The district of Leyada is the least modernized district in the city.

The Good Luck Orphanage was electrified, and the surrounding shanty towns were still dark, with the faint glow of candles and lanterns on the wet streets.

Occasionally, the vague figure of a pedestrian was stretched by the faint candlelight, swaying and swaying.

Everything is like a silent old film that has been sealed for a hundred years.

There is no sound, the color is stale, and the flickering candlelight flame gives the scene a unique layer of aging brownish yellow texture.

There were a few breaths.

Gu Weijing could even imagine that in the next second, at the end of the long alley in front of the orphanage, a female painter with sun-like golden red hair and delicate facial features like Greek sculptures would come out.

Dressed in Zweigri's usual cardigan-like female button-down dress, with black lace gloves that reached to her elbows, a gas lamp in one hand and a sketchpad behind her back, she stood still in front of the orphanage, gazing at the statue of the Virgin in the courtyard, and considering whether the scene in front of her could be painted.

Who first saw the moon on the riverside, and when did the river moon shine at the beginning of the year.

This evening.

Gu Weijing stood where Ms. Carroll once stood, staring at the bright moon in the same round as the Burmese sky in 1876, and looked at the moon for a long time.

He stood by the window and took a sip of his teacup, drinking it slowly, until the steaming amber tea leaves in his hand were as warm as the night in Yangon outside the window.

He always thought about what he should do to be memorable.

Gu Weijing doesn't know how to drink.

It was too late to copy an oil painting of "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm" at this point, and he felt that it was a bit deliberate. Ms. Carroll doesn't need such a routine way of commemorating.

Finally, he came up with a good idea.

Gu Weijing took out his phone and opened the Twitter page.

By default, Twitter's homepage is the homepage account of Detective Cat, who hasn't logged in for a long time.

Gu Weijing casually cleared the private messages in the background, there were dozens of spam messages abusing him, a few interview invitations from unknown art tabloids, and private messages from several YouTube UP owners seeking cooperation.

He swiped the screen and clicked delete one by one.

The only thing to be surprised about.

In these various private messages.

He found himself receiving an invitation to The Week in art, asking if he would like to be a guest on a radio show.

Talk about the relationship between art and mental illness in his mind.

Art Weekly is one of the most subscribed programs in the art category on Apple Podcasts, with 560,000 subscribers.

It is different from the private radio program of "Mr. Sloth's Art Review", which is a niche boutique route.

Art Weekly is actually the official art news channel of Christie's Auctioneers, and it is also one of the more mainstream art media.

Probably...... It was because the effect of that salon appreciation review was good that he received such an invitation, right?

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

Two months ago, when he signed up for this account, the only thing he said was a few words about the "Moon" that made a few yellow jokes about Miss Elena.

There was almost no update of the news content, but I didn't expect to be affected by public opinion, and before I knew it, I already had the attention of more than 5,000 fans.

He even received an interview invitation from Art Weekly, and if it weren't for the anger of Oil Painting magazine, there might have been more similar invitations.

In the twinkling of an eye.

Regardless of fame or notoriety, "Detective Cat" is already a cultural figure who is not too big or small.

"Thank you for the invitation, I'm sorry, I don't have any plans to participate in the recording of the show recently...... When we have the opportunity in the future, let's work together. ”

After Gu Weijing was moved for a few seconds, he still used euphemistic and polite wording to refuse the recording invitation of [Art Weekly].

There is a mainstream art program, and it is not a bad thing to be willing to invite him to participate in the recording.

However, Gu Weijing is self-aware.

His understanding of artistic trends is not much ahead of the average high school student.

Christie's show is more serious than a chat salon like Mr. Sloth, where fans submit paintings, and he can't cheat in advance by relying on calligraphy and painting appraisals.

It's better not to show your timidity.

"I don't know when, when will there be reporters of this size who will come to interview 'Gu Weijing' instead of 'Detective Cat' - perhaps, at least they will actually win awards at the Singapore Art Fair to have this possibility, right?"

In the blink of an eye, he had already clicked on the settings and switched accounts.

The username changed from [Detective Cat] to the real name of [Gu Weijing], and the account became cold in an instant.

The number of followers went from 5,803 to 24 all of a sudden.

