Will Bradley

(I just have to say, I know about all these illustrators I’ve been posting about recently because of Astrid’s GD History class. The assignment was really challenging but it was a really good class, thank you Astrid :> Just my public service announcement for the day~)

People are so rude sometimes. Will Bradley was often called the ‘American Beardsley’ but according to Wikipedia (please ignore this dubious-sounding source – I use Wikipedia to get the gist of things and move on to more reliable references when I do actual hardcore research) he was established as an illustrator before Beardsley’s prints became popular in England. Just a fun fact. I like both of them, though, and in my opinion their styles are quite obviously different even though they come from the same section of the visual language department (what am I writing, I’ll stop now).

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*goes off into a corner to cry* Look at the amazing patterns and compositions. I haven’t even done a card back but I might use the Fates for that.