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

Chapter 254, Mission Reward, Decoration
In the studio of the freshman class of the oil painting major, all the students are concentrating on painting.

Teacher Lu taught a new course, requiring students to use new materials to paint. The technical requirements include but are not limited to comprehensive creative methods such as painting, inlaying, and pasting.

The students used their own brains and various materials to make the studio like a workshop.

In front of Jiang Zhe were two oil painting frames with stretched canvases and several completed drafts.

Due to limited time, he did not follow his previous habit of drawing a pencil draft of the same size first, but started depicting directly after drawing the small draft.

He chose acrylic as the main painting material, and then inlaid it to enrich the texture of the picture.

Jiang Zhe chooses still life as the subject of his paintings, which provides more possibilities for using a variety of materials.

He quickly painted the base with acrylic, and then used adhesive to inlay metal flakes, eggshell fragments and other materials at the predetermined positions on the picture. After the adhesive dried, he used transparent or translucent colors to render.

The picture at this time is more flat and more decorative.

In order to maximize the advantages of the material, Jiang Zhe exaggerated the main image of the painting and even broke its original outline when inlaying it.

This experimental painting was praised by Teacher Lu.

Before school was over on Friday, Jiang Zhe had completed a piece of work.

That night, he brought all the materials back to his studio and used Saturday to complete another mixed media painting.

This work depicts a scene in a restaurant, with the main image being a table of guests, with the bustling restaurant as the background.

He flattened all the images, referring to Klimt's painting effects.

Jiang Zhe used the system to review two mixed-media paintings, but the results were unexpected.

The mixed media paintings with still life as the theme were evaluated as average, while the paintings with restaurants as the theme were evaluated as excellent. Neither of them reached the level of fine works.

He looked at the two "innovative" works and had to admit that he really didn't understand or was not very good at this kind of modernist painting.

At this time, the system prompts again that the challenge task can be submitted.

He originally wanted to use these two works to increase the reward again, but after seeing the reviews, he no longer had any hope and simply clicked to submit the task.

The challenge task gives the conclusion:

You have completed four works during the color class, two of which have reached the fine grade. Through practice, you have improved your tempera painting skills to the elementary stage.

Based on the comprehensive evaluation of your performance, you can get the following rewards:
Funding reward: 10 yuan;

One opportunity to improve skills;
An opportunity to observe the master's creation.

After looking at these three rewards, Jiang Zhe felt that this result was better than he expected.

He chose to accumulate the financial awards.

Because he had already entrusted a work to auction, he wanted to see how much his painting could be sold for without the help of the system.

Then, he clicks on skill upgrade. Items cannot be selected for skill upgrade.

The system directly upgrades Danpela's skills to advanced skills.

The next changes gave Jiang Zhe a surprise.

After the upgrade, the Danpela skill became a comprehensive material painting skill and became independent from the oil painting skill. However, this skill needs to be constantly exposed to new painting materials and master their characteristics in order to continue to upgrade.

Jiang Zhe didn't want to spend time on this skill for the time being, so he closed the page and continued his previous copying work in order to better complete his semester learning goals.
On Sunday afternoon, Chen Yan came to the studio.

Because Jiang Zhe has been very busy recently, Sunday afternoons have almost become a fixed rest time for the two of them.

She unfolded a white T-shirt.

"I heard you're using acrylic paint, which is not afraid of water. Can you help me paint something on my clothes?"

Jiang Zhe thought that the acrylic paint had already been opened and it would be a waste if it was not used, so he agreed to help Chen Yan paint the T-shirt.

He fixed the clothes to the drawing board and used cardboard to separate the front and back of the painting.

He looked at the back of the T-shirt and asked Chen Yan: "What do you want to draw?"

Chen Yan said, "Can you draw the singer's portrait on it?"

Jiang Zhe glanced at her and said, "No." Chen Yan said, "She is a female singer."

"That's not possible either."

“What can you draw?”

Jiang Zhe said, "How about painting some of the female demons from Journey to the West?"

"No!" Chen Yan objected.

"Forget it, I'll choose for myself." Jiang Zhe said, "Just wait and see."

He used a large round-tipped watercolor brush, dipped it in acrylic paint, and began to paint quickly on the clothes.

The brush flew up and down, and a mess of colors appeared on the back of the white T-shirt, black, brown, tan...

"Hey, this is what you drew? What can you see from such a mess?" Chen Yan asked.

Jiang Zhe painted by himself: "You will know when you see the end."

He used diluted colors and slightly rendered the tangled colors, and a fluffy dog's head was drawn.

"You drew a small card?" Chen Yan recognized it immediately.

Jiang Zhe didn't say anything. He adjusted the colors, drew the eyes and the nose. Then, he drew the two front paws, the outline of the body, and the tail...

Chen Yan had already recognized that the little card drawn by Jiang Zhe was lying on the ground, staring at her with wide eyes, with its head covering most of its body, leaving only its two small front paws exposed. Its tail was fluffy, with a slightly blurred edge, as if it was shaking.

After Jiang Zhe finished drawing the basic form, he began to tidy up the picture, using light colors to render or dark colors to embellish, making use of the messy colors. Some of the colors that were originally unclear gradually revealed their functions, some becoming the colors of the light-receiving parts, and some becoming shadows.

Chen Yan looked at the time. Jiang Zhe spent about 20 minutes to paint this work. His technique was exquisite and he looked cool and refreshing. However, putting the little pet on his back seemed a little strange. She didn't know how to describe it.

"Why, you don't like it?" Jiang Zhe put down his paintbrush, saw Chen Yan's expression, and said, "If you don't like it, leave it to me."

"No, this is mine." When Chen Yan was admiring the work, Jiang Zhe found her from behind and put his arms around her.

"Oh, be gentle. I can't breathe."

……

Because tomorrow is Monday, Jiang Zhe and Chen Yan went back to school together after exercising and having dinner.

The weather was getting warmer, and since the two had nothing urgent to do, they just took a walk around the campus, enjoying their leisurely time.

After making an appointment to have breakfast together tomorrow, Jiang Zhe sent Chen Yan back to the dormitory and then went to his own dormitory.

In the dormitory, Du Xin and Shao Hui were playing chess. Gan Wenjie was not there.

Jiang Zhe greeted his roommate and asked, "Is Gan Wenjie not back yet?"

"He went out on Friday and didn't come back last night," said Du Xin.

Jiang Zhe seldom spends weekends in the dormitory. He heard from his roommates that after Gan Wenjie got a girlfriend, he sometimes spent the night outside.

As Shao Hui made his move, he asked, "Brother Du, how long do you think they have known each other?"

Du Xin stared at the chessboard. "He didn't tell me. I guess it's been about a month. It was Friday afternoon. He said he would be back last night, but he hasn't come back yet. Fortunately, we know what he went to do."

Jiang Zhe chatted for a few minutes and then went to read a book and listen to music.

The phone in the dormitory rang.

Because Du Xin's wife often called the dormitory, he stood up to answer the phone.

However, when he picked up the phone and listened for a while, he didn't hear the usual gentle and soft voice.

"Hey, tell me carefully, what's going on?"

Shao Hui heard something wrong in Du Xin's tone and turned to look over.

Jiang Zhe also put down the book and looked at Du Xin.

(End of this chapter)