@@petebeard You may well already be aware of French comic artist and illustrator Ted Benoit. Not really contemporary (active from late 70s to 2016) but has a clear line style which must have been heavily inspired by a lot of the earlier artists you feature.
@@goodoleddy2154 Hello and thanks. You're right - I am already familiar with Benoit's work, mainly in connection with his recreations of Edgar Jacobs' comic book work. It's a style I love and it is fascinating to observe the many variations produced over the decades. Maybe down the line I'll make a video about its evolution and exponents.
What incredible linework; often simple and so precise!, mixing 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional on the same page, causing the foreground to pop; and with cubist influence occasionally. Charles Martin is a true genius. He reveals the need for knowledge of human figure/kinematics to clearly represent his human forms with the bare minimum of line; wonderful. Thank you Mr. Beard.
Hello and once more your appreciation and insight is greatly welcomed. The video isn't attracting a huge number of views but it seems that those who do watch it respond favourably to Martin's beautiful work.
When I watch your videos, I find myself wishing illustration history of this quality was around when I was in college. Thank you for your dedication to revealing these forgotten gems.
Hello and thanks for the comment. One of the more annoying things about making these videos is that it seems they are largely wasted on the current generation of students. When I started I assumed they would be the biggest share of the views. I was very wrong.
What I find remarkable about the artist-illustrator Charles Martin is how consistent his style is throughout his career. A beautifully produced video, Pete, with appropriate and sensitive music. You've set the bar quite high for yourself for subsequent edition in this series. Bravo!
Hello afain and thanks a lot for your comment. And that struck me too, although the very early stuff looks a little heavy handed compared to the really fine lines of the rest of his career.
🤣🤣🤣 You know the one. 🤣🤣🤣 I enjoyed this artist very much. I watched with my husband and we had a lovely conversation about the simple perfection of geometric shapes. The eye falls so easy when everything is just as it should be. Thanks for another great video and a good laugh to boot.
Charles Martin was one of the 'The Knights of the Bracelet' that I wrote about for my Illustration course dissertation. I'm a huge fan of their poichoir work and how stylised and characterful their fashion drawings are. So happy to see a video on him!
Thank you Pete! - love this translucent quality of Martin's works. 7:58 Especially, those rare instances of sketches/drafts of artists' work, before it is shown in final print formats.
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Another absolute knockout Pete! You've made me a fan of this incredible artist with your beautifully produced video. It's incredible to see what he can do with that dead-weight line and such subtle colors… an absolute master of form, composition and mood. For me it's always a treat to see the rough sketch. Gives an idea of the working method behind such finished, clean work… Bravo sir, and thank you, as always!
Thought I'd watch your most recent video. It amazes me how life can be expressed in so many different styles and forms and each be appreciated for their uniqueness, charm even horror. Whether, detailed or loosely rendered, these works send a viewer on to a voyage of exploration and endlessly fascination. Most of us wished we were artists sometime in our younger life. Fortunately, many do achieve that dream and are able to showcase their own thoughts permanently to the world to see.
Hello again and thanks a lot for your comment. Even at my age I'm constantly surprised and gratified that there is so much visual delight to be had from so many diverse illustrators.
Thank you for this beautiful presentation of the work of Charles Martin. Your videos inspire one to also pay more attention to one's own creative output, and to think of trying to illustrate a book. Greetings from South Africa.
Hi again and thanks. I do my best with music but the issue of copyright makes what's posssible quite limited. Consequently I end up re-using a lot of the same stuff and hope nobody notices.
Thanks Pete, your knowledge and research is astounding! I first encountered Charles Martin's work in Bourdeaux about 25 years ago. I bought some Fantasio magazines. I also have a 1930s book on drawing which features him. But I knew little else. Thank you so much for the bio!
@@petebeard I think artists who were forgotten before the internet, slip through the gaps in history. Thankfully your videos help to bring their work back.
