"I only offer digital copies of my drawings right now, but of course, the price can be a little cheaper......"

Gu Weijing sat in the studio, and the computer was connected to the printer and file folder.

He is discussing with clients online about their manuscript needs.

Every time a business is negotiated, he prints out the customer's requirements or corresponding photo templates, pastes the corresponding serial number, and prepares to launch skills according to the classified batch.

Illustrator fame is business, Gu Weijing looked at the thick stack of file folders around him, and there was a sense of accomplishment in his chest.

He made a decision after thinking about it,

Starting today,

All of his orders are only available in electronic form.

This is the common sense of online manuscript commissioning, and many artists have always been painting electronically, and they don't even have paper manuscripts.

Although the paper version of the drawings is not provided, although the risk of a large outflow of works is avoided, the collection value will be reduced a lot.

At least a lot of people who follow the trend are reluctant to buy it.

But it's not too much of a problem.

After all, Gu Weijing's current user base is too large, and it is not something he can handle alone, and most of the manuscripts are required by himself, and he has no way to accept them.

After the initial screening, Gu Weijing left more than two dozen order offers that could meet the requirements of both parties in a short period of time.

Most of these order requirements are not complicated.

There are a few buyers who are big head part-time studios on Fivver, and their purchase records in the past three months are very active, and after the video of [Mr. Hyperion] was exposed, with the mentality that it was an appointment anyway, customers diverted to themselves.

The cheapest of these orders is still only $170.

Gu Weijing doesn't think there is anything wrong with this, although the price is cheap, the requirements are very simple, and there is basically no possibility of bad painting.

For example, four of them are very simple stick figures, and if the overall planning is done well, it may only take a total of one Menzel skill.

It's so much easier and more enjoyable than it used to be.

After receiving this batch of orders, Gu Weijing estimated that he would be able to complete a large part of them this week.

Just as he pulled out his paintbrush and was about to start the second step towards completing the career chain.

Suddenly, a new message flashed on the computer.

He wasn't going to bother with it.

However, he vaguely remembered that the user, whose avatar was a sloth, had messaged him several times in a row.

The other party seems to be very persevering.

This aroused Gu Weijing's curiosity.

……

"Hello? - [Detective Cat]"

Seeing the prompt of a new message flashing on the computer, Anna finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Detective Cat Lady, before you are sure you fully understand the contract. Please be sure not to respond to the gallery's request. ”

Her fingers flicked quickly on the keyboard, and she immediately typed a line.

"Uh, sorry. Excuse me, who are you? ”

After a few seconds, a new message flashed across the screen.

[I'm Anna Elena, and I want to be your personal painting economist. 】

Anna subconsciously typed this line of words on the keyboard with her fingers.

Looking at that line of words, she hesitated for two seconds with her hand pressed the enter key.

"No...... This cannot be done. She gritted her teeth, forcibly resisted the desire to send the message directly, and reluctantly deleted the line from the computer screen.

Anna really wants to be the detective cat's personal agent.

Although she could not become a great artist, Anna wanted to discover her Van Gogh, which was her biggest dream all along.

If you can't have the talent to be great, you can become a great note, an artistic partner.

Behind every successful artist, there is inseparable from the help of nobles.

Like Count Montesquieu and Proust, Madame de Pompadour and Boucher, director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and chief painter of the Crown, brought Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Madame Warren, high society in Paris......

Whenever people mention these great names and great works, and their patrons who have been entangled with them all their lives, Bole with a discerning eye, is the most indelible link in the legend of these artists.

Art is harder to perish than glory.

This is Elena's family motto, and it is also the most romantic thing that Anna thinks.

If you really find such a person.

Then, hundreds of years later, in art museums, whenever people mention the life of that great painter, they will say: "Once upon a time, when this great painter was still unknown, there was a young lady named Anna Yelena who discovered the talent of the other party, and she spent her whole life helping each other, achieving each other, and they were companions on the road of art." ”

What could be better?

True romance has nothing to do with sensuality, nothing to do with men and women, and it doesn't even have to be seen, it's just the throbbing of the soul and the link to each other.

She saw the potential of detective cats.

In classical society, the closest person to a painter was his patron, such as Anna's Greek grandmother, who was an important patron of the pre-Raphaelites.

