Very well said @Mr Photodoc, I couldn’t agree more. Pete is one of the very best at what he does. Long time subscriber and I’ve been entertained, informed and learned a lot from Mr Beard indeed.
The artwork of talented illustrators is so incredibly evocative, far more than I ever realized. I feel like I’m traveling into the past and all around the world when I watch your videos.
Thanks a lot for your apprecviation, and the way you express your appreciation of the content chimes very much with my own feelings when looking at all this marvellous illustration.
I love clean, bold, colorful graphic design. Brun is the master. Another perfect episode, Pete. Now let's get him over 100K subs. Let's show that class can win the algorithm game on TH-cam.
Thanks as always. I'm edging ever closer it seems , but sadly it looks like I won't make the magic number in time for my imminent 74th birthday. I swear it was only last week I was 25....
(181) VERY enlightening dissertation on Brun, Mr. Beard. I'm glad he had such a long career; and his artistic morphing of styles during it is a joy to behold. THANK YOU SO MUCH for this delightful upload. And pleased he had such a decent stand at the wicket, so to speak.
Another wonderful film Pete. I wish you were around when I was studying illustration in school and I think your channel should not only be a prerequisite viewing in illustration classes it should also be the bases for a much needed museum of illustration.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation - its very welcome. I'm grateful for the internet because once upon a time I could only reach classes of 30 or so students at any one time (some of whom paid no attention whatsoever). That I can now show this work and discuss it with thousands is nothing short of miraculous to an old codger like me.
I know & love a variety of his images you shared. How so much talent can reside in one person is absolutely remarkable! Thank you for this wonderful presentation!
Wonderful posters that i have seen many times but never knew the artist's name. Thank you for enlightening us once again. I can look at these examples for hours.
Thank you very much, Pete! Really nice poster designer I've never heard of. BTW - our authorities have abandoned the practice of slowing down youtube so I have a lot of your videos to watch!
Many thanks for the appreciation, and I must say that although I'm generally against any interference in people's human liberty, I'm conflicted as anything that leads to more views of my channel makes me very happy.
Yet another new to me wonderful artist - his work seems to have influenced so much of the design I grew up with. As you say, his style is so wide ranging, but his design is always so strong and pleasing. Thank you!
The simplicity yet efficient design is incredible. Love this way of doing advertising ! Clear, compact, straight to the point. Great video, as always, thanks !!
Pete, Another one to go back and review. You make them not only enjoyable and educational, but you make it seem like you enjoy discovering and presenting their work. A happy teacher is a great teacher! Most enjoyable! Tnx!
A variety of styles- so evocative of a period, when posters, magazine illustrations were a pause point in lives of people who lived in those 'interesting ' times of war and peace, and war again... Thank you Pete!
What strikes me is the tremendous simplicity and wonderful use of colour. Most of them have a striking image and just the name of the product so they are more about establishing brand identity. The irony is the style is so distinctive he was a brand himself and clients must have wanted his successful brand to be associated with their own. I sometimes wonder how modern consumers would react to something so stylised and distinctive.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation and considered opinion. Of course I can't prove it but I firmly believe that if advertising returned to its original principles, as displayed in the posters of Brun and others from the past, not only would the world be a more attractive place but I think consumers would respond favourably to not being badgered by the crass messages screaming at them today.
Thanks for your comment, as always. And yes - he was a hard man to pin down, but successful in all he created (although I'm not that wild about his teen book illustrations).
Improbably cheerful housewives is a great band name. Once again we see the really phenomenal skill of some illustrators-to do a large variety of art styles and methods from one project to the next! Thanks, once again!♥️✌️
Just a few wow . ahh . and oh's collected from your delicate fruit trees branches which you allow growing over your gardens fence. I happily take them home and they never fail to inspire me by their seemingly endless variations of spirit and excellence. Thankyou Mr. Custodian as ever from Munich. 😊
• Donald Brun Another great video of a superbly talented illustrator! Impressive range of styles based on his clients needs. Love his "cleanly executed" early posters... reminds if some magazine ads from West Germany that I remember from the time my family lived in England in the mid-1950s. Brun certainly could soften his style for his children's related books, etc. Thanks again for another insightful video.
