"What do you think I'm going to teach you in this lesson...... How do you express your personal creativity in a portfolio? Compositional inspiration, layout design? ”

In class, Professor Wattle used chalk to write the word PORTFLIO on the blackboard.

"No, that's!"

The old gentleman turned to face the faces of the many students in the art classroom, and pointed to the podium with chalk.

"Are these things important?"

"Of course it's important, but it's something you should have learned over the last 13 years at Dulwich. Now you only have the last few months left in your secondary school years. If you have the luxury of going to the advanced class, you will be like a philosopher's stone that can turn stubborn iron into gold. Sorry, I don't have the ability to do this, and it's not realistic. ”

Wattle stretched out a finger and said coldly, "The only thing I can teach you is ...... Detail. ”

With the exception of individual specialist classes such as Oil Painting, Sketching and Still Life Sketching, Dulwich College International will only offer thematic courses in two grades that are dedicated to honing your drawing skills and improving the details of your drawing.

Either that's a preschool class for a group of five-year-old dolls.

The teachers would hold the hands of the first-graders and draw various curves and lines on the paper, similar to the process of Comrade Leonardo da Vinci practicing drawing eggs when he was a child.

Either a thirteenth-year-old student.

They have received a complete and full art education, the teachers have already taught everything they should teach, and the rest is to continue to polish the details of the portfolio.

"Don't think it's easy, most of you have been in school for so many years. The details of the painting and the ability to use the pen are still miserable. When a college admissions teacher sees a lot of people's portfolios for the first time, within three seconds, the poor details of the pen have already sentenced it to death. Professor Wattle shook his head.

Many in the classroom seemed unimpressed.

Gu Weijing listened very carefully.

The rebirth and improvement of painting skills made him more and more aware of the importance of his ability to use the brush.

Details determine success or failure,

With a single sketch line, there may be no difference between a person with good drawing skills and a person with poor drawing skills on paper.

But a painting is stacked with hundreds of line segments, and thousands of tiny, unobtrusive gaps can make a difference in expressiveness.

What makes his knife paintings legendary is that the details are almost flawless.

If Gu Weijing's other painting techniques also have legendary abilities, even if they "only" have Menzel's basic painting skills.

There is no need for Cao Lao's guidance, nor does he need to study the painting experience of the ancestors of ancient or modern fusion painting.

Gu Weijing may be able to easily eliminate the sense of disconnection when he paints fusion paintings by relying only on his control over the details. He can use great control to forcibly blend different painting styles seamlessly.

Like two pieces of plasticine, his painting technique is only enough to pinch the surface of the plasticine together as shallowly as a baby's hands, and it will break at the slightest touch.

Therefore, Gu Weijing needs to practice the special targeted drawing method of line drawing sketching, try to rub and twist at various angles, and mesh the two plasticines more tightly.

If so, his ability to control the details is strong enough that the baby becomes a strong man or even a hydraulic press, and he can pinch these drawings together with any pinch.

The same is true when applying to college.

Many students will work the creativity of their portfolios, such as Mona's father hiring a home professor, or simply hiring a special study abroad agency to design their portfolios.

It cannot be said that there is no effect.

However, even in a second-tier European art academy like the University of Rotterdam, the admissions office receives tens of thousands of portfolios of applicants from all over the world every year.

Everyone wants to draw something new.

Admissions teachers have long been tired of all kinds of pretended novelty tricks.

The better the art academy, the more difficult it is to win with just novel and creative design.

In the end, it is necessary to return to the painting technique itself.

Yangon does not have the Eastern Xia Art Joint Examination, the Eastern Ying Art Examination, or the American Art and Design Examination (Art and Design Examination), which are unified examinations to test students' drawing skills.

Therefore, during admissions, university teachers review the portfolios submitted by Dulwich students, and pay special attention to the students' drawing skills and line details to determine their true drawing skills.

