Reborn as a great painter, with a system, you can be willful

Chapter 105, Mission Requirements, Sketching, Honor Accumulation

In the hotel lobby, people who participated in the field trip were viewing and commenting on dozens of works. Several others were accompanying the newly arrived president to browse the works.

When Jiang Zhe heard the system prompt sound, he felt that it was not appropriate to check the system here, so he quietly left the hall, came to a secluded place, and opened the system.

A prompt box pops up on the system page.

Players participate in field trips organized by the Art Society, show their works to everyone, and trigger random tasks in the Great Painter Growth Mission.

Task requirements: Players must complete no less than 20 sketches during the field trip and receive positive reviews in daily presentations and subsequent report presentations.

The system will evaluate and issue rewards based on the players' completion of tasks.

In this random task column, there is also an honor progress bar. The more favorable comments you get, the more favorable comments you get.

After reading the task requirements, Jiang Zhe felt that it would be difficult to complete the task.

It is not difficult to complete the work as required and participate in the exhibition, but it is very difficult to get good reviews.

After all, art is too subjective, and everyone's understanding and perception of beauty will be influenced by subjective factors.

Wherever there are people, there will be conflicts of interest. It is very difficult to get good reviews for no reason.

However, the system did not provide further explanation.

At the same time that Jiang Zhe was checking the system tasks, the president of the Art Society and the person in charge of the organizer were commenting on the members' works.

Because the president had served as a judge in several national exhibitions, those who were evaluated by him appeared convinced on the surface, no matter what they thought in their hearts.

Of course, the president knows his peers very well and knows what everyone wants to hear. Even when he is commenting, he is talking about Chinese New Year.

The president was surrounded by people, walking and looking around, and stopped in front of a work of art.

He stared at the painting for a while and said, "This painting has a bit of Sargent's style, but the tonal changes are subtle and well-painted. Whose painting is this?"

In the corner of the painting, there was only the word "Zhe" written in paint, and he couldn't tell who painted it.

Wang Zhen, who had been accompanying him, promptly answered, “This is Jiang Zhe’s work that our gallery recommended.”

The president repeated the name a few times. "How old are you?"

Wang Zhen said: "I took the college entrance examination this year and was admitted to Binhai Art College."

The president suddenly realized: "I remember now. I heard from their department head. I heard that he was the first in the art test for the oil painting major. Is he here?"

He looked around but didn't see anyone in their teens or 18s.

Wang Zhen didn't see Jiang Zhe either. "He might be out. I'll introduce him to everyone when he comes back."

President: “Okay, I heard he won an award?”

Wang Zhen said: "Not only have they won awards, but their works have also entered the market and are being collected by people."

She recounted Jiang Zhe's several experiences of selling paintings.

"It's not easy to sell paintings at the age of 19." The president said and went to look at other works.

This conversation spread, and many people heard the name Jiang Zhe for the first time.

Jiang Zhe was just about to go back to the hall to continue eating when he suddenly noticed that the honor progress bar was flashing and the cursor was moving slowly.

The progress bar has scales from 1 to 100. At this moment, the cursor exceeds scale 1, and soon exceeds scale 2, scale 3...

The cursor stops moving after reaching 4 scale marks.

Jiang Zhe looked at the progress bar and wondered where the honor came from. Who gave the good review?
He couldn't figure it out, so he had to go back to the hall to appreciate other people's works.

While Jiang Zhe was looking at the paintings, he found that some people were discussing his paintings, with mixed reviews.

Some people say that Jiang Zhe has good basic skills, while others say that his paintings are too restrained and that he is obviously learning from Sargent and lacks individuality.

Wang Zhen found Jiang Zhe and said, "You were not here just now. Chairman Cui spoke highly of your paintings. I will find a chance to introduce them to you later."

Teacher Yin came over and told Jiang Zhe what had just happened.

Jiang Zhe finally figured out that the good reviews should come from some people in the hall.

After the appreciation and communication, everyone returned to the restaurant.

The president raised his glass and spoke first.

“Dear members, our society is able to organize the field trip thanks to the help of several old friends.

Let’s strive to produce more good works through activities.

Today, everyone showed their works in a very good way. Only by communicating more can we make progress. I suggest that we keep on doing this communication session.”

Several supporters also spoke one after another.

After the speech, everyone started to speak freely. Many members were good at livening up the atmosphere, and the restaurant soon became lively.

Everyone started to clink glasses and the drinks were consumed very quickly. Boxes of beer and rice wine were delivered to the restaurant one after another.

The dinner was very ordinary, no big fish or meat, just farm dishes.

Jiang Zhe is not picky about food and gets full quickly.

Wang Zhen and Chairman Cui toasted at each table and found an opportunity to introduce Chairman Cui to Jiang Zhe.

Chairman Cui shook hands with Jiang Zhe and said, "I have seen your paintings, they are of a very high standard. You are not a member of the Painting Society yet, are you?"

"Not yet."

The president said, "Let Manager Wang help you. You are qualified enough to join our society. In the future, you must often participate in our activities."

"Thank you."

The president chatted with Jiang Zhe for a few words, then went to find other people to keep in touch with.

Jiang Zhe found an opportunity and quietly left the restaurant and returned to his room.

