After designing satisfactory prototypes for all the characters in the musical "Cats".
Gu Weijing then began to work on handing over the final draft of the work for the performing arts company of the stage musical in London's West End and the Singapore Art Exhibition.
Mr. Sloth told him during the early discussion.
The crazy and complicated aesthetic design, the twisted body movements full of various complex lines, for the art exhibition, is a way to express the creator's inner passion through non-objective and irrational picture language. way of creation.
It was as if the pianist was dancing like a raindrop under the moonlight.
But when it comes to commercial design, what is often needed is not tens of thousands of elements falling apart from the screen without priority.
It is the ultimate condensation and precise development of one or two elements.
In the sketch exercise book in Gu Weijing’s hand, every cat model has one or two of these qualities attached to it.
The patriarch cat is old, the fat cat is round, the mysterious cat is bullish, the charm cat is beautiful...
These qualities have been revealed in the sketch.
But it’s still a bit unrefined.
It is the falling rose leaves in late spring, and the fragrance of grapes hanging on the branches in golden autumn.
For a lv.5 sketching level, it is already very good to be able to use lines to outline this hazy and fluffy texture.
Gu Weijing hopes to take this "characteristic" to a higher level, to achieve the kind of absolute solidity, absolute solidity, refreshing people's hearts, and the beauty of being as stable as a rock——
Make them seem to come from the real world, with the ultimate feeling of being able to be touched, embraced, and even breathed.
The cats in today’s sketches live in Gu Weijing’s heart. But it is not enough that the moment the audience sees these drawings, they will also run into the hearts of the audience and become fat or round, old or young, mysterious or cute, and can be held in the arms." "Suck" cute little cat.
This is where the "real world" watercolor skill on the system panel can play its greatest role.
It can refine and deepen every feature created by Gu Weijing in those sketches.
The brushstrokes wrap around the "key characteristics" of the sample, constantly squeezing inward and condensing inwardly.
The loose clouds solidified into rain, and the rain solidified into hard ice.
Eventually.
In Gu Weijing’s vision, there is a difference between the work submitted to the Singapore Biennale Organizing Committee and the demo he typed in the courtyard of the old church.
Just like bunches of grapes fermented in aged oak barrels, all the pigments, tannins, flavor substances and fruity aromas are layered together, one after another spring and summer. After the fermentation in autumn and winter, a cup of translucent wine with distinct smell and three-dimensional structure is formed.
Or the other way around, from hundreds of rosesAfter the flowers and leaves are continuously distilled, pressed, left to stand, and filtered, all pigments and impurities, and all unnecessary embellishments are removed, and finally only a drop remains. After layer by layer extraction, it is as transparent as water, but as sticky as Balm of essential oils.
It loses the original color of the plants and breaks up the shapes of roses and grapes.
It has lost its flowers, leaves, roots, or fruits, but in a small drop of liquid, it carries the most essential "concept" contained in thousands of flowers, leaves, and fruits.
Grapes and wine.
Rose and rose oil.
The two things have the same origin and species, but they are completely different.
Therefore.
Gu Weijing is not worried. People around him can discover the connection between him and the identity of "Detective Cat" from the brushwork, color matching or the appearance of the cat.
It’s too far behind.
The levels of painting are completely different, and the effect shown in the final work is the difference between a young and naive child, and a beautiful woman in her prime of life with her eyebrows fully opened.
Give me an example.
Gu Weijing is currently drawing the old Jellicle cat patriarch "Dutronomi" on the drawing board and the Dutronomi in the prototype.
During the two creations, whether using skills or not using skills, the changes in the drawings were in all aspects, not just making the drawings more beautiful.
Current version.
The old patriarch Jackley seemed to look thinner and smaller, a dry little kitten, with white beard-like cream-colored soft fur on his chest and abdomen, almost hanging to the ground.
The eyes are brighter.
More vicissitudes of life.
Even... more childlike.
The color of the old patriarch’s pupils is a bit like a jar of amber old wine that has been dusty for many years, or a drop of translucent rose essential oil.
