Drew Brophy

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Drew Brophy had grown up in a small town in South Carolina. He grew up Surfing and when he was done with high school, he had moved to North Shore of Hawaii where he felt every surfer should go and experience the scale and extremes of surfing. Three years after that, he went to San Clemente, California, for a summer to work and discovered it was a great place to live and establish his career. It was a lot easier to make money here than Hawaii.

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When Drew was a kid he was one of the best surfers in South Carolina, and he had dreams to be a pro-surfer like anybody else. He was surfing the same contests with Taylor Knox and Shane Beschen, Donovan Frankenreiter, all the guys from that era. But from him being from South Carolina it was a barrier - it was a lot of effort for him to be in touch with what was going on and to actually get to the contests, earn the money, get on the plane, that by the time he got to where the contest was, he was so worried about where he would sleep that night that focusing on competing was second. He didn't succeed in the contests. After failing to be a competitor on the amateur level, he decided that his goal would be to make it to Hawaii and surf waves of that level.

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Other than surfing and playing the guitar, Drew was good at painting. He had failed at surfing , and played in a lot of bands and it wasn't for him, so he was left with art. He is inspired by the environment, the sun, the waves, life, mainly surfing.

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Drew has really inspired many people to go further in their career with art. And he has especially inspired me with my art. He has helped many people in the world and gets many emails from different people around the world, asking ideas for themselves. He has started a organization called Son of the Seas and it's helping other people with their art and really expressing the art world. He has showed me that you can really reach your dreams and work for it.

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When he first started his career, nobody liked his art and he had asked a lot of businesses to look at his art but no one would. Until one day a man named Matt Biolos took his art and they started working together making surf boards, bikes anything. He has also showed me that even when nothing is working out you still try hard to get where you want to be in your life.