Gu Weijing made a special trip home and put the mahogany photo frame that Mr. Chen sent to him at the head of the bed.

It is a bit cheesy to put the promises of a big collector in a place that you can see every day when you wake up, and use it to motivate yourself to work hard.

After all, no matter how weak Gu Weijing's temperament is, he will only be eighteen years old, and he is not an immortal who can be fluttering and pampered about everything.

Mr. Cao Xuan said that painters should raise three points of qi in their hearts.

If you really want immortals to paint, in addition to being tranquil, it is estimated that you will not be able to create any moving emotional paintings.

Today's double happiness is coming,

"The Little Prince" is about to be released, and relying on his real painting progress, he has attracted the love of business tycoons like Boss Chen.

There was a little bit of a high-spirited feeling in his chest now.

So by the time Gu Weijing had taken care of all these things and came to the Good Luck Orphanage, it was already close to noon.

Jasmine's little friend is still glued to her sister Sakai.

The reverse is not bad.

Sakai Katsuko listened to Gu Weijing's suggestion to find a living model to get close to.

She just had to come to the orphanage.

It often revolves around Miss Jasmine.

Sometimes Katsuko will also patiently look at the other children, and accompany the fat doll Bu Dao to talk a few alien words, but obviously, Sakai Katsuko prefers Jasmine.

Subtract psychological biases.

No one hates Jasmine.

She is the kind of girl who is always well-behaved and clever, doesn't cry or make trouble, she smiles at you when you play with her, and if you don't play with her, she walks away quietly, and sensiblely makes you feel guilty even for staring at her.

It's only been a few days,

Katsuko Sakai is already about to raise Jasmine as her own sister.

After coming to the orphanage.

She spent more time with Jasmine than she spent with her real boyfriend Gu Weijing.

"Hey!"

Gu Weijing just pushed open the door of their small studio, and saw two girls, one big and one young, smiling on the bean bag sofa sitting side by side in front of the windowsill.

Crayons and whiteboards lay around them, and large amounts of sketch paper were scattered on the ground like snowflakes.

Miss Sakai must have just given Jasmine an art class in the morning, and now they are both resting, and a box of sushi and rice balls is placed on the coffee table next to her, and a slice of dried lemon is gradually stretching in a glass of water.

The girls were holding the controller of an NS game console in their hands, staring at the screen of the small console next to them, giggling and laughing.

After becoming each other's lovers,

Gu Weijing discovered a lot of small habits in Sakai Katsuko's life that he didn't know before.

Miss Katsuko likes to use hazel-shaped paintbrushes and cooler paints, drinks a glass of lemonade when she eats, and jumps 2,000 ropes every morning.

Even she's a die-hard fan of the battle cartoon fighting game Super Smash Bros.

When I learned that Katsuko Sakai was so classical that she didn't use cosmetics, she was a little painter who didn't usually talk about anything other than painting.

Every day, I even play a little game.

Gu Weijing suddenly felt that Miss Shengzi was a little cute, and the contrast was cute.

In fact

Katsuko Sakai has very nimble fingers and plays very well.

She is a master in the top 1.7% of the world's combat power in the cartoon game "Star Smash Bros.", and she is good at using the cat-eared Pokémon Fat Ding, known as the "glass cannon" in the game.

He played five rounds together with Miss Sakai during the break.

The crying father who was abused in the first three games called his mother, and the last two games were evenly matched.

No way

Whoever makes Katsuko Sakai is the kind of girl who is gentle enough to play games with him, will let him.

When he found out that his girlfriend was secretly releasing water, Gu Weijing's self-esteem was very hurt for a while.

"Hey, you're here? I brought you some fresh sushi from the hotel...... Wow, what's her name? Can I hug it? ”

In most cases, pets are a magic weapon to please girls when they are in love.

With a cold personality like Miss Katsuko, she turned her head and saw Ah Wang in Gu Weijing's arms, and her eyes were slightly bent.