These pupils have reflected the changes of one dynasty after another, and have been filled with various emotions.
Joy, sorrow, suffering, happiness... they all appeared in the eyes of this old patriarch cat one after another.
Whether it is happiness or pain, it is temporary.
It has lived for too many years.
So finally.
The fun that people thought would be intoxicating forever and the regrets that people could never escape have all been washed away by time.
Only the clear and translucent, child-like innocence is left.
It’s as if the wine in the wine jar under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree has been drained away over time, and the flame-like temperature that makes people cry, get drunk and sleepless is gone.
After the forum was opened.
Only a pool of amber water remained.
But there is a faint scent of osmanthus.
"This watercolor skill is really powerful."
Gu Weijing nodded slightly.
This technique itself isIt actually contains two perfect skills of Menzel's sketch line and watercolor techniques. Although the quality of the panel is still perfect, the appeal of the painting is no longer inferior to the legendary and partial technique of drawing with a knife.
It is easy to draw reality, but difficult to draw reality.
It is even more difficult to describe reality with reality.
It is not difficult to draw eyes that are red and swollen with bloodshot eyes and are crying like rotten persimmons.
What is difficult to draw is the cover painting of "The Little Prince". The stars in the sky and the eyes with deep love for roses are reflected in the hazy sky, and this kind of look is extremely clear, so clean that it is almost innocent. eyes.
It is obviously just a frozen painting.
When you look at it, it reflects people's hearts like a mirror.
After using skills.
In addition to the eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, anyone who looks at a cat’s facial features will immediately notice intuitive differences that are countless times more refined than before.
Compared with when making sketches, the biggest difference that Gu Weijing can feel is the overall feeling when creating.
Feeling is different from brushwork or technique. It is a collection of all the painting experiences of a creator.
Can’t tell.
Unknown.
It also reflects to a great extent the state of a painter when he is creating, and the "feedback" he receives after he puts pen to paper.
Feeling good or bad cannot simply be distinguished by "happy" or "sad".
When a painter puts pen to paper, he projects different emotions depending on the content of his creation.
He can be happy, sad, sad, or even irritable under special circumstances.
An outstanding work is not necessarily a work that the artist feels is "good" when he paints it, but it must be a work that the artist feels is "right" when he puts down the pen.
The main creative intention of this "Old Patriarch Cat Basking in the Sun" is to solidify and deepen it based on the original sketch to make it more real.
Before tonight.
Gu Weijing thought that the feeling he felt when he started writing should be getting heavier and heavier.
The light and cheap plastic models with large tolerances have been replaced bit by bit with the feeling of heavy metal molds with exquisite shapes and every trace of texture and folds have been vividly restored.
The tip of his pen has "the weight of a cat" attached to it.
Really draw it.
Gu Weijing discovered that it was somewhat different from what he had imagined.
When he first started drafting, Gu Weijing could clearly feel the constant changes in the weight of the strokes when he started writing...it could be called resistance or heaviness.
Anyway, it’s the solemn feeling when controlling the brush.
As soon as the skill is activated.
Countless information flooded into his mind.
He could realize that in MenzelFrom the perspective of experience, every perfect trajectory, perfect color, and perfect stroke should look like. He can also clearly know what mistakes may be made when writing, and where the paint may spread on the wet paper. There will be problems, and it is necessary to avoid the turbidity caused by excessive overlaying and mixing of watercolor paints.
Gu Weijing seemed to be playing the "circle over wire" electromagnetic maze game in a children's mall, using an iron ring to slide along a slightly electrified curved wire from one end to the other.
He has a complete master-class watercolor painting in his mind.
Every touch of paint, every stroke of the pen and every change of color shine in Gu Weijing's mind.
What he needs is to follow the picture one by one and copy it on the paper in front of him.
With the support of the system.
It is not difficult to do this.
It just requires Gu Weijing to maintain full concentration and focus without any distractions.
Gu Weijing originally understood this as the investment necessary for watercolor painting to reach the realm of a master.
