"Give it a try now?"

Gu Weijing thought for a moment.

At this time, his mind was full of all kinds of cute cats and dogs, and he really regretted that he didn't draw something to see the effect.

Gu Weijing found a piece of watercolor paper from his hand, attached it to the cabinet on the side with a magnet, and picked up a soft charcoal stick in his hand.

Even though he does not lack professional zoological knowledge now.

Drawing cats and dogs,

It's best to find a model as well.

"Models?"

Old man Wu played bracelet shop, there should be a Chinese civet cat used to catch mice in the yard.

But the cat is a bit fierce and not very approachable.

Gu Weijing had been scratched by it before, and went to get vaccinated.

Never mind!

Let's look for it online.

Gu Weijing opened the YouTube tube and searched for "cute cat" as a keyword, and he simply chose a video uploaded by the UP master called [Animism].

This is a cloud cat video with more than 5 million views and attracted tens of thousands of comments.

"It's so hot, so let's do it."

Gu Weijing started playing.

A preschool child was seen on the screen of his mobile phone holding a black and white shorthair cat and teasing it.

Cats are not a particularly valuable breed.

But it has black and white variegated hair, like a small cow.

No kidding, it's really cute!

Gu Weijing snorted twice cutely, and then began to carefully watch the shorthair cat and the little master play and play.

"It's really different!"

He was amazed to find that he could not only imagine how the bones and muscles hidden under the skin behind every movement of the shorthair cat cooperated.

Gu Weijing can now clearly distinguish the excitement, anxiety or impatience of the short cat hair through the other party's posture.

"Pet mind-reading, the name is not just a bluffing gimmick."

As with station B,

YouTube's comment section also has timestamps left by various netizens to mark the best clips in the video in their hearts.

Gu Weijing flipped through the comment area and chose a coordinate point left by an old brother at 2:06 seconds of the video.

His side comment was "Unbelievable! She's so cute! ”

There were 603 replies in this comment section.

Replies were received from a wide variety of regions and languages from all over the world. Some of the comments Gu Weijing couldn't understand at all.

But it doesn't matter.

Turning two pages, you can see that the overall meaning of these 600 layers of replies can be accurately summarized in four words - "Ah Wei is dead".

Gu Weijing locked the progress bar and watched it repeatedly for a few seconds.

In the footage of the video, it happens to be the shorthair cat arching the tip of its nose to a small catnip ball, happily rolling on the sideboard, all the way from the sideboard to the floor tiles.

No wonder netizens' girly hearts can't stand it.

It's really cute!

Gu Weijing played the video slowly, so that the mobile phone screen just stayed at the frame where the cat was rolling in mid-air.

He tilted his head and grasped the charcoal between the tips of his thumb and forefinger.

Gu Weijing's wrist hung in the air, trying to draw the outline of the cat's posture at this moment on watercolor paper.

When the cat's eyes roll, the muscles and bones of the whole body are writhing like noodles, like a large elastic piece of gluten.

It is also difficult for the phone's camera to record this high-speed falling posture.

The various afterimages are blurred together, and I can only barely see a rough idea.

For the current Gu Weijing, this is enough.

He knew too much about the cat's athletic posture in his mind.

Gu Weijing knows that it is simple to roll and land, and in the professional field of biology, it can be divided into five complete steps from the movement of body muscles and bones.

Body preparation, twisting, throwing, shifting of center of gravity and land landing.

Gu Weijing used charcoal to draw a twisted curve with wonderful elasticity on the absorbent surface of the paper.

This is the state of the hairy vertebrae of the British short cat in this frame on the mobile phone screen.

The cat's eyes in mid-air are between shifting the center of gravity and landing on land.

It is rolling its body to one side by twisting its spine and limbs, using its flexibility and coordination to control balance movements.

"The cat's neck muscles are highly developed, and the head and body rotate in harmony when rolling. The rectus abdominis muscle contracts into a ball. Shorthairs have specialized spinal rotator muscles to twist their bodies, and their tails are important balance aids......"

If a professional veterinarian heard him talking to himself, he would have been amazed by the surprisingly accurate knowledge of the young man's understanding of the cat's body.

Gu Weijing divided the less than 0.1 second activity of the bobtail into countless muscle details.

Gu Weijing didn't draw every trace of the cat's muscles, fur and texture details, he had this knowledge reserve, but it was a bit unnecessary to practice drawing so accurately.

The main thing is to look good.

"Brush Brush ......"

With a few strokes on the watercolor paper, he used simple lines to capture the posture of the cat's entire body on the paper.

The drawing method is not complicated.

The vast amount of information in the knowledge cards has been endowed with the natural soul of these lines.

