Metropolis: I Am a Full-Time Professional, Attracting Worldwide Attention

Chapter 139

Sculptor.

A profession whose professional ability is quite strong, but not well known by others.

It’s great because it requires extremely strong patience and fine carving.

The carving skills will directly determine the quality of the work.

As Gao Shu thought in his mind, sculpture, calligraphy, and traditional Chinese painting are indeed all within the category of works of art.

However, every industry has good and bad, and there are ordinary and masters.

It’s just that the status of masters in the carving industry is not as good as the masters of calligraphy and painting, and it can even be said to be a far cry.

Even the top carving master, the manual cost of a work is only hundreds of thousands.

There are indeed many sculptures that can sell for millions or even tens of millions at auction houses.

But in the first place, it is a minority, and secondly, most of those works are not owned by the sculptor.

Most of the works that can be sold at high prices are either historical objects that contain some antique elements themselves.

Otherwise, I didn’t know how many hands were turned, and finally was deliberately fired at a high price.

All in all, it is sold at a high price directly from the carver, no.

At least the price is about the same as that of masters of the same level in calligraphy and painting, no.

Even if it is a famous master in the carving world, a work carved out of good materials is hundreds of thousands, and it will be capped at a million or so.

But it is not easy to become a sculptor. You must first have some basic painting skills, especially sketching skills.

Because there are too many types of carvings, there are relief carvings, hollow carvings, and the most common carvings.

But no matter what kind of sculpture, the person who needs the sculpture needs to have a sense of space beyond ordinary people, and can imagine a finished product or a semi-finished product in his mind.

Not only that, before carving, you also need to draw a good drawing, and then use a pen to draw on the wood.

After all the preparations are done, carving can begin.

Therefore, most sculptors can write good characters and draw good pictures.

Master engravers, their calligraphy and painting skills, have been regarded as small achievements, half of their feet have entered the threshold of the calligraphy and painting industry.

Chen Xuan at this moment has only one feeling.

He felt that he could only give himself a knife, no matter what kind of knife, even a kitchen knife, he could carve a picture of Qingming Shanghe on a branch.

As long as he wants, he can do it.

Chen Xuan didn’t let Chen Xuan wait too long, but Gao Shu and the others came back with their things.

“I didn’t pay attention before, but now it looks really big.”

“This piece of wood is hundreds of thousands? It feels no different from the beam of my house.”

“Seriously, the beams of your house may be really unusual. When the house in my hometown collapsed before, I found out that the beams of the house were actually agarwood and sold for more than 60,000.”

“It’s possible in the old house, don’t think about it now.”

“Understood, I will go back to demolish the house.”

Chen Xuan circled the wood a few times and patted it. It was indeed golden nanmu.

This piece of wood can be two meters high and half a meter in diameter.

However, the price is still expensive.

Don’t worry about golden nanmu, mahogany walnut and so on, it’s actually the same.

The furniture and wood are all made by people, just like the old dog king Tibetan mastiff.

To be a real dog king, it has to be a mountain dog in the countryside.

The dog, who looks shameless, enters the mountain but dare not provoke a wild boar.

But this kind of mountain dog is scarce, even if there is, they won’t sell it.

“Ms. Chen, what should I do now?” Gao Shu asked.

“What do you want to carve?”

“Picture of beasts.”

“Huh?” Chen Xuan twitched his eyebrows: “In just two days, do you still want a picture of the beasts? Not to mention the beasts, you can’t sculpt a single animal.”

“Then what to do…”

“I’ll carve it for you.” Chen Xuan said casually.

Gao Shu fished out his ears and moved closer: “Ms. Chen, what are you talking about?”

“…” Special mother, who is this looking down on?

It’s not that you are my student, just the action of pulling your ears and kicking it over.

“I’ll carve it for you.” Chen Xuan said: “Why, can’t you trust the teacher?”

“I can’t believe it, or…” Gao Shumo Haw didn’t know what to say for a long time.

Han Yu summed up: “He is afraid that the teacher will not be good at carving.”

