Garnto's portraits take any where from 180 to 200 hours to complete. Garnto is very selective about the commissions he takes on. With the increased popular demand of his work, Garnto has very little time to dedicate to this type of portraiture at the present time.

Garnto's mother has this to say about her son's interest in drawing, "Al's interest in drawing begin as a child, when he would set in my lap content for hours. As I worked on a drawing, Al always wanted to hold my pencil, as if to say, no mom, like this. He was a normal child, he just loved to draw, always getting in trouble for marking on something he shouldn't - walls, books, clothes, the floor, or whatever. These are not just scribbles I'm talking about, he took it serious even at the age of two or three. I had to keep a constant eye on him whenever we went somewhere or he would be drawing on everything. It was like having a bunch of Keith Harings' drawings all over the place. When Al was a child people always asked me if he had went to school for this. I said, 'No. He got kicked out of school for this!'"

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