I love your videos and channel so much!! Such amazingly crafted videos, I can tell how much thought and effort goes into each one. Thank you for taking the time, your channel ha helped me a lot and is exceptionally inspiring :)
Thank you so much for this ! I didn't know him and now, this video gave me such an inspiration to keep going, searching and studying this masters 💗 loved see his illustrations. That lines are so chic and it flows... It's beautiful to see. I'm happy for this discovery
Another fascinating snapshot in illustration history. Much more expressive than I would have imagined using only a single weight line. It lends more validity to the fact that good and creative design AND solid draftsmanship are equally important. On a slightly different subject, it might be interesting to briefly discuss some of the early printing processes; it seems that many of your featured illustrators knew, understood and exploited some of the simple printing processes to achieve some brilliant results. Hope it wouldn't be too esoteric of a subject, but, for me at least, when I learned that, in illustration, the final piece was not the final art but the PRINTED piece in a book or magazine, it was a real eye-opener. Anyway, another great video, Pete. Merci!
Hi again and just to backtrack to a previous comment I've been to the Brussels Comic Museum a couple of times - took students when I was teaching and really enjoyed the place. But I've never been to the Beetles' gallery although I've got several of their catalogues. And regarding the subject of print I've wondered about a video on the subject but for now at least decided against it, simply on the grounds that I'm rather ignorant about much of it myself (other than offset litho) so I'd be very likely to make a fool of myself or be forced to spend a long time working out its arcane mysteries. Maybe if I ever run out of other topics...
I'm sure that linear graphics with the limited colouring would be much more difficult to present the idea effectively than the more complicated drawings. These are so beautiful.
thank you. some of his modern style reminded me of the feeling of art deco. I'm surprised that across continents there was similarity in that art deco sensibility, particularly after the war. thanks
I enjoy this series very much. Any plan to add a text/image oriented website for archive and search purpose? A book or two? (The copyright issues must be a night mare. My best wishes.)
Hello and there are no plans for a website and certainly no books, although I might be tempted to try e-books somewhere down the line if I live long enough. The videos take up an inordinate (but enjoyable) amount of time and as it is there is probably more waiting to be crossed off my bucket list than I've already done.
Hello again and if it's inspired you so much the better. If you do create a book I hope you have more success with it than I ever managed with my attempts.
Lovely work as usual. Thanks. BTW, have you covered Ernesto Garcia Cabral? I only recently was directed to him. Super e Deco Era Mexican illustrator and caricaturist.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. And yes Cabral features in unsung heroes 23. And I'm currently working on a solo video about him similar to the Martin video you've just watched. But I have no idea when it'll be completed as I'm working on many others simultaneously.
Shocking, to consider that what could be published in 1920s Paris is still, 100 years later, too much for the YT censors! Especially considering some of the outrageous depravity to which they have given their verbal support an indeed will kick you off the platform for objecting to or calling by its true name! But Martin's work, even at its most sexual, is fully civilized and in its way even innocent. Perhaps his attitude is too healthy for the Toobmeisters. Thanks for bringing him to our attention!
Hello and thanks for the comment and observation. The funniest/saddest part of this is that the offending images are available uncensored on a google search and as far as I'm aware they are the same company.
Hello, and the irony is that those images - uncensored - are available via a google search, and to the best of my knowledge they are effectively the same company.
Hello Mike and if I understand your query correctly Nielsen featured early on in the unsung heroes series - part 4, if you missed it. But as with others I subsequently realised he deserves a solo spot and i's a work in progress (alongside a terrifyingly large number of others). No idea when it'll be uploaded as yet.
Hello again, and I must say it has always driven me to levels of rage that are undoubtedly not good for my blood pressure that illustration is treated by some as the inferior relative of fine art. As far as I'm concerned it connects and communicates far more with ordinary people in their daily lives. But because it is overtly commercial it is somehow not as worthy. Calm down, Pete, calm down...
