Ms. Detective Cat really shows off her painting knife.
Kelly thought that the textbook-like knife-drawing method she had seen before was already the limit of what she could imagine with this technique.
Now,
it’s a long way to go,
to take one step further.
This painting is filled with vitality by the detective cat. All the scenes in the fairy tale of The Little Prince are blended into colorful paints.
Every ingenious touch of the artist's brush and every layer of color overlay sows the seeds of connection with the real world in the illustrations.
It continues to grow as readers stare.
The sense of communication in the picture is patented by the works of the top art masters, and it must be a very rare masterpiece.
Even among the original works of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo, there are less than 23 out of 10 paintings that can create a sufficient sense of interaction with the audience.
Throughout the ages, there is no painter in Italy who can inject life into the miraculous images of Jehovah and the Virgin Mary in religious works.
He will immediately become the most shining cub in the eyes of the entire Papal State.
"This cover design is really clever. It retains the original composition of Saint-Exupé and uses an oil painting knife to inject a new style. 11 is greater than 2."
"Mom, Mom, this fairy tale book is so beautifully made."
"It's really beautiful. No matter what the external comments say, I think the production level of this set of illustrations is still good, better than Townsendsman's The version is strong. To be honest, I have always found the original author’s children’s sketches to be a bit silly.”
“Amazing”
“”
Customers walked into the bookstore constantly and picked up fairy tale books from the shelves at the door.
From the initial silence, to surprise, and now to shock.
The crowds of people walking into the bookstore were chatting louder and louder. Everyone who got the physical book of Little Prince couldn't help but express their opinions to their surrounding companions.
The voices of praise are endless.
Some comments are quite professional.
The group of readers who are willing to go to Oxford Street to attend the first-day book signing, like the black international student from Royal Holloway University who unintentionally join in the fun, are only a minority after all.
The vast majority of people are fans of Saint-Exupéry or the translator Charlie Hawke.
Many people are very familiar with the plot of The Little Prince.
Whether an illustration matches well with a famous book or not matches the temperament of the entire work.
With just a quick glance, everyone’s heart can tell them the answer.
"Please don't block the door, pay attention, pay attention. Readers who are attending the book signing, please go to the reading hall inside. The translator of this book, Mr. Charlie Hawke of Oxford University, has already Ready to start preaching here."
The announcement of staff directing customers sounded.
There is a large hall in Waterstones Bookstore, with many IKEA-style light-colored bean bag sofas placed on the carpet.
On the podium at the front, Dean Hawke had a pen for signatures and a new edition of the Little Prince book in his hand, looking down at the lecture notes in the folder.
Different from celebrities bringing goods,
Signing books will be sold as soon as they start.
This seems to have a strong smell of copper and lack of literati sentiment.
Dean Hawke will give a small lecture first, talk about his experience when translating this work, and communicate with readers.
It won’t take too long, about twenty minutes.
Kelly found a sofa in the corner and sat down quietly. She looked around.
The area where customers can read and drink coffee at Waterstones Bookstore on Oxford Street is much larger than an ordinary bookstore.
It is about the same size as a small street classroom.
In just a few minutes, the hall, which could accommodate many people, was already filled to the brim with customers pouring into the bookstore. There were even crowds of people standing in the gaps behind.
There are so many people.
Kelly stuck out her tongue.
The crowd was almost seated, and Dean Hawke on the podium took out his speech and began to speak.
"Ahem, thank you for your willingness to participate in this book signing. Readers may be familiar with me, and the little prince does not need to be introduced too much. I know that in the book a few days ago, There were some unpleasant hiccups during the listing process, but being able to translate and publish this world-famous book with a total sales volume of over 100 million copies”
Kelly’s attention was not on this highly respected translator. On the body.
Have a seat and listen to it for a few times.
The blonde girl took a deep breath, and with her heart pounding, she opened the book of Little Prince that she had longed for for a long time.
When I was six years old, I saw an extremely wonderful illustration in a book describing the primeval forest. It showed a python devouring a wild beast. I'll draw it on it now
The text comes into view.
Except for expensive collection sets and some collectible hardcover comics, most books in Waterstones Bookstore do not have any plastic film to protect the covers.
This bookstore functions as both a library and a literary-themed cafe.
A large part of the store's profit source, in addition to books, is the money from cakes and coffee bought by customers who stop here to read.
As long as it is not damaged, customers can pick up books here at will, regardless of whether they want to buy them or not.
Kelly opened the title page of the book.
The first sentence of the first line of the book The Little Prince is Saint-Exupéry recalling the story of drawing illustrations in his childhood.
The blonde girl’s eyes immediatelyI was attracted by the illustration on the right side of the page that the detective cat created for this paragraph of text and accompanied by a picture of a python devouring a beast.
Kelly stared at the picture, whose main body was a large python coiled like a conch.
Under the advanced printing assembly line of Schostic Group, even the tiny traces of scales left by the oil painting knife on the green python skin are extremely clear.
