In the studio,

Gu Weijing repeatedly confirmed that the brightness of the paint on the canvas after his trimming finally did not dissatisfy him.

Therefore, he continued to follow the established order of copying, depicting the long-range, subject, and close-up of the painting "Old Church" from dark to shallow.

Whether it's a dot or a ribbon.

The brushstrokes of Impressionist works are generally characterized by ups and downs, with a thin and short brushwork style and bright colors.

Brushstrokes that express different lighting conditions have different ways to draw.

Gu Weijing uses an oblique front brush that mixes titanium white and lemon yellow to express the color and texture changes of the main body of the building.

This is to shape the hard majesty of the church walls, but also to reflect the subtle weathering that has been eroded by time.

When depicting the roofs of buildings, he has a slight hint of phthalocyanine blue.

Phthalocyanine blue can turn part of the roof from dark red to magenta, reflecting the cold light of the thunderclouds in the sky on the curved dome of the church.

"The technique of drawing is indeed the foundation of Western art."

Gu Weijing nodded slightly.

The same reason he was thinking about these paint combinations now was the same as the reason why he had just used an oil knife to paint the otherwise dark sky more relaxed and breathing.

It's all about following your inner intuition.

The painter's sense may sound mysterious and unreliable, but in fact it is the artist's sixth sense, which has been transformed by the accumulated experience after thousands of exercises.

Very useful.

After the improvement of his sketching skills, Gu Weijing's precise control of light and dark details allowed him to be more imaginative when copying and repair the shortcomings of the past.

The painting "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm" has been copied countless times by Gu Weijing.

The macro structure of the whole picture can be called ripe in his heart.

Now, by intensifying these details to a deeper level, he easily achieves a painting with wanton brushwork and an astonishing level of detail.

[The current copy of the painting - "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm" has been completed! 】”

"[Similarity of this copy: 61.2%, you have obtained a mid-level treasure chest in the system.] 】”

With Gu Weijing's oil brush, he finally added a little moisture on the surface of the linen on a thunderstorm as the finishing touch of the copy.

The virtual panel sent a prompt from the system at the right time.

"Got another mid-level treasure chest."

For this, Gu Weijing feels that it is reasonable.

He focused more on the evaluation of the similarity of "61.2%".

On that thunderstormy night, when he and Katsuko copied Shishi's work together, the similarity reached 59%. It seems that Gu Wei has achieved a two-percent increase in funding so much.

In fact, it is a very different concept.

Impressionism is a school of painting that pursues the creation of real scenes in the field.

That night, I copied the weather conditions and the scenes in Ms. Carroll's "Old Church" to be extremely reproductive.

When Gu Weijing usually creates, it is difficult to reproduce such good external conditions.

Without the help of the weather, he had only been rewarded with an intermediate chest once in the past few weeks, and the rest were all beginner chests.

Now the works on the easel in front of Gu Weijing are all imitations copied behind closed doors in the small studio at home.

Not only does this mean that he has broken the 60% mark for the first time.

It also means that Gu Weijing's current painting technique can be very stable without relying on the assistance of the external ring mirror, and achieve the brilliance of most of Carroll's brushwork.

As the frequency of obtaining intermediate chests increased, he also took a step closer to the ultimate reward for this mission.

"[Ray Noah - a fragment of a ghost in the world.] 】”

Gu Weijing glanced at it greedily, the highest reward that the system could give for this impressionistic limited task.

He still doesn't know what the "ghost fragment" is.

Katsuko Sakai once said when chatting - in her heart, when an art student goes forward bravely on the path of the previous masters, he will come to the end.

At that time, when you re-create, it is like a senior master in the grave who has passed through the dust and smoke of history, attached to your body and written for you.

To achieve the effect of resurrection from the dead in a sense.

Gu Weijing didn't know if this system reward was a similar concept to the words in Shengzi's mouth.

Anyway, it looks very powerful!

He still remembers that when he got the legendary Baiyi Tree, the handwriting of [Henri Rousseau's "Childish" Ghost Fragment] appeared on the page of the lottery book.

The so-called ghost fragment should be a legendary-level item of the same level as the Hundred Art Tree.

Henri Rousseau is not the famous pioneer of the Enlightenment, the Rousseau lying in the French Panthéon.

Just the same name.

Although he was also an important painter of the 19th century, he should be ranked in the top 10 among the great painters of the Post-Impressionists.

However, no matter the strength of painting and the status of art, it is completely incomparable with a great master like Reano.

So compared.

Theoretically, this reward on the system panel should be even more awesome.

