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March 13, 2026

Don’t Feed the Bad with the Bad 🥷 — A Hood Chronicle

Plastic Man meets judgement at a farmers market and learns a harsher truth: feeding bad energy just multiplies it. This Hood Chronicles entry is a choice to rebuild with respect, discipline, and faith. Continue reading

Hood Chronicles

faith, FarmersMarket, hustle, Judgment, Northridge, southcentral, survival, writing
February 24, 2026

“The Bag World Flipped Overnight”

Paper bags flipped the whole business overnight—huge cases, a printer that only prints PDFs, and a day that turned into chaos. Still moved. Continue reading

Journal

being human, deliveries, Huntington park, hustle, Los Angeles, paper bags, plastic bags, printing, problem solving, small business, street vendors, work stress

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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Don’t Feed the Bad with the Bad 🥷 — A Hood Chronicle

“The Bag World Flipped Overnight”