Anatomically speaking,

Human pupils can contract or dilate 6~7 times in tens of milliseconds under the condition of sudden changes in mood such as ecstasy, excitement, and sadness in a short period of time.

This is the organ most closely related to the mood in the physiological structure of the human body, and it is not transferred by the subjective will of man.

Even those who have received professional anti-interrogation training and can control subtle facial muscles, so as to achieve the situation of "thunder in the chest, and the face is like a peaceful lake".

The changes in their pupils can still clearly reflect the ups and downs of their inner emotions.

The eyes are the windows to the soul,

Western painting has always attached great importance to people's eyes.

The eyes that can express the mood of the characters, the mirrors that can express the overlapping and complex spatial structure, and the lights and candles that can express the colors, light and shadow.

These three points are repeatedly emphasized by the teacher in the oil painting class, and the difficulties and points that need to be paid attention to in copying the works of famous masters.

The Oriental School of Painting is even more of a depiction of the eyes of the characters, reaching the point of approaching pathological demand.

Draw people's pictures and put the finishing touch.

Zhang Yanyuan, a famous minister from the Tang Dynasty official to the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, mentioned in his book "On the Six Laws of Painting" that commented on the merits and demerits of the famous painters of the past dynasties - "There is a law for painting, and there is a spirit for the eyes".

It is believed that in Chinese painting, if the audience can see the aura and spirit from the eyes of the characters, then the painting is disciplined.

Figuring out the different eyes of the models and restoring them on paper with a brush is the tireless eternal pursuit of oriental painters in all dynasties.

Oriental works of art,

From the various schools of Chinese painting to the Buddhist art of Gandhara influenced by the Tangut cultural circle, the Central Asian art style, and even some Greek murals and sculptures, this characteristic can be clearly seen.

Gu Weijing has read relevant art theory books and consulted Professor Lin Tao about this question.

Professor Lin Tao thinks.

Whether it is the early Gandhara Buddhist art or the figure paintings made by the kings and generals in the Eastern Xia, they all pay great attention to the solemnity and majesty of the figures.

The painter wants to make the viewer feel awe, and dare not blaspheme.

In order to express solemnity, these schools were accustomed to flattening and flattening portraits and even sculptures.

Whether it is a Buddha statue with divinity, or a portrait of the emperor in the Qing Dynasty court, or a portrait of a famous minister, almost all of them are majestic and upright faces, which is the reason.

Qing Gongye History,

The Italian Lang Shining once presented a Western-style portrait oil painting of the Qing Emperor Kangxi to the Emperor Kangxi.

He focused on spatial perspective, painting "vivid, eyebrows, eyes and facial features", in order to curry favor with the ruler of the eastern land.

As a result, Emperor Kangxi was furious,

I think that the characters in the picture are sitting in vain, the light and shade are unclear, the majesty is not majestic, the tangible is godless, and the cheesy is extreme! Order the destruction of the painting.

Only then did Lord Lang accept his fate and switch to the study of new style painting.

Chinese paintings often do not have rich facial features, nor are they like Western oil paintings, which are used to using shadows or perspective to express a real sense of space.

This tests the level of the painter even more.

If it is too solemn, it will look dull and lose popularity.

Therefore, the spirit, smart temperament and elegant demeanor of all the characters need to be pointed out on a pair of eyes with superb skills.

Look at the heart from the eyes, and then look at the people.

This is also the so-called "mental image" of oriental painters.

Gu Weijing understands the principle, but how to draw it, he has always been between what he seems to understand and what he doesn't understand.

It's like learning a physical formula but not being able to solve it.

What kind of eyes are drawn that can reveal inner emotions?

He can't be like an electronic scanner, sweeping the model's pupils little by little on the paper.

Professor Lin Tao reluctantly told him that the master led him into the door and practiced in person.

The truth has been taught to him, and the rest can only be understood by Gu Weijing himself.

If it is a painting master like Mr. Cao Xuan,

Naturally, with nearly a hundred years of painting accumulation and the changes of the years in my heart, the smoke and rain of the world can be nourished, and the eyes of the audience are shocked in the mural out of thin air.

Cao Lao is not far from being 100 years old.

