The current copying of the painting Old Church in a Thunderstorm has been completed
In the studio,
Gu Weijing holds an oil painting knife and casts a candle shadow between the windows of the old church on the canvas. Give it a light swipe.
The steel blade of the painting knife is rubbed across the canvas, mixing the wet paint. A candle as big as a soybean spreads into a dense red color, adding a psychedelic color to the entire painting.
He took a few steps back and looked at the completion of the copy painting.
The small oil painting knife subconsciously flipped and jumped between his hands, doing whatever he wanted like a magician performing fingertip magic.
“Comfortable.”
This is the biggest change Gu Weijing has experienced while painting oil paintings since he acquired the skill of drawing with a knife.
Just like professional e-sports players switch to expensive mechanical keyboards, long-distance runners get a pair of flexible carbon plate running shoes.
Whether it is cleaning paint or mixing colors, wherever the oil painting knife can be used, there is a smooth feeling.
Gu Weijing could even use it to deal with the candlelight at the end of the final scene.
In principle, this kind of fine and precise mixing of color points is by no means the strong point of the painting knife.
If the knife is too shallow, the paint is not fully mixed, and it is easy to appear dirty.
If you cut too hard, you will scrape away all the paint.
It’s hard to grasp the weight, weight, and depth.
Using an oil painting knife to mix color points is a bit like wielding a nine-ring knife to the kitchen to cut tofu.
In fact, the best way to deal with this kind of picture is to use a thin erase method, using a bristle brush with relatively high bristles to tap the canvas, or simply use your fingers directly.
Fingers are the most direct and dexterous painting tool for a normal person.
Dipping your fingers into the paint is a primitive method, but it is a great way to overmix the paint.
Not only children who are new to painting like to dip their fingers in paint and smear it around,
masters do the same.
According to records, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Groya, Turner and other great figures who have dazzled the entire art history all like to apply paint with their fingers to neutralize the light and shadow of the color.
On the contrary, very few people use drawing knives.
The advantage of the Hua Knife painting method is that it is bold, the picture has a unique aesthetic tension, and it can be painted quickly.
If you wanted to paint a picture entirely with your fingers, you would be painting forever.
However, the system’s legendary sword-drawing skills are simply too powerful.
Gu Weijing could even cut out a plate of silken tofu with a nine-ring sword, which was faster than cutting it with a professional kitchen knife.
This is the generation difference brought about by proficiency.
As he finished, a system prompt sounded in his ear at the right time.
The similarity of this copying is 337, and you have obtained a primary treasure box.
“Last week, my best paintingThe similarity has only reached 24.9%. Even if the oil painting knife is not suitable for handling such a scene, it has brought an improvement of nearly ten percentage points, which is terrible. ”
Gu Weijing smacked his lips.
This should be the limit of the painting knife.
After all, in non-professional painting knife painting, the oil painting knife No matter how skillfully you use it, it is just an auxiliary tool, and it can bring about a 10% improvement, which is already considerable.
He thought as he opened the primary treasure chest.
You. 314 oil painting experience points have been obtained
The current level of professional painter in oil painting is 12025000
This prompt flashed on the virtual panel in front of me
"It's a pity. What I drew this time was oil painting experience points, not knowledge cards. ”
Gu Weijing shook his head in a slightly disappointed manner.
Now he has opened the elementary treasure chest and has already found a pattern.
The first time he copied the old church The knowledge cards that pop out are the best rewards in the primary treasure chest, similar to the oranges found in the first pack in mobile games.
Generally, the content in the primary treasure chest is oil painting experience points.
Gu Wei has copied many pictures of old churches in the past half month.
Two of them did not reach the basic passing level of 20% similarity due to lack of concentration and concentration. Line, without getting any rewards
The others are basically between 20% and 25%
Except for the initial Royal Court Dance. Among these treasure chests, only one other knowledge card was found, which was a purple-blue macaw feather specimen and skeletal anatomy diagram made by an ornithologist named Nagel Marvin of Oxford University.
< p>The remaining primary treasure chests are all filled with oil painting experience points ranging from dozens to hundreds of points.This is certainly good. It would cost thousands of dollars to exchange for U.S. dollars, considering how precious it is. , still not as good as a rare knowledge card.
Gu Weijing glanced at his own panel.
His proficiency in oil painting was improved by imitating the old church.
On his current experience panel, oil painting techniques are about to become his most proficient skill.
Gu Weijing finished sorting out the painting tools and opened them. Mobile phone, found Mr. Sloth in the address book
"Are you there?"