This Twitter account was registered in the school's self-media operation class back then.

Originally, there were 25 followers, almost all of whom were classmates.

After Mona canceled the exchange with him, it became 24 people.

The artist's Twitter account is very important.

It represents the painter's online presence on the Internet, and in the art market, popularity is money.

In the Western art world, there is no better way for painters and galleries to get to know themselves and know themselves than by tweeting and letting people know themselves.

Most people may not go to an art exhibition a few times a year, but everyone swipes their phone every day.

If a big artist like Jane Arnaud has millions of followers, who follows who is closed and who is closed, he can be gossiped about by art newspapers and fans.

Although Gu Weijing's own account number was pitiful, everything was very formal at that time.

The teacher of the elective course once patted the blackboard and solemnly warned everyone that everything on the Internet is verifiable.

No big artist wants to become famous, and suddenly the paparazzi turned out that ten years ago, he had no brains to publish on the Internet something like "Lao Tzu wants to take a gun to destroy a few", or share his dick on Twitter, which can make their public image die instantly.

Even if it's not so extreme.

If someone finds out, your account's previous watchlist is a long list of welfare Miss Ji, and it's not very decent, isn't it?

Although you don't have much chance of actually becoming a public figure.

But it's still better not to kill this possibility with your own hands.

Hanks, the manager of Mars Gallery, also specifically mentioned that when their gallery signs new artists, they will do background checks.

No matter how good the painting is that there is a risk of thunderstorming, it will not be signed.

The little painter is fine.

A big deal of magnitude like Professor Kazunari Sakai.

Not only will the messages sent on social accounts be viewed word by word, but if the industry has heard some bad reviews, Mars Gallery will even spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire professional private investigators to collect and review the information in the early stage.

Artists are the most important and expensive asset in the hands of gallerists.

If you spend tens of millions of dollars to sign a time bomb and come back, but you don't have it in the palm of your hand after two months, your backhand will be "Me too" (note).

Then the gallery party has the heart to jump off the building and die.

(Note: Metoo is an anti-sexual assault movement that has swept the entire European and American literary and artistic circles, causing many top literary and artistic figures such as Louis CK and Kevin Spacey to be involved, resulting in the remake and deletion of many talk show contracts and big-budget movies worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, and the loss of investors.) ）

Hanks even searched Gu Weijing's homepage on Twitter, rolled his eyes, and said in surprise.

Although there are no fans, it is quite "decent".

Mars Gallery has a professional network operation department, and when they officially sign a contract, they can do not need to register a new artist homepage.

If Gu Weijing is willing, he can directly hand over this account to the brokerage team for operation and management, and retain some of the youthful marks of his student days, which will make future fans feel more cute and real.

Hanks didn't find it strange that his account looked decent.

Because Monet, who is known as "Miss Earnest" on the Dulwich campus, compared with the three-page course notes, and single-handedly made it for him.

Gu Weijing just wanted to fool around with the credits, but Miss Sandnu pressed his head and said that if he wanted to do it, he would do it well.

Teacher advice for elective courses.

The artist's homepage should never use the two-dimensional avatar and anime characters as the screen name.

When you're thirty years old, you'll know how non-mainstream it is to take the name "Battle Tyrannosaurus".

The artist's Twitter homepage, it is best to use his real name and his avatar generously, which is official.

Gu Weijing's Twitter page is called "Gu Warner"

The reason why the English name is Gu Woking, not Gu Weijing, is because Mona said that the textbook says that a name that is conducive to communication is the first priority for the audience to remember you instantly.

THE STRING OF "WEIJING" IN CHINESE PINYIN IS TOO TONGUE-TWISTING TO PRONOUNCE.

Many European foreigners who are born with a big tongue and can't make a post-nasal sound start fighting when they read two sentences with their tongues.

Therefore, the pronunciation of Weijing was replaced by the English localization homonym Warner.

It is the same as foreigners who come to the East to develop and often have to take a local name.

Moreover, the name Wojin has a good meaning, and she is right.

Gu Weijing's avatar was also dragged by Mona to get a hairstyle, and then took him to an art photo studio on the streets of Yangon that focused on INS small and fresh style, and spent fifty dollars to take the photo.

