Almighty painter

Chapter 65 The Submerged Order

"Detective Cat... madam?"

Seeing this address, the corners of Gu Weijing's mouth twitched slightly.

of course,

And it's no wonder his customers.

Fiverr's requirements for the personal information of the registrants are not high, and the shopkeepers on it are not required to provide their own detailed personal information.

As long as there are no complaints from buyers, you can basically fill in the age and gender of your country, and no one will care about you if you define your gender as an armed helicopter.

It's not completely random. Fiverr's registration policy is basically divided into two categories: the United States or foreign countries.

If your place of registration is written in the United States, you also need to submit an additional W2\1099 tax return form to the IRS (International Revenue Service) on the website on time.

No matter where you are from, as long as you are registered in the United States, you have to pay taxes.

This is not mandatory. If you are an American, as long as you are confident in avoiding the supervision of the IRS, you can also fill in abroad.

Outsiders browsing this store can see from the self-introduction of Detective Cat's store profile.

They are doing business with a 34-year-old woman who was born in Algeria and has a university degree. It is absolutely impossible to imagine that the owner of this online shop is a Yangonian who is not yet an adult.

The reason why Gu Weijing registered as a "female" painter was not because the male students on campus often liked to create an account of a cute girl in a bikini when they were playing role-playing games.

He also has his own cleverness in it.

Gu Weijing saw a data analysis about the gender of painters in the school classroom.

Sexism persists today in the high-end art market and art exhibitions.

Male oil painters are more popular and recognized than female oil painters.Male painters are also more likely to get signed contracts with higher bids.

But in the online part-time job solicitation, the ratio is almost reversed.

At present, the proportion of male customers and female customers is almost half and half, but female painters are more likely to receive orders than male painters.

This factor may be due to the fact that female illustrators have more delicate strokes than male illustrators, and it is easier to draw soft and cute cartoon-style illustrations.

However, Gu Weijing personally feels that there is another big reason——

Figures and animations may occupy half of the online illustrators.

Let's imagine.

You are an otaku who is keen on collecting hand-made figures.

Every day you spend a lot of time to give your Makise Kurisu, Siesta, Nakano Miku, Asuna (the above are all popular anime female characters)... Figures are replaced with various Armors, skirts, and corresponding anime trinkets.

When you finally dress up your Two-dimensional wives beautifully, you want to draw a custom illustration for them as your own mobile wallpaper.

You hope that this illustration is drawn by a nerd who loves Two-dimensional as you do, eating Coke fried chicken while holding a paintbrush with greasy fingers and drawing it on a tablet.

Or do you want a little sister painter to create for you?
Although sex online is not believable.

But you definitely hope it's the latter, at least you can imagine it.

Otherwise, when you sleep with your phone in your arms, it will really feel weird.

This industry has the same principle as online game companions, no matter whether it is a big guy who uses a voice changer or not, at least the gender column will always be filled with girls.

As for why you have to fill in that you are in your 30s, it is easier to understand.

It is because customers feel that old painters are more experienced.

If you know that it was drawn by a teenage child, even if he is actually satisfied, he will be worried that you did not draw it well, and will ask you to revise the draft endlessly.

Gu Weijing looked at the massive amount of news,

he knows,
My Detective Cat shop has become completely famous this time.

……

When Gu Weijing finally looked through the thousands of unread emails in his inbox, it was already early morning.

There are all kinds of messages, even if he only browses the languages ​​he can understand, and only reads the titles at a glance, and occasionally clicks on the emails he is interested in, it takes him a lot of time.

In fact, most emails are not nutritious.

Basically, it can be categorized as "Wow! Ma'am, you are awesome.", "Ms. Detective Cat, your drawing was picked by Mr. Hyperion!!!" or "Is there really no script for this? I don't believe it." This type of spam.

Gu Weijing basically deleted such emails in batches, and blocked hundreds of guys who wanted to sexually harass him like the so-called jeweler before.

The rest are all order classes.

"User Hyperion1077 gave you a good review!"

