New Facebook page.

It happened.

Zuckerberg's charming curls finally entwined their way into my soul and forced me to make a Facebook page. I'm quite self aware how self centered this is, especially just naming the page as 'Jamie Kyle' and not a variation of 'Jamie Kyle illustration' or 'jkdraws' or 'like a fox'. I spent an hour typing, deleting and retyping different names for this page, really can't believe it took me so long. I came to the conclusion that I'd like to represent myself, rather than a brand or an alias. I guess a part of me doesn't want to hide behind something?

"No one will suspect a thing"

But why create a page? Well, similar to my Twitter account the vast majority of my followers are people I don't know and I like that. They chose to follow me due to my interests in art and design and that's fun. So, with my normal Facebook profile, I know a lot of 'Facebook friends' are interested in what I'm doing, but not all of them. So I figured that those who like my stuff can still follow me, as well as people I don't know directly follow me if they're interested too, I'm making it a choice. Vote Jamie! Democracy Jamie! Huzzah.

"Like his page, punk"

Here's the page: facebook.com/jamiekyleillustration

 

Movember GIF.

Hey guys and gals,

My tenure of Movember has finished (quite tempted to keep the tache..) and I'm absolutely chuffed with the final amount raised. I know some very lovely and generous people.

I kept a day by day account of the 'tache development. I've made it into a GIF similar to the one when I split my head open and when I played around with facial hair before in another GIF.

Enjoy!

XMAS SALE!

 XMAS SALE 

XMAS SALE

XMAS SALE

XMAS SALE

For the Xmas period until the New Year, all my '80's Action Hero prints will be half price.
  Free postage (UK only). 

Spread the love chums.

(Have a look at my Xmas cards while you're there too.)

Movember.

Hello all,

In case you haven't heard, I'm finally doing Movember. I'm doing it mainly for personal reasons (sorry, I don't want to over share), it's a great cause and I like the idea of growing an epic 'tache (or at least attempting to).

Here's to hoping

My 'MoSpace' can be found here.

I was thinking of doing a GIF like this I did 3 years ago

Cards at For Arts Sake.

I am now selling my greeting cards at For Arts Sake in Ealing, west London.

(So go get 'em)

Big cartel shop.

My new shop 

This has replaced the tab above as well. I was using totomerch store to sell t-shirts before and that was a massive fail. Most likely due to the huge mark up costs where they'd charge £20 for a t-shirt and I would get something like £3. £20 it's way too much for a t-shirt.

But yeah, on this site I plan to trial and hopefully expand upon it, starting with a few of my greeting cards and then moving onto digital prints and we'll see from there.

TTFN.

Cards preview.

Over the past couple of weeks I've been developing and investing in ideas, materials and equipment for my own range of cards. Those of you who may not be aware, this is what my Mother does as a self employed artist for a living, selling handmade cards and goods. Where I differ is that mine are digitally hand drawn and printed myself. So you could say like Mother like Son..

I have a range of 10 different cards at the moment which I'll try out and see which appeal to the market and those that don't.
I have loads of ideas for the next step, it's just about presenting them to the right buyers and shop owners, in which I have a few contacts listed already.

Below is a sample of 3, I'm really happy with the quality, the Kraft brown envelopes sealed in a plastic envelope make them they look very professional.

Astroskull 3.

Got round to continuing another Astroskull. The skull is different from the original strips, I want to play around with the look more, I like the idea that the appearance of the skull constantly changes within the confides of it's suit. Is it an actual skeleton? Is it a ghost? Illusion? We'll see.

Previous Astroskull strip.

Pinch TV GIF

The lovely gang at Pinch TV included my Sean Connery GIF animation that I did for them on their website. Have a looksie here.

Stereoscopic Portraits ii

Experimenting further..

Steve, North Star.

Louis and Steve, Picadilly Line.

Kit, White Swan. 

Dave, Alex and Will, Kings Cross. 

Ben, Tom and Steve, The Lamb Brewery. 

Adam, N11.

Stereoscopic Portraits.

Louis & Steve, North Star.

Steve, Picadilly line.

Keir, Phoenix Arts Club.

 Kit, Tate Britain.

Matthew, Home.

Stereoscopic gifs.

As a gif connoisseur I always like to experiment with the format. I played around in my final year at Camberwell trying a technique called stereoscoping, which is otherwise known as 3D filming. Well, it's 3D filming but without the 3D glasses, it's the same idea of having two cameras representing each human eye at different distances or angles. In my instance I experimented with angles.

I first saw this technique being used in this music video and I wanted to emulate it the best I can.  I experimented with angles in the film I did at Camberwell and it can be seen here in about 06.55 being used for a dream sequence. It worked well for this cause but editing it in film format was painstakingly long and memory/RAM heavy.

I got re-acquintated with these 3D 'wiggly' gifs browsing Reddit and thought I'd give it a go again, some interesting results and I would like to do more.

(Quality may be a bit fuzzy as taken on my iPhone and I had to majorly reduce the file size)

 

An interesting thing I noticed is the timing between frames that I set. The black and white gifs have no time delay but the third and fourth have a delay of 0.1 seconds. I think the timing all comes down to the actual content - 0.1 for more scenic shots and no delay for something that is action packed and has a lot going on in both foreground and background (a gig for example). It's also important how many angles you take, the last one has 3 angles and the rest only have 2.
The more angles = less time delay you need.

