UNSUNG HEROES OF ILLUSTRATION 6

As I continue to make amends for my sins of omission here are another five neglected illustrators from the past I think are worth a closer look…
Olaf Gulbransson
Clarence Coles Phillips
Antonio Rubino
Clifford Webb
Charles Folkard

[@Ellesmere888]

Absolutely love this series ... a big thank you.

[@jerrystaley1563]

Part 6 I am truly impressed with the clever illustrations of Clarence Cole Phillips. Beautiful women and unique fade away coloring (100 years ago!!!). With health and visual.problems of my own, it's too bad that we lost him at 47. The detailing and bright colors of the others, especially Rubino, are astoundung. Don't know if I had a particularly good internet connection or not, but the quality and high definition of this video was superb.

[@petebeard]

Thanks again for accessing my back catalogue. And regarding Coles Phillips, and quite a few others, I was surprised to realise just how early on a lot of what we think of as modern devices were actually being pioneered.

[@talhandaq13]

Phillips and the "creative use of negative space". True and very effective. Clifford Webb - I thought his homage to the wood cut charming. Your video...another small treasure.

[@petebeard]

Thanks again, and I'm pleased you continue to find work of interest. Just as an aside I calculated I'm only at about the half way mark with the unsung series. So much to do... so little time...

[@glynstimpson]

Wonderful video thanks

[@gregday5169]

Love the content and production quality. Feels very nostalgic. Many of the images remind me of books and magazines of my childhood.Thanks for the memories.

[@jexthegamer]

Rubino's work blew me away. Incredible!

[@petebeard]

Hello and that makes two of us, at least. I could not believe how ahead of the competition he was in terms of his style - and the element of madness that's in his work.

[@hello-fc6di]

Your channel brings me much Joy. Thank you very much, i am getting sentimental while writing this comment

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the channel. It really is a pleasure to know that viewers enjoy the images shown.

[@user-db9mu4bl3o]

What if you@d have known there would be more than a hundred episodes! BEAUTIFUL work here again! seeing these after a gap is an amazing rediscovery!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'm very grateful for your appreciation of what I now realise is my back catalogue, and that you can be bothered to let me know you enjoy the work on show. When I set out I thought I might make as many as 10 instalments, but I realised fairly soon I had apparently opened a very full bottle and there was no putting the cork back in. And there's already enough material gathered to make at least another 50. No rest for the wicked.

[@ugne6144]

These videos, and this channel, are wonderful. I am an aspiring young artist, and I am trying to make an effort to combine these older styles and techniques with some of the newer ones, and I find videos such as these to be inspiring and helpful in that journey. I wish art like this was still in production, and its part of the reason I am striving to achieve a similar effect. Thanks a ton.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. One of my main aims in starting the channel was to hopefully inspire those starting out on their careers, so your response is very welscome.

[@diazconias]

Allways a treat... hot coffe, cat in the lap and Pete Beard in the headphones.

[@petebeard]

Hello and it's always a treat to get such flattering feedback. Thanks a lot.

[@dansisco3076]

I only recently discovered your channel but I have thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you, for your dedication and generosity. A true treasure trove of creativity and wit!✌️😎

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm glad you're enjoying the videos. It's great to know viewers like what I'm doing. Many more on the way!

[@blank557]

Well done, as always. Antonio Rubino style, particularly the eyes, seems like it could have inspired Betty Boop, Dr. Suess, and even Japanese anime characters.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. When I first saw the work of Rubino similar bells of recognition and connection started to sound in my head too. And now we have the more simplistic computer game characters too. I think the expression is 'what goes around comes around'. It makes some kind of sense.

[@denisoliver213]

Thank you, Mr. Beard.

[@tessellatiaartilery8197]

Fascinating about Goldbransen, great work such a shame about how his talents were less seen after the war. Loved the Philips fade away effects. But Rubino was my favorite discovery, and yes agree he was likely a "bit weird" but so entrancing! Again, I learned so much from an episode in this outstanding video series. Thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your appreciation of these illustrators. It really is a pleasure to know I'm introducing their work to viewers (and in quite a few cases me too) who had not previously known about them.

[@iangillham9647]

More lovely stuff!

