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

 

Flurry of updates.

Hello Hello.

This is a bit more of a wordy blog post than usual, thought I'd give a quick update on what's turning out to be a very eventful couple of weeks:

Designers / Makers

This has been quite an exciting development, Designers / Makers is an agency for contemporary design, looking to help promote and develop freelancers and brands. The premise is that you apply for a year long membership, if they deem you suitable, you're in. Think of it like the Justice League - but for creative types. That's how I like to view it (I'm Batman).
They organize marketing and selling events for your work (also via their online shop) and offer advice on professional development. I have my own profile up on their site, scroll down to the bottom to see. Definitely more news to follow soon.

For Arts Sake re-stock

Had a re-order of stock at For Arts Sake which is always appreciated.

Brand spanking new card designs

I'm also happy to announce that I've released some new designs onto my shop. I've produced 5 new designs with a view of making 5 more in the next month or so. I'm happy with the results. I surprised myself with the quick turnaround of just a week to think up and complete them all. Hopefully they'll do just as well.



I have a few other projects in the pipeline including a Film Noir comic based in a school environment which I've been dipping in and out of for the past year, more info to follow soon. As well as that, I'm currently planning a 'video comic' collaboration which I'm very excited about. These things always take a while to process and finish off so patience is a virtue (for now).

TTFN

New card designs.

Ello ello.

I've added 5 new card designs to my online shop. Have a look!

http://jkdraws.bigcartel.com/

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.

Brain Farts

Hello.


Brain Farts


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