Leo Hernandez was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on Earth Day in 2001. He spent much of his childhood outdoors with his siblings and friends, spending indoor hours drawing and watching his brother play video games. He was always fascinated with animation and art styles even without much knowledge regarding the subjects. During middle school, he began to develop an understanding of his queer identity and that influenced a lot of his artistic and creative sensibilities. Through an amazing community and many art classes, he learned more about the design field and how it could serve as a catalyst for meaningful change through creativity. There are many avenues he looks forward to exploring on that path. Much of his design work includes packaging and branding, and he loves finding useful ways to incorporate his passion for illustration and fine art into it. He spends much of his free time appreciating sci-fi and fantasy worlds through novels and video games (and the occasional movie/TV show if he can find the attention span), character designing, world building, storytelling, and adding new things to his mental encyclopedia of questionably valuable knowledge.