Soul Painter

Get work done every day.

After a beer at the bar.

Gao Fan and Anna will return to the apartment they rented two streets north of the city hall.

The apartment was three floors high and was rented out as a whole. Anna lived on the second floor, Gao Fan lived on the third floor, and the first floor was full of sketches of Bostno citizens.

By mid-June, there were more than 30,000 sketches.

At the end of April, the Guinness World Records has certified that Gao Fan is the painter who has drawn the most sketch samples and depicted the most figures for an oil painting in the world. The last holder of this record is Tintoretto, It is said that he made nearly 3,000 sketch portraits for the group portrait "Paradise".

Gao Fan even got an award certificate issued by Jin Corporation.

To be honest, this is the first certificate he has ever received in his life.

Although the source is strange, Gao Fan still placed it in the most conspicuous position on the first floor of the apartment.

According to common sense, since the two painters worked hard to draw more than 30,000 portraits, and even spent a huge sum of nearly 4 million US dollars, they should be well preserved, but this is not the case. There are many, but if they are piled up in a pile, they only occupy a corner of the first floor, and they are just piled here casually.

More than 300 sketches are added to this pile of paper every day, and the overall arrangement is so random that others think that they may end up in a shredder.

Today, after Gao Fan and Anna threw a pile of drawing papers into it as usual, the two closed the curtains, like a demon businessman who bought a lot of souls, and began to secretly check today's harvest. Yes, the real harvest is in In the hall of inspiration shared by the two, their real painting is the large oil canvas of 1.2 by 1.8 meters placed in the middle of the first floor at the moment.

The painting on it is the real "Bostonian".

Gao Fan and Anna proposed inspiration from the inspiration hall to complete this unprecedented great work.

Every night, they will fill in a few strokes on this work according to the city of Bostno, which has more Bostno people in the hall of inspiration. Since the sketch of all Bostno people has not been completed, the creation of this final product is still In the priming stage, the lines on the canvas were painted over and over again, but they were never really completed, nor did they enter the stage of oil painting.

Therefore, the large bottles of mysterious oil paint that Gao Fan hid behind the sofa were not really used.

And it's still valid for six months.

But today, there was a little breakthrough.

After painting more than 30,000 portraits of representative figures of the Bostno family, it is equivalent to recording the... souls of 150,000 to 180,000 Bostno people? Should the word soul be used?

Gao Fan felt that they were not doing simple sketches from life, they seemed to have drawn the souls of these Bostno people into the palace of inspiration brought by the 'world' skills.

But Gao Fan is not willing to use the word 'soul', this word seems too evil, so Gao Fan thinks it is better to say 'portrait'.

After sketching the faces of 150,000 Bostno people, Gao Fan and Anna have summed up the most basic things. The first thing is the overall facial features of Bostno people.

"Their faces can have such a structure." Anna drew a stroke on the painting.

Just as Gao Fan imagined, this stroke outlines a face that looks like a man but not a woman, old or young, worker or white-collar, rich or poor. Find your shadow in it.

"Impeccable." Gao Fan praised, he praised Anna, "It seems that you divided all the faces by one hundred thousand and found the best common divisor~"

Anna's breath became short of breath, this kind of compliment was what she dreamed of, but she didn't speak, just watched Gao Fan mysteriously take out his paint from behind the sofa, and then used a fine brush to draw the lines for Anna, I traced a faint edge, which is not the case with oil paintings. In order to ensure the validity period of the dye, this is the last resort. It means that every line must be precise, because this painting can only be created once, if it is scraped off, It will be irreproducible.

And once Gao Fan attached color to this line, Anna's breathing stopped instantly.

At this moment, she can see more than a hundred thousand faces in the hall of inspiration. Her line is obtained by dividing the ten thousand by ten thousand. Although there is only one line, it is already her understanding of painting and The highest comprehension of the devil school painting skills.

But at this moment, after Gao Fan re-drawn her lines with a fine brush, in front of her eyes, this painting, that line, seemed to bloom suddenly, like a stone thrown into the center of the wave, and layers of lake water swaying. Layer upon layer of ripples, like the spring breeze blowing the buds, the dense flower cores blooming in the buds, also like the dimensional formula that is spread out in an instant, countless beautiful and harmonious possibilities bloom from this thread Come.

It is 1 and also infinite.

This is true miracle.

Anna defined this line drawn with magic paint from the dual fields of mathematics and painting. If there is infinity, it is the beginning of infinity. If there is God, it is the manifestation of God.

...

on this night.

All Bostno people.

Whether it's in your sleep, or the night owl who's still awake.

At the moment when Gao Fan wrote, he felt a sign of apocalypse.

They first felt their cheeks, as if they were gently touched by someone, the touch was so gentle, as if God came to earth, and then, many of them, those with more sensitive intuition, turned their heads in unison Go, glanced in the direction of the city hall, it seemed that there was something calling their souls.

It's just that this kind of touch and calling is so soft and almost nothing, it's like a sudden inspiration, and it just passed away without leaving any trace in Bostno's heart.

...

Beside the painter, Anna looked at the painting, which had just left a touch of color, amazed, frowning, and thinking.

She suddenly exclaimed: "I have an inspiration, I saw a formula, my God, it can be used to express the whole world, I want to use it to create the background of this painting, it must be like a miracle."

what is that? Gao Fan is waiting for Anna to show him, what kind of inspiration will this double genius of mathematics and art get from this magical "infinite" paint?

When Anna showed it to Gao Fan, Gao Fan's eyes widened suddenly.

"Awesome!" Gao Fan looked at the background city behind the portraits painted by Anna on the canvas. Looking at this schematic painting method, he realized the value of it, and couldn't help but admire sincerely, "This painting method is really amazing. It's amazing! Only you can draw it!"

...

the next day.

Lawrence came to pick up the two painters as usual.

He also brought breakfast and lunch. The breakfast was richer. He prepared meat, eggs and milk. The lunch was only sandwiches, because the painters were busy sketching and would not have time for a more formal lunch.

He knew that the pile of sketch paper on the first floor was not the real work, and the large painting in the center of the first floor was the final finished product, so when he saw this painting today, a face appeared When I saw the outline of my face, I couldn't help being a little surprised, so I said to Gao Fan and Anna: "The outline of this face is worth five million dollars."

Gao Fan couldn't tell whether Lawrence was praising him or complaining, so he ignored him.

"These drafts, if you really don't need them any more, I'll collect them. If this "Bostno Man" is really famous, the value of these drafts is also extraordinary." Lawrence said again.

Gao Fan made a gesture of "you are free", anyway, those faces have been recorded in the inspiration hall.

"They are only worth five million." Gao Fan added, "I gave it to you."

Chapter 3 ~ Asking for a monthly ticket