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 (16)
helanker
Actually I think, that the dust fits very good into this shot. Everything looks very dry, so It very fine with the dusty atmosphere.
2Loose2Trek
Wow! Thanks for posting this fine photo Edouard ... nicely shot. When I first opened this, I thought the bus was specially fabricated at the factory of origin. I'm impressed at the quality of work on this by, ostensibly, local labor. The carvings on the side of the passenger area are really outstanding too. I see that they take pride in their work. BTW, I could tell you horror stories about what fine sand can do to an SLR camera. :-)
tralfaz
Very nice custom work on this truck. It does look very dusty there!!Thanks for sharing you interesting travel photos with us.
Claywoman
Awesome shot! I think the dust adds great effect to the photograph
El_Lee
I have to agree. The dust definitely adds to the allure of the pic. Another fabulous shot.
Richardphotos
looks like blizzard of dust
RBlue
A source for inspriation? Very much so! My next graphic novel will be in exotic places and such references are a great thing! I like the setting and vehicle! A great model subject, this road experienced truck!
Severine
Sympa de nous montrer ce modèle, la photo est particulièrement bien faite ;-)
remail
Impressionnant la taille des roues ! Tu me diras, pour silloner des pistes qui sont parfois pourries, il vaut mieux être équipé. J'adore l'autocollant BMW sur le pare-brise qui donne un côté un peu "luxe". Aération sur les côtés pour les passagers.
pixelmeister
Very nice photo. Well done!
Platin
The detail of this image is really excellent!!
Janiss
Tu as su prendre ce cliché d'une telle excellente manière que l'on a l'impression de recevoir le sable sur le visage!
Milouv
On devine une chaleur oppressante, je ne sais pas pourquoi mais je pense à ce merveilleux film de Clouzot," le salaire de la peur". Ce 4x4 n'a pourtant rien des vieux camions poussifs que pilotaient Y. Montant et Charles Vanel.... Va savoir ce que vont chercher nos fantasmes pour s'alimenter ! Bravo, j'aime ce genre d'ambiance.
Ricardi
The shot is perfect.
MagikUnicorn
Três bonne capture...mon neveu vient de marié une jolie sénégalaise :)
DukeNukem2005
Very beautiful image!