If you want to paint well, realistically, accurately or even perfectly, your pictures must have finer color granularity than ordinary excellent painters, and you must also process more details when working. Much information.
This is the "quality" he imagined necessary for "texture".
Gradually.
As the work gradually takes shape, the activation time of the skills on the panel jumps every minute.
The information in Gu Weijing's mind gradually faded away like a tide.
There is no trace of the strokes for the next second.
There is no color matching reminder.
No more error messages to avoid.
Even in my mind, the elderly Jackley cat lying on the lawn by the roadside, basking in the sun, disappeared.
This does not mean that Gu Weijing has lost his creative direction or lost his concentration.
No.
While a lot of information in my mind gradually fades away, the process of "creation" itself becomes more and more clear.
Gu Weijing is clearly devoted and thinking wholeheartedly, his brain is running at high speed, all his energy is attracted by the content on the canvas, and there is no room for any distracting thoughts.
But he suddenly began to feel the air blowing across his lips when he breathed through his nose, the feeling of alternating hot and cold airflow, he could feel the hard feeling of his finger bones against the wooden penholder of the watercolor pen, and he could clearly hear When the pen tip slides across the paper and the paint spreads in the gaps of the watercolor paper, there is a wet rustling sound, and you can smell the extremely light, light, and A very light plant smell, much like the smell of turpentine thinner, but much lighter.
He could even feel when his body was sitting on the chair, buttocks, legs, waist, back, which muscles were being squeezed, and which muscles were being squeezed.It's stretching and relaxing.
When I was in high school.
The teacher often emphasizes five times and three times that when creating, you must focus entirely on the painting and maintain absolute concentration.
It stands to reason.
In Gu Weijing's mind, all this information that has nothing to do with painting should be regarded as "distractions" and are things that need to be avoided.
The sound of paint spreading on paper, the touch between fingers and penholder, the coolness and warmth of airflow when breathing... What do these things have to do with painting itself?
Gu Weijing has been painting for so many years.
For the first time in his life, he realized what the Arabic resin used as a pigment fixative should taste like.
Strange.
It is precisely these distracting thoughts that make the act of "picking up the pen to paint" become more vivid than ever in Gu Weijing's mind at this moment.
He knew he was painting.
He knows that he is thinking, but does not interrupt the coherence of the thinking itself because of this "knowing".
This is an extremely wonderful feeling.
Gu Weijing could even feel time slipping past him. Every minute and second, it was like beating strings, and every stroke and every stroke of the brush in his hand accurately hit the beating notes on the strings.
He was totally focused.
He is as clear-minded as a mirror and does not stir up any dust.
Whether it is the soul or the head space.
Gu Weijing found that he no longer had to play with a group of cats in that silent black box.
Because at this moment, they had broken the window, knocked open the box, opened the lid, "drilled" out of Gu Weijing's body, and appeared on the drawing paper in front of him. On top of it, he uses his round head, pink nose, and plum-colored little feet to push, push, and arch the paintbrush to draw.
From light to heavy, and then from heavy to light.
Gu Weijing could not feel the weight of any brush at this moment. The tip of his pen was light and brisk, as if he was scribbling without thinking, but the texture of the picture was not damaged in any way.
Its weight is still there, but it has wings of its own.
Grandpa Gu Tongxiang has been obsessed with martial arts and kung fu movies all his life. The old man has a tie, a souvenir from an American customer. It is said that he bought it from Chinatown. It has the twelve-word martial arts mantra of the late martial artist and Kung Fu superstar Mr. Bruce Lee written on it——
With There is no law.
Take the infinite as the finite.
For a simple tie, wearing it is actually quite unconventional.
However, Gu Weijing remembered this sentence when he was a child.
At that time, he might never have imagined it.
One day in his life, when he was painting a watercolor painting in the middle of the night, the old man's words suddenly flashed in his mind.A non-mainstream tie. The transcoding has been serious recently, which makes us more motivated and updates faster. Please use your little hands to exit the reading mode. Thank you