[@lizrichards4173]

Great video...will definitely watch the others!!!!

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks a lot. Please share with others if you can.

[@juanbjuan9862]

many thanks for this serie.. so interesting :)

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for watching - and your appreciation.

[@j74s98]

This series is great.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your positive comment. I hope you continue to find material that's of interest.

[@jeffhildreth9244]

My second time through your series. Wonderful.

[@petebeard]

Now that's what I call dedication. Thanks.

[@jeffhildreth9244]

Entirely self serving : ) I am in awe of all of these fine artists and the superb presentation. Your dedication profits all of us who watch these fine videos. Many thanks.

[@Leotagorax]

This episode was very good!

[@irishelk3]

That guy Folkard, out of all these videos so far, would be one of my favorites, he’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. Rich, high quality animation, very beautiful work, and very Rackhamesque. Not sure who came first or if they studied together or what?.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and I'm glad you discovered Folkard's work through my videos. I'd be surprised if you didn't discover others of similar quality in other videos. That seam of British illustration has unearthed quite a few.

[@johnstag1391]

Superb as always

[@petebeard]

My thanks as ever.

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@franklincontreras576]

Señor pete beard felicitaciones desdes venezuela estrordinarios videos didacticos e informativos Dios lo bendiga por ese servicio al arte y la creatividad

[@petebeard]

Hola y muchas gracias por su apreciación de mi trabajo en el canal. Se agradece mucho.

[@seanvolk4202]

Thanks for your efforts

[@petebeard]

Hellp and you're welcome.

[@tadeumiranda1100]

Um verdadeiro tesouro. Parabéns.

[@petebeard]

Olá e muito obrigado pela sua resposta positiva ao canal.

[@wolfgangglechner8490]

Thank you, great editing. I knew and admired Gulbranson before.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your positive comment. It seems we are both in a minority as admirers of his distinctive work. Yours is the first comment to mention him.

[@gabrielerosa665]

@@petebeard I'm seeing now Olaf works, how difficult times! Seeing his beggining and his last works during the war, it's obviously that he need to save his skin....drawing in "the fhürer way" as said by Ian Kershaw and another historians.....

[@petebeard]

Yes it is very unfortunate that so many talented illustrators were obliged to toe the party line. Some seem to have been more enthusiastic than others. I like to think I would have left there in 1933 if I could.

[@user-ut8gh7ww9y]

@@petebeard Mr. Lagerfeld collected many of his works, he was a huge fan of him.

[@travisbickle3475]

Tu trabajo es notable, un abrazo.

[@petebeard]

Muchas gracias y eso es muy amable de su parte.

[@mengyuliu7303]

thank you for all

[@petebeard]

Hello, and thanks a lot for watching.

[@jerrystaley1563]

Excellent!

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot for your appreciation

[@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte5325]

0:26 Olaf Gulbransson

[@dirkstuff5820]

Antonio Rubino - My initial thought was maybe his colors may have been done using dyes. Lots of deep chroma and linework.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. Some time after making this and other early videos it dawned on me that auction sites selling original artwork would have descriptions of how the pictures by different illustrators were created. And I was right, I'm pleases to say. It turns out that many of his were created as line only and specified colour added at print. But others were painted with gouache (still called tempera in Italy apparently) and ink line. There are even examples of watercolour being applied flat, again with ink line.

[@TheRoughton]

Fab

[@petebeard]

Cheers!

[@clark9992]

I have a suggestion for a video. How about a compilation of illustrators who did NOT do illustrations for Arabian Nights? It would only be about 5 minutes long I'm guessing.

[@petebeard]

Funny - but I've aready made dozens in the series without once mentioning that book.

[@cliffcampbell888]

I love all the videos on cartooning and illustration. I am devouring them daily now that I've found your channel. Thank you, Pete! Can you tell me what the technique of goo-ash is exactly. I'm spelling it phonetically as I've never heard of it before. You've mentioned it in several of your videos.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the channel content. I can't tell from your comment what your nationality is but the paint is spelled gouache, and although the British pronunciation is goo-ash I understand that in America for some reason they have decided to pronounce it gwash. I'm not being pedantic but in this instance British is correct because it comes from the French originally and that's how they pronounce it too.

Você é meu herói!

