Almighty painter

Chapter 140
Saint-Exupéry's painting level is actually quite average, and the original watercolor illustrations are at the level of elementary school students' stick figures.

If anything special.

That may be... This French writer has created a set of beautiful stick figures for elementary school students.

Don't underestimate the simple evaluation of "good-looking".

It is not difficult for ordinary people and amateurs who have not experienced professional training to use the drawn things for self-entertainment. If you really look at it from the perspective of artwork, it is almost impossible to look at it at all.

There are very few good-looking works that can meet the standards of commercial drafting.

To be honest,
The original illustrations by Saint-Exupéry have been well received by the market in recent years, and some readers really like these illustrations.

In addition to the natural subjective bonus brought by the original author's handwritten works,

Considering the level of painting skills of an amateur painter, the performance of the final finished picture is not too bad, even with a sense of innocence in children's paintings.

The main body of each illustration is composed of very sparse lines, and the background is often extremely simple curves.Combined into the picture, it looks very comfortable.

Gu Weijing did not understand why this method of using brushes that did not conform to art standards could achieve such an artistic effect.

Now he understands somewhat——

The secret is in composition.

Although the original author's painting skills are mediocre, but the artistic conception is very interesting, with a wild imagination.

Art learning attaches great importance to drawing inferences from one instance and drawing inferences by analogy.

Today, the collector Chen Shenglin instructed me to compose the picture, and Gu Weijing learned a lot, and he has a clear understanding of the structure of the picture.

He found,
Sometimes, the composition does not have to be rigidly bound by certain normative art theories. It is more adaptable to local conditions, flexible and changeable, and integrated into one's own understanding, which can achieve better results.

There is no one who has a deeper understanding of the work than the original author.

Amateurs like Saint-Exupéry lack the constraints of theory.

When designing the structure of the picture, it may be easier to jump out of the old-fashioned rut than a professional painter in accordance with natural imagination.

Just like Chen Shenglin has not used a paintbrush for many years, the oil painting composition he designed is more dynamic and lively than his standard works drawn in accordance with the triangular pyramid composition method.

After designing the drafts of the works that I will participate in the art exhibition, and looking at these illustrations in reverse, I found that the proportions of "The Little Prince" are very interesting.

These illustrations often have large areas of white space and exaggerated proportions.

unprofessional,
The shape is simple, but the composition is quite Zen.

Compared with not so good painting skills, this kind of composition is more the essence of Saint-Exupéry's art and the emotional portrayal of his works.

If it weren't for the limited painting skills shown by the original author after he wrote the pen, the look and feel of these works would definitely be improved to a higher level.

"interesting."

After discovering this point, Gu Weijing decided to basically retain the general structure of the original work of "The Little Prince" in composition, while making detailed fine-tuning that is more in line with the visual proportions.

After all, there are specializations in the art industry.

Saint-Exupéry is not a professional painter. Although the composition is imaginative, many places are still rough.

It is obvious that the structure can be optimized, and Gu Weijing does not necessarily have to follow the script.

Combined with the pen sketches that Gu Weijing has already completed.

Soon, he had a mature idea in his mind, and picked up the oil painting knife again.

Time flows slowly.

When the moon was at its zenith, Gu Weijing had already completed a row of illustrations in front of him.

He put the palette aside and studied his work.

【Work Title: "The Little Prince-The Lonely King"】

【Painting Technique: Painting with Knife Painting·Legendary Level】

【Emotion: I feel something in my heart】
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【Title of the work: "The Little Prince - A Garden in Blooming Roses"】

【Painting Technique: Painting with Knife Painting·Legendary Level】

【Emotion: I feel something in my heart】
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【Work Title: "The Little Prince-The Drunkard of Chaos"】

【…】

A dozen or so drawings waiting to dry take up almost an entire wall.

The painting method of oil painting knife is so fast. As long as there is a clear idea, so many illustrations can be finished in a few hours.

Not surprisingly, the emotional rating of each piece has reached the level of feeling.

This is the most beautiful set of illustrations that Gu Weijing has ever drawn.

"Mr. Sloth, I finished drawing a new batch of illustrations and sent them to you for a look?"

Gu Weijing scanned these illustrations into electronic versions one by one and sent them to his agent.

He is very satisfied with these paintings.

