"The Duchess of Newcastle never went out of her way to hide her political ambitions...... There is no doubt that the utopian New World she created was a reflection of the New World of America discovered by Columbus at that time. However, in the article, this great geographical discovery was made by our protagonist, a beautiful young lady. And in the plot, she naturally became the ruler and empress of the new world......"

The gentle voice of Mr. Sloth, which was recorded last night, came from the headphones.

The literature of "Blazing World" in this book is huge and complex.

The agent suggested that Gu Weijing could record the content of their conversations every night, and often listen to and review them when he had free time, so as to cultivate his state of mind when painting.

When an actor plays a role, he or she reads the script repeatedly to figure out the character's mood and motivations.

Low-end illustration drafts are now in an industrial assembly line.

However, when excellent illustrators receive high-end illustration contracts, they will also carry out similar understanding and speculation.

Because it looks a bit like an online class.

Gu Weijing was fun for a while, so he named the audio files between them in chronological order as the "Mr. Sloth's Fun Lesson" series.

They had just finished combing through the general context of the book last night.

After breaking down the characters in each book and the implications of some particular intentions, we do not consider the insinuations of some chapters about the political struggles of the Royal Society of Science.

The main plot story of "Blazing World" is not as complicated as imagined.

So much so that it can be said that ......

It is far more "modernized" than Gu Weijing originally expected.

The whole book looks like an indescribable sense of immediacy of Long Aotianliu's cool text.

This is a semi-autobiographical fantasy written by the Duchess of Newcastle with her imaginary self as the protagonist.

A young woman is shipwrecked and travels to a parallel dimension continent called "Blazing World" that has not been explored before.

There are not only human kingdoms, but also giants, birdmen, and sea monsters.

The heroine relied on advanced technology from the Royal Society, as well as "her beautiful light, youthful passion and protection of the gods" to make it all the way, tearing the little bitch by hand, stepping on the white lotus, and becoming the king's queen.

Then, relying on his profound knowledge, he founded and led the Royal Society of Science in another world, and mastered the military power to repel the invasion of foreign lands.

She became the empress admired by all the people.

Since then, the power has poured into a foreign land and reached the pinnacle of life.

That's right, the whole plot is so simple and crude.

After Gu Weijing stumbled over the whole book, he almost spurted a mouthful of old blood on the single book provided to him by the publishing house.

Is this really a 400-year-old science fiction classic?

This is similar to the mainstream popular time-traveling texts such as "Back to the Past Local Lord" and "Crossing the Female Venerable: I Am the Strongest Queen" that are popular on the Internet at home and abroad.

There is no essential difference!

Whether it is Chinese, Japanese or English, many of the most popular cool text serials on the Internet follow this routine.

"This Duchess of Newcastle is so stylish! I'm not surprised to say that this is a serialized story written by modern people on Amazon. ”

Gu Weijing sighed.

"Detective Cat Lady, well, I understand your feelings. If you see more, you'll understand, this kind of thing is very common. ”

Mr. Sloth smiled, not surprised by Gu Weijing's fuss.

She said that when she took a literature appreciation class, she had similar feelings to him.

Mr. Sloth found out about this early on.

"Blazing World" is not an isolated case.

Many of the old plots are not clichéd, and they are very suitable for modern people's reading tastes.

The once-popular Gorts and Knights are highly similar to the screenwriting routines of the contemporary Hollywood industry. Dracula, the originator of vampire literature, is a pseudo-journalistic fad spliced together from a "travel journal".

Many of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King have a similar atmosphere to read.

In terms of reading preferences, society did not change much 400 years ago and 400 years later.

There has always been a saying in the field of modern literature.

The development of the countries of the world over the centuries, from Greek mythology, The Tale of Genji, and the Dream of the Red Chamber to Shakespeare, Hugo, and the golden age of Russian literature.

From the immortal Leo Tolstoy to the great Dostoevsky.

The world has already been written.

