Some are born with a silver spoon in their mouths, he was born with pencils in their hands.
As far back as he can remember, Élie Top has always drawn.
Without ever having learned.
“The more you draw, the better you draw”,
says the forty-something, born in Pas-de-Calais, near Béthune, in a family of teachers and not of artists.
As a child, when some boys dream of being a builder while playing Lego, he draws sketches of castles, houses, architectural buildings with admirable precision (they are visible on his site).
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“I always sketch a profile, a hand, a neck at the same time as the jewel.
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Elijah Top
This meticulousness has not left him and the jewels which are born today under his pencils resemble like two drops of water those in gold and precious stones which leave the workshops a few weeks later.
I have three-dimensional, very structured thinking.
I hate drawing for the sake of drawing, I have a more technical approach.
I always sketch a profile, a hand, a neck at the same time as the jewel, he
says
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