No matter in terms of technique or emotion, it has reached the limit of what I have mastered, and the composition also fits the original author's true meaning.

The lonely and arrogant king, the rose full of fantasies and longing to be loved, the alcoholic who indulges in alcohol all day long to forget the pain...

The picture is bright but not vulgar, and the lines are gorgeous but not frivolous.

Compared with the first illustration he sent to Mr. Sloth, in addition to being visually intuitive and beautiful, it has a more three-dimensional sensory feeling.

The beauty of this group of illustrations is no longer simply stunning, but also has a more serious temperament.

This mysterious feeling is difficult to explain directly in words.

After the emotion is injected, the characters in the picture come alive in an instant, no longer just a two-dimensional oil painting, but like a living soul injected into it.

This is the highest pursuit of illustration, the so-called sense of communication.

Art speaks for itself.

The paintings in front of me have a direct and natural sense of communication with the audience, without the aid of additional words, these illustrations themselves seem to be telling something.

Clumsy and childish, dreamy and psychedelic.

"Well, okay, I'll download it first." Mr. Sloth signaled Gu Weijing to wait a moment.

But in a few minutes.

There was an extra message on Gu Weijing's cell phone.

"Splendid! (Magnificent excellence)"

After a while, Mr. Sloth probably thought that this word was not enough to describe the excellence of this group of illustrations, so he added.

"To my eyes, the paintings literally sparkle."

"Thanks for your help." Gu Weijing thanked.

"No, it should be thank you for giving me a chance to participate in these works. I can no longer evaluate them with pure excellence."

Mr. Sloth's tone between the lines was a little moving.

"Saint Exupery said that the stars shine so that everyone can one day find their own star."

Mr. Sloth said with a very poetic temperament: "As a senior book fan of "The Little Prince", I have seen that countless readers will find their own stars in these shining and bright works."

"Thank you, Ms. Detective Cat, I love them. This is a set of illustrations that has the magic to create a classic."

……

Myanmar and the United Kingdom are half a day's time zone apart.

When Gu Weijing was painting at night, the European headquarters building of Scholastic Group on London's Financial Street was still brightly lit in the evening office hours.

"In the 31st round of the Premier League, West Ham United and Manchester City launched a tie-breaker at Upton Park..."

The fat assistant was wearing earphones. Seeing that no one was paying attention, he secretly called up the football broadcast of Sky Sports on the screen, and leaned lazily on the chair.

Helping leaders do "bad things" may be an easier way to get closer than sycophants.

Since he undertook the review of the illustrator Detective Cat's trial draft under the instruction of the president, his status in the project team has changed significantly.

This is considered a nomination certificate.
From then on, he was President Osborne's man.

Maybe a boss like the president of the group is too far away to look down on a fat boy like him.

But in the office, the project director of "The Little Prince", who is also Osborne's younger brother, is obviously much more amiable to him this week.

The office door was pushed open.

A proofreading editor, sweating profusely, rushed into the collective office of the project team with a large stack of Starbucks coffee.

The fat assistant suspended the live broadcast of the game.

He rang a signal to instruct the other party to put his share of coffee on the table, and comfortably took out a donut from his briefcase and gnawed on it.

The fat assistant burped contentedly.

Nowadays, not only can I go to work to fish and paddle, but the daily work of running errands upstairs and downstairs is also assigned to a proofreading editor by the supervisor.

These things themselves are not big, but they are much more relaxing, and at the same time, the increased sense of happiness is real.

He was so happy that he gained another two catties.

just,

It is said that……

Director Charlie was very unhappy.

There has been a lot of turmoil in the art department recently, and everyone is in danger. In the office of the big boss, there are often sounds of things being broken.

"Who is Mr. Wesson Cole, the project assistant of the "Little Prince" project team?"

The fat assistant was thinking wildly, when suddenly a few men in black stepped on thick-soled leather shoes and broke into the office of the project team.

"The Group's Internal Affairs Department, we would like to invite Mr. Cole to have a brief chat with us."

The leader of the man in black showed his ID card to the supervisor who went up to meet him, and the atmosphere in the office was a few degrees colder at this moment.

"Is something wrong?"

"No comment." The little brother from the internal affairs department said with a stern face.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is the regulatory audit department within a large company, which is equivalent to the court in a business empire like Scholastic.

