Friday, May 15, 2020

Friday, April 10, 2020

Project 3 Concept Sketches








12 Facts about Pyramus & Thisbe

1) Pyramus and Thisbe live in ancient Babylon.
2) They are the young children of two rival families.
3) Their homes are connected beside each other.
4) They only whisper their love through a hole in between their walls.

5) They choose to meet under the mulberry tree at dawn.
6) The mulberry tree is next to Ninus's tomb.
7) When Thisbe arrived first, a lioness scares her away.
8) Thisbe left behind her cloak, which the beast tears it up with its bloodly mouth.

9) Pyramus finds Thisbe's bloody, torn cloak and believes she was killed.
10) Pyramus stabs himself, spilling his blood unto the mulberry's fruit.
11) After grieving for the loss of her beloved, Thisbe stabs herself to die with him.
12) The gods honored Pyramus-and-Thisbe's love by keeping the color on the blood-stained fruit.

Friday, March 27, 2020

Project 3- Concept & Mood

Story: Pyramus & Thisbe

Synopsis: In ancient Babylon, two young lovers from rival families plan to meet in secret to reveal their feelings for each other, only to fall into tragedy when they each thought they were killed by a lioness and kill themselves under a mulberry tree.

Mood: tragic, romantic, enchanting, serene, dark

Color Scheme: white, red, grey

How To Trick Loki

Project 2: Technical Sequence
Based on Marvel's Thor and Loki
Media: Digital, on Adobe Illustrator

Friday, March 13, 2020

Project 2-Work in Progress

For my second project, I will be creating a comic sequence of the mischief Norse god Loki getting tricked by his brother Thor, by the old "pointing on someone's shirt, the someone looks down, and gets flicked up on the nose" trick.

References of Loki and Thor were gathered with a shot from the Marvel movies, a cosplay photo, and a comic panel.

Current Issues: I currently need to photograph actors to pose for the sequence.


Medium: Adobe Illustrator

Friday, March 6, 2020

Fish and Visitors Smell in Three Days


Project 1: Consumer Product
Based on the proverb: "fish and visitors smell in three days"
Media: Digital, on Adobe Illustrator
Product: mug
Production Company: Zazzle

Friday, February 21, 2020

50 “How-to” Ideas for a Comic Strip


01)  Cope with talking flying squirrels crash landing in your attic
02)  Repair a car
03)  Wreck a car
04)  Slice fruit with a katana
05)  Light a dynamite
06)  Fix a shower
07)  Shoot a rifle
08)  Run a marathon
09)  Bury your lifesavings
10)  Eat potatoes
11)  Slip on bananas
12)  Pull nail out of socket
13)  Wrestle a shark
14)  Win a date
15)  Gamble your lifesavings
16)  Barf without throwing up
17)  Lose on Jeopardy
18)  Being evil
19)  Ace your exams
20)  Rap without stuttering
21)  Raise twins
22)  Read Chinese in Greek
23)  Wear tofu
24)  Hide from General Patton
25)  Use math to cure cancer
26)  Resurrect the dead
27)  Battle a gryphon
28)  Drive people insane
29)  Tip cow tippers
30)  Trick Loki
31)  Fight Chuck Norris
32)  Take over the world
33)  Send dodos into the future
34)  Negotiate with a rhinoceros
35)  Scare monsters back
36)  Make turtles fly
37)  Write treaties with your siblings
38)  Kick nards
39)  Fight a kaiju
40)  Blow up a snowman
41)  Win at life
42)  Trade two pennies for a billion dollars
43)  Putting on trousers
44)  Smell underwater lilies without drowning
45)  Pass the lie detector
46)  Make Mr. T cry
47)  Play a one-note melody and win the crowd
48)  Chug twenty sodas all at once and give the most powerful burp
49)  Right a wrong triangle
50)  Chased by Norwegians

Friday, January 31, 2020

Bryce Dallas Howard




Bryce Dallas Howard
Media: graphite pencil
To see more, check out my DeviantArt page.

Ariel


Ariel
Media: colored pencil
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Gummy Worms

Gummy Worms
Medium: colored pencils
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Cruel Shark

Inktober 2018 Day 11- Cruel Shark
Medium: ink
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Xenomorph


Inktober 2017 Day 9- Screech Monster
Medium: ink
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Godzilla


Inktober 2017 Day 10- Giant Monster
Medium: ink
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Russell Crowe Portrait


Graphite Portrait of Russell Crowe
Medium: graphite pencil
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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Gollum



Inktober 2017 Day 30- Found Monster
Medium: ink
To see more, check out my DeviantArt page.

Meet the Artist

Welcome to JP's Story Studio. I'm Joshua Pendleton: artist in training and currently studying Illustration at California State University in Fullerton. I’ve been fascinated with art since childhood. My earliest memories of how I was inspired was watching children’s TV shows like Sesame Street, Barney & Friends, and Zaboomafoo, and my Grandma bringing out her art box and doing arts and crafts with me.

In school art classes, I strive to improve my creative skills in the subjects (mediums, styles, themes, etc.) of every session. I put in the effort to make my artworks presentable and impressive. When some of my artworks are put on display, I feel proud and honored. I guess I work hard to get the praise. 

Here in my blog, I will be sharing my projects, styles, and development in my current courses to build up my reputation.

TOP 5 FAVORITE ARTISTS: James Gurney, Frank Cho, Peter Spier, Brian Froud, Ryan Church

FAVORITE SUBJECTS/THEMES: action, adventures, aliens, animals, anthros, Bible, books, cartoons, comics, cosplay, creatures, dinosaurs, eroticism, fantasy, harems, history, jokes, landscapes, monsters, movies, mysticism, mythology, nature, photography, pop culture, prehistory, robots, sci-fi, superheroes, vehicles, women, world cultures, worldbuilding

GENRES: character design, creature design, cartoon and caricature, figures, sequences, still life, landscapes

MEDIUMS & TOOLS: acrylic paints, colored pencils, graphite pencils, ink pens, watercolor paints, digital art on Photoshop and Illustrator (somewhat)

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