Gu Weijing grasped the still spinning pencil on the table.
Dongxia has the Eight Major Art Institutes, and Japan has the Five Beauty Schools of Kanto.
These prestigious art academies, whether through joint exams or independent tests, love to evaluate students' pencil skills with still life sketches.
Even Musashino Art University, a famous school in Asia, over the past decade, has used the entrance exams for oil painting, sculpture, industrial design, and architectural design departments to test the painting skills of countless examinees by giving them a few pencils and a sheet of B3 drawing paper.
The teacher places a few pots of daffodils or other complex still life on the table, requiring the applicants to draw them within a limited time.
They assess whether these students have the qualifications to be admitted based on the completion of their sketch works.
This demonstrates the importance of sketching in modern art education.
