Almighty painter

Chapter 608 Kitty
Gu Weijing was very satisfied with his painting.

These cats on the sketch paper are not the final versions yet, they are just "samples".

Similar to the original design sketch in art design.

Gu Weijing did not use Mr. Menzel's skills, nor did he design special movements for the cats. Basically, all the cats in the album are either lying down or sitting.

unimportant.

These are just details.

What is important in a sketch is the "meaning". What is important is the vividness of the moment when the lines bend and change.

So far.

He achieved this effect simply by relying on his own perfect level 5 sketching technique and borrowing some of the shadow of Mr. Cao in his mind.

As long as the features are captured accurately.

He was already able to bring out the pure childishness between the nasolabial lines of the old Jackley cat.

A deity makes a mountain, not its altitude.

Water does not have to be deep.

There is such a lively spirit flowing in the painting.

Gu Weijing dared to say that it was a vivid cat painting. This old Jackley cat had already started moving on the stage in his heart.

Similar to those local jade craftsmen who carefully observed the floating patterns, ice cracks and texture of the material for a long time, they determined the basic structural relationship of the jade and then cut out a basic shape with bold strokes.

Remaining work.

Only on this basis, along the natural trend of the stone and jade, we use a carving knife to make deepening and modification little by little, layer by layer.

The previous step is more critical than the next step.

From nothing to something, from zero to one.

Capture the characteristics of each soul. When the cat comes alive in your heart, the subsequent task is to see to what extent you can make it "crawl" from your heart onto the drawing paper.

The painter can do one, two, and three.

It’s better to do eight, nine, or ten.

What is being competed is technique, whether the brushstrokes are fine enough and whether the "cutting" is accurate enough.

Gu Weijing happens to possess one of the most sophisticated “carving knives” in the painting world—the perfect watercolor technique “Real World”.

From sketching, oil painting, to watercolor.

Germany's national treasure master Menzel took realism and vividness to the extreme throughout his life.

It does not have the passion of Van Gogh, the imagination of Picasso, or the romance of Turner.

He was the son of a printer who made his living by printing landscape prints.

Do only one thing in your life.

Realism, realism, and realism.

Menzel condensed all his understanding of art into the most subtle depiction of reality, nature and life through his pen.

The sparks flying from the machines around the workers in the iron rolling mill are so fine and small, floating like dust. I can draw it just like that!

Frederick the Great, wearing a tights, stockings and long high heels (note), twisted his body and played the flute in the Sanssouci Palace. The flute in his mouth was so long, so thick and so black.

I said I would draw it, and I drew it!

(Note: For a long time after the 16th century, European male aristocrats liked to wear high heels and stockings to cover their leg hair. The Iron Rolling Mill and Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci are the two most famous works of Menzel in his life.)
Drawing a cat is child's play.

Mr. Sloth mentioned that this time he needed to produce a realistic-style work.

Gu Weijing immediately thought of his system panel, and the realistic watercolor skills that had not been used since he helped Teacher Wattl complete the "Museum Island".

1000 seconds of skill usage per day.

It is used in works with very layered scenes and complex compositions, such as the large painting "Good Luck Orphanage in the Sun".

Even the time to write a draft is a bit tight.

But if you want to draw a kitten, you have to hurry up and work hard. Even if the drawing is a bit sloppy, it will be enough.

and.

Gu Weijing discovered it.

After "Menzel's Basic Painting Techniques" was upgraded to "Real World", the cooldown period changed from refreshing once every 24 hours to being able to use it freely for 1000 seconds every day.

The two look similar.

But he can now exploit a gap in the system.

Gu Weijing chooses to paint at around 11: every night, so that after midnight, the skill time will be refreshed and reset.

He can then continue to use the next day's 1000-second quota without stopping.

Draw once every two days.

Adding them together, the single usage time can reach more than half an hour.

To paint a small-scale watercolor painting of a pet, the time is just right, it does not appear to be rushed, and there is even enough time to do some meticulous detail polishing.

"I really have a plan!"