The black-and-white stick figure composed of only charcoal lines that he drew casually in less than a minute was much more vivid than the head of the colored pencil illustration that he had worked so hard to draw before.

Cao Lao said that the three elements of an excellent work are knowledge, skill and emotion.

With the complementarity of stronger sketching skills and zoological knowledge, the sketch illustrations of the two cats in front and back immediately changed dramatically.

on watercolor paper,

The little cow cat rolls in the air like a boneless liquid, and the essence is perfectly expressed by these lines.

Gu Weijing put down the brush and took a few steps back.

He looked at the screen of his phone, and then at the watercolor paper attached to the painting cabinet.

Gu Weijing felt that his heart was about to be melted by cuteness!

"Huh?"

At this time, the old man Gu Tongxiang pushed open the door of the small studio and walked in.

He wanted to say something else, casually glanced at his grandson's charcoal drawing, and then couldn't help but glance at it several times.

The old man is the kind of person who has never had a love for small animals.

The old people who came over in the war years, when they were young, they couldn't eat enough, where is there any extra love to share with cats and dogs?

In addition, Gu Tongxiang is a little allergic to pet hair, which is easy to cause rhinitis.

Like his grandson, when Gu Tongxiang went to Old Man Wu to play chess, he wanted to grab someone's tail, but he was also slapped in the face by the little tiger-like raccoon cat in Old Man Wu's yard.

Since then, he has completely lost his affection for pets.

Walking on the street, it's good not to kick a stray dog when you meet it.

Old man Gu, who has no feelings for companionship pets, rarely thinks that the stick figures drawn by his grandson on the wall are so cute.

Gu Tongxiang is interested in drawing horses, and the rest of the cats and dogs have never been drawn, and they don't know much about it.

He just instinctively felt that Sun Tzu Gu Weijing's stick figure drawings completely attracted his interest.

Men and women of all ages in the depths of the human soul have a similar level of love for cute things, just see if you can capture the moment when they are cute to you.

A good painter can keep this short moment on paper forever.

These lines look much cuter than the uneducated raccoon cat in Old Man Wu's house!

The old man turned this thought in his heart.

"I just thought it was inconvenient before, if you really want to have a pet, it's not that you can't keep it." Old Man Gu hesitated for a moment, touched his chin and said.

Gu Weijing put down the brush.

He gave his grandfather a strange look, not believing that this was what he said.

Gu Tongxiang is a typical oriental parent.

He will give his grandson anything good, but he usually treats his grandson the most, and he still has to take the fan.

What is not allowed is what is not allowed.

Gu Weijing knew that Gu Tongxiang didn't have a good impression of cats and dogs, so he suddenly changed his words.

Is one of your own stick figures so powerful?

"Forget it, I'm going to college soon, and I don't have time to raise my own pet."

Gu Weijing shook and asked directly, "Grandpa, do you have something to tell me?" ”

"It's a scripture. There is one thing, but you don't have to take my opinion into account. This idea needs you to get ......."

Gu Tongxiang saw Gu Weijing's strange expression, and his old face turned slightly red.

He scratched his head embarrassedly and said a little hesitantly: "That...... That ......"

"Grandpa, you better say it directly."

Grandpa rarely showed this kind of expression in front of him, and Gu Weijing was even more confused.

He placed the copying easel in the corner of the wall to dry, put away the watercolor paper, and asked softly, "What happened?" ”

"Forget it, let's go out to the living room and talk."

Old Man Gu was there for a long time without saying anything.

He simply opened the door of the studio and walked to the small living room of the house.

Hanks, the agent of the Mars Gallery, did not leave either, and the blonde man sat at the table with a mysterious smile on his face, looking at the grandfather and grandson who walked over.

"Mr. Mars, you can directly give the suggestion to Weijing."

"What's wrong with the contract? Didn't you sign it well? Gu Weijing looked at the agent on the side with an inquiring eye.

"That's right, Mr. Xiao Gu. There is no problem with the contract between us, but I would like to sign another agency contract to represent Mr. Gu, that is, your grandfather Gu Tongxiang's calligraphy and painting artworks. ”

Hanks pointed to Gu Tongxiang with a nervous face with his palm.

"The old man said he wanted to ask for your opinion."

Mr. Mars III received his text message and did not call Hanks personally to respond to Hanks' debriefing.

But ten minutes later, Hanks received a work email from Mars III's secretary, asking him to continue to have a good relationship with Gu Weijing. 】

Listen to what it means.

Hanks judged that the big boss did not show the slightest impatience to disturb the other party on the grounds that "a young painter who had just signed a contract showed excellent skills when copying paintings".

On the contrary, even if I see such an inconspicuous little news, I am quite satisfied.

In the minds of the heads of any major gallery in the world, there is a list of names of well-known painters in the art world.

