Tyrone McClendon is a mixed media artist born in Atlanta and raised in Stone Mountain Georgia. He started his art journey in high school, choosing to follow a passion for storytelling with character-driven illustrations. Being influenced by animated media and black culture, his work evokes feelings of relatability and nostalgia. Using alcoholic markers, chalk pastels and digital tools to name a few, McClendon creates characters and environments that signify representation. Using films and animation as a blueprint for his illustrations, his character designs are reminiscent of cartoons from the early 2000’s. Ranging from different art styles of semi realistic to simplistic depending on the subject matter, his pieces can relish within different genres. With examples of his sequential artwork, the panels he depicts take inspiration from his own life experiences to make the fictional setting realistic. McClendon is currently building an art studio to sell his work to the masses while working to sell comic books and having his own gallery exhibitions.