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 (27)
pixelmeister
Tacky and very dangerously, but beautiful photographs.
Claywoman
Oh wow I had to look 3 times to actually see the sheep. It is so sad that people have to live this way..and the fact that they children are not fazed by the site of the dead animal says a million..Great shots!
Gise
thanks for posting this- great capture and message
jeroni
excelentes imagenes bravo
RobyHermida
QUE TRISTE ES VER A LOS CHICOS PASAR POR ESTOS PROBLEMAS.... LAS NACIONES TENDRIAN QUE GASTAR DINERO EN ESTO Y NO EN TANTA BOMBAS Y ARMAS....
Trollmac
Sad to hear that, but great capture!
artaddict2
Thanks for showing us this, its very sad to see, and if I am perfectly honest with my first thoughts right now here on RR, in my cosey little heated room having just eaten and my only complaint is that I feel a tad overweight - were wow! this makes great journalistic photography, real people living like this! and if I was there I would feel uneasy taking the picture but like you, I would want others to see. Well done.
El_Lee
There is nothing I say can that has not been expressed already. Thank you for such a wonderful and real image of what is going on in the world outside of one's own cubicle.5+++
KarmaSong
Merci, Edouard, de nous montrer les conditions de vie quotidienne de plus des deux-tiers de la population mondiale, loin des préoccupations artistiques et existentielles que nous nous inventons pour donner un sens à notre vie, parfois, alors qu'il est inacceptable que des êtres humains n'aient que des déchets à manger. Des photos courageuses, et qui dérangent. Jluc
RBlue
The last child looks to have just arrived the first to be photographed.
2Loose2Trek
Thank you for the courage to photograph such scenes ... when the various empires encroached on the third world, the indigenous ways of life were destroyed. Nothing good, apparently, has replaced those old ways. Excellent work Edouard.
angel_dust
Great post!
Elcet
A REPLY TO MY FRIEND RBLUE: in fact, the last boy was not busy with me photographying the group. He was just unconcerned, which surprised me. If you consider that the pict has not been cropped and the focal length that I verified in the metadata, i.e. 165mm (equiv. of 248mm in full-size silver format) does not give a magical enlargement, you see that I was very close to him, perhaps 9ft (3 meters). I took this shot, and immediately afterwards I put my Nikon in the bag and closed the bag. I was very uneasy to take this scene, for 2 reasons. First, I am often very shy when photographying people (my wife Marie-Therese, mtc at Renderosity, is a much better portraitist, as you will see in a while). Let you also recall that in Senegal with a 90 percent moslem population, people hate being photographed (and may in few seconds become hostile, as also in many poor countries). The second reason is that I was really upset by what I saw, I could not imagine what, IN THE REAL WORLD, extreme poorness means, in spite of the fact that I had endured hard situations myself before becoming a professional illustrator. But I thought that my duty as a citizen who is an image creator was to report the fact that this exists, so that ordinary people take the courage to claim for real political changes.
helanker
Oh yes Edouard, this is so sad, that children must go like this. So very sad. Thanks for showing it. Very excellent done too.
Thelby
Very Powerful and a True Testament to the hardships people face everyday in 3rd world countries!!! Excellent Brave Shot Edouard!!!
Valerie-Ducom
Tu me laisses sans voix.. Comme on dit en anglais : full emotion...
dphoadley
Touching! DO keep up the good work. DPH
VDH
Impressive shots!
Sylvia
Photos with a ~Feeling~ So Impressive!! ^5^
jocko500
sorry to see this. sorry the sheep was not cooked too before it went bad. I know most moslem hate they photos taken too. this is a very good set of photos that do show the lives of these people here
Richardphotos
I agree that the people in third world countries have very little hope, but in any large city whether it is the USA or in Europe there are scavengers looking through the thrash and because they choose their beggar life style or by being homeless,mentally ill. in Dallas there are people constantly going through thrash with little regard for the dangers.if the city did not keep them out of the city dump they would be there also
astro66
Very powerful and moving images... and it must be said very good ones too. I can understand how difficult it must have been to take these. Good work. :)
Platin
What a different life, in contrast to us - Unbelievably!!! Very good photo series!!
Severine
Merci pour ces photos qui nous font réaliser à quel point ces enfants sont malheureux, ça me touche encore plus quand cela touche les enfants. La misère est partout et ceci même dans nos pays développés, riches et modernes !! Et ça je le vois encore tous les jours, mais même nos petits gestes ne sont pas suffisants, ils soulagent et donnent un peu de chaleur un court moment dans leur vie, mais cela ne suffit pas ! Malheureusement même ce genre de photos n'ouvrent pas les yeux de ceux qui baignent dans le luxe et le gâchis !!
xavier69
terrific !! Xavier
skyla824
outstanding work.. well done
mcyak72
Heart renching images, This type of stuff shouldn't happen in the 21st century. With some people gluttening thierselves with money and power we are hit with reality that too many children have to grow up so fast and fend for themselves. if only the rich and powerfull would care for others insted of themselves. powerfull images my friend.