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"You should have received a request for a manuscript from the Schostic Group, is it a trial contract or a formal contract?"
Anna thought about it I thought, and asked the question that concerned her most.
When a painter signs a contract with an agent, there will be a complex and professional legal contract, and naturally it cannot be handled with just a few words.
But now,
there is a simple agreement.
She can already officially intervene in the work of Detective Cat as an agent.
It was difficult for Anna to ask before because large film companies or publishing houses generally have confidentiality restrictions on ongoing contracted projects in order to prevent movie lines or plots from being leaked in advance.
It is not easy for outsiders to interfere.
But even the strictest confidentiality agreement will not restrict the painter from sharing his work with his agent.
The agent is the painter's closest partner in his career, and in many cases they are one and the same.
"Trial contract. They asked me to draw an illustration inspired by the first section of Chapter 8 of The Little Prince."
"You're done"
"Yes, but the sample has not been officially sent to the project assistant's email address."
"I still insist on drawing with a knife"
Anna confirmed again.
"Yes, Hua Dao Hua is very suitable for the fairy tale theme."
"Then before you formally submit it, please send me a sample first. Hua Dao Hua is a It's a very difficult painting method. I'm your agent now, and I want to test your picture performance first to decide whether this requires you to change your painting method."
Anna reminded her carefully beforehand. Make it clear, I will not relax my request easily."
She is right.
Anna will never relax her standards because of her preference for detective cats.
On the contrary,
She hopes to "kill" the detective cat's majesty.
Many painters waste too much time and energy on inappropriate paths.
Van Gogh once hoped to become a sketching expert in his early years. Manet compromised with the traditional academic school in order to gain official recognition from France, and even Picasso spent a lot of time studying pottery and sculpture. This is all in Anna It seems to be an act of not doing business properly on the wrong path.
It is even more unrighteous to draw with a knife.
At least this is a rugged path that is difficult to walk.
“The difficulty in drawing knife paintings lies in fine control. The one who is better at this is probably Boggs, a professor at the Brooke Academy of Art in the United States. He is especially good at depicting weather. It is said that he can collect scenery in the wild. A mature, small-sized snow scene was completed within an hour, thanks to the excellent control he had developed over half a lifetime on the oil painting knife."
Anna is ready to tell the detectiveMao recommended some works by mature knife-painting artists in her impression, hoping to give this African elder sister a general impression of real knife-painting masters.
Art is most afraid of working behind closed doors.
Many painters are not exposed to the trends of modern artists, and they feel great after practicing half a bottle of water.
This is particularly evident among painters in some small places.
Schostic Group is known as the temple of illustrators, and we will not lower our requirements just because your drawing methods are unique.
Without mature artistic skills,
it is difficult for the draft to pass the review of the art department.
It is not difficult to get started with knife painting. Even if you are new to painting, after two or three months of playing, it will not be a big problem for your paintings to look intimidating.
However,
The publishing house is willing to pay more than 100,000 US dollars for a set of illustrations, so naturally it requires more than just looking bluffing.
Whether the color can have better expressive power, whether the surface of the paint is dirty, whether the layers of the knife are uniform, whether the brushstrokes look stagnant
This all depends on the artist himself Her efforts also depend on her talent.
In short, it is easy to get started with the oil painting knife, but without a lot of practice, there is no way to draw well.
Even if you practice a lot, whether you can draw well or not depends on your fate.
This is the cruelty of art.
Anna does not expect Detective Cat to be as good as the famous knife-painting artists she calls her, but she does want to get a formal contract through knife-painting.
If Osborne’s help is not considered.
She estimated that Detective Cat must have at least 30% to 40% of the skills of artists who have been immersed in unique skills for half their lives, as she said, to be safe.
It’s not that the Schostic Group has high requirements, but rather unpopular painting categories like chalk painting and printing and pasting paintings.
There are only a few painters at the top of an industry. If they can’t reach a high point, they will end up in vain.