It's a very nice feeling to know that you - and luckily for me - a number of other viewers continue to appreciate the channel content and my efforts in bringing these talents to a wider audience. Thanks for that.
I was fortunate enough to take four semesters of graphic design in school. Though unfortunately I was not educated through the study of classical designers but rather modern principles and trends. My work was competent enough for a student, but seeing the works of artists like Donald Brun I am continually amazed at the expansive potential the medium holds. Thank you very much for always sharing the lives and works such incredible artists with us.
Drat. Here I thought I was a relatively knowledgeable retired professor of design and working artist. Then you come along showing some of the most inspiring graphical illustration I’ve seen (even as a long time subscriber). I can only thank you for a yet again another breath of fresh air and a brilliant synopsis. In the end, you’re right in wondering why recognition of such a prodigious output is not more widespread. If the Art Institute of Chicago can have an exhibition of London Transport posters, surely the Swiss ought to have done for Herr Brun. I would surely buy the catalogue. I will watch this again, stopping multiple times. It is stunning.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation, and if it's any consolation I had to swallow my own pride on more occasions than I care to remember. I used to think I knew loads about illustration and graphic design, but I came to realise it was just the tip of an improbably large iceberg.
I had never heard of Donald Brun by name before, although I can remember seeing a few examples of his work in the past without knowing who had made the striking images. Thank you again, as always, for an informative introduction to a great artist. Your videos are a constant source of inspiration.
I was expecting a completely different video from the thumbnail. I am a great fan of comic and anthropomorphic animal illustrations, and I thought this might be all that, but I was pleasantly surprised to see the varied and stylistic output of this enormously talented artist. You are doing a tremendous service to the TH-cam audience to bring such underappreciated artists to the forefront.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. And as with some others, trying to find just one image for the thumbnail to sum up his general approach was a non-starter. Let's hear it for versatility, I say.
I am so grateful for all the hard work you put into recognising these great artists. I'm an illustrator and I'm always looking for more inspiration, and I wouldn't know where to look if it wasn't for your channel - Thanks!
Deceptively simple. For a second you think, oh, it's this. And then you realize, no, it's that. The image of the red hand whose curled fingers form a face, or is it the other way around? Kind of haunting. Simple can be the hardest choice because there's nowhere to hide. Thanks again, Pete.
Pete. One thing that stands out on Mr. BRUN’s work is, each design has a totally original concept and layout that makes it one of a kind in my view. I love the way you presented it with appropriate music. His work to me doesn’t really fit into a period of history. It just makes sense. Thank you again for the presentation, Frank.
My passion. To copy my fave illustrators as my way of training myself in art. Thank you for this so enjoyable and informative way of learning about these.
Excellent video. One of the things that stands out is when he would use the background color as the color of the subject too, with no lines to differentiate the two, and he made it work.
Thanks for the favourable comment, once more. It seems he mastered any technique he put his mind to - although those children's line illustrations weren't his shiniest moment.
Thanks, Pete! Oddly, I liked all his styles _except_ the line drawings. I agree that a lot of earlier posters did in fact bring to mind an airbrush technique.
Hi again, and I tried to play it down in the narration but other than that interesting monochrome book illustration he did right at the end of his career I thought his pen and ink illustrations, both sketchy and geometric, were hideous.
Having had two semesterrs of printmaking in the nineties (and two in the seventies) where I was responsible for several stone litho prints and zinc litho prints. I can assure you that air brush is not really compatible with stone lithography..You can do stipple and dry brush-like effects on a stone somewhat more easily than doing them on paper or board. Yes if you are a master draftsman on a level with Francois Boucher you can probably do it. Thank you for a stimulating and beautiful piece.
Many thanks for your comment and insight. I did rather think I was probably wrong about the airbrush (which unlike lithography itself I do have experience with). I just couldn't imagine how else those gradients were achieved. I suppose the truth is it was enviable skill.
interesting video, i love these videos for finding references and new ideas. never heard of this guy. how he could be selling a product yet keep his artisic style is impressive. you just know he had 10 ad execs nit picking everything, "this looks to scary, this looks too sad. it too abstract. can we make the animal happy?" etc
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. And speaking as one who had to endure the stupidity and capricious whims of art directors for the best part of 4 decades, I can only assume Mr. Brun got the better of them, which I never managed.
