Herb Williams was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1973. Williams received a degree in sculpture from Birmingham-Southern College. During college, he apprenticed with two professional sculptors off-campus. He cast hundreds of sculptures with the atelier Popliteo and the last work of art by photo realist Duane Hanson, Man on Riding Lawnmower. Although the artist works with many different mediums and materials, Williams is one of the only individuals in the world who has an account with Crayola. He creates original sculptures out of individual crayons, with some requiring as many as hundreds of thousands of crayons each. His artwork holds records with Ripley’s and Guinness.