Jasmine was already pinching the corners of her clothes and jumping.

She didn't care about the game console she had just played, and her big black pearl-like eyes looked at the striped tanuki cat without blinking.

"Of course, be nice."

Gu Weijing gently pinched Ngawang's spine twice, and then handed the tanuki cat to Katsuko Sakai.

Katsuko Sakai lowered the handle and took Ngawang into her arms like a child.

Ngawang rolled over in displeasure and raised his paw and bared his teeth in an attempt to show that she wasn't just a random cat.

It's a pity that it struggled and hesitated to glance at Gu Weijing, and finally buried its head in the undulating arms of Shengzi Peak as if it were fate.

"This cat is so heavy."

Katsuko Sakai stared at Ngawang in her arms.

Professor Sakai doesn't have any special feelings for pets. But Mrs. Sakai is a die-hard cat party, and they keep six different breeds of cats in their Japanese house, and they have special servants to take care of them.

Katsuko carefully scratched the soft flesh on Ngawang's chin, making the cat itch and couldn't help but open its mouth.

"She eats a little too much hard food, and her gums are damaged and she has mild stomatitis, which makes her feel uncomfortable."

Katsuko gently took a piece of soft and light salmon sushi from the food box, threw it into the cat's mouth, and said with some distress.

"My girl, the piece of nigiri sushi you just threw into its mouth costs its usual one-year meal."

Gu Weijing shrugged.

He sat down on the couch and picked up all the manuscript papers that had just been dropped on the spot while they were playing the game.

There are some jasmine crayon drawings with youthful brushwork, and two highly finished pen sketches.

[Title: Jasmine (No.16)]

[Sketch Technique: Lv.4 Class 1st Order (4730/5000)]

[Emotion: A simple work]

"I've already painted 16 of them."

Gu Weijing looked at the signature number in the corner of the sketch paper.

"I drew about 20 pictures in total, and I was not satisfied with a few of them, so I deleted them."

Katsuko Sakai was looking forward to receiving Gu Weijing's comments.

"What do you think of my drawing?"

Gu Weijing shared the idea of Cao Lao instructing him to practice sketching with Miss Sakai.

Katsuko made a practice plan for herself to draw 100 sketches for Jasmine in 30 days, and when she was playing with Jasmine, when she felt a feeling, she immediately started writing.

On average, I draw three pen sketches a day.

"It's a really good drawing."

Gu Weijing looked at the neat and rhythmic pen lines in his hand and praised softly.

"That's because you, the teacher, taught me well, and you don't flatter me anymore, and I still don't have the feeling of your works."

Sakai Katsuko handed Ngawang to Jasmine, who was eager to wear, wiped his hands with wet wipes, and sat down against Gu Weijing.

"Open your mouth, I'll feed you."

She took the sushi from the food box and fed it to her boyfriend, saying, "If you could tell me what the problem is, it would make me happier than complimenting me." ”

"There's nothing wrong with that, it's not flattery. It's my true feelings. In fact, I think all you need is time. ”

Gu Weijing's evaluation comes from the heart.

Katsuko's sketching technique has improved even more than when she drew the Shwedagon Pagoda together, and she is very close to breaking the bottleneck to Lv.5 in terms of values.

Of course.

The difference in experience between the two people in the system list is only a few hundred points.

After falling to the end of the pen, the two of them painted the same work again, and I felt that the current Gu Weijing was still significantly stronger.

Perhaps Lv.4 (4700/5000) and Lv.4 (4999/5000) have a similar look and feel.

However, the difference between Lv.4 Class 1 (4999/5000) and Lv.5 Class 2 (1/10000) is not just one or two points in stats.

It's more like an all-round sublimation.

The promotion of skill proficiency at each stage under the system division is a process of breaking the bottleneck and entering a new level.

Otherwise, there would be no need for grading.

Normal painters will always run into bottlenecks.