I'd love to make that website. In fact, copyrights permitting, there should be a gallery website equivalent of your entire "Illustrations" youtube channel, so one could dwell on the images... I consume you videos like candy.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. I did consider looking into the idea of a companion website, but decided against it as there would not be enough time in the day to maintain it. As it is the channel has pretty much taken over my life. Not that I'm complaining - it keeps me this side of sane.
It would be interesting to have a complete juxtaposition of contemporary illustrators of each decade from 1875 onwards (through the golden age of illustration)... to the present. This video was terrific by the way.
Thanks a lot for your appreiation of the video, and regarding your suggestion I sort of thought I had done that (in a way at least) in videos such as the Brothers Grimm and Hans Andersen and even the Bible. From then to now...
Mr. Beard, these mini-documentaries are so wonderfully entertaining, informative and thought-provoking. The production and presentation are excellent as well. I’m so glad I found your channel and subscribed! Have you considered doing a video on Maurice Leloir?
Thanks a lot for your appreciation, and I'm glad you collided with the channel. Monsieur Leloir is already on my terrifyingly long list, but I'm so overwhelmed by other works in progress I have no idea when he will be featured. But as long as I don't fall off my perch in the meantime he will certainly be making an appearance.
Great compilation! Just beautiful clean work. All I can figure for the early blending was an airbrush sized sandblaster. Paache made them, I dont know if earlier companies like Thayer & chandler did also? Or..airbrushed acid, which I doubt, because of controlling the depth? But who knows? Really love this mans work though! T.y.
Thanks a lot for your comment. Another viewer (who is versed in lithography) reckons there's no way to link the process with any sort of spray technique, so it seems it was simply that Brun had enviable skills with tonal renders.
@petebeard something that shouldn't be lost to history i.m.o. & yes he could have just tapped it out. Magnified Eye glass may tell? Such smooth blend though! You'd have to clean that plate every print, & ink would be very thin on brayer.
Thank you for your research on this artist, Donald Brun! I truly enjoyed the vast amount of advertising work you showed, I am a great fan of this sort of posters. Beautiful graphics and wonderful colours! A question: have you ever done any video's on Harold W. McCauley, or Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer? Could be that I missed that, if you have, sorry for that. My wife and I still enjoy every video you make and we really enjoy your interactions as well!
Thanks again (to both of you) for your continued appreciation. I knew about McCauley but unfortunately there isnt enough material to make a solo with, and he was born too late to make an unsung hero appearance (1910 DOB cutoff point). But I had never heard of Schlaikjer and although a quick look seems to suggest he is similarly too low profile for his own video he does fit the criteria for inclusion in the unsung heroes series, when I resume it in the new year.
Which illustrator in which of your films had the image of a man painting the bowsprite of a ship? I think he was dangling by rope and painting her lips red. I can't find it and I'd love to see it again.
It had it's downsides - world war springs to mind - but you are right, in cultural terms it was a genuine high point in so many ways. Thanks for the comment.
I really appreciate the hard work you put into these videos. Do you think you would be interested in one day doing a video on the Redwall series illustrators? (I was always impressed with those as a kid.)
Thanks for the comment and appreiation. I had never heard of Redwall and it does look like a fascinating collection of images. But it looks very much like most if not all the illustrators are alive and kicking, and I only make videos about those no longer with us.
Thanks a lot. And Mr. Gruelle has already made a brief appearance in unsung heroes of illustration 55. I couldn't find enough material to make a solo video wirth.
The writing, narration, sound design and editing of images on this channel are second only to the content. Proud subscriber.
Your particularly favourable comment is greatly appreciated and many thanks for subscribing.
Very well said @Mr Photodoc, I couldn’t agree more. Pete is one of the very best at what he does. Long time subscriber and I’ve been entertained, informed and learned a lot from Mr Beard indeed.
Your effort to memorialize all of these illustrious illustrators is very much appreciated. Thank you.
That's good to know, and thanks again for your longterm support.
The artwork of talented illustrators is so incredibly evocative, far more than I ever realized.
I feel like I’m traveling into the past and all around the world when I watch your videos.
Thanks a lot for your apprecviation, and the way you express your appreciation of the content chimes very much with my own feelings when looking at all this marvellous illustration.
