Shadow Weaver

Chapter 80: Like a Class
"Change the base to black or black with blue patterns..."

Bai Miaomiao held Xu Yichi's phone and murmured softly. After a moment, she picked up the drawing at hand thoughtfully and imagined in her mind how to change the large blue background into a dark blue background.

After the proportion of highly saturated blue decreased, the overall character design and the harmony of the picture were indeed improved a lot... But after such a change, the patterns she originally painted on the character looked a little awkward.

Feeling these patterns...

It seems to have a kind of indescribable modern feeling?

The girl in Hanfu holding the draft frowned and fell into deep thought. When she was drawing the pattern of the clothes, she had picked up a lot of imitation cultural relics embroidery on the Hanfu in her cabinet, and also looked up a lot of various patterns in ancient paintings...

All the patterns were recreated bit by bit by her after referring to a lot of information. They looked quite pleasing on the dress with a sapphire blue background, but now that it has been changed to a more subdued black background...how come they suddenly become ugly?
This thing is so ugly...it doesn't look like something she could draw.

Bai Miaomiao's brows were getting more and more furrowed. After struggling with the two sides, she finally decided to send a message back to Liu Zhuyi first.

Unexpectedly, the person on the other side was like a worm in her stomach at this time. Before she could explain the new problem she had discovered, he took the initiative to point out her doubts.

The girl in Hanfu stared at the screen for a long time, and finally she had to admire it with all her heart.

[Lanting Xueyichi: Teacher Liu, I thought about the modification method you just mentioned and it is indeed feasible. After this modification, the overall harmony of the character design has indeed been improved a lot.]
[Lanting Xue Yi Chi: That’s what…]
[Please don't call me Tiger: (ha.jpg)]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: the pattern on the clothes suddenly looks abrupt and strange, right?]
[Lanting Snow is Coming Late: (handsome face blushes.jpg)]
[Lanting Xue Yi Chi: That’s right, that’s right.]
[Lanting Xueyichi: I clearly looked for a lot of references when I was drawing the patterns, and the matching with the large blue background looked OK at first, but after I changed to the large black background, they looked awkward... I don't know what went wrong.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger: This is the second point I want to make to you, kid.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: (Cangsang.jpg)]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Haven’t you noticed? These patterns on you are not “Han” enough.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: It’s a bit modern, and it also has some characteristics of those fine brush paintings and existing clothing relics from the Ming and Qing dynasties… In short, it’s generally quite delicate and exquisite, and looks good, but the style doesn’t match the deep clothing.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Actually, this is easy to understand, because the productivity in the Western Han Dynasty was not developed enough, and the papermaking technology had not been improved very well. When people wanted to write, they mostly used things like tree bark, bamboo slips, and thin wood slices. Only the rich and powerful would use silk and silk fabrics.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: it’s not easy to write or draw on these things, and the productivity is not developed enough, so most people still have to rely on luck to make a living.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Therefore, people in this period tended to have a very obvious pantheistic belief, including but not limited to worshipping gods, deified animals and plants, etc. Various types of clothing, utensils and stone reliefs were also filled with a large number of seals representing people’s wishes of “seeking good fortune and avoiding disaster, and praying for good luck”.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Speaking of these blessing seals, Miaomiao, you are a fine arts student, you should know which of the Han Dynasty paintings is the most brilliant and plays a connecting role?]
[Lanting Xueyichi: Uh, Han Dynasty stone reliefs?]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: That’s right, Han Dynasty stone relief.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Then let’s review what we just talked about here, about the following points about Han Dynasty painting art: the stone relief art is well developed, there is a clear tendency towards pantheism, the papermaking technology has not been effectively improved, and the productivity is not yet developed enough.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Based on the above points, have you found where your design has problems? Miaomiao.]
Liu Zhuyi patiently persuaded Bai Miaomiao, who recalled what he had just said and frowned.

Ever since she graduated from school in June this year, she hasn't experienced the feeling of being forced to attend classes by teachers like today for more than three months - and Teacher Yang from Yunling Cultural Center and Teacher Liu from the new provincial museum are obviously not of the same style.

——This feeling was just as good as the two professional classes she had attended the day before!

The girl in Hanfu silently complained in her heart, but she answered Liu Zhuyi's questions very honestly with her hands.

[Lanting Xueyichi: Emm… the reference patterns I found are too delicate, and the stamps I drew are also more complicated? ]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Yes, that’s about it.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: In fact, if you carefully observe the various silk paintings, stone reliefs and murals unearthed from the Han Dynasty, you will find that the lines in Han paintings are mostly straight lines, nearly straight lines and large arcs of various sizes. There are very few overly delicate and complex patterns that are common in later generations. The overall style tends to be ancient and grand, rough but not ugly, simple but not vulgar - either generous or large circles.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: In this case, if you draw so many small and delicate arcs, it will look awkward! ]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: It’s like… you embroidered a piece of Ming Dynasty clothing with a pattern that people in the neighboring Japanese… island country like, which is living a good life. At first glance, it may not be really ugly, but it is just awkward.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: because the styles don’t match, and it doesn’t look right to force them together.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger: like in this meme.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger: (Even if I squeeze in, I’m still an outsider.jpg)]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: However, I still have the same opinion on this - it’s not a big problem. After all, the patterns on the clothes of the characters can’t be seen on the stone reliefs of the Han Dynasty. Many of the portraits of emperors circulated in later generations are also imagined by later generations. You don’t have the opportunity to get close to these real Han Dynasty cultural relics, and the information you can find is not necessarily reliable. It is normal that the paintings are not particularly suitable.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Just think about the reference materials I sent to Xiao Xu, study them, and revise the manuscript. I will send you another reference material.]
[Please don't call me Tiger Bi: (High-definition collection of commonly used seals in the Han Dynasty.pdf)]
[Please don't call me Tiger Bi: Keep it.]
I've been very sleepy these two days.