Hello artists and friends!
After natural science studies (science doctorate) and a long professional activity without relation to my present activity, I learnt drawing at the Duperre Applied Art High School. This allowed me to become a professional illustrator and to sell many drawings from 1996 to 2003.
My drawings site is today www.elcet.fr (it is both French/English),
From 2004 to 2008, I have worked fulltime as computer graphics teacher, most of the sessions about Photoshop, although my preferred software was Adobe Illustrator. Of course I did some teaching also about Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress.
My teaching site is http://formations.elcet.net (mostly in French but some tuts in English too). Please do notice that this one uses "net" while my drawing site ends as "fr"!
This resulted in the illustration of two tutorial books (these books and their associated sites are only in French):
- Le Grand Livre d’Illustrator (The Big Illustrator Book) illustrated with 123 plates gathering more than 1000 drawings,
- Maquette creative avec Adobe InDesign (Creative layout with Adobe InDesign), with 96 plates (published in BW, but downloadable as a PDF color booklet).
These books are very special, in the sense that they are the first ones to have a comic adventure heroin: Silvia.
I have now ceased teaching to be again an independant illustrator to undertake a comic project, "Silvia, the Adventures of Silvia Robin", which appears as a very logical choice. The site http://silviarobin.elcet.net (both French/English) is not a public one. It is only for friends, especially from Renderosity, to give me some comments to improve the project. There is a secret code necessary to access to the already drawn comic pages, it will be shared only to long-time friends and people for whom I am a favorite artist. Nevertheless, 66 drawings are in public access.
Because I learnt realistic drawing late in my life, I met with a lot of perspective and anatomy problems to reach a level which could reach commercial publishing. Hence my strong interest for 3D, modeling and render: Cinema 4D, Poser, Quidam, Argile, Artmatic Voyager, Terragen.
Thanks for having interest for my gallery. All comments and rating are welcome! I like visiting the galleries of other artists, both for the pleasure to see your images, but also because I'm always willing to learn from others. It's funny to see so many amateurs being far better than pros who earn their life since years with drawings or 3D renders!
NOTE: I've been very busy these times (health problems in my family plus the fact that to undertake a professional comic project means a huge work), so it is not easy for me to post and comment... be kind if I am late to comment your galleries!
Comments (11)
whiskeysierra
most excellent !!!
Miss Nancy
not bad! good linework
Elcet
A reply to Miss Nancy: What is important to see is that inking of this picture was NOT made with a graphic tablet but with the MOUSE and even some parts with my PowerBook's TRACKBALL. Therefore inking is by far not so good as is my next download "Silvia springing" to come, which was inked entirely with a screen tablet (LS-400 Wacom, ancestor of the today Cintiq). Also, colour is'nt the strongest point of Manga Studio, but this image proves that it's possible to do a professional one anyway. I apologize to Mr Niaz of e-Frontier, whose first name is Fahim and not Fahil, sorry
tralfaz
Quite a wonderful image made with MS and color too! I am so happy to see you posting on rendo finaly, and with our dear friend Silvia.
morin3000
We spend much time filled with wonder us
Your luminous colors sound a wonder for our eyes Splendid imageYou will find its feelings on my last image Good day and has soon*****()~~ ThanksElcet
To Morin3000: thanks for all these kind comments Seen that you are a top-level photographer! I must recognize that I have somewhat adjusted the colours (adjustement layers) in Photoshop: MS is fundamentally a BW app, perfect for inking especially the EX which has vector functions (and MS is, I think, absolutely necessary for most of comic artists since good inking tools and premier quality paper are becoming more and more difficult to find). Sure that Miss Nancy is right about that. But, for colour Hmm And it seems that even the ICC profiles are'nt supported by MS Let me admit that this post and next one "Silvia springing" are rather experimental pictures. Maybe I shall do other MS colour picts (see my very complete test at http://formations.elcet.net). Therefore, sincerely for colour, jump either to Photoshop or Painter, eventually Corel Photo-Paint. Compare also with Illustrator colours in my later posts: much brighter, much better saturation. But again! Illustrator is a fantastic vectorial software, however inking directly into Illustrator is a true headache, its so-called Pen tool is incredibly slow (and we professionals are so little paid), and Pencil or Brush lack precision Notice that I did hand inkings (India ink) for hundreds of comic pictures, then I jumped into Adobe Streamline or Freesoft Silhouette for vectorization (sometimes now into Illustrator CS2: see "An UFO in the Sahara", sometimes still Silhouette). If this peculiar process of picture making interests you, see my later posts where I shall come back to the topic of vector drawing.
RandC
Its about time you started posting! I realy like the illustratio style that you use...almost Warhol looking which is a good thing. RandC
DukeNukem2005
It is a very beautiful and remarkable work of art!
kuerbote
Nice. I really feel the need of trying Manga Studio now, and it's all your fault! lol!.
novelist
Fantastic art work. Excellent character and style.
kitzie21
Je cherchais le début de ta série sur Sylvia. Il a fallu remonter loin! Joli travail, surtout pour une image réalisée sans tablette graphique. Chapeau!