Gu Weijing thought for a while, then split the screen and put this unfinished work and the previous "Hercules of the Sea" next to him.

Carefully compare where the problems and gaps are.

The legendary painting technique perfectly embodies Gu Weijing's creative intention.

In the scanned photo, the sun appears to be a warm orange poached egg.

The sky and the sea are like a collage of silk of various colors.

Even the roaring giants and the burning flames of the broken battleships are a little soft and cute.

All the thick, creamy, creamy paints applied by a pear-shaped oil painting knife seem to be the hazy lenses that the editor adds to the camera when he is working on post-production.

The advantages and disadvantages of knife painting lie in the psychedelic temperament that cannot be shaken off.

For example, the same fighting scene.

The way it draws is so that the illustrations it draws end up in a style similar to "The Lord of the Rings" or "Harry Potter" and other family-friendly teen movies.

Under Gu Weijing's brush, it is always a romanticized fantasy war.

As long as the painter wants to do watercolor painting, it can become a mature realistic style similar to that of a war documentary or even "Black Robe Pickets".

Presents a stronger emotional impact.

Or bloody, or dark and deep.

This set of illustration quests certainly doesn't have to draw any restrictive gore.

He focuses his watercolor painting on the creation of an "epic" sense of expression.

He tried to make the expression between the eyebrows and eyes of the giant, the dust and scars on the body, and the texture of the arms more agile and vibrant.

The Duchess of Newcastle has spent a lot of time describing the strength and power of her giants during the war.

Gu Weijing once discussed with Mr. Sloth whether the image of the "sea giant" was born from the Greek mythology of the sea god Poseidon, or whether it was similar to the giant country and the Lilliputian kingdom in the later generation "Gulliver's Travels", which was published a few decades later, are all allusions to British political parties.

Mr. Sloth did not completely rule out this possibility.

However.

In fact, she prefers to discard these specious and complex interpretations.

Combined with the feminist tone of the whole book, the so-called giant is directly regarded as the literary expression of the duchess's symbol of "man".

In real history, she was the first woman to be allowed to set foot in the Royal Scientific Society, but she was not treated well by President Hooke, so she formed the Royal Scientific Society of another world in it, which was used to secretly poke and mock Hooke's scientific views, and the protagonist himself became the president.

Equally.

As a great nobleman, a close friend and bridesmaid of the Empress, she did not allow "Her Majesty Margrethe I" to play political space, considering the social environment in Europe at that time.

I had to place my affection in the world of literature.

Imagine male parliamentarians, generals obediently listen to her, she commands foreign lands, and writes books to live a sexual addiction to Caesar.

Gu Weijing really wanted to draw the giant's simple and resolute, iron-blooded appearance and toned muscle curves, and express enough manly warrior temperament.

Knife painting deals with this aspect, which is a little "soft".

For the vivid and detailed depiction of muscles, a metal oil knife with a width of centimeters is not as skillful as a small fine pencil and watercolor brush.

Being able to carve patterns on tofu with a nine-ring broadsword just represents a high level of martial arts.

If there is a choice.

There are specialists in the art industry, even if the technical level is weakened by two or three large ranks, it is probably still better to use a professional small brush.

Here's the problem, too.

Compared with the oil painting knife, Gu Weijing's watercolor painting technique is obviously weaker than two or three major levels.

Looking at the final painting effect, I can't figure out more than five or six major ranks.

The longest longboard of watercolor contrasts the shortest short board painted with a knife.

The results have not been compared.

It's embarrassing......

GU WEIJING'S GAZE SWEPT BETWEEN THE DRAWINGS ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT SIDES OF THE IPAD SCREEN.

When he paints with a knife, he always thinks about the basic composition of the picture and then starts painting directly.

When I was painting the watercolor on the tablet, I carefully drafted the outline in advance.

There are no major problems with the draft.

Even if he didn't use Menzel's basic painting experience.

The sketching skills of the second class of the profession are not very high, but in the group of illustrators who are located in the lower reaches of the chain of contempt for the art of painting, they can still kill many of their peers in seconds.

Cooperate with the knowledge card of "Anatomy of Human Structure".

In the sketching stage, he faithfully restored the details of the imaginary giant's body, especially the stretching body full of power during the battle.

