Shine On Mate

Me hubiera gustado mucho mas poder poner este dibujo en septiembre, como es tradicional para los que ven mi galeria y saben que hago un dibujo en honor a el cada septiembre, desde aquel fatidico septiembre 2006...pero he estado teniendo algunos problemas en casa ultimamente...problemas que habian estado ahí desde hace un buen tiempo, y ahora se pusieron un poco gruesos, y me temo que si no se resuelven pues, tal vez nunca pueda estar en paz y tampoco poder venir aqui sin problemas a mostrar mi arte. Por eso decidi tomar un tiempo para resolver eso, asi que no creo que pueda venir tan a menudo como solia...tampoco se si voy a poder poner dibujos por un buen tiempo...Asi que por eso pongo este ahora, pues no se si en Septiembre pueda ponerlo. Sorry por no poner la otra parte, es que me hice bolas con el idioma y luego no tuve tiempo para terminar las dos partes pero espero pronto poner en español lo que escribi aqui ya saben donde, y si no saben pues envienme un mensaje y les mando el link como de ray...digo, de volada

Como le decia a mi amiga :A-misteriousgirl: el fue mi Guia, y aprendí mucho con el! ...tal vez si lo hubiera conocido en persona hubiera aprendido mas...no se..Pero con certeza se que el fue una de las pocas personas que de verdad llegue a admirar y a amar, y hoy no hay dia que no lo recuerde, y ahora en estos dias en los que tengo problemas, lo recuerdo aún mas, porque recuerdo su entusiasmo y su energia, y eso es lo que lo que en los problemas, siempre evita que me de por vencido! Asi pues, el martes estaba recordandolo, y me senti inspirada a hacer este pequeño sketch de el haciendo una de las cosas que mas le gustaban: surfear! Aqui trate de representar un poco la persoanlidad calida y alegre de Steve, esa personalidad que irradiaba energía! Ese entusiasmo y esa energía arrolladora que el tenía!!!! y creo que lo logré!

Alguna vez vieron a steve surfear? A mi me tocó verlo una vez, y era realmente increible amigos!   Cuando surfeaba era como si las olas y el fueran uno! Me hubiera gustado tener un video de cuando surfeaba...Esa vez que lo vi surfear estaba con uno de sus amigos mas cercanos (sorry, ahora se me escapa el nombre ) y llevaba un...como se llama eso? Una de esas camisas que usan para buceo, y creo que fue la unica vez que lo vi ponerse otra cosa que no fuera su camisa y short caqui de siempre! (pues usualmente, incluso se metia a nadar con esa ropa! ) por eso al principio queria dibujarlo con esa otra ropa, pero después preferí dibujarlo con la ropa de siempre porque era lo que lo caracterizaba. Cuando termine de hacer este dibujo, de verdad me sorprendio que saliera tan bien porque, muchos de ustedes saben que aun no soy muy buena para dibujar hombres pero esto es genial! y creo que se parece mas a el! asi que estoy bastante sorprendido por ello! Aun asi deben ver mis otros dibujos atrixfromice.deviantart.com/ar… atrixfromice.deviantart.com/ar… y sobre todo este atrixfromice.deviantart.com/ar… donde mi amiga Pitbulllady dijo algunos comentarios asombrosos sobre el y sobre la similitud que hay entre el y Wildo, el personaje de mansion foster. Si no me creen lean sus comentarios, verán que si se parece a el!

También se me ocurrio esta idea porque estaba recordando su "filosofía del surf" que me fue util cuando fui guiada por el, y me es util ahora! El me enseño a no tomar los problemas de la vida de manera muy personal, y que para cada problema existia una solucion, y que la vida era como el surf,! como el dijo cuando la prensa cuando lo entrevistaron en aquel evento en donde presento a su pequeño hijo Bob y la prensa lo acusaba de "echarle a su hijo un animal salvaje" En esa entrevista la preguntaron si alguna vez sintió que la gente lo no lo quería, pero el dijo " Oh jesus no! a veces estas arriba de la ola y a veces te toca estar abajo, yo estuve mucho tiempo arriba y ahora creo que me toca estar abajo" lo recuerdo en especial por esa parte, porque cuando el dijo "Oh jesus no!" fue como si dijera "oh no como creen!" ( y como lo vi en ingles, de verdad me encanto la entonacion su voz ...Adoraba su acento!   especialmente adoraba su voz cuando encontraba un animal bonito y se emocionaba, sobretodo sus favoritos ah! Ahora mismo recuerdo una vez cuando encontró un cocodrilo bebé y dijo "ohh it's so cute!" y le dio un beso en la boca, y luego el cocodrilo hizo su caracteristico sonido (muy lindo sonido por cierto) de bebe, y el se emociono mas y le dijo al cocodrilo bebé "oh chillas cuando te beso!" o algo asi (ya no me acuerdo muy bien ) Debieron verlo! estaba todo emocionado! Debieron ver la expresión de ternura y alegría en su rostro!!! fue tan tierna, me hizo estremecer de emocion a mi tambien! ...Bueno, ya me desvie un poco de lo que queria decir; era que el nunca se quejó ni se desanimó, ni se adjudico el odio de la gente, porque no se lo tomó personal, el sabia que solo era una mala racha... y asi es como debo pensar yo ahora! La manera en como el enfrentaba los problemas, fue la mas inteligente, admirable y valiente que jamas vi. Creo que desde donde quiera que esté, está observandonos, a nosotros, a su familia y a sus amigos, a todos, asi que:
Esto es para ti mi amigo, por todo lo que me enseñaste y me mostraste, algo que probablemente nunca te podre agradecer lo suficiente...brilla Steve! Creo en la luz que brilla en ti, tu luz siempre brillará donde quiera que estes!!!

