Author: Apricot and Pear

There was silence in the classroom,

Maybe some people initially had a certain contempt for this little game of coloring squares.

When I heard this, I immediately paid attention to it.

We are all students of Dulwich College, and our writing skills basically hover around a similar baseline.

Above the projector screen, I saw the male classmate holding the pen tremblingly and carefully, and the fingertips holding the pencil turned slightly white.

Even if Professor Wattel didn't explain it specifically, they were naturally in awe of the difficulty of this painting method.

The five minutes are up quickly.

It can be clearly seen on the projection screen that there is about one-third of the blank space below the square frame.

The completed part of the wiring did not meet the professor's requirements.

It's far from neat, and far from beautiful.

Professor Wattel did not blame the boy, but waved his hand and drove him away.

"Let me give you a proper demonstration."

The old gentleman personally took the pencil and started coloring.

However, within a few dozen seconds, the remaining third of the blank space was neatly filled in.

"Wow! So awesome."

With such an intuitive comparison, the students let out a small exclamation.

Professor Wattel was secretly happy to hear this. He took out a stack of sketch paper with the same size grid printed on it from his briefcase and distributed it to everyone in the classroom.

"I have been practicing sketching for thirty years. It is natural that you cannot reach this level. During this period, your classroom task in each class is to do this kind of standardized exercise. There are a total of fifteen on a piece of paper. Small grid, after drawing and handing in the work, get out of class will be over.”

Looking at the frowning students, Professor Vatel smiled.

This is the world of normal people.

Even though most of the art students in these majors have studied art for more than ten years, the wiring details are still terrible no matter how bad they are.

If just any internet painter could show master-level skills, the artwork would be worthless.

"You can paint slower. It doesn't matter if it takes an hour and a half, or even two hours. You must try your best to paint well. Remember this feeling. When you go back to complete your own portfolio, every stroke must be the same as now.

Deal with it with your mentality.”

"If you can get the details right, you won't be able to say anything else. It will be no problem to add 30% to your portfolio."

The students began to write vigorously.

Gu Weijing took the sketch paper.

He took out a sharpened 4B pencil from his pencil case and tried to draw two lines in the small grid.

Arranging lines is a delicate job, and every famous artist who pays attention to line modeling has unique skills in arranging lines.

The artist Dürer's sketch lines can even make the pencil lines change according to the subtle changes in the texture of the paper or cloth.

As for Ingres and Holbein, who are famous for their rigor in painting, even if the neatness of the lines in pure sketches is not as neat as the former, the details of their brushstrokes in oil paintings are often accurate to the half-millimeter level.

The practice method invented by Teacher Wattel is very novel.

With Gu Weijing's professional first-level sketching technique, when he first used the pen, the positioning point where the pencil tip closed almost exceeded the boundary of the grid.

He moved his wrist slightly, slightly moved the point where the pad of his thumb came into contact with the wooden barrel of the sketch pencil, and drew the line again.

This time, the lines were completed in one go.

The pencil trace starts cleanly from one end of the square on the sketch paper and stops perfectly at the border.

Gu Weijing nodded.

His wrist hung lightly, and the pen tip began to move at high speed on the sketch paper. Each stroke was as precise as an industrial assembly line.

Quick adaptability is the charm of professional-level techniques.

This feeling is not unique to painting.

More obviously, in the field of racing, professional racing drivers like Schumacher may not run much faster on the first lap of a new track than low-level formula or semi-professional street drivers, but professional players always

It can adapt to the characteristics of this kind of track with extremely fast adaptability.

After trying a few strokes, Gu Weijing immediately got the feeling.

The faster you draw, the faster you draw.

After he becomes proficient, he doesn't even need to pay attention to the boundaries of the box. As long as he follows the muscle memory, the pencil tip can accurately flow when it should flow and pause when it should pause.

He quickly finished drawing the first square.

Gu Weijing moved his index finger down and turned the pencil, changing from the orthodox upward grip to the stick grip with more elegant and bold lines.

Start and continue to complete the next small grid.

[Sketch technique +3 experience points!]

[Sketch technique +1 experience point!]

[Sketch technique +5 experience points!]

There are constant reminders on the virtual panel to gain experience points for sketching techniques.

This speed of gaining experience points was almost catching up with the time when he activated Menzel's basic painting skills, so much that even Gu Weijing was a little surprised.

It does not mean that the art professors at Dewei have any comparability with the artistic understanding of sketching as a national treasure painter like Menzel.

It's just that this kind of painting practice method summarized by Teacher Vattle based on many years of teaching experience can just play a role in checking and filling in the details of Gu Weijing's current brushwork.

Just like the line drawing sketch invented by Xu Beihong and other traditional Chinese painting masters.

Industry specializing in surgery,

Asking Einstein to teach children introductory physics classes may not be as effective as a professionally trained rural teacher.

In artistic professions,

The cruelest thing is that the improvements that ordinary people can achieve through training thousands of times may actually be abilities they are born with for true geniuses.

For big men like Menzel, Dürer, or Holbein.

In their painting career, they may have never felt that arranging lines with a pen requires any special training.

If you just draw with a pen, you are better than most people in the world. Just like eating and drinking, do you need someone to teach you?

Gu Weijing's talent is actually only considered good among ordinary people.

Without systematic help, his original sketching skills were inferior to those of Tsunamasa Sakai, who was younger than him.

Therefore, even if his overall sketch line level has reached the level of a professional painter.

This kind of practice method specially created for students to practice the details of using pens still has a very good effect on Gu Weijing.

The more he painted, the more comfortable he became, and the more he painted, the happier he became, and he was so happy that he almost took off.

Kou Kou on the side was almost dumbfounded.

She bit the end of the pen lightly, feeling as if she was watching a magic show.

Everyone got the homework paper at the same time.

I was just sharpening a pencil. I turned around and traced Gu Weijing's drawing, and found that he had already finished drawing a small square.

It's ridiculously fast.

She turned her head and glanced at the wall clock in front of the podium.

How long has passed? One and a half minutes, or two minutes?

Isn’t it true that in the history of Dulwich College, there are only four students who can draw within five minutes, and none who can draw within four minutes?

The guy next to me is still not a human being!

Koko bit the end of the pen hard, and countless thoughts suddenly appeared in her mind.

She took a look at Gu Weijing's pen. It was obviously a normal sketch pencil with a normal posture. In the hands of this boy, everything was different.

It's like it's not a pencil, but a magic wand.

With a few "swish" waves, a small square was filled with gray.

Koko hasn't been in a trance for long, and the second small grid is almost finished.

She could clearly see that every stroke of the opponent's strokes was well-proportioned and rhythmic, and the lines were arranged as accurately as if they were drawn with a ruler. They were so accurate that they were absolutely accurate.

"Perhaps this exercise is not as difficult as Professor Wattel said?"

Koko lowered her head in disbelief and started arranging lines within the grid with a pencil. She tried to draw at the same rhythm as Gu Weijing.

After 30 seconds,

Kou Kou looked at the jagged abstract sketch lines in her square, like those gnawed by a dog, and then turned to look at Gu Weijing's paper.
To be continued...