Mr. Beard I hate to say it, but you did not have to black out anything. Evidently, UA-cam did it for you. Most every picture posted here is so blurry it is hard to discern if the picture is of a human being or a tree. Perhaps this can be reposted in focus.
Hello and I've checked the video and it's definition seems fine. What you are describing has occasionally happened to me when watching and it's more to do with the transmission than the video quality. Another try or another device will almost certainly sort it out.
I hope that in 100 years there will be someone else like Pete Beard helping everyone to remember and celebrate the great illustrators of today
Hello and I hope that too. One of these days I might just feature some contemporary illustrators I admire.
@@petebeard You may well already be aware of French comic artist and illustrator Ted Benoit. Not really contemporary (active from late 70s to 2016) but has a clear line style which must have been heavily inspired by a lot of the earlier artists you feature.
@@goodoleddy2154 Hello and thanks. You're right - I am already familiar with Benoit's work, mainly in connection with his recreations of Edgar Jacobs' comic book work. It's a style I love and it is fascinating to observe the many variations produced over the decades. Maybe down the line I'll make a video about its evolution and exponents.
You pair the best music with your excellent videos!!
I see a bit of Beardsley in his work
Took the words right out of my mouth, re: Beardsley
Hello again and you're right. Elegance mixed with decadence.
Your voice cures headaches ...and Bob Ross does too.
Hello and thanks a lot. Please tell my wife that.
@@petebeard Will do😆👍
What incredible linework; often simple and so precise!, mixing 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional on the same page, causing the foreground to pop; and with cubist influence occasionally. Charles Martin is a true genius. He reveals the need for knowledge of human figure/kinematics to clearly represent his human forms with the bare minimum of line; wonderful. Thank you Mr. Beard.
Hello and once more your appreciation and insight is greatly welcomed. The video isn't attracting a huge number of views but it seems that those who do watch it respond favourably to Martin's beautiful work.
When I watch your videos, I find myself wishing illustration history of this quality was around when I was in college. Thank you for your dedication to revealing these forgotten gems.
Hello and thanks for the comment. One of the more annoying things about making these videos is that it seems they are largely wasted on the current generation of students. When I started I assumed they would be the biggest share of the views. I was very wrong.
Lovely stuff! Not seen ANY of these before and surely they should be much better known..beautiful and elegant work. Thank you.
Hello and I hope the video does get his work better known, if only by a few thousand viewers.
What I find remarkable about the artist-illustrator Charles Martin is how consistent his style is throughout his career. A beautifully produced video, Pete, with appropriate and sensitive music. You've set the bar quite high for yourself for subsequent edition in this series. Bravo!
Hello afain and thanks a lot for your comment. And that struck me too, although the very early stuff looks a little heavy handed compared to the really fine lines of the rest of his career.
This channel is my source of artistic ambrosia. Thanks for another fabulous episode Pete.
Hi again and thanks again. If I had the choice I'd be nectar -that's the drink one isn't it?
@@petebeard 👍
As always, with much appreciation, thank you, Mr. Beard.
Hello again and as usual you are more than welcome.
You're right, a wonderful artist. Thanks for this!
Hello and I'm glad you agree.
🤣🤣🤣 You know the one. 🤣🤣🤣 I enjoyed this artist very much. I watched with my husband and we had a lovely conversation about the simple perfection of geometric shapes. The eye falls so easy when everything is just as it should be. Thanks for another great video and a good laugh to boot.
Hello again and I'm glad you both enjoyed the video.
Exceptional! It's astonishing how much "room" there is in these works. Never seen anything like that.
Fascinating. A beautiful body of work! Thanks for illuminating these oft unsung artists.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. I'm glad you like his work.
Great line work using the least of drawing to create an image ....... like his work ... thank you.....
Hello and I'm glad you appreciate his work.
Beautiful technique Quite masterful, and unknown to me. Thank-you!