Gao Shu covered his mouth: “I didn’t say, Teacher Chen, I didn’t mean that…”

Liang Haoran: “Teacher Chen, can you carve?”

“Yes.” Chen Xuan knows what they are worried about. After all, he has never shown his ability in this area. It is normal to have this worry, and it is a problem not to worry.

The three of you look at me and I look at you, obviously they don’t believe it.

They want to say, otherwise Teacher Chen will show you something?

But they couldn’t say this, and they were in a dilemma for a while.

“They are doubting Brother Chen’s ability, Brother Chen, use your teacher’s coercion to deter them!”

“Er Deng dare to doubt my Brother Chen? Although I doubt it too.”

“Actually, carving is not difficult at all, at most it is a bit different. For example, what they want is a phoenix, and Brother Chen carved a chicken.”

“To be honest, the things that Brother Chen sculpted, if you can feel that it is a chicken, it is already very hanging.”

“It makes sense…”

Chen Xuan saw that they didn’t believe it, and didn’t really show it. Instead, he asked, “When is the school celebration?”

“There are two days left, the day after tomorrow.”

“In the past two days, tell me, who can sculpt a picture of a beast?”

“This…” It seems to be so.

“Anyway, others can’t sculpt it out. You put this piece of wood on it. Show it to me. In case there is a surprise, right?”

“Hmm…” They found that they couldn’t find a point to refute.

Chen Xuan said: “Okay, leave the things to me, and you will get them in two days.”

“Teacher Chen.”

“you say.”

“Otherwise, let’s just buy a finished product.”

“It’s not necessary.” Chen Xuan said: “You come to me in two days, I will give you a finished product, no manual fee will be charged.””It’s not the teacher’s bragging rights, just the teacher’s craftsmanship, the carved objects, the museum is rushing to collect, believe it or not? When you give this to the school as a school celebration gift, remember to report my name, after all, I Also participated.”

“teacher……”

“Okay, what should I do?”

Chen Xuan waved his hand, turned around and went into the house.

The three of them stood at the door, and Gao Shu said, “What should I do?”

“What else can I do, this wood is useless.”

“Then what shall we buy? It is estimated that it will not be long before we have to be on the hot search. Everyone knows that we are going to give gifts to the school, but nothing will be given at that time. It will be the school’s face that will be passed out.”

“Go to the antique market and see if you can try your luck.”

The three left in despair.

After Chen Xuan entered the house, he said to a few people: “I won’t be here for two days. When the day after tomorrow, I will come back and make a final decision with you.”

“Ms. Chen walk slowly.”

Chen Xuan waved his hand without looking back, pushing the cart and heading straight to his dormitory.

“Let me say, such a good wood is actually the most suitable for a coffin.”

“Puff~ Be careful Brother Chen hits you along the network cable, Brother Chen can really find you along the network cable!”

“The material is really good, if Brother Chen is not in a hurry, I can help you process it for free.”

Chen Xuan dragged the wood all the way back to the dormitory, with a high rate of return.

After entering the yard, he put the wood in the yard, patted his hands, took out his phone and found Tao Yuan’s number.

“Hey, Teacher Tao, I want to ask you for something.”

“What’s the matter, just speak up.” Tao Yuan was surprised when he suddenly received a call from Chen Xuan.

This is so rare, he couldn’t think of anything Chen Xuan could find out about himself.

What happened last week, the heat hasn’t completely subsided yet.

On a cruise trip, Chen Xuan earned 7.1 billion. With this worth, he really couldn’t think of what he could do to help.

Chen Xuan did not speak directly either. Although the two have known each other for a while, they also exchanged calligraphy, and the relationship is good.

But he was asking for help, and he was an elder at his age, so it was not polite and respectful to speak directly.

“Ms. Tao, do you have time at night? If you have time, call Teacher Yu, let’s get together at night.”

“no problem.”

“Then I have to trouble Master Tao to set a place. I’m not very familiar with demons. It’s really troublesome.”

“What’s the trouble? Just wait for a word. I’ll tell you the address in a while.”

