This Week We Feature Young Professional Alberto A. F. Hewlett
When he was just yet a young boy around the age of 8 or 10 years old he discovered something that was very amusing yet interesting to his eyes. He was learning to make good of his spare time by being creative as opposed to constantly running out in the yard to play with his peers.
Our Young Professional for This Week, Mr Alberto A. F. Hewlett is someone you can safely call an artist but not the regular guy that would sit and just do drawings and painting to put on the wall. His artistic skills have led him to the stage where he turns his artwork into animation. On a brief research, we could not find anyone else in the Virgin Islands (VI) that possessed that level of artistic skills.
It goes back the days of his boyhood when one day he did a piece of art to the back of his school book. “When I was around 8 or 10 years old I had a text book and every time I finished my work I would draw at the back of it. Then one day I took two pages and I did the drawing on the pages and flipped it and I was like aww that’s tight they moved! Then I just kept more pages, more pages. By the time I got to high school people would come to me with their text books and I would do like a little animation. And that’s what everyone down here knows about me.”
He considers what he does in the area of cartoons as a side income generating activity but yet it is a main thing for him. “It’s my main thing but it’s my side thing. This is what helped me when I am doing graphic work freelancing,” he said.
Mr Hewlett graduated from the University of Creative Arts as it is now named. When he graduated in 2010 it was named Kent Institute of Arts and Designs (KIAD) in the United Kingdom. “I did a ND Course, National Diploma in basic arts but all I wanted to really do was animation because I love cartoons, I just love creating stuff,” he said.
He kept taking this profession to various level around the world having lived and worked in various countries over the years but he has decided that the place that will get the best of his talent is the place that is HOME, the VI.
Today he has other professional beats on his plate the main one being the Brand Manager for Road Town Wholesale. Along with his boyhood skills of making cartoons he has been doing marketing on a large scale that has landed him into doing what he does today with Road Town Wholesale.
He said that he has something big on the horizon along the line of his cartooning and animation work that at this time he will not let out the bag but said it will surely wow the VI when it is unveiled. “I have it in the making, it’s something really massive that I have been working on for some time now but it’s getting to the point where it will be revealed but I want it to remain a surprise and I know my BVI friends, family and fans are going to be amazed when it comes out. I am doing it really hardcore for this place I know as home, the BVI,” said Mr Hewlett.
When asked where he sees himself in the next five years he said, “I’ll be living my dreams. I’ll certainly be making cartoons, I am trying not to give it away (the big project he is working on) but whatever I am looking to do is going to be indigenous to the BVI. I am just going to hit the BVI by storm.”
In giving his advice to youths Mr Hewlett said, “It’s a simple thing but hard but if you are going to be living your dreams or something you envision yourself doing or something you like doing, you stick with it, you hold on to your dream and you just push through. I cannot sit here and tell you that it’s going to be easy, it’s not going to be easy that’s the reality but the key is sticking to it. Once you hold on to your dream you will get through at some point but the buck ends with you. It’s all up to you to make it happen for you.”
But did you ever wonder how he ended up with the name ‘Alberto’, a name that is more common among the Hispanics? It was all because of his father, Mr Paul A. Hewlett aka ‘Paul on the Ball’ who is so called because of his love for sports.
Mr Hewlett Sr. took the name from the fastest 400meter athlete for the year 1986, the same year his son, our Young Professional For This Week Mr Alberto A. F. Hewlett, was born.
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