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My Father by =StephenRSJr:iconStephenRSJr:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Portraits & Figures

©2004-2009 =StephenRSJr
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This was another project for my Commercial Art degree in college.

My father was diagnosed with cancer in 1992. He went through surgery, chemotherapy, a colostomy and more to try and fight it. In the span of it all, he decided to concentrate on life and entered Florida Metropolitan University (back then it was called Tampa College), to pursue a degree in Law. He was one semester away from graduation when he died in Memorial Hospital, due to complications from a simple surgery.

On the day of his interment, I promised I would go to college myself and complete getting my degree in his honor.

As part of one project, I drew this from a picture that my father had taken while he was still active in the US Air Force. This is so that I have him in my sight and in my memory...

This is for you, Dad...

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~Waqas May 11, 2004, 12:03:36 PM
This is excellent.
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~leggoz May 11, 2004, 12:27:40 PM
touching story....and a exellent drawing
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~Catgoyle Dec 6, 2007, 9:20:35 PM
(hugs)

You must miss him very much.

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You can look for the good things in life or the sucky; be certain that whatever you're looking for will show itself.

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=StephenRSJr Dec 7, 2007, 7:00:22 AM
There isn't a day that goes by where I don't think about him at least once. Pop and I sometimes never saw eye-to-eye, but I never did get the chance to tell him how much he inspired me and how much I loved him.

He's the reason why I do the best I can with my writing and all my efforts to get published.

*hugs back*


-- Stephen

--
Bugs : "Er, um . . . a Hare-um. I t'ink?"

[Smokey the Genie pops out, looks in the door quickly, amid more shrieks, then grins at Bugs]

Smokey : "Oh, THAT was a harem, alright! I know a harem when I see one!"
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~Catgoyle Dec 7, 2007, 10:16:53 PM
(hugs) I'm glad you had such a good relationship with him.

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:shamrock: :butterflytwo: :shamrock: :butterflytwo: :shamrock: :butterflytwo: :shamrock:
You can look for the good things in life or the sucky; be certain that whatever you're looking for will show itself.

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=StephenRSJr Dec 8, 2007, 5:36:13 AM
We had a normal father-son relationship... but he was always my first hero. *hugs back*


-- Stephen

--
Bugs : "Er, um . . . a Hare-um. I t'ink?"

[Smokey the Genie pops out, looks in the door quickly, amid more shrieks, then grins at Bugs]

Smokey : "Oh, THAT was a harem, alright! I know a harem when I see one!"
:iconcatgoyle:
~Catgoyle Dec 8, 2007, 10:36:24 PM
I envy you that.

--
:shamrock: :butterflytwo: :shamrock: :butterflytwo: :shamrock: :butterflytwo: :shamrock:
You can look for the good things in life or the sucky; be certain that whatever you're looking for will show itself.

Megadownload [link]
:iconstephenrsjr:
=StephenRSJr Dec 9, 2007, 8:01:51 PM
*hugs tight*


-- Stephen

--
Bugs : "Er, um . . . a Hare-um. I t'ink?"

[Smokey the Genie pops out, looks in the door quickly, amid more shrieks, then grins at Bugs]

Smokey : "Oh, THAT was a harem, alright! I know a harem when I see one!"
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Mood: Sympathy ~LondonFresh Feb 2, 2008, 4:54:25 PM
It's hard looseing a father, I think you've kept a little peice of him alive with this sketch though.

--
"Cogito Ergo Doleo."
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