Chapter Fifty-Seven: Sculpting the First Self
People often think of carving women naked. I feel that the subject matter is indecent, but at this moment, Xi Qing already has that kind of experience, and art never cares about these. Naked from an artistic point of view. The body is beautiful. Therefore, it is expressed with nakedness, undoubtedly to show the innocent and innocent side of a young girl, and the carving is delicate and full, the lines are smooth, exposed but not colored, elegant but not vulgar, which is the knowledge that the sculptor needs to reclaim in his life.
The carving of the figure needs to be made of boxwood, because the boxwood itself can express the skin color of the yellow race, and the expression of the muscle line and skin color can be achieved naturally without too much paint.
What Xi Qing prepared was boxwood.
In everyone's opinion, a log without any outline of the work, a qiē line and curved surface are inside the wood, how difficult is it to carve a figure?
In fact, it is indeed more difficult to carve a human portrait than to carve an animal.
Because the carving of animals is relatively speaking, the carving of expressions, shapes, muscles, and bones is not so exquisite.
To engrave a figure, it must be accurate to the finest.
The so-called flat knife block surface method is mainly used to cut out the outline and structural part of the work with a flat knife large surface when chiseling, so that it produces a rough and powerful axe chopping knife.
Generally speaking, it is to summarize the shape of various complex shapes with simple and abstract geometric shapes, and this process requires the reduction of each shape, each piece of bone, and muscle into large and small squares, rectangles, trapezoids, and diamonds.
Tong guò, the rough embryo of the production of zuò, depicts his own basic form, and then creates it for the second time.
For the average carver, this job is very difficult, requiring a solid foundation of modeling skills and the ability to encompass natural shapes.
But for Xi Qing, the flat knife block noodle method is not too difficult. Xi Qing chose a combination of the flat knife block face method and the round knife carving method.
That is, a means of carving at the highest level. From flat knives to round knives, it is done in one go, leaving no space in between.
You must know that the line of carving pays attention to "leaving fat can be changed to small, but the spine is thin and difficult to fatten". But Xi Qingye is used to it, and with his understanding of himself, he doesn't feel that there will be omissions anywhere, and it is the king to do the carving as quickly as possible.
Quickly cut off the excess part of the boxwood at this moment, and Xi Qing shaped the structure of the block. Then Xi Qing carved a more rounded round knife according to the "good body image" he looked at in the mirror every day.
The circle method of round knife carving is not certain, it is an arrangement of levels and momentum, emphasizing the coordination of proportions, a strong sense of wholeness, and a certain decoration and effect are prominent.
From top to bottom, Xi Qing first carved the head and then the heels; From front to back, take a chisel out of the front body, and then chisel the back; Then from the surface to the inside, starting from the surface of the wood, layer by layer inward; From shallow to deep, first depict the shallow place, and then chisel the deep place, which is not lacking in hollowing skills, with the use of reinforcements.
However, Xi Qing's carving is not muddy, coherent and neat, round and smooth.
He hadn't found this pleasure for a long time.
It is as if the carving knife in your hand is like holding the whole world.
Xi Qing sweated on his head after a while, but this hearty feeling made him forget to wipe the sweat off his forehead.
It's so cool!
Xi Qing couldn't help but roar secretly, this kind of happiness is a very simple touch, a move for himself to be able to turn an ordinary piece of wood into a work of art.
Half an hour passed unconsciously.
Now, Xi Qing looks at his work, the outline of the shape carved by it is still relatively vague, but the concave and convex feeling is extremely clear, this is the effect that Xi Qing needs.
Because of this, the wood can produce two different visual expressions, and in the part of the round knife on the surface, the wood presents a natural, clean and simple beauty. The flat knife part, carved thick, clumsy, is a kind of contrast and foil.
Xi Qing continued to use the knife, and then carefully portrayed that section of naked. The exposed wood is smoother and more delicate, like human skin; The carved part of the flat knife block surface is enlarged by Xi Qing, which is like human hair and sideburns, clothing.
Wonderful, wonderful.
This slippery and rough, thin and thick, originally arranged a long time ago, under such a knife technique, the work has a rich and interesting expression.
At this time, this man, his skin looks swarthy and strong, his clothes are simple, and he has not yet been polished, but he has begun to have a certain charm.
Xi Qing looked at the part of the carving hand, and the long ridge that was left was prepared by him for the carving knife.
Yes, the original self was to set off with a carving knife, Xi Qing is to remind himself that carving is the origin of his own departure, even if he has created many brilliant achievements in the future, he finally can't forget jì, once one day, he was just a craftsman who held a carving knife to make a living. I'm just a simple little "carpenter" in the world, that's all.
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In the evening, Xi Qing invited the classmates in the dormitory to go to the hot pot that Xiangtianxia eats.
The hot pot in the fragrant world is overcrowded, and there is a free nail making activity at the door, Zhang Ye's girlfriend arrived at the store and sat down to get her nails first.
And there is another girl next to Zhang Ye's girlfriend.
Zhang Yise looked at the girl with squinting eyes: "You guys go in first, and I'll be a flower messenger." ”
Zhang Ye: It's also good for me to protect the flowers, they are all so tall, they don't need your protection, go in quickly.
Saying that, Zhang Ye pushed Zhang Yi in, in fact, in addition to Zhang Yi, Li Yawei also secretly glanced at this girl several times.
They are all single dogs, and they want to pounce when they see a beautiful woman, but this is actually normal.
After everyone went in, Zhou Yu came to Xia Linlin's side: "See, it seems that the boys in their dormitory have thoughts about you." ”
Xia Linlin shook her head: "Really? That... What about Xi Qing? ”
"Xi Qing doesn't seem to be looking this way."
"yes, so, not all of them have thoughts about me. Zhou Yu, you know, I like Xi Qing, I came with you today, you have to help me. ”
"That's for sure...."
Zhou Yu is on the school basketball team, and her acquaintance with Zhang Ye became acquainted because of basketball, and Zhou Yu didn't know that Xia Linlin liked Xi Qing. It's his talent for painting and poetry.
Girls, always sad and sad, intoxicated by some Korean dramas with dog blood bubbles, plus Xi Qing's appearance is cool, Xia Linlin likes Xi Qing, and she is not surprised.
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