However, in the modern commercial society of fine arts, the model of patron and painter has gradually died out.

In its place was a model of community of interests between brokers and painters.

An artist and her agent are the closest partners and comrades-in-arms on the road of painting.

We share weal and bene, and honor and disgrace are the same.

A painter is responsible for achieving greatness on the path of art, while an economist is responsible for paving a career path for an artist, opening up sales for his works, dealing with the trivial matters of work, and negotiating art contracts......

Behind every successful painter there is not necessarily a virtuous wife or husband, but there must be a virtuous art agent.

There is nothing more intimate with the heart of a master painter than being the other half of the other person's artistic life.

Although Anna is an art critic by profession, she certainly has all the ingredients to become a good economic person.

She is well-connected, influential, and has good relationships with various galleries.

Not only can I receive suitable works for the other party, but I can also provide artistic guidance for the other party.

Not to mention the young painter who has just become famous, she just wants to be the agent of a famous painter like Professor Sakai, and the other party will welcome him with both hands.

Pity...... The only thing that can't be this detective cat.

At least not as Anna.

"It's a shame if Thomas hadn't posted this video."

Anna was a little annoyed.

How she wished she had discovered this pearl in the ocean without anyone knowing.

Unnoticed, he quietly paves the way for the other party, anonymously writes art reviews, guides the other party to participate in art exhibitions, makes the other party's paintings recognized by the public, and then exposes his identity to the world.

But don't be this kind of sudden explosion mode.

The reason is simple.

She had always presented herself as a professional art critic and had never signed a contract as a painter.

As a result, in the video of the world's No. 1 Internet celebrity, he held an unknown little painter to the sky, and the news that Anna, who has always been cold, became the other party's art agent broke out on the back foot.

Some knowledgeable people are willing to call this kind of behavior a beautiful talk of discernment.

More people will regard this as a conspiracy theory, with shady evidence.

I received the other party's black money and wanted to praise him, and when I made a video, the two parties had a secret exchange of interests......

The mouths of those art tabloids are poisonous,

And the audience still eats this set.

There was once a young African painter who was brought to Paris by a well-known female agent who could be his mother, and he tilted a lot of art resources to the painter.

The two sides have always maintained a good cooperative relationship, but they were captured by tabloid reporters because of their intimate expressions when they ate together.

This is nothing, but because the female agent usually offends more people in the circle.

As a result, the villain immediately arranged the title of "Baoyang Art Luan Tong" in the tabloid, which attracted countless melon-eating people, and the two sides jumped for a while.

In the end, the two broke up unhappily, the female agent was certainly discredited, and the young painter's future was also clouded, this is politics.

The reason why Anna didn't think about Thomas contacting the detective cat directly, or asking Thomas to leave his own private contact information.

It's just to avoid suspicion.

This kind of news is too ugly and the impact is too bad.

It's not right for me, for Thomas, and especially for the detective cat across from me, who has just started his career.

Anna has connections, but her usual vicious comments have also offended other artists.

Just like this time she sprayed the blood of Fan Doorne's scolding, the other party's fans must be unconvinced.

Although the artist Fan Doorn has not yet expressed his position, if he does not express his position, he will not express his position, and the other party will be unhappy or even jealous.

Van Doorn has never been a good gentleman in the circle, and his connections are no worse than his own.

At this time, this kind of news is exposed, and the other party will definitely not let go of such a good opportunity to attack them.

It doesn't matter if she's there, her heart is strong enough.

But what about the detective cat?

Many artists have a slight social phobia, and it is not uncommon for people in history to be sprayed and unable to bear suicide.

Anna felt that she could not delay other painters in order to meet her ideals, and that others deserved better, and there was no need to choose herself.

And......

Now that the other party has just become famous, all kinds of economic contracts must be coming one after another, and while persuading others not to accept contracts randomly, she tells the other party that Anna Yelena wants to be the other party's agent.

Although she is doing it for the good of the other party, what will other artists think?

She wants to blackmail her in return?

Anna didn't want to create a bad impression of her pure soul bond with the other person from the beginning.

"Who are you, why do you say that, are you still there?"

Seeing that he had not responded for a long time, the detective cat seemed to be a little impatient to wait.

"Can I add you as a friend? I'd like to talk to you—"

Anna typed quickly.

"—three hundred, no, five hundred euros, an hour."