Hello and I'm glad yoy liked it. He is one of the most obscure I've covered so far.
Extraordinary video production for an extraordinary artist.
Thanks much.
Hello again and your appreciation is always welcome.
Amazing body of work--one of my favorite illustrators. Beautiful presentation, Peter. Worth multiple viewings.
Hello and Im very pleased you enjoyed the video. Hopefully now more people will appreciate his wonderful work.
Charles Martin was one of the 'The Knights of the Bracelet' that I wrote about for my Illustration course dissertation. I'm a huge fan of their poichoir work and how stylised and characterful their fashion drawings are. So happy to see a video on him!
Hello, and thanks for your comment. I had never heard the 'knights of the bracelet' so I'll look it up.
Cool. Thanks, and et ceteras! Still watching, still enjoying.
Hello and thanks for still watching - and commenting.
Great video Pete, thanks for bringing him to life for your viewers!
Hello and it's my pleasure to so so.
Thank you Pete! - love this translucent quality of Martin's works.
7:58 Especially, those rare instances of sketches/drafts of artists' work, before it is shown in final print formats.
Hello and thanks. Unfortunately I couldn't find more sketch work to show. As you say it's always revealing.
Once again, thanks for your amazing work Pete. Your videos are treasures.
Hello and it's very rewarding to get such positive comments about the videos on the channel. So thanks a lot.
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Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of this video and the channel in general.
Another absolute knockout Pete! You've made me a fan of this incredible artist with your beautifully produced video. It's incredible to see what he can do with that dead-weight line and such subtle colors… an absolute master of form, composition and mood. For me it's always a treat to see the rough sketch. Gives an idea of the working method behind such finished, clean work… Bravo sir, and thank you, as always!
Hello again and my thaks again for your continued appreciation.
Thank you so much . Beautifully put together .
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. Nice cat.
Very elegant and aesthetically pleasing works. I really like the musical background too.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation, and I got lucky with the music by Satie, which was not subject to copyright I'm pleased to say.
What an interesting illustrator. I must admit I never heard of him before. Thanks for a look at the saucy side of life in Paris.
Hi Albert. Glad you enjoyed the work of this more than usually obscure figure.
@@petebeard It is humorous that this day in age you had to blackout some anatomical images to please our Corporate Overlords.
Charles Martin is new to me. Thanks for this introduction. I love his work, especially the saucy stuff. Another marvellous video!
Hello again and I'm glad you liked his work.
This is a brilliant series Pete. The illustrations, the background music and your voice all combine to add to the interest
Hello and thanks a lot for your positive reponse to the video and the channel generally. It's very rewatding to know it's appreciated.
Bang on, brilliant, you provide yet another example of great illustration presented with care and discernment. Thank you.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Thanks, Charles. Once again you've brought to light an amazing artist who is mostly forgotten.
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Ever so Beautiful. 🙂
Thanks - I'm glad you like his work.
Thought I'd watch your most recent video. It amazes me how life can be expressed in so many different styles and forms and each be appreciated for their uniqueness, charm even horror. Whether, detailed or loosely rendered, these works send a viewer on to a voyage of exploration and endlessly fascination. Most of us wished we were artists sometime in our younger life. Fortunately, many do achieve that dream and are able to showcase their own thoughts permanently to the world to see.
Hello again and thanks a lot for your comment. Even at my age I'm constantly surprised and gratified that there is so much visual delight to be had from so many diverse illustrators.
Many thanks Pete, very informative and beautifully choosen
Hello and thanks for your appreciative comment.
Thank you for this beautiful presentation of the work of Charles Martin. Your videos inspire one to also pay more attention to one's own creative output, and to think of trying to illustrate a book. Greetings from South Africa.
Hello and if the video has inspired you that's a very good thing. And I hope you do create your illustrated book.
Nice music score & as always Thank You *Pete*
Hi again and thanks. I do my best with music but the issue of copyright makes what's posssible quite limited. Consequently I end up re-using a lot of the same stuff and hope nobody notices.