The way you find and present to us so many talented illustrators for us to enjoy is amazing. Every day mast seem like Christmas. Thanks.
Thanks for your favourable comment. And I freely admit I'm a very happy bunny when I discover a cache of great images to make a video with.
I love clean, bold, colorful graphic design. Brun is the master. Another perfect episode, Pete. Now let's get him over 100K subs. Let's show that class can win the algorithm game on TH-cam.
Thanks as always. I'm edging ever closer it seems , but sadly it looks like I won't make the magic number in time for my imminent 74th birthday. I swear it was only last week I was 25....
(181) VERY enlightening dissertation on Brun, Mr. Beard. I'm glad he had such a long career; and his artistic morphing of styles during it is a joy to behold. THANK YOU SO MUCH for this delightful upload. And pleased he had such a decent stand at the wicket, so to speak.
Hello again and thanks for your continued appreiation. I'm very pleased you enjoyed Brun's work.
Yet another amazing discovery. Thank you so much Pete!
Thanks as always for your appreciation.
Another wonderful film Pete. I wish you were around when I was studying illustration in school and I think your channel should not only be a prerequisite viewing in illustration classes it should also be the bases for a much needed museum of illustration.
Totally agree!
Thanks a lot for your appreciation - its very welcome. I'm grateful for the internet because once upon a time I could only reach classes of 30 or so students at any one time (some of whom paid no attention whatsoever). That I can now show this work and discuss it with thousands is nothing short of miraculous to an old codger like me.
@@petebeardOld, but vital codger who enlivens all who bother to view these wonderfully inspiring treatises on the graphic arts.
I know & love a variety of his images you shared. How so much talent can reside in one person is absolutely remarkable! Thank you for this wonderful presentation!
Thanks to you for your continued appreciation. I try my best not to be envious of talents such as his, but it's far from easy.
@@petebeard.....what S wrote....😅😅😊😊
Wonderful posters that i have seen many times but never knew the artist's name. Thank you for enlightening us once again. I can look at these examples for hours.
Thanks a lot, and I hope you do watch them for hours - it helps my ratings...
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Thank you, sir, your channel deserves far more subs.
Thanks for the comment, and I couldn't agree more, but it is what it is.
Thank you very much, Pete! Really nice poster designer I've never heard of. BTW - our authorities have abandoned the practice of slowing down youtube so I have a lot of your videos to watch!
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Many thanks for the appreciation, and I must say that although I'm generally against any interference in people's human liberty, I'm conflicted as anything that leads to more views of my channel makes me very happy.
So creative for so long, what a legacy. You are the best art teacher on TH-cam. Thank you again.
Your appreciation is very welcome, and I'm glad you appreciation Brun's remarkable work.
Another beautiful presentation, thank you.
Many thanks for your appreciation of my efforts.
I grew up admiring advertising illustrations, but this is the first time I have heard of Donald Brun. What a wonderfully diverse body of work.
Thanks for the comment, and he was new to me, too. And I worked in advertising and illustration for 4 decades...
What a fabulously stylish and gifted illustrator! Such clarity and breadth. And another joyous video to sink into 😍
Tanks a lot for your comment, and I'm pleased you really appreciate Brun's remarkable body of work.
Yet another new to me wonderful artist - his work seems to have influenced so much of the design I grew up with. As you say, his style is so wide ranging, but his design is always so strong and pleasing. Thank you!
Thanks for your favourable comment and appreciation of Brun's work.
Another fantastic artist! You are a marvel!!!
Thanks for your ongoing appreciation of the channel and my efforts.
All Brun’s super illustration is so clean and clinical. That was very interesting Pete thank you
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of Brun's work.
The simplicity yet efficient design is incredible. Love this way of doing advertising ! Clear, compact, straight to the point. Great video, as always, thanks !!
I'm pleased you appreciate Brun's work - and thanks again for the comment.
Pete,
Another one to go back and review. You make them not only enjoyable and educational, but you make it seem like you enjoy discovering and presenting their work.
A happy teacher is a great teacher! Most enjoyable! Tnx!
Thanks Mike as always. And you are right - making these videos is a genuine pleasure for me, and an education in many cases.
thanks so much, your efforts and generosity to share is wonderful, love your narratives on all of your presentations,,,
That's very kind of you, and your appreciation of my efforts is very welcome. Thanks.
