Xu Hong saw that Chen Wei couldn't understand these esoteric portrait theories he talked about at all, so he had to change to a simpler way of explanation. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Okay, thank you, hurry up!" Chen Wei sat on the chair again, like a child listening to a story, waiting for Xu Hong to give him another lecture!

"Actually, the most important thing in painting a portrait is to draw the eyes. The eyes are expressive. Whether you can draw a good portrait depends on how well you draw your eyes. After Xu Hong finished speaking, he picked up the portrait of Chen Wei that he had painted. He pointed to the eyes of the characters in the painting and said, "Look, there is a difference between the eyes I draw and your own." ”

Chen Wei took the painting and looked at it again and said: "Your eyes are bigger than my own, and they are very attentive, as if you are staring at a target in the distance, this kind of gaze, I don't seem to have felt it myself." ”

"Well, you're right, painting itself is a kind of art, art itself is an exaggeration, and exaggeration itself is a kind of fiction. The essence of fiction is creation. We pay attention to the likeness of the gods, not the images. Get to the point.

The key point of portrait painting is the eyes. Just draw the eyes well. That's a good portrait. If the eyes are not good, it is not a good portrait. Therefore, the point of portraiture is to draw the eyes. You should be able to understand it by now!"

After Xu Hong finished speaking, he stared at Chen Wei for a while.

Chen Wei scratched his head and smirked, "Almost! I also learned to draw eyes before, but no matter how I draw them, they don't feel real, and they are far less realistic than the eyes you draw. ”

Chen Wei listened to Xu Hong's explanation, although he understood it this time, he was still confused about how to draw his eyes.

"Okay, I can teach you personally, anyway, you won't be working today, let's discuss the problem of painting a good portrait together!"

Xu Hong knows that the important thing in painting is to paint. It's useless to just say that if you don't practice. You have to do it to learn to draw well.

Chen Wei listened to Xu Hong's words, and said a little embarrassed: "My painting is ugly, how embarrassed, to get an axe in front of you, a professional." ”

"Hey! Chen Wei, what are you talking about? Don't you want to learn to draw! If you don't dare to draw in front of the teacher, then how can the teacher teach you!" As soon as Xu Hong heard Chen Wei's words, he couldn't help but teach him a lesson. After all, you yourself said that you wanted to learn to draw, and now you are embarrassed to draw in front of me, so how do you want me to teach you!

Chen Wei listened to Xu Hong's words, and was embarrassed not to paint, so he had to look at Xu Hong and said, "Okay, then I'll draw an eye for you first!" After speaking, he picked up a paintbrush and wanted to draw an eye on the paper!

Xu Hong saw it, and said to Chen Wei again: "Hey, you might as well paint a portrait as a whole first, so that I can also see if you are not good at painting that place." In portrait painting, although it is important to draw the eyes, the shape of the face is also very important. The difference between people, apart from the eyes, is the shape of the face.

The shape of the face is very different. Some people have an elongated face shape, and some people have a wide face shape. There are also some people whose face shape is round. Some people have pointed jaws, while others have round jaws. There are face shapes that are wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and narrow at the middle and narrow at both ends, which can be said to be a variety of face shapes, all of which need to be observed and understood by the painter in life.

Only by observing, feeling, and practicing more can we draw portraits well. It is useless to just focus on theory and not practice. It is useless to just pay attention to practice and not to pay attention to theory, and only by combining theory and practice can we get twice the result with half the effort. ”

Xu Hong looked at Chen Wei and told him some theories of portrait painting. Before you ask him to paint portraits, he needs to know a little about these portraits.

After Chen Wei heard this, he smiled at Xu Hong and said, "Hehe! Okay, should I draw a portrait of you first? You, a great painter, are you willing to be a model for me, a migrant worker?"

When Xu Hong heard this, he also smiled and said, "Haha, what are you talking about! We are both migrant workers now, and we are both the same." If you can model me, I can still be a model. Come on, I'll strike a pose and you can draw. ”

After Xu Hong finished speaking, he sat next to him, like Chen Wei, and put on a sideways, staring out of the window, as if he was looking into the distance.

Chen Wei, he picked up the brush and began to paint.

Obviously, Chen Wei hasn't held a paintbrush for a long time, and now he feels a little awkward when he holds this thing.

Chen Wei looked at Xu Hong, holding a paintbrush in his hand, but he didn't know where to start.

"Well, I don't think this brush is more difficult to use than a brush, and painting the walls is much easier than painting. Chen Wei held the paintbrush and felt a little overwhelmed. After all, I haven't had this thing for two or three years, and I can't find a feeling.

Xu Hong saw that Chen Wei didn't move, so he turned his head and glared at Chen Wei and said, "Why don't you still paint! You don't know that I'm also very tired like this." ”

"I don't know where to draw it!" Chen Wei looked at Xu Hong helplessly and said.

When Xu Hong heard this, he smiled again and said, "Hehe, I forgot to explain to you just now, where to start painting portraits." Now let me tell you, when painting a portrait, you generally draw the face first, then draw the facial features, and finally draw the hair, so that you can roughly draw the outline of the portrait. Finally, a more detailed depiction is sufficient. ”

"Okay, I'll try it. ”

Chen Wei listened to Xu Hong's words, then picked up the brush again and began to paint.

With Xu Hong's guidance, Chen Wei seems to have found a little bit of the feeling of painting back then. So I took my paintbrush and carefully began to draw on the paper.

He looked at Xu Hong's face shape and felt that it was a standard 'country' face shape. So I first drew a face shape in the shape of the word 'country' on the drawing paper. After that, he painted Xu Hong's facial features and finally his hair.

After half an hour of hard work, Chen Wei finally painted Xu Hong's portrait when Xu Hong's neck was already stiff.