Gu Weijing had a secret expectation for the future in his heart, and casually opened the intermediate treasure chest at hand.

"Hopefully another blessed little candle will be opened."

In the previous intermediate treasure chest, he opened about 400 oil painting experience points at that time.

It's a lot more than the 50~300 experience points that are often found in beginner chests, and it translates to thousands of dollars.

But in any case, it is not as useful as a small candle.

This kind of small candle that can increase inspiration is always always prepared as much as possible.

Gu Weijing can't say when it will be used.

What is surprising is that the system panel is not a voice-activated game after all.

Intermediate chests open.

It's not XP, it's not a one-time skill that blesses Little Candle.

Three silver playing card-like cards were suspended in front of Gu Weijing.

[Choose one of the three knowledge cards as a reward for this intermediate treasure chest.] 】

[Reward 1: "Detailed Explanation of the Architectural Drawings of the Palace of Palazzo Güell and the Decorative Arts of the Nineteenth Century" - Antoni Gaudí]

[Reward 2: Interpretation of the muscles in the famous painting "Wrestler" - Thomas Akins]

[Reward 3: "Pet Mind Reading - Twelve Tips to Find Your Cat and Dog Happy" - Louis Piquet]

Intermediate chests are just different.

The knowledge card in front of me has become much more conscience than the primary treasure chest.

It's no longer the system that just stuffs him with a strange and unpopular knowledge card that doesn't know what to come in handy. Instead, he gave Gu Weijing three choices and let him choose according to his needs.

Gu Weijing glanced at the three options.

These knowledge cards are actually quite useful.

It looks like it's a lot more reliable for painters than the damn thing he used to find in the primary treasure chest, "Purple and Blue Macaw Feather Specimens and Skeletal Anatomy".

On the road of art, it can bring a lot of help to Gu Weijing.

Obviously,

Reward 1 and Reward 2 are two options, which correspond to the two main common categories of architectural painting and figure painting in the painting theme.

Antoni Gaudí is a marvel of Leonardo da Vinci in the history of architecture.

He was both an architect and a sketcher, and a figure in Art Nouveau.

Whichever building bears the master's name on the blueprints is almost equivalent to a World Heritage Site.

Throughout the 19th century, the Palais Güell in Spain became famous for its richly detailed ornamentation and innovative designs such as mosaic tiles with clever curves.

If you choose this reward.

In the future, if he wants to create architectural paintings with the palace of Palazzo Güell as the main body of the palace, he will definitely be extremely realistic and accurate.

If you want to paint other famous buildings such as the Sagrada Familia and the Mila Apartment, which are also designed and created by Gaudí every year, where countless art students squat out to sketch, you can also touch on the bypass.

Reward two is not bad.

Generally speaking, whether they are engaged in art or literature, Europeans basically look down on their American cousins.

This implicit discrimination persisted in the cultural sphere from the War of Independence to the end of the twentieth century.

The exception is Wresstlers, which is one of the few indigenous paintings in American history.

Thomas Eakins is the father of art in the United States, a figure that all North American students cannot avoid when studying art history.

His contribution to depicting the lines of the human body is no less than that of Mr. Burriman, but his creative direction is more inclined to express the subdivision of "muscle force during human movement".

Whether it's the UFC or WWE, Uncle Sam's brawling scenes of strong men shirtless have always had an incomprehensible enthusiasm for people in other countries.

"Wrestler" almost takes the delicate expression of the oil painter's human muscles to a new level.

The most inconspicuous thing is the reward given by the system.

The first two options,

Gaudí and Eakins are all familiar to the two masters, and the value of knowledge cards is needless to say.

The third reward is to directly stunned Gu Weijing.

"What's this?"

He took out his phone and looked it up, only to find out on the Internet that this "Piquet" should be a tenured professor in the veterinary department of the University of California.

This guy doesn't even have a wiki homepage.

At the University of California, Davis, where he works, the Department of Veterinary Medicine has been ranked No. 1 in the QS Professional Rankings for the past three years.

The title of "Mind Reading for Pets – 12 Tips for Finding Your Cats and Dogs Happy" doesn't sound quite serious, like one of the trash books on Amazon that allow housewives to pass the time in their free time.

The relevant introduction of the network said.

It's actually a pretty serious academic tome on pet behavior, and it's a required textbook for veterinary students at the University of California.

Gu Weijing also saw a student claiming to be from the University of California complaining in a video public class of Professor Piquet on the Internet - this guy is like a pervert, giving them different pictures of pet expressions in each class, and even bone structure and anatomy drawings under X-rays, and asking students to submit a small paper on the analysis of cat or dog behavior patterns in this courseware after class.