“good.”

After hanging up the phone, Chen Xuan didn’t run around, just waited quietly.

He asked Tao Yuan to introduce a master engraver.

He wants to buy a set of tools specially used for wood carving from the master carver.

If you want to say that you can buy it online, but there is a time difference when you come online, and no matter how fast it is, it will have to be tomorrow.

Chen Xuan estimated that with such a large piece of wood, he has the ability of a master woodcarver, and he works day and night, so it would take two days to carve it out.

There must be a little too late in time.

The most important point is that Chen Xuan is worried that the quality of the Internet is not good, and the wood carvings are very delicate, and there must be a process of running-in.New things are not necessarily easy to use, and if half of it breaks down, it is really troublesome.

The easiest way is to ask Tao Yuan and them to introduce them. It would be best if they can borrow a complete set of carving tools.

In about half an hour, Tao Yuan returned a call and told him the address.

Chen Xuan hung up the phone and looked at the place. It was near the school, which was obviously taking care of himself.

Soon, in the evening, Chen Xuan took rhubarb to dinner.

When it arrives, it is a box.

In the house, the three of them have a dog, and the dishes are over five flavors. Chen Xuan understands the meaning.

Hearing what he said, Tao Yuan nodded and said, “I really have a sculptor friend. He respects your handwriting very much. Last time you wrote me that handwriting, he came three times a week. Don’t mention that I like it too much.”

“Is it Old Xu?” Yu Qianhe asked.

“Yes, it’s Old Xu.”

Yu Qian said peacefully: “Old Xu’s hand-carving skills are really nothing to say. Sometimes there are things to be repaired at the Magic Capital Museum, and the dean comes to him personally.”

“If you want to borrow his tools… I think it’s a bit unsettled.”

Yu Qianhe shook his head: “He doesn’t have much hobbies, painting, writing, wood, and then there is his set of precious tools. This is the same as our writing, the four treasures of the study, the best is to keep for your own use. Yes, it is usually not borrowed or touched.”

Chen Xuan said: “Or the two teachers will help me contact this teacher Xu. I will only borrow it for two days, and the original will be returned after two days. If there is any damage, I will ask someone to restore it with raw materials one to one. Just now Teacher Tao said, Teacher Xu likes my handwriting? Then, I will give Teacher Xu another handwriting.”

The last sentence made the two of them almost stared out.

“Hey, no need, no need…”

As soon as Tao Yuan waved his hand, the mobile phone on the table rang, and he looked at the phone: “Hey, as soon as he said to him, he called.”

“Wait, I will answer the call.”

“Hey, Old Xu…”

“It’s not necessary. Teacher Chen gave it to me. Why did you reject it? I just like his word. It’s not a tool. Let alone two days, I will borrow it for two hundred days. It’s okay if it’s broken!”

Before Tao Yuan said a few words, he heard the roar of the Hedong Lion from the opposite side of Lao Xu ringing in the box through his mobile phone.

Tao Yuan looked at Chen Xuan with a look of embarrassment. Chen Xuan smiled and said, “Teacher Tao, you can help me tell Teacher Xu that the words are okay, what he likes, what I write for him, as long as I don’t dislike my cheap four treasures of the study. Just fine.”

“Ahem, old Xu, did you hear that?”

“I heard I heard, you ask Teacher Chen to wait for me, I will send him the tools.”

Chen Xuan said: “Don’t worry…”

However, before finishing speaking, Old Xu had already hung up the phone, apparently on his way here.

Tao Yuan said: “Don’t pay attention to him, let him come. I guess he is watching your live broadcast. Hearing you say you want to send him a word, I think he can’t sleep tonight.”

“I’m crying with envy, Chen Ge’s words are worth tens of millions!”

“Brother Chen, send me a picture too.”

After they finished their meal, they chatted in the box for more than half an hour, and there was a knock on the door.

Lao Xu is here. He is about the same age as Tao Yuan, but he is very tall, one-meter-eight, wearing a pair of glasses, wearing ordinary clothes, and carrying a 21-inch box in his hand.