I would have liked to put this pic in September, as it's tradition for those who see my gallery often and knows that I always make a tribute to him each September, since that fateful day on September 2006. But I've been having some problems at home...problems that had been there for quite a while, and lately they're getting worse, and I fear that if I don't solve them may be I never will be able to live in peace and come here without problems. I decided to take time to resolve it, I think I couldn't come here as often as used to do...also, I'm not quite sure if I can make and upload new drawings for a while...So I put this now and not in the time that it's supposed to be seen.

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Oh! Steve! *sigh*...What can I say about him I haven't said yet! Anything I would say would be insufficient...but STILL, I feel inspired to write about him today!

Steve was the most truly awesome, compassive and caring person I've ever known,  probably the only one person in this world who was truly good.
He was great, more great than many of us will be....and surely there will never be another person like him.

He had an adventurous spirit and heart of an of both, a scientist and an intrepid explorer! And an incredibly beautiful and warm personality; so cheerful, so kind-hearted, so honest and genuine, so fun!! so optimistic!!
He could find the "ray of hope" in the darkest of storms. He lived to help others, to show compassion and to be a friend, and when he lived, he drove everything, cared of everything, decorated everyting, protected everyting, he fixed everything that was broken, he enlightened and brightened everything and the life of everyone who met him, and also who enjoyed his company despite the distance, on TV...Like me!

As I told to my new friend I used to watch his show since I was a kid...well, a part of my childhood and in my teens too, and in all that time, he was my Mentor!
I always felt a conexion to him cos he was a lot like me: he felt real passion for science and animals, and he always loved animals that mostly of people find scary or repulsive like snakes or spiders.
He had similar perspective of life and values about family and friends than I do, about priorities, he loved to help people like me! And was so compassionate and understanding with their peers!

Everyting that he said about subjets, always, always was what I wanted to say...or what I was going to say, or was I thought to say, or what I had already said! ...It was something Glorious!
It was always amazing to me how I was always agree with him! (in fact I don't remember to have ever said said so far "no, I'm not agree with that" when I heard any comment from him) It was something incredibly beautiful, because I always knew through him, how to act so things come out well, and how to explain myself better, and I had the certainty of knowing that when he said something, it was true!!!!
So literally "I no longer couldn't make mistake" doing something that he did and went well...and that really made me feel a warm and cozy feeling, a deep feeling of joy, peace and safety.
It was overwhelmingly beautiful the certainity of knowing that I was NOT alone! That there was someone out there who was like me! His cheerful and outgoing personality reminded of myself when I was a kid (as in my teens I was a little shy and fearful) Thanks to him I regained a good part of my own personality! So, yeah, in some way...he always was my inner-younger-me! heheh... but still, he always had a SO MUCH better personality than mine!

My family always found funny that I'd always agree with him, and they said it was a coincidence.
But it wasn't, it was like that cos he was like me! That's why he was my Mentor, because he was like me but...he was BETTER than I! Much much better.
He was a strong scientist who had success, even if there were people who didn't consider him a scientist, he was a true scientist! One of those who love what they do!   And although some people criticized him and said he wasn't a real scientist, he never gave up!
He had a great job (the best in the world in my opinion) and knew many awesome things that I don't know (such as surfing, catching crocodiles and handle dangerous animals correctly, or how to remain calm in difficult situations) and I would have loved to know.
He had his place on the world. He gave honor to his family, his nation! Australia! Thanks to him Australia is known around the world, not just by the kangaros, but also for other awesome species of wildlife that people could hardly hear and nobody could know without him!
He showed us the wonders of Australia and many parts of the world, he came to the marginalized ethnic groups and made them understand how their ecosystem works and use their resources well to preserve nature too! He gave honor to his country and world!

Now, thanks to everything related to the Australia, for many people is synonymous of honor wonder and awesomeness! For me it is! ...He gave us a CLOSER LOOK to the wonders of nature and showed us it in all its splendor!!! Because he said that if we knew about nature and wildlife we could get to love it, and if we love it, we could save it!!! And that was true the day he said it, as it is now
That's why, despite injury with plants or rocks, despite having endured the inclement weather,despite being bitten and stung many times by wild animals, he always came back and made his show with the same enthusiasm and devotion!!   That's one of the things I really adored about him, his passion! His so overwhelming and contagious enthusiasm and love for life and nature!!! He wanted to share with us his love for nature and wildlife, and I believe he succeeded!!!