It's so torturous!

He studied his girlfriend's facial micro-expressions and didn't have such pain!

Based on this information, Gu Weijing understood that Professor Piquet is a top veteran expert in animal behavior in the field of veterinary medicine.

Veterinarians and painters are two completely unrelated professions.

It seems that no matter how much Professor Piquet hangs, he is not comparable to the first two great artists.

Case.

Gu Weijing studied on his mobile phone for a while, and after figuring out what the content of the three rewards was.

He didn't hesitate at all, and chose ......

Reward three.

Joke!

The first two rewards are also very good, but if you put them in the first three of the rewards, they are not fragrant at all.

This is a reward for showing him how to draw cats and dogs!

No art student will give up such an opportunity.

"There's a good thing about the system."

Just hearing that there are cats and dogs with the same texture and anatomy as Old Man Burriman's sketch character card, it is enough to surprise Gu Weijing.

No matter how complex architecture and the human body are, art students will have professional learning opportunities in the future.

Painters who dissected corpses were not uncommon in the Middle Ages.

Study of the dissection of cats and dogs......

Well, that's a bit hard to be accepted by the modern public.

Just kidding.

In today's public opinion environment in Western society, it is likely that the painter who bought cats and dogs to go back for dissection and research is likely to be sentenced more harshly than secretly going to the forensic morgue to secretly dissect the corpse and cut it for play.

Of course, you don't have to dissect cats and dogs.

It's just that art students usually don't have the means to learn this aspect at all.

I often need to use it when drawing.

Historically, the animal that has been put on the canvas by painters the most, and the most often used as a model, is undoubtedly human.

The second is cats and dogs.

For the literati painters of the East, it was also important to be able to draw horses.

The rest of the rhinos, gorillas, whales, tigers, camels, and sika deer were also painted, but the number of famous paintings added up was no more than a single dog hair.

The artist gives no less emotion to animals in his brushstrokes than he does to be rich by nature.

The history of pet ownership dates back at least 15,000 years.

The image of pets began to appear in ancient Egyptian murals 7,000 years ago, when the inhabitants of the banks of the Nile tried to engrave simple patterns on the walls with sharp stone bricks.

Painting cats and dogs has run through the entire history of human art.

There are often sky-high prices of art with the theme of cats and dogs appearing in auction houses.

Artists are also often clearly divided into two schools: the dog school and the cat school.

In the court painting school, which is represented by Rococo art, you can often see the figures of various breeds of hounds.

In modern times, Andy Warhol, and even fashion designers like Chanel's Galeries Lafayette, are pure cat slaves.

Picasso belongs to the wall-riding school that both cats and dogs love and like to paint.

In general, cats are drawn more.

"Dora Marr and the Cat", "Jacqueline and the Cat in a Chair", "The Cat Who Eats Birds", ...... These world-famous paintings, which currently have an average price of between $50 million and $95 million, are all inseparable from cats.

The French painter Balthus, whom Picasso admired the most, was even more attentive to observing all kinds of stray cats, painting for half his life, and countless famous paintings were bought and treasured by the art museum at a high price.

Drawing pets is a university question.

Animals also have their own expressions and expressions.

In many cases, humans get more emotional comfort from pets like cats and dogs than from their own kind.

It's not just painting.

The cloud sucking cat and cloud sucking dog videos on station B, Douyin, and YouTube that have millions of fans and tens of millions of views are the embodiment of this kind of public psychology.

Gu Weijing's finger dotted on the surface of the tab card that rewarded three on the system panel.

The other two rewards simply disappeared.

The third reward is the same as the knowledge cards obtained by Gu Weijing in the past, and has been transformed into a more detailed introduction panel.

[Item: "Pet Mind Reading - 12 Tips to Find Your Cat and Dog Happy" - Louis Piquet]

[Quality: Knowledge Card]

[Special Effect: After obtaining the Knowledge Card, you will understand the corresponding content.] 】

[Equipment Requirements: None]

[Introduction: Bacon said that when you understand a person's heart and learn to think in the other person's way, you can really use words to portray his outline on paper.

In the same way, only when the painter really understands the demeanor and mood of the pet can they accurately capture their spirit with their brush.

Experts in contemporary animal behavior have come to grips with the key to interpreting their bodies. It's better to be friends with a thinking pet than to befriend someone who is a mess. 】

[Note: Art is human, and art is cats, but in the end, it's cats. 】

Gu Weijing felt a large amount of information rushing into his mind like an electric current.

His head was stuffed with a little tingling, and he subconsciously held on to the wall next to him.