The mistake was in the filling.

The layers of dyeing and coloring sound simple, but the knowledge contained in them is not small.

Dulwich's watercolour teachers often say that oil portraits are painted by masons pasting cement into the walls, and watercolours are painted with layers of almost transparent coloured lace cloth to decorate a house at Christmas.

Be so delicate and delicate!

The evaluation criterion is the richness of the details of the work.

The throne of the painting emperor should be seated by the painter who painted watercolor, and those who painted oil painting were the queen.

Gu Weijing has always believed that this sentence has the stereotypical prejudice of watercolor teachers against oil painting teachers, and the oil painting department and sculpture department of famous art schools often have higher requirements for art examination scores than watercolor departments, and even merge with the oil painting department and simply do not open a separate watercolor department.

But the words are not rough.

It also shows that the transparency of the watercolor is very high, and it is as light as yarn.

Theoretically, there is no watercolor paint that is completely opaque, no matter how many layers of paint are covered on it, the underneath will be mixed and penetrate into the viewer's eye.

Due to this feature.

Watercolorists who paint landscapes sometimes use earthy yellow watercolor paper instead of pure white watercolor paper as the base material for painting.

In this way, after the watercolor paper passes through the layers of pigments, the color mixing is well handled, and it will have the unique texture of plain soil or sunset and sunset.

While transmitting light, the watercolor is very squeamish.

Painting oil painting overd-dyed can cover many layers of paint.

During the Renaissance, the painters of Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael's generation liked to use the thin painting method, applying each layer of paint very thinly, and applying many layers.

In extreme cases, restorers use X-rays to scan some Renaissance antique paintings. I have found canvases that have been repeatedly dyed and whitened thirty or forty times.

It's hard for this to happen in watercolors.

If the brightness of the color is not well grasped during the over-dyeing, or if there are too many layers of over-dyeing, the watercolor work will be like a water cup with too much pigment dissolved, and it will directly become a mess.

In the physical realm, colorful light can be mixed together to turn into a pure, transparent color.

In the realm of art, the mixing of colourful watercolour paints becomes a swarthy and dirty failure.

Gu Wei often uses colored pencil sketches to avoid the problem of multi-layer pigment over-dyeing and color mixing.

At this time.

Such a bad thing happened to the watercolor painting that Gu Weijing had just painted.

Some places are too translucent, and the giant's strong pectoral muscles exude a translucent texture.

Sissy terrible.

In other places, color mixing fails.

The eyebrows, eyes, nose, facial features, and robes on his body were black and dirty, and he looked more like a warrior who fought for the empress than a warrior...... It was a coolie miner who had just come up from the black coal kiln.

It's still pseudo-girly.

"Well, the colors are not right, and the brushwork is not right."

Gu Weijing turned the stylus, shook his head and sighed.

The iPad is more friendly to the watercolor mixing overlay, and the painting looks so dirty, mainly because of the pressure sensitivity, and the force of his pen is not well controlled.

IT'S THE SAME WITH REAL WATERCOLOR, OR EVEN IF IT'S NOT AS GOOD AS IT IS ON THE IPAD.

"Look now...... The effect of this comparison is not too good. ”

The gap between his watercolor technique and his painting knife technique is too big, and it is just the result of being crushed by madness, but he can't get any comparative improvement.

Poorly drawn.

Gu Weijing can still bear it.

But just now, the giant who fished in most of his class, the watercolor technique on the system panel only improved by [+7].

This progress is a bit slower.

It shows that the improvement in practice is also not too much.

"Well, it looks like I'm going to have to find a good teacher to take me along."

Professor Lin Tao has dabbled in Chinese oil painting, and watercolor is not famous.

Mr. Sloth is an art agent, and he gives himself more intellectual advice, and he is not good at techniques.

Moreover, the identity of the detective cat, sketching and knife painting are so dicked.

The result is a bad watercolor, although it is not impossible.

It's just that in front of Mr. Sloth, Gu Weijing still has a little idol baggage.

Besides, he still expects to see if he can use watercolor techniques to make money after equipping his skills...... It's better to change people.

"Katsuko? I remember that Katsuko's watercolor should have been at least at the level of the first rank of the profession. ”

Miss Sakai probably won't dislike her watercolor dishes, and she's certainly willing to teach herself. But most of the time they spend together is busy preparing for the Singapore art exhibition, and besides, she says she will be back to Japan this week to visit her father......