When I watched his show I enjoyed a lot learning with him, not only about animals, but about life, about what to do in everyday life!
Because although for many people he was just "a TV celebrity", he was actually a common person. I chosed him as my mentor because he let me to do it;  He knew how to get close to people's hearts and showed us his daily life, his tastes, his hobbies, his family and friends, his sad and happy moments, his reason of being that it was conservartion and caring of nature, his love for this world and all creatures living in it!
In a time of my adolescence, I had some trouble, I had bad notes in school for some things (including some abusive bully classmates) and my parents didn't believed I had a trouble and just accused me of being lazy and coward, they told me I disappointed them and they gave me their back...But not my mentor! He was there, every time I watched his show he was always there, with his warm and beautiful personality to tell me in his way "go on mate! you can do it!" ...or at leas I felt like that, heheh.

I think that's why I mourn so much, the fact I never had the opportunity to know him in person, neither talk to him via email or something. Cos I think maybe if I had met him personally I would have learned more...I don't know...
But he was one of the few people who I really came to admire and love. The only celebrity who I got to feel a real emotional conection with.
And despite is unbelievable for people in my town and some people make fun of me for that, I loved him. I truly love him! And today there's not any day in wich I don't remember him, and now in these days when I have had trouble, I remember him even more, because I remember his enthusiasm and energy, and that is which always keeps me away from to give up when difficult times come!!!
So, on Tuesday I was remembering him and I felt inspired, I felt the random urge to do this little sketch of him doing one of the things he liked most: surfing! : D Here I tried to represent his warm and cheerful personality, that personality that radiates positive energy, life and warmth! That overwhelming enthusiasm and energy that he had! : love: and I think I succeeded! or what do you think buddies?

Some of you have seen Steve surfing? I had the chance to see it once and...ohh my! It was totally awesome buddies!
When he was surfing it seemed just like the waves and he were one! Waves here a part of him!
I would have liked to have a video when he was surfing...At that time when I saw him on the show, he was surfing with one of his closest friends (sorry, I don't remember the name right now ) and he was wearing a...What's the name? One of those T-shirts used to dive.
And I think that was the only time I saw him with something else than his usual shirt and khaki shorts! (he even used to get in the water to swim with those clothes! ) And at the beggining I wanted to draw him with those clothes, but later I preferred to draw his usual clothes because it was always one of his features.
When I finished this I was really amazed because, as so many of you know, I'm still not very good at drawing men But this is great! and I think this looks more like him than my other drawings! so I'm really proud of it! But still, if you would like, see my other tributes atrixfromice.deviantart.com/ar… atrixfromice.deviantart.com/ar… and specially this atrixfromice.deviantart.com/ar… where my friend Pitbulllady said comments about him and his amazing similarity with Wilt a character From foster's home. If you don't believe me, read their comments, you will see he's a lot like him!

I also had this idea because I was remembering his "philosophy of surf" at that time. Philosophy that was so useful to me in the past, and it's useful to me now! He taught me to not take problems of life too personal , that for every problem there is always a solution, that life was like surfing.
I remember he said that in a interview about the event where he presented to his baby son Bob and the media accused him of "throwing his son to a wild beast" In the interview the reporter asked him if he ever felt that people no longer loved him because of that, but he said "Oh Jesus no! Sometimes you are at top of the wave and sometimes you get to be down, I was up for a pretty good time and now I think I have to be down" (or something like this because I heard it a pretty good time ago) I remember especially that part, because when he said "Oh Jesus!" it was like he said "please don't say that!" and it was heartwarming. I saw the interview in English, and I really loved tone of his voice :

I always loved his voice, it was so heartwarming!!  Especially when he found an animal he was excited of, por example his favorites ...Oh! I'm remembering right now!
On one of his episodes when he found a baby crocodile and said "ohh it's so cute!!" and gave him a kiss on the mouth, and then the croc made that characteristic sound (very nice sound by the way) baby crocs do, and made him get more excited and he said "oh! you moan when I kiss you!" or something.
 And you shoud see it!! You could see he was all excited and happy!! You should see his so cute expression of tenderness and joy on his face! It was really sweet!!!! and the tone in his voice too!!   At that time, he made me shudder with excitement too! ... that's for sure!

So, back to surf philosophy, I've always been amazed about how he never complained or was discouraged. He never gave up on what he believed, and he never said "people hate me!" because he never took bad things that happens in life too personal. He knew that was just a rough patch...and that's what I want to think about my life as well!
The way in wich he faced problems was the most intelligent, admirable and courageous I've ever saw. I think wherever he is now, he's watching over his family and friends, and everybody who admire and respect him. I would like to think I'm included too

So, This is for you Steve! To thank you for all you taught me and showed me, all those beautiful life lessions and wonders of nature I will probably never be able to thank you enough...
Shine on mate! I believe in the light you had when you lived  STILLS shines on you! And your light will always shine on my heart and on your loved one's hearts wherever you are!!

Oh! this is dedicated also to everybody who loved and admired him, but specially to his family and the friends who knew him in person. And of course, to my friend because her so wonderful drawing artema.deviantart.com/art/Shin… inspired me to do this one. And also to my dear friend who makes a great work teaching his students about animals.