A variety of styles- so evocative of a period, when posters, magazine illustrations were a pause point in lives of people who lived in those 'interesting ' times of war and peace, and war again...
Thank you Pete!
Many thanks for your comment, and your appreciation of the channel is also very welcome.
Really enjoyed this one thanks so much 🙏
That's good to know and thanks for your comment.
What strikes me is the tremendous simplicity and wonderful use of colour. Most of them have a striking image and just the name of the product so they are more about establishing brand identity. The irony is the style is so distinctive he was a brand himself and clients must have wanted his successful brand to be associated with their own. I sometimes wonder how modern consumers would react to something so stylised and distinctive.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation and considered opinion. Of course I can't prove it but I firmly believe that if advertising returned to its original principles, as displayed in the posters of Brun and others from the past, not only would the world be a more attractive place but I think consumers would respond favourably to not being badgered by the crass messages screaming at them today.
An amazingly clever guy with a light sense of fun. It’s great to see the development of his style(s) throughout his work.
Thanks for your comment, as always. And yes - he was a hard man to pin down, but successful in all he created (although I'm not that wild about his teen book illustrations).
A new favorite.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot for your comment. I'm glad you enjoyed his work.
*Burn's* animals are so adorable & highly well drawn, & female human eyes as well ... beautiful eyes
Thanks as always for the stars and favourable comment.
Those illustrations were so charming. And so was the video itself Pete! Very well done, thank you so much!
I'm very pleased you enjoyed Brun's work - and my presentation of it. Thanks as always.
@@petebeard You're welcome!
Another magnificent discovery. Well done Mr. Beard.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Improbably cheerful housewives is a great band name.
Once again we see the really phenomenal skill of some illustrators-to do a large variety of art styles and methods from one project to the next!
Thanks, once again!♥️✌️
Now you mention it, it is a rather good name, isn't it? Thanks for the observation and another favourable reaction to a video on the channel.
Just a few wow . ahh . and oh's collected from your delicate fruit trees branches which you allow growing over your gardens fence. I happily take them home and they never fail to inspire me by their seemingly endless variations of spirit and excellence. Thankyou Mr. Custodian as ever from Munich. 😊
Hello and that's a very nice metaphor. I'm genuinely grateful for such positive comments from viewers so thanks a lot.
I love his versatile styles, thank you for sharing it! 🙏🏻💛
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of Brun's work.
Another superb production Pete! Thank you!
Thanks as ever for your kind worrds of appreciation.
• Donald Brun
Another great video of a superbly talented illustrator! Impressive range of styles based on his clients needs. Love his "cleanly executed" early posters... reminds if some magazine ads from West Germany that I remember from the time my family lived in England in the mid-1950s. Brun certainly could soften his style for his children's related books, etc.
Thanks again for another insightful video.
It's a very nice feeling to know that you - and luckily for me - a number of other viewers continue to appreciate the channel content and my efforts in bringing these talents to a wider audience. Thanks for that.
I was fortunate enough to take four semesters of graphic design in school. Though unfortunately I was not educated through the study of classical designers but rather modern principles and trends. My work was competent enough for a student, but seeing the works of artists like Donald Brun I am continually amazed at the expansive potential the medium holds. Thank you very much for always sharing the lives and works such incredible artists with us.
Thanks once more for your favourable response to the channel content. And I'm pleased you appreciate the scope of Brun's remarkable graphic talent.
Drat. Here I thought I was a relatively knowledgeable retired professor of design and working artist. Then you come along showing some of the most inspiring graphical illustration I’ve seen (even as a long time subscriber). I can only thank you for a yet again another breath of fresh air and a brilliant synopsis. In the end, you’re right in wondering why recognition of such a prodigious output is not more widespread. If the Art Institute of Chicago can have an exhibition of London Transport posters, surely the Swiss ought to have done for Herr Brun. I would surely buy the catalogue. I will watch this again, stopping multiple times. It is stunning.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation, and if it's any consolation I had to swallow my own pride on more occasions than I care to remember. I used to think I knew loads about illustration and graphic design, but I came to realise it was just the tip of an improbably large iceberg.