A century of tempering is enough for an art master to reach the point where his skills are almost Tao, even if he paints with a pen, his eyebrows and eyes are still vivid.

But Gu Weijing is such a child,

Whether it is skills or life experience, it is too young.

Don't think about putting the finishing touches on it.

Even if you paint a person, you can't paint a portrait of a blank puppet, point out the temperament that seems to come to life, and forcibly give it a soul, it's too far behind.

If you want to draw a truly moving gaze,

He's going to have to at least find a suitable model.

Professor Lin Tao said that it depends on chance.

When Gu Weijing really found that pair of eyes that contained rich emotional changes, he didn't need to be taught by a teacher, and he understood.

It's hard to find good models,

Drawing, especially realistic subjects, is the same as a photojournalist who wants to win a prize in a journalism contest, and outstanding work is the result of a good creator and a good model.

Not only do you have to bother looking for it, but you also have to try your luck.

Artistic models and this kind of thing,

If the painter's request is only appearance, then it is too simple.

Tall, short, fat and thin, long and beautiful, long ugly, and strangely shaped.

As long as you have money, no matter how strange the demand is, your agent or gallery can easily find it for you, no matter how beautiful it is.

After shooting 100,000 US dollars, even if you find a Victoria's Secret supermodel to paint a portrait without clothes, it is very simple.

If you happen to be an internationally renowned painter.

Sorry, you don't have to spend any money, and countless modeling agents will contact you.

If the big sister can't do it, she will take the initiative to directly set your sketch as a Twitter homepage and put it at the top of the social platform.

On the chain of contempt for the noble and the forced,

In modern society, the only people who can compete with great painters in the West may be some palace-level classical symphony musicians and members of the royal family.

After Prince Harry, Meghan and his wife began to take the Netflix dog blood ethics drama tearing B route, even the royal family may be half weak.

My waist is thin and my hips are curled, and I can make a nude model for a big painter, what a long face!

It's much more stylish than looking forward to becoming famous in a TV series or shooting a set of cover advertisements for light luxury clothing, and other painters are willing to paint you, which really looks up to you.

But if your needs are: "The heart of the model has a sense of layering, and the eyes are full of emotion", this kind of mysterious rhetoric.

Then your agent is going to vomit blood.

Can you find it, and can you really show the emotional feeling that meets the painter's requirements after finding it?

hehe

It's all a needle in a haystack and a state of resignation.

Even when Gu Weijing painted portraits of Jasmine and Bu Dao, the two children, he was not felt to have any wonderful sensation when painting his eyes.

Jasmine's eyes are certainly very beautiful,

It's just a child, happiness is happiness, and grievance is grievance.

Their hearts are still childish, very clean and refreshing, like a clear spring.

Moving, but lacking in layering.

Especially the younger Budao classmates,

Gu Weijing can often only feel it in his eyes - he wants to eat, wants to play, and wants to be high...... This very simple emotion.

At this time, seeing Uncle Alai's eyes, it gave Gu Weijing a very surprised feeling.

It's like a dark blue to jet-black ultramarine pigment ore being thrown into the pool water,

Slowly, slowly, layers of hazy cyan colors overflowed from it, rendering the surrounding environment into a melancholy cyan.

"That's the abundance of eyes!"

It was like a monk knocking a brass bell in his head, and Gu Weijing instantly understood what Professor Lin Tao told him about what it meant to have layered rich eyes.

Obviously, Uncle Alai's expression now is no different from the past.

Nor does the eye show any kind of neuroticism of hatred for the fate of injustice, cynicism.

His eyes are so calm, so empty,

But there were layers of light and faint sadness and sadness, overflowing, and the moment he looked at him, it was like seeing Uncle Alai's thirty years of past.

I used to be beautiful, thinking that I could change my destiny, that I was the future master of this city and this country.

I drove through the downtown streets in a car issued to a high-ranking officer, and the faces of the people were full of envy and reverence in the mirror.

I also fell to the bottom, lost my faith, lost my honor, lost everything, and was broken like a pitiful worm.

In the end, I didn't even have an object of hatred, only a clear understanding of this filthy world.

So

I don't want to get rich, I don't want to be a good person anymore, I just want to live as an orphanage volunteer and be a clean and good person.

Uncle Alai stopped talking,

But the moment I made eye contact with him, I couldn't help but want to cry.

