"So, you say...... Who the hell is Detective Cat? ”

Last night, Gu Weijing processed the news until the early hours of the morning, and didn't get up until lunch today.

At the dinner table,

As expected, Gu Weijing heard that the focus of the family's discussion at the dinner table was also the new video of [Mr. Hyperion Channel].

The art circle is so big,

Any news is like a long leg, running fast.

It's just that most of the news discussed at the dinner table in the past was that the professor of the Academy of Fine Arts had split his legs again, the daughter-in-law had gone to the unit to make trouble again, or whether the new works of a local painter had any hope of breaking through the threshold of $10,000, an international low-end painter.

Now that such a shocking new news has come out, everyone is naturally talking about it.

"His hand sketch is beautiful."

Old man Gu Tongxiang took a sip of soup and looked at the wall-mounted TV hanging on the wall of the restaurant.

Their home is an Internet TV, and they can watch streaming media such as Netflix and Disney, and naturally they can also watch new videos that are now hot on YouTube.

At this time, in the video, it happens that the camera gives a zoomed-in close-up of the mysterious painter's detective cat work.

"Tsk, look at this pen. Look at this muscle line, tsk......"

Old man Gu Tongxiang knocked on the table: "For the scriptures, you look at others, the foundation of art is solid." It's not a little bit better than you. You, the sketch of that model is good, but it's still far from the masters. ”

Gu Weijing glanced up at his grandfather.

“？”

Don't look at Gu Tongxiang, the old man has been painting all his life.

But he is indeed far behind a great painter like Sakai Issei.

This aspect is the reason for Yangon's local art environment. On the other hand, Gu Tongxiang's talent is indeed limited.

The old man belongs to Anna's typical mediocrity, who can find excellence, but it is difficult to distinguish the gap between excellence and excellence.

Moreover, Mr. Gu Tongxiang is a typical Oriental old man, and his children's education has always been based on strict requirements, supplemented by encouragement, for fear that his children will be proud and complacent and waste their time.

"What? Not convinced? ”

Gu Tongxiang accurately captured the strange expression on his grandson's face.

"It's okay, I actually think my painting is pretty good. Before this detective cat became famous, he was just an ordinary web illustrator. Gu Weijing shrugged.

"You kid, you're a ......"

The old man, like all parents who see other people's award-winning children, is serious about education: "You say that Detective Cat is just an ordinary online illustrator, and people can receive praise almost as much as Master Jane Arnaud in front of the judges of the professional "Oil Painting" magazine, okay?" ”

"You can't, you don't have the ability."

"Don't say it's comparable to Jane Arnaud, if you can be in an oil painting magazine before you are thirty-five years old, I will be able to look at it."

Mr. Gu Tongxiang was angry that he had not been able to appear in the "Buyer's Recommendation Guide" of any well-known art magazine after painting all his life.

It is not necessarily entirely a problem that his fame is too low in the international painting and calligraphy market.

In the eyes of other magazines, the old man's paintings are mediocre and old.

He was also born in the backwoods of the art desert.

This kind of artist really doesn't have any investment advice to write about.

It's a type where you can buy and buy if you see the right thing, but don't think about it more.

"Art is such a thing, to put it bluntly, it is painted one stroke at a time. You see that people are famous, don't be blushing, don't be envious. People draw well, I don't know how much hard work has been done behind it, it's just a practice of calligraphy. You can practice thousands, tens of thousands of sketches, and you can have such skills. What I am most afraid of is that I don't admit it as well as others, and I am proud and complacent when I am praised by others. ”

"How much do you think this detective cat can sell for a painting now?"

The aunt, who was born in accounting, is obviously more concerned about the numbers in money at the moment, and the skills of painting can be compared to the masters, and they must be recognized by the market.

In terms of the recognition and background value of the art circle, Detective Cat is completely different from Van Doorne and Jane Arnold.

One or two excellent works may not be able to determine the market, and as the judges said - this is just an Internet celebrity competition after all, and the price of those high-end illustrations is relatively high, mainly based on fame and gimmicks.

The sketching guru Menzel himself left close to 10,000 sketches.

Some of the works that are really circulating in the market are not very well preserved, and they can be bought for a few thousand dollars.

Ordinary boutique colored pencil drawings or sketches – at the average Sotheby's or Christie's art auction are pre-heated mats, and the starting price is usually only $1,000.

Illustrations are at the bottom of the chain of drawing disdain, and colored pencil drawings are not high in the chain of illustration disdain.

The example given by the jury in the video is an Indian illustration of a fairy in a forest that sold for $580,000 at the Himalayan Art Show with just exquisite brushstrokes.

I'm sorry, but it's a serious medium-sized oil painting.

"It's hard to say, after all, illustration is the most influenced by traffic, and popularity is equal to money, although he was unknown in the art circle before, but only relying on this video, if there is an economic company marketing for that detective cat, it is not difficult to increase the value of a hundred times casually."