This certainly does not mean that there is no new story born, but that all the desires that drive the actions of the protagonist of the plot and the plot design template with tension have been used up by the previous masters.

Every idea that modern homes think is novel is just using a similar plot structure and putting on a different story coat.

Therefore, if you want to play something new in the field of modern serious literature and art, you can only start with the narrative structure when the plot has been locked.

Polyphonic writing, status quo structure, network structure, symbolic structure...... The great writers of the past half century have innovated in stylistic structure.

Literature and art are not separated.

The art world suffers from similar problems.

The direct reason why classical art emphasizes technique, modern art emphasizes form, and avant-garde art emphasizes concept is that some people believe that the classical painters of the 19th century and before have reached the peak of technique.

Reached the level of painting on the canvas board.

Therefore, in modern society, many artists have to start from the two aspects of painting form and art concept to create new art forms.

"I have reservations about this view. The subtle form of creation is certainly an outstanding innovation, but the complex expression also makes serious and avant-garde art gradually distant from the lives of ordinary people. ”

"The evolution of art may not be able to bear the cost of living outside the agenda of ordinary people. That would deplete the life force of the creator. ”

Mr. Sloth commented, "Then again, Detective Cat Lady. This "Blazing World" is far inferior to "The Little Prince" in terms of ideological depth and literary achievement, but considering the male-dominated social environment at the time, it is still respectable that a woman can write such a book. ”

"At least the process of our Miss Beauty stepping up to the queen's throne is quite impressive. When I was a child, I thought that if Queen Anne Boleyn had the determination and fortitude of the heroine of the book, she might not need to be guillotined. Me, uh...... As a woman, you probably like this kind of passage. ”

"Well, it's fine."

"When I read this book as a child, most of the plot was only a fleeting memory, but I remember the message written on the title page by the author Margaret Cavendish when the book was first published in 1666 - although I am not destined to be Charles II or Henry V, I will strive to be my own Margrethe I."

"A very powerful and courageous expression." Gu is the head of the warp.

"How lonely and touching a woman is to be her own king."

Towards the end of last night's chat.

Mr. Sloth once said with great interest: "Let's toast to the great germ of feminism, and I will help you strive to become the queen of the detective cat in the field of art." This is my ambition and my expectation. Encourage you, come on, and get there today. ”

Detective Cat I Empress?

Gu Weijing pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled helplessly.

At first, he just drew figures online for the otaku to take orders, and the gender he chose was the girl.

Now she is going farther and farther under the coat of "big sister".

There are some situations that are difficult to reverse.

Well, whatever.

Anyway, whether you can live as your own master or not should have nothing to do with male and female genders.

If you can't be an empress, it's the same as being a king.

Gu Weijing felt a little neutral in his heart when he talked about the female author at the end.

But he didn't think much of it.

I just think that Mr. Sloth often gives him the impression of being mature and powerful.

But sometimes, it's pretty cute.

He imported a sketch of Hercules on the Sea, which was a scan of the first knife drawing he completed for the illustration project during his time at Mr. Sloth.

On the screen,

The giants stood on the shore, the foaming waves stretching only to the waists of the giants, and the three-masted sail warships were at their hands, like children's toys made for the little ones.

On the edge of the burning red sun, there are rare birds with iron feathers, whistling past.

In the second half of the book, the heroine commands giants and bird soldiers to defeat enemy forces that invade her territory.

Although Mr. Sloth thinks.

The detective cat is also a woman, and she should have a lot of empathy for the process of crowning herself with a big heroine like the protagonist.

But Gu Weijing is indeed not a girl, and he does not have an accurate concept and idea of what he should express "belonging to the empress's demeanor and majesty".

So

He chose to skip the section about the heroine for the time being, and drew this work with a shallow test of the war scenes in the article.

["Hercules of the Sea"]

[Painting Technique: Knife Painting: Legendary]

[Emotion: A simple work]

Details of the painting pop up on the system panel.