The names on the list are divided into different importance gradients based on the gallerist's estimation of the current and future market conditions of the artists.

Usually at least $3 million in total sales, at most only one or two artists of Professor Sakai's level can enjoy the personal attention of Mars III.

There are no more than one hundred and fifty such people in the entire art world.

No more than two hands in the Mars Gallery.

This means that in the minds of the art giant Mars III, although Gu Weijing will not officially join his gallery until a few months later.

His status is now not weaker than those great painters with sales of millions.

"It's a lot of fun."

As he finished reading the email, Hanks licked his lips, trying to figure out what could be reflected in the big boss's strange attitude.

Of course, Gu Weijing's painting is good enough.

however

Whether a collector is willing to pay for a work depends not only on whether the painting is worth the money, but also on the story behind the canvas of the work.

Whether the story behind the canvas is chewy or not is even more important than whether the painting is good or not.

Gu Weijing's impressionist work picked up from the calligraphy and painting plate, the excellent technique made Hanks completely stunned.

His estimate is no more than $100,000.

Some imitations painted by Picasso's disciples and Qi Baishi's students can also be sold for this price.

Collectors don't have the opportunity to own an authentic Leonardo da Vinci, and they can't afford to fetch hundreds of millions of dollars. They can only buy other things associated with "Da Vinci".

And the fine paintings of the Leonardo da Vinci students who can be found in the literature can easily sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

So whether there is a story to hype up or not is really important in the art world.

It's not that Hanks doesn't believe that this young man in Yangon will one day be able to sell his works for a very high price, it's just that there are too many variables in the art industry.

Gu Weijing is too young now, and he has never won any awards.

Hanks wondered why Mars III had the same confidence in him.

Confused in his heart, Hanks's emotional intelligence is not low at all.

Since the owner of the gallery believed that the young man would make a lot of money for the gallery in the future, he, the hunter agent, had to believe in it as well.

"Sign Gu Tongxiang." That's how Hanks showed his confidence.

Brothers on the battlefield, father and son soldiers.

The art society is a network society, and the closest connections are in addition to master and apprentice and husband and wife.

Father-son blood is also an important artistic bond.

You can say that you have taken a shortcut to artistic success in the name of your father, or you can say that the tiger father has no dog.

No matter how the collecting community wants to interpret it, many of the big figures in the history of calligraphy and painting art are born in a litter.

The Renaissance pioneers Pisano and his sons, the Venetian School of Bellini and his sons, the German national treasure painter Holbein and his grandchildren for three generations, of course, there are also Li Sixun and his sons, and the king of Wang Xi, the king of the big and small kings......

A hundred and eighty pairs of such examples can be given.

Because of their kinship, these painters have a high degree of similarity in their artistic concepts.

One man attained enlightenment,

Chicken dog ascends to heaven.

As long as there is a world-class great artist, he can raise the value of this string of artists like a string of grasshoppers.

Hanks was so shocked when he knew that Miss Sakai and Gu Weijing were a couple. It's because if they really achieve positive results.

A son-in-law and a half-son, Professor Sakai Issei and Gu Weijing can also be classified as such a "father-son combination" by the collecting community.

The only drawback is that Gu Weijing and Uncle Sakai's painting styles are not the same, and they get much less light.

During this time, Hanks found that Gu Tongxiang and Gu Weijing's brushwork and painting styles were very similar, and they were both eclectic of Eastern and Western art.

It is a "small Gu Jing".

That sounds a little weird.

But who made Hanks think that Gu Tongxiang's penmanship strength is slightly inferior to the current Gu Weijing.

Those who are masters of the art path are the first.

It is not for nothing that the Son is more valuable than the Father, and that the Father is more valuable than the Son.

The auction house of old Holbein's works is so popular purely because he has a son of one of the German versions of the "Three Masters of the Renaissance".

Just by virtue of the fact that the two of them are grandfathers and grandsons, the brushwork habits of the painting style are very similar to this.

If one day Gu Weijing can really become a big artist who sells for millions of dollars.

I don't dare to say more, give it a discount.

My grandson's paintings sold for a million dollars, and my grandfather's paintings sold for a hundred thousand dollars, no matter what, collectors would be willing to buy them and be willing to speculate.

In this case, it would be a pity to still sell paintings in a small part of Myanmar.

Hanks had already had the idea of signing the old guy, and after receiving an email from the secretary of Mars III, he was firm in his idea.

Gu Weijing is an art amateur, and when he signed the contract, he got a contract that was really a contract for an international second-tier artist.

Considering the reward terms of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, this is close to the first line.

With such a big contract, Hanks can't get much of the commission.

If he signs Gu Tongxiang's matter, he can make a decision himself, and the percentage of the commission he takes from it is much higher.

