Soul Painter

It's July.

Bostno enters the hot and humid rainy season.

The local climate is similar to Lin'an in China.

In mid-July, a heavy rain lasted for nearly a week.

Gao Fan and Anna moved their workplaces into the city hall. At this time, Luo Da had officially taken over the post of mayor. After delivering a wonderful inaugural speech, he began to perform the administrative duties of the mayor. On the day of her inauguration, she sat on a chair in the city hall square. Gao Fan painted her portrait and gave her the sketch.

This scene looked very interesting in the reporter's lens.

In particular, the reporter's lens faithfully recorded the whole picture of the sketch:

Among the crowd of supporters, a woman stood on the podium, and the audience in the audience described it through dotted lines, while Luoda on the stage was also just a generalized shape, without even a face description, but the overall sense of the picture was still usable To describe it as 'enthusiastic', a large number of lines are scattered scattered, but each line is precise and powerful, like a huge bonfire gathered by clusters of small flames, burning with joy and excitement, expressing the excitement and enthusiasm of the audience. Happy, and conveyed the pride and pride of the first Asian female mayor in the history of Bostno.

"...It looks like a big fire, am I right?" Luo Da couldn't put it down because of this sketch, and couldn't imagine that it was "carefully" drawn by Gao Fan in five minutes.

"Very correct." Gao Fan could already communicate with Luoda in English, "You are the center of the flame."

By this time, after testing nearly 20,000 sketches—20,000 for Gao Fan and 20,000 for Anna each—Gao Fan's basic value of "line" skills has reached 91 without any surprise, a full increase At 6 o'clock, you must know that the skill value of 90 is upwards, and it is already a lot of hard work to increase it.

After the basic value has successfully broken through 90, this not only makes the basic value of the 'line' technique unique among the three major items without bonuses, but also allows Gao Fan to obtain the magical skill of 'hands-on-hand familiarity'.

Although Luoda couldn't stay for long at the time, Luoda already admired Gao Fan's outstanding skills. She firmly believed that "Bostonian" would become the spiritual symbol of Bostno. Where maximum convenience is provided.

But human will cannot affect heaven after all.

For the torrential rain that lasted for a week in July and seemed to have no end, Gao Fan's work was greatly affected.

Due to the heavy rain, the number of citizens who are instructed by the city government to be models dropped sharply from nearly 400 to less than 200. So Gao Fan and Anna finished their work in one morning, and now Gao Fan is in the city hall, Propping his chin with a paintbrush, he stared at the heavy rain outside the window in a daze.

Anna closed her eyes. She was able to appreciate the wonder of the Hall of Inspiration. After several months of training, she had changed from having to show Gao Fan to browse, to being able to open it by herself.

Moreover, Anna is trying to copy this palace of thinking. Although it is only some sporadic corners, she is indeed in the process of building another inspiration palace. Gao Fan feels that this is a manifestation of Anna's deep mastery of the 'world' skills.

"I have an idea...cough cough cough~"

Gao Fan was halfway through speaking, and suddenly coughed.

Cough and thinness.

It has almost become the impression of this oriental painter in the minds of Bostno people.

The dual skills of 'distortion' and 'world' are used to paint the portraits of every citizen. While the skill value has increased a lot, Gao Fan's cough has also become more and more serious. Fortunately, the humid seaside climate is good for his health. Help, but this time, he coughed very badly, Anna woke up from the 'meditation' and began to stroke Gao Fan's back.

In addition to these two characteristics, Bostno people who are closer to Gao Fan, especially those customers in the bars he frequents, also know his other two characteristics.

The first one is the lack of sense of direction. Someone once picked up this Mr. Painter who wanted to ask the police for help because he couldn’t find his home, but he couldn’t find the police, but he rented a The apartment building is just on the north side of the street corner, just across the intersection.

The second is never to get drunk. The painter seems to be insensitive to alcohol, and can guarantee a respectable sobriety under the attack of alcohol, and the more he drinks, the more he will appear in his expression. A "genius artist's unique observation ability, with a little bit of ridicule, more self-deprecating and sharp sharpness to the world", this sentence is described by a female reporter of "World Painting" in an article.

Of course, for Gao Fan, even though he lost the right to get drunk with the command spell of the elk cat, when he felt that he drank too much, he couldn't help but open his "distorted" vision to observe the world , it made him feel very happy, like drunk.

Now, Anna's touch gradually controlled Gao Fan's cough.

"I have an idea~" Gao Fan raised his tone, and the smile on the corner of his mouth also carried a kind of madness.

...

that night.

Bostno people passing by the painter's apartment.

They all noticed that the lights on the first floor of the painter were turned on early, and their work seemed to end very early today.

No one visited the two painters rashly, and even the newsboys were warned not to sell their newspapers and candy, which would disturb the great creation of the two painters.

The lights on the first floor of the apartment were on for a long time until late at night.

In the imagination of the Bostno people, the painters are working hard, and this kind of effort is admirable.

In fact, by July, the creation of "Bostonian" had lasted for three months and had been accepted by the Bostno people.

Although the outside world regards it as a "painting performance art", it is a "gimmick" rather than a "real artistic creation", because "a painting cannot hold 600,000 people", but the real Bostno people tend to say this Make a strong counterattack.

Bostno people will say: 'The past 100 days Mr. Painter has completed one-third of their respectable work, and the remaining two-thirds are just around the corner, your stupid brain can't understand the greatness of art, kind of come to Bostno me Will dip your head in sour beer and clear your mind! '

Topics related to the creation of "Bostonian" on social platforms have remained high, and several major TV stations have also tracked hot spots and conducted continuous news reports on this.

Now on social platforms, the votes on whether this masterpiece of "unbelievable", "full of unknowns" and "doubtful" can be completed, the proportion of votes for "can be completed" is still very low, only It accounts for 10%, and it is possible that they are all voted by Bostno people.

And tonight.

When some Bostno people used to communicate with others on the Internet about topics such as "do you understand art" and "sour beer soaking will be good for your brain", in the middle of the night, some people suddenly appeared in their minds. Inspiration:

"Even if it is raining heavily tomorrow, you have to go to the city hall..."

Chapter 1~