Sea Monster by Xango in Chicago

My name is Roberto. I spent my early years consuming a healthy dose of comic books and cartoons that sparked my imagination, beginning to draw as soon as i was 4-years-old. At this age, I was drawing, reading, and playing video games that allowed my imagination to run rampant, with aspirations of creating art for a living. Art as a career was not encouraged, but by my teen years, persistence led me to learn the art of screen printing, computer aided design, advertising, photography, and even developing my own film with the use of a dark room. For the last 20 years I have resided in Chicago and have been successfully creating various forms of art such as tattooing, painting, illustration, three- dimensional-sculpting, and computer aided graphic design. During the pandemic I began to ponder the possibilities to work remotely and continue to create various types of art, hoping to create my own art gallery or museum some day, so I decided to go back to college to learn 3-D design, sculpture and other mediums and expand into new areas. My passion is to turn a blank canvas, human form, object or wall into something and give it new life.