Recently, a small group of people in Nanping, Fujian Province, created a video of 3D paintings in rural fields, which attracted hundreds of millions of netizens on an overseas social platform. In front of a private house in Xushi Town, Jianyang District, Nanping City, the reporter met the protagonist in the video, Zhang Shixian. He was drawing with charcoal and chalk, but within ten minutes, a "3D pit" was in front of people's eyes. "At the beginning, I was painting and playing, but I didn't expect it to catch fire." Zhang Shixian said to reporters with some embarrassment.
Zhang Shixian in the creation of southeast network reporter Wen Liuting photo
Zhang Shixian, whose real name is Zhang Shuping, is from Wulanchabu, Inner Mongolia, and his wife Lan Meng is a native of Xushi Town, Jianyang District, Nanping City, and the two of them made a living in Hangzhou. At the end of 2020, due to the epidemic, the post-90s couple returned to Lanmeng's hometown of Jianyang Xushi together. Unexpectedly, the talent for painting and the fashionable online video platform brought them a different life.
Magical 3D stereoscopic painting
3D painting first appeared in the 16th century, Western street culture gave birth to the trend of 3D painting, and there are already many well-known 3D artists abroad. From a certain point of view, these figures have a very strong sense of three-dimensionality, just like the three-dimensional object, and the visual effect is very amazing.
"The effect of this painting is good or bad for the perspective." Zhang Shixian explained while observing the picture effect through the angled mobile phone.
Zhang Shixian's friend Xiao Liu praised his paintings: "I think his paintings are quite realistic, from a certain point of view, it seems to be immersive, sometimes passing by may be startled by his paintings, he can paint wherever he goes." ”
Villagers and children like to watch Zhang Shixian's creation Southeast Network reporter Wen Liuting photographed
In the process of painting, it gradually attracted many villagers to come and watch. Villagers say that the first time they see it in reality, such a painting is too interesting. More interested people go to the painting to perform. The children in the village are very interested in Zhang Shixian's paintings, and when they pass by, they will cheerfully call him "Zhang Shixian who paints", and in their eyes, they probably think that Zhang Shixian's paintings are too magical.
After painting, Zhang Shixian invited the villagers to perform in front of the camera, and the vivid performance also doubled the realistic effect of the 3D painting. Therefore, some netizens commented under Zhang Shixian's video: "He was a painter when he painted, and after painting he became an actor." ”
Self-taught grassroots painter
Zhang Shixian was interested in painting since he was a child, and formally studied sketching for a year in high school, but later dropped out of school because his family could not afford tuition. After entering the society early, he worked as a security guard and also opened a studio, and in the past ten years, from Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Shandong, to Zhejiang and Fujian, he has traveled to many provinces and cities. Eventually, he became a wall painter in Hangzhou to support the construction of new rural areas.
Zhang Shixian, who returned to his hometown in Fujian province with his wife, was idle at home, but he still couldn't stop the brush in his hand, and scribbled and painted as soon as he had time. Once cooking on the ground and inadvertently taking charcoal to draw a 3D painting on the ground, it felt quite funny, and his interest pushed Zhang Shi to learn one step ahead. He began to look for some 3D painting courses online, and after learning them, he practiced on paper.
"At that time, it took 3 or 4 hours to draw a picture on paper. After drawing seven or eight pictures before and after, they could not draw the stereoscopic effect of 3D, and their confidence was constantly being hit, and they felt that they were not good. Zhang Shixian recalled the scene when he first learned 3D painting, and his heart was very emotional, he said: "Until I drew a suspended oval at a time, I finally had a little three-dimensional feeling." My confidence came back, so after creating, I began to try to draw 3D on the ground. ”
His wife Lan Meng used her mobile phone to photograph the process of Zhang Shixian's painting, and posted it to Douyin Kuaishou, and many people browsed and watched, which made Zhang Shixian very excited. "I felt that my paintings were recognized by others, which gave me a lot of motivation, and I kept creating." Zhang Shixian said
After that, Zhang Shixian began to search for more materials, he moved the painting site to the field, a stream full of flowers, a staircase, a wooden bridge, a well... Zhang Shixian, relying only on his own hands and wild imagination, brought 3D paintings from the streets of the city to the mountain fields, and also brought a new atmosphere of joy to the town.
Villagers and Zhang Shixian performed in front of the 3D painting Southeast Network reporter Wen Liuting photographed
Paint a bright future
The mottled phone holder supports the phone, some burning charcoal and colored chalk, buckets and brooms, these are all the tools zhang Shixian used to draw 3D paintings. The video was shot and edited on a single phone.
Wife Lan Meng cooperated with Zhang Shixian's painting creation and video shooting Southeast Network reporter Wen Liuting photographed
"In the beginning, we were actually the people who swiped the video on the Internet." Lan Meng smiled and told reporters. In order to allow Zhang Shixian to focus on painting and painting, Lan Meng undertook the work of video shooting, editing and production after studying.
When the video suddenly exploded, his wife Lan Meng was recording a video for Zhang Shixian. After receiving a call from a friend, open the vibrato to see the rising number of views of their videos, the two were excited to jump up in the same place, it was difficult to sink their hearts to draw on the day, the couple held the mobile phone has been paying attention to the account information, until late at night to sleep.
At first, Zhang Shixian only posted the video of the painting to the video account when he had free time, and now video output has become the main job of the couple. At present, the two have opened a live broadcast on the Douyin platform, with his wife Lan Meng as the live assistant, and Zhang Shixian performing painting in front of the camera. In the live broadcast, many fans will always ask: Where is the video? The scenery is beautiful. Zhang Shixian and his wife will actively inform fans: this is Nanping Jianyang, Wuyi Mountain, here are good mountains and good water and good tea, and sincerely invite friends from all over the country to come to Nanping as guests.
After the video shooting is completed, Zhang Shixian will rinse off the painting so as not to mislead passers-by Southeast Network reporter Wen Liuting
After the video was fired, many advertisers came to look for it, but the couple was very cautious about the dividends brought by traffic, "What we think about now is to run a good account, hoping to get more people's likes, of course, if there is a suitable we do not mind monetizing the traffic." For the economic benefits brought by the traffic, the couple expressed their satisfaction, no lower than the income of the previous two people working in the field, and they did not need to run around. In the future, I also hope to use my own traffic to make my own contribution to the development of new rural areas.
Source: Southeast Net