"Don't blame me for not reminding you, every year, parents spend thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars to hire study abroad agencies to design portfolio ideas and compositions for their children, but because of a bad painting, they don't even get an admission offer."

"What is a great detail that catches people's eyes...... Let me give you an example that all of you young people should have heard of. ”

Professor Wattle pressed the electronic whip in his hand, and a drawing was projected on one side of the screen.

"It's ......"

"The illustration from that influencer Mr. Hyperion's video."

"It's called a detective cat, right?"

The classroom was filled with the chatter of students, all of whom were impressed by the video that had been very popular on YouTube during the holidays.

Gu Weijing sat up slightly straight.

On the projection screen, what appeared was his own illustration of Batman for Thomas.

"Hey, have you watched the video of [Mr. Hyperion], that judge's sister is amazing." Someone bumped Gu Weijing's shoulder.

Coco is still the same cool look.

Her chair was pushed far away from her desk, and the back of her chair leaned back against the back wall of the classroom, leaning back, proudly showing off her two long straight legs that had practiced dance under the short skirt of her school uniform.

The ankles wrapped in white stockings were put together, attracting many boys to secretly look sideways.

Especially the group of Jerry's little brothers.

The target of their side eyes was not only the smooth thighs of the campus cheerleader, but also Gu Weijing beside her.

Ever since before the class started, when Kou Kou pulled out the chair next to Gu Weijing and sat there, they couldn't figure it out.

The dirt buns on this campus.

The family is poor, and the long ones are not very handsome.

Gu Weijing was originally in the eyes of his classmates, and his only advantage was to study well.

As a result, this time I didn't even enter Mrs. Sakai's genius class, so I had to come to the big class with them.

It stands to reason that such a person belongs to a small transparent person who can step on it.

Why do you always attract the attention of the pretty girls in school?

"It's beautiful, it's very impressive." Gu Weijing nodded in agreement.

"Hehe, you boys are really like this." Kou Ko sneered at the success of fishing law enforcement, "People are serious art videos, a big sister who lives in Africa and sells illustrations online for ten dollars, relying on her piety towards art, defeated a famous illustrator who is worth thousands of times her to win the championship." ”

"Such a moving story, but it turns out that your impressive focus is on the beautiful judges."

The tip of her nose twitched, and she commented in a disdainful tone, "Vulgar." ”

Gu Weijing's face twitched, speechless.

He really couldn't guess what was going on in his mind with the Kokou around him.

"Quiet, my class is not for you to discuss YouTube influencers."

The sketch professor squeezed out the increasingly divergent discussion in the art classroom with a violent knock on the desk: "What can you think of when you see this illustration?" ”

"The details are beautiful, and the muscle lines are drawn accurately." Some classmates said.

"That's right, beautiful? It's not very pretty, it's his [beep-] too pretty. ”

Professor Wattle looked at the enlarged version of the photograph taken from the video on the projector, and made a rare use of foul language starting with F that did not conform to the teacher's norms in class.

"Let's look at the intersection of two lines here, this is a photo in the video that is magnified more than ten times under a high-definition camera, look here......"

The old gentleman used an electronic pen to circle a circle on the screen and enlarge the position again.

Then he turned on the slide projector on the other side and placed a piece of plastic sketch paper on the projector frame.

In the upper right corner of the screen is the work of Miao Aung Win, who received an A+ in last year's Dulwich Sketch class. Among his Dulwich students, he is already one of the most talented people in sketching, so let's compare them as well. Note that the magnification of the slide projector is currently only half that of this photo. ”

Many students gasped.

At this time, they were able to clearly capture the gap in the "details" in the professor's mouth.

Even at such a large magnification, the pencil line details of the Batman illustration of the detective cat are still very clean.

Each converging contour curve comes to an abrupt end at the intersection point, without a single glitch or deformation.

And the best works among Dulwich students, even if the magnification is only half of the former, the gap in detail after magnification is already very obvious.

