About Lee-Roy:
I’m an Illustrator, Designer, and Storyboard Artist in Los Angeles, California. I live with my girlfriend and three cats and several colonies of ants. My earliest memory is as a three-year-old, drawing a picture. Twenty-six years later, the picture is still being drawn. It’s one I never want to finish.
I started at the fringes of the design industry by training as a fine artist with serious plans of being a portrait artist. It’s all I ever wanted to be, or so I thought. Years later, here I am, fighting with code and glancing enviously at the likes of Lee-Roy. He’s got the drool factor going on for sure.
Seems we have the same three year old memories. I could see the human coming out of my creation and wanted to show everyone around. I wanted them to see the baby I created. ME. At a young age, I was feeling the power for the first time. And it was magic.
Now here I am, working with css, where I swear there are times I’d love to throw my powerbook through the window.
What’s stopping me, right?
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April 25th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Nice post, nice site. I trained in sculpture but ended up doing print and web design. I still do fine art when I’m inspired, but graphic design pays the bills.
April 26th, 2006 at 12:30 am
nice blog, great links… you need to teach the cats to EAT the ants, taste just like chicken..
April 28th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Wow! I’m honored that you posted this and thank you HD and saul for the comments. I’m sorry I didn’t notice this sooner, but 4 days late isn’t too bad, eh? I’ve been taking a little hiatus from the computer more recently and posts to the Art & Story Blog have been a little slow, but I plan to post many fun doodles and the like very soon! Cat, I appreciate all your comments, and that you find my stuff drool-inducing. Don’t throw your powerbook through the window. Close it gently, then turn, walk out of the room, pick up some paper and pencil, go outside, and have some fun.
Thanks again for this post!
April 28th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
[…] I was just technorati-ing my blog, which is kind of like that narcissistic Googling oneself, that most people are aware of by now, but for blogs. This was maybe the fourth time I checked technorati for links since I started doing this, when I discovered that Catherine at Designers Who Blog wrote a very nice post featuring this humble little weblog of yours truly. Sufficed to say, I was pleasantly surprised and my ego found just the morsel it had been hunting for! Ego-boost aside, it’s encouraging and (I know it sounds schmaltzy) affirming to get this kind of attention, and at a time when I haven’t posted any drawings in a while! I have been doodling away like mad, so hopefully soon, I can get in a scanning session and share some of them with you. In the meantime, you can scour Catherine’s blog for many more inspiring links! […]
May 1st, 2006 at 10:17 am
“Don’t throw your powerbook through the window. Close it gently, then turn, walk out of the room, pick up some paper and pencil, go outside, and have some fun.”
Thanks for the suggestions Lee-Roy. I’ve just taken a bit of a break myself and now it’s powerbook throwing time again.
cat