It may be because of not enough talent, it may be because of not enough effort, it may be more brutal just because of not enough luck. They will be stuck at a certain skill level for a long time, and it will be difficult for them to break through to the next level.

It's been a long time.

Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat.

Even if he was as famous as Renoir, 1900 was a dividing line in his career.

Before the twentieth century, Renoir liked to use vivid and transparent colors to express the fluttering of sunlight and air and the bright atmosphere.

At that time, he had a unique style and created almost all the important works of his career.

After 1900, Renoir also encountered a creative bottleneck in his personal career and was unable to make a breakthrough.

The old man later simply changed his career to painting nude female models.

To this day, there is still an opinion that Renoir's nude paintings in his later years are not as deep as when he was younger, both emotionally and technically.

These works, although also hung in the Louvre, are at best a second sensual Rubens, not the impressionistic Ray Noah.

You must know that Renoir in 1900 was still in the prime of his career, and there were no physical problems like Monet and Degas.

But it is still defeated by the bottleneck of painting.

The system can ignore the bottlenecks between levels silently, as if there is no such thing, and directly elevate Gu Weijing to the next level of painting, which is very incredible in itself.

"Your problem is that the painting is too good, the art theory is too solid, and the pen is too neat. I don't have anything to teach you, if I have to say, it's not 'scattered' enough, the picture is tense like a bowstring that has been pulled to the longest, there is no room for relaxation, and there is no room for emotion. ”

Gu Weijing gave the experience of those who came over.

His fingers flicked the sketch paper in front of him, as if to draw the neat lines on the canvas like a ruler, and play them more loosely.

Genius is the result of sweat and hard work.

She draws a lot of the same sketches every day, and Sakai is still extremely patient with each drawing.

The pen sketch of this "Jasmine" is not complicated, but it also takes a lot of thought.

Outside with a pen.

Whether it's focus changes, motion capture, compositional structure...... All of them are fine.

Gu Weijing also got a little bit of pen proficiency, and many of the rest are still inferior to Shengzi.

How long did it take for Gu Weijing to get the virtual panel of the system.

Katsuko Sakai received the world's finest art education from an early age.

From an artistic point of view, he is not qualified to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf in front of Miss Sakai.

However, from the other side.

This kind of art education surrounded by famous teachers, and the use of brushes that pay attention to "rules", has become an obstacle for Katsuko Sakai to integrate her own emotions into her paintings.

Painting is Zhang Sanfeng playing Tai Chi.

Sometimes you have to forget the rules in order to make your own way.

When the rules are in order, they can be rules, and when they should exceed the rules, they dare to exceed the rules.

Forget the guidance and routines of famous artists, and follow the inner guidance of the pen tip, in order to truly let your own emotions and passions fill the entire paper.

Fu Lei, a great literary critic in the Eastern Xia last century, thought in the "Letter to Fu Lei's Family" written to his son-

This point of aura jumping beyond the law is precisely the real advantage of the Yeluzi painters compared with the disciples of the famous painting school, and masters such as Van Gogh and Gauguin are the best leaders in history who have done this point.

Otherwise.

If artists could be trained in full accordance with certain rules like craftsmen, the great painters would have been monopolized by the training system of the Holy See or the royal painters.

It was not easy for Gu Weijing to paint the first work at the level of "feeling from the heart".

But in retrospect,

All he did was Jasmine dancing for an afternoon.

Sakai Katsuko has not broken through for so long, largely because her foundation is more solid and thicker, and the effort required to fight the shackles in her chest is far more than Gu Weijing.

"Seeing these paintings, you are not far from an official breakthrough."

From the giggles of Katsuko Sakai when he pushed the door, Gu Weijing realized that Miss Katsuko, who was like a porcelain doll, was gradually coming out of her closed artistic life.

She is getting closer and closer to life.

Fields other than painting are becoming more vibrant.

Painters, painters,

People and paintings change together.

