Gary Milne Opinion

Gary Milne has been one of my oldest inspirations; I first saw his work from my favourite clothing design "Dephect". The artwork used is all produced as prints on clothing or as wall pieces from independent artists which have collaborated with Dephect to create the items. Gary's work uses a variety of techniques to produce the highest of quality in both detail and form, as well as this I think the one thing to take away from his work is the elegance in the movement of line, pattern and detail that’s all built up and layered together to show the true magnificence of his work. Milne’s technique is to use a process of line drawing and physically inserting pieces of imagery and material and then scanning this into Photoshop to finalise any detail.

I hope to use this technique by looking at one larger theme and then using smaller objects or ideas associated with this to create one final picture. I love the idea of being able to experiment with repeat patterns, line and shape to engulf a single form, I aim to experiment using plain black pen drawings which I can then scan into Photoshop and add colour in after making the lines crisper and clearer, I may also develop this by adding in pieces over the top or drawing onto images.

Over all I think Gary Milne’s work is highly creative and fluent, all of his pieces show a highly skilful technical and drawing talent, also his ability to form and create ideas is a real influence by how he can develop something into a new concept but still portray the original idea. His work varies from vast built up images which are manipulated to simple line drawings with hints of colour, in my opinion I think the simpler detailed pen drawings work better visually but as a product his larger scale pictures suit the modern industry.