Chapter 5: A Chance Encounter with the Vice President
Liu Wei used to be a cartoonist after all, and he often used various techniques of watercolor to paint, but now he only copies the pictures in his mind, and Liu Wei still has some confidence in his heart. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Liu Wei's thick smoke and light ink copied a scene of good mountains and rivers, and the picture was wild and vast, quite a bit of the artistic conception of the wilderness.
Liu Wei looked at the painting he drew with his own hands, and compared it with the scenery in the landscape, and he could still find that there were still some gaps between the subtleties and the original work.
But this is enough, after all, he is not a famous painter, you must know that the animation design of "Landscape Love" is a joint production of Zhuo Hejun and Wu Shanming at the master level, but it is not comparable to Liu Wei, a ninth-rate cartoonist.
However, what he didn't know was that at the same time as Liu Wei was painting, a middle-aged man about fifty years old came in and unexpectedly found that there were still people in the painting room.
He was a little curious, he couldn't help but walk behind Liu Wei, stood quietly behind Liu Wei, saw Liu Wei was painting, and the interest came, standing behind Liu Wei and watching Liu Wei shape the painting one by one, when the painting gradually took shape, the middle-aged man began to be shocked by Qi Jishi's painting, I didn't expect such a young man to start to appear in his own style!
Liu Wei, on the other hand, was busy painting, concentrating, and didn't hear the footsteps coming from behind.
When Liu Wei put down the brush and was admiring his paintings, a voice came from behind: "The mountains and waters are elegant, the lines are clear, the artistic conception is lofty, amazing, amazing!"
The voice was full of admiration and admiration.
Liu Wei was startled, turned around, looked at the reassurance that the voice came, and saw a man standing behind him, looking at his painting intently, with a look of appreciation and obsession.
I saw that the man was in his fifties, of medium height, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and black trousers, slightly fat, with eyes, and a bookish look.
Liu Wei put his mind at ease, after all, he was just imitating, Liu Wei said with a red face: "I am also copying people's paintings!"
"Copy?" the man said with a pensive face and a puzzled face: "Look at this painting, there is no lack of vigor and courage in the brightness, chic and handsome in the neatness, and a little thick and calm between the eases, why don't I remember any painter with this style?"
You must know that the landscape painting design of the anime "Landscape Love" was jointly produced by Wu Shanming and Zhuo Hejun, famous painters of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in the previous generation.
You must know that when Liu Wei was still alive, Zhuo Hejun's paintings reached 390,000 square feet in 2011, and Wu Shanming's paintings were sold at a high price of more than 870,000 square feet in 2013!
Everyone in landscape painting at this level jointly did the art design for "Landscape Love", can the paintings not be fine?
Liu Wei obviously knew this, and immediately said a little vaguely: "Well, the painters in our hometown just paint indiscriminately on weekdays, so I copied it." ”
The man nodded thoughtfully, looked at Liu Wei, a little embarrassed, and couldn't help asking: "Classmate, what level are you majoring in Chinese painting, I've been teaching for so long, why haven't I seen you?"
When Liu Wei heard this, the middle-aged man was obviously a teacher, so he quickly bowed to the teacher and said, "Hello teacher, I am a major in animation design, not Chinese painting." ”
"You're an animation design major?" the man asked incredulously as he couldn't believe his ears.
Liu Wei nodded.
The man looked Liu Wei up and down, couldn't believe it, looked at Liu Wei's paintings again, and said to Liu Wei: "I am Wen Daming, who majored in Chinese painting, is the young man interested in transferring to the major of Chinese painting, in less than ten years, I will ensure that you will become our leading Chinese painting master in China!"
"Wen Daming?" Liu Wei's head was a little dizzy, but he didn't expect that this middle-aged man with a plainly dressed and approachable image turned out to be the vice president of the Yenching Academy of Fine Arts.
Wen Daming is also a legend, he graduated from the Yenching Academy of Fine Arts at the age of less than 20, and after graduation, he went on to further his studies, and received a doctorate in aesthetics from two top universities in the United States within two years.
Just when the two top universities in the United States sent him an invitation to stay, Wen Daming resolutely returned from the United States, returned to the Yenching Academy of Fine Arts to teach, and devoted himself to teaching, combining Chinese painting techniques with the techniques of the American modernist school, and used them for teaching, not only making breakthroughs in artistic style and painting design, but also cultivating a large number of new Chinese painting masters!
Wen Daming saw Liu Wei's stunned appearance, a little funny, and said: "Yes, that's right, how about it, learn Chinese painting from me!"
This made Liu Wei think of the advertisement of Yida in the previous life, Lian Kai said to Gui Lunmei: "You have a lot of ideas, learn to cook with me." ”
Liu Wei was messy for a while before he remembered that the man in front of him was a world-renowned master of Chinese painting.
Liu Wei hesitated for a while, you must know that Wen Daming has done his best to educate his disciples, so far, the students who have been taught, it can be said that there is no one who is bad, if Liu Wei really follows Wen Daming to learn Chinese painting, maybe he will become the world's leading Chinese painting master in less than ten years.
