Chapter 169 Learning to Paint without Drawing Eggs First Is Like Learning to Cook without Learning How to Make Fried Rice with Eggs

Although it sounds a bit strange, for the freehand painting technique, complex things are easier to paint than simple things, because the more complex they are, the more space there is to highlight the shades, weights, and strokes. The brush strokes are simple items with scarce elements such as eggs and steamed buns, which makes it difficult to draw.

This is why in the so-called freehand painting tutorials in the previous life, most of them would directly draw flowers, birds, fish and insects from the beginning. This does not mean that you have the basics, but the most basic part is the most difficult to explain clearly.

But when he heard Feng Xue's question, the middle-aged uncle hit him with a wooden stick and said in a gritted tone:

"If you are asked to draw an egg, just draw it! Throw away what I drew before and draw it according to your own ideas. Don't stick to a square or a circle. Just draw it according to your feeling. Just draw it how you think the egg should look, even if If you draw a fruit girl, as long as you think it is an egg, then she is! Freehand painting is about writing your own ideas, not for you to imitate my ideas!"

These words were spoken loudly and forcefully, as if they contained some kind of supreme truth, but Feng Xue was dull and could not understand it well, so he could only draw them thoughtfully, one circle, two circles, and he could draw them so fast I feel numb, and I feel less and less like an egg.

It seemed that the middle-aged uncle couldn't stand it anymore and sighed:

"It seems like I shouldn't give you a demonstration. Well, instead of drawing an egg, draw a grape. Have you seen a grape?"

"I've seen it before." Feng Xue, who was almost numb at drawing eggs, nodded immediately, but without a demonstration, he didn't know how to start. He could only imitate the shape of the grapes in his memory. , and unknowingly, I used the drawing skills of a card maker.

In this regard, the middle-aged uncle didn't say anything. It wasn't until he outlined a grape consisting of more than a dozen fruits on the sand that he nodded and said:

"Does it look like it to you?"

"Is it okay?" Feng Xue looked down at the grapes he drew. Well, they were indeed grapes.

"Then why does it look like that?" The uncle asked a question that seemed a bit outrageous at first. If he encountered this kind of stickman, Feng Xue would definitely summon his fists to attack, but considering that the other party was teaching him how to draw, he Still decided to answer.

He didn’t guess what the other party meant, he just said calmly:

"Because it resembles the real thing."

"What are the similarities? Why are they similar?" The middle-aged uncle continued to ask nonsense, and Feng Xue didn't know how to answer for a moment. It wasn't that there was no answer, but he couldn't say they were all similar, right?

Seeing that Feng Xue didn't answer, the middle-aged uncle didn't ask any more questions. He just reached out and pulled a few times on the sand beside him, making a roughly triangular mark, and then asked Feng Xue:

"What do you think this is?"

"Um...grapes?" Feng Xue looked at the pile of marks, then looked at the grapes he drew, and asked tentatively. In fact, the pile of marks didn't look more like grapes than the ones he drew, but It gives people the feeling of grapes, or in other words, it gives people a feeling that is very similar to the grapes he painted. This even makes Feng Xue wonder whether the uncle secretly used the architecture technique.

"Then how does this painting I painted resemble grapes?" The uncle asked a similar question again. Feng Xue felt a headache, but he still suppressed his irritability and tried to find similarities between the two paintings. place.

"Have you ever seen abstract paintings? Especially the ones that paint people." The uncle did not give Feng Xue too much time to think, but spoke again. Feng Xue's mind immediately thought of the twisted paintings of Picasso in her previous life, and then clicked He nodded, and the uncle picked up the wooden stick and drew a figure on the ground.

This man has a big head, a thin neck, one hand is long and the other is short, one chest is big and the other is small, the left foot is abnormally twisted, the five toes are almost half the size of his head, but there is something weird about it. The sense of harmony makes people feel that the painting is a person.

"Ah..." Although it was just a line drawn on the ground, Feng Xue's mind seemed to have imagined how it would look like an oil painting mounted in a frame.

But the middle-aged uncle once again issued his soul question——

"Does it look like a human?"

"It looks like it, but it can only be said that it has begun to take on a human form." Feng Xue said a little embarrassed, because it was difficult for him to say that this thing looked like a real person without conscience.

"Oh, wait a minute, I'll draw another one." The uncle said, breaking off a small section from the branch, and started painting with the slender stubble. This time, he painted very finely, and his brushwork was more realistic. Just because it was on sandy soil, he did not describe too much light and dark, but soon, he still sketched out a female portrait.

This was a naked woman. She was lying on her side on the bed, with one leg slightly bowed. Even if it was just a line on the sand, Feng Xue couldn't help but be amazed for a moment.

But when he looked at the abstract portrait that was beginning to take shape, his whole body seemed to be electrocuted, and a tingling sensation rushed directly from his heels to Tianling Gai.

There was obviously no similarity at all, but he was sure that these two paintings were of the same person!

"Do you understand?" The middle-aged uncle asked again. Feng Xue just nodded with numbness. Only with such a clear comparison did he finally realize the core of abstraction.

The huge head is because one will be attracted to the beautiful face at a glance. The too slender neck is because the eyes are attracted to the face and chest and will not stay on them. The difference on the chest is because at a glance, the line of sight is It will only focus on one side. The unnatural distortion of the feet and the huge fingers are due to the stagnation and focus when the line of sight moves downward. The so-called abstraction does not mean random enlargement or reduction, but the expression of feelings on the drawing paper.

"Abstraction and freehand brushwork are the same. The focus is not on the image, but on the expression of your own feelings. What you see and what you think are not necessarily the same things. When you see grapes, you may not care at all. Its color only cares about its sweetness and sourness. When you see the beauty, Sometimes, you may focus on your slender waist, toes or face, but it is hardly all of them. Freehand brushwork and abstraction are to describe your own feelings. As for whether you look like it or not, it is secondary, because your feelings are recorded. When it comes down, it will look like it, even if the likeness is not visual.”

The middle-aged uncle gave a long speech for the first time. After speaking, he did not give Feng Xue a chance to ask any more questions. He just reached out and wiped away all the portraits and grapes on the ground, then pointed to the ground and said:

"Okay, you start drawing eggs."