Gu Weijing gave himself a thumbs up.

While thinking.

Gu Weijing flipped the pages of the sketchbook and continued to show the cat drawings at the back to the children in the orphanage.

The popularity of "Cats" has now transcended age groups.

Adults and children alike can watch it and love it.

Just like "Star Wars", which was described by sharp film and television critics as a "children's zoo-style popcorn movie", it has become the American people's "Journey to the West".

but.

Compared to The Phantom of the Opera, which targets an older audience.

When Webb Anderson designed and adapted the play "Cats", it was for children of the same age as Jasmine and Buddy.

He is taking a quiz now.

If they like it and can see the characteristics that Gu Weijing wanted to give to each cat, it will definitely be a successful painting.

The second painting bears some resemblance to the old Jackley Cat patriarch, the aged Dutronomie, in the previous painting at first sight.

On the drawing paper is another very old cat - "Old Lady Cat Jenny Dot".

All the poems of T.S Eliot.

Only two cats have their age characteristics stated in the title.

One is "Old Dutronomie" and the other is "Old Jenny Dot".

Judging from the titles, the two poems are somewhat like sister poems.

In fact, these two old cats, one male and one female, have quite different personality traits.

Dutronomie is a respected patriarch who is so old that everyone forgets his age and has even been married 99 times.

And Jenny Dot is not that old at all.

But she was more severe, more zealous, and more formidable.

Jenny Dot likes to sit in the warm sunshine and knit.

In a large family of cats.

She goes to bed the latest and wakes up the earliest.

When the busy day finally ends and all the family members have gone to bed.

The old lady cat Jenny would cover everyone with quilts, tuck in her skirt, and slowly begin to inspect the entire family territory.

She cares deeply for every living thing around her.

This enthusiasm is not limited to cats.

There are rats and cockroaches.

Even beetles.

Jenny told others that no animal in the world is born evil, they just haven't found the right growth environment and mission in life.

She cares about mice.

It is believed that mice behave badly and have no manners, chirping all day long and running around in the middle of the night when people are asleep. This is because they lack a good lifestyle and upbringing.

So Jenny Dot would go to the basement every night to train the mice to line up.

Teach them the music in the choir and the craft of crocheting and weaving with wool.

Jenny nodded and thought that the mice were squeaking and gnawing at the corners of the bed and the boxes.

It’s because of irregular eating habits.

So in her spare time, she would bake and fry, making special "rat cakes" for the mice with bread and dried peas, supplemented with delicious fried bacon and cheese.

Jenny Diandian also believes that cockroaches run around the house in swarms, doing nothing and making a mess.

The blame lies in the lack of sufficient job opportunities.

Therefore, she hopes to train the "Madagascar hissing cockroaches" from disorderly country bumpkins into disciplined, pure and simple boy scouts.

recent.

Jenny Dot Dot began to hope to develop a homing call that would allow the beetles to return home on time.

……

Gu Weijing felt.

The image of this old lady cat is a bit like a combination of the enthusiastic aunt in the neighborhood committee and the middle-aged female devil principal in the school who makes students tremble with fear.

It is the kind of parent role in children's enlightenment poems that guides children to learn good habits such as regular schedules, listening to music, being polite, eating healthily and not being picky about food.

Sometimes it is kind and sometimes it is frightening.

In the end, with his enthusiasm, diligence and strictness, he single-handedly maintained the orderly life of the entire big family.

On drawing paper.

Gu Weijing's painting of an old lady with a cat lying on the fireplace counter.

She stretched her head and squinted her eyes slightly, as if she was looking around to see if there were any mice, cockroaches or disobedient kittens that were not sleeping at night and were running around.

The Jenny Dot breed is somewhat similar to the tabby cat.

Between his eyebrows, there are patterns that resemble old-fashioned tortoise-shell round glasses, and he is wearing a "coat" with small patterns like tiger and leopard spots.

There is no color in the sketch of the cat.

In Gu Weijing’s imagination.

When painted in watercolor, the spots and textures should appear as a warm and serious dark brown.

