Saint-Exupéry's level of drawing is actually quite average, and the original watercolor illustration is the level of stick figures for elementary school students.

If anything's special.

That could be ...... The French writer has created a beautiful set of stick figures for elementary school students.

Don't underestimate "good-looking", this simple evaluation.

Ordinary people and amateurs who have not undergone professional training can draw things for their own amusement, but if you really put them in the perspective of artwork, it is almost impossible to look at them closely.

There are even fewer good-looking that can meet the standards of commercial manuscripts.

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The original illustrations of Saint-Exupéry have received a good response from the market over the years, and some readers really like these illustrations.

In addition to the natural subjective addition brought by the original author's autographed work,

In terms of the level of painting skills of an amateur painter, the final picture performance is not too bad, and even has a sense of innocence of a child's painting.

The main body of each illustration is made up of very sparse lines, and the background is often extremely simple curves. When combined into the picture, it looks very comfortable.

Gu Weijing didn't understand why this way of using brushes that did not conform to art norms could achieve such an artistic effect.

Now he understands a little-

The secret lies in composition.

Although the original author's painting skills are mediocre, the artistic ideas are very interesting and have an unbridled imagination.

Art learning attaches great importance to drawing inferences from one case to another, and touching on the analogy.

Today, the collector Chen Shenglin instructed him to compose his own paintings, and Gu Weijing gained a lot of understanding, and he had some understanding of the structure of the picture.

He found that

Sometimes, the composition does not have to be confined to a specific normative art theory, but is more adaptable to local conditions, flexible and changeable, and integrated into one's own understanding, but can achieve better results.

There is no deeper understanding of the work than the original author.

Amateurs like Saint-Exupéry lack the constraints of theory.

When designing the structure of the picture, it is completely in accordance with the natural imagination, and it may be easier for a professional painter to jump out of the stereotypical craftsmanship.

Just like Chen Shenglin, who has not used a paintbrush for many years, the composition of the oil painting he designed is more energetic and more vibrant than the work he painted according to the triangular pyramid composition method.

After designing the draft of the work that I will participate in the exhibition, and then looking at the illustrations in turn, I found that the proportions of the picture of "The Little Prince" are very interesting.

These illustrations often feature large areas of white space and exaggerated proportions.

unprofessional,

The shape is simple, but the composition is quite zen.

Compared with the not very good painting skills, this kind of composition is the essence of Saint-Exupéry's art and the emotional portrayal of his works.

If it were not limited by the original author's own limited painting skills, the perception of these works would have been able to reach a higher level.

"Interesting."

After discovering this, Gu Weijing decided that the composition basically retains the general structure of the original "The Little Prince", and at the same time makes detailed fine-tuning that is more in line with the visual proportions.

After all, there is a specialization in the art industry.

Saint-Exupéry was not a professional painter, and while his compositions were imaginative, they were rough in many places.

It is obvious that the structure can be optimized, and Gu Weijing does not have to follow the script.

Combined with Gu Weijing's pen sketch that has been completed.

Soon, he already had a mature idea in his mind, and he picked up the painting knife again.

Time flows slowly.

By the time the moon was in the middle of the sky, Gu Weijing had already completed a row of illustrations in front of him.

He set his palette aside and looked at his work.

[Title: "The Little Prince - The Lonely King"]

[Painting Technique: Knife Painting: Legendary]

[Emotion: Feeling in the heart]

——

[Title: "The Little Prince - The Garden of Roses"]

[Painting Technique: Knife Painting: Legendary]

[Emotion: Feeling in the heart]

——

[Title: "The Little Prince - The Drunkard of Chaos"]

【……】

A dozen or so drawings waiting to dry occupy almost an entire wall.

The painting method of the oil painting knife is so fast, as long as you have a clear idea, so many illustrations, it will take a few hours to finish.

Not surprisingly, each of them has an emotional rating that is felt by the heart.

This is the best-looking set of illustrations Gu Weijing has ever drawn.

"Mr. Sloth, I've finished drawing a new batch of illustrations, and I'll send them to you?"

Gu Weijing scanned these illustrations one by one into an electronic version and sent them to his agent.

He was very pleased with the paintings.