Gu Weijing has passed the sketchbook, turning over the 16 pen sketches drawn by Shengzi in the past few days, and looking at these 16 sketches together, it is obvious that there is a vigorous vitality that continues to gather and accumulate at the end of the pen.

Something is taking root on the paper, and Katsuko Sakai's jasmine is becoming more and more vibrant.

I don't even need to draw all these 100 pen sketches.

The moment when this accumulated vitality really converges and takes shape under the pen and breaks through the paper, it is the moment when Ms. Sakai breaks through herself, integrates empathy into the pen, and paints a work that "feels something".

"Scattered paintings? Come and draw one, Gu Jun, I like to watch you draw. ”

Sakai Katsuko turned her head, and with a bit of coquettishness in her voice, she stuffed the drawing board into Gu Weijing's hand.

"Leave us alone, just play with the cats by yourself."

Gu Weijing was originally going to paint a new painting exhibition now, and to test whether the perception of fusion painting can be greatly improved after both techniques have been upgraded to the second level of the profession.

But he really couldn't refuse Katsuko's request.

He greeted Jasmine and spun the pen in his hand.

"Huh? This one? ”

Gu Weijing took off the cap of the pen.

When he first saw the pattern on the sketch paper, Gu Weijing found that the ink line used by Sakai Katsuko was very thin, as if the outline of Jasmine's figure was woven with hair strands.

Now he realized that he was holding a needle pen with the UNI Mitsubishi Corporation logo printed on it.

Pen sketching is just a general term to distinguish pencil sketching, which refers to an ink-based drawing hard pen tool that cannot be erased by the skin.

It doesn't have to be a pen.

It is true that some painters of the older generation drew all their pen drawings with real pens.

But more often with drawing pens, ballpoint pens, gel pens, what to take.

Miss Katsuko's desk uses a fiber needle pen with a tip that resembles a hospital injection needle, and the price of taking pictures, tweeting, and posting INS is no better than the rose gold drawing fountain pens of Parker, Bailey, and Montblanc.

It's more professional than those luxury toys.

The needle pen is specially made for drawing.

This pen is much more sensitive to changes in pressure than a rollerball pen, leaving a distinctively depressed impression on the paper and creating a rich, dark sheen.

If necessary for travel, the barrel of the pen can be cut directly and impregnated with alcohol-based cosmetics such as hairspray, and it is a simple liquid pigment that can be used to create monochrome prints.

The disadvantage is that it is a good tool, and it must be in the hands of a good painter in order to exert enough magic.

The tip of this pen is extremely thin, and the lines drawn are extremely precise.

If the painter is not steady enough, the lines will not listen to his command.

If the lines are not neatly drawn, they will be stained together like fine wool and become very messy. If you draw too many lines at a glance, you will lose your agility.

It's hard to grasp.

In short, it is a tool that requires a lot of the user's line technique.

Gu Weijing sat up slightly straight, fixed a piece of sketch paper on the drawing board in front of him with masking tape, and pulled out a line casually.

"I'm going to start drawing the relationship between jasmine and cat from the right side to strengthen the depiction of the form, then draw the basic light and shadow tones of the portrait, and finally emphasize the texture outline of the shadow details......"

Gu Weijing said a few words before he smiled and said to Sakai Katsuko: "Of course, this kind of thing doesn't need me to explain to you, you yourself must understand it better than me." ”

"You're going to draw even the shadows? Do you want me to get you a pencil? ”

Katsuko Sakai listened to Gu Weijing explain the painting ideas and captured the key words.

Because she has to draw a lot of sketches every day, the paintings she gave Jasmine only depicted the contours and lines of the figures, and there was no change in light.

As long as you are willing to put the effort into it, the pen drawings can also draw beautiful black, white and gray contrasts through skillful cross-polyphonic lines.

The workload will be correspondingly much larger, and there will be more places where it is easy to make mistakes with the pen.

In terms of the complexity of the picture, it is not a sketch.

In the process of painting these 16 jasmine paintings by Katsuko Sakai, due to the mistake of using the pen, three or four of them were discarded.

