Chapter 130 Reading for You

"There lived a king on the first asteroid. This king wore a white glazed leather robe with purple-red trim and sat on a simple yet solemn throne."

Shi The old-fashioned gas lamps on the table were dancing with flames. Anna was wearing headphones, holding up a fairy tale book with yellowed pages, and reading softly.

In front of her, the sun was setting slowly over the mountainous valleys of Austria.

The high tower in the north is the highest place in the Elena family manor. Thick and strong coarse gravel strips make up this ancient building with hundreds of years of history.

It is said that before the Elena family got this land, it once belonged to the fiefdom of a Duke of the Holy Roman Empire.

The watchtower was built to guard against the cavalry under the Mongolian Khan. These nomads from the grasslands ran like fire and fought from Central Asia to the banks of the Danube River in history.

The guards with excellent eyesight will stand on the tower and stare nervously at the distant horizon day and night. The first moment they see the sand and dust raised by the galloping cavalry, they will sound the alarm. trumpets, if their throats had not already been pierced by the scout's arrows.

Century after century has passed, and all the ancient traces of the Middle Ages in the manor have long been wiped away by time. Only this sturdy spire remains.

When Anna’s aunt took over the manor, she did not significantly repair the monument. Her aunt just hired craftsmen to build slide rails on the stairs of the watchtower to facilitate wheelchair movement, and then moved the monument. The key to a watchtower was handed to him along with a book.

"Saint-Exupéry said that every child needs a place away from adults to watch the sunset and stars quietly." said the aunt.

That book is The Little Prince.

Anna is a literary girl, and the Little Prince has been the book that has accompanied her the most since she was a child.

The curious and kind-hearted little prince, the rose who has character flaws and is sensitive but longs to be loved, the smart and romantic fox, and the vain king

These fairy tale characters accompanied her throughout her life. One lonely sunset after another in a wheelchair during my childhood.

When Detective Cat asked her to find a painting knife with fairy tale temperament for painting commissions.

The first thing Anna thought of was the new version of The Little Prince that schostic was working on.

She really knows this book very well.

The drawing knife handed over by Detective Cat is very beautiful, but it lacks soul.

Judging from the standards of an illustration, it is qualified.

More than just qualified, it is simply outstanding.

There is only one small flaw. This is a very beautiful illustration, but it is not an illustration that fits the look of the little prince in her mind.

In other words, Anna thinks it lacks the magic that can create sales miracles.

Illustration is the painting dog that studies art and is most exposed to, and has the highest daily market demand.way of painting.

There are tens of millions of painting and art students in the world, and only a few of these people can eventually become serious professional artists who are recognized by galleries and art museums and earn millions per year

Most people have not gone into majors such as game original artists, print advertising, fashion design, and publishing illustrations. The ones they draw most are still various practical illustrations.

The lower limit of illustration is very low, but the upper limit is very high.

They are all published illustrations.

What low-end illustrators do is "usable", while high-end illustrators hope to become "classics".

For the same set of illustrations, the works of high-end painters can bring 10, 20 or even 30 more sales to the publishing house, and their illustrated posters hanging on the streets can attract more viewers. Take the initiative to go to the cinema.

The works of low-end illustrators are just bonus items for books, while the great illustrators who have won the Andersen Award can allow well-known newspapers like the New York Review of Books to write a special page of news to report on them and increase their exposure.

This is why the latter’s worth is a hundred times that of the former.

To impress the audience and create sales miracles, in addition to painting beautifully, you must also paint with soul.

The painting of Detective Cat Lady is like an exquisite doll.

Every facial feature is beautiful, and every curve of the body is charming.

Unfortunately, there is no temperature.

Readers will be amazed by such a work, but they may not necessarily take the initiative to pay for such a work when there is no original need to buy the book.

Really magical illustrations,

should be able to achieve that. One dusk afternoon, a tired office worker walked past the window of a bookstore and inadvertently glanced at the illustrations in the window. Beautiful new book.