"You --- you look--- look, how is it. Chen Wei took the portrait of Xu Hong that he painted, and was a little embarrassed to take it to Xu Hong, so that he could appreciate it!

After Xu Hong saw it, he felt funny in his heart: "Hehe, what is this? Is this me? Doesn't it look like it? This guy really has no talent for painting, let alone expressive, and he doesn't even look like it." ”

Generally speaking, there are two levels of painting, one is to make it similar. That is to say, beginners must be able to draw the shape of the painted object in a very short time, and it must be very similar.

This is also the basic skill of painting, only to be able to grasp the external characteristics of things and 'copy' them. It can be regarded as mastering the basic skills of painting.

To see whether a person has the talent to draw, it depends on whether he can depict the external characteristics of things. If a person who learns to paint has talent, even if he has never painted for a day, every time he picks up a brush, he will almost depict the external characteristics of things.

But if he doesn't have a talent for painting, then what he paints must be different. This makes some painting professionals, at a glance, you can see whether a person has the talent for painting or not.

Now Xu Hong, a professional painter, only glanced at Chen Wei's portrait of him, and felt that Chen Wei was a person with no talent for painting. Because he didn't even have the most basic form.

It's just that Xu Hong can only look down on Chen Wei in his heart, but he can't say that, you have to give face to others, so they are still taking care of him! If they hadn't taught him to decorate his house, he wouldn't have been able to earn some basic living expenses!

Besides, no matter whether a person is talented or not, if they like painting very much, you can't just say that they are not this material, and persuade others to give up their dreams, which is also not good!

In any case, we should also encourage others and let them know that learning painting is a kind of arduous 'cultivation'. It's not something that can be done overnight.

Thinking of this, Xu Hong looked at the 'four dissimilarities' painted by Chen Wei with a smile and said: "Chen Wei, your basic skills are still okay, people look at it, the portrait I painted, although it is not very similar, but the general appearance is still a little similar." It's not easy anymore, but it's really good that an amateur painting enthusiast like you, who hasn't gone through a day of professional study at all, can paint like this. ”

Originally, Chen Wei thought that Xu Hong would definitely laugh at him when he saw that his painting was so ugly! But when Xu Hong said this, he was even more embarrassed.

"Xu Hong, you won't be saying polite words, are you? Chen Wei is telling the truth, he himself feels that he is not the material for painting, but he does not want to do the work of decorating houses for the rest of his life, and he also wants to find a goal in life!

Especially when he met a professional painter like Xu Hong, he naturally wanted to become a great painter.

Xu Hong listened to Chen Wei's words and thought in his heart: "Hehe, you're quite self-aware! I'm embarrassed to talk about you, you will say it for me when the time comes." ”

However, Xu Hong was still embarrassed to laugh at Chen Wei in person, and he still said in a very tactful tone: "No one is born to be able to paint anything." When I first started drawing, it was the same. The portraits you painted were not as good as the ones you paint now! At that time, I was still in the Academy of Fine Arts! With the guidance of professional teachers, I still can't paint as well as you paint now!"

"Really, do I really have a talent for painting!" As soon as Chen Wei heard Xu Hong's words, he really believed that Xu Hong was telling the truth, quite a few years, people are really not as good as his paintings!

"Of course, look at the portrait you painted, at least in terms of the face shape, is it still very good! Is the face shape of this portrait also the face of the word 'country'!" Xu Hong pointed to the portrait that Chen Wei painted for himself, and praised others for painting well!

"It's just that my eyes are not well drawn? Chen Wei also looked at the portrait of Xu Hong that he had painted, and also discussed with Xu Hong that he could not paint those places!

"Yes, I didn't just say that when painting portraits, human eyes are very important, and your portrait is not very different from my eyes. I'm not triangular! Why did you draw me as triangular? ”

Xu Hong saw that the figures in Chen Wei's portraits of himself were triangular eyes, and he pointed out this shortcoming.

"I don't know, I didn't want to paint like this, but after I did, it became like this. "Chen Wei is telling the truth, of course he knows that Xu Hong's eyes are not triangular eyes, but 'tiger eyes'. It is a very vibrant, large, round eye.

"It's just that your basic skills are not very good, and you can't show things as they are, that is, you can't move your hands as you like. What the heart thinks, the hand cannot be expressed, and the state of the unity of the heart and hand has not been reached. ”

As he spoke, Xu Hong couldn't help but say it again and was unfathomable. When Chen Wei heard this, he asked puzzledly: "Xu Hong, what do you mean by this, I don't feel like I understand it." ”

When Xu Hong heard this, he smiled and said, "What I mean is that you have to observe more of the things around you, and then keep copying these things, and gradually make these things have an impression in your brain." When you want to draw, you can do what you want and your hands can express it. ”

Chen Wei listened, and then he understood. So he said: "Well, in the future, I will carefully observe everyone in my life to see what the facial features of these people look like, and I must remember them in my mind, so that I can paint the portrait well." ”

Chen Wei listened to Xu Hong's words, and also expressed his thoughts after understanding.

"Well, that's what I mean, whether it's a painter, a writer, or a performance artist, you must have the habit of carefully observing life, so that you can paint vividly, write wonderfully, and perform realistically and movingly. ”

Xu Hong listened to Chen Wei's words, and he summed up his views again.

"Well, well, I'm going to be a serious observer of life in the future. In this way, I will be able to improve my painting skills very quickly and become a great painter as soon as possible. Chen Wei listened to Xu Hong's words, and was very happy in his heart, as if he saw that he was not far from the day when he would become a great painter.

"Well, let's work together to become great painters. Xu Hong also smiled and agreed. (To be continued.) )