Both in terms of technique and emotion, he has reached the limit of his mastery, and the composition is also in line with the original author's true intentions.

A lonely and arrogant king, a rose full of illusions and longing to be loved, an alcoholic who indulges in alcohol all day long in order to forget his pain......

The picture is bright but not vulgar, and the lines are gorgeous but not frivolous.

Compared with the first illustration he sent to Mr. Sloth, in addition to being visually intuitive and beautiful, it has more of a three-dimensional feeling in the senses.

The beauty of this set of illustrations is no longer just a simple look of stunning, but a little more heavy.

This subtle feeling is difficult to describe in words.

After infusing emotion, the characters in the picture come to life in an instant, no longer just a two-dimensional oil painting, but like a living soul injected into it.

This is the highest pursuit of illustration, the so-called sense of communication.

Art speaks.

The paintings in front of you have a direct and natural sense of communication with the viewer, without the aid of additional text, and the illustrations themselves seem to be telling something.

Clumsy and childish, dreamy and psychedelic.

"Well, okay, I'll download it first." Mr. Sloth motioned for Gu Weijing to wait.

But a few minutes later.

Gu Weijing's mobile phone had one more line of messages.

“Splendid！ (Magnificent and outstanding)"

After a few moments, Mr. Sloth probably didn't think that word was enough to describe the excellence of the illustrations, and added.

"In my eyes, the paintings are simply sparkling."

"Thanks to your help." Gu Weijing thanks.

"No, I think thank you for giving me a chance to participate in these works, I can't evaluate them with mere excellence."

Mr. Sloth's tone between the lines was a little touching.

Saint-Exupéry said that the stars shine so that everyone can one day find their own star.

Mr. Sloth said with a poetic temperament: "As a long-time fan of "The Little Prince", I have seen that countless readers will find their own stars in these shining works. ”

"Thank you, Detective Cat Lady, I love them. This is a set of illustrations that have the power to create classics. ”

……

Myanmar and the UK are separated by half a day's time zone.

While Gu Weijing paints at night, the Scholastic Group's European headquarters on London's Financial Street is still brightly lit during evening office hours.

"In the 31st round of the Premier League, West Ham United and Manchester City competed for the top four at Upton Park......"

The fat assistant wore headphones, and seeing that no one was paying attention around, he secretly called up the football broadcast of Sky Sports on the screen, and leaned lazily on the chair.

Helping leaders do "bad things" may be an easier way to get closer than slapping horses.

Since he was instructed by the president to operate the illustrator Detective Cat's proof-and-review in the dark, his status in the project team has changed significantly.

This can be regarded as a petition for submission,

From then on, he was the man of President Osborne.

Maybe a big guy like the president of the group is too far away to look down on a fat horse boy like him.

But the project director of "The Little Prince", who is also Osborne's younger brother in the office, has obviously been much more amiable to him this week.

The office door was pushed open.

A proofreading editor rushed into the collective office of the project team with a large pile of Starbucks coffee in his arms.

The fat assistant paused the live broadcast of the event.

He chirped and motioned for his share of coffee to be placed on the table, and comfortably pulled a doughnut out of his briefcase and nibbled on it.

The fat assistant hiccups in satisfaction.

Now not only can I go to work to fish and paddle, but I also have all been assigned by the supervisor to a proofreading editor for my daily upstairs and downstairs errands.

These things themselves are not big, but they can be much more leisurely, and at the same time, the happiness they improve is also real.

He was so happy that he gained two pounds again.

It's just that

Heard......

Director Charlie was very unhappy.

The art department has been rumored lately, and everyone is in danger, and in the office of the big boss, there is often the sound of breaking things.

"Who is Mr. Wiesen Cole, the project assistant of the "Little Prince" project team?"

The fat assistant was thinking wildly in his mind, when suddenly several men in black stepped on thick-soled leather shoes and broke into the office of the project team.

"Group back office, we would like to ask Mr. Cole to come to us for a brief chat."

The black-clothed man at the head showed his ID to the supervisor who greeted him, and the atmosphere in the office was a few degrees cold at this moment.

"What's the matter?"

"No comment." The little brother in the internal service department said coldly with a straight face.

The back office is the internal regulatory audit department of a large company, the equivalent of a court in a business empire like Scholastic.

