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 (21)
zoren
captivating character and scene......
Janiss
Sylvia a assorti ses lunettes à son collier... superbe détail Elcet! Superbe travail qui ne doit pas être évident... chapeau bas l'artiste!
Mondwin
Fabulous and delightful image..bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
helanker
A very beautiful drawing Edouard. My best wishes for your mothers recover. Dont worry commenting. We understand :)))
ragouc
Cool character. Good POV and composition. Well done.5+
e-brink
Excellent character - the good thing about renderosity is that it is a community and people can come a go as they please. Two years is a great achievement - a long term aim is often the good way to go.
Severine
Excellent !! Tu as bien travailler le morphing du personnage ^-^
pixelmeister
Very nice work! Well done!
lior
Excellent travail de modélisme, le résultat est superbe!
MagikUnicorn
Superbe
Richardphotos
excellent work and my best wishes for your mother
2Loose2Trek
I am sorry to read the continuing bad news about your mother. You and she have my best wishes for a recovery. And congratulations on the the two years of posting on Renderosity. And if you fail to make the rounds here, it's certainly understandable. This character, indeed, appears to be a most thoughtful and intelligent young girl. Really well done! You display superb talent and resourcefulness.
Claywoman
Im very sorry to hear about your mother, I have you i my prayers..Awesome work! Congratulations also to you Elcet
LBAMagic
Excellent image. Congrats on the long achievement. I hope my creative juices can last as long.
NekhbetSun
This is wonderful work and best wishes go to your Mother !!!!
dphoadley
Definitely has something going on behind those glasses! DO keep up the good work. DPH
jocko500
that ok i know about time and the real world. Take care of your mother and of couse your work too. this is wonderful looking
ACue
Image speciale. J'aime les couleurs et l'air du personnage. On attend les aventures!
Sylvia
~Unique & Special~ Art... Silvia is Cute :-} FABULOUS!!!
Darkwish
Cool work! Really nicely done!
KarmaSong
Un graphisme tout en simplicité apparente, mais tellement expressif. J'aime beaucoup !