[@petebeard]

Muito obrigado pelo seu comentário, que é muito lisonjeiro. Estou apenas tentando iluminar esses verdadeiros heróis da ilustração.

[@MrJoaquintexas]

Gracias! 😁

[@petebeard]

hola y de nada

[@JohnPrepuce]

I've seen most some of your videos and am very happy to learn about illustration from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. I was wondering how printers were able to get the artwork (such as watercolor paintings, or oil) reproduced in a book. I researched lithography and woodcuts but I don't think those methods are able to reproduce art from a canvas onto a page accurately. I mostly wanted to know how the Saturday Evening Post was able to reproduce Rockwell's (and others') paintings on their covers. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Edit: fixed a word.

[@petebeard]

Hello, and thanks for your appreciation. As far as print in the time of Rockwell is concerned they were all printed by what's called full colour offset lithography. This meant the artist created the picture in the chosen medium, and the image was scanned using a filter system which picked out the indivual colours in tiny dot form, similar to pixels. This is known as CMYK. These are transferred (etched) onto zinc or aliminium plates, one for each colour. The four runs then combine to create a faithful halftone representation of the original. Tis, believe it or not is very much the short answer. To find out in greater detail there are loads of videos showing the process from start to finish.

[@JohnPrepuce]

Hi, thank you so much for the reply. I will look into that process.

[@sherryshelton5699]

I'd like the background music to be a bit lower in volume....distracting to me, to your dialog...sometimes obliterating your words. Otherwise...a truly wonderful series. I'm trying to view each and every one. Thank you for presenting/sharing this collection of work by so many great illustrators. Incidentally...I love the sound of your voice.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot. I'm sorry about the volume on some of the earlier videos. I'm a bit deaf which doesn't help with sound balance, and I also had no confidence in the sound of my voice at the time. But if it's any consolation the balance will get better as the series progresses, and in the meantime any that give you problems you could just turn the sound off and have subtitles.

[@kustomweb]

Coles Philips is great

[@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte5325]

3:34 Clarence Coles Philips

[@mijiyoon5575]

👍👍👍👍👍🎨

[@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte5325]

11:18 Charles Folkard

[@MissTutje]

Interview with Clifford Webb's grandson for further information on Clifford webb: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXbKm2yPp9GGabc

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks for the link. Some interesting stuff in there.

[@MissTutje]

@@petebeard I know! knowledge of the unsung heroes needs to be shared, no? :)

[@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte5325]

8:58 Clifford Webb

[@alexandrebeaudoin-laporte5325]

6:06 Antonio Rubino

[@johannsmithe2570]

*Thanks* for the video and introducing Clarence Cole Phillips. 5:08 could look at the image for a while. Noticed similiar to 2:15 Olof's hen-pecked husband pose both use a technique employed by Egon Schiele of drawing the figure horizontally then turning the sheet or frame ninety-degrees vertically. In Phillips work the sitting woman is turned clockwise to a bend over standing pose. The circular backdrop encourages the viewer to further rotate the illustration as if it was cut out and placed on the center decal of a rotating LP record. * Even the women's o.k. hand gesture suggests this. The whole image is very unified, i.e. her lower leg and arm at ninety-degrees, etc. The 💡 as breast dunno know. * One term to describe Phillips' negative space as postive space was 'gestalt'. Negative as implied by letting the viewer fill in the minimal contours to get them involved in the design by completing it. When drawing the outline of a circle not making it a complete circle but having a gap in the contour lets the viewer finish the circle. It also makes the interior area of the circle seem tonally lighter than the area outside. Paint a 🌹 once then draw a contour of the 💐 and you saved some time and effort by letting the viewer fill it in with their imagination of flowers. Plus, now they're invested in the image and think its great because they did it. Same as suggesting in a quiet low voice an idea then waiting for the listener to repeat it later proudly believing they thought of it. Same goes when painting a road in a landscape. Start the road from the frame edge as it was coming from outside it and continues into the landscape to draw in the viewer into the scenery. The French Impressionist Edgar Degas drew in half a figure cropped by the picture edge or frame letting the viewer complete it. John Constable the British painter would paint in birds coming out of a tree to continue the viewer's eye into the sky then have the viewer follow the clouds to the distant valley below (think of a sine curve) and back to the trees completing a circular visual path. In comedy setting up a joke with a rhythm a-b-c then repeating it with a-b but not c lets the listener fill the punchline in. Mostly likely it will be funnier or dirtier because they thought of it. Comedy is funny because it has a grain of truth in it that isn't spoken of in polite company. The laughter is an emotional release of pent up thoughts. And so on and on .... You say goo-ash they say gwash 😏 * The Beatles 🍎 logo of a half sliced apple with the protruding record player center style was suggestive for its time.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks as usual for your multifaceted comment, plenty of insight there. I'm assuming your own backgound is in art or art appreciation.Maybe you should set up a channel? Not sure what you're alluding to with the comedy, or the Beatles Apple logo either. Is it something in the video? And my understanding is that Americans say gwash but the rest of us pronounce it correctly. I checked.

