Gu Weijing was lost in thought for a moment before he remembered.
When he was deep in thought.
The skill time given by the system is still passing by minute by minute.
Gu Weijing immediately opened the panel and paused his active skills.
The skill time in the remarks column in the real world has changed to 916 seconds and 1000 seconds.
He painted the whole cloud too fast.
At best, it only took about 10 seconds. The remaining minute or so was spent in Gu Weijing's shocked taste.
"This skill is really good, but the time allocated is a little short."
Gu Weijing felt a little distressed for a moment.
Menzel’s basic painting techniques can be used for half an hour every day.
The system claims that this real skill is an all-round superior coverage of the old skills, but the usage time has been reduced by almost half.
1000 seconds, if all is used for sketching.
The page is not too big, and it should be enough for generals and generals to make sparks appear on the fingertips of the painting.
Art students do not require details, facial contours, or aesthetic expression. They only require capturing the main features of characters such as thick lips, high cheekbones, and deep eye sockets.
And try to combine these things on paper as much as possible, so that it looks like a person.
This type of test-taking sketch during school is strictly required to be controlled within 15 minutes.
All art universities have such entrance examination requirements.
The admission requirements for Dongxia Art Examination, A in North America, and Tama Art University in Japan are all very different.
Don’t think this requirement is simple.
The key is time.
Take the art exam as an example.
In some populous provinces of Eastern Xia, there are about 50,000 art candidates in each session.
There are only about 2,000 candidates who can complete this requirement on time every year, with a total score of 250 points in the three subjects of sketching, and an average of 84 points or more in each subject.
Only 4 students can do it.
Gu Weijing is one of them who can do it. He has relatively good talent and works hard enough in painting. It is still possible to reach the overall average level of outstanding students.
In previous similar exams, he would try to leave himself an overall margin of one or two minutes.
Not counting the delicate expression of the hair, the time just for painting the facial features will probably be strictly controlled within 100 seconds.
Switch to watercolors.
It is not just a simple expression of color contrast with colored pencils, but the kind of watercolor painting that truly brings out the strengths and delicate techniques of watercolor.
100 seconds is a joke.
1000 seconds may not mean you can really draw well.
The practice time given by the system every day is still somewhat shabby for watercolor painting.
Watercolor in the WestAmong the more serious painting methods commonly used by painters, it is already the fastest one and is far more convenient than oil painting.
Even more convenient than acrylic.
It’s just that the line drawing needs to be more precise and delicate.
However, this "quick" is for serious painting, which often takes two to three days, two to three weeks, or two to three months.
How fast can a delicate watercolor painting be?
It is said that Andrew Wyeth, the "Master of Nostalgia" who was awarded the Medal of Honor by three consecutive US presidents, sketched with watercolors in the fields. , this guy could finish a watercolor exercise with a beautiful scenery in an average of 35 minutes at his peak.
He is not the fastest, but he is already a highly productive master of the tentacle monster type that people talk about.
And the painting is slow.
This is impossible.
Like Vattel, he prefers photographic formalism and loves to paint European cityscapes. Whenever the Dulwich sketch teacher mentioned it during chat, his idol, Charesvieneuve, a top French watercolor painter, would come up. He was that kind of person. A typical example of slow work and careful work.
The master only sells five or six pictures through the gallery throughout the year.
He mentioned in the media interview that every painting is very energy-consuming. Sometimes it takes a whole quarter to polish a painting.
That’s the kind of thing.
I can listen to half of it.
Gu Weijing secretly felt that the interview should be a little watery, probably a gimmick to control the market supply.
It’s not surprising that I can paint an oil painting every day, and it can take me a month to paint it slowly.
However, watercolor is actually a very delicate paint on paper, like an extremely thin porcelain tea cup. It is fragile, difficult to take care of, and not as solid as oil paint in the form of paste.
The oil painting can be placed in the studio for dozens of days or a hundred days, and there will be no problem at all.
If watercolors are not handled and maintained carefully, the underlying color will crack halfway through the painting after being left on the workbench for a month.
Let’s talk again.
How to make thicker and heavier watercolor paper? It is essentially paper, not cloth. You have to apply water layer by layer every day, no matter how expensive the paper is.