The first painting was painted like this, and Gu Weijing was quite satisfied on the whole.

His understanding of "Blazing World" is certainly not as deep as "The Little Prince".

Moreover, this set of books is not destined to sell well.

Some of the trivial paintings in the special illustration drafts that went to the evaluation are painted like this, which can be regarded as meeting the requirements.

The reason why he turned this painting out was because he had to practice watercolor.

Gu Weijing thought that after he was already familiar with its appearance, he could try to paint the same "Hercules on the Sea" again with a watercolor brush.

On the whole, the composition lines and color matching remain the same, and only the painting method is changed.

See how it works in action.

Gu Weijing turned the stylus and began to quickly draw lines and color on the screen.

He did not use colored pencils to match the water-soluble drawing method in the later period.

Procreate on tablets is a powerful piece of software that can do more than some professional pen tablets in previous years.

But it can only import different types of brushes, such as colored pencils or watercolors, and cannot change the chemical properties of the pigments like in real painting.

The main reason is.

Drawing watercolors with colored pencils, similar to how babies and toddlers use anti-fall bicycles with training wheels on both sides, is a very beginner way to draw, and many complex color effects cannot be achieved except for a single brush stroke texture.

Usually used to be lazy to hand in homework, it is not a big problem.

If you want to focus on the direction of your career path, you still need to take it more seriously.

After ticking the line drawing.

Gu Weijing used the overlay dyeing method as the painting method for this exercise.

The over-dyeing method is to brush the pigment layer by layer on the paper surface evenly, superimpose layer by layer, and then decorate it on the basis of the paint layer.

There are no bells and whistles, the most basic, and the most commonly used way of drawing.

Not only watercolor is commonly used, but also when painting oil paintings, it is also used at both ends of three days.

Before you start writing.

Gu Weijing has already been designed.

He mainly paints giants standing in the sea, with pale blue and earthy yellow at the bottom, and then adding brown and black to the base according to the change of light.

Once shadows are added, the three-dimensional sense of the picture is stronger.

The three-dimensional effect is strong, and the realistic effect is strong.

Then, lightly sketch out the details of the facial features, and after a while, the whole painting will be counted as ......

"Oops, it's a complete mess."

Gu Weijing only drew for a while, and he couldn't help frowning.

If you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, you are afraid of comparing goods.

In fact, the semi-professional watercolour effect is not ugly, and it is considered excellent among the entire student body at Dulwich.

However, after half a year of training, Gu Weijing's vision is much higher.

Those who have seen the gluttony of the gods have since changed the taste of the delicacies in the world to chew wax.

The same effect was still complacent when Gu Weijing painted it last semester, and now it is in front of the legendary knife painting technique he created last night.

The gap is like a country girl bumping into Cleopatra.

It was enough to make him ashamed of his landless self-esteem.

The flight of the dish completely.

Gu Weijing also did not have such unrealistic expectations that the effect of semi-professional-level watercolor painting was better than that of a legendary-level knife painting.

But he had hoped that he would be able to paint watercolor features.

Drawing a knife is good at drawing fairy tales, but watercolor also has the advantage of being unique to watercolor.

The most awesome point of watercolor.

It is that as long as the right way of painting is adopted, it can perfectly control almost any kind of painting subject.

If the picture wants to have a fairy tale, there will be a fairy tale, and if you want to have a sense of vicissitudes, there will be a sense of vicissitudes.

The color of the watercolor is light and watery, and the smallest mink brush is only the size of a needle tip.

In layman's terms, if you look at a painting as a photographic photograph, watercolor painting naturally has the highest resolution and pixel density among mainstream painting methods.

Oil painting can also be very realistic.

But the physics of the texture that the underlying brushstrokes create on the canvas cannot be changed.

Watercolor painting is awesome enough, and it can be painted exactly like a photograph, and you can't find the difference between the paintings when you suddenly look at them.

(End of chapter)