In fact, she hopes that the painting style of Detective Cat can be based on the cornerstone of traditional popular painting.
Detective Cat was originally very good at drawing with colored pencils. Even if he does not switch to oil painting, switching to watercolor painting would be an excellent choice.
The high-end water-soluble colored pencil painting method is naturally similar to watercolor painting. Many watercolor painters have the experience of practicing colored pencils.
Whether you want to win an award or participate in an art exhibition in the future, it will be easier than being stubborn in the field of knife painting.
As the phone vibrated, a notification of new messages came from the inbox.
Detective Cat has sent his own illustrations.
Anna was still typing, she just raised her eyelids slightly and glanced, then her fingertips stopped.
The complete high-definition illustration processed by the art scanner is hundreds of megabytes in size.
Although chat software is not suitable for sendingPhotos have no file size restrictions. However, for such large files, only thumbnails are loaded before downloading.
Anna still can’t see the details of the illustration clearly.
But with just one thumbnail, she was immediately keenly aware of the specialness of this illustration sent by Detective Cat.
Rose flowers bloom on the golden planet. The boundless universe is like a veil covering the sky of the picture. There is a fiery red star rising in the east, and the golden sunlight is like dancing stars. Gravel slowly emerges from the gauze of the universe.
Everything in the picture is as beautiful as a psychedelic and magnificent dream in childhood.
Anna blinked and was lost for a moment.
She took a gentle breath, stretched out her finger, and clicked on the screen.
The network construction in Austria is relatively average, and the signal in the art museum is even worse. A white loading circle keeps rotating on the screen.
Anna frowned.
She knew that this would not help the download speed, but she still tapped her fingertips on the phone repeatedly, like a pianist playing a fixed chord.
An illustration, even just a vague shadow, is enough for an art critic like Anna to easily judge the artist's level.
Good things cannot become bad, and bad things cannot become good.
It’s like an exam, with exactly the same subject matter, 80 points for excellent paintings and 30 points for bad graffiti, but the final picture is very different in terms of expressiveness.
But Anna couldn’t tell the level of this painting.
So beautiful.
It was so beautiful that it was almost perfect.
It was so beautiful that she couldn’t even tell how good a painting it was just from the first impression of the thumbnail.
Just when Anna was hesitating whether to go back to the car and use the car's WiFi, her phone finally downloaded the illustrations sent by Ms. Detective Cat to the local computer.
The picture is automatically enlarged.
"Incredible."
Such a thought appeared in her mind.
From the moment she was born, Anna has seen countless famous paintings.
Aesthetic, romantic, modern, classical, Renaissance, she was even personally accompanied by a cardinal in the vault on the ground floor of the Vatican Museum, at close range I came into contact with several tempera paintings of the medieval painter and inventor of oil painting, Jan van Eyck, which were the early prototypes of modern oil painting.
In a sense, it is more precious than Da Vinci’s original handwriting.
What kind of oil painting has she never seen?
But it is rare for Anna to see someone as good as this detective cat work.
Amazing.
This is Anna’s first impression.
Under a magnifying glass or a high-resolution electronic atlas, oil paints will appear between the surface of the moon and the moon.Noodles and cheese that have been chewed by ants.
These are the traces of different shades left by the hairs of the brush on the surface of the paint, and they are also part of the texture of the painting.
It is inevitable.
Even the picture treated with the oil painting knife is not smooth.
Whether it is the flat pressing method or the side pressing method, the blade of the knife squeezes the paint, which can avoid the wrinkles and cracks of the paint caused by different forces, like being swept by a fine steel ball.
But Detective Cat gave Anna a clean impression.
This picture is really clean.
This does not mean that there are no uneven traces of paint. This is impossible. An oil painting that is as flat as a mirror is not an advantage and will also lack sufficient layering.
But in addition to the necessary paint layers and texture of this painting, Anna could not find any unnecessary scratches left on the paint by the blade of the oil painting knife.
