"yes, I did."

Katsuko Sakai put down the charcoal stick, took Gu Weijing's hand, and looked sideways at the sketch on the canvas.

This level of sketching technique is a field that countless ordinary painters have been searching for all their lives.

For Ms. Sakai, it is just a small starting point in her career, like the first small hill she climbed in her life.

Many, many years ago.

Katsuko Sakai had the courage to tell the world's most famous artists in a huge museum that she would one day become even greater and more famous than Takashi Murakami.

Katsuko Sakai never doubted that she would one day overcome the art bottleneck that plagued her.

The highest peak in the field of art, no matter how high the mountain is or how deep the snow is, she will eventually walk up step by step until the end of the day.

It's just that even Shengzi himself didn't expect that this day would come so quickly.

On this seventeen-year-old spring afternoon, when she decided to make the sprint towards the Singapore Art Biennale.

Because of the boys around him, everything happened just right.

Sakai Katsuko quietly stood on tiptoe imperceptibly, and put her head on Gu Weijing's shoulder very gently and virtuously.

"Gu Weijing?"

"Huh?"

"In the future, we can also have a cat together. Ngawang looks very cute, I wonder if it will look better to buy her a cat's bow headdress with it. ”

Katsuko Sakai wanted to talk about drawing, about art, about the competition and challenges at the upcoming art exhibition.

When the words came to his lips, he lost interest in saying these things.

The girl's eyes narrowed slightly.

What should come will always come, and for now, she just wants to enjoy the breeze that blows across her cheeks on this peaceful spring day.

Life is really good.

"Awang? It's a bit fierce. By the way, by the way, Old Man Wu is very sad about your behavior of pampering his cat. He's now eyeing the canned cheesecat I've taken, and he's eager to take it himself and chew on it. ”

Gu Weijing recalled an interesting incident.

The last time the old man next door took his mobile phone to scan out the canned ration meat in front of his native cat, and when he was about to sell it for 116 dollars a can on Amazon, Old Man Wu even had an expression that his eyes were about to pop out.

Seriously.

Ngawang's current food expenses are higher than the average monthly salary of ordinary people in this country, and he can't eat better than more than 90% of the people in this country.

In this way.

The day when Ah Xiang and her master fought over canned food was not far off.

"I'll buy him what the old gentleman wants to eat, and ask him not to rob Awang of things to eat, okay?" Katsuko Sakai just pursed her lips and smiled mischievously.

Gu Weijing and Sakai Katsuko laughed for a while. While chatting, his eyes kept staring at the sketch on the drawing board in front of Katsuko from time to time.

"Hi, what are you thinking?"

Sakai Katsuko noticed Gu Weijing's expression of wanting to speak and stopped, and she took the initiative to ask.

"I have a small suggestion." Gu Weijing walked to the drawing board, "If this is the draft of your exhibition paintings, I am thinking about it, maybe I can ......"

He reached out and broke off a small piece of oatmeal bread on the table.

Oatmeal bread is not a snack for painting, but a part of the painting utensils.

It is difficult to erase the sketch handwriting on the canvas with an ordinary eraser, and the skin of the baked bread is filled with a unique fibrous texture, making it an excellent item for absorbing charcoal powder.

From the time of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings.

Painters and cartographers always have a loaf of bread on hand to revise their drawings as they work.

This tradition continues to this day.

In terms of effect, fluffy bread crumbs and charcoal powder are almost a perfect match, and the adsorption capacity of black powder is not a substitute for PVC rubber eraser.

Gu Weijing sometimes uses canvas erasers from drawing pencil labels such as Faber-Castell instead of bread to paint.

It's not better, it's just cost.

An industrial eraser costs a few dollars at best, and the perennial use of fluffy bread to wipe a painting is actually quite a luxury from the Middle Ages to the present.

Katsuko Sakai's painting style is very classical and capricious.

She is still the same as the great painters of hundreds of years ago, always with a few pieces of oatmeal bread by the easel.

"You want to revise my drawing? Any better suggestions. ”

Katsuko Sakai asked.

It's not that she's complacent, but she's really satisfied with her draft.

"I don't make big changes, it's just the proportions of some of the characters' lines, and it would probably be better to adjust them a little."

Gu Weijing saw Sakai Katsuko signaling with his eyes that he could operate directly on this canvas.

