René Aigner's Sketchbook

[Jackal]

I really don't mean to do you injustice. I think you have great potential and that you could produce stunning original designs tomorrow if you change the way you study nature and how you use those studies.
As I said, you do study from nature and that's great, but you don't let it influence you enough (I did two edits myself in my latest post to explain what I mean). I got drawn into the whole concept thing by Feng and Robertson myself and I fell into the same trap for a while as well. There is nothing wrong with using their techniques and I don't believe those techniques will actually bring you their designs. They themselves picked up those techniques from other artists, but there were no other artists before them that look like them.
Really try out the writing thing! Think wildly, with free associations! I think in one of the videos feng said the bounty hunter ship in Star Wars used to be a lamp somewhere in a bar in the US. That's what you need to be doing.