozen people and as many as hundreds of people who want to pack up all the teachers and students of a college and send them there.

Except for large murals.

The other category tends to be in the gray field, but it is also part of the "glorious tradition" of art history, which is the painting by teachers and students.

The teacher and senior brother took over the job of painting a portrait of a wealthy businessman at a high price. They made a sketch and added background colors in front of him.

If you are sick, busy with work, or simply "Humph, I want to go out with my girl and don't want to paint anymore", I will leave it to the disciple to finish the painting, sign his name and pay the final payment.

in turn.

Young painters participate in art exhibitions and painting salons. They are not confident in their painting skills and leave their works to their elders for "polishing".

This practice has been around for thousands of years.

To be honest, if you are willing to draw half of each, it is a very conscientious behavior.

When Titian entered the studio, he painted for his senior brother Giorgione and teacher Giovanni.

The wealthy businessmen of those days must know that the family portrait they carefully took back after spending dozens of gold coins was painted by a little-known child representative. He must have spit out a mouthful of old blood and shouted RNM to refund the money!

But if it were today.

Anyone who can find accurate and convincing proof of which work was co-created by Titian Giorgione will pay an astronomical price.

The price of art is so wonderfully unpredictable.

Gu Weijing threw an identification technique on the drawing paper, opened the panel and took a look.

Unexpected and reasonable.

The evaluation of this painting on the system panel is neither an awesome semi-professional nor a defective Lv. 9, but——

[Work: "Clouds in the Sky"]

[Sketch Technique: Lv.5 Professional Level ]

[Watercolor Technique: Lv.6 Professional Level (Color Improvement)]

[Mood: Simple work] "Is this so?"

Gu Weijing looked at the evaluation on the panel.

The mood rating of a simple work is nothing.

This is not the reason for using skills, his painting is just a practice work.

During the painting process, there are pauses and stops, and the time spent trying to figure out and appreciate the techniques is much more than the time spent on the creation itself.

It would be pretty good to get [A Simple Work].

On the contrary, the note "color enhancement" behind the watercolor technique is a new content that has never been displayed in the system panel before.

When Gu Weijing looked over.

I found that a line of small text annotations automatically popped up on the panel.

He read it carefully for a moment and roughly understood how these two words should be interpreted.

According to the system.

When painters with higher painting skills polish the works of lower-level painters, they can completely change the temperament of the old works, polishing stone into jade, and turning iron into gold.

Two easy strokes.

He transformed a mediocre work into an excellent work with a suddenly elevated level and level.

Just like the ancients writing poetry.

The head, chin, and neck are all unremarkable.

Later, with the guidance of an expert, I only added a magical last couplet, or even revised and refined a few words. The overall momentum of the poem suddenly changed, majestic and magical.

It is for wonderful pens to produce flowers.

The same goes for poetry and painting.

Painters can also make a big difference.

The master only touches the key points in the painting with his brush, which can make the entire work's momentum and pattern unique.

Want to reach this level.

It is definitely impossible to achieve a higher level than the author of the original painting.

It must be a higher dimension, at least a whole level, preferably a big stage, in order to achieve the magic power of turning decay into divine energy.

The polishing of the picture is divided into three levels as a whole -

Enhance color, enhance eyes, and enliven spirit.

The most basic and simple thing is to enhance color.

You can increase the atmosphere of the picture, or you can add eye-catching features to one area of ​​the entire picture.

Just like the cloud that Gu Weijing clicked on at the end, it added three thirds of color to the entire watercolor painting, making this painting between amateur and professional entry-level paintings bring the overall comprehensive visual effect to the audience. Pushing the limits of professional painters.

This step is not difficult as long as you have enough experience with your painting techniques.

The finishing touch is awesome.

The finishing touch, the finishing touch.

With one stroke, flowers bloom all over the paper.

In front of Gu Weijing, Mr. Cao used dotted strokes to add the eyes of Guanyin on the mural of the Shwedagon Pagoda, which was considered to be "the finishing touch" to a certain extent.