Gu Weijing suddenly realized in his heart.

He grabbed the pen and began to drop it quickly, the skin of the fingers holding the drawing pen turned slightly white from too much force.

Gu Weijing didn't even dare to take a big breath, for fear that this precious realization would slip out of his mind before he recorded this look on paper.

Uncle Alai tilted his head sideways, looked at the drawing paper in the hands of middle school students, recalled the past of half his life, and his thoughts were full of thoughts.

Unlike the semi-literate soldiers of many warlords in Burma,

Alai has a high level of cultural attainment, and if he can be admitted to the best national military academy in Myanmar, his education has exceeded 90% of the people in this land.

Moreover, Uncle Alai also stayed in Tel Aviv for a long time.

Israel's city, which has long been shrouded in the shadow of war, is not only the most militarized place for the people, but also the place with the strongest artistic scene.

Tel Aviv is one of several centers of modern art in the world, with an array of art galleries and creative art parks, as well as graffiti and spray-painting on the walls of military base dormitories. Uncle Alai even learned two sketches from an Argentine non-commissioned officer in the same dormitory when he was on leave.

So, he knows how to draw.

Uncle Alai saw that the work on Gu Weijing's drawing paper was almost finished, and it didn't look like a sketch, nor did it look like the painting method of a vendor selling pen drawings to tourists that he had seen on the street.

The lines are much more concise and precise, and each pen curves like a skeleton, holding the work up from the paper.

The moment the janitor saw Gu Weijing's drawing paper, he felt like he was seeing himself in the mirror.

Some are high-spirited, and some are depressed.

Two emotions that should have been in conflict are skillfully fused together, like ice wrapped in fire, and fire burning in ice. A large number of rich emotions are like water stored in a sponge, wrung out of the paper and rushed into the viewer's heart when the viewer and the painting look at each other.

The self on the picture seems to be laughing, seems to be crying again, happy at first glance, sad when looking closely, and only loneliness is left after careful consideration.

Uncle Arley has heard that it is rumored that da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is very emotional.

Some people can see joy, and some viewers can see sadness.

Countless musicians and writers have created many works of art inspired by the look and feel of this famous painting.

Uncle Alai has never been to France, and naturally he has no chance to look at this famous painting with countless legends and stories in the Louvre to distinguish the real from the fake.

However, the janitor really found this feeling in the pen of this middle school student, who did not even seem to be an adult.

It seems that his whole life is condensed and printed on this small sketch paper.

He stretched out his hand to touch the surface of the sketch paper, but retracted his hand like an electric shock, not daring to disturb Gu Weijing's painting.

[Title: "The Gatekeeper of the Good Luck Orphanage "Alai"]

[Sketch Technique: Lv.4 Professional Painter: 1st Order (2307/5000)]

[Chinese Painting Technique: Lv.4 Professional Painter: 1st Order (1056/5000)]

[Emotion: Feeling in the heart (consummation)]

Gu Weijing put down the pen,

Following the cover illustration of The Little Prince, Gu Weijing once again reached the pinnacle of his current painting mood.

"It's a level of perfection that you feel in your heart."

Gu Weijing looked at the pair of eyes with long meaning drawn on his sketch paper, and felt a little regretful.

He felt very good about this painting, and he thought it could achieve the evaluation of "painstaking".

It seems that the system's evaluation standard for the emotional level of a painting is even higher than he imagined.

I am still too young and lack enough life understanding.

Uncle Alai's story was heard by himself, and it was more of the excitement of watching a surprising story, and he still lacked the last point of shock that could penetrate the soul.

fortunately

As Gu Weijing had just finished this line drawing sketch, he heard a hint in his mind that the task was completed.

[Current task content: Complete 100 character line sketches with different themes.] (Note: Among them, more than 20 works that have reached the rating of feeling are required)]

【Current Quest Progress——】

[Character Line Drawing: (100/100)]

[Feeling (20/20)]

[The first stage of the chain quest - Embrace all rivers (1/3) has been completed!] 】

A prompt for a new message has appeared on the system panel.

[Current task reward: Knowledge card - "Summary of the Essence of New Style Painting" Lang Shining, can be claimed!] 】

(End of chapter)