"It's not an art style."
Kelly sniffed.
She looked at the illustration on the second page, turned the book over and looked at the cover again.
Both paintings are so beautiful and delicate.
It’s just that the accompanying picture of “a python devouring a beast” has a completely different visual look and feel from the cover painting.
Its techniques are equally sophisticated, but there are no overly ostentatious techniques.
Compared with the cover painting, which is extremely expressive and extremely complex in technique, the illustrations on the second page reveal a childish and simple feeling.
It not only has the wild vitality of forest creatures, but also cleverly expresses the theme of "the work of a six-year-old child" vividly.
No child in the world can draw such beautiful knife paintings.
The first impression of Detective Cat’s knife drawing is that it was drawn by a child.
This sounds very difficult to understand, but the sense of proportion between what is possible and what is not, what is and what is not is blurred.
It is precisely the subtle difference between a master and a mortal.
“That’s awesome.”
Kelly couldn’t remember how many times she had praised Detective Cat today.
Other than disbelief, it was difficult for her to think of a more accurate adjective to sum up her mood.
The illustrator did not disappoint her.
Just the first illustration in the text shows the detective cat’s easy and versatile control of his skills.
In particular, he has an extremely accurate grasp of the theme of the painting.
Without a deep enough understanding and insight into the artistic conception of the Little Prince's article, it would be impossible to draw such an appropriate work.
Kelly was happy to see Hunter and turned the pages faster.
Illustrations of a python devouring beasts, an astronomer wearing a hat, a growing baobab tree, and a king on an asteroid flowed before her eyes.
When Saint-Exupéry created this fairy tale book, he also created many sketches of simple illustrations, some of which were selected for publication by publishers, and some of which were not.
These existing drawings are currently distributed in the hands of national art collectors in the world. They are as top collectibles in the illustration industry as Dragon Balls.
The largest collector is the French national government, which has collected 60 of the paintings over the past two decades.
The old version of The Little Prince published by the Townsendsman Group contains 39 of them.
When the schostic group conceived this book project, it hoped to increase the proportion of color illustrations as a selling point.used to appeal to its appeal among children and artistic youth.
So after discussions and communication in all aspects.
Includes cover page.
The fairy tale book Kelly is holding has a total of 56 pictures.
About two-thirds of the illustrations, like the cover and the boa constrictor devouring the beast, were redrawn with a drawing knife based on the original composition of Saint-Exupéry.
There are also more than a dozen illustrations, which are original works created by Gu Weijing after he had some insights in the process of Mr. Sloth reading to him.
Every picture makes Kelly extremely satisfied.
“You don’t even need to read the text. Take these illustrations alone and read them as comics. They are all an extremely wonderful and coherent story. Detective Cat relies on his painting skills and his understanding of the fairy tale characters written by Saint-Exupéry. The profound understanding directly supports the aesthetic meaning of this fairy tale book through color."
Kelly raised her head and glanced at the translator who was chatting on the podium, and curled her lips, "What a pity. , it would be nice if the signature was not the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Oxford University but the Detective Cat Sister."
Indeed.
This sentence somewhat betrays the translator’s years of hard work.
Dean Charlie Hawke’s translation is of excellent quality. During the process of localizing the words and sentences into English, he retained the delicate and precise word formation characteristics of French articles.
Watch the essence of faith, expression and elegance.
Even the real selling point of Schostic Group this time is the dean’s profound writing skills.
The illustrations of Detective Cat are only accessories to the original text.
It can be said from the perspective of feelings.
On the contrary, Kelly felt that the text content that Dean Hawke had polished after years of hard work became more and more complicated when set off by the intricate illustrations and pictures that matched Detective Cat and Saint-Exupéry. It's not that important anymore.
The illustrations are more like the real skeleton of the new version of the Little Prince, and the text is the flesh and blood attached to the skeleton.
The blonde girl would glance at the main text briefly at first. Soon, Kelly felt that the efficiency was too low and began to only appreciate the illustrations.
However, it is like an illustrator telling a story with pictures for Saint-Exupéry.
She clearly had no intention of writing. Looking at the illustrations of Detective Cat, the classic sentences accompanying the text flowed into her heart naturally, as if it came naturally.
People have long forgotten this truth. But you shouldn't forget it. You must always be responsible for what you tame. You are responsible for your roses.
You just sit quietly on the grass, a little far away from me. I'm looking at you from the corner of my eye, but don't say anything. Language is a source of misunderstanding. But, every day, you can sit closer to me
At night, I like to listen to the stars, they are like five billion little bells.
The pictures of Detective Cat are like a moveable feast, and those meaningful words are the accompaniment of this feast.The two work together seamlessly.
It only takes a short time to flip through the 56 illustrations from beginning to end and only get a general impression.
Kelly turned slower and slower.
The Little Prince has a total of twenty-seven short chapters.
When she turned to section 23, Kelly pinched the corner of the page, hesitated, and then started to turn the page back to front.