Hanks told Gu Tongxiang what he thought.

He thought that if he had the opportunity to become the acting artist of Mars III, the old fellow would be so happy that he would want to jump three feet high.

Who knows

Gu Tongxiang was indeed very excited, and his face was swollen red. But he couldn't help but didn't agree immediately, but asked for his grandson's opinion.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with you signing my grandfather."

Gu Weijing was happy for his grandfather.

The stage of the Mars Gallery is 100 times larger than the stage of a small gallery like theirs.

It's all about playing wild football in the community league or going to Real Madrid.

Even those "national treasure" artists in the Myanmar National Arts Association may not have the opportunity to sign a contract with Mars Gallery.

The old man has always had a knot in his heart, feeling that he has never had the opportunity to show himself in his life, and he has been unknown in a small place all his life.

When he was old and old, he suddenly made his dream come true.

What could be more gratifying?

"Grandpa, are you dissatisfied with the details of the contract?" Gu Weijing turned his head to look at the old man at home.

"Heh, what else is suitable for my age. Mr. Hanks Mars gave me two options to choose from. $10,000 per year creation allowance + $3,500 per month for a purchase painting. Or the allowance remains the same, in the form of a consignment agent, 28 shares, I 2, gallery 8. These two conditions are already very good for me, an old thing who has buried most of his body in the loess mound. ”

The agency contract is in the form of three + five.

Sign it for three years, and then depending on the situation, the gallery has the right to choose whether to continue with the next five years.

Such contracts are also not uncommon in the gallery industry.

Gu Weijing is the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning in Hanks's heart, if Gu Weijing is stupid and doesn't care, Hanks can't wait to sign him for thirty or fifty years.

reached Gu Tongxiang's age.

On the contrary, the gallery was reluctant to sign for too long.

There is a great deal of uncertainty about the future of older painters.

Optimistically, it is possible to paint another half a year, and his career will be as long as that of a century artist like Cao Lao. Maybe you won't be able to paint in two years, the gallery doesn't do charity, and you don't want to be supported by a stipend.

Sign for three years first and see how it goes.

Considering Gu Weijing's relationship, Hanks directly gave Gu Tongxiang a three-type contract that is extremely good for ordinary newcomers.

Gu Tongxiang didn't have anything to dislike.

Signing an Intercontinental Gallery is like fulfilling an obsession on Mr. Gu's bucket list.

He is willing to work for nothing.

It's just that......

"It's not me Gu Tongxiang who you want to sign, it's just the grandfather of the scriptures." Gu Tongxiang looked at Gu Weijing, and then at Hanks on the side.

"What's the difference?"

Hanks shrugged: "Can the relationship between you and Mr. Xiao Gu be separated?" ”

Gu Tongxiang shook his head gently.

"It's different."

Gu Tongxiang knew that his painting skills were not unbearable, and he didn't have the ability to show his way out of the sky.

He's also a mixed up with the level of ordinary urban galleries.

In the eyes of the real big gallery, it doesn't count.

Even if Mars Gallery has given up the panache of a super gallery over the years, it has cast a wide net to catch fish, and the small painters of the fourth and fifth lines have signed a bunch of them.

But he, Gu Tongxiang, is not even a sixth-line in the world.

If you want to have connections, you need skills, which is the technique of an ordinary professional painter.

From a piece of tasteless chicken ribs that are tasteless and discarded to fragrant chicken thighs.

It's not about selling the face of your grandson!

Gu Tongxiang didn't have the ability to give his grandson better family conditions, thinking about seeing that his grandson was about to take off, he couldn't realize his dream for himself, and then dragged his grandson back at this time.

"If you sign me, you'll definitely ask me to continue painting Western French fusion works, right?" Old Man Gu asked.

"Of course, I think this is the dominant style of your grandchildren. Didn't Mr. Gu paint these styles in your family's calligraphy and painting shop? ”

Hanks spread his hands.

The acceptance of the old audience of the traditional Chinese painting Maas Gallery is average, so let Gu Tongxiang paint oil paintings?

It's even more of a joke.

With a snap of his fingers, Hanks can find a better artist in Europe who strengthens the platoon than Gu Tongxiang's oil paintings, jumping in line to sign for Mars.

Why did he bother to find an old East Asian man to paint oil paintings?

"It's not the dominant style of our grandparents, it's the dominant style of Gu Weijing." Gu Tongxiang seriously corrected the mistakes in Hanks's words.

"This painting method completely belongs to Gu Weijing, I will practice a few paintings in my own calligraphy and painting shop these days, and it is more just to complete the knot of my failure to imitate Lang Shining, and when I go to college, I will never touch this kind of painting again."

(End of chapter)