THE ART OF ILLUSTRATION PART 1

Cant believe i just found this! A lovely overview

I have been fixated on John Tenniel's illustrations for nearly my whole life. His works are the primary reason I am an illustrator.

Everything is right in your videos: the choice of pictures and songs, the voice, the rythm of the narrative and the duration of videos. As somebody passionate about drawing, art and illustration I'm about to watch all of you're videos starting today and I'm sure that it's gonna be fantastic!

Very good.

A smart and loving overview, enchanting! ExCEPT... as a musician, I almost had to turn the sound off for some of that cheap, computer-played classical music like Pictures At an Exhibition at the beginning and the Gymnopedie later on – the 'operator' didn't even make a half-hearted attempt to imitate human sensitivity. It's about as mood enhancing as Transformer toys dancing ballet. :^{

You should talk about the illustrated codexes produced by the Ancient Aztecs. They are fascinating.

Just wonderful. Thank you!

This channel is a hidden gem, thank you for posting!

I feel like I’m getting a free higher education here 😮

I feel like I’m getting a free higher education here 😮

Another excellent video, about a really interesting subject. Thank you for all your effort.

Always enjoy Pete's videos with a cup of coffee

I don't think illustration is separate from the other fine arts. They teach the same thing the academies used to teach. Illustration is a continuance of history painting, genre, etc. It may have been only for books, but the techniques spread out and had full usage of all mediums and galleries. The line has thoroughly blurred since the first illuminating paintings of manuscripts.

Thanks again Pete. I learned about Edward Lear only this afternoon when I started reading Richard Mabey's 'The Cabaret of Plants ...', but only about his whimsical binomial plant illustrations. I was hoping you could set him in context. Mabey likes Lear but is more than a bit ticked-off that Palaeolithic cave paintings fail to show any recognisable plants. I understand your starting 'Illustration' with what is reproducible (or that is my understanding), but those Palaeolithic paintings of animals often seem to have elements that re-emerged in illustrative art much later.

I learned a lot through this video and took lots of notes, thank you for the video! I couldn't find more detailed videos about illustration before this. And the subtitles made it easy for me to understand even if I'm not too proficient in English, now I can learn English and illustration at the same time haha😄

Beautiful!

Grazie

The first! And you have over 80 now!

Thankyou for your well researched and tasteful execution. It's difficult to find well made videos that don't focus on one particular artist when talking about history in the arts. Looking forward to your work in the future!

This is wonderfully informative, Thankyou so much!

Pete, thank-you, for sharing your awesome videos, very interesting.

Perhaps there could be a little more on the technical aspects of illustration: how woodcuts were superseded (partially) by copperplate engraving; how the process of wood engraving, championed by Bewick (using end-grain boxwood blocks, rather than side-grain), made fine detail available in letterpress illustration; how the adoption of steel engraving and stereotyping made these images more widely accessible...

I love, love, love all the illustrations in this episode. What a treat!

Hi Pete,

I can't help myself; I am going to watch the entire series again. This is a phenomenal accounting of "The Art of Illustration" and a stand alone tutorial worthy of acclaim. Thanks so much for the education, entertainment and inspiration. This series has opened my eyes to a previously unknown world. Many thanks.

It's so wonderful getting to know all these amazing illustrators, but also equally frustrating being unable to get access to their works in high definition.

The Harmony Of Vision & Music in This ( And All your WORK) ... Is ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING - Thank You 👉🏼Pete Beard

Love this vid. A question: what's the difference between art and illustration? I mean, of course they overlap, but how would you put it most distinctly?

Thank you for this video. I have been interested in knowing the history of illustration, and you've explained it quite well. I am definitely going to check out other videos on your channel 😊

Thank you for this informative video!

i just randomly stumbled on a book of Albrecht Durers work when i was in my early teens back in the mid 80s his paintings were very nice but his engravings of biblical stuff left me absolutely WOWED! i am almost 50 now and still have that book and love it.

Absolutely wonderful & so informative …having tried woodblock printing in art class,I have a great appreciation of the early illustrators I this medium

Thank you very much.

Thankyou.

Another hugely informative video, thank you. I only just discovered your channel and am enjoying it immensely.

This deserves way more views than it has!

I am curious about music behind, Great Work! You mixed with drawings by chance? Wwant to know the names of the secuences.

Very enjoyable video s many thanks

As one who from far too early an age to understand any of the technique involved was blown away by Doré’s illustrations of the Arabian Nights, (and to an almost equal extent by Tenniel) and whose worklife continues to be the repair of color copiers, I am very familiar with the story you tell: and you have told it very well and clearly. Without getting too much into the weeds there is yet one more contribution of Germany to this progression you might have mentioned: the invention of the translucent CMYK inks that make full-color printing possible. These were developed by the I.G. Farben in the late 19th century. BTW, the FIRST thing Woodrow Wilson did after declaring war on Germany was to “nationalize” (i.e. seize) the I.G. Farben patents. And a word of warning, there is some family history involved here. Keep up the good work!

This needs to be preserved for all time. Awesome work of art!

thank you Peter...love your work

Stumbled upon your channel and felt in love immediately. Thank you!

this is awesome!! may I know what source of books did you used for this video? because I would definitely love to explore and take a greater depth for this one. Thank you very much and great video

Please update the description with the illustrators mentioned, thank you!

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Here have a subscriber. Well done good work.

currently studying illustration and these videos are beyond useful

Another good one, my thanks, as always.