Wang Gongzi smiled and said: "What everyone, Ruan Sheng is not as good as you in painting figures, if it is not a good example, he will not be able to become everyone. He also wrote a title on your four beautiful pictures, and usually asked him to make a painting title. If you are a poet, you have to eat and drink and enjoy the scenery, and you have to stretch me all the time."
But nowadays, the good painters are all in the south, with Dai Jin and Shen Zhou as the suzerain. There are not many scholars in the northern Zhili area, and even fewer are good at painting. Although Wang Gongzi was a little more demanding, he also seriously learned Li Gonglin's brushwork. The lines are sharp and the pictures are refined. The beauty pictures imitating Cui Xie are similar to those on the market, and the colors are more elegant.
Cui Xie was in a hurry to read, and he only had half an hour a day when he could pick up a pen and draw. It was okay to do some small drawings, but he couldn't do enough to draw large scales of several feet. Therefore, Wang Gongzi is still inseparable from the Ruan family now, and he is cared for with delicious food, so he made him imitate Cui Xie's beauty picture - and now he has added a general picture.
That painter Ruan also liked the days of imitating pictures and signing autographs and being taken care of. He was at ease in front of the special painter of the Wang family, Qiansongling today, Longwangpo tomorrow, and even the little prince was going to commit a crime recently, without delay. He learned about his free and easy landscapes and swayed his painting skills.
When Wang Xiangzhen mentioned him, he said: "He can imitate your paintings nine times out of ten, so you can draw me a small picture, and I will let him enlarge it."
Picking the sun is worse than hitting the sun, so Cui Xie asked him to stand in the courtyard and take advantage of the bright summer evening light as a model.
In order to save time, he still used the line drawing method of comic strips to outline the outline. However, because there is no need to consider the difficulty of printing, the coloring is much more refined, the colors are scattered in shades, and the vivid three-dimensional facial features are carefully painted and dyed, and even the clothing accessories are painted with real light and shadow effects.
Wang Gongzi was immersed in Lv Bu's heroic image at this time. When he was a model, he held a real bow. After loosening the string, he assumed a posture with the bow open like a full moon, and he was not too tired. Cui Xie made a half-portrait of him, wearing a bright red and narrow-sleeved uniform, with a high bun, without a helmet, standing with uneven legs, pulling the bowstring with his right hand to his jaw, his eyes squinting towards him. Outside the screen, the eyes and the tip of the arrow are about to break out of the painting.
Only one suit of armor and stomach is missing, and it is the reincarnation of Wenhou who is alive and well! In the future, it can be Guan Gong's reincarnation, Xu Chu's reincarnation, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao... reincarnation!
When Wang Xiangzhen saw the finished painting, he wished that he could immediately put on the custom-made rotten silver armor, held the Fang Tianhua halberd, and fought bravely among the captives like the reincarnation of Marquis Wen.
This painting took a whole night to paint, and the armor will be painted tomorrow. Cui Xie estimated that there was not enough time, so he painted the outline of the human body with oiled paper, and asked Wang Xiangzhen to take the original painting away, and come back to pick up the armor picture in a few days.
Although Wang Da Gongzi was anxious to drag the sun back to the sky, he did not dare to urge him. He rolled up the original painting and said, "It's important that you study, draw slowly, don't worry, I'll take it back next time."
He also has a painter Ruan as a backup. Cui Xie is slowly painting here. Ruan everyone can draw him several sets of heroes according to the first two volumes of "Six Talents Commentary on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms". At that time, he will change a suit of clothes and weapon cover and stick it outside. Isn't he doing many famous generals through the ages
When I go back, I hang this painting in the barracks, so that all the soldiers can see the heroic appearance of his Wang Dasheren!
The prince went back with the painting full of joy, and Cui Xie took a little time every day to draw the armor suit in detail, and asked someone to accompany the painting to the command house.
He never cut corners when painting for people, and actually designed several sets of shapes: there is a Lu Bu suit with a pheasant feather crown, a rotten silver armor, and a halberd on the back; a green scarf, green clothes and green robes, and a blue dragon. Guan Yu's suit with the sword of the moon; there is also a suit of Zhao Yun with a silver helmet and Suying, a long spear and a white horse; the last suit is a suit of Xu Chu with a topless breast and a shirt tied around his waist...
Because I don't remember the clothes very clearly, basically they are a mixture of old and new versions plus various games and comics, regardless of whether they conform to history or not, just draw them to show their figure and look good. Peng Yan looked at the pictures of the armor and envied it, but he didn't dare to ask him for it, so he occasionally took it out when cleaning up the study, and imagined what it would be like to wear this armor.