So, he carefully glued out some lines and added some lines with charcoal.

Judging from Gu Weijing's current vision, there is nothing wrong with the girl's composition and painting ideas.

It is both vivid and interesting, and there is a sense of Zen contained in it.

Compared with the original composition creativity of "Good Luck Orphanage in the Sun" before Boss Chen's guidance, I don't know where it goes.

It's just that there is a trace of dissonance in the sketch lines.

It stands to reason that both of them are LV.5 sketch level, line structure ability is half a catty, and Sakai Katsuko is more dominant in terms of art accumulation and artistic vision.

However, Gu Weijing has two completely unreasonable knowledge cards of "Anatomy of Human Structure" and "Pet Mind Reading".

In terms of mastering the knowledge of anatomical painting of figures and cat's muscles, there are few painters in this world who can defeat Gu Weijing.

Even if the sketching skills of the second order of the profession can't bring out the full power of the knowledge card, it's still easy to change the drawing for Katsuko Sakai a little.

The draft does not have complex charcoal shading, and is originally very light.

Gu Weijing spent a short time, slightly changed a dozen lines, then put down the charcoal pen and nodded, "Okay, isn't this better." ”

Katsuko Sakai stared at the canvas and didn't speak for a long time.

Everything is afraid of contrast.

Komatsu Taro is no longer proficient in lines, and among painters of the same age, sketching is not so good, but when he presented a treasure to Katsuko Sakai, he was said to be full of mistakes.

Miss Katsuko has painted thousands of plaster casts and character models, and she is still very confident in her ability to portray muscular shapes.

However, now that Katsuko Sakai is in front of Gu Weijing, she once again feels the feeling of being hit by her talent.

It's hard to say what major changes Gu Weijing made to the line draft.

On the canvas in front of me, there are still faint traces of the gray afterimage of the lines before the original revision.

The movements of the old and new lines overlap almost completely, with only a slight difference in curvature and an azimuth shift between a millimeter or two.

In fact, the rough character sketches on the canvas, Katsuko Sakai's lines are already very well played.

It's strange if there are any big changes.

It is just this two-point offset, and the expressive effect visible in the sketch sample is different.

It's hard to say which changes have an effect compared to the line drawings I typed before.

All of the boy's changes are very minor.

Jasmine's spine has been enlarged by a point, the apex of the toe and the arch of the foot has been pulled up a few millimeters, and the direction of the cat's tail swing and the tangent arc where the ears and the round face meet have been slightly changed.

In the midst of these fragmentary line shifts, the picture suddenly opens up – the sketch on the linen canvas moves like the moon and the clouds!

"What a finishing touch."

Katsuko Sakai took Gu Weijing's arm into his arms and sniffled.

"It's the finishing touch, and compared to a masterpiece that really brings the whole painting to life, I just tweaked a few lines a little by feeling. You've already drawn 99% of the time, and I've made up for the last 1% at most. ”

Gu Weijing is not modest.

He's seen the real finishing touch.

In front of Mr. Cao Xuan's miraculous effect on the mural in front of the Shwedagon Pagoda, his behavior of changing the lines according to the knowledge card was praised by his girlfriend as the "finishing touch".

It is inevitable that there are some embarrassed people who play big knives in front of the public gate.

pity

Katsuko Sakai is a girl, so some of the Buddhist halls and areas of the Shwedagon Pagoda cannot be entered, so I didn't have the opportunity to see that extremely shocking scene with my own eyes.

"Sketching is the reflection of personal emotions and experiences on paper. Your 1% aura is more important than my 99% effort. Compared to my current sketches, my original drawings are just plastic dolls in department stores and cat-shaped plush toys sold in shopping malls. ”

Katsuko Sakai corrected it seriously.

She knew that Gu Weijing's muscle lines were extremely accurate and excellent.

But it was only when he redrew for himself that Katsuko felt the gap between the two people about muscle lines so clearly.

"True" and "living" works, the attraction of the picture to the audience is completely two worlds.

This is the difference in perceptual cognition.

After a few minutes of revision, Gu Wei added at least more than 30% to the final effect of this work.

It is precisely because of understanding this.

Miss Katsuko Sakai is now curling her toes in her socks in surprise.

