Miles Johnston is an artist that has really inspired me with his detailed and intricate artwork. I've seen him work in a wide variety of mediums both traditional and digital but some of my favourite work by him is his pencil drawings. They have a very textured yet structured appearance as if every line and mark is carefully constructed and adds to the overall image. At only 22 he boasts a really impressive and inspiring collection of realistic artwork after graduating from an art school based in Sweden. I am an admirer of surrealist artwork and love surrealist paintings. A lot of the work that Miles Johnston has created has been of a surrealist nature, often resembling that of dreams or strange morphing of organic materials. Furthermore, the forms he creates with people and poses that they are usually holding remind me of paintings by the pre-raphaelites and the way they portrayed figures.
He is also an incredibly diverse artist, with work in pencil, oil, charcoal, biro and digital. This kind of use of various use of different media is something I'm always trying to improve on and push myself to try. I noticed he has done a lot of life drawing work, in most cases with extended pose sometimes lasting a few hours so he can really get an idea for the shadow and form of a figure without having to produce quick sketches. His experience with drawing the human figure comes through in his work as a lot of the figures are usually shown in quite complicated shapes.
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