Another sketch is enlarged, twisting like a messy ball of yarn split by a kitchen knife, and all kinds of unprocessed pencil lines are messy and dirty.

The gap is clear at a glance.

"No matter what rumors you see on the internet, I think Detective Cat deserves to win this challenge."

Wattel stared at the photograph on the projector: "In your portfolio, you can do a third of the detail of the sketch with a pen. Even if the idea of the portfolio is a piece of shit, as long as the teachers in the admissions office have no bad brains, there will definitely be no shortage of opportunities to go to prestigious schools, and I am responsible for this conclusion. ”

When the old gentleman saw this video for the first time in the popular recommendation column of YouTube, he was simply shocked not to want it.

This level is not inferior to the works of some famous artists in art museums.

You have to be a master sketcher, and some big painters who are not good at lines may not have this level of sketching.

He was a professional art professor who taught drawing, but he was killed by an online painter and didn't know where to go.

Professor Wattle was a little skeptical.

He also understood the judge, Miss Elena, who was accusing the painting.

Such a good work, but the preservation is a mess.

Shelvatel was a judge, and he couldn't accept it either.

"Teacher, how should we exercise and test our ability to grasp the details of the pen?" Coco stared at the illustrations on the projector with great interest and asked, "What's the secret recipe?" ”

"It's a good question, I can't talk about the secret recipe, but there are still ways to strengthen training and test my ability to line up."

"This classmate, come up for a moment."

Professor Wattle casually ordered a boy sitting in the front row of the classroom to walk up to the podium and place a piece of sketch paper under the projector.

This sketch paper is different from ordinary sketch paper, with a neat row of small grids of good size arranged on it.

"You come and put the tone up in the punched space. Use parallel short straight lines to arrange the line, and it is required to be one stroke to the end, without blank space and without any line segment burrs beyond the scope of the grid. ”

Professor Wattle ordered, "You have five minutes. ”

The boy took the sketch pencil from the old gentleman's hand and did not feel that there was anything too difficult.

Accents can also be simply understood as coloring with a pencil.

Everyone is a professional art student, and just using pencils of various hardnesses, it adds up to 800 pencils, if not 1,000.

The coloring of this small square, without any shadow changes, is really not a difficult requirement.

He thinks there's plenty of time.

however

After the boy's first strokes on the squares under the projection, he knew that he was too young.

The dimensions of the squares are clearly well designed.

It's not too big, but it's a little out of the range of motion of the up-grip pen holding with the palm rest resting on the table and the wrist as the center of rotation.

He had to hang his wrist off the paper for greater dexterity, which reduced the stability of his pen holding.

At the same time, the border of graph paper is extremely thin, only about a millimeter thick.

When you adjust the tone of your daily sketch, whether it is impasto or flat, you are more in pursuit of an overall picture feeling.

There are no special requirements for the accuracy of the cable, and in rough places, each line is one centimeter long and half a centimeter shorter.

Coloring small squares was originally not difficult.

But it's very difficult to get to the end with no blanks, no more than the boundary.

The boy's first stroke was out of the frame.

The second stroke, some distance away from the border of the square, stopped.

The relaxed look on his face immediately disappeared, and he frowned.

Unfortunately, proficiency in using the pen does not change by human will.

Because he was too nervous and didn't master the strength well, the boy's third stroke was broken halfway through.

He looked up at Teacher Wattel rather embarrassed.

"It's okay, you continue."

Teacher Wattel waved his hand, looking to anticipate the student's disgrace.

"It's kind of a little tradition in my improvement class, and every year I invite a random classmate to come on stage to demonstrate. After so many years of teaching at Dulwich, there are only four students who can complete it in the allotted time of 5 minutes. Among these four, the worst one was also admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts, which ranked 97th in the world that year, and as for the ...... that can be completed in less than four minutes"

Teacher Vatel glanced at the class and pouted.

"So far, not a single one."

(End of chapter)