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《卖卫生纸的小贩》，纸本墨水。 “A Toilet-paper Vendor”. Ink on paper. (2023/03/23)

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《卖卫生纸的小贩》这件作品是由两张画拼放在一起之后拍照而成的。两张画都来自一张摄影作品。原照片非常吸引我的是它具有的一种戏剧性的张力。这来自两点：一个是那些长长的投影；另外是摄影采取的俯拍的角度。阴影在画面中占据了很大的面积，并且每个人都好像嵌在两个（或三个）阴影之间似的。俯拍的角度将人物压缩成非常不符合我们在平视的视角下（也就是日常的视角）所看到的人的形状，但是每个人物的阴影却比较符合这种日常视角看到的人的形状。这种阴影似乎和它们的主人地位错位了的感觉，产生了一种戏剧性的张力。

The work of “A Toilet-paper Vendor” is composed of two drawings being put together and then photographed. Both drawings are from a photo. What attracted me so much about the original image was the dramatic tension produced from two aspects: one is the long shadows; the other is the overhead angle of the photography. The shadows occupy quite a large area in the frame, and everyone seems to be embedded between two (or three) shadows. The angle of the overhead shot compresses the characters into a shape that is very inconsistent with our daily life experience, while the shadow of each character is more in line with the shape of the people we see.

《穿着民族服饰的两个人》(崔靓，2023，纸本墨水笔，水彩颜料）Two Men who wear their culture proudly (Cui, Liang. 2023. Ink, watercolour on paper)
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《穿着民族服饰的两个人》纸本墨水 “Two Men Wearing Their Culture Proudly” Ink on paper. 2023/03/21

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签字笔在产生笔触的方面具有很大的局限性。因为它只能要么是画出粗细一致的线条，要么是一些点。而这幅原图在纹理和花纹上都比较丰富，其中，有软硬不一的布料、佩戴的金属腰刀、皮质的皮带等，还有虚实不一的阴影。图片上的这种丰富性和工具本身的局限性构成了矛盾，而这种矛盾就使得在绘画的过程中，如何以这个工具来体现这些质感成为了主要的问题之一。

Ballpoint pens are very limited in terms of producing rich strokes. Because it can only draw lines of consistent thickness or dots. The original picture is rich in texture and pattern, among which there are fabrics either soft or hard, copper handles of the knives, leather belts, etc., as well as shadows with hard or soft edges. The richness of the picture in textures contrasts interestingly with the chosen tool – the ballpoint pen – regarding its limitation being mentioned above. This makes that how to represent these textures with the ballpoint pen becomes one of the main questions in the process of this drawing.

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纸本墨水《接待处的工作人员》Ink on paper – Reception Staff (2023/03/17)

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这张画中，我的重点在于黑白灰分布中带来的节奏感以及人物衣服上装饰花纹在画面中的趣味性。
My focuses in this drawing are on the arrangement of the arrangement of the white, grey, and black colour, as well as the decorative patterns on these women’s clothes.

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铅笔纸本素描：《一个一半在背光中的老人》。 Pencil on paper – A Senior Man half in the Backlight – 2023/03/08-03/13

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这张图片最初有两个地方打动了我。一个是它微妙的光感。这个光感的特殊之处在于它使得人物的结构并非以一种对比强烈的方式被凸显出来，而大多是一种微妙的变化。这就让那几处高光和比较深的阴影以一种点状的方式散布在人物的脸上和手上，因此具有一种装饰性的效果以及蓬松感。第二也是人物脸上表情的那种不确定性。那似乎是一抹微笑，又似乎是因为强烈的光线眯起了眼睛，同时擦嘴时抿起嘴巴，所以只是看起来像微笑。
Two things move me in this image. One is the subtle visual effect due to half of the figure being in the backlight. The arrangement of the light makes the structure of the characters presented in subtle changes of tones in different areas, instead of solid contrast. This allows the few highlights and darker shadows to scatter over the image, which produced a decorative effect. The second is the uncertainty of the expression on the character’s face. On the one hand, it seemed to be a smile. On the other hand, the eyes seemed squinted because of the strong light, and the mouth was pursed because the man was wiping it, so it just looked like a smile.

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A Group of Boys – An exploration of the decorative elements

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What attracted me the most about the original photos I saw in the book was its layout of the black, white and grey tones, and the different patterns and textures of the clothes on these boys. When I was painting, I emphasized the layout of the three tones, and made some adjustments according to my needs of the final result. Then I emphasized these patterns on these boys’ clothes to highlight their decorative aspect.

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Fast sketch of a man in a striped blouse

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In this sketch, one obvious “error” is that the head is definitely too big. You can tell from the lines that I tried twice to make it smaller. As a result, these lines, with the pattern on the striped blouse, make this figure like a rocky mountain. When a visual effect combines the idea of a rocky mountain with a human being, it can lead to a metaphorical reading and imagination.