He clicked send
"Yes, Ms. Detective Cat, How are you preparing for the podcast salon that will be recorded in the evening?" Faced with his own inquiry, Mr. Sloth's reply was as quick as ever.
Evening
Gu Weijing read it Eyes on the clock on the wall.
When he got home, Professor Lin Tao took a class, and he spent a few hours copying an oil painting. It was already late at night. Considering the time difference, Mr. Sloth, the anonymous art podcaster, should be European.
However, this is not the case.What an incredible discovery.
This is originally an English podcast. Although Mr. Sloth’s true identity is very mysterious, it is definitely a high probability that he lives in Europe.
"Ms. Detective Cat, how do you like the five fan submissions in our salon this time."
Europe, Jelena Manor.
In the sauna room,
when Detective Cat sent the message, Anna had just finished her upper body yoga training every afternoon, and according to the plan of the body shaping therapist, she had to go to the sauna again Steam for half an hour.
She was covered with a gauze, her long wet hair spread over the back of the oak bench behind her, and the thrilling and beautiful curves of the frosted glass door covered by moisture were looming.
Anna took a small sip of salt water. As she lowered her head and typed attentively, a drop of crystal sweat dripped from the tip of her nose and disappeared into the gauze neckline.
Under the light above her head, her figure is as white as snow.
Anna never wanted to hide her beauty.
Many people with disabled legs are either skinny or obese due to long-term inactivity.
Various degrees of muscle atrophy throughout the body are almost unavoidable.
She maintains a very perfect body curve.
Not only because Anna has a very good medical team to serve her, but since she was a little girl, she has been controlling her body day after day according to the training plan with a strict to almost cold attitude. Diet and fitness.
After being suspended from the oil painting magazine, she even took the initiative to increase her daily physical training.
This is not only the self-discipline brought by tutoring,
it is also Anna's way of fighting against the tragedy of her fate.
She liked the feeling of her body being stretched and relaxed again and again, and her clothes were soaked with sweat.
This made Anna feel like she could take her life into her own hands.
She didn’t know why Detective Cat wanted to contact her at this time. It had not yet arrived at the agreed recording time for the podcast salon.
Anna is worried that something is wrong with Detective Cat.
"These five works are all great. You are really a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon among your fans."
Gu Weijing gave a small compliment.
"Great"
Seeing this news, Anna was even more worried.
She felt that although the five paintings were passable, they were definitely not great.
She doubted whether the detective cat had figured out the reason.
This is actually not a question of appreciation ability, but a question of life circle and cultural differences.
When Gu Weijing appraised the works submitted by fans who participated in the salon, he found that these five paintings included three professional first-level works, one professional second-level work, and even an oil painting. A work whose technique has reached the third level of professionalism.
This level is enough to participate in art exhibitions.
For an audience of a mass-oriented art podcast program, it is indeed a high-quality product.
In addition, Gu Weijing has a gentle character in traditional Eastern culture. Although he can clearly see the shortcomings of these works with the help of calligraphy and painting appraisal techniques.
When faced with Mr. Sloth’s questions, he would still choose to answer politely and politely.
Why not let others step down
On the other hand, whether it is Anna or Director Tonks. The works they come into contact with on a daily basis can be said to be like clouds of famous paintings, and everywhere you look you can see the original works of the masters.
The standard for judging whether it is "great" will naturally be higher.
Moreover, there is another important reason.
The traditional social culture of the East is the culture of the gentleman, while Europe and the United States are more inclined to the culture of the strong.
You are awesome, I admire you.
If you draw poorly, I will criticize you without any discussion.
Westerners think Easterners are hypocritical, while Easterners think Westerners are brainless.
At least Anna believed that Curator Tonks would never call these five paintings "great".
"Ms. Detective Cat, do you have an outline for your speech? Director Tonks is not an easy guest to get along with. If you really don't know much about oil painting and don't know what to say at all, you still have some time. , maybe I can give you some suggestions."
Ana thought for a while, then frowned and suggested.
"Give you some advice."
Anna said this to take care of the other person's self-esteem. A more straightforward statement is that you must really not understand, otherwise I will teach you. What should I say
She actually doesn’t want to do this.
Even if you give the analysis of these five works to the other party like an endorsement, and follow the script, you may not make a fool of yourself during the recording.
Anna is a girl who respects art very much.
If Detective Cat has good aesthetic ability, she will naturally be very happy.
But if Detective Cat didn't see the reason, especially the four oil paintings and watercolors except for the sketches, she didn't know how to appreciate them at all.
