Chapter 41: Critical Realism

Gu Weijing's pen tip jumped on the paper.

"The rectus abdominis muscle is located in the symphytic pubic bone to the rib cartilage, that is, between the fifth muscle and the seventh muscle, the function is to stretch the chest, his left muscle is slightly thicker than the right muscle, it should be the problem caused by the uneven force of the exercise......"

"In his relaxed state, the spine and scapula bones are hidden under the skin, but his arms are waving banknotes, which are slightly concave due to force, and the large bones supporting his forearms swing around the hinges of his elbows."

He muttered to himself, the brush in his hand like a sharp scalpel, quickly cutting the man in the bat coat into strands of flesh and bone.

This is the muscle on the torso.

These are the muscles in the limbs.

This is the line at the neck,

This is the proportion of knuckles with gloves.

……

Soon, a large pile of drawing paper appeared in Gu Weijing's hand.

In order to test the effectiveness, Gu Weijing specially used art wax paper.

The wax paper is translucent and can transmit light, although the texture is not good and too smooth, but after the painting, it can be placed in front of the original painting for comparison, and is often used for children to cover the picture book to copy.

Gu Weijing overlapped the drawing paper and placed it in front of the iPad screen, comparing them with the people in the photo one by one.

The texture of each muscle subtly coincides with the curves of the photo, and it is sharper and clearer than the photo.

This is the advantage of painting over photographs, Gu Weijing reconstructed according to the anatomy of the other party's body lines, and reached the point of taking materials from reality and transcending reality.

The only fly in the ointment is that there are many traces of modification in the drawing, and it is a large black mass that has been erased.

[Anatomy of Human Structure] The equipment condition of this knowledge card is the first level of sketching, but the first level of sketching is only the most basic requirement.

Gu Weijing is not always able to draw the desired lines perfectly.

Sometimes it's one thing in mind, but it's completely different when you actually express it.

This is a typical situation where the brain knows and the hand does not learn, like an old-fashioned inkjet printer with teeth in gears.

Fortunately, Gu Weijing now has an overall impression of the muscular figure of this little brother in a bat suit.

He is confident that he will allow himself to paint again, whether it is to zoom in or out, it will not be too much of a problem.

All that's left is to wait for the skill to cool down, and when you can activate the skill tomorrow, draw a small-scale color illustration with colored pencils in accordance with the ratio required by Heporion1077.

Gu Weijing put down his paintbrush, stretched, and walked around Fiverr a few more times, and after making sure that there were no more suitable employers to ask him for an appointment, he turned off his computer.

He did not continue to stay in the studio and practice sketching, as he was used to.

Gu Weijing found that after reaching the rating of the professional level, he seemed to have encountered a certain bottleneck, especially in the expression of emotions.

It seems that it is far more difficult to adjust your emotional state in the process of painting than to practice your brush skills.

Obviously, he has been attentive enough when he paints, but unfortunately the pointer on the emotional panel has been hovering up and down [carelessly] when painting.

Gu Weijing has emptied his brain and has no distractions, but unfortunately his emotions cannot be improved by sitting in front of the drawing board.

He wanted to put his emotions into the painting, but found that he didn't even know what emotions he wanted to express.

This made Gu Weijing very troubled, and only when he launched [Menzel's Basic Painting Experience] that kind of preoccupation could make him reach the rating of [Simple Work].

But that's the limit.

Emotions are like a grumpy child, and you can't force them yet.

It's like a paradox, every time Gu Weijing feels that he has entered a state when he paints, he wants to take a look at the emotional panel. But when he thought about it, the pointer of the panel would quickly reset to zero in the center.

may have been hovering up and down [carelessly], but when he paid attention to the emotional table, it suddenly became [perfunctory] again.

The painter strives to pursue the emotion of painting, like a monkey looking for the moon in the sea, the more deliberate, the more far away.

Sometimes, when he was jogging in the morning, he saw the sun shining on the sparkling Yangon River, birds breaking through the sky, and cruise ships waking a long whistle.

This unpretentious scenery made his heart move.

There were even a few short moments, and the pointer on the panel reached the point of [feeling something], but it was only a few seconds, and it was fleeting.

When Gu Weijing rushed home to get a sketchpad and a paintbrush to sketch by the Yangon River, this feeling disappeared again.

With the reminder of the panel, Gu Weijing simply wanted to open it, and he was ready to plan a change of mood.

Among the several panels, the one I use least often is the one where I exchange experience points and wealth.

For one thing, he doesn't earn a lot of money from selling paintings now, and he doesn't get many orders on Fiverr.

To increase the rate by 100 XP, $1,000 worth of good deeds is required.

And the same experience value is just a few days of sketching practice, or learning Chinese painting from Cao Lao.

I am not a great painter whose time is worth more than money, millions of dollars per minute. This redemption panel doesn't look like a great deal right now.

Second, after being pitted by Claire's water fund that time, he also has a long memory.

But now Gu Weijing thinks further.

In the eyes of the system, this charity panel should be more than just exchanging wealth for experience points.

It is telling Gu Weijing that art is not always about spring and snow, drunkenness and various abstract aesthetic concepts.

In addition to painting portraits of big people and recording the suffering of society, it is also a social mission of the painter.

"Father" and "The Slender Man on the Volga" are such masterpieces.

The Russian School of Critical Realism was one such group of people who left the comfort of the Academy of Fine Arts, set out from the amber Moscow palace, left the warmth of St. Petersburg, and walked the vast land of Siberia to observe and document the plight of the serfs in Tsarist Russia.

This is a high point of Russian art, which can almost be called the golden generation of Russian art along with Chernyshevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, these giants in the history of literature.

When it comes to Gu Weijing's generation of art students, few of them have the courage of their predecessors.

Art seems to have reverted back to the sound of hammers falling in the auction house.

Gu Weijing hopes that after a while, he can buy something and go to the welfare home, take a walk, and take a look.

……

The next day, he completed the illustration of Batman, and after he had understood the muscle curves, he drew it with ease, and it was a matter of course.

Probably his own most satisfying painting in recent times.

After sending the scanned version over, the other party did not ask him to revise the draft, but made other requests.

That Hyperion1077 is really a very strange guest.

This kind of online manuscript illustration does not need the original, as long as the electronic version.

After all, the postage is a lot of money across the ocean, and a painting only costs $10, and the other party doesn't feel that the original manuscript is very valuable.

But this Hyperion1077 asked him to ship the paper plate as well, and it was also an expedited air transport.

To be honest, the shipping cost is more than the cost of a painting.

"What a quirky guest."

The customer is God,

Anyway, I don't have free shipping.

Gu Weijing shrugged, and after repeatedly confirming that the other party would pay the freight, he made an appointment on his mobile phone for DHL Express's door-to-door pickup service.

As the illustration drifted across the ocean, he soon forgot about it all but in his mind.