God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 1502

Xu Jingxing quickly waved his hands: "It's really not a skill, it's just memorizing it by rote." After finishing speaking, he turned the topic back to the right track: "Aunt Sun, the poem is a good poem, but there are a lot of words. It is not easy to engrave chapters."

The number of characters in a conventional seal is mostly less than ten. To be precise, there are very few characters exceeding seven characters, and most of them are around four characters.

After all, it is a seal, and it needs to be engraved in reverse. If there are too many words, the strokes will be very dense. If they are densely crowded on the printing surface, it will look very messy, messy and dense, and the printed pattern will have no aesthetic feeling at all. Affects the sharpness of the pattern.

If it is a big seal, it doesn't matter if it is a generous seal like Yuxi.

But Sun Yuying wanted such a small-sized private seal, and it was really difficult to get so many words on it.

Among other things, the layout alone can stump a large number of people.

Don't dislike the fact that the road is on the slopes, and the sound of self-love waving his stick.

There are fourteen characters, not to mention that there are a few characters with many strokes, even if there are few strokes, it is difficult to deal with fourteen characters together.

Sun Yuying laughed and said, "I found a few seal carvers before, and they all said that, but isn't this the time to show off your skills?"

Well, the truth is indeed such a truth.

The higher the difficulty, the more capable you are. Many craftsmen like this kind of challenging work.

The problem is that the difficulty of this challenge is too high. Although it is not a nightmare level, it is also beyond the difficulty level.

If you were an ordinary seal carver, you might have cursed people. How can this be done by humans?

It is nothing to engrave fourteen characters on a plane of four square centimeters, but it is really embarrassing to replace this plane with a printing surface and ensure the quality of the seal.Don't talk about showing off your skills, it's not like that.

But Xu Jingxing thought about it, and felt that he could still give it a try, but the requirements for knife skills would be higher, and the design and layout of the printed text would also be higher.

Moreover, this kind of printed text with a lot of words and dense strokes is ugly if the design is not good, but if the design is good, it will be very brilliant after it is made, and it really shows its ability.

Thinking of this, Xu Jingxing became interested, "Then Aunt Sun, do you have any drafts?"

"Yes, I drew this, but I don't know seal cutting very well, so it may need to be revised," Sun Yuying took out her phone and opened the album to find some photos.

Hey, this design is not bad.

Xu Jingxing was a little surprised. He thought that the design drawings made by Sun Yuying himself would be a standard or even unqualified draft, but he didn't expect it to be so meaningful. very strong.

However, it can be clearly felt that the main idea of ​​these drafts designed by Sun Yuying is still more focused on conventional graphic design, that is, the layout of conventional art works, and the layout of seal cutting is still different from conventional art design. .

But this is enough for him, enough for him to see Sun Yuying's thinking and preferences.

Thinking of this, he didn't say much, he just picked up the pen and started to outline, and after a few strokes, within 3 minutes, a group of square scriptures appeared on the paper, and then asked with a smile: "Aunt Sun, how do you feel?" how?"

Sun Yuying pushed the presbyopic glasses, looked at it carefully for a few seconds and then nodded with satisfaction: "Very well, it's exactly what I want. This is the legendary nine-fold seal script, right?"

"Yes, nine-fold seal script," Xu Jingxing said with a smile, "but it still needs to be adjusted, so don't worry."

"Okay, okay, don't worry, by the way, how did you know that I like this style? Didn't you leak the truth from my sketches?"

"Hey, you're really right. Those sketches are quite interesting. They are all in seal characters, and they are in a style with a full layout and well-proportioned lines. Your preferences will be obvious at a glance."

"Sure enough, it's a professional, okay, how do you adjust it?"

"There are many places to adjust, this is just a general idea, the nine-fold seal is just a style of seal cutting, details such as borders, lines, gaps, corners, etc. must be carefully considered, and the layers of strokes are even more stroke-by-stroke. Arrange it, otherwise it will be ugly," Xu Jingxing said to Zheng Sijin while redesigning, "Sijin, please come here with peace of mind."

Sun Yuying was a little surprised: "Has An Xin started to learn seal cutting?"

"No, let her open her eyes. You don't have to learn seal carving, but you must understand it. After all, it is also a relatively important classification in the craft of carving." Xu Jingxing said with a smile: "When she first followed me , that’s how I teach while doing it.”

"It's really a good idea."

"The applicability is not wide, so you can rest assured that you are talented. Otherwise, it will be useless if I demonstrate it hundreds of times. The apprentice I just accepted is stupid to death. I can only teach it step by step."

"Teach students in accordance with their aptitude. They are lucky to have such a good teacher as you."

