René Aigner's Sketchbook

[ReneAigner]

Thanks tygerson!
You're right, especially for colours, photos are pretty useless as refs. Even good photos don't contain the amount of colour-information that our eyes pick up which is why I get secretly annoyed when people use "this looks like a photo!" as praise- like photos are the gold standard for realism or anything. They don't even realize the multitude of colours in front of their eyes. It's not even like you have to paint colours that don't seem to make sense, the colours _are there_ in reality, the camera just doesn't pick them up because camera sensors are crap compared to the human eye. If you work from photo ref, you have to "re-imagine" those colours that got lost in the photographic process- the only way to learn that is painting from life unfortunately. If you can't go out to paint digitally, you can always paint still lifes inside which also helps. Plus, walk around with your eyes open and observe colours, even if you're not painting.

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A little bit of perspective 101 practise, transferring scale and station/measuring points. I usually don't show this kind of stuff since it's dead boring to look at, but several pages put together so everthing gets tiny and a little bit of cursive handwriting makes it almost look like you're doing serious rocket science there :D Thought I'd share something like this for a change.