If such a large group of tens of billions of dollars relies entirely on the police for internal rules and regulations and risk control, the efficiency will be very low, and the day lily will often be cold when something goes wrong.

In theory, as long as the system related to the company's regulations is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

It is as big as suspecting that a member of the management team embezzled 2000 million US dollars of public funds to go to Las Vegas, or catching commercial spies placed by a rival company within the group, or as small as receiving a report that someone flirtatiously molested a female colleague. Investigative responsibilities of the Home Office.

However, small matters generally depend on the situation. Either call the police to deal with it, or order the other party to go to the personnel department for an interview.

It is often serious breaches of discipline that lead to an investigation by the Department of Internal Affairs.

Many colleagues in the office looked at the fat assistant with curious, surprised, and strange eyes.

The fat assistant's expression suddenly tightened.

He immediately thought about Detective Cat.

Has someone reported him for violating discipline?

On the contrary, the supervisor looked calm, and patted the assistant on the shoulder to let him go with him first.

"Is it about Detective Cat?"

On the way to the internal affairs department, the fat assistant felt a little flustered and couldn't help asking.

"Mr. Cole, how do you know that we are looking for you because of the detective cat?" The brother from the internal affairs department immediately stopped in his tracks, with a playful tone.

"Uh...I've been dealing with these jobs recently."

The fat assistant knew that he had said something wrong, and his heart skipped a beat.

He raised his wrist and looked at his watch in a panic: "It's almost time to get off work, well, we shouldn't talk for too long."

"The group stipulates that we will pay three times the overtime pay by the hour."

The brother from the Internal Affairs Department shrugged: "Of course, Mr. Cole, we have no right to restrict your personal freedom. If you don't want to talk, you can leave at any time."

"It's just that the next time I talk to you may be the police. Because of my subjective malice, the group lost a lot of property. Just a reminder, such high-value financial crimes will go to the criminal court."

The little brother said lightly: "Even if you don't have to go to jail, with such a citizenship record, it will be difficult to find a job again."

The fat assistant, who was still a social animal, gasped in horror in the face of threats.

"Because of personal subjective malice, the group lost a lot of property, oh, how could it be so serious." He licked the corner of his mouth.

"Hehe, because of some people's selfish interests, Wehrlein Studio, a first-line well-known illustration studio that had already reached a preliminary cooperation intention, was kicked out, and the contract was authorized to an unknown garbage Internet artist through a black box operation."

A voice said in a sullen voice: "The potential loss of the group market caused by the works of rubbish painters may be as high as tens of millions of dollars. You are ready to spend time in jail and pick up soap until you die."

Charlie, Director of Art at Scholastic Group, leaned against the open door of the Home Office conversation room, lighting a thick round black cigar with a stick of fragrant wood.

He put the cigar in his mouth and took a deep breath.

Then he blew a provocative smoke ring towards the fat assistant, his eyes were venomous.

"Fatty, if you don't want to rot in prison with that bitch Detective Cat, I advise you to tell all of Osborne's secret deeds."

Charlie believes,

For Osborn to put in so much effort, he must support an online illustrator, and there must be some shady insider trading involved.

He didn't want to report Osborn's suspected violation of discipline to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

For one thing, Charlie had no direct evidence.

Secondly, the management's infighting is still within a controllable range as a whole, and it will be completely torn apart when it comes to the internal affairs department.

You can report it, and others can report it. The contract that Charlie handed over to the Wehrlein Illustration Studio every day is not very clean.

However, Osborn's house-stealing behavior of wooing Deputy Director Schubert has completely exceeded the bottom line that Charlie can tolerate.

Fortunately, the most important thing for an illustrator is to speak with his works, which is similar to some technical jobs.

What attracts the audience is good, and what fails to attract the audience is bad.

It is true that the "Little Prince" project has already reached a preliminary cooperation intention with Wehrlein Studio, and it is also true that it was suddenly authorized to an online painter.

Whatever the findings are.

As long as you hold a first-line studio like Wehrlein in your hands, you can produce better works than Detective Cat.

Charlie believes that no matter what the outcome of the investigation, he will be invincible.

Now that Osborne has broken through the bottom line.

Even if Charlie fights hard to get to the board of directors, he must get rid of Detective Cat.

(End of this chapter)