Xu Jingxing grinned, and waved to An Xin who came out: "Listen carefully, I will tell you about the three methods of seal cutting, that is, the nine-fold seal script in the seal layout technique, what is the nine-fold seal script? A type of "Guochaoguanyin" popular in the Song Dynasty. The biggest feature is that the strokes are folded many times, ranging from three to five times, and as many as nine times and ten times. The reason why it is called nine folds does not mean that it can only be folded nine times. times, but the virtual finger folds many times, as for how many times to fold in practical applications, it all depends on the needs.

"For example, Mr. Sun's chapter now has a lot of printed characters and complicated strokes, and the size of the printed surface is limited, so the strokes of a single character must not be folded too much. The space is limited. If the strokes are folded so many times, it will be too crowded. gone."

An Xin blinked her eyes: "Master, since the folding of the strokes in the nine-fold seal script would waste space, why not use other seal scripts?"

Xu Jingxing nodded gratifiedly: "Good question, I have two answers to this question, one, your Teacher Sun likes this style, two, although the nine-fold seal script is a waste of space, but when dealing with complicated strokes When writing, it can play an excellent role in sorting out, and can straighten out the chaotic and complicated strokes one by one according to the style of the nine-fold seal script."

"Then, can't other layout methods have the effect of straightening out?"

"Yes, but it will be much worse than the nine-fold seal script, especially the seal brought by Mr. Sun is a regular square, and the nine-fold seal script can cover the seal surface of this shape to the greatest extent."

While answering An Xin's question, Xu Jingxing started to draw pictures. In order to explain more clearly to An Xin, he drew very slowly, and even drew some patterns of other thoughts to facilitate An Xin's understanding, and he was not at all annoying.

Not only is it not annoying, but also very happy.

Because An Xin's questions were all on the key ideas, it was the result of careful thinking at first glance.

And this far exceeded his expectations, because An Xin had never been in contact with seal cutting, and it was the first time he had told An Xin about these things.

The first lecture had such a good effect, no wonder he was unhappy.

For this reason, he even talked a little more in-depth, talking about a lot of tricks other than the nine-fold seal script.

Talking and drawing at the same time, he drew seven or eight design drawings in less than half an hour, all of which are nine-fold seal script, but the same nine-fold seal script has a different layout. The strokes of each character are stacked and There are differences in size and location, and there are even versions in Zhu and Bai.

The so-called Zhuwen version means that the printed text on the paper is mainly red, corresponding to the printed surface, and the lines of the text need to protrude from the printed surface.

The white text printing is just the opposite. The text and patterns printed on the paper are blank, corresponding to the printed surface, those lines naturally need to be recessed.

The two engraving methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, but when engraving relatively dense lines, generally speaking, Zhuwenyin is the main method, because Zhuwenyin only needs to be engraved with a single line, the workload is small, and the difficulty of engraving is low. Save space, apply as little knife work as possible on the stamp surface to increase the strength of the stamp stone.

Of course, the two engraving methods of Zhu and Bai have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they are not distinct. They can exist together on the same seal, but it requires more sophisticated composition and knife techniques.

In the drafts drawn by Xu Jingxing, there are similar attempts. This is called "Zhu Baifa" in the seal cutting industry. Adding the Zhubai method to the symmetrical layout, the symmetrical two halves of the screen, one Zhu and the other white, can simply show excellent artistic rendering and greatly enhance the visual beauty.

In addition to this simplest method of use, there are many advanced usage techniques.

It's just that now, these complicated techniques are not very useful, he only drew it as a demonstration for An Xin.

In fact, the most useful composition is the simplest and most plain nine-fold seal script in white script, because there are too many words and the lines are too dense.

But even so, it is quite difficult to arrange the fourteen characters clearly, not only to convert the simplified characters into seal characters, but also to convert them into the pattern of elongated, curved and layered strokes required by the nine-fold seal script.

Among the several sketches he drew, the one with the most layers has a total of 22 layers of horizontal lines. If you look at it for someone who does not know seal characters, it is completely ghost-like. The picture is almost full of horizontal lines, densely packed. Filled with a whole square frame.

Of course, there are also those with fewer layers, "only" fifteen layers.

But there are only so many strokes in the characters, no matter how they are changed, they will still be those fourteen characters, and they must fill the entire frame, and they must create that simple, straightforward but majestic visual effect.

Normal fonts definitely don’t have so many horizontal strokes, and they definitely can’t hold up, but the essence of the nine-fold seal script lies in the adjustment of the strokes. In the nine-fold seal script, there are only two kinds of strokes, horizontal and vertical. Except for the vertical strokes, the rest of the strokes are almost All can be changed into horizontal strokes, and the strokes with bends will naturally be converted into folds between horizontal strokes. In this way, no matter how complicated the font is, it can be replaced by horizontal and vertical strokes, plus appropriate extension , This layer upon layer of nine stacks of seal characters will be there.

(End of this chapter)