Echoes of the Garage

Fragments of life in Los Angeles — art, film, street stories, and the quiet rebuilding of a man. Start here: Best Of • About • Subscribe.

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December 28, 2025

“Back From the Cough: A Smarter Leg Day Reset”

Today was my first leg day after being sick for a week. I kept it slow, controlled, and intentional—choosing discipline over ego and listening to what my body could actually handle. Continue reading

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August 12, 2025

“Morning workout – later computer frisbee”

📓 Tuesday, August 12, 2025 10:06 a.m. – USC Campus, Jefferson Boulevard Workout Type: Guest pass session at USC gym I’m sitting here taking notes in my workout journal before the workout — writing how I feel, responding to my Aunt Beatriz, my mother’s youngest sister from Mexico — while a girl pushes a cart… Continue reading

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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.

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“Back From the Cough: A Smarter Leg Day Reset”

“Morning workout – later computer frisbee”