"Hmm, wait?"

The Apple pencil that rotated at his fingertips was grabbed by Gu Weijing.

He felt like he had a good current candidate in mind.

"That's it."

Gu Weijing put the tablet into his backpack and lay on the table for a short nap.

Fifteen minutes later, the bell rang.

Gu Weijing immediately walked out of the classroom without looking back.

——

"On part sans savoir."

"Où meurent les souvenirs (Where will he be buried)."

"Notre vie défile (Our Life)."

"En l'espace d'un soupir (as short as a sigh)."

Nos pleurs, nos peurs (No tears, no tears. ）”

“……”

The sound of a soft humming musical reverberated through the backstage of the empty auditorium.

The girl tilted her head, her long, wavy hair falling over the side of her face.

She carefully put on makeup, and in the fill light in front of the mirror, even the tiniest hairs on her face were white and almost transparent, and the whole person's skin seemed to be carved with a piece of rich transparent cream.

"Mirror, mirror, who's the cutest girl in the world?"

She finally straightened her hair, stared sideways at the mirror, and asked in a deep tone.

Then the girl put her hand to her ear again, and replied in a rough voice: "Master, master, of course it's you, pop-"

She puffed out her cheeks, and the red bubble gum swelled out of her mouth, making the same bubble sound as the ribbon barrel sprayed.

Coco is such a changeable girl.

She just hummed a musical, ethereal like a phantom ghost lingering in the opera house, and at this time she looks funny, like a funny actress in a Japanese variety show.

Even the other girls who were changing clothes next to them were adored by the cute appearance of their cheerleaders.

A girl ran over, couldn't help pinching Coco's face, and said with a smile.

"Coco is so cute, come, open your mouth, and reward you with an apple for your mother."

"It's dead, don't pinch it, don't pinch it, what if you pinch too much and the faces on both sides are asymmetrical, you have to pay next time." Coco slapped off the paws hanging on her body, "Ten dollars to pinch once, no credit." ”

"Well, it's quite expensive, but it's worth it, come, let me touch a hundred dollars first, buy more, is there any special service to give."

There was another burst of playful laughter.

Like bursts of silver bells, melodious.

In British and American international schools, cheerleaders are almost the coolest and most popular group among girls. Many boys are proud to be able to make a cheerleader as a girlfriend when they are students.

Meanwhile.

The training intensity of the whole cheerleading team is also very high.

Not only is the competition fierce, with professional dance teachers teaching and strict requirements for body fat percentage and physical beauty, but also in a wealthy international school like Dulwich, the main business of cheerleading is not to cheer on the side of the stadium.

Like professional school orchestras, they will have special winter and summer camps during the winter and summer vacations, and they will fly to Europe, the United States and even the Cairo campus to participate in exchange and visit activities with cooperative universities.

They also participate in some highly professional cheerleading competitions.

Winning prizes in these competitions is just as much a highlight on your resume as being able to win prizes in various physics and math competitions, and you can add a lot of points when applying to universities.

Gu Weijing's cousin, Gu Lin, is very covetous of the position of cheerleader, but has been turned away.

Then again, even if she joined.

With the original living conditions of their family, they may not be able to afford the registration cost of a summer camp in New York with a single million kyats.

Being able to join a cheerleader is a privilege for beautiful girls, but it is also a pressure.

Even in the graduating year, many times when the students have lunch break and leave school, if they do not choose to quit the club, they still have to train as usual.

"It's tiring. In a short time, the school recruitment meeting will be held, and the portfolio will have to be prepared. If it weren't for the last school dance, I wouldn't want to train. ”

The cheerleader girl next to her was also a 13th grader and spat casually. "Coco, what school are you going to apply to? Many of us are ready to apply to the University of Rotterdam, and by the way, your family is not bad, and studying in the local area is not bad. I can't figure out if I can become a female mayor in the future. ”

"Forget it, the pressure of being in politics is too great. I'm going to continue reading art and messing around. ”

Coco shook her hair and said nonchalantly.

"I heard that the University of Hamburg is good, but I don't know if I can apply for it...... I guess so. ”

(End of chapter)