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 (31)
mtc
Un misérable personnage remarquablement campé. Bravo pour l' expression que tu nous en restitues ici.
Darkwish
Great work! Really nicely done! 5
MagikUnicorn
Bravo Super character
helanker
WOW A super drawing. Id like a bread please. YUMMY!!!
Sylvia
OUTSTANDING ART
jocko500
super drawing. you caught the feelings of what you wrote about him. wonderful art work
2Loose2Trek
As described he is an interesting xenophobic character indeed! Excellent line work and coloring. Well done!!!
furuta
Wonderful image. excellent work!!
stevey3d
Superb concept and style! Wonderful character! 5+
El_Lee
It has been far too long my friend. Excellent drawing and color to say the least. 5+
Claywoman
Awesome work...great character!
Richardphotos
looks like he has been eating lots of French breads!superb character, very sinister
pixelmeister
Hey very awesome drawing, look's stunning!
ACue
t'as raison l'ami ... des types comme ca, ils sont partout. Excellent personnage ... c'est comme si je le connais deja. Bravo.
clam73
nice line work and colouring....original character too, excellent!
zoren
I think this 'character' is in every nation, nice work!
dphoadley
Very good caricature of a European Redneck! DO keep it coming. DPH
Heathcroft
Unique style, interesting subject and professional work.
e-brink
Fantastic character and a wonderful presentation!
novelist
Wow! This art work and character and explanation are superb.
kitzie21
Le dessin ici est magnifique! Je pense que tu as parfaitement illustré ton personnage, dans le style Monsieur-tout-le-monde, toxique et nostalgique de ‘la France d’avant’. On voit particulièrement quelque chose de mesquin dans le coin de ses yeux. Très joli travail!
Severine
Moi aussi je dis excellent !!
Svin
COOL! And I like your explanations - very interesting and informative. Your works worth seeing........they make me love comicss! 8)
ragouc
Cool work. I really like explanation with the picture.
Fidelity2
Very very good. 5+!!!
Minda
this is wonderful drawing and great explanation..excellent artwork..
KarmaSong
Une magnifique vignette , assurément typiquement 'française', avec ce nom de Briochard, et ton explication sur le dessin rejoint mon impression personnelle du Français sur sa défensive quant aux étrangers! Du très bon travail d'ethnologue, Edouard!
sirvictor
fantastic work
jeroni
Wonderful image. excellent work
PIERRE25
J'ai suivi le lien, votre travail est fantastique, bravo pour toutes ces explications en français (les traductions sont parfois doûteuses!), très interessant!