"Number of good reviews +1"

Not long after browsing the message sent to him by Mr. Hyperion, Gu Weijing received a reminder from the other party to give him a good review.

He opened the virtual panel and took a look.

After completing this single favorable evaluation, his panel at this time has become——

[Serial Mission: First Look - The Way of Career (2/3)]

[Current task: complete 95 favorable orders on Fivverr, and the favorable rate exceeds [-]%]

[Current task progress: positive review (9), medium review (0), negative review (0), termination of transaction (1). 】

[Current task reward: Painting appraisal (excellent level skill)]

Not counting the evaluation Mr. Hyperion gave him just now, Gu Weijing only made two deals during this period.

The lack of traffic in the Fiverr store is the main reason why he has not been able to speed up his progress on this task.

Gu Weijing originally thought that according to this speed, he would not be able to complete the second step of this professional task before the end of the holiday and the start of school.

Unexpectedly, there was a surprise from heaven.

He knew that starting today, as long as he didn't play tricks, his store would probably never lack orders.

However, since there are a large number of orders pouring in, he is very careful in screening his own orders.

Not all orders are worth picking up.

First of all, those whose transaction prices are extremely low can be excluded.

At present, among the hundreds of thousands of trading applications on Fiverr, the vast majority of people have seen Mr. Hyperion’s video. Make an appointment with him.

These deal offers accounted for more than 95% of the total order book.

Except for meaningless cheap orders.

There are also orders with surprisingly high prices.

[Mr. Hyperion] paid Jane Arnoyo $100 million for the draft, mainly because it was the Taishan Beidou of the illustration world, and it was also for the video effect.

In fact, the price ceiling of the illustration itself is not high.

But the figures on these drafts really surprised Gu Weijing.

The world is so big, there are always some people who are not short of money, or who want to take advantage of Mr. Hyperion's popularity.

There were several orders of tens of thousands of dollars, and there was even a Canadian studio in these emails, asking Gu Weijing to draw a promotional poster for their animated film that was going to be released on Easter, and offered a high price of [-] dollars .

This is already the price of a top-tier illustration studio.

The other party obviously wanted to catch up with the hype before the movie was officially released.

For some large-scale animated films, the cost of publicity and advertising before the corresponding schedule is released can account for 50.00% of the total cost of the film, and the cost of investment can reach the order of 9000 million or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

This Canadian film studio is definitely not so powerful, it can only be regarded as a third-tier low-cost animation, so I want to spend [-] US dollars to catch the popularity of Internet celebrity illustrators.

However, the other party made it clear that if he wanted to accept this order, he had to personally cooperate with all the announcement arrangements of the other party.

As for how the painting is, it is not the point.

Even if there is no requirement to cooperate with the announcement,
Gu Weijing is also not prepared to accept such an order.

He knew that he had learned the basics of Menzel's painting, combined with Berryman's anatomical skills, and in a very specific environment, he could draw works that are truly comparable to the master.

The luck factor is greater than the strength factor.

In terms of real painting experience, any one of the three serious illustrators is better than me.

After all, Menzel's experience is only the comprehension of Mr. Menzel, not Gu Weijing's own.

Menzel's skill has the word "basic" in it.

It is not the basis of painting skills, but when he uses the skills, the whole person seems to have entered a unique state of tranquility.

It is not difficult to draw some simple patterns that have been thought of, copy models, or dissect the muscle lines of characters.

However, it is difficult to integrate your own emotions and ideas.

As the judges said, she lacks all emotions except seriousness.

The mood table will always be fixed on the evaluation of "Simple Works", no matter whether you draw it once or a hundred times, there will be no other evaluation.

If it is not your own, it is not your own.

Otherwise, it would not be difficult for Gu Weijing to participate in an art exhibition relying on sketching with his hands and adding a little creativity.

The quick money you earn from the popularity of the Internet can only be earned once. When the traffic leaves you, you will fall as badly as you are praised.

Only take colored pencil drawings that I am good at, and only draw subjects within my ability, either characters or simple patterns.

This is the real long-term solution.

(End of this chapter)