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
Vraiment magnifique! Une de mes préférées. 5++++
helanker
What a wonderful capture indeed. Beautiful details and lighting :-)
rocserum
stunning pov! marvelous result! RS
tennesseecowgirl
nice image and message. And we can all make a difference.
Mousson
Superbe photo!!!
2Loose2Trek
Superb work Edouard.
3DClassics123456
Superbe photo, mon gars!
ACue
Nice capture Elcet. T'a un bon oeil!
MrsLubner
Stellar! So very appealing!
Minda
Great image and nice message elcet..
Hubba1
Very cool looking! Very well done and I agree :)
pixelmeister
This is a fantastic work!
ragouc
Good light and shot.
MagikUnicorn
Vraiment beau Bravo
durleybeachbum
Outstanding!
dphoadley
Lovely! dph
lior
Une véritable merveille!
danob
Excellence Bravo
sirvictor
great picture
marybelgium
SUPER !
Richardphotos
nice capture .awash in sunshine
moni2000
Schon der Text ist interessant und wichtig, ja geht uns ja alle an! Und das Bild einmalig schon, man meint den Wind zu spühren , grossartig Text und Bild!
JaneEden
An excellent capture getting in so many things and I love the sky in the background too. Superb photography! Merry Christmas and hugs Jane xx
efron_241
Great days for you Merry Christmas and a great and artistic new Decennium May you make all your dreams come true in 2010 !!!! and the years beyond...
jocko500
a picture is wonderful here
novelist
Gorgeous work and for such an important cause. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
e-brink
Excellent photography!
myrrhluz
Excellent image! I love the detail and clarity! Beautiful light on the leaves! Wonderful effects from the fisheye lens. Beautiful work! I love the one in your book taken at the same time. This is a very important cause!
KarmaSong Online Now!
Un cliché dont la raison d'être est un de mes soucis au quotidien, en voyant la manière dont nous traitons notre planète. Une réussite pour le végétal qui adopte la rondeur de notre Terre!
Svin
Wooow! Impressive image. P.S. I saw Nikkor FC-E8. Monstrous lens and it really looks like an eye of giant fish. :)