But Liu Wei thought that if he studied Chinese painting, he estimated that he would have to say goodbye to his beloved anime in the future, and the many ununlocked animations in his mind were probably useless, Liu Wei gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "Forget it, I still like animation!"
Wen Daming was surprised for a while, but he didn't expect that after he revealed his identity, someone would reject him, and he was naturally impressed by Liu Wei.
Wen Daming at the same time but a little pity, this child is the most talented child he has ever seen, although the style of painting is still a little immature, but at a young age has formed his own style, if it is well cultivated, let alone ten years, it is estimated that five years will be famous in the Chinese painting world.
But Wen Daming still smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, everyone has their own ambitions, since you like animation so much, it's a good path to stick to it! But it's so late, why do you think about making such a picture in the studio?"
Wen Daming was a little curious about Liu Wei's motives for painting.
Liu Wei touched his head embarrassedly and said, "It's nothing, I just want to combine ink painting with animation, and I'm thinking about doing a graduation assignment in this regard." ”
When Wen Daming heard this, he looked at Liu Wei with surprise, but he didn't expect this kid to dare to think about it.
Then Wen Daming lowered his head and pondered, thinking that if he could make ink animation, it would be of great significance.
As a master who actively integrated Western painting techniques into Chinese painting, Wen Daming's first thought was the term "combination of Chinese and Western".
If ink animation can really succeed, then this will break the production method of "single-line flat painting" commonly used in animation in various countries, and no longer focus on line structure, but mainly ink blending, which will definitely make the entire animation world feel the dazzling brilliance from the East!
In addition, if ink animation is successful, it can make people more interested in Chinese painting, especially children's Chinese painting, which is conducive to the inheritance of Chinese culture;
But Wen Daming didn't believe that this kid could succeed, but seeing Liu Wei's persistent light in his eyes, and seeing Liu Wei's young appearance, he smiled on his face, thinking that young people dare to think and dare to do, maybe it can be done, and immediately patted Liu Wei's shoulder, his tone was full of encouragement and support, and said: "Young man, do a good job, I am optimistic about you! If there is anything you need my help to tell me, I will definitely support!"
When Qi Jishi heard this, he was also a little excited, and said: "Thank you, Mr. Wen, for your encouragement! I'm sure I'll do it well, but there's nothing I need help with yet, thank you, Mr. Wen." ”
Wen Daming nodded, looked at the Seagull watch in his hand, and said to Liu Wei: "Don't just work, and then exhaust your body, hurry up and rest! It's almost half past ten."
When Liu Wei heard this, he panicked, thinking to himself, "I'm wiping, it's so late" and quickly cleaned up the things on the table, and said to Wen Daming as he walked: "I'll go back first, and then the dormitory will be closed later!"
Wen Daming waved his hand to Liu Wei, and Liu Wei waved back while running forward, which was a farewell.
Wen Daming looked at the back of Liu Wei leaving, and muttered: "Ink animation, hey, interesting!" said a smile, shook his head, and turned off the light and left.
When Liu Wei ran all the way to the bottom of the dormitory building, he found that the uncle who was watching the dormitory was closing the door, Liu Wei hurriedly ran and shouted: "Hey, uncle, don't worry about it first, wait a minute!"
The uncle who was watching the dormitory heard someone shouting, his hand movements stopped, and he looked this way, Liu Wei saw that the uncle's movements stopped, and quickly sped up his pace, and finally ran over.
After Liu Wei entered the door, he gasped and said to the dormitory manager with a grateful face: "Thank you, uncle!"
The dormitory manager's face was cold, like a judge of the underworld, and said coldly to Liu Wei: "I came so late, next time I will lock you out!"
Liu Wei hurriedly touched his pocket, wanting to hand a cigarette to the uncle, and touched both pockets, only then did he realize that Liu Wei in this world does not smoke.
Liu Wei hurriedly said to the uncle with a smile on his face: "Uncle, I don't go out to paint, have you forgotten the time, don't be angry." ”
When the dormitory manager heard Liu Wei's words, he said to Liu Wei with a soothing face: "Do you know if you come back early next time!"
Liu Wei hurriedly patted his chest and said, "Uncle, don't worry, I promise Taizu that I will come back early next time." ”
The uncle waved his hand and said, "Don't be poor, hurry back to the dormitory, it's not too early, I have to sleep!"
Liu Wei said goodbye to his uncle and went back to the dormitory.
Pushing open the door of the dormitory, Liu Wei looked inside, and found that the three people in the dormitory were all looking at him at the same time, Liu Wei was a little uncomfortable, his eyes swept the three of them, and said: "What are you looking at me for, I feel furious in my heart!"
Zhang Peng howled wolf, and said with a green pine on his face: "Third child, you are back, if you don't come back, I will call the police!"
Liu Wei was startled when he heard this, and said angrily: "As for it, isn't it just that you came back a little late?"
"Why not, you used to be a lady who stayed in the dormitory for a day, and you didn't come back when the door closed today, we thought you let the female bandits rob and be the lady of the village!" Lu Dahu also teased.
Liu Wei scolded with a smile as he walked into the dormitory: "Fuck off, you're just a lady, I went to the studio, and I just got the background of the ink animation I was about to make." ”