“Old Xu is here.” Tao Yuan and the two got up and went to greet each other.

Chen Xuan also got up quickly: “Hello, Teacher Xu.”

“Mr. Chen, hello, hello.” Mr. Xu put down the box and shook hands with Chen Xuan: “These are the tools I usually use for carving. Basically all the tools are here. If you look back, I will give it to you. come over.”

“Trouble Mr. Xu.”

“What’s the problem with this.”

“Old Xu, you are too generous, we come to meet you, do you even look at us with your eyes?”

“Isn’t this busy talking to Teacher Chen.” Teacher Xu came to sit down, and did not take the initiative to mention Chen Xuan’s writing.

When he arrived on the road, he understood what happened and knew that Chen Xuan was going to carve a piece of wood as a gift for the 116th anniversary of Magic University.

This matter is definitely the most important thing at the moment. You can write words at any time, not in a hurry.

Talking until nine o’clock in the evening, Tao Yuan said: “It’s too early, let’s go back, Teacher Chen, you should go back soon.”

After going out, Chen Xuan separated from them when they reached the gate of the university.

He dragged the box and walked towards the dormitory with Rhubarb.

The box is very heavy, it’s less than a hundred catties, and I don’t know what brand the box is. The quality is really good.

Teacher Xu’s physical fitness is not bad, and it is not easy for ordinary people to drag such a heavy box.

Back to the dormitory, Chen Xuan put the box in the living room and rested after washing.

The next morning, after dinner, I took my rhubarb and strolled around the campus. It was already eight o’clock when I returned.

Chen Xuan dragged the box into the yard, then circled the wood twice, and said: “This wood is really good, it’s 130,000 yuan, it’s still a bit expensive.”

“If you are expensive, what do you expect them to know about a group of children who are still in school?”

“A group of children who go to school are worth more than ten million…”

“Don’t mention this, numb, it’s okay to find any blows.”

Chen Xuan clapped his hands and said, “First move the wood down.”

He hugged the wood with his hands left and right, lifted it a little, and felt it immediately.

The weight of this wood is about three or four tons.

Regardless of the wood is not high, but the density of the golden nanmu is high, only this piece, at least three tons.

Chen Xuan exerted force with both hands, his arm muscles were like horned dragons, and the veins burst out. He hugged the wood in a very relaxed posture and placed it on the ground in the yard.

“If Brother Chen didn’t show such a hand, I would almost forget that you are a muscular maniac.”

“You still have to look at my brother Chen to look at the muscles, even if the weather is not cold anymore, I suggest Brother Chen can be naked every morning from now on.”

“Come on, Brother Chen, when your work is finished, I will collect it for 130 yuan!”

“Puff~ Do you really want to pick up the leak.”

“Although Brother Chen can’t carve any good things, no matter how bad it is, you can still sell a few thousand yuan with this golden nanmu material.”

Although this group of sand sculpture netizens said afterwards that Chen Xuan must not be underestimated, but whenever Chen Xuan really did something he had never done before, they subconsciously believed that Chen Xuan could not do it.

No way, is it human nature?

After Chen Xuan moved the wood down, he squatted down and opened the box.

This is a special box, opened and spread out on the ground, all kinds of tools are densely arranged in a neat row.

Files, carving knives, drill knives, push knives, wire saws…

All tools are available, quite complete.

Chen Xuan just glanced at it and was sure that there were all the tools he needed in this box.

And to the point where he is, it doesn’t really need much to carve an object.

A carving knife is enough!

However, when there is no extra tool to choose from, there are some choices. Naturally, the more the better.

“So many knives? Damn, I really want to look at it.”

“These things look really good. I loved to play with this when I was a kid.””They are all old pieces, but the time is a little longer, but it can be seen that the quality is good, at least it can last more than ten years.”

Chen Xuan grabbed a small axe with a wooden handle. The axe was not big, but very sharp.

He grabbed the axe, stood in front of the wood, and circled it two more times, and finally stood in front of the wood and closed his eyes.