So, he stopped suddenly and stared at the books behind the glass for a long time. Something seemed to be touched in his heart, and then he went into the store to buy.

Start with surprise and love with heartbeat.

What Detective Cat’s paintings lack is enough heartbeat to make readers empathize.

Anna felt that she was a bit picky.

There are not even 10,000 illustrations in the world that can become timeless classics like Niels' Travels on a Goose and The Wind in the Willows.

Even the Schostic Group would not have such unrealistic expectations when requesting manuscripts.

Anna was unwilling to give in.

The painting was already so good and just a little bit away from being a classic. She felt that as an agent, she should be able to do something to help Detective Cat.

A variety of long book reviews and expert interpretations of classic fairy tales such as The Little Prince are available online.

Anna did not think that forcing the "chewed bread" of these book reviewers onto the detective cat who did not know much about this fairy tale would have any good effect.

What the painter needs more is the feeling of suddenly moving in his heart when he hears a certain sentence.

So,

What Anna did was simpleof reading.

She took out the copy of The Little Prince that she had grown up with from the drawer, asked the housekeeper to get the computer, sound card and wireless network card, and went to the watchtower where she often went when she was a child.

Looking at the sunset setting over the distant valley, she made an appointment, and the language connection connected with the illustration artist in Africa, who softly told her the things that had left a deep impression on Anna. A classic passage of impression.

呲拉

Gu Weijing tore up a page from the sketchbook and shook his head in disappointment.

In my ears I heard the calm voice of Mr. Sloth. He was holding a paintbrush in his hand, and there were various scraps of paper in front of him.

Mr. Sloth seems to be taking this "literary tutoring" very seriously, and has been reading to himself for almost two hours without interruption.

But Gu Weijing still missed something here.

Mr. Sloth did not dismantle the fairy tale for himself, explaining the profound meanings and literary metaphors represented by each character's character.

His only request is that every time Gu Weijing hears a new fairy tale character appear in a paragraph.

As long as he listened to Mr. Sloth reading, he would draw simple sketches of the characters in his mind, trying to capture the personality characteristics of the fairy tale characters.

Gu Weijing worked very hard to do this.

The main plot of The Little Prince is not complicated.

Roughly speaking, the protagonist "The Little Prince" visited seven different little stars in space, and met fairy tale residents with different personalities on each star.

What Mr. Sloth just read was the passage where the little prince came to the first small planet and met the "king" there.

While listening to Mr. Sloth reading, he tried to draw a line sketch of the king in his sketchbook.

In the fairy tale of the little prince, the "king" does not have a very complicated personality.

In the original work, the king is the only resident on the first small planet "No. 325" that the little prince visits after leaving his own planet.

This king claims to rule over all, and his rule must be respected and brook no disobedience.

Gu Wei once specifically checked Wikipedia.

The encyclopedia says that this king's character is characterized by arrogance and arrogance, but also a little cowardice in his heart.

He is an arrogant, hypocritical and incompetent autocratic nobleman who will be dissatisfied and complain about anything that does not suit him.

My favorite thing to do every day is to hold the calendar and issue ascending and descending commands to the sun, moon and stars.

Seeing these introductions, Gu Weijing's image of the king was probably a combination of the old lady Cixi and the crazy astronomy enthusiast in the old movies.

But there is still something missing in my paintings.

Gu Weijing just couldn’t grasp the feeling that this “king” should have.Sleep.

He has deliberately painted the image of the enemy of the feudal class like the "King" according to his own imagination.

But whenever Gu Weijing was writing, he listened to the sound of Mr. Sloth reading in his ear.

There is always a sense of separation.

This feeling is very similar to what he felt when he first tried to draw a fusion painting last week, as if he was forcibly merging two different things together.

The last time I combined Eastern and Western art styles.

