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 (27)
dphoadley
Very good! Very apt! DO keep up the good work! DPH
SapUS59
how true and great work !!
ragouc
Very good and true.
Kuiski
a very splendid work! nice
Claywoman
Awesome!
ACue
Just Amazing. Very clever! Excellent, Edouard. Merci d'avoir participé.
helanker
Yes, very nice work and unfortunately so true.
Fidelity2
This is a truly extra-ordinary image. 5+.
KarmaSong
Tu as fait très fort ici Edouard, dans ce superbe et puissant message et cette création originale pour la journée de la Terre. Il est grand temps de faire machine arrière quant aux dégradations et au pillage des ressources de la planète....Merci d'en témoigner ici de si belle façon .
tralfaz
Yes! This is the only one we have (fo now) so we better take care of it. Happy Earth Day.
jocko500
wonderful ad. cool image
flaviok
Fascinate criatividade para este dia, aplausos (5)
Platin
Very symbolic scene and thoughtful - excellent execution too!!!
e-brink
Wonderful message! Well done.
Severine
Merci pour le message, nous ne pouvons pas revenir en arrière mais nous pouvons reduire tout ça en faisant des efforts chaque jour !
Sylvia
~Awesome~ We should always remember that... THANKS!! ^5^ :-}
FS
EXCELLENT!!
NekhbetSun
This is awesome and thanks for posting it !
pixelmeister
Great work!
MagikUnicorn
Oh oui cher ami nous avons des centaines de planètes extra-solaire déjas trouver...le problème est que...la plus proche de la Terre ce trouve a + de 100 000 années lumières, alors tu a raison...pour le moment protègons la mère Terre. BRAVO Superbe idée -MU-
Richardphotos
the earth needs a lifesaver(a play on the candy life saver).original idea and superb art
El_Lee
Wonderful words, and fabulous image to express them! Bravo!
erlandpil
a very splendid work! nice Agree erland
Darkwish
Fantastic work!
novelist
Exceptional concept and message.
myrrhluz
Wonderful design and execution! It is beautiful visually to capture attention and then gives a wonderfully succinct and to the point message. This would make an excellent poster! Beautifully done and very important message!
njb2000
Great looking image and message I also agree with WBlack to a certain degree!