DANKADELIK

Ever since I could remember, art has been a part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are of me picking up a pencil and drawing superheroes or animals. From emulating comic book artists Eastman and Laird and the Ninja Turtles, to the grit of Frank Miller and his Ronin series. I was fascinated with the strokes of a pen or pencil. But the pages of comic books were not the only influence. When I was still a kid, I was introduced to graffiti after watching the movie Beat Street. I knew that I would be influenced by street culture from that point on... As I grew older, my art changed, and it changed me. In my teen years I did everything destructive you could imagine with whatever instrument I could get my hands on. Striking my name up in my High School hallways and bathrooms to walls on buildings. It was during this time, that I started to appreciate who I was and where I came from. My Mexican culture started to become important to me, more than it ever had before. I would read..