Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Sand art!
While ng Fan was being humored by this “Into the Sand” song, a form of art classification appeared in his mind.
Drawing as an art couldn’t be perford or be suitable for performance… until sand painting appeared.
The art form of ‘sand painting’ appeared relatively late in history and even later in the eyes of the public. Initially, sand painting was just static sand painting. Using glue or latex as a base layer, people would sprinkle sand over it to create art. Slowly, a more dynamic form of sand painting was developed in the late 1970s until recently where it had beco popular.
Sand painting performances were epheral. When combined with its unique charm, staging, and beautiful background music, it allowed the audience to enter a fantastic realm of visual enjoynt with a high value for appreciation.
ng Fan wasn’t sure what was the first song that accompanied the first live sand painting, but he knew the most famous combination in China—the music video for Eason Chen’s “Nothing to do”.
He was very sure that sand painting could be incorporated into a large performance, especially a fast-tracked sand painting performance.
If he had incredible sand drawing skills and proposed to accompany Bai Zhi… as an artist… It wouldn’t be difficult for her to recomnd him to the organizer, and they would most likely agree as well.
If ng Fan wanted to be good at being a backup singer or dancer, it would be very difficult, since these skills required him to learn starting from the basics. Even if he had 8 music sense and could learn much faster than a regular person, it would be a long ti in order for him to reach an “incredible” level.
However, sand painting was different. ng Fan’s current drawing skills were at 23. In addition to his existing attributes, he was godlike!
Plus, this 23 drawing skill wasn’t just for manga. It included a wide scope of other artistic diums, only he had never tried them before. If it was impossible to have 23 for every category when he first started, he could just familiarize himself and adapt to the dium.
How long would that take him though?
It would take a long ti to reach 23 level, but it should take no ti to reach 10 or 15 level, which was more than enough!
The attributes of imagination, set design, scriptwriting, etc were all required for the creativity involved in creating sand painting performances. Also, ng Fan had a hand speed of 16, which was perfect for real-ti sand painting!
No no no!
At this mont, ng Fan felt that the attribute value he had just described wasn’t that accurate because an alert had just sounded in his mind.
“Ding! The total number of collectors for your manga has reached 1 million, completing the [Collector of Millions] task. Reward: 100 points.”
“Ding! You’ve completed the [Collector of Millions] Task, receiving the title [Collector of Millions] (Drawing skills 3, set design 3, screenwriting 3)”
The number of collectors for his manga had already reached 800,000 in the last few days and had been increasing since then. When ng Fan uploaded the latest chapter yesterday, the two books had accumulated just over 900,000 collectors. In a day, it had gathered 100,000 collectors; this data was sowhat abnormal.
One would understand the reason for this abnormality after one opened the manga.
There were several comnts and ssages below it that were related to the concert. They must have been curious after watching the stream and searched ng Fan up and naturally found the manga under related searches.
With the attribute bonus that ca with this title, ng Fan’s attributes had improved another step further. His drawing skills wouldn’t change much, but his set design and screenwriting skills had been doubled which was very helpful.
“Who knew that after finishing this task, the attributes won’t be used on the manga first but sand painting.”
The car arrived at the community quickly. ng Fan thanked the driver and headed ho. Right away, he dug up several videos relating to sand painting performances. It was already pretty late when he left the gathering place, and by the ti he finished watching everything, it was past 3:00 am already.
The next day, he went for his morning run and naturally ran into Wu Tong. ng Fan pretended as if the singing and confession did not happen the previous day, and Wu Tong seed her usual self as well. They ward up. They did their run and chatted. After their run, while they stretched, Wu Tong suddenly said, “A lot of netizens think your version of the song sounded better than the original. I listened to it several tis, and I think they are right.”
ng Fan paused for a mont. What was the aning of this?!
Wu Tong then changed the subject. “You, will you beco a singer?”
ng Fan shook his head very decisively. “Probably not. In fact, my singing is very average. This song only sounded good because of the sentint involved. Anything else won’t sound this good.”
“Oh.”
This ti, Wu Tong did not bluntly inform him of his flirting. Instead, she switched her stretching position to a direction that didn’t face ng Fan.
Gulp.
Unwillingly, ng Fan gulped. Although he and Wu Tong often ward up, ran, and stretched together, he still wasn’t immune to the effects of so of the postures that she carried out.
Wu Tong was never one to take the sexy route, but sotis, she was deadly!
“Professor Wen.”
At 9:30 in the morning, ng Fan knocked on the door of an office.
“Is the famous singer here?”
Wen Wan, who had been pouring water, turned around and smiled at ng Fan. She teased him and asked, “Do you want tea or coffee?”
ng Fan was surprised at the friendliness. “Water is okay.”
Wen Wan placed the freshly poured water on the coffee table and gestured for ng Fan to sit. Curiously, she asked, “I heard Qin Jiao say you wanted to talk to ?”
The art of performing sand painting only beca popular in recent years. Nowadays, there were several famous sand painting artists, who mostly transferred from other artistic diums or studied it part-ti. So far, there hadn’t been a famous sand painting artist who had been studying the art from the beginning. Major art academies and colleges had only recently begun teaching sand painting courses.
Wen Wan also belonged to the group of people who picked up sand painting halfway. She received her art education from a young age and graduated from the National Academy of art. She specialized in drawing, oil painting, and gouache. In 2008, she was introduced to performing with sand art and could be considered one of the few female sand painters in China. She was a dynamic pioneer of sand painting who had excellent stage performance. Three years ago, she returned to her alma mater to teach part-ti while also running her own art studio.
If ng Fan wanted to learn sand painting, it wasn’t enough to just watch videos online. The Chinese saying goes, if he wanted to enter the pagoda, he had to earn the moon. It was pretty convenient to find a teacher at the Academy of Fine arts too.
Although Wen Wan didn’t have any teaching work today, she had received a call from Qin Jiao saying ng Fan had asked her to introduce him. She had originally planned to visit her studio but imdiately turned back toward the school.
It was one thing to respect Qin Jiao’s wishes, but more importantly, she had been very curious to et ng Fan in person.
If there was any student from the Academy that was famous, it was undoubtedly ng Fan. She heard of every kind of award and honor related to art, but ng Fan? He was fresh.
ng Fan nodded and got to the point. Very seriously, he said, “Professor, I want to learn sand painting.”
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