What the master is talking about is probably the time it takes to carefully conceive, change the draft several times, try out many painting methods, and finally put it on the gallery.
Rather than actually drawing on a piece of paper.
It is impossible to draw seventy or eighty days.
It is common for a larger watercolor painting to take seven or eight hours of continuous painting.
It does not necessarily take less time than oil painting done with impasto.
Andrew Wyeth’s watercolor works, which last for tens of minutes, are mostly in 16-karat watercolor exercise books.
That is, the size is smaller than A4 paper.
It is a kind of easy-to-use painting practice and material accumulation.
Not suitable for real useCompetition or exhibition.
Just think of the Mona Lisa.
In fact, the Mona Lisa is a relatively mini work, only half a meter wide.
Every year, the Louvre receives a lot of crazy complaints from tourists because the size of the Mona Lisa is so small.
Based on the safe distance required by the Louvre and the bulletproof glass.
It’s impossible to look very carefully at all.
I queued for two hours in front of a special exhibition hall, then stood in front of a small picture frame for three seconds, and then was squeezed out by the confused tourists behind me.
No matter how small the Mona Lisa is.
The portrait that Leonardo da Vinci sold to Mrs. Florence was six or seven times larger than the size of a 16-karat watercolor exercise book.
Art exhibitions such as the Magic City Biennale are relatively tolerant and very international.
In principle, they do not have many restrictions on the minimum size of submitted works.
If the exhibitor has absolute confidence in himself or in the visual conditions of the audience and judges.
It’s not impossible for you to create a short and compact “Nuclear Boat Chronicle” about the size of a fingernail as a sculpture creation, and submit it to the organizing committee.
Whether you are allowed to contribute or not is one thing.
Whether it can be exhibited and whether it can win awards is another matter.
Objectively, large-sized works always have advantages over small-sized works.
People’s strange genetic nature is to compare sizes on various occasions.
Modern Eastern and Western painters are all painting larger and larger paintings. This is the mainstream trend in the development of world art trends.
Since ancient times, Chinese paintings have been priced based on square feet. The larger the painting, the more valuable it is.
The most classic example in the field of auction.
When Monet's water lily series was promoted to wealthy collectors, the tone, style, and painting time were not given such high priority, and buyers did not understand it.
Just a simple and crude hard standard that is universally accepted
"Uncle, the bigger the size, the harder the price, the better the painting, let’s add another 10 million."
This is not all a trick to trick people into paying.
Painting both large and small has its own difficulties.
Anyway, the larger the painting, the harder it will be for the overall temperament of the painting to be smooth and consistent.
The longer it takes to paint, the more likely it is that problems will arise.
There was once a master from Dongxia who ranked at the top of the Hurun Artist Rich List. His exquisite large-scale realistic oil painting worth six million US dollars took a long time to paint. When it was about to be completed, it was The students in the studio didn't pay attention, and a big sneaker foot stepped on it.
You can paint a big picture without making big mistakes.
There is hard work without credit.
Judges and audiences will be more or less inclined to give some impression points.
Of course, you can’t go too far.
Many pairsThe annual exhibition is worried that some painters will want to become famous and take advantage of this loophole. There is no minimum size limit for submitted works, but an upper limit.
If you want to submit a super large painting that exceeds 3 meters x 4 meters
Sorry.
It’s not that you are not allowed to vote. You must first contact the organizing committee separately to obtain consent and permission.
As for the Singapore Biennale and the Yokohama Triennial Art Exhibition, the painting category requires a length and width of more than 40 cm at the beginning.
This is the hard bottom line for a large number of public exhibitions.
Below this size, even 16x20 inches, this kind of small-size oil painting is very common for art students. Sorry, people don’t want the paintings at all.
And medium size watercolor.
Just to be on the safe side.
If everything goes smoothly, it is more appropriate to allow one and a half to two hours to finish the painting in one go.
Emphasis on finishing the painting in one go.
It is also because watercolor and ink freehand painting are representative painting methods in the field of Eastern and Western painting using water as the medium.
The connotations, philosophical thoughts and principles of perspective expressed by them are completely different.
