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 (25)
Kelena
beautiful capture
dphoadley
beautiful capture 2!!
2Loose2Trek
Very well done!!!
TwoPynts
1 horsepower - very efficient. Great capture.
RBlue
Fortunate World traveller. Wonder how long would it take if you had to travel like that? I'll bet he has a great 8 track in the back of the horse. (LOL) Great series of meaningful images.
Ionel
Excellent image!!!
zoren
brilliant shot.....!
helanker
Fantastic shot. A little sad.... or maybe very good... I really dont know. Strange it is. Excellent shot indeed.
pixelmeister
Very nice shot and pov!
kwami
love the scenery, great shot..
Mousson
Incroyable, pas seulement les "Vehicules" et leur traction :-)) mais aussi ce qu´ils transportent avec beaucoup d´effort, juste quelques bouts de bois... Mais ils arrivent à vivre de cela et en tirer leur dignité...
Valerie-Ducom
C'est une scène incroyable, et pleine de force aussi ! Excellent mon grand ! Bisous à vous trois :)
El_Lee
Truly a beautiuful subject and shot.
RobyHermida
;o) ;o) ;o)Gorgeous!!! ROBY............
Platin
It looks like hard work!!!
Ptitchouette
Superbe redécouverte de l'Afrique noire grâce à tes merveilleux clichés. A nouveau la profondeur de champ permet au regard de se perdre sur ce chemin de terre à l'arrière du rythme lent des 'charrettes' lourdement chargées.
sim3344
Wow!!!One horsepower cars is this the future? Anyway very nice shot.
Severine
On fait avec les moyens du bord et selon les moyens et avec peu de moyens, ben ils survivent et rien que pour ça je les admire !
lior
Quelle puissance se degage de cette image! Je partage egalement le poind de vue de Séverine!
Richardphotos
incredible capture of these people making do with whats available to them.I seen the same thing in the Filipines
Claywoman
These are awesome shots Elcet! they are treasures
GiMi53
Very well composed reportage photography !
MrsLubner
such slight animals and people as well - all who sweat to survive another day.
Milouv
Je découvre tes "vraies" photos. De véritables petits bijoux. L'enfilade de ces trois convois et l'attitude des personnages, autant d'éléments qui participent à la réussite de ta photo. Je me suis rendu souvent à St Louis du Sénégal, j'ai vécu une année à Nouakkchot, ce qui me permet de te dire que l'atmosphère est très bien rendue. Bravo. Mes meilleurs voeux.
KarmaSong
Une photo qui me parle, quand je constate le gouffre qui éloigne les pays occidentaux dans leur fuite en avant, et les pays en voie de développement, où le temps ne doit certainement pas avoir la même échelle de mesure...Une photo magnifique, Edouard!