Cui Xie took some time to draw a bust for him on the pink paper, and asked the printer to print two more full-size images of Lv Bu, Cao Cao, Liu, Guan, and Zhang, and dug out the body armor and stomach. Let him do the collage by himself, and also make the children happy.
Not only did they hold the inkstone, but the young craftsmen who made the pictures were also itching to get such a sticker. However, their elders felt that the master's study was a serious matter, and it was enough to work for the son of the general's family. How could he be burdened for these ignorant children and teach them a lesson.
This group of young people was also active, secretly printing a few sets of rough black and white line drawings on cotton paper, digging out their faces and armor, and replacing them with their favorite characters. When Cui Xie was holding a regular meeting, he saw two apprentices taking paper stickers seriously, so he stopped them and asked, "How did you play this?"
He is young, not very serious, and usually has a good relationship outside. The two eighteen-nine apprentices saw him, but they all looked like they entered the Internet cafe and were caught by the dean of the school. The paper is printed on rough cotton paper by myself, I hope you will do the same."
Cui Xie pursed his lips, not knowing what to say.
He asked this question not because they were playing with paper and ink in the workshop, but... IMHO, he only played this sticker game when he was in kindergarten and the first and second grades of elementary school, and he wouldn't buy it when he was older. .
A more daring apprentice said, "We were also envious of the picture of little brother Pengyan who could change clothes. We were confused for a while, so we printed it ourselves..."
He waved his hand and said, "It's not your fault, it's just that I didn't expect adults to like to play these things. But do you really like to play pictures of changing clothes?"
Not only the two apprentices who were caught by him, but even Li Jinbao showed a little shame on his face. The whole house of craftsmen advised him not to bother with the two apprentices. Their children were ignorant and used the master's things indiscriminately, but fortunately they didn't spoil the paper and paint. But no one said to him, "This is all a child's stuff, no one likes it".
Cui Xie understands that this picture is actually quite popular with adults.
He was a little surprised. But think about it carefully. After more than 500 years, you can see several versions of "Three Kingdoms" when you turn on the TV. Now you can only read the original book. Even Liu Guanzhang's brain-dead story "Hua Guan Suo Biography" is all the rage. It's no wonder that such big guys... and Wang Gongzi, who has seen the world, can play drag cards so addicted.
Then try printing a few sets and put them in the store to see.
Because it was a relatively low-end paper version, he did not dare to do too much. He only printed the uniforms of Liu Guanzhang, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Zhuge Liang, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Zhou Yu and others in the same size as the book version. Statue without a crown. Each set of drawing pads comes with a three-sided fixed card sleeve, and the standing statue and the three-piece crown suit, armor, and court suit are stacked and inserted into the slot to achieve the effect of dressing up.
For the convenience of engraving, mainly because of being lazy when painting, each painting has the same height and posture, and several generals without beards can exchange clothes.
Cui Xie thought that the main sales target of this set of card pictures were elementary school students, and after printing it, he even gave three copies to Mengtong so that they could take it home and show off to the children. Who would have thought that before the primary school students' paintings were taken home, the older children found out and ran to his house to ask him why he didn't give them to himself first, and whether he didn't take them as friends.
Cui Xie had to ask someone to bring it to them, teach them how to put on a card and change clothes, and by the way asked who they wanted the card. The hobbies of these literati are different from Wang Gongzi. They want more elegant styles such as Chen Gong, Xu Shu, Pang Tong, Xun Yu, Guo Jia—and those who want Ji Kang. This person is not mentioned in "Romance". Cui Xie categorically refused.
It wasn't until June that the replacement paper was officially launched.
Due to rumors of invading pirates in Yongping and Shanhai, there were fewer merchants from other places to buy books. The shopkeeper Ji only kept more than a hundred sets of cards in the bookstore. Familiar bookstore sales. Who would have thought that this card would also sell very well in Qian'an, not as good as the original beauty paper, and the rest would not be enough to sell in the past two days.
The Three Kingdoms are selling well, and they put the painting papers such as Meirenjian and Qingjingjian behind. The shopkeeper Ji was busy and asked the craftsmen to print it again before it was about to be offered for sale. Who would have guessed that in the evening of that day, a few sergeants in bright red suddenly came to the store, and they slapped the money directly on the cabinet, and they were forced to ask for 300 sets of replacement cards.
The shopkeeper Ji rummaged through the store and couldn't find so much, and he didn't dare to force himself with the officers and soldiers, so he persuaded in a low voice: "Our store has invited famous artists from other places to come here, and it's not ready for a while. Master, do you want to leave an address and send it to the military master when we find the painter and draw it?"
