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)
jocko500
wonderful done. i like this drawing of her and happy to know she still ok. hope the best for her
novelist
A beautiful portrait and dedication. Her eyes already look very wise. I hope she will find many good friends and loved ones who will encourage her throughout her life and help her through such troubling times.
2Loose2Trek
This is truly wonderful work and, certainly, a favorite. We can see in her eyes the appearance of a burgeoning heroine. Really well done Edouard.
Claywoman
Wwo very nicelyd done. I love the eyes especially
SapUS59
a superb piece but a very sad story.
timtripp
fascinating!
MagikUnicorn
Une dédicace superbe pour un très cher type :)
helanker
WOW; So lovely drawn indeed. Very cute little girl.
ekatz
fantastic character
dphoadley
good to see you again, and good to see the further adventures of silvia. DO keep up the good work. DPH
Kuiski
Yeah! a cool and nice work with the baby silvia
Severine
Vraiment beau !!
RBlue
Gouache and Watercolor were my media of choice. Loved using them. Only CGI has reduced my visiting them a new. Nice painting. (Drawing) Has an Art Museum quality to it. Very good!
Sylvia
~Impressive~ Thanks for sharing... FABULOUS!! ^5^
aquablue
Merci mon cher ami pour cette dédicasse et j'apprécie d'autant plus que c'est un dessin personnel ! le pastel est une technique qui se prête bien à la réalisation des portraits et carnations et surtout on a droit à la retouche et la modification alors que l'aquarelle ne permet pas de repentir !!! Sylvia doit être une fille adorable.............
tralfaz
I too do not like paint, that's why I like photography or 3D :)Great start to our fav little girl.
Milouv
Une palette de plus à ton art. Encore une délicieuse occasion de jalousie pour moi. Bravo Edouard ce portrait est très touchant. Tu devrais lire les BD de Rodolphe Léo (auteur d'Aldébaran et de Kenya), il y a une ressemblance troublante.
gattone_blu
Very nice work
Kelena
Wonderful work:)
NekhbetSun
This is superb !!! wowwwww
KarmaSong
Un magnifique pastel, Edouard, et je vais de surprise en surprise en lisant ton cursus artistique. Ne te prive pas pour mettre d'autres pastels en ligne! En tout cas, bravo!
pixelmeister
Very awesome work!
ragouc
Well done. Good work. 5+
furuta
Lovely work. but when I read your story, I felt this is sad image.
Richardphotos
exceptional art.she looks like an angel
alltheoriginalnames
Nice stlye and technique, and a wonderful dedication as well
stevey3d
Wonderful image! Superb style! 5+
FS
A excellent creation!!!Super work!!
Platin
Excellent style and mix of pencil and water coulor!!!
Janiss
J'aime l'expression innocente de cette poupée.... une superbe dédicace pour notre ami aquarelliste!