[@johannsmithe2570]

@@petebeard Amongst other very good qualilites of your videos for me it is triggers a stream of "a-ha" observational relationships from your historical perspective. Hence, the digressions piggybacked on your comment section. Yea, too much time on my hands. Hope you don't mind. Try to be brief. Just poking a little fun at the guwash pronouncation as that is the way I thought it was pronounced, nasally. Goo-ash sounds like a Hungarian stew made with butt stock 😁 Gouche isn't a familiar medium. Tried it. Very flat dull texture. Winsor & Newton acrylic paint on the back of a sheet of acetate gives a nice uniform appearance with a sheen. Good with an architectural printed black line drawing on the front as a 5 or 6 mil sheet gives it a sight 3D effect. The comedy angle was to point out the principle of letting people interact with whatever medium. The British, respectfully, have their own sense of humor, as anyone esle. The Beatles' phonograph decal center represented a clitoris*. John Lennon humor? Clarence's alluding to the shape of the light bulb as a breast triggered that 'observation'. Yet, another digression. * or, was that Apple Record's a made for America logo only? Precursor to Apple Computers bite out the 🍎 logo referring to Adam & Eve, and the Tree of Knowledge. The sliced apple a vaginal reference or, as ol' jazz musicians called it the "monkey 🐵 in the 🚤 boat".

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I don't mind at all so feel free to continue commenting as tangentially as you like. My only concern is that sometimes I'm a bit lost for a reply as I struggle to follow the various threads. So I'll keep schtum unless I have anything pertinent to add.

[@johannsmithe2570]

@@petebeard Hello, second time around. Your presentations are still very good. Four illustrators at a time seems to be the optimal number for my attention span. *Geez* , my comments are long winded. I couldn't finish reading them. Best

[@petebeard]

I have to say I admire your dedication to the cause, and I do like to think that some at least are worth another look. And don't worry about your comments. They may be longer than most but I always enjoy attempting at least to follow your train of thought.

[@healthcareforallfiftyseven3773]

a THANK YOU to boost the algorithm

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks. I hope it works.

[@clealinden7755]

Fabulous! Doesn't Rubino seem a bit reminiscent of W.W. Denslow?

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks again. I must say he's not the first I would compare him to but there is a similar graphic solidity and an undercurrent of surreal madness, so I can see (I hope) where you're coming from.

[@clealinden7755]

@@petebeard Not remotely surprising, considering your vast knowledge of illustration and my comparative ignorance :)

[@petebeard]

@@clealinden7755 Hi again, and I wanted to add that my knowledge is far from vast - I've discovered dozens of illustrators by making these vdeos. And if my reply sounded like a put - down it really wasn't. Frankly it's great that viewers such as yourself engage in discussion and comparison.

[@clealinden7755]

@@petebeard Oh, no -- I didn't take it that way at all and apologize if I caused that impression!

[@petebeard]

@@clealinden7755 Ha ha! We'll be apologising back and forth for days at this rate. So suffice to say you didn't cause that impression at all so I promise to stop apologising if you do the same. Writing is such an inferior means of communication I always think.

[@borromine]

Too much praise not good for anyone. So I’ll just say: 👍🏻👌‼️

[@petebeard]

Hello and I wouldn't mind if you wanted to make an exception in my case. I need all the praise I can get. Thanks a lot.