The soldier couldn't be in a hurry: "We can spare this time, and we'll be out of the city immediately! Take as much as you have first, and if you can't turn back, send it to Mr. Wang's house, the commander of Xingtun Youwei, their family. Dashe Ren Wang Baihu knew about this and asked him to send it to our lord!"
The person who can send the letter with the son of a third-rank official, Wang Gongzi, must not be a mortal. He asked more and more cautiously: "I don't know which adult is yours?"
The soldier said, "Wang Baihu naturally knows, don't ask questions if you shouldn't. Also, we adults love Guan Er Ye and Zhao Zilong, and we will send more to Wang Commander's Mansion, not Xu Chu!"
The shopkeeper Ji agreed again and again, took the money, and found out for him more than 30 sets of dressing slips in the store, except for Xu Chu, and vowed to send the rest to him as soon as possible. When the soldiers left, he entrusted the shop to the clerk in the account. He went to Cui's house to tell Shaodong about it, and asked Cui Xie if he knew there was such a person.
Cui Xie was even more at a loss than him, shook his head and said, "The prince has not been to our house in the past two days. I don't know why there is another big man who can help him run errands. Let's print it first, and then I will go to Wang's house. Just ask."
That's all there is to it. Anyway, the customer was open and reasonable, and he put the money aside before taking the goods. They sell cards, who should they prepare the goods for
He managed to get enough of the amount the other party wanted. He was about to ask the shopkeeper Ji to make a trip to the command house, but he didn't want the prince to come by himself at this time.
The cards happened to be sitting in the study, so Cui Xie moved them over and let him pick them out. Wang Gongzi was not polite to him. He counted three hundred sets of Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Lu Bu, and asked someone to take a cloth bag and sealed it in a wooden box. Then he let out a breath and drank a large bowl of broken pieces. Ice stubble sour plum soup.
He sighed and said, "It's still comfortable for you here. These days my ass doesn't leave the horse's back. It's like I'll be tortured when I sit on a hard chair. Which company made your sofa cushion? My brother has to order one too. Let's go... Hey, my father definitely won't let me sit on such a bed, I'll order a set for my mother later."
"It's Carpenter Zhao across from my house. When I first moved in, I asked him to make a small bed with a cushion made of duck and goose feathers. Later, his family sold this. It doesn't look good, but it's comfortable to sit on."
Seeing him spread out on the sofa, Cui Xie wished he would never get up, and couldn't help but ask, "What kind of character is that person who can make you run like this and buy him a picture?"
Wang Gongzi took a long breath, scratched his hair, and seemed to be remorseful, but he actually showed off: "I really blame me for this, blame me for being too showy, and put the picture you gave me in the guardhouse. Later, Wang Zhenfu When they were training, they borrowed my picture and asked the group of soldiers to train in pairs. Whichever team won would allow me to choose clothes for me to put on, so that everyone in the guardhouse thought about your picture.
"As a result, the governor of Anshun was stationed in Yongping a few days ago, and we sent grain and grass over there, and the sergeants who were ignorant of the matter complimented the Yongping guards. Later, Uncle Xue will see what it looks like. I had to send it to him to see the painting. It was a pity that people didn't like my face, and they gave me the big picture, and only asked me if I had the original Guan Gong and Zhao Yun pictures."
Cui Xie guessed and said, "Then you didn't say I could paint him? That's your Shangguan after all. After all, it's good for you to paint a picture for him."
The prince said with a smile: "Uncle Xue is so old, he can't put on a savage costume like me, I guess he just bought some notes to give away. After all, the little prince is in Datong now, we Shanhai and Yongping. The side staff here can't be so tight all the time, he has to..."
He shook his head and said, "It's important to read, if he insists on painting, I will ask Ruan Sheng to paint him a few pictures. Ruan Sheng has already described all your characters from the Three Kingdoms, and he even called me behind his back. I urge you to come up with a new one."
Cui Xie said with a smile: "He doesn't want a portrait, and he doesn't want to change clothes. It's easy to draw. I just want to ask your Ruan everyone to give a name - I'm a person who wants to take the exam and have to be named Cui Meiren. Clear it up."
He had heard from outside that Cui Meiren's name had spread to the capital, and when he mentioned Zhirong Bookstore, or even mentioned the style of his meticulous comic strips, he directly thought of Cui Meiren. This impression was difficult to regain. He simply put on a few more layers of vests. As long as others don't associate that Cui Meiren with him, he can live a magnanimous life!
It's just a pity...
When he took out a pen and paper, and spread the alum water on the drawing paper, he thought a little regretfully: If he hides under his vest like this, he can't give Xie Qianhu a dress like this, or his His face was drawn into the book, and he pretended to be a young hero.