When Jasmine saw the old woman "Jenny Dot" in the drawing.

He immediately turned his head away with a little fear.

Then he pulled Budao's dirty little hand, which was secretly eating in his mouth, out from between his baby teeth.

See their reaction.

Gu Weijing couldn't help but smile.

Needless to say.

When painting this picture, the person that came to Gu Weijing's mind was naturally the manager of this Good Luck Orphanage, the hardworking and strict headmistress who walked around with an armband every day and would accurately catch the naughty children who did not sleep well in bed every night.

It turns out that children are afraid of strict parents.

When Gu Weijing drew Jenny Dot, he thought of the dean, and then he thought of Uncle Alai.

and so.

The cat that appears on the third page of the sketchbook is the friendly uncle cat "Skimblethornx".

In the musical, the cat is given the profession of a railway worker.

Rather than being a railway worker, it would be more accurate to say that Uncle Cat's job is to be responsible for any problems that may arise on the railway.

From helping guests find their luggage, ensuring the washroom basins are clean enough to reflect each cat's whiskers, to whether the floors are waxed, and whether the train guards are doing their job well.

He always sticks to his post and guards the peace of the railway.

He would never make a mistake, just like a watch adjuster who is familiar with the operation of every gear in the watch.

The cat knew everything that happened in the train kingdom. There was nothing he didn't know.

"So - don't make any jokes with Skimpox, the Railway Cat! He's the most formidable cat in the world, and he'll always find you."

This is what the poetry collection says.

Budao tilted his head to look at the drawing for a few seconds, then turned his head away, a little distracted.

Little girl Jasmine looked at the picture of the uncle cat on the paper and blinked.

She seemed to feel somewhat familiar with it, and looked as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

But neither Budao nor Jasmine, who was most familiar with Uncle Alai, showed the same reaction as when they saw the old woman's cat "Jenny Dot" before.

It was like an electric shock.

“This painting is not very good.”

Seeing this scene, Gu Weijing sighed in his heart.

Secretly jot down questions.

Illustrations are the taxi drivers of the painting world, allowing themselves to act as carriers of the original author and express the emotions of others.

There is always a slight gap between understanding characters created by others and understanding characters created by oneself.

When drawing The Little Prince.

In order to make Gu Weijing fully understand the emotional connotation of each character, Mr. Sloth put in so much effort and read books for him for so many days!
With "Cats", the threshold for understanding the character has become much lower.

However, it is impossible for Gu Weijing to directly embed every cat character in the story into a person he knows in his real life, and at the same time, make the emotional portrayal rich enough and keep it seamlessly fitting with the entire poem.

When creating the demo of "Skimbrosanx".

Gu Weijing was conflicted and hesitant for a long time.

He had a problem.

The image of the uncle cat reminded him of a janitor.

But after carefully reading the original text of the poem, he realized that the two had some similarities, but their temperaments were not exactly the same.

Especially after I had just painted the painting "Good Luck Orphanage in the Sun" about heroism.

Gu Weijing could then more clearly realize the subtle differences.

Uncle Alai is a vicissitudes of life and introverted person.

He has a hardness in his character, but there is also delicacy hidden in his hardness. He has low material desires in life and can enjoy himself in his own little world for a long time.

And the uncle cat "Skimbersonx".

Its original image in the collection of poems, as Mr. Sloth said, is the embodiment of the professional stereotypes of "firefighters", "policemen", "housekeepers" and "soldiers" in Western society.

Uh, the positive kind.

Not the stereotypical dark side of the corrupt, pot-bellied cop or the one riding an Apache through a Middle Eastern neighborhood.

Decent, proper, a little old-fashioned, boring and lacking in humor, but don't expect to make a joke about him because of that.

They know everything, whether it is work or life.

Such a person is like the epitome of a "strong and reliable" man.

It is the ideal type of man in social moral norms.

"The uncle cat will watch you without blinking, and he will know immediately any thought in your mind! The Northern Mail Coach never makes mistakes."

(End of this chapter)