Jean Luc Picard -- My Hero

"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey — reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived."


I am so - immensely pleased with how this turned out, and it did take me longer than I thought it would for the fact I kept adding more and more detail to it.

I especially enjoyed how this particular HERO turned out.

Hero you say ? Yes. I had only recently started watching Star Trek The Next Generation, all of them.

Sure, years ago I saw the episodes off and on, saying it was boring and wanted to only see the cool space battles and stuff, but since then, now that I watch the show and see the immeasurable compassion and command, I have come to like this particular Starship Captain. Immensely.

My own Dad passed away a few years ago and I feel ... I will never get over that. That I will never be strong enough to. Not ever. I loved him.

And while my Dad was a very strict man when I was growing up, after I started seeing doctors for - problems I was having, he loosened up teaching me about life. Too much I believe. Maybe he thought I wouldn't make it into my teens.

And while he greatly protected me from everything in the world, he also kept me from learning about how to take care of myself, and even today I'm not very good at that sort of thing.

In a way I'm grateful but in another way I'm not. My Dad got too concerned and too protective of me as I grew older.

But watching this particular starship captain, I have seen him stern to the last. He to me would be the ultimate Father if I could have a wish and have a successor.

He is someone that sees others having difficulties in their life, but he does =NOT= go gently on them. No ! He instead shows them ways of dealing with their problems, always.

I - was never given that opportunity.

So to me, Jean Luc Picard is definitely a hero. And when I sketched him, I wanted him as hard-lined and scribbled to the point of tearing the page and breaking the pens as I could get.

I wanted him to have the strength, the courage, and the determination and dare I call it =ANGER= to face the problems we all do in this great Sapphire World of ours.

And I wanted him to represent in this sketch the fact that he helps others face their problems as well, without sugar-coating it, without telling them it is going be alright, without leading them into a make-believe world because DAMMIT, that's not how life works, as much as we would like to believe it does.

And he saw that ... perhaps the first person I have ever seen in this world that does know we must face our problems and not just hope they will go away or stay in our own fantasy worlds and be - safe.

No. And I deeply respect and admire him for that, and while I may never leave my own world to fully enter his, he is and always will be, my HERO for this.


Tools: Paintshop Pro 7, Edge, Blitzmax (Original Code)


(Gallery) Art

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