That's some beautiful posters, this type of semi realistic rendering is so interesting.
Thanks a lot for the comment and appreciation of Brun's work.
I had never heard of Donald Brun by name before, although I can remember seeing a few examples of his work in the past without knowing who had made the striking images. Thank you again, as always, for an informative introduction to a great artist. Your videos are a constant source of inspiration.
Thanks for your favourable comment about this video and I'm very pleased you find the channel a source of inspiration.
Your channel is a treasure, Pete.
Nice of you to say so - you are most welcome.
I was expecting a completely different video from the thumbnail. I am a great fan of comic and anthropomorphic animal illustrations, and I thought this might be all that, but I was pleasantly surprised to see the varied and stylistic output of this enormously talented artist. You are doing a tremendous service to the TH-cam audience to bring such underappreciated artists to the forefront.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. And as with some others, trying to find just one image for the thumbnail to sum up his general approach was a non-starter. Let's hear it for versatility, I say.
I am so grateful for all the hard work you put into recognising these great artists. I'm an illustrator and I'm always looking for more inspiration, and I wouldn't know where to look if it wasn't for your channel - Thanks!
Thanks a lot for your appreciation of my efforts with the channel. And I'm pleased that you find it inspires you in your own work.
Deceptively simple. For a second you think, oh, it's this. And then you realize, no, it's that. The image of the red hand whose curled fingers form a face, or is it the other way around? Kind of haunting. Simple can be the hardest choice because there's nowhere to hide. Thanks again, Pete.
Thanks a lot and I'm very pleased you are impressed with Brun's remarkable work.
Pete. One thing that stands out on Mr. BRUN’s work is, each design has a totally original concept and layout that makes it one of a kind in my view. I love the way you presented it with appropriate music. His work to me doesn’t really fit into a period of history. It just makes sense. Thank you again for the presentation, Frank.
Hello again and thanks for your favourabe response to the video and Brun's work.
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Thanks again. I smoked for 50 years but gave up a few years back. Still miss it, but it's a dreadful habit.
My passion. To copy my fave illustrators as my way of training myself in art. Thank you for this so enjoyable and informative way of learning about these.
Thanks for the comment, and we could all do a lot worse than trying to become better through such study.
Excellent video. One of the things that stands out is when he would use the background color as the color of the subject too, with no lines to differentiate the two, and he made it work.
Thanks for the favourable comment, once more. It seems he mastered any technique he put his mind to - although those children's line illustrations weren't his shiniest moment.
I loved his art! so funny and well crafted and rich in diversity!
Thanks!
Thanks a lot for your comment and I'm very pleased you appreciate Brun's witty work.
Amazing work! Great to know such technical master.
Thanks for your comment and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks, Pete! Oddly, I liked all his styles _except_ the line drawings. I agree that a lot of earlier posters did in fact bring to mind an airbrush technique.
Hi again, and I tried to play it down in the narration but other than that interesting monochrome book illustration he did right at the end of his career I thought his pen and ink illustrations, both sketchy and geometric, were hideous.
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Having had two semesterrs of printmaking in the nineties (and two in the seventies) where I was responsible for several stone litho prints and zinc litho prints. I can assure you that air brush is not really compatible with stone lithography..You can do stipple and dry brush-like effects on a stone somewhat more easily than doing them on paper or board. Yes if you are a master draftsman on a level with Francois Boucher you can probably do it. Thank you for a stimulating and beautiful piece.
Many thanks for your comment and insight. I did rather think I was probably wrong about the airbrush (which unlike lithography itself I do have experience with). I just couldn't imagine how else those gradients were achieved. I suppose the truth is it was enviable skill.
Lovely info!
Thanks a lot.
interesting video, i love these videos for finding references and new ideas. never heard of this guy. how he could be selling a product yet keep his artisic style is impressive. you just know he had 10 ad execs nit picking everything, "this looks to scary, this looks too sad. it too abstract. can we make the animal happy?" etc
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. And speaking as one who had to endure the stupidity and capricious whims of art directors for the best part of 4 decades, I can only assume Mr. Brun got the better of them, which I never managed.
I'd love to make that website. In fact, copyrights permitting, there should be a gallery website equivalent of your entire "Illustrations" youtube channel, so one could dwell on the images... I consume you videos like candy.
