Eyebrows Cat #4

Jamie

Paperfection.

My Mother came across these rather creased pieces of paper and asked if I wanted them. Being quite a paper nerd, I was all like "Oh yah" so I took them and have them proudly on the floor of my room.

I noticed something, now, to the normal eye, creased paper is often coined as bad, ruined paper. 

Not at all in my opinion. It's better if anything. Creases get bad press (ba dum der tish). You know the term 'There's no such thing as perfection' well surely it must work the other way round, binary opposites and all, so there's no such thing as imperfection either. Zing! Take that, logic! 

So basically, I wanted to develop on this crease logic. Creases, even though they are imperfection on a smooth sheet of paper, you wouldn't actually notice them. Look on your desk for example, there's bound to be a piece of paper there, does it have at least one crease in it? I bet it does. And I bet you didn't notice it until now. I know, I know, I'm showing you the light! But there's more..

I wanted to make these creases more obvious. So, quite simply, I drew over them. It looked like this:

Looks cool doesn't it? (I think so). The way it's positioned on my desk compliments it by how the light is catching it, giving different tones of white and grey.

I then thought what would be really good is if I could replicate the above look, but in a 2D digital form, so it's almost like an optical illusion. 3D paper captured on 2D! I do believe this is quite possibly the most Post Modern piece of work I have ever worked on. Go me.

I started on the digital version, but it's proving to be a tad more difficult than I originally thought. More to follow. I hope this has quenched your paper philosophy for the day.

Jamie

'It's all fun and games until..' #4

By Jamie Kyle and Louis Valenzuela

Oooh.

A torn out page from my moleskin. Quite cute really. 
Or lucky.
Heh.
Right?
Right..?
Right...


Jamie

Plumbing.

So basically, we had some plumbers in to replace our knackered radiators. The one in my room is conveniently behind my desk(s). You can imagine I struggled a bit.

Hmmm.....

Yeah that's definitely stuck.

But sure enough I prevailed (after turning both desks upside down, yeah I know, I'm not quite sure how I did it either).

Jamie

Eyebrows Cat #3

Jamie

Living Room 65.

Living Room 65. from Jamie Kyle on Vimeo.


Jamie

Good beer bottle design.

Just look at that blue. Isn't it just vibrant and fantastic? Sounds silly but this is a rarity to have a blue of this depth for a glass bottle. It's very well considered. The Silver is a great choice on top of it for the text also, it looks very sophisticated. Good beer as well.


Jamie

Writey Writey.

Hello!

Right-o I thought I'd do a written post seeing as I've been doing quite a few image based once recently, i'll talk about these bad boys I've been doing. (Drawings, not actual bad boys, you perverted individuals..)

So, recently I've taken on 3 different types of Illustration mini-projects, I'm not sure why 3 to b exact, I've always tended to work in 3's so it just naturally made sense. I think it's usually because if I get bored of one thing, I move to the next, then the next, then come back full circle, it actually works quite productively I must say. But back to the main point, I just want to write a bit about each of these mini projects, explaining why I'm doing them and my thinking/theory behind each. I'm aware I may come across as a bit fruity and pretentious so apologies if I do, this is just good practise for me to talk about my work - to deconstruct it and to remind myself why I'm doing it. SO here it goes:

3 panel comic strip -  This is my most recognizable side of my illustration personality, my little characters. The style behind them is a strong link to how I work in general, abstract expressionist. I like to try and convey a primitive emotion through the way the characters are drawn, and give them a movement about them so they look like they're coming alive, twitching on the spot. Same goes for the writing, read it and tell me that you don't read it in a certain, different way than you normally would than with neater, lower case letters. This style allows me just to go with it and not worry about being 'funny' or 'clever', it's just what your interpretation makes of it.

"It's all fun and games until..." -  This was a concept that my friend Louis Valenzuela came up with more so than myself, we're in the pub just bouncing ideas for some branding concepts for his new band called 'Chronophonic' and one tangent led to another and came up with this. It'll always have the set up "It's all fun and games until.." followed by an illustration and the punch line. The humour itself is a bit strange but that's what we're aiming for, rather than laugh-out-loud funny, just to get a bit more of a "Ha what?!" feel. It's drawn in a simple way, as it wants to help deliver the 'joke' across without being too abstract nor taking detail away from it. So simple lines, shapes and forms are what's needed, with a bit more detail in some areas when required. The writing adds to this by being fairly easily to read but also have a nice aesthetic touch to it (I think so anyway).

Eyebrows Cat - I forgot how this idea came about exactly, I just remembering doodling them in my little moleskin book during a talk at Camberwell. They're fun to draw, relating to the whole cats-are-funny-on-the-internet craze that's taken many shapes and forms over the past few years. For this I'm just going for a Surreal look. Nothing realistic, just exaggeration. Eyebrows are funny ones because they can convey so much emotion with just a flicker and can even pitch a persons personality. Plus, since I have quite thick and dark eyebrows I must have an awesome perspective.

May add to this in a bit but it seems okay..

Tar Tar For Now

Jamie

Eyebrows Cat #2

Jamie

Eyebrows Cat #1

Let's see how long I can keep this going for as well.. I present to you.. Eyebrows Cat!

Jamie

'It's all fun and games until..' #3

By Jamie Kyle and Louis Valenzuela.

Awfully smug.

I was retweeted by D&AD.
:)

Jamie

'It's all fun and games until..' #2

By Jamie Kyle and Louis Valenzuela.

'It's all fun and games until..' #1

New series by Jamie Kyle and Louis Valenzuela.

Roast.

Jamie

Went to Brighton, forgot I went, took some photos, here they are.

I forgot all about these photos, think I went just under a month ago. Dad was visiting a client about some print job so myself and Ma thought we'd join along for a day trip and plus we would get a chance to meet up with Matthew's (That's my younger brother, currently studying for a year in Spain incase you didn't know, how nice and informative of me eh) girlfriend Faye for a spot of Wagamamamamamama.
Lovely trip, I really like Brighton, I could see myself living there if I don't end up living in the big smoke. Lots of nice small shops and pubs, came across this little music shop where I got 2 relatively newish albums by Grizzly Bear for a tenner overall. Win. Took a few snaps along the seafront, it was a really grey and undercast day so I messed around with the exposure and aperture on my camera with some okay results - not blog worthy but a nice exercise for me. 
Note to self, should visit again soon.


Jamie