The whole painting instantly took on a Zen feel.

In addition to the requirements of technical level, you must have a sufficient understanding of the context of the painting and find the most critical "eye point" of the entire painting, where the divine intention is concentrated.

Only then can one write as follows as the sword.

A whip marks a mark, a slap brings blood.

It is no longer a simple addition of bright colors, but a smooth and consistent integration with the temperament of the entire painting.

Let the feeling of the entire painting expand with your brushwork.

With just a few strokes, the whole painting suddenly becomes vivid and has a soul.

This kind of almost pure giving is also different from just giving tips and help from a person with higher skill in painting to a person with lower skill in painting.

You can see the master adding the finishing touches to a painting live.

Not only is it a rare learning process for the creator of the original painting, but also a rare insight and improvement for the person who puts the finishing touches to the painting.

Catching the breath and pulse of a painting is like a famous doctor checking the pulse.

One needle can hit the key point.

It requires more than just technique.

It is also a process in which the master relies on his own macro-view of the entire technique to examine and sort out the painting and composition of the entire painting.

It is an extremely test of the depth of knowledge in fire and painting theory.

Four ounces weighs a thousand pounds, and it takes skill to move it.

There is no use practicing painting skills.

And the most difficult thing is the so-called "birth of God".

Oriental painting pays attention to spirit, shape, energy and rhyme.

The divine word comes first.

In the ancestral genealogy of Gu Tongxiang's family, there is a high probability that the person in his family's family was far-fetched and recognized his ancestor Gu Kaizhi.

When people summarized the theory of painting, they once said, "In all paintings, the divine intention is the most difficult, followed by figures, landscapes, dogs and horses. Terraces and pavilions must be equipped with instruments and ears. It is difficult to achieve but easy to master."

Later generations praised Gu Kaizhi's exquisite painting skills and commented that his works had reached the mysterious level of depicting gods with form.

The divine meaning of painting is never limited to one stroke or one stroke.

It is everywhere, yet intangible and insubstantial.

After a painting is brought to life by a master's brush, it can be essentially elevated in level.

This is a precious reinterpretation of the original painting.

The original painting gave the body, and his pen and ink gave the soul.

From then on it came to life.

Even in the small print on the system panel, there is no explanation of what kind of polish is considered to be a living god.

It only mentions the legendary Liang Dynasty painter Zhang Sengyao, who painted the finishing touch. In an instant, there was lightning and thunder, and two giant dragons flew through the wall.

This statement is of course a myth.

But this kind of painting gives people the feeling of atmosphere in the heart. Although the last few strokes are called "pointing points", they actually have the meaning of "giving life to the spirit".

The polishing at the level of a living god is no longer polishing, it is the joint creation of two people.

Not only does it have high requirements for masters.

Suitable creators and original paintings are both rare and rare.

The painting turned into a puddle of mud, and Gu Kaizhi, Wu Daozi, and Yan Liben all came over to polish it up for you.

It can't be both spiritual and physical.

The dog's tail continues with the mink, only the smiling ears are added.

While reading the instructions on the system, Gu Weijing guessed that it was because today he finally successfully equipped and mastered the bonus skills provided in the second step of the chain mission.

He heard the prompt that a new mission was activated in his ears.

[Serial Mission: Fusion Painting-Hai Na Bai Chuan (3/3 Final Mission)]

[Current task content: Learning, improvement, and inheritance are the source of the endless fire of art. They are also the process of a person having a broad mind and embracing all rivers. Gifts of roses, hand a fragrance. Guiding others is the most effective summary and learning for oneself. Please complete six guidance paintings for other creators, including at least five "color-enhancing" works and one "finishing" level work. 】

[Current mission progress: color improvement (0/5)/eye-catching (0/1)]

[The ultimate reward of the chain mission: a random legendary skill (this reward is limited to the print category)]

"The ultimate reward this time is finally a legendary skill!"

Gu Weijing couldn't help but be slightly moved when he saw the prompt on the system.

(End of this chapter)