Soul Painter

Finish the work every day.

　　 After drinking a glass of beer at the bar.

　　 Gao Fan and Anna will return to the city hall two blocks north, in the apartment they rented.

　　 This apartment is three stories high and is rented as a whole. Anna lives on the second floor, Gao Fan lives on the third floor, and the first floor is full of sketches of Bstn citizens.

　　 By mid-June, there were already more than 30,000 sketches.

At the end of April, the Guinness World Records had certified that Gao Fan was the painter who drew the most sketches and characters for the creation of an oil painting in the world. The last holder of this record was Tintoretto. He is said to have made nearly 3,000 sketches for the group portrait "Heaven".

　　 Gao Fan even got an award certificate issued by King's Company.

　　 To be honest, this is the first certificate he has won in his life.

　　 Although the source is strange, Gao Fan still placed it in the most conspicuous position on the first floor of the apartment.

According to common sense, since the two painters have worked so hard to paint more than 30,000 portraits, and even spent nearly 4 million US dollars for this, they should be preserved. However, this is not the case. Speaking of 30,000 paintings There are many, but if they are piled up in a pile, they will only occupy one corner of the first floor, and they will be piled up here casually.

　　 There are more than 300 sketches added to this pile of paper every day. The random placement of the whole paper will make others think that their destination may just be a paper shredder.

Today, after Gao Fan and Anna threw a pile of drawing papers in it as usual, the two closed the curtains, like demon merchants who bought a lot of souls, and began to secretly check today’s gains, yes, the real gains are in In the hall of inspiration shared by the two of them, their real painting is the large canvas of .2 x meters placed in the middle of the first floor at the moment.

　　The painting on it is the real "Bostonian".

　　 Gao Fan and Anna brought inspiration from the Hall of Inspiration to complete this unprecedented great work.

Every night, they will compare the Bstn city with more Bstn people in the hall of inspiration, and fill in a few strokes on this work. Since the sketch of all the Bstn people has not yet been completed, the creation of this final product is still In the primer stage, the lines on the canvas were painted repeatedly, but it was never really completed, nor did it enter the stage of painting.

　　 So the large bottles of mysterious oil that Gao Fan hid behind the sofa were of no use.

　　 And its validity period is six months left.

　　 But today, there is a breakthrough.

　　 is painting more than 30,000 portraits of representatives of the Bstn family, which is equivalent to recording the...souls of 150,000 to 180,000 Bstn people? Should the word soul be used?

　　 Gao Fan feels that they are not doing simple sketches. They seem to have drawn the souls of these Bstn people into the hall of inspiration brought by the skills of the ‘world’.

　　 But Gao Fan is not willing to use the word ‘soul’. This word seems too evil, so Gao Fan thinks it’s better to say ‘portrait’.

　　 After making facial sketches for 150,000 Bstn people, Gao Fan and Anna have summarized the most basic things. The first thing is the overall facial features of Bstn people.

　　 "Their faces can have such a structure." Anna drew a stroke on the painting.

As Gao Fan imagined, this stroke outlines a face that looks like a man or a woman, whether old or young, worker and white-collar worker, rich and poor. It is very eclectic and very subtle, allowing everyone to follow Find your own shadow among them.

　　 "Impossible." Gao Fan praised, he praised Anna, "You seem to divide everyone's face by 100,000, and find the best common divisor from it~"

Anna's breathing was short, this kind of compliment was what she dreamed of, but she didn't speak, just watching Gao Fan take out his paint mysteriously from behind the sofa, and then use a thin pen to draw the lines for Anna. I traced a faint edge. Oil painting does not have such a painting method. In order to ensure the validity period of the dye, this is the last resort. It means that every line must be accurate, because this painting can only be created once. If you shovel it away, It will not be able to reproduce.

　　 And once Gao Fan attached color to this line, Anna's breathing instantly stopped.

At this moment, she can see more than one hundred thousand faces in the hall of inspiration. Her line is obtained by dividing these hundred thousand by one hundred thousand. Although there is only one line, it is already her paintings and demons. The highest comprehension of painting techniques.

But at this moment, after Gao Fan re-strokes her line with a fine pen, before her eyes, this painting and that line seemed to suddenly bloom, like a stone thrown into the center of a wave and a layer of water in the lake. The cascading ripples resemble the spring breeze blowing the branches and buds, and the fine and dense flower cores blooming in the buds are also like dimensional formulas that are spread out in an instant. Numerous beautiful and harmonious possibilities bloom from this line. Come.

　　 It is and it is infinite.

　　 This is a real miracle.

　　 Anna defined this line drawn with magical paint from the dual fields of mathematics and painting. If there is infinity, it is the beginning of infinity, and if there is a god, it is the manifestation of god.

　　……

　　 on this night.

　　All Bstn people.

　　 Whether in a dream or a night owl who is still not sleeping.

　　 At this moment when Gao Fan started writing, feeling a sign of apocalypse.

First they felt their cheeks, as if being touched by someone lightly, the touch was gentle, as if God was present, and then, many of them, those with more sensitive intuition, turned their heads unanimously. Go, glanced in the direction of the city government, as if there was something calling their souls over there.

　　 It's just that this kind of touch and call is soft and almost nothing, just like an inspiration suddenly struck, and it passed by quickly, and it did not leave any trace in the hearts of Bstn people.

　　……

　　 By the painter's side, Anna looked at the painting that had only dropped a single stroke of color, marveling, frowning, and thinking.

She suddenly exclaimed: "I have an inspiration, I saw a formula, oh my god, it can be used to express the whole world, I want to use it to create the background of this painting~www.readwn.com~that must It's like a miracle."

what is that? Gao Fan waited for Anna to show him, what kind of inspiration will this dual genius of mathematics and art get from this magical ‘infinite’ paint?

　　 When Anna showed Gao Fan, Gao Fan's eyes suddenly widened.

"Awesome!" Gao Fan looked at the city in the background behind the portrait that Anna had drawn on the canvas. He realized the value of this schematic drawing method, and he couldn't help but admire it from the bottom of his heart. That’s amazing! Only you can draw it!"

　　……

the next day.

　　 Lawrence came to take the two painters to work as usual.

　　 and brought breakfast and lunch. The breakfast was rich. He prepared meat, eggs and milk. Lunch was only sandwiches. Because the painters were busy sketching, they would not have time for a more formal lunch.

He knew that the pile of sketch paper on the first floor was not a real work. The large painting in the center of the first floor was the final finished product. So when he saw this painting today, a face appeared. When the silhouette of the face, I was a little surprised, and said to Gao Fan and Anna: "The silhouette of this face is worth five million dollars."

　　 Gao Fan didn't know whether Lawrence was complimenting him or complaining, so he ignored him.

　　 "These manuscripts, if you no longer need them, let me collect them. If this "Bstn Man" is really famous, the value of these manuscripts is also extraordinary." Lawrence said again.

　　 Gao Fan made a gesture of ‘whatever you want’. Anyway, those faces are already in the hall of inspiration.

　　 "They are only worth five million." Gao Fan added, "I gave it to you."