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)
helanker
Not anymore !! AAAARGH ! I think il take a print and hang it on the door to my refrigerator. LOL
Rausen
Oh my freaking god!!! why they have to eat this, tai food are delicious but not with this reagents Wak XD
2Loose2Trek
At least I don't think I see any roast dogs in here. And noodle soup sounds good. Interesting pictures Edouard. Now I see why Kelvin and Koji were a bit shocked in the last image. Thanks for explaining things. LOL
lior
Tjs aussi creatif:une merveille!
Elcet
I will add here 2 comments that I have not included in this post: For Gene (2Loose2Trek): true, there are no dogs at all in this food (and my wife and me do not see any dog served as food during our travel, we love dogs too). This small mobile shop is preparing only animals collected in the rice-fields nearby, whether snakes (above right) or wild rats that feed on grain (see the 2 photos down). The invertebrates in the dish (center photo, not taken at the same spot) are caterpillars, big blattes (cockroaches) and even a scorpion, the latter one can be eaten after it has be roasted. I was not hungry at this time because I was a little sick with the bus (and very tired too), and I preferred to eat nothing at all, also because the rats were not sufficiently cooked in my opinion (they were very burnt outwards but too uncooked inwards). Otherwise, I could have eaten some because the flesh is very similar to a rabbit's one. Let us think that both Koji and Kelvin could say the same thing to their friend James! For all my Renderosity friends: now I will be silent and not do any post for nearly 20 days. In fact I shall be in Senegal for two full weeks (my wife and me being invited here by a friend). And LOL, when I shall be back, this will be my 100th post!!! So I will post something special: a collective portrait of some 50 people that I have defined for my comic projects (up to now I have published 51 different people not taking into account Poser or Quidam ones, I mean that all the 51 were paid by my clients). So to gather all these portraits will take a while! Have fun, happy renders and nice digital paintings in the meantime for everybody!
Kuiski
hehehe! a ver lovely captures!!! Hey, Have a good and funny travel! :)
dphoadley
Sorry, but I do not like this one at all. Technically, they are very good, but the subject itself roils my stomache. Again, I'm sorry. David P. Hoadley
RandC
LOL...I dont blame those guys!
zoren
mmmmmmm, delicious exotic cuisine..... tastes like chicken?
tralfaz
I think I too shall pass on this meal, lol. A priceless collection of photos. I can't say I have ever seen anything like this where I live, but we do have a big Rattle snake event each year. They catch many and cook them, never tried it myself but told it is good. Thanks for sharing your wonderful travles with us.
pixelmeister
Thanks, just still were I it!