Wonderful! I did not know that name before, thank you for the introduction.
Hello again and I'm glad to have introduced you to this particularly obscure but talented chap.
Thanks Pete, your knowledge and research is astounding! I first encountered Charles Martin's work in Bourdeaux about 25 years ago. I bought some Fantasio magazines. I also have a 1930s book on drawing which features him. But I knew little else. Thank you so much for the bio!
Hello and thanks for the comment. How such a talent can be so under-appreciated is a mystery to me.
@@petebeard I think artists who were forgotten before the internet, slip through the gaps in history. Thankfully your videos help to bring their work back.
I love your videos and channel so much!! Such amazingly crafted videos, I can tell how much thought and effort goes into each one. Thank you for taking the time, your channel ha helped me a lot and is exceptionally inspiring :)
Hello and your appreciation of the channel is very welcome. Such positive feedback is a real boost to me. Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much for this ! I didn't know him and now, this video gave me such an inspiration to keep going, searching and studying this masters 💗 loved see his illustrations. That lines are so chic and it flows... It's beautiful to see. I'm happy for this discovery
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. It's a pleasure to introduce these illustrators to viewers who did not know about them before.
@@petebeard 💗💗
Thank you! Although I knew the name and have seen a few illustrations, the absolute majority of the works featured here were new to me.
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed Martins work. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite so delicate and aesthetically balanced.
Another fascinating snapshot in illustration history. Much more expressive than I would have imagined using only a single weight line. It lends more validity to the fact that good and creative design AND solid draftsmanship are equally important. On a slightly different subject, it might be interesting to briefly discuss some of the early printing processes; it seems that many of your featured illustrators knew, understood and exploited some of the simple printing processes to achieve some brilliant results. Hope it wouldn't be too esoteric of a subject, but, for me at least, when I learned that, in illustration, the final piece was not the final art but the PRINTED piece in a book or magazine, it was a real eye-opener. Anyway, another great video, Pete. Merci!
Hi again and just to backtrack to a previous comment I've been to the Brussels Comic Museum a couple of times - took students when I was teaching and really enjoyed the place. But I've never been to the Beetles' gallery although I've got several of their catalogues. And regarding the subject of print I've wondered about a video on the subject but for now at least decided against it, simply on the grounds that I'm rather ignorant about much of it myself (other than offset litho) so I'd be very likely to make a fool of myself or be forced to spend a long time working out its arcane mysteries. Maybe if I ever run out of other topics...
What an amazing body of work from someone who died at only 50 years old.
Right? Wow incredibly prolific. He couldn’t help but express his imagination and talent it seems.
Hello and like quite a few others he seems to have burned brightly but briefly. A great pity.
@@petebeard certainly deserves recognition ☄️
Thanks for the video
No problem.
I'm sure that linear graphics with the limited colouring would be much more difficult to present the idea effectively than the more complicated drawings. These are so beautiful.
Hello and I think you're right. To do this successfully I reckon you have to have flawless aesthetic judgement.
thank you. some of his modern style reminded me of the feeling of art deco. I'm surprised that across continents there was similarity in that art deco sensibility, particularly after the war. thanks
Hello and yes Deco (originally called modernism until 1925) has been probably the most enduring illustrative style. You can still find it today.
I enjoy this series very much. Any plan to add a text/image oriented website for archive and search purpose? A book or two? (The copyright issues must be a night mare. My best wishes.)
Hello and there are no plans for a website and certainly no books, although I might be tempted to try e-books somewhere down the line if I live long enough. The videos take up an inordinate (but enjoyable) amount of time and as it is there is probably more waiting to be crossed off my bucket list than I've already done.
The illustrations from Le mariage de Don Quichotte are beautiful. I wish you could have shown us more.
Hi, and I wish I could have found more. How on earth did this man get to be so obscure?
love his work. my mother had a few art magazines with his prints in them and as a child I was aw.