However, there are also some slight similarities in many underlying techniques that lead to the same goal through different approaches.
Excellent watercolors are very particular about being done in one go.
The metaphysical theory is that if you paint in the east and west for a while, your energy and spirit will be completely broken, like an earthworm that has been cut into pieces and cannot penetrate smoothly.
The scattered earthworms cannot survive.
Paintings whose vitality and spirit have been chopped into pieces have lost their vitality and agility, and can only fall into the inferior category.
A more straightforward explanation is that it is determined by the characteristics of water-soluble pigments. In addition to the fact that watercolor colors are difficult to maintain, old paintings are prone to cracking when dry or wet.
Every time the paint is smeared, it is unique. Different humidity on the paper, different paint combinations and brush strokes will form unique brush marks.
Western painters do not have the term "complete in one go".
There is a similar professional terminology in Dewei textbooks called "agictig".
The literal translation is called magic timing, which means that after the paper first touches the water, it is moist enough but not so dry that it will reflect when exposed to direct sunlight.
This is the perfect moment for paint to work its magic.
The magic timing in many works only appears once.
If a sea of clouds is only half-blended and has dried overnight, then you can continue painting the rest. Well, to be honest, it’s not that mysterious.
To be honest, as long as your drawing skills are good enough and reach a similarity level of 90 points, it is not difficult to make it almost invisible to ordinary viewers.
95, 96, 97 points.
It can all be done.
ToI wonder if the humidity of the paper and the feeling of the paint can be perfectly integrated into one, without any feeling of stagnation.
That’s hard to say.
Most painters actually still hope to achieve 100% in their paintings.
Gu Weijing used the residual ink left over from the previous blending to coat the pages with a layer of reflective, fluffy, hazy effect from the large vapor particles.
It also requires the overall coherence of the picture.
Clouds are just a simple example. The surface of the sea of clouds, the bottom of the sky, the sky and buildings, the ripples on the water, and the silhouettes between the ripples all generally follow the same principle.
Realistic paintings are called frozen time.
No two feet can step into the same river.
Since you want to solidify and condense a whole area of the world into your work in one moment, then you'd better finish the painting in one go and don't let yourself get out of the state of mind at the very beginning.
This is only the reason that affects the overall temperament of the work.
Some of the special brushstrokes of wet painting methods, such as spot-dipping to absorb color, salt-sprinkling method, and using salt grains to create a unique salt flower texture under a certain paint humidity control are simply physical conditions that limit you. It's best to finish the painting in one go.
Salt, sponge, tape, whitewash, liquid white night, toothbrush, scissors, painting knife, etc.
Some watercolor painting techniques are actually quite complicated in order to create a unique brushstroke texture.
Professor Vatel described it as "artistic alchemy". As a young alchemist, it was difficult for Gu Weijing to come back to sleep when the "magic potion" bubbling green in the stove was half boiled. Take a nap, wait until the cooling time is refreshed, then stretch and yawn again and light the fire again.
That would no longer be artistic alchemy.
A fastidious chef makes a big bone soup, which is not the way others make it.
"Every second counts."
Gu Weijing stared at the numbers on the panel and sighed softly.
The countdown on the system panel is not numbers, but jingling money.
1000 seconds is not enough time.
The only good news is this.
The system also seems to know that this time can be used for watercolor practice, but it is too embarrassing to use it for serious creation.
So, the hard limit of 30 minutes in every 24 hours has been lifted. If Gu Weijing is wealthy enough, he can redeem it himself.
Use it for as long as you want.
But when I think about the skill exchange ratio of the black heart system.
Given Gu Weijing’s indifference towards money, his liver trembled as usual.
The system has an exchange ratio of 11 for experience points and skill exchange time.
One second is ten dollars, one minute is six hundred dollars, one hour is thirty-six thousand dollars, one day is one million dollars, and one year is 3.2 billion dollars.
ThisThe speed of swallowing gold has successfully exceeded the speed of making money during Ronaldo's peak period.
This calculation is a bit exaggerated.
But even if Gu Weijing only used two extra hours to paint a perfect watercolor realistic painting from drafting to completion, US$72,000 had already been burned.
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