Uncle thought about it and roughly estimated it.

"That's a lot of money. To draw one oil painting, a slower one is enough to draw a hundred pencil drawings. It's good luck to go from an illustrator at the bottom of the industry to a wealthy class. ”

Uncle sighed.

"It's good luck, but it's a pity. has such a good foundation, but he made his debut selling illustrations on the Internet. Although this detective cat is famous, the artistic ceiling is there. Ten dollars for a web illustrator, this label is both a good thing and a bad thing. ”

The old man patted Gu Weijing's shoulder.

"Our family is not short of money to support you to go to school, and you are short of pocket money, tell grandpa. What I asked you to learn is the level of sketching, not the act of selling anime illustrations online. You have a bright future in art now, but don't follow the example of a detective cat to make money selling paintings online. Our family is counting on you to become famous and start a family in the future, and you can naturally have the ability to have a detective cat.

But you don't, at your current level, selling paintings online is easy to smash the signboard of the future. ”

The old man reminded earnestly.

"Uh...... Good. ”

Gu Weijing silently put down his job.

He knew what he meant.

My ideal is to become a great painter, not a great cartoonist, and the difference between the two is very big.

If it weren't for the money to improve the value of painting experience, it was definitely not the pocket money in Grandpa's mouth.

I wouldn't have thought of selling anime illustrations on the Internet.

He didn't look down on illustrators.

It's just that the art is also very particular about circles.

A large number of illustrators' works can objectively greatly dilute the market value of a person's future prospects.

Leonardo da Vinci, for example, although there are hundreds of works in the world, are still in the hands of private collectors.

There are only 8 works that actually pass through the market.

No one can say that da Vinci's sketches are better than Menzel's.

But a two-card-sized sketch can sell for 10 million pounds, which is 10 million pounds in the millennium.

Scarcity is precious, this is the objective law of economics.

The reason why an objective law is an objective law is that it is valid in any profession, even in a field as emotional as art.

To put it mildly, purely utilitarian.

If Leonardo da Vinci had tens of thousands of works circulating in the market and more than a dozen special auctions every year, no matter how good his paintings were, they would not be worth so much money.

Moreover, the painter is not a fairy floating in the sky, but also has a long affection, and everyone pays attention to a connection.

Why teachers are so important.

Because everyone is a senior brother, a senior, and a colleague in the same gallery, they naturally prefer to fulfill each other.

Not only Asian, but also European and American galleries, especially the British who will study their ancestry, are also very particular about this, and there are many undercurrents in various workplaces.

The background of the online cheap painter is analogous to the scientific community, that is, the civil science, and the best situation is the same as the scientific research dog from the garbage major of the second-rate school in the Academy of Sciences.

It's hard to rate a full professor, and then up, unless you're really good......

For a painter, being regarded as an illustrator by others is the same as being treated as a cream student by others in the entertainment industry.

In some people's eyes, your ceiling is locked.

Xiao Lizi's acting skills are so good, just because he is a cream boy debut, he is not treated by the judges, and he has been with the Oscar for so many years.

There are unspoken rules in the art world, painting a serious subject matter is like playing classical music, and drawing an illustration is like a pop singer singing saliva songs.

Even if your album is platinum, it's hard to welcome them in WYN's Golden Hall.

No one has an answer to the question of whether illustration is a form of art, or simply a taxi driver hired by an employer.

But those big painters at the head of the artist rich list almost didn't draw comics, illustrations and other popular themes, and it was reality.

Pop singers make a lot of money, but illustrations don't sell for a lot of money.

Mr. Jane Arnold is already the Taishan Beidou in the illustration industry, and his social influence is not lower than that of Cao Lao.

The Miss Elena commented, "Spending a million dollars on a manuscript is not a wise investment." ”

The ceiling of the illustration world is also illustration, and the ceiling is there.

Needless to say, Cao Lao's paintings are more expensive than those of Old Man Jane Arnold's paintings.

This is the chain of contempt for painting.

It doesn't matter to the little painter, no matter how low the illustration board is, it is not something that a cat or a dog can touch.

Whether it is Cao Xuan or Jane Arnold, most people in this world seem to be characters who have floated to the horizon.

The identity of an online painter is naturally beneficial to Gu Weijing in the short term, but in the long run, when he really sets foot in the art market, it may be a double-edged sword.

It's one thing to take orders online, but it's best not to let others associate too much with yourself.

"What are you going to do?"

Old Man Gu asked strangely.

"Oh, I went to the gallery and took off my sketch, and I saw the level of the detective cat master, and I felt that my work was not enough to display in the gallery."

"Hmm...... It is good to have a humble heart in front of the master, not bad. ”

Old man Gu Tongxiang praised.