coming-of-age

February 7, 2026

🎬 Street Cinema: The Four Feathers — Sometimes You Have to Live Shame

A movie memory from 2002: four white feathers, public shame, and the lesson that your environment isn’t you—courage is messy, but it moves. Continue reading

STREET CINEMA

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August 17, 2025

“Throw the ink over and over till there is art.”

Follow me on X: @punisherpapi · IG: @punisherpapi 📓 Sunday, August 17, 2025 — 7:37 p.m. I got home a bit ago. Closed the door. I’m sitting in the dark—TV glow the only light. Like the glow inside a cave. My cave. YouTube chatter hums. The low drone of the A/C. Finally, I’m here in my… Continue reading

Journal

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About Me

I’m Roberto Sanchez — illustrator, writer, and delivery driver in Los Angeles.

By day, I sell plastic bags out of a van across South Central.

By night, I draw, write, and build my life brick by brick.

I graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 2022 with a BFA in Illustration, but art has never been just school to me. It’s survival, reflection, and expression. My illustrations come slow — patience is part of the work.

I live and create out of a converted garage.

That small room became Echoes of the Garage — the place where I put words, drawings, and the pieces of a life I’m rebuilding one step at a time.

Here you’ll find journal entries, Hood Chronicles, and visual experiments that try to capture the absurd, the painful, and the human in everyday life.

This is where I put it all: drawings, words, and fragments of a life in motion.

This site is where I put it all: drawings, words, and fragments of a life in motion.

coming-of-age

🎬 Street Cinema: The Four Feathers — Sometimes You Have to Live Shame

“Throw the ink over and over till there is art.”