She also understood.
After all, he is an online illustrator from Algeria.
Anna will not ask for too much, she just hopes that she can accompany the other person to improve her aesthetic appreciation ability a little bit. Uncut jade also needs to be polished by famous experts.
But this kind of behavior of outlining the speech for the other party is suspected of fraud.
"No, thank you for your kindness, but I think I can do it myself."
Seeing that Detective Cat rejected her suggestion to help, Anna felt a little relieved, but also more Worried.
After all, this is the first time the other party has participated in such a celebrity-level art conversation, so it is normal for him to perform poorly.
"I do have something to ask you. Can you help me look for it? Is there any suitable manuscript?"
Gu Weijing said this. Contact Sloth firstThe purpose of life.
After seeing the wonderful use of the drawing knife.
Gu Weijing feels that it is a bit too wasteful that his legendary skill of painting with a knife is now simply used as an auxiliary method for traditional oil paintings.
The reason why he was able to make money with the detective cat account was Menzel’s perfect skill of basic painting skills.
The rating of the painting knife painting method on the system panel is even higher.
The problem is that pure knife drawing is not a general illustration skill like sketching, and the audience is too narrow.
It is difficult to find suitable assignments online.
He just thought of asking Mr. Sloth.
Such a manuscript assignment must be rare. As long as the commission is within a reasonable range, Gu Weijing can accept it.
"Of course, I'm honored. It's great that you finally want to draw some more professional subjects."
Mr. Sloth didn't even mention the commission. .
The uncle seemed very happy that he was finally no longer obsessed with just drawing simple anime illustrations online.
"What type of illustrated movie posters, book publishing or would you like to receive?"
Mr. Sloth asked.
"I want to try oil painting." Gu Weijing typed.
"Oil painting category, of course." Anna was very surprised when she saw Detective Cat's reply.
Online illustrations are like saliva songs, and traditional oil paintings are like symphonies.
Detective Cat has such good skills in sketching and modeling. He draws animation illustrations all day long, just like a piano master who obsessively accompanies square dances.
Anna always felt that the other party was not doing his job properly.
At this time, she felt happy to see that the other party was willing to try oil painting subjects, regardless of whether he could paint well or not.
"What kind of painting method do you prefer? Classicism, Impressionism, Hyperrealism. Why don't you try participating in art exhibitions? There are several art exhibitions in Paris, London, Singapore and Hamburg this year."
Anna types quickly.
"Well, it's okay to draw with a knife"
"Draw with a knife"
Looking at Detective Cat's reply, Anna was silent for two seconds, frowning Wrinkled slightly.
"If you want to learn oil painting, I can recommend you a good teacher. But when it comes to knife painting, with all due respect, madam, are you sure you have not been deceived by others?"
There is great controversy in the painting circle about knife painting.
Whether it’s Zhihu in Eastern Xia, Japan’s 2ch forum, or Q&A websites like Quora in Europe and the United States, or any art-related forum.
It is easy for people to find similar questions "Why are knife paintings so hated and slandered?"
In the mainstream art criticism circle, professional painters hear that a person is good at painting. When drawing a knife and drawing, an incomprehensible smile will immediately appear on the face, and then they will exchange a tacit look with each other.
Basically, it is similar to a professor in the university mathematics department who dropped out of middle school and claimed to have proved Goldbach's conjecture.
This is not a problem with knife painting itself, but there are too many scammers in the knife painting industry.
Knife painting belongs to the category of oil painting, but unlike traditional oil painting, it does not require you to master any art foundation.
It takes time to learn traditional oil painting from the basics. Just the initial sketching and modeling is enough for a person to learn for several years.
But it is not needed for drawing knife paintings.
Theoretically speaking, if you just find a shovel and stir the paint twice, then smearing it on the canvas is also the same as using a knife.
This creates a lot of room for scams.
This Louis is difficult to master.
Learning professional knife painting is a long process.
Not only does it need to be led in by a teacher, but it also requires long-term practice to develop a sense of familiarity with the oil painting knife, which is far more difficult to control than a paintbrush.
Any internationally renowned knife-painting artist will definitely spend no less energy on the knife-painting process than a person who normally paints traditional oil paintings.
But on the Internet, you can often see slogans such as "Get started with zero basics, learn in one month, master in two months, and make big money in three months."
This is obviously nonsense.
The key is that there are many people who think they can make a lot of money by finding another way.
It doesn’t matter if you pay tuition to cultivate your character, but after three months, a bottle is less than half full, and there are many people who feel that they are more or less artists.
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