Every few seconds I paused the video just to take in the image. Such wonderful work.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. I did consider looking into the idea of a companion website, but decided against it as there would not be enough time in the day to maintain it. As it is the channel has pretty much taken over my life. Not that I'm complaining - it keeps me this side of sane.
It would be interesting to have a complete juxtaposition of contemporary illustrators of each decade from 1875 onwards (through the golden age of illustration)... to the present.
This video was terrific by the way.
Thanks a lot for your appreiation of the video, and regarding your suggestion I sort of thought I had done that (in a way at least) in videos such as the Brothers Grimm and Hans Andersen and even the Bible. From then to now...
Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure - and you are very welcome.
Mr. Beard, these mini-documentaries are so wonderfully entertaining, informative and thought-provoking. The production and presentation are excellent as well. I’m so glad I found your channel and subscribed!
Have you considered doing a video on Maurice Leloir?
Thanks a lot for your appreciation, and I'm glad you collided with the channel. Monsieur Leloir is already on my terrifyingly long list, but I'm so overwhelmed by other works in progress I have no idea when he will be featured. But as long as I don't fall off my perch in the meantime he will certainly be making an appearance.
Great compilation! Just beautiful clean work. All I can figure for the early blending was an airbrush sized sandblaster. Paache made them, I dont know if earlier companies like Thayer & chandler did also? Or..airbrushed acid, which I doubt, because of controlling the depth? But who knows? Really love this mans work though! T.y.
Thanks a lot for your comment. Another viewer (who is versed in lithography) reckons there's no way to link the process with any sort of spray technique, so it seems it was simply that Brun had enviable skills with tonal renders.
@petebeard something that shouldn't be lost to history i.m.o. & yes he could have just tapped it out. Magnified Eye glass may tell? Such smooth blend though! You'd have to clean that plate every print, & ink would be very thin on brayer.
Thank you for your research on this artist, Donald Brun! I truly enjoyed the vast amount of advertising work you showed, I am a great fan of this sort of posters. Beautiful graphics and wonderful colours! A question: have you ever done any video's on Harold W. McCauley, or Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer? Could be that I missed that, if you have, sorry for that. My wife and I still enjoy every video you make and we really enjoy your interactions as well!
Thanks again (to both of you) for your continued appreciation. I knew about McCauley but unfortunately there isnt enough material to make a solo with, and he was born too late to make an unsung hero appearance (1910 DOB cutoff point). But I had never heard of Schlaikjer and although a quick look seems to suggest he is similarly too low profile for his own video he does fit the criteria for inclusion in the unsung heroes series, when I resume it in the new year.
I think about your videos on a near-daily basis. 🎉
That's good to know. All part of my plan for global domination...
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Which illustrator in which of your films had the image of a man painting the bowsprite of a ship? I think he was dangling by rope and painting her lips red. I can't find it and I'd love to see it again.
The image is by the late great Arthur Watts and features in unsung heroes 70. Enjoy!
@@petebeard Many thanks, Pete. Excellent work, btw. Please keep making 'em!
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👏 the 20th Century was amazing.
It had it's downsides - world war springs to mind - but you are right, in cultural terms it was a genuine high point in so many ways. Thanks for the comment.
I do wish this was the kind of advertising style we could see used today.
You and me both. Sadly, it's about as likely as my hair growing back.
I really appreciate the hard work you put into these videos. Do you think you would be interested in one day doing a video on the Redwall series illustrators? (I was always impressed with those as a kid.)
Thanks for the comment and appreiation. I had never heard of Redwall and it does look like a fascinating collection of images. But it looks very much like most if not all the illustrators are alive and kicking, and I only make videos about those no longer with us.
@@petebeard Ah, I see.☺Thanks for looking into it.
Beautiful!!!!!
Ps JOHNNY GRUELLE!!!!!!! PLEASEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot. And Mr. Gruelle has already made a brief appearance in unsung heroes of illustration 55. I couldn't find enough material to make a solo video wirth.
@@petebeard ok! Thanks!
what would Brun think of Don Draper
I imagine he would hold him and his ilk in contempt for their psychobabble approach to advertising.
Allrounder
Indeed he was.
Cheers - always welcome.