Chapter 378: Let You Forge, You Livestream Drawing Dollars!

This time, what Chu Chen had to do was complete these impossibilities!

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath, then picked up the fine-liner pen and placed the first stroke upon the sketch!

It was an extremely thin arc, one almost invisible if not looked at carefully!

It was as if a single strand of hair had been pressed onto the paper.

Then came the second.

The third.

His wrist barely moved; only his fingers were in motion.

His thumb and index finger pinched the pen barrel, rubbing it ever so slightly to control the trajectory of the nib as it wandered across the paper's surface!

Because of the empowerment from skills like God-level Painting and God-level Forgery.

These simple hatchings posed no difficulty at all for Chu Chen.

Even if they were more complex, he could complete them with ease.

Inside the livestream room, the audience saw him start to draw and could no longer sit still, flooding the screen with comments:

【Holy crap, God Chu has started drawing!】

【It's happening, it's happening!】

【What is he drawing?】

【I can't see clearly, it's too thin!】

【Looks like some kind of pattern?】

【No way, he isn't actually trying to forge those famous paintings to sell for money, is he?】

【No way, no way!】

【God Chu's pen control is truly invincible, it's so damn steady!】

【I really didn't expect God Chu to have such skills in drawing too!】

Copying is the most fundamental ability in artistic creation.

But to take the basics and push them to the extreme is not an easy task.

Talent and hard work are both indispensable.

The speed at which Chu Chen's nib moved across the paper was neither fast nor slow, as uniform as a machine at work.

Every stroke landed with almost identical Force, the width of the lines remaining consistent from beginning to end, without any ink accumulation or breaks anywhere.

He was drawing the portrait of Fu Lai Ge Lin on the front of a 100-dollar bill.

This portrait is the most representative pattern on the front of a 100-dollar bill, and also the most difficult part to draw.

The portrait is composed of countless extremely thin, interwoven curves; the spacing, curvature, and thickness of every single line possess a near-demanding precision.

To draw it well is extremely difficult.

The borders on real dollar bills are made using an engraving printing process, with the lines recessed into the paper, giving a distinct tactile sensation when touched.

The lines Chu Chen drew were flat.

But his brushwork—that near-zero jitter rate and the hair-breadth precision of his spacing control—was making those lines look as if they weren't drawn at all.

They were too uniform, too clean, as if they had grown out of the paper rather than being covered by ink!

Soon, ten minutes passed.

The outline of Fu Lai Ge Lin's hair and face had already emerged.

Looking from afar, it seemed like a very ordinary sketch, but as soon as one leaned in close, they would discover the sheer number of lines contained within!

Every single one was independent and clear, with not a single one merging with an adjacent line!

Having finished the general outline, Chu Chen paused, then switched to another technical pen, a 0.02-millimeter one.

At this moment, in the broadcast control room.

Zhang Yiwen stared at the feed from Participant 99, his lips pressed tightly together.

He held a cup of coffee that had already gone cold.

"My god, this guy seems to be drawing the Fu Lai Ge Lin portrait from a dollar bill..." Zhang Yiwen's tone was full of worry: "Holy crap, he isn't trying to make counterfeit money, is he?"

After saying this, Zhang Yiwen hurriedly put down his coffee and left the control room!

Inside Participant 99.

Chu Chen's hand was very steady, so steady it didn't look like the hand of a living person.

That stability was of a piece with the micro-expression control ability he had displayed in the first episode, but it was presented even more nakedly in this action.

There was no room for concealment, no element of performance; it was purely extreme control over his muscles and nervous system.

"Push the camera in!" the director in charge of the control room commanded immediately: "Try to push it to the position of his nib, then add a partial magnification window to the screen."

Soon, the image was adjusted.

A circular magnifying frame appeared in the upper right corner of the livestream, containing a close-up of Chu Chen's nib touching the paper.

That magnification level left no detail hidden!

Then the number of comments doubled again.

【Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!! This precision!!!】

【Is this drawn by a human?】

【I can't even draw this straight even if I use a ruler!】

【He didn't trace this, did he? He didn't even draw a draft!!】

【Look at that arc, there's absolutely no hesitation at his turning points!】

【Is this a human printer?】

Every muscle in Chu Chen's right hand, from his wrist to his fingers, was contracting and relaxing slightly at an amplitude almost imperceptible to the naked eye.

His breathing frequency dropped to a very low level, and the rise and fall of his chest were so small they were almost invisible.

At this moment, he was completely immersed in the texture gradually taking shape on the paper.

Right now, he had already completed an entire, unbroken arc for the portrait's border on the paper.

The precision of that section of the pattern was already comparable to a printed product.

If one ignored the texture of the paper, that is.

And after a period of copying, the facial features of the Fu Lai Ge Lin portrait were also initially completed, with only the details remaining!

Drawing to this point, Chu Chen let out a long breath, then put down his pen and stretched the fingers of his right hand.

And just at this moment, the live stream chat had completely exploded!

【Holy crap, it looks like Chu-shen is drawing US dollars...】

【What? Drawing US dollars!】

【No, what is he trying to do?】

【He isn't thinking of making counterfeit money, is he?】

【We told you to do a Forgery, not to make counterfeit money!】

【Can anyone tell me what level the precision of what he's drawing is considered in the printing industry?】

【It counts as the level of a top-tier plate-making master, but that's work done by machines; he's drawing it stroke by stroke with a technical pen!】

【Fu Lai Ge Lin: I've been drawn for so many years, this is the first time I've had so much face!】

【The Program Team is in big trouble this time!】

【Holy crap, too awesome! Drawing US dollars on the spot!】

【No, he isn't actually trying to draw the US dollars out just like this, is he! This counts as drawing from memory without a reference!】

【His memory is truly strong!】

The barrage of comments scrolled by, layer upon layer, like a rainstorm that no one called to a halt!

Chu Chen, in the center of the screen, was stretching the fingers of his right hand; those hands looked thinner than a normal person's, with distinct knuckles, and the curve of the joints traced several clean, sharp lines under the light.

Fu Lai Ge Lin is the most important component of the US dollar.

Those numerous strands of hair could not have a single error, otherwise the entire drawing would be ruined!

The saying, "a miss is as good as a mile," is probably nothing more than this.

After resting for a while, Chu Chen sat up straight, took a look at the portrait outline already completed on the paper, and deliberated for a long time.

Immediately after, he picked up the pen again and continued drawing toward the direction that was already nearing completion!