Gu Weijing is good at painting, and Shengzi knows.

It's just that Gu Weijing not only wants to draw so thin, but also wants to paint to reflect the relaxation of the lines, and the difficulty curve begins to rise in a straight line.

If you make a mistake with a pencil, you can use an eraser, and if you make a mistake with a charcoal draw, you can rub it with a little bit of bread crust.

If there is a problem with the lines drawn by the pen.

Otherwise, you should not have seen the next words, or you would simply throw away the painting and start from scratch, there is no third option.

"It doesn't matter, add a few sets of lines, a thin pen has the benefits of a fine pen, no matter how sharpened the pencil, you can't draw such a delicate and even line."

While talking,

Gu Weijing's pen tip has begun to weave lines and structures according to the ideas in his mind, and he looks confident.

He did have faith in his heart.

The level of sketching in the second order of the profession is comparable to that of a substitute striker who can play in a second-tier team like the Championship.

It's not worth too much attention from the media, and it's already considered to be a big presence in the industry as a whole.

As long as it is in the category of sketching, no matter what the type of tool, there are not many painting methods that can make Gu Weijing feel daunted.

On the contrary, he can start to think about creating a more suitable painting strategy according to the characteristics of different brushstrokes.

The weak are mastered by tools, the strong master tools, and the masters transform tools.

Have you ever heard of sketching with a brush?

During the Republic of China, the masters of the Shanghai Art School developed the "Rendering Mixing Method", which combined the lines of the fountain pen with the softness of the brush. It breaks the traditional two-black-and-white polarized sketch effect, so that the picture has both the delicacy of pencil sketch and the uprightness of pen stroke.

Gu Weijing has not yet reached the level of being able to transform tools.

Give full play to the delicacy of the thin lines of the needle pen, adjust the sparseness of different light and shadow lines, be careful when dealing with the dark parts, and use a moderate amount of white space to set off when dealing with the bright parts.

He thinks he can still do these requirements.

……

Time passed minute by minute.

Gu Weijing captured the cute scene of Jasmine holding the cat, and the raccoon cat looking at each other in pairs.

Ngawang weighed nearly 6 kilograms, and the little girl hugged him like a noodle bag.

Ngawang's two hind legs were on the ground, and his expression was a little "Lao Tzu TMD doesn't want to play with him, and he can't escape, damn it!" The little impatience, the head tilted to the side, the beard swayed.

Jasmine's eyes were full of excitement and excitement about the success of the cat, and the feeling of happiness was about to emerge from the top of her head.

Gu Weijing read the emotional states of the two people as naturally as he breathed.

Begin to use appropriate light and shadow to fully present the sense of volume and density of the characters.

He used a short line of a fountain pen to outline Jasmine's posture holding the cat, and used different levels of wiring methods to express the different textures of the skin of the little girl and the big cat.

Ngawang's hair is very unique, the hair on his face is short and thin, and the hair on his body and limbs can be as long as the tail finger of a five- or six-year-old child.

Silver or black, slender in bundles.

Therefore, the main point of its hair painting is to be "loose", fluffy but not compact, and not to the point of knotting, and only such thin strokes as a needle pen can completely draw this kind of hair.

Jasmine, on the other hand, has much smoother skin than tanuki cats.

Although the little girl is a little dark, she is much more reflective of indoor light than a fluffy cat.

This makes the image of jasmine brighter in the eyes of people.

Therefore, Gu Weijing used oblique vertical lines to show the details of Jasmine's characters, and in some places, he simply used white space to show the highlights.

Compared with pencil drawing, the needle pen eliminates the process of sharpening the pencil and constantly scribbling, and the number of simple lines is not as large as the latter, which is painstaking to draw and does not take a long time to draw.

About a few dozen minutes passed.

In addition to the middle and a new pen because he ran out of pen water, Gu Weijing completed all the lines smoothly.

(End of chapter)