Author: Apricot and Pear

[People: Gu Weijing]

Character panel—

[Sketching techniques: lv.3 semi-professional (247/1000)]

[Chinese Painting Techniques: Introduction to lv.2 (61/100)]

[Watercolor Painting Techniques: Introduction to lv.2 (21/100)]

[Oil painting techniques: Introduction to lv.2 (23/100)]

[Printing techniques: lv.1 beginners (6/10)]

Task Panel—

[Newbie Task: Complete the Finale of the Current Painting]

【Task time: three hours】

Gu Weijing picked up the water cup on the table, took a sip, and confirmed that the virtual panel in front of him was real.

Ordinary middle school students are either excited or surprised when they encounter such an invitation.

However, Gu Weijing can still maintain a good calmness after drawing since childhood.

Art students may appear a little withdrawn and out of the ordinary life. They are often a group of people with very spiritual temperament in society and need to often immerse themselves in various painting scenes, so they occasionally feel mysterious.

Whether it is a keen artistic perception or a Van Gogh madness, when he encountered such a situation that ordinary people could not understand, Gu Weijing did not have too many emotional ups and downs and quickly adapted to the current situation.

He silently closed the panel.

Continue to pick up the brush and focus on painting the blank spaces of the painting draft on the drawing board with the corresponding fixed colors.

Another hour and a half later.

Gu Weijing finally finished all the coloring of this large canvas of 1.4×50 cm. He placed the easel in the corner of the gallery and then air-dried it, and then opened the property panel again.

【Your novice mission has been completed!】

This line of prompt pops up on the panel, and the proficiency of that column [Oil Painting Technique] has become [25/100]

"Proficiency has only increased by 2%. Well, I don't know what the calculation criteria are. My painting started to draw the first draft before the Spring Festival. Today's progress is over. If I draw a new work from scratch, how much can my proficiency increase?"

Gu Weijing looked at the virtual panel and frowned involuntarily.

"Only sketching is semi-professional? What's left is just introductory and beginners? I am at this level in the eyes of the system?"

He pursed his lips, feeling a little unhappy.

In addition to his talent, Gu Weijing himself is also a hard-working person.

After all, he was a professional and grew up in a painting family.

Gu Weijing believes that his basic painting skills are not bad, and he is even much better than many seniors who have signed studios/studios in Yangon University's Academy of Fine Arts, otherwise he would not have been targeted by the underworld.

Although he who is determined to become an artist does not take the non-mainstream recognition of tattoos like big bald heads seriously, it is a bit embarrassing to be "started".

“Did you receive your own newbie reward?”

Gu Weijing saw that there was a red dot on the taskbar. With the mentality of not receiving the white one, he clicked to collect it.

【Newbie rewards have been received!】

[Active Skills: Adolf von Menzel's Basic Painting Experience]

【Quality: Perfect】

[Special effects: As the question, after activating the skills, you will have the same basic painting skills as Adolf Menzel in the next thirty minutes. Cooling time, one day.]

[Equipment Requirements: Sketch Level lv.2]

[Master Introduction: A famous 19th-class illustration master, German sketch master, woodblock and lithographer, famous for his rigorous and meticulous sketching style, the author of the illustration of "Biography of Frederick the Great" and the recipient of the Black Hawk Medal.]

[Note: As the supreme honor of the Prussian Empire, even the princess of the Hohenzollern Dynasty would lower her noble head when facing a recipient of the Black Hawk Medal representing her appearance and status.]

"It turned out to be Mr. Menzel?"

Gu Weijing opened his mouth slightly, and without the need for systematic introduction, he also knew who Menzeel was.

The most famous painting master in German history is closely related to the prosperous Prussian royal family.

In Prussia in the 19th century, it is not the same as the author of the illustrations listed in the children's comics listed on the street.

Compared with the ancient Dongxia, its status was probably between the court painter Lang Shining, Hanlin Bachelor, Prince Shaobao, and Ji Xiaolan, Chief Editor of the National History Museum.

The small-sized illustrations of more than ten centimeters hand-painted by Menzel are basically sold at around 100,000 euros, because he has more than 7,000 works in his life.

"But it's just the basic experience of painting?"

He was a little disappointed.

It’s not that Gu Weijing looked down on Mr. Menceel, but since the basic experience of painting has the word “basic”, it is obviously a skill for beginners of art. It may not be of great help to Gu Weijing, who has learned painting for nearly 10,000 hours.

In fact, even if it is more inclined to unpopular professional fields such as woodblock or stone plate, Gu Weijing thinks it is more useful than this vague basic painting technique.

However, driven by curiosity, he decided to see what effect this skill has.

After seeing Brother Hao leave, no new customers in the calligraphy and painting shop have entered.

To be cautious, Gu Weijing walked over and hung a sign at the door, saying "Business is suspended, if you need to buy paintings, please call or make an appointment online."

He then took out gouache paper, a box of colored pencils and pencil sharpeners from the studio in the inner room, and after all the preparations were made.

Only then did Gu Weijing activate his skills.

He didn't feel the feeling of the initiation of martial arts masters, which increased their skills out of thin air. He just suddenly had a little enlightenment in his mind.

The skill panel in front of us has also become-

【Adolf von Menzel's basic painting experience】

[Cooldown time: 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds]

Gu Weijing took out a half-used pencil from the pencil case on one side and looked at the Mercedes-Benz model on the table.

Colored pencil painting does not have too high technical content, but it is the most test of basic skills. It requires both the accuracy of sketching and the light and shadow of color.

Moreover, it is much more convenient to draw an oil painting than a few days, weeks or even months. It is not impossible to draw a painting faster than half an hour.

Experts will know if there is any one.

If you want to know your true painting level after activate your skills, nothing else can be used, and nothing can be explained better than actually drawing a picture.

Gu Weijing originally estimated that he would not be able to improve his basic skills.

He has the capital to be self-conceited, mainly because he can learn the basic knowledge he has learned long ago.

When other children were waving Ultraman and Yo-yo in kindergarten, Gu Weijing's birthday gift was a box of forty-eight colored pencils produced in Faber Castell, Germany.

Because the painting skills are too simple, colored pencil drawings and crayons are often associated with labels such as beginners and children's simple strokes, and they are also among the unpopular in the art market, and sometimes they are even worse than fountain pen drawings.

Its upper limit is there, even Menzel has room for improvement?

"What the hell!"

When the pencil's tip finally fell on the watercolor paper in front of you, Gu Weijing discovered that he was the frog in the well who didn't know the vastness of the world.
Chapter completed!