Su Jing completed the painting in one go without taking a second look at the photos. This painting took him less than 20 minutes to complete, which was faster than before. If Cheng Guyi, Cheng Shiyao, and the others saw this then they will definitely be shocked again.
After painting the first one, Su Jing started to paint the second, third, and fourth paintings… Each painting was finished faster than the one before it but the quality has not deteriorated from the first one at all.
Su Jing is not only making money by painting so many portraits but he is also getting experience in his paintings. It is clear that his skills still need to be improved.
Su Jing used these paintings for his practice, and they were painted very quickly, so naturally, they are not up to the level of Shi Qing’s portrait but compared to the portraits of Cheng Shiyao and the others, they are not bad and they may be on a higher level.
After painting twenty pictures in a row, Su Jing stopped as he suddenly realized something. He sat in silence for a long time before he started painting again.
This time, however, he was not drawing a picture of someone who ordered it, but of the “Statue” of a beautiful woman he got from the Law of the Devil Universe, and he was painting it very slowly, taking more than two hours to complete it.
After the completion, a lively beauty appeared on the paper and the artistic conception of this painting was even higher than that of Shi Qing’s portrait.
Of course, ordinary people may not be able to tell the difference between the two, and they would only guess that this painting is on the same level as the portrait of Shi Qing.
Su Jing did not continue painting the picture of this beautiful woman, but took out the Original Drawing of Prajñā Meditation Sutra and began to draw according to it.
The first piece was useless. Although he drew it down similar to the Original Drawing of Prajñā Meditation Sutra, the artistic conception was wrong. The second one was abandoned again for the same reason, and the third one was also abandoned due to it lacking the artistic conception of the original drawing.
It wasn’t until the fourth painting that Su Jing was finally able to draw the artistic conception present in the Prajñā Meditation Sutra Original Drawing.
Although it was not as good as the Original Drawing, it was better than the defective one he sold to Sun Yuheng.
In other words, the painting Su Jing drew would at least be sold for several million yuan.
Of course, Su Jing also knows that rare things are usually more expensive and if there are too many such pictures then their price will plummet and he wouldn’t be able to sell them at a high price as he did with Sun Yuheng.
The only way to paint more of such pictures without losing their monetary value is to paint Buddha statues in a variety of ways. Just like portraits where everyone’s appearance is different, and everyone’s portraits have become unique so that they will not be devalued too quickly.
So, Su Jing took out the bits and pieces of Buddhist scriptures that Little White Mouse had restored from the garbage and started browsing.
Although these are fragmented pieces, there are still many Buddha Statue shapes recorded on it, and some Buddhist studies are also recorded. Although they cannot be used for training, they can now be used to draw various Buddha statue paintings.
The first Buddha Statue Su Jing drew has three faces and six arms. His primary face expresses a love fury, his right face expresses his anger, while his left face expresses his disgust for something, and behind that is the aura of heroism.
The upper two hands were holding a mountain-like object that was shaped like a magatama, the middle two hands were positioned in front of the chest doing a wisdom fist mudra, and the lower two hands were holding swords facing in different directions.
This Buddha Painting has thick eyebrows and leopard-like eyes, its angry hairs were dancing behind it in a flame-like pattern, the Buddha was emitting a ray of light from his forehead and his feet are on Maheśvara (Maheśvara) and Umā…
This is Trailokya-Vijaya-Rāja which is somewhat similar to Acala(Fudō Myō-ō).
This Buddha Statue is not as good as the Original Drawing of Prajnā Meditation Sutra Buddha Statue, nor is it as good as Acala(Fudō Myō-ō) Buddha Statue, but it also has a Buddhist artistic conception and it produces a kind of Zen feeling that would make one feel as if all of his or her troubles will get cured.
The second Buddha Statue’s body was bluish black with a wrathful look on its face, it had six faces, six arms, and six legs, the Buddha was seated on a white ox, carrying flames on his back, holding halberds, bows, ropes, swords, arrows, sticks, and other weapons…
This is exactly what Vajrabhairava or Yamantaka would look like. This Vidyārāja is the teaching wheel of Amitayus Tathagata. The appearance was perfected and a great amount of compassion emerged from it.
These phases realize perfection and emerge from great sorrow as sentient beings with a delusion of ignorance.
For sentient beings who are ignorant and delusional, it would manifest the body of extremely evil with terrible anger before it descends on an army of demons and slaughters them. They are born to destroy the enemies of the world and to guard the dharma of this world.
The third is Hayagriva with the head of a horse and a peaceful environment on the back, the fourth is Vidyārāja with fire behind its head, the fifth is Vajrahāsa, the sixth is Yamāntaka, the seventh is Aparajita, the eighth is Mahā-Cakra, and the ninth is Padanaksipa.
With the Acala (Fudō Myō-ō) already in the Vidyārāja Hall of the Buddhist Monastery Temple, all of these form a complete image of the Ten Vidyārāja or the Ten Wisdom Kings.
Su Jing called Xiao Zhi and asked him to bring the nine Vidyārāja Buddha Statues to the Buddhist Monastery Temple and hang them on both sides of the Acala (Fudō Myō-ō) Buddha Statue for worship, and he also explained that these Nine paper Buddha Statues Paintings are available for sale.
Abbot Xuyun, Grandmaster Shengyan, and the others heard the news and rushed over to take a look. They were all stunned when they saw the Buddha Statue Paintings which were obviously new.
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