For such a large group of tens of billions of dollars, if the internal rules and regulations and risk control are all dependent on the police, the efficiency is very low, and the daylily is often cold when something happens.

Theoretically, as long as the system related to the company's regulations is under the jurisdiction of the internal department.

From the suspicion that a member of the management team embezzled $20 million of public funds to go to Las Vegas, or caught the commercial spies planted by the rival company within the group, to the report that someone was flirting with a female colleague, it is the investigative duty of the internal affairs department.

However, small matters generally depend on the situation, either the police will be called, or the other party will be ordered to go to the personnel department for an interview.

What can be investigated by the Internal Service Department is often a serious disciplinary violation.

Many colleagues in the office looked at the fat assistant with curious, surprised, strange and other strange eyes.

The fat assistant's face suddenly tightened.

He immediately thought of the detective cat.

Someone reported themselves for violating discipline?

However, the supervisor looked quite calm, patted the assistant on the shoulder and asked him to go with the other party first.

"Is it a detective cat thing?"

On the way to the internal service department, the fat assistant was a little panicked and couldn't help asking.

"Mr. Cole, how do you know we came looking for you because of the detective cat?" The little brother of the back office department immediately stopped, and his tone played with taste.

"Uh...... I've been dealing with this lately. ”

The fat assistant knew that he had said the wrong thing, and his heart skipped a beat.

He raised his wrist and looked at his watch in a panic: "It's almost time to get off work now, that, we shouldn't talk too long." ”

"The group stipulates that we will pay three times the overtime pay by the hour for the conversation."

The back office brother shrugged his shoulders: "Of course, Mr. Cole, we have no right to restrict your personal freedom, if you don't want to talk, you can leave at any time." ”

"It's just that the next time I talk to you might be the police. Because of the subjective malice of individuals, the loss of major assets of the group is caused, and it is a reminder that such high-value financial crimes will go to the criminal court. ”

The little brother said lightly: "Even if you don't have to go to jail, with such a citizenship record, it will be difficult to find a job again." ”

The fat assistant, who is still a social animal, took a breath of cold air in the face of intimidation and fright.

"Because of personal subjective malice, the loss of major assets of the group has been caused, how can it be so serious." He licked the corner of his mouth.

"Hehe, because of the selfish interests of some people, the first-line well-known illustration studio Villerhine Studio, which had reached a preliminary cooperation intention, was kicked away, and the contract was authorized to a little-known garbage network painter in the dark box operation."

A voice said gloomily: "The potential loss of the group market caused by the works of garbage painters may be as high as tens of millions of dollars, so you are ready to squat in the cell and pick up soap until you die." ”

Charlie, director of art at Scholastic, leaned against the open door of the back office conversation room, lighting a thick black cigar from a fragrant wood chip.

He took the cigar in his mouth and took a deep breath.

Then he spat out a provocative smoke ring at the fat assistant, and his eyes were resentful.

"Fat boy, if you don't want to rot in prison with that bitch of the detective cat, I advise you to confess all of Osborne's sinister deeds."

Charlie believes,

For Osborne to work so hard to support an online illustrator to take the position, there must be shady insider trading.

He didn't want to report Osborne to the Department of Internal Affairs for disciplinary violations.

For one, Charlie has no direct evidence.

Second, the open and secret struggle of the management is still within a controllable range on the whole, and the internal service department will completely tear its face.

You can report it, and others can report it, Charlie's daily contract to the illustration studio in Villelein is not very clean.

But Osborne's stealing behavior of wooing Deputy Director Schubert has completely exceeded the bottom line that Charlie can tolerate.

Fortunately, the most important thing for an illustrator is to speak with his work, which is similar to some technical jobs.

What can attract an audience is good, and what can't attract an audience is bad.

It is true that the "Little Prince" project had already reached a preliminary cooperation intention with the Willein studio, and it was also true that it was suddenly authorized to an online painter.

Whatever the findings are.

As long as you have a first-line studio like Vellein in your hands, you can come up with a better work than a detective cat.

Charlie believes that no matter what the outcome of the investigation is, he will be invincible.

Now that Osborne has broken through the bottom line.

Even if Charlie fights to get on the board, he must sweep the detective cat out of the house.

(End of chapter)