I know something about them. I was an Art Student myself some years ago working night and day to improve my work and to sell it. It was tougher in my young days than it is now, for
there was little or no practical help available to the youngster who wanted to make a living at Art. There was no School
devoted to the teaching of Illustration, we learned by bitter experience—struggled through.
BY PERCY V. BRADSHAW, Author of “Art in Advertising,” “Art of the Illus
trator,” etc., Founder and Principal of the Press Art School (shown alongside).
Story Illustration by Albert Bailey, an old Student of the Press Art School, reproduced by kind Permission of George Nevmes, Ltd.
In due course, I found myself drawing for a group of well-known periodicals—Sketch, Toiler, Bystander, Windsor and others—and I was being asked “ how to do it ” by numerous beginners. Eventually, with the
help of a group of Art Editors, I produced my first Course of Instruction by Post and The Press Art School was founded.
It was immediately successful and to-day I am able to look back with some satisfaction to the fact that I have helped a large number of young artists to professional careers.
My Courses have extended—and they have been continually improved. I engaged a group of my artistfriends to write and illustrate special lessons in the subjects on which they specialised. To-day I am able to offer you unique lessons by such men as Bateman, Bert Thomas, Tom Webster on Humorous Drawing; Fred
Taylor, Norman Wilkinson, Frank Mason, Harry Rountree and other leading artists covering Landscape,
Seascape, Architectural subjects, Figure work: every branch of Illustration in Black and White and Colour.
I should have found their help a godsend in my young days. That help is available to you now, with my personal advice and criticism and help on the improvement and sale of your work.
You can’t get help just like this anywhere else. It may save you years of struggle. Why not write me and tell me your problems, send me some of your work to criticise ? You can do so without obligation ; or if you wish, send for the School’s prospectus which tells you all about our work, scope and methods.
Write to me personally : Percy V. Bradshaw THE PRESS ART SCHOOL, (Dept. S.292),
Tudor Hall, Forest Hill, London, S.E.23
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there was little or no practical help available to the youngster who wanted to make a living at Art. There was no School
devoted to the teaching of Illustration, we learned by bitter experience—struggled through.
BY PERCY V. BRADSHAW, Author of “Art in Advertising,” “Art of the Illus
trator,” etc., Founder and Principal of the Press Art School (shown alongside).
Story Illustration by Albert Bailey, an old Student of the Press Art School, reproduced by kind Permission of George Nevmes, Ltd.
In due course, I found myself drawing for a group of well-known periodicals—Sketch, Toiler, Bystander, Windsor and others—and I was being asked “ how to do it ” by numerous beginners. Eventually, with the
help of a group of Art Editors, I produced my first Course of Instruction by Post and The Press Art School was founded.
It was immediately successful and to-day I am able to look back with some satisfaction to the fact that I have helped a large number of young artists to professional careers.
My Courses have extended—and they have been continually improved. I engaged a group of my artistfriends to write and illustrate special lessons in the subjects on which they specialised. To-day I am able to offer you unique lessons by such men as Bateman, Bert Thomas, Tom Webster on Humorous Drawing; Fred
Taylor, Norman Wilkinson, Frank Mason, Harry Rountree and other leading artists covering Landscape,
Seascape, Architectural subjects, Figure work: every branch of Illustration in Black and White and Colour.
I should have found their help a godsend in my young days. That help is available to you now, with my personal advice and criticism and help on the improvement and sale of your work.
You can’t get help just like this anywhere else. It may save you years of struggle. Why not write me and tell me your problems, send me some of your work to criticise ? You can do so without obligation ; or if you wish, send for the School’s prospectus which tells you all about our work, scope and methods.
Write to me personally : Percy V. Bradshaw THE PRESS ART SCHOOL, (Dept. S.292),
Tudor Hall, Forest Hill, London, S.E.23
An ART STUDENT’S PROBLEMS
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