Next, I'll like to try some portraiture shots, so a minor warning to my friends that I may be quite insistent of taking your picture in upcoming meetings.




TTFN

St Ives.

Hello.

I came back from a lovely break in St Ives yesterday, I usually take this opportunity to do more of my photography work but this year I wasn't in that exact creative mindset, I had more of an urge to draw (which is great!). Did a few silly sketches and revisited some landscape drawing which it only dawned on me that I've always done this type of drawing even from an early age. Here are a few doodles:

On the scenic train journey down just before we stopped at Plymouth I saw this idyllic pocket of land next to a river. The building was this small stone structure with 3 metallic gates and what I can only assume was a pagan symbol above the central gate. Completely untouched and resting upon this small hill and absolutely surrounded by trees. It seemed strange that this was obviously quite isolated from everything else but yet very visible from our train carriage.

The title is pretty self-explanatory really.

Seagulls are horrid.

Honestly, they really are, the only negative aspect of Cornwall in my eyes.

I'd go as far to say that I prefer London pigeons over them.

View from Porthmeor beach 1

View from Porthmeor beach 2

View from Portmeor beach 3

(L-R) My brother Matthew and my sisters Hazel and Eden.

After going to the fantastic Alex Katz exhibition at Tate St Ives I was drawn to replicating his sketching style (example just above) - it's something I often do when I come across an artist I like, 'you have to speak in a lot of different voices to find your own' kind of thing. It's a similar process to singing one of your favourite songs for example.

Anyway, his method of sketching in particular was to draw and not to think, so that you can create a fluid piece of work without obsessing over minute details. Beside his sketches I was absolutely fascinated by his paintings, he was one of those artists that just seemed to click with me. It makes the experience much more enjoyable when you 'get' an artist and what they're about. I found it surprising that he came about in the 50's when Abstract Expressionism was at its peak and was going against the likes of Pollock and De Kooning.

The paintings in particular, for me anyway, had this great element of being like photographs. Especially his paintings of when he went on holiday various years with his friends to Maine. He managed to capture these intimate moments with his friends very much like a photograph does, which instantly draws in a nostalgic element (which is always a strong tool) but the use of his vibrant colours gave it a timeless kind of feel. Here's a good example. I realize that almost sounds like an oxymoron but have a look at his work and hopefully you'll see where I'm getting at. All his paintings had a very strong sense of 'film' like you could imagine a lot of the work being used for advertising and used in general today. He turned 85 this year and is still working.
If you're in the area, I really recommend having a visit.

TTFN

Gerald the Bear.

I was clearing out some old folders and came across this comic I started, I have no idea why I stopped doing it as I loved the character. Anywho, I polished off a few details and finished the text so here it is! May do some more. 

Rob Hoey Comic.

From one fun project to another, shortly after our shoot with Pinch TV I got an email from Matt Bell asking if I'd be interested in an illustration job. I stroked my (lack of) beard and agreed enthusiastically.

The brief was to make an A2 sized comic, in the style of Beano/Beezer/Viz for Rob Hoey's birthday that was coming up, a surprise gift (quick note, Rob has received said illustration so this isn't some sort of spoiler post!). Matt wrote the script, and I went from there. It was a really fun project to do and something a bit different and (blowing my own trumpet) testing my versatility as an illustrator which is always welcomed.

I managed to get it printed off and dry mounted at the gallery I work at which was a huge convenient bonus. Some pictures:

Bit blurry this one - the illustration freshly printed.

The illustration after it's been dry mounted, it's basically a method of attaching prints and artworks to mounting surfaces by heating a shellac tissue between the mount and the print. Just so it's more durable and not as flimsy.

A closer look.

I attached a love letter for Rob a small note for Rob for any framing recommendations.

The bad boy wrapped in about a million layers of tissue paper.

Phew, been a very busy month. Very glad I had this week off work (beside the rain part). Next step I would like to do is to start to build an ACTUAL website, we'll see how that goes.

Tar Tar For Now.

The Nightbus Chronicles ii

Brain Farts

Hello.


Brain Farts


Go and have a look, it's a new side project by myself and Leo Vick.

Happy Scarday!

A year ago when I last celebrated my Birthday I managed to direct my forehead into a big Irish guy's tooth - accidentally that is, not intentionally. Ended up with this whooper (photo from the morning after it happened, no stitches):

25/09/2010

This is what it looked like yesterday (24/09/2011):

Still sligthly there, when I raise my eyebrows it appears. Would quite like to know if it bulks up if I get angry/cold or something. So if you fancy making me cold or angry, let me know what it looks like!

Here is the GIF form which I took over 2/3 months after it happened:

24 on Tuesday. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

Summer iv

Some more..

 IT'S SAND

 When I was younger I used to think if you jumped from a great height onto sand that it'll swallow you like water would.

 "MATTHEW HUNGRY"

 "WHERE DA FOOD DAD?" "IT HERE MATTHEW"

 "DAD EAT NOW"

 "DAD APPROVE"

 Who needs a pet dog when you have Matthew Kyle about.

 "I take photos too Jamie, hyuck!"

 'The gang'

 Dad and Mum making a quick escape.

 Parp.

 Five different types of semiotics, what is this world coming to?!

 This isn't edited at all, beautiful colours along Carbis Bay.

That's all my Cornwall snaps. Hopefully will get more of the 'Summer' and get more in the motion of bringing my camera out with me.