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 (20)
2Loose2Trek
What excellent illustrations ... well done. And thanks for the link ... that looks like quite a gripping situation for Silvia. Kudos!
Richardphotos
outstanding comic art. excellent scale and originality
jocko500
super looking. the tipule look like his friend and talks to him like in most toons
helanker
Yes yes, this is just awesome. I like very much his face. Darn pro done. When I got better time, il go in and anjoy all your comics. Right now, so many things happen here, that I need another 24 hours a day and the extra hours would be very nice with lower temperatures :) LOL !
MagikUnicorn
Superbement fait Bravo
Severine
Beau travail ! J'aime beaucoup ce que tu fais !
Shirahime
Excellent dessin
hairyjane
art to vector than back to art
dphoadley
Very interesting image! DO keep them coming! DPH
Janiss
Ce dessin est splendide et ... quelle expression, encore une fois!
ACue
This is a great image ... it triggers nostalgic memories of the French and Belgium artists I enjoyed as a child. Super BD!
novelist
Such great style! Your work is admirable.
Darkwish
Very lovely face! EXT!
ragouc
Cool face. Nice character, seems very sympathetic.
clam73
nice stylish artwork.....nice character and colouring....well done!
Milouv
Qui est Isaac Jacobson ? Peu importe ce portrait en ligne claire est superbe. La ligne claire reste pratiquement, pour moi, le seul mode graphique d'une bonne BD. Bravo pour ton dessin. je n'ai pas suivi la saga (mot originaire d'Islande) de Silvia en raison de vacances trop chargées ... ce qui est paradoxal. J'espère à la rentrée pouvoir raconter, par photos interposées, notre merveilleux voyage en 4x4 dans l'intérieur de l' Islande (le pays des trolls et des sagas).
zoren
nice image, nice work....!
Claywoman
Awesome!
pixelmeister
That's cool!
Killebrew
Very nice! I love the expression.