Many people have this feeling when binge-watching or watching TV series. After seeing a very exciting passage, I was obviously looking forward to it, but I couldn't bear to finish it.
This is what Kelly is like now.
She was a little reluctant to read all the illustrations so quickly. I want to go back and review these previous works carefully.
In the hall, there are readers who are admiring the illustrations of the little prince and even reading them over and over again.
Kelly is far from alone.
"The rose is an important image in Saint-Exupéry's works. In philosophy, this fairy tale character has multiple meanings and metaphors"
Dean Hawke on the podium He is immersed in explaining the little prince's philosophy.
He suddenly felt that the atmosphere of the entire seminar was a little quiet.
The information conference is not a vegetable market.
It is not very noisy, but now it seems a bit too quiet for no reason, and the quiet atmosphere is a bit strange.
Dean Hawke himself had never been so quiet when he was attending classes at the university.
Besides his own voice, the only sound that could be heard was the scraping of paper.
He looked away from the lecture notes and glanced at the readers sitting on the beanbag sofa in front of him.
Sand, sand, sand.
Everyone held the little prince seriously and turned the pages of the book.
“It seems that readers still recognize my translation level.”
Seeing everyone’s seriousness and devotion, even the great translator Hawke couldn’t help but I feel happy.
"It's just that what I'm talking about now doesn't actually have very profound content. Why do you listen so intently?"
In addition to joy,
Charlie Hawke also I couldn't help but feel a little puzzled in my heart.
When Kelly came back to her senses from the second illustration.
Mr. Hawke’s lecture has ended.
Readers who are interested in buying the new version of The Little Prince need to go to the front desk to pay first, and then take the purchase receipt to the staff to ask for Charlie Hawke's signature.
I didn’t even enjoy watching it for the second time.
Kelly was still completely immersed in the beautiful illustrations written by Detective Cat. While reading the book, she stood in line in front of the checkout counter where a long line had already gathered.
At this moment,
Kelly suddenly realized a problem.
I am too absorbed in reading.
Where is her best friend Maka?
Someone is happy, someone is confused.
How happy Kelly is as a little prince.
Maka is showing how troubled she is now.
The round-faced girl stood at the back of Waterstones Bookstore, hiding among the unnoticed bookshelves of fitness guides.
She held the little prince in her arms and put her fingernails in her mouth to gnaw.
"Should I buy it or not?"
Maka bit her finger hard, as if there were two villains fighting to the death in her mind.
It looks great
I won’t buy it
The painting is really beautiful and beautiful
I won’t buy it
This kind of beautiful fairy tale book, given to younger siblings at home during the Easter holidays, looks really comfortable and much better than giving Lego blocks.
Damn it, what nonsense, I said I won’t buy it, I just won’t buy it. My boyfriend also asked me to go fishing in the Scottish Highlands next weekend.
But
Maka felt that she did not watch the handsome topless guy at school at noon, and was dragged out by her best friend to attend some nagging book signing.
What a very wrong decision.
But Fan had been tougher before and rejected Kelly's invitation.
Now there is no need to be so entangled.
Maka accidentally bit her nail while hesitating, and gasped slightly in pain.
"I'm annoyed"
She stamped her feet heavily.
Out of sight, out of mind.
The girl wanted to make up her mind and insert the Little Prince into the corner of the shelf in front of her, then rush out of Waterstones Bookstore without looking back.
The hands were raised, and then stopped hesitantly.
It is difficult for ordinary people to understand Maka's mood at this time.
It’s just a fairy tale book.
There is no illustration or fairy tale book in the world that has the same effect as heroin. Once you take a look at it, you won’t be able to pull it out. If you don’t buy it, you will die.
Ordinary people, faced with such a bet, would not fight over the steamed buns.
He patted his butt and left.
Maka is not an ordinary person.
Although she is not an illustration fan like Kelly, she is also a student of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, an art student at one of the top universities in the world's four major art academies, and a tireless dream chaser on the road of art.
Who can get into the four major art academies with real ability and not have some artistic pursuits?
Worship of authority is just an external aspect of the process of pursuing her own artistic path. reflect.
Maka may sometimes lack flash ideas and creativity in the eyes of teachers, but her grades are not bad at all, even slightly better than Kelly.
On a university campus full of masters, ga can also be ranked in the top 15.
People who really love art are more or less obsessive-compulsive, and will do things that look ridiculous to outsiders for the sake of good art.Thoughtful decision.
Paul Getty, the former richest man in the world, is a typical Grandet iron rooster. His grandson was kidnapped and the robbers gave him an ear. He was ruthless and unwilling to pay a penny for art collection. Spending $2.2 billion without even batting an eyelid.
Anna is willing to offend Van Dorn for the detective cat she has never met, and is worried about using precious favors. She only asks Osborn to give her a chance to test the manuscript.
Maka is not so strange, but she has her own little insistence.
The bet is not a big deal.
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