Hello and thanks for the comment. He is a much under-appreciated talent. I just hope the video brings his work more admirers.
fantastic!!
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed his work.
Excellent use of black dots!
With hindsight i should have used the more fashionable pixelation technique. But I'd have preferred not to do it at all.
A most accomplished illustrator…really like his style…the flat aspect is reminiscent of Japanese woodblock prints in watercolour
Hello again and if it's inspired you so much the better. If you do create a book I hope you have more success with it than I ever managed with my attempts.
Lovely work as usual. Thanks. BTW, have you covered Ernesto Garcia Cabral? I only recently was directed to him. Super e Deco Era Mexican illustrator and caricaturist.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. And yes Cabral features in unsung heroes 23. And I'm currently working on a solo video about him similar to the Martin video you've just watched. But I have no idea when it'll be completed as I'm working on many others simultaneously.
@@petebeard Thank you so much. You are priceless.
Shocking, to consider that what could be published in 1920s Paris is still, 100 years later, too much for the YT censors! Especially considering some of the outrageous depravity to which they have given their verbal support an indeed will kick you off the platform for objecting to or calling by its true name! But Martin's work, even at its most sexual, is fully civilized and in its way even innocent. Perhaps his attitude is too healthy for the Toobmeisters. Thanks for bringing him to our attention!
Hello and thanks for the comment and observation. The funniest/saddest part of this is that the offending images are available uncensored on a google search and as far as I'm aware they are the same company.
@@petebeard The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. And long may they remain uncoordinated!
How irritating and unworldy of google to be offended by something so old and innocent.
Hello, and the irony is that those images - uncensored - are available via a google search, and to the best of my knowledge they are effectively the same company.
@@petebeard Not for long. The US government is surely going to break up Google.
I find it hard to discern art from illustration, or vise-versa.
It's easy. It it's meant to hang on a wall its art. If it's meant for a book,magazine or other mass reproduced outcome it's an illustration.
Kay Neilson?
Hello Mike and if I understand your query correctly Nielsen featured early on in the unsung heroes series - part 4, if you missed it. But as with others I subsequently realised he deserves a solo spot and i's a work in progress (alongside a terrifyingly large number of others). No idea when it'll be uploaded as yet.
Arte Nouveau....a little like Aubrey Beardsley.
Hello and yes I'm fairly sure he was influenced by Beardsley. This is true of many European illustrators of that period.
If I'm ever invited to a gala at the Louvre, I'm just gonna slap a domino mask over my twig n berries and call it an homage.
Hello and thanks for the laugh. In the current cultura environment that would be considered a piece of conceptual performance art in itself.
What an artist… That's the most significant problem with illustrators, mostly ignored as what they are : artist.
Hello again, and I must say it has always driven me to levels of rage that are undoubtedly not good for my blood pressure that illustration is treated by some as the inferior relative of fine art. As far as I'm concerned it connects and communicates far more with ordinary people in their daily lives. But because it is overtly commercial it is somehow not as worthy. Calm down, Pete, calm down...
@@petebeard I do agree !
6.52 ok, the translation sort of fits the drawing lol...😝
thanks again. after watching several of your videos, now i'm getting videos on art. good, i'm tired of traitor trump and all his BS.
Mr. Beard I hate to say it, but you did not have to black out anything. Evidently, UA-cam did it for you. Most every picture posted here is so blurry it is hard to discern if the picture is of a human being or a tree. Perhaps this can be reposted in focus.
Hello and I've checked the video and it's definition seems fine. What you are describing has occasionally happened to me when watching and it's more to do with the transmission than the video quality. Another try or another device will almost certainly sort it out.
@@petebeard I will look for it again. Sometimes I do have poor Wi-Fi connections.
smashin stuff as usual pete , love this guys style really different , in a good way. Thanks as always
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. I like to keep those featured as duverse as posssible.