Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)

Aubrey Beardsley had a significant influence on the aesthetic movement and his drawings created in black ink shocked the public because of its erotic and grotesque style. He had the ability to create pieces in black and white with such detail and pattern but then also create large contrasting areas of black and white without detail. In Illustrators at Work I found a chapter in which it describes Thomas Bewick, Aubrey Beardsley and Arthur Rackham working together:

'These men, who sometimes worked as a group on a single large drawing, each taking a detached section of wood-block, were able by their great skill and experience, to interpret the variety of graphic styles employed by the illustrators.'