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He is constructing a finished product of what he wants to carve in his mind.

Slowly overlap the appearance of the finished product with the wood in front of it, and then determine an approximate thickness and width.

Cut off the excess part directly with an axe.

After closing his eyes for about ten seconds, Chen Xuan opened his eyes again.

Looking at this piece of wood again, in his eyes, the wood has already been marked with invisible marks.

Chen Xuan has an extremely detailed level of where the axe in his hand should be smashed, how hard it should be, and from what angle.

“The day after tomorrow is the school celebration. I don’t have much time left. I will try to finish the wood carving before tomorrow night.”

Chen Xuan said, raising the axe in his hand, raising the axe in his hand, and hitting the wood with a “swish” before smashing it down.

A large piece of wood was chopped off and fell to the ground.

Everyone watched, Chen Xuan kept cleaving the wood in front of him, and it seemed that there was no way of writing at all, let alone carving skills.

Are you telling me that this is a carving?

Diao you uncle!

“Brother Chen, you deserve it!”

“While slow work leads to meticulous work, and what is true in the details, my brother Chen only believes that great efforts can produce miracles!”

“Stop talking, I want 500 yuan for this work!”

“I’m out of 800!”

Brother Chen slashed the wood drastically, and the netizens watched it loudly.

In another place, Gao Shu also had breakfast right now, and took a taxi with Liang Haoran and Han Yu to go to the antique market, hoping to shop for something.

In the car, Gao Shu was bored and turned on his phone to see what Chen Xuan was doing.

I still want to see what Chen Xuan wants to do with that piece of wood.

As soon as the live broadcast room opened, I saw Chen Xuan holding a sharp axe and chopping wood, showing him the ultimate explosive aesthetics.

It was so explosive that Gao Shu’s emotions followed for a while.

For a long time, a sentence popped out: Damn!

“What’s the matter?” Liang Haoran looked over, glanced at the phone, and followed in the next second: Damn!

Han Yu looked over in confusion. The picture on the screen surprised him, but it was only surprised.

“What is Ms. Chen doing?” Han Yu was surprised when he was surprised.

Liang Haoran said: “Isn’t it because you can’t make the sculpture, so you are very angry?”

“Uh…impossible.”

“It seems possible.”

Otherwise, they really can’t understand why the usual patience, gentle and elegant Teacher Chen would be so irritable.

They estimate that this is a high probability.

Gao Shu blamed himself: “I shouldn’t bother Teacher Chen.”

“Otherwise… let’s go to Teacher Chen.””Don’t go now.” Han Yu shook his head and calmly analyzed: “Ms. Chen is now getting angry. He might be even more angry when he sees us.”

…… ……… …

“Then what to do?”

“Let’s go shopping first, choose the gifts to celebrate the school anniversary before going over. Then tell Teacher Chen that there is no need to carve, it should be better.”

“we can only do this.”

They sighed and looked at Chen Xuan who was chopping wood crazily, feeling very guilty.

…

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“Teacher Chen!”

Outside the yard, shouts sounded.

Chen Xuan stopped the axe in his hand and turned his head to look over. He was a little surprised when he saw the visitors.

He walked over, opened the gate of the courtyard, and invited a few people in: “Teacher Xu, Teacher Tao, why are you here?”

The people here are the three of Tao Yuan.

Tao Yuan said: “Old Xu is afraid that you have any problems with carving. He happened to be fine for the past two days, so he will come to see if there is anything that can help you.”

“Thank you for a trip, Mr. Xu.” Chen Xuan thanked him. Although he could do it alone, even though Mr. Xu would have to shout in front of him regarding his sculpting ability, they were kind, and everyone was very kind. Come, is it possible to let people go again?

“Sit down, I’ll make you a cup of tea.”

“Don’t be so troublesome, you are busy with you, we brought water.”

“That’s fine. If you drink tea for a while, you can go to the house to boil water. I’m not polite with you, nor should you be polite with me.”

