René Aigner's Sketchbook

[Eric]

Unbelievable work you've got here, Rene! If anyone here deserves to turn pro it's you. I find it hard to believe that you're not already working in the industry. As far as I'm concerned, your environment sketches and perspective drawings are at the pro level right now. And your latest portrait painting looks pretty solid as well. Unfortunately, most of the work in this industry seems to be coming from North America so you would probably have to pack your bags and travel if you're really serious about it. Maybe check out Crytek in Germany but I here they like to slave drive over there and the pay sucks!

Checking out your sketchbook this morning has been a great motivator for me to get started with my digital sketchbook on this site. I've been lurking on C&D for quite some time here and it's about time I started contributing to this site. You just answered a question of mine regarding how to go from a black & white thumbnail to a color painting. I've always thought it was a lot of extra work to do that and now I know for sure.

You're work really inspires me to contribute here. I'm definitely going to get my sketchbook going! Looking forward to seeing more awesome environment studies. Hey, I have one question though..... Are most of your environment paintings done from your imagination or do you use photo reference?

-Eric