Equivalent to 100,000 kyats, a photo, Gu Weijing was a little reluctant at that time.

Miss Mona said that the original price was eighty dollars, and two people could only get a discount if they took a photo together, which was equivalent to a six discount per person, which was a good deal, so she should be a favor.

Not to mention anything else, although the photo studio charges a black heart, the effect of the photo is quite good.

The photographer took a photo for 20 minutes, turned on all kinds of lights and lighting, changed fake collar clothes and props, and brought him a pair of round silver glasses with thin edges, and then polished his skin and beauty on Photoshop for a long time.

Gu Weijing's original appearance was mediocre, and the final result of the film was exactly like Hollywood star Daniel Radcliffe's "Harry Potter" when he was a child, and he looked a little young and cute.

The photo was taken when I was in the ninth grade, and Gu Weijing has not changed it over the years.

In addition to the photos, the teacher also asked everyone to think of a personal signature to show their artistic temperament.

Mona knew that Gu Weijing liked Renoir.

So she chose Renoir's classic aphorism for Gu Weijing - "Life is like a cork floating in a small river, we can only drift ignorantly to the unknown distance." ”

Gu Weijing really felt that choosing such a vicissitudes of personality signature at his age was really sour.

I secretly changed it to "an art student who wants to be admitted to the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne." ”

He once wanted to study in France, and Gu Weijing thought that he would definitely not be able to play with the world's top famous art academies such as the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris and the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Versailles.

Private professional art academies are too expensive, and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sortonbé is a comprehensive university with an art department that enjoys the French government's subsidy.

At this moment, it is only the time of the Spring Festival.

He thought that Miss Mona, who would stay with him for a long time, had been separated, and the University of Paris I had wanted to apply to should become readily available, but Gu Weijing didn't like each other anymore.

There is a sense that things are wrong.

Gu Weijing clicked into the editing page of his profile, he hesitated for a few seconds, and finally did not change the English name Warner, but only re-edited a set of personalized signatures.

[A noble work of art cannot be told by a critic, it speaks for itself.] A noble soul cannot be bound by the earth, and she will seek freedom—]

At the end of this set of aphorisms, Gu Weijing did not choose to write "To Ms. K." as in countless oil painting magazines. ”

He taps on the keyboard and changes it to "-Homage to Ms. Carroll".

After doing all this, Gu Weijing drank all the tea next to him, turned on the fluorescent lamp in the small studio, and tightened the curtains.

Walk to the safe placed in the corner.

Tonight, he asked Uncle Alai to drive him back to the Good Luck Orphanage, and he had another business to do besides remembering the female painter senior.

He turned the code disc on the safe, entered three sets of numbers, and opened the metal door of the safe.

After a whole day of experience growth prompts, in the evening, Gu Weijing still has a small single-digit experience gain, and the value on the overall system panel has been basically stable.

[Character: Gu Weijing]

People panel –

[Sketch Technique: Lv.5 Class 2nd Order (2710/10000)]

[Chinese Painting Technique: Lv.5 Occupation 2nd Order (5039/10000)]

[Oil Painting Technique: Lv.5 Class 2nd Order (3223/1000)]

[Watercolor Painting Technique: Lv.3 Semi-Professional (274/1000)]

[Printmaking Technique: Lv.3 Semi-Scholar (21/1000)]

Gu Weijing has practiced painting Chinese painting since he was a child, and once he had an understanding, when he gave Miss Sakai a rouge flower, the first experience value was more than 3,000 points, plus the total harvest later.

The progress bar of the second level of the profession was directly filled in half.

Katsuko said that how much pain he endured, how much he should reap.

This is equivalent to 50,000 US dollars in free experience points, and it is almost equal to the total number of Chinese painting proficiency he has practiced since he was a child.

Directly doubled on his original experience bar, and this was what he really relied on his own comprehension.

Drawing and oil painting techniques also have a concomitant increase of thousands of points.

The remaining watercolor and board painting, he usually accumulated the least, and practiced the least, and he was not very familiar with it in the first place, and he could be promoted to a semi-professional level.

Unexpected delight.

Gu Weijing took out the silk scroll in the safe.

(End of chapter)