To explain a few words, Chen Xuan walked over and continued to sculpt…No, it continued to hack.

“Swish!”

Seeing Chen Xuan swinging his axe and slashing horizontally and vertically, Yu Qianhe asked, “Old Xu, is this a carving?”

Looking at Chen Xuan, who was a reckless man, Mr. Xu was lost in thought.

What is this…what is it?

He had a serious face, pretending not to hear Yu Qianhe’s words, making them look like he was looking seriously at the moment.

Well, yes, that’s it, so I won’t be embarrassed.

I am not embarrassed, no one will be embarrassed.

But his expression in the eyes of Tao Yuan and Tao Yuan was the silent communication between the insider and the insider.

This makes them anxious.

“Old Xu, you have something to say.”

“Ms. Chen, what are you doing?”

“I haven’t seen such a carving. Is it possible that this is the legendary big opening?”

And Teacher Xu, at this moment, finally saw something.

He said unsurely: “Ms. Chen should be finalizing.”

“Finishing?” Tao Yuan said, “I remember when you set the shape, you always have a draft and then draw lines on the wood. Why didn’t I see the lines on the wood?”

They are not professional, but they have seen Mr. Xu carving several times.

They have never eaten pork, but they have seen pigs run.

Teacher Xu was also puzzled: “Styling is to draw lines, Teacher Chen, this…”

He suddenly stopped talking. As an expert, Mr. Xu has too much say in woodcarving.

The more you want to sculpt smaller objects, the more detailed the shape must be.

Chen Xuan didn’t draw lines on wood at all, and picked up an axe to chop. Seriously, he hadn’t seen it.

And Chen Xuan is more than just an indeterminate shape. He didn’t even take a charcoal pencil, and he didn’t draw a rough outline on the wood.

This situation has led to it. As long as Chen Xuan doesn’t say anything, no one knows what he wants to carve.

Teacher Xu went down to read, but he didn’t even see the manuscript.

He frowned and said, “Mr. Chen, there are generally two situations.”

“Which two?”

“The first type, he doesn’t know anything about wood carving.”

“What about the second one?”

“The second…” Teacher Xu narrowed his eyes: “Blind carving!”

“What is a blind carving?”

“Ms. Chen has eyes.”

“??” Teacher Xu said silently: “Blind carving is not a blind carving, but a carving technique. There are only carving tools and wood in the whole process. No drafts or shapes are drawn. The whole process depends entirely on the finished picture in my mind. .”

The two of them were suddenly stunned, and everyone understood what it meant.

Teacher Xu said: “This carving technique is very difficult, and I’m not sure if he wants to do it…”

“Can you do it?”

“Me? I sculpted a few pieces when I was young, but now it’s not good, I’m old.”

Teacher Xu shook his head, and it was impossible for him to blindly sculpt him now.

And he is not sure whether Chen Xuan does not understand or is blind carving.

He is biased towards the former in his heart.

After all, Chen Xuan’s age and his identity do not seem to be able to blindly sculpt.

However, after a while, he changed his mind.

“Huh!”

After Chen Xuan finished the last axe, he put the axe aside and took out a carving knife.

He stood in front of the mess of wood that he had chopped with an axe, and the appearance of the finished piece of wood emerged in his heart.

What he wants to carve is not a picture of beasts, but a totem of Daxia, the dragon!

A hovering dragon, about to soar into the sky!

He stepped forward, the carving knife in his hand had already fallen, and he pressed it against the wood with a click, and then made a long arc with a stroke.

At this moment, Teacher Xu was shocked.

From now on, Chen Xuan, who was focusing on carving, felt a very mysterious state, just like the realm of the combination of man and knife pursued by ancient warriors.

In addition to this state, he also confirmed one thing from Chen Xuan’s technique of holding the carving knife, and without hesitation in dropping the knife, like flowing water and flowing water.

He knows how to sculpt!

And, it’s still a connoisseur of connoisseurs!

For a moment, he looked at Chen Xuan, as if looking at his master.

There is no stereotype, no manuscript, so… he is really blind carving! small.