But this time, he is trying to forcefully insert a character that does not belong to a fairy tale character into the body of the "king".

The only thing to be thankful for may be.

The sound of Mr. Sloth reading softly carries a reassuring and quiet force. He encountered setbacks while painting, and disappointment was inevitable, but he did not feel too impatient and unable to continue painting.

"Ms. Detective Cat, you have encountered some problem, right?"

Maybe he heard the frequent sound of paper tearing coming from the microphone here, Mr. Sloth finally stopped. The reading sound stopped, and the two hours of reading made his voice seem a little more hoarse.

"Well, I'm sorry, I can't find the feeling."

Gu Weijing was really embarrassed.

“I tried really hard, but the characters of these characters are too complicated, like an onion, with one layer peeled off and another layer left. Wikipedia says, this guy is arrogant and arrogant. Big, but a little timid at heart."

"I really can't grasp the scale, and the painting is very fragmented."

"Forget the encyclopedia." Mr. Sloth said suddenly.

"What"

"Forget Wiki, forget Google Q&A, forget the book review discussions on odreaders foreign Douban. Forget all the character analysis you are looking for."

"Why"

"If you want to draw moving works, you must really enter the inner world of this book. These outsiders' summaries are very good, but they are not yours." Sloth said Mr.

"Ms. Detective Cat, what kind of character is the king in your heart?"

"An arrogant and hypocritical incompetent nobleman"

Gu Wei I still subconsciously answered with the character metaphors on Wikipedia.

"What kind of person do you think a noble is?" Mr. Sloth asked.

"I don't know."

Gu Weijing shook his head. This word was too far away. He basically could only read it in history textbooks and the British Prince Harry's global live TV Saw it at a wedding.

How does he know what a noble is like.

"Well, have you read Proust's In Search of Lost Time or Leblond's France?" Mr. Sloth suddenly asked.

"No, I haven't even heard of the latter." Gu Weijing shook his head.

He has heard of In Search of Lost Time, but he has not even heard of the following book.Heard the name.

"That was the winning work of the Prix Goncourt, the most important literary award at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. Both books extensively recorded the daily life of the nobles."

Oo

Gu Weijing’s eyebrows jumped wildly upon hearing this.

It’s not boring anymore. My daily life is to go to various places to play, and when I’m tired of playing, I sleep with beautiful girls.

This kind of life is boring,

Do you have any conscience?

"It sounds very corrupt and degenerate," Gu Weijing sighed.

“It’s very corrupt and decadent, but if you spend too many days like this, you’ll feel bored. It sounds arrogant, right? But hunting, horse racing, sleeping with women, and gossiping, you’ve been doing this since you were a teenager From the beginning of the social season, until you are too old to even sleep with girls, your daily life will consist of these four things. If they are too much, you will feel bored."

"Old-school aristocracy. Most of them are not good, nor are they extremely bad. They are just tired and boring, and they don’t care about anything except family honor that is higher than their lives.”

Mr. Sloth said.

“In The Red and the Black, Prince Korasov teaches the protagonist Julien how to pretend to be a nobleman, that is, never be angry and pretend to be tired all day long, because you are a great nobleman, You have ridden the fastest horse, you have a whole troupe at home to perform for you, you have slept with more beautiful women than you can count, you have enjoyed all the best pleasures in the world, and you have mentioned everything. Not interested."

"This kind of life is really annoying, isn't it?"

Mr. Sloth said softly, he seemed to be talking to himself.

Mr. Sloth continued without waiting for Gu Weijing to answer.

“Saint-Exupéry, the author of The Little Prince, was born into a wealthy family in Paris. Since the 13th century, his family had produced many French army generals. His mother came from a prominent scholarly family. Although Saint-Exupery Exupéry was deeply influenced by the Enlightenment movement of equality for all, but he must have known the virtues of a true nobleman."

"Detective Cat, have you ever wondered why the king is so good? Will be shaped into such a person?"

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