Devon Rodriguez spoke to TODAY about his wild rise to fame.
Rodriguez said,"They'll send me paragraphs and paragraphs, and I read a lot of the DMs, so I'm like, 'Wow, that's so crazy that they think that I'll never see this but they still feel compelled to send it because they feel like they have to. It's so amazing."
Rodriguez told TODAY he's wanted to be an artist since he was a young boy. He's pictured here at age 7 riding a subway car in New York City.Rodriguez hadn't even wanted to attend Gompers at the time. He had set his sights on the High School of Art and Design in midtown Manhattan, which required prospective students to submit a portfolio of illustrations, but at the end of eighth grade, Rodriguez didn't make the cut.
"He was like, 'Well, bring your portfolio and we'll go over it. So I brought it to him and he was like, 'Of course you didn't get in. This is not good enough.'" Rodriguez recounted."I never had anybody tell me that. My whole life, everybody always told me that I was the most talented person. So I thought I was good and I wasn't."
Rodriguez's work isn't limited to pencil drawings. The artist also creates hyperrealistic oil paintings.The work paid off, and later in 2011, Rodriguez transferred to his dream school. Around this same time, his home life was changing as well. He was 14 at the time and had just moved in to his grandmother’s home. He said his mother had been abusive toward him and his father wasn’t in his life, after leaving the family when he was about 4 years old.
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