A core problem when using a knife to process paint is that using a knife is not like using a pen. When the hard metal knife surface scrapes the surface of the paint, different knife marks are interlaced, which can easily lead to messy The knife marks are raised.
This kind of messy traces will make the picture look chaotic and dull.
The painting of Detective Cat is very beautifully done.
Even the ridge-like or linear knife marks that are specially reserved to increase the layering of the picture are very neat and unified.
The whole picture is very relaxed, round and natural.
She stretched out her thumb and index finger to enlarge the picture and carefully appreciated the illustration from beginning to end. Even if it was enlarged several times, there were very few irregular knife marks on the paint.
"This is the pressed dispersion"
Anna noticed that the paint in the painting was very expressive and distinctive. The light paint and the dark paint were regularly mixed and intertwined. Full of mystery and fantasy.
The more she looked, the more surprised she became.
This way of expressing color is really bold.
It seems to be a gorgeous spider web woven by hand using different pigments as thin threads.
The strong charming colors and hazy color differences add a fairy-tale feel to the whole painting.
"Mr. Sloth, do you have any suggestions about my illustrations?"
Detective Cat sent a question.
Anna looked at the message she had just finished typing, shook her head, and canceled all the messages she had just edited in half.
Witnessed such a high-level masterpiece.
She doesn’t feel that any of the knife artists she just mentioned can draw better than Detective Cat, nor does she feel that she is qualified to point fingers at Detective Cat’s works.
"It's really great."
Ana hesitated, bit her lip and typed.
"Ms. Detective Cat, I am very grateful that you are willing to choose me as your agent."
Read the message from Detective CatAnna even felt a little sad when looking at the illustrations.
Her fingertips gently moved the pictures on the screen little by little, staring at the paint that was still so fresh that it had not yet completely solidified. She held her breath slightly, and her cold eyes contained pity.
She could not imagine how much hardship a painter had to endure and how much time he spent in the studio day after day before he became proficient in using an oil painting knife. Such a point.
Anna feels particularly honored that such a painter is willing to entrust her career in his own hands.
"I will make a contract soon. There is something I hope to explain to you in advance."
Anna thought for a while and said something uneasily. matter.
"I will find a suitable contract and career advice for you, but due to some personal reasons, I hope to be your agent anonymously as Mr. Sloth. Please do not explore me too much. I wonder if you are willing to agree to this request."
It is already in the whirlpool of public opinion.
It is not convenient for her to directly sign a contract with the other party as Miss Elena.
This is not difficult to deal with in the contract. The reason why it is always easy to be targeted by money laundering gangs is because art trading has always been one of the industries that pays most attention to protecting privacy.
However,
anonymous buyers and illustrators known only by pseudonyms are common.
Agents who can remain anonymous are relatively rare. Unless they are smuggling brokers engaged in the sale and purchase of black art in the underground art black market.
"Can't I know your true identity?"
As expected, the tone of the detective cat opposite seemed a little suspicious.
“It’s difficult for me to explain to you. Because of my own family reasons, we can sign the contract through a professional accounting firm as a confidentiality intermediary. The accounting firm will also handle the division of schedules, tax returns, etc. Let’s deal with it.”
“I assure you that there will be no problems with the contract. If you are worried, you can ask a lawyer to see it.”
Yangon, Gu’s Book Gallery.
Gu Weijing was holding his mobile phone. When he saw Mr. Sloth's request, he just hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Although he didn’t know why Mr. Sloth was so mysterious, he was very well-connected in the art circle and was indeed very kind to him.
That's enough.
Who doesn’t have a little secret?
His identity as an online illustrator is also a secret.
Nowadays, the grassroots style of drafting on fiverr is no longer suitable for him. From drafting to finance, he needs a more formal professional agent to handle everything.
"Okay."
Gu Weijing thought for a while and said, "Let's make a gentleman's agreement not to ask about your identity, and you won't ask about mine. Identity. I'm just Detective Cat, you're just Mr. Sloth, okay"
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