Although I got into the art world by accident, in the beginning, it was just a hobby.

yes, it's a hobby.

Even I didn't know what I could become!

Because I tried too many things back then.

Liang Qichao said in his "Juvenile China Theory" that young people often think about the future, so they are hopeful, enterprising, and new, and because everything is unprecedented, they often dare to break the rules, be arrogant, dare to take risks, happy events, and often feel that everything is impossible.

Because I always feel that everything is impossible, I liked to try everything when I was younger, which also caused me to have many hobbies.

This is also criticized by many people, who think that I have wasted too much energy, think that I should sharpen a sword in ten years, and say that I have never heard of a person who sharpens eighteen weapons in ten years.

Why not, don't I?

Each of us has a subconscious assessment of ourselves when we face ourselves, even though we may not care.

Some are positive, some are negative.

For example, I don't have artistic talent, for example, I cook deliciously, for example, I have a good memory, for example, I look average, etc., these are all my subconscious thoughts.

At the same time, we are also extremely concerned about what others say about us, and there will be no exceptions.

Although the vast majority of people will say that I don't care what others say, the more they say it, the more they care.

For example, I have been confessing in the circle of friends that the memoir I wrote was just written for myself, it was all a lie, I secretly read the number of readings every day, and I watched the people who liked it in the circle of friends praise me every day, and I would be happy for a long time when I heard someone say that I wrote well, and I would never fight with him because someone said that I was the reincarnation of a writer.

Of course, I can definitely listen to criticism, and I will sincerely accept all the problems such as pointing out my typos!

This subconscious mind is extremely important.

Because according to some experts, the more you think this way or the more you agree with what others think about you, the easier it will be to turn those ideas into facts.

It's really important.

When I was younger, I always thought I was extremely smart.

Of course, I think so now, but after knowing the year of the Mandate of Heaven, I know that my cleverness is a little cleverness, not great wisdom (I say okay myself, don't say it to others, I will quarrel with him if I say that I have poor energy), great wisdom is to be quick to do what I say, people like me who always want to find a shortcut to anything should not be counted, it should just be not counted.

Not only do I think so, but so do the people around me.

Emphasis added, I'm talking about when I was a kid!

From the moment I sat on my parents' bicycle and read the words in the store, I was always surrounded by admiration, and the most said thing was that this child was so smart.

After listening to it a lot, I naturally believe it. That's why I thought it would be easy for me to learn anything from a young age, especially when I didn't go to the second grade of elementary school and went straight to the third grade, and then I was in the top few exams, which added to this confidence.

This definitely shows the importance of the subconscious.

This kind of subconscious that appears to be smart and confident makes me learn everything quickly, and I always find the focus of this project that I am passionate about, and then quickly get into it.

Then receive praise from others, and then be full of confidence.

It's even more presentable.

That's how almost all my hobbies started.

So I don't really blame me for learning a lot, because I really started learning too quickly when I started.

However, this kind of learning problem is very great, that is, it is not solid, so I can't reach a high height in many hobbies.

But neither I nor my parents realized it at the time, and yes, in their eyes and me, what's wrong with being smart.

That's what the vast majority of parents think.

But Gu Ailing's mother realized that this was not right.

In an interview, Gu Ailing's mother said that children need to be praised, but not for their intelligence, but for their efforts.

At this important crossroads, Gu Ailing's mother went on the right track, so her child was a huge success.

I'm on the wrong track, and so are my parents! So I took a lot of detours.

It took me a lot of effort to correct these detours.

But for the education of children, fortunately I didn't go wrong!

What we do is appreciate itself.

We don't set a role model for them, we just rejoice in every bit of progress they make, and inspire our children and make us happy.

For example, my daughter's dancing. We never compare other good dancers to her. I've always been very strange to a lot of parents, they should say that they (I rarely see dad where my daughter dances) are always keen to hit the child, constantly pointing out the child's mistakes, and the most common sentence I hear there is, look at XXX, how well people dance. The consequence of this is that the child is always calm, and his whole body is full of unhappiness, so that I heard the teacher ask one of my daughter's classmates: "Child, tell the teacher that you want to learn to dance by yourself?" Did your mother force you to come? ”

My wife and I never do this, always say that she danced very well today (here I emphasize that my daughter is very serious about what she does, which is enough), and never correct the small problems in her movements, at this time someone will raise the bar and say that this is irresponsible to the child, but we must understand our heart, let the child dance is not to let her take the road of art in the future, if you want to go art, it must be strict with every movement, and strive to do it extremely accurately.

Dancing is just a hobby for children, and for her to understand what dancing is and to know that her efforts make her parents happy, it is enough for a child of her age.

Our compliments made her run out of the dance studio for the first time and then began to love it from the bottom of her heart. Her dance teacher said that the smile on her face when she danced was heartfelt, and I think this is the highest evaluation, more than the standard of movement and so on.

Something like this, which my wife and I jokingly call a lightning rod overhead, I think it's a success!

You have to be a lightning rod, or else such praise is really easy to be struck by lightning.

Sometimes it's up to two.

It's gone away again!

So no matter what we learn, it's because we love it at first, and we don't forget this original intention.

Like my other hobbies, I started to work hard when I was learning to draw, and in addition to the study notes I mentioned yesterday, I also tried to buy all kinds of painting materials, but at that time the materials were really hard to buy.

