René Aigner's Sketchbook

[ReneAigner]

Great! Seems like you have decided on what you really like the most :)

Where d'you get that from? :D I just tend to have these phases where I favour one subject matter over the other, doesn't mean I've settled for portraits or anything. I'll probably be producing vehicle design non stop in a few weeks from now, who knows.


Thanks for your crits. Edge control is a lovely topic and love experimenting with hard/soft edges. But to be honest, my biggest problems with these (as my own critic so to speak) have more to do with structural deficiencies in the actual faces. In fact, I really like the crisp look that the sharp hair on the woman with the (non-leaf) crown and the beard on Javert give the images and I wouldn't want to take them out. The leaf-crowned girl could use more hard edges in the facial area, that is true. Having sharp edges / local contrasts in the eyes/ the face generally is certainly a good rule of thumb, but imho it'd make for a very boring image if there weren't other hard edges and contrasts.

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rio: I have a brush that I use for those faint lines. It's basically just 3 small dots next to each other.