He first called his parents to report that he was safe, then took out his sketchbook and organized his gains for the day.

Today, he saw the works of many painters.

These painters have different research directions, including traditional Chinese painting, watercolor, gouache, oil painting, and some create works with pencil, light colors and pastels.

Some of these works are very unique and gave him a lot of inspiration.

While organizing the sketches, he received a text message from Chen Yan.

"Jiang Zhe, is it convenient to talk now?"

Jiang Zhe put down his paintbrush and dialed Chen Yan's number. After waiting for a while, Chen Yan answered the phone. "Jiang Zhe, are you home?"

"you guess."

"I don't guess. We have already arrived in Yangzhou." Chen Yan was in a good mood: "How are you at home? Are you feeling a little bored without me around?"

Jiang Zhe said: "I am very busy. I will be sketching in Lanshan Village now."

Chen Yan was surprised: "Why did you want to go sketching? What kind of place is that?"

Jiang Zhe briefly introduced his experience of going out for sketching.

"Good, young man, work hard." Chen Yan imitated the old man's tone: "You are not allowed to imitate the adults in drinking, do you hear me?"

"Okay, I'll wait for you to come back."

The two chatted for a while before ending the call.

Before ending, Chen Yan took a sip of the phone.

Jiang Zhe painted in his room until very late, until he had finished catching up on what he had learned that day.

Before going to bed, he saw that the cursor on the honor progress bar had exceeded 10 marks.

He guessed that someone was talking about him.

In the first half of the night, he didn't sleep well at all, and he heard the sound of drunk people being carried back. Every time a group of people came back, the corridor would become noisy.

In the second half of the night, the hotel finally became quiet.

……

Early in the morning, Jiang Zhe got up to exercise.

He came to the courtyard and prepared to have breakfast.

Teacher Yin also came to the restaurant. "Jiang Zhe, you got up so early?"

Jiang Zhe said: "I didn't drink last night, I went to bed early and got up early."

Teacher Yin asked, "I have an appointment with a few friends to go out for a day of painting today. Let's bring some food. We won't be back at noon. Do you want to come with us?"

Jiang Zhuo thought this was a good idea to avoid wasting time. "Okay, I'll go too."

Each of them brought a few steamed buns and pickles, carried their painting supplies, and waited for their friends to arrive before setting off together.

A friend of Teacher Yin has been here and knows where the scenery is good.

He suggested going to the small pier in the fishing village first, and then to some nice places on the mountain.

Several people agreed with this suggestion.

The oldest person in the group was Teacher Yin. In order to take care of the elderly, they walked and stopped, and arrived at the small pier at nine in the morning.

There were several small fishing boats parked on the coast of the pier, and two fishermen were checking their fishing nets.

Some of Jiang Zhe's group went over to greet the fishermen. They liked to draw portraits, and took the opportunity to depict the busy fishermen during the chat.

Jiang Zhe chose to depict the beach and fishing boats.

Seaside scenery is a familiar subject for him, but the scenery here is different from that in the city.

The sand on the beach here is very rough, and there is a lot of seaweed brought ashore by the sea and river.

After he finished painting a picture, he changed the angle and continued to depict similar subjects.

They stayed at the dock for nearly an hour and then headed up the mountain along the path.

On the way, they found a place to rest, had lunch, and then continued on their journey.

The higher we went up the mountain, the denser the trees became, and we also saw mountain streams.

Jiang Zhe took a lot of photos with his camera.

They climbed to the top of a mountain and the view suddenly became broad.

Jiang Zhe looked to the north, and saw rolling mountains from near to far. There were several small lakes in the valley, like scattered mirrors.

Someone familiar with the terrain said, "We can only go so far. After we finish painting, we have to return the same way."

Jiang Zhe wanted to depict some mountain scenes with open spaces.

He first shot with a camera, then did a lot of experimenting with sketches.

He kept changing positions to capture the beautiful scenery of the mountains.

In the process of selecting scenes and materials, Jiang Zhe removed some elements that interfered with the picture, arranged and even moved the required images reasonably, and finally used sketches to work out a grand landscape draft.

He found a relatively spacious place, set up his painting box, found out the solid watercolor paints, and began to use watercolors to perfect his previous draft.

The scenery in the painting begins with the undulating terrain in the near distance and gradually extends to the distance. Several towering peaks become the main images, and the mountains farther away gradually merge with the sky.

The mountains are lush and green.

In order to avoid monotonous colors, Jiang Zhe made changes to the foreground, middle ground and background of the painting.

The clouds in the sky were dyed golden by the sunlight, and the illuminated and unilluminated parts of the mountains showed different tones.

Purple and blue appear in the colors of the mountains. The lakes used to embellish the picture reflect the colors of the clouds. These colors add layers to the mountains without destroying the color tone.

Jiang Zhe painted until 3 pm, then returned to the hotel with Teacher Yin and others.

When they returned to the hotel, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.

Several people came to the restaurant to eat hungry.

Jiang Zhe counted and found that he had completed six watercolor paintings. At this rate, he should be able to complete the required number of paintings.

After dinner, several people placed today's works in the hotel lobby.

There are more works in the hall than yesterday.

Jiang Zhe opened the system and saw that the cursor on the progress bar of the random task was moving little by little.

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