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 (24)
dphoadley
Sweet, very sweet indeed! DO keep up the good work. DPH PS: Completely unrelated, but are there any possible truths to the rumors about the Priory of Sion? Just curious. Yours truly, DPH dphoadley2@yahoo.com
helanker
We certaainly hope so .-))) Lovely lady :)))
pixelmeister
Very nice work!
lior
Quel joli sourire!
MagikUnicorn
Excellent mon ami
PIERRE25
Nous verrons... charmant sourire, elle est radieuse!
Elcet
I have preferred not to give more info for this peculiar image above, leaving the title as a question that today millions of people in the entire world can ask. But, for my friends Poser/Daz users, the figure is the cute Olivia from Smith Micro, and the BG is a photo by me of an old Senegal baobab tree, slightly blurred to simulate a shallow depth of field. I will upload more Olivia pictures soon, therefore this one is my third one with her and the next will then be the fourth.
remail
J'espère de tout cœur (ne serait-ce que pour la planète). Très belle image. J'aurai néanmoins rendu l'arrière plan plus "synthétique" pour mieux s'accorder avec le modèle. Non ?
jocko500
one is happy on the inside always will smile and laff no matter what happens. that is true happy. wonderful smile and teeth too.
Minda
wonderful portrait and smile
VDH
Beautiful work!!
El_Lee
This is a gorgeous portrait of her and I love that you blurred the background photo to simulate DOF. Brilliant! Hope she keeps smiling.
sirvictor
excellent portrait, one should alwyas smile, life is just wonderful and full of new things to see and do. Have a happy day! Victor
TallPockets
ELCET:HELLO .... WELL done! .... Methinks you should SMILE most EVERY day .... WINK .... My BEST to you and yours, KIND SOUL .... TallPockets/brian.
Severine
Quel beau sourire !! Je trouve que le rendu et l'expression sont plutôt bien réussis, elle me donne envie de sourire ^-^ Le grain de peau est beau également. J'aurais juste flouté le fond :)
efron_241
try to smile every day my friend a day without a smile is a bit a lost one
ragouc
Good portrait.
KarmaSong
Un travail de qualité sur la lumière, celle des yeux, de la bouche et le silhouettage. Le titre de ta composition est aussi un défi adressé à tout le monde: dérangeant?!
ACue
Je la connais, elle! C'est ma voisine!
Darkwish
You did great pic!
erlandpil
Nice portrait erland
UteBigSmile
Oh' what a wonderful big smile! 5+ Hug's Ute
Svin
Great Poser work! And difficult question.
Philart
Simple mais beau portait G2 ELcet !