"In the field of muscle line interpretation, you are enough to be my teacher." The tone of the girl in the skirt rarely carried a hint of heartfelt reverence.

Love is a mixture of passions of all kinds.

According to Hugo, it includes the worship of the flesh and the worship of the spirit.

Katsuko is such a proud genius.

It's hard to like someone, and it's even harder to really look forward to or even worship a peer.

The more knowledgeable, the more proud, and the more you can taste the horror and awesome taste of the works in front of you.

It's not terrible to have shortcomings in your own picture.

What's really scary is that she didn't even realize the problem existed in the first place!

Katsuko had previously felt that she had drawn very harmoniously and realistically.

Therefore, the characters on the draft just now are the limits of her ability to portray muscle lines, and even the limits of her vision and understanding.

Gu Weijing found a problem. casually corrected the problematic lines and drew a "guide painting".

Ignorance, finding problems, correcting problems.

They correspond to three completely different realms of mastery of the anatomy of painting.

The gap between each realm is like clouds and mud.

"It's nice to be your girl." Sakai Katsuko's cheeks were about to drip out, and she closed her eyes slightly, rubbing against Gu Weijing's chest.

Gu Weijing saw that Shengzi was cute, and he couldn't help pinching the earlobe of the girl's puff with his fingers.

Katsuko Sakai blushed.

But she didn't dodge, but turned her head slightly, making Gu Weijing more comfortable.

"It's nice to be your boyfriend too."

Gu Weijing felt that Shengzi was really fun, he was so well-behaved and obedient, and he couldn't help but want to take a bite.

He didn't know.

In fact, only in front of herself, Miss Katsuko will reveal this soft and glutinous feeling.

Katsuko Sakai has never been the kind of soft person who clings to others like a feather.

She may have a good personality.

However, in the eyes of outsiders, Katsuko is the baby daughter of a top artist.

She's confident, powerful, and unattainable.

Sakai Tsunasama, the younger brother of a mother's compatriot, has a colorful head dyed very non-mainstream, but Katsuko can govern him well. Compared with Mrs. Sakai, whose mouth is as poisonous as a knife, Sakai Tsunamasa is a little afraid of the old sister who has been stronger than herself since she was a child.

Compared with his sister who has unlimited scenery, Sakai Tsunamasa thinks that he is like a phone bill.

The same is true at Dulwich College, where the initial curiosity about transfer students has dissipated, and invisible class barriers have come to everyone's mind.

Whether it's family background, appearance, talent.

In all aspects, Katsuko Sakai is so beautiful that she has an aura that is difficult to approach.

People with a little low self-esteem feel uncomfortable even sitting at a table close to Katsuko to eat. In addition to a bit of a social cow attribute, Koukou, who is also a girl, relied on her cheekiness to add to Katsuko Sakai's chat software friend.

Such as Jerry's prodigal son in love.

He dared to form a band to confess to Mona in public at the opening ceremony, but he didn't even have the courage to talk to Miss Sakai.

Komatsu Taro has known Katsuko Sakai for much longer than Gu Weijing, but unfortunately he will never have the opportunity to see Miss Katsuko's gentle appearance.

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Komatsu-san also didn't believe that the cold goddess who was unapproachable in her eyes would turn her face sideways and obediently let the boy scratch her ear.

The only person who can make Katsuko Sakai make such a gesture is Gu Weijing.

Only this peer, from the first moment of meeting, has continued to bring himself one surprise after another, refreshing his understanding of him again and again.

This sense of mystery that shrouds in clouds and mist, and occasionally reveals a magical ability that she admires, and of all the boys that Miss Katsuko has known in her life, only Gu Weijing has done it.

So much so that the girl has a feeling of being conquered.

Therefore, only Gu Weijing has this blessing and luck to see such a moving side of Katsuko Sakai.

Miss Sakai leaned on Gu Weijing's side, her nervous whole body was slightly numb, she closed her eyes and waited for a while, her heart beating like a drum.

Seeing Gu Weijing's hand, it seemed to be obsessively rubbing her earlobe.

Katsuko Sakai opened her eyes again with three points of joy and three points of regret.

Gu Weijing didn't know that he had just missed a good opportunity to kiss Katsuko Sakai.

With Miss Katsuko's state of mind just now, if her boyfriend really wants to ask for a kiss, she will actually not refuse.

(End of chapter)