The amount of information contained in this knowledge card is very large among the knowledge cards he has obtained in the past.

In the past, the information obtained by Gu Weijing was either closely related to the field of painting, and he was exposed to it from childhood to adulthood.

Otherwise, one or more anatomical drawings.

And this time the knowledge card, the system is like the academic achievements summarized by a big professor for many years, and a complete unfamiliar discipline is completely stuffed into Gu Weijing's heart.

His mind was instantly filled with all sorts of knowledge about pets.

Hunched back, bared teeth, wagged tail, licked nose.

The meaning of the gestures that are common to countless companion pets. And when they make these movements, the musculoskeletal muscles of the whole body run like a precise gear set to contract and relax the law, like thousands of teaching slides with detailed notes, played in turn from Gu Weijing's heart.

Balthus is known as an "expert in painting cats" in the history of art, and is sought after by collectors because the painter used to sit in front of apartment buildings on the banks of the Seine to observe all kinds of stray cats, and record the different states of cats when they move and eat in a sketchbook.

This habit Balthus persisted for forty years in his life.

It should be the one who knows the most about cats of all the artists.

It's a pity that Balthus doesn't have a system and can't open it.

Gu Weijing is sure that Balthus's forty years of observation and accumulation of cats is still no match for the effect of a knowledge card.

Drawing cats is not as professional as zoological scientists who study cats.

In the knowledge card, the pet's demeanor is divided into different emotional expressions such as joy, anger, sadness, hunting, defense, vigilance, courtship, etc., and each expression has its pupils dilated to capture more visual information, tiny muscle contractions in the hair follicles, and hair erection.

The wealth of knowledge and information he has gained is almost enough to become a professional psychologist for pets.

Gu Weijing took out his mobile phone.

He clicks on his profile picture on his Fiverr homepage.

Their family is a calligraphy and painting shop, and it is not like a wealthy artist who can divide the family environment from the studio very openly, raise a cat and a dog and have a special person to serve them.

Grandpa Gu Tongxiang thinks that raising a pet is usually uneasy.

All kinds of drilling, all kinds of shedding, if the cat is in estrus and then put two paws on those unprotected paintings in the gallery, it is simply a big head.

Therefore, it is forbidden to keep pets in the house.

In all fairness, Gu Weijing himself likes small animals.

When he registered an anonymous artist account, he took the name "Detective Cat", and his avatar was also a female cat with monocles.

Gu Weijing's understanding of cats is much higher than when he created the head of the detective cat.

At this time, there is an encyclopedia of cats in my mind, including British short cats, orange cats, raccoon cats, ragdoll cats, sleeping cats, yawning cats, butterfly chasing cats, and lice catching cats.

He looked at his Fiverr profile and immediately saw that it was a ...... that he had drawn casually

Half-bodyed, strange-looking variegated demented cat.

Gu Weijing shrunk his neck.

He had goosebumps all over his body!

The color of the coat is wrong, and it is still a small problem that there is no natural hair color and stripes to grow into the way you look in your own colored pencil sketch.

The key is that the proportions of the eyes are not right, and the distance between the eyes and the tip of the nose is too wide.

The sphenoid bone is too long, the mandible is too narrow, and the cat's vertical pupils in bright sunlight should look like a dyed olive with a gradient of color.

This painting is not a real cat, but just a work pieced together by Gu Weijing based on the stereotypes of small animals in his mind at that time.

In other words, the subject is a person,

This painting is a mouth with crooked eyes, no neck, chin covered to the sky, a protruding head, a nose from the upper lip, half of the face is flat, and the other half of the face shows a strange smile, which looks like a Cthulhu god, which makes people feel sick.

A lot of cartoon animal illustrations or serious artworks with wrong body proportions and muscle lines can also bring negative emotions to the audience.

Doodle portraits of the audience, feel disgusting and disgusting.

Doodling animal portraits often don't have such a big reaction, just because the average person is far less familiar with animals than with people.

As long as you are familiar enough with animals, you can also see the uncanny valley effect if you don't see the wrong animal paintings.

Even if I don't feel disgusting.

The animal painting in front of me is simply able to convey the abstract concept of "this thing is a cat".

In any case, the audience will not be able to see the kind of cute and cute inner feeling that belongs to the fluffy and soft elves that makes you involuntarily happy.

It lacks the "aura" that belongs to true nature.

Gu Weijing couldn't stand it after watching it for a while. He was speechless, just drawing a cat, he hadn't thought anything before, and now he felt that his avatar was too ugly.

He secretly made up his mind to get a new avatar in a few days.

(End of chapter)