In the article "Goodbye Liuli Factory, Goodbye Liuli Factory" written in August 2018, I described the difficulty of buying books and paper and pens back then. As for the overwhelming printing of beautifully printed albums now, I can't even think of it, most of the book printing quality at that time was very average, not to mention the brushstrokes, it would be good to be able to print the red and green without running off, and the biggest luxury at that time was just to buy back the technique book with a few more color inserts, such a book still has to be considered after saving a few months of meal tickets (it seems that buying a book is not so difficult, what do you think about writing here at the time), so until now I have no bad habits of smoking, drinking, and playing mahjong, It's because I've been saving every penny to buy books almost since kindergarten.

It really started in kindergarten.

At that time, I was saving all the money I could to buy villain books.

Some of the books of those days were a few cents a book, and some were a dime or two.

But as a child, I hadn't even started my painting journey. So I almost didn't start buying books about paintings.

In the book "Gongbi Flower Techniques", which I bought relatively early, I still have the meal ticket I saved that year.

It can be seen that when I was in high school, the cafeteria was really cheap.

At that time, the staple food was pennies.

Since I was a child, I have developed a "bad habit", that is, I always like to convert what I eat into villain books.

When I was young, I could change a few popsicles, and when I was in junior high school, I was a twist that could be exchanged for a few books, and when I went to high school, I became this scone and ate a villain book.

Until now, I always like to convert.

After buying this Yu Zhizhen's work, it was the most important reference material for me to study for a long time, at that time, it was really not like Baidu pictures now, there were all kinds of materials, but at that time there was really none, so I could only cut and paste those pictures from magazines that I didn't want in various offices, as a reference, in retrospect, it was really not easy.

There is a painting in the book "New Flowers are still Timid Late Wave Cold" Gongbi lotus, that was the first time I saw Gongbi lotus, it took a long time to copy one, but unfortunately at that time was not as convenient as the current mobile phone, did not leave an image.

That was probably my first full gongbi drawing.

I still remember how hard it took to start the draft.

In fact, with my diligence back then, I painted a lot of paintings, but now I basically haven't kept all of them, and as soon as I write here, I have to talk about that Liu Xiaoquan.

To this day, when I write this paragraph, I still can't get angry.

His father knew my parents very well, and even took me and him very closely, far more than Zhao Yuhua in the early days, and still maintained a friendship after I studied painting until now.

He was precocious than us, and when Zhao Yuhua and I were seriously studying painting, he began to fall in love, and he was born to please girls, and he knew how to give girls things to please them.

He hit the idea on my drawing.

From the first time I asked me to draw a painting and said that I wanted to give it to her girlfriend, I tasted the sweetness. Since then, he has started the process of painting, he is good to each of his girlfriends, and every time he starts a new relationship, he comes to me to paint, soft grinding and hard bubbles.

Back then, I wouldn't say no.

This really has to be tempered by society to learn.

Also grind often.

I always criticized my wife for not knowing how to refuse others, and I was definitely not much better back then.

I can't refuse, I can only comfort myself, anyway, a painting is not too difficult for me.

Besides, this is his life's work, so he has to do his best.

In this way, one by one, the paintings were given to his girlfriends by his hands.

I was always very curious about how he could always find a girlfriend, and later I learned that as long as he took a fancy to a girl, he would use my painting to confess, and if he failed, he couldn't get it back.

In the end, I told him that you can't write the woman's name on the painting anymore, so that if you can't catch up, at least the painting can be brought back, so I gave him the last picture, stating that it was the last one.

I must have said that I haven't painted him since.

I don't know if his current wife was the last one he sent the painting to catch up.

Didn't you know that I couldn't keep those paintings like this?

Don't say it, it seems like I sent it too, think about it!

Back then, it was still small, and only four cards were given away!

I don't know if they still have it! I should have thrown it away!

Survival.

I've talked to my friends more than once about whether or not a hobby can be sustained.

My point of view is that no matter what you learn or play, you can stick with at least one or more like-minded friends with you.

From the beginning of learning gongbi painting, I insisted on it with Zhao Yuhua.

I remember meeting more than once to go to his sister's house to paint when she wasn't at home.

We motivate each other, learn from each other, and admire each other's paintings that hang on the doors after they are finished.

This stage of mutual support is extremely important, allowing us to get through the most difficult moment of learning to paint, and we did not give up halfway.

Not only that, but there is a growing interest.

In fact, no matter what hobby it is, the more interested you are, the more you want to get better, so you will put more effort into it! More effort will definitely lead to greater progress.

Then enter a virtuous circle.

In the article "Goodbye Liuli Factory, Goodbye Liuli Factory", I also described in detail some memories of going to BJ to buy Gongbi painting supplies.

In Rong Bao Zhai bought a lot of familiar Xuan for painting brushes (so that there is still stock now, not to buy more, but I am not dedicated to painting), ink blocks, seal stones, and pencils can not be forgotten, and the others are still not very clear! Some time ago, I cleaned up the painting table, and the cooked silk I bought back then was still quietly in the drawer, waiting to play a role!

No. 32 Hutong of the North Headquarters, where the People's Fine Arts Publishing House is located, where many of my treasured villain books were published, and that year, I bought many issues of "Art Guide" starting from the first issue, which was the main reference material for me to learn painting for a long time. At the same time, the beautifully printed album made me linger, and I deeply admired Qi Baishi, Huang Zhou, Wang Daozhong, Yu Zhizhen, Yu Feiyan and other people who were printed on the cover of the album!

That's about some of the experiences I had when I learned to draw at the beginning of that year.

It was really ordinary and nothing special when I got started at the beginning.

Because at that time, I was also learning guitar, playing table tennis, writing poems, being the president of a literary club, editing publications, and obsessed with all hobbies except studying, and I was very busy!

So back then, painting was really just a hobby among many hobbies, very ordinary!

yes, it's ordinary!

If you don't go straight to your heart!