Gu Weijing knew that sooner or later someone would wonder about this question.
If you only accept the simplest illustration tasks online, someone will soon feel strange and confused.
Since Thomas’s videos went online, his fiverr store has continuously received invitations to sign contracts from various galleries.
Even the Komatsu Gallery in the home of the very unhappy Taro Komatsu sent an invitation to Gu Weijing.
Although these contracts currently carry relatively high commissions, they are not without contracts that appear to be very sincere.
For example, a headhunter from a medium-sized gallery on Chesea Street, a famous art district in New York, sent Gu Weijing an invitation to join the other gallery.
Gu Weijing chatted briefly and found that the other party was really sincere.
The other party has very low requirements for itself, and the commission is only 35%. This includes a series of cooperation expenses such as premiums for future paintings, publicity fees, service fees and tax deductions. For this kind of cooperation, It is very friendly for new painters.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to sign these contracts.
It is a great thing for an art master like Mr. Sloth to be his own agent.
However, the time he can use Menzel's skills is limited, and the limitations of painting are very large. He cannot afford these contracts for the time being.
Professional illustrators have to draw whatever their employer asks them to draw, and they don’t have as much choice as oil painters.
It is important for people to know themselves.
I am Mr. Nan Guo, who only has a half-hour artist experience card every day.
If he were to meet the demands of a professional painter's schedule, at least for now, he would still be unqualified.
If he only painted for half an hour every day, there was really no need for Gu Weijing to tie himself to a certain contract.
"It's fine if others know my paintings. There is no need to know me."
Gu Weijing thought for a moment and replied.
"Although joining a gallery is considered a debut for a painter, after all, a painter is not a pop singer and will not have many social arrangements."
Anna wants to persuade this stubborn person The painter embraced the modern art system.
"I want to keep a quiet life, and being a detective cat is good."
"Then I want to go anonymously to look for galleries as a detective cat. This kind of thing is also good." It’s not that there is no precedent. Mystery is sometimes a good thing.”
In the circle of literary and artistic works, this style of anonymous creation also has a historical tradition.
In the classical period, there was an incident where painters from the same school shared the same author's name.
As for the disciples who bear the master’s name as a ghostwriter, there are many great painters in both China and the West.
Many literary and artistic workers like to remain mysterious.
Cases like Detective Cat have become the most famous in the literary and art circles in the past ten years.The case should be Elena Ferrante.
She is the author of the Neapolitan Tetralogy. She was nominated for the Booker Prize, the highest award in English literature, and was selected as one of the 100 most influential people of our time selected by Time Magazine. Among them, My Genius Girlfriend was also adapted into a best-selling American TV series.
But to this day, hundreds of millions of fans around the world only know Ferrante as a pseudonym. No one knows who her real name is, who her true identity is, or even whether she is a boy or a girl.
In short, the work speaks for itself. If you don’t draw well, you will be laughed at. If you draw well, it will become a good talk.
Anna doesn't think the detective cat can't handle the complex painting tasks.
“But I don’t want to be bound by a contract. If I sign with a gallery, I may be asked to paint a lot of things I don’t want to paint. For me, money is just a tool to improve my painting skills.”
Gu Weijing replied.
The first half of the sentence is true to him, and the second half is also true.
Anna was silent.
Shakespeare once wrote in King Lear that greed for money is the greatest enemy of art.
How many masters or geniuses have been burdened by fame all their lives. People who are not famous want to be famous, and people who are popular want to be more famous.
Countless talented artists have exhausted their inspiration in the pursuit of fame and wealth and become mediocre people.
She can think of many examples.
But the master in front of him really did this.
If Miss Anna's previous love for the other party was more of a love and strange possessiveness for a hidden gem she discovered.
Now, she respects him more from the bottom of her heart.
Anna thought about how the other person was willing to sell illustrations online for ten dollars a piece even though he had the same skills as an artist, and she felt relieved but also felt a little pity.
It seems normal for such a master to be unwilling to be a slave to money and contracts.
Thinking about it this way, she felt happy and even a little ashamed.
She felt that the stinking price of 500 euros an hour she proposed was disrespectful to the master.
"Miss Anna Elena, when did you become like those art dealers, thinking only about money?"
She reflected in her mind.
Anna typed on the keyboard "Admirable accomplishments."
"But if you really reject all the gallery offers. Some dealers can't sign you, but instead would want to denigrate your artwork.
You actually won Mr. Hyperion's $1 to $1 Million challenge as an online illustrator. It’s very controversial.
Have you considered the doubts you are about to face?”
Anna was afraid that the other party would be scolded by the trolls on the Internet for being autistic.
"What can I do?"
Gu Weijing shook his head.
His fiverr mailbox alone has been flooded with countless trolls questioning the shady story in the past few days. There are craftsmen who think that they can only draw without emotion.
He is only good at sketching and cannot be compared with the master.
After all, Detective Cat is just an online illustrator. , which is fundamentally different from the painters in the mainstream calligraphy and painting world.
“Illustrators have always been questioned as not belonging to the category of painting art, and I don’t care about being scolded. "
Gu Weijing replied.
Illustration itself is the most ingenious type in the painting world.
Public opinion generally believes that art requires freedom and independence , and the illustrations are just an extension of the employer's will, which is not even as good as comics.
My own painting style is completely realistic and photographic. , in today's calligraphy and painting world, it will be considered opportunistic and evil.
Gu Weijing will not feel comfortable in his heart, but he has no choice.
This is. The current situation of the entire industry.
Even the legendary painter Leng Jun in the Eastern Xia calligraphy and painting world, a super painter who can easily sell for millions of dollars, has been constantly selling his paintings for his hyper-realism over the years.
For example, columns such as the Singapore International Art Biennale may have unpopular sections such as spray painting, but there is no illustration section.
Besides, people. What he was scolding was that the detective cat was going astray and had something to do with the orthodox painter Gu Weijing who was about to become the disciple of Mr. Cao.
"There is no way to solve it. "
Anna made up her mind in a flash.
"If one day you find that you need a painting agent, please consider contacting me. ”
“I won’t disturb your artistic creation now. ”
Austria,
Elena Manor.
Anna closed the computer, picked up the phone on the desk and started dialing.
"Hey, is this the Oil Painting Magazine? This is the senior editor of the magazine's visual arts column, Anna Elena. ”
“I want to update the website about an illustrator. Yes, you heard it right. It’s an illustrator. Of course I know that generally we don’t write investment advice for illustrators, and illustrations are not used. Accepted by mainstream painting art. "
"But I still stick to my point of view. "Please remember to bookmark, the latest and fastest website without anti-theft and free reading