ABOUT

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I’m Kyle Rively, I am a graduate of A&M’s Visualization program with a focus in animation and 2D art. I create concept art for characters, and environments and sketch with a pen when I can. I have a background in both 2D and C.G. techniques, allowing me to switch between the two when needed giving my work an edge beyond using just one or the other.

Inspiration

I’ve always enjoyed looking at movies, painting, and delving into the worlds they offer. Art offers an avenue to realize one’s imagination, making large abstract ideas real in the visual realm. That’s what I enjoy about art. I like using it to create worlds that people can explore as I once did when I was young.

When I was yonder I liked grand fantasy worlds of dragons, knights, and superheroes. Now that I’m older I gained more of an interest in contemporary settings grounded within our reality, yet still far off from me. Much of my inspiration is streets and landscapes from places foreign to me, like the mountains of Norway to the streets of Japan. This does not mean I do not still enjoy fiction however for it still inspires a great deal of my work. I have moved beyond that past and look towards a future hopefully not too far off in our reality but current;y real in our imaginations. I have gained a lot of inspiration from artists like Syd mead, Jama Juravel, Frank Frazetta, and Simon Stalihag. Their art offers escapism for me, something I can look at to bring me to a new and interesting land.

I was trained to realize this inspiration in a multitude of mediums both 2D and 3D, from paint to C.G. but my favorite medium by far is pen and ink. Paint gives us expression and color. It’s abstract, messy, and emotional. C.G. gives reality to my work which I may have difficulty imagining on my own. It’s technical, restricting, and yet freeing at the same time. But pen gives a level of technicality, permanence, and perfection to my work that I enjoy. I have learned much of what I have through the rigors of learning pen. I like rendering objects with a level of dimension and technicality not available with paint yet with more freedom and enjoyment than CG.

This is my approach to art and how I use the tools available to me. I combine technicality with expression, which allows me to realize worlds just beyond the reach of my imagination.