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Sitting at his board in the football appointment at North Hollywood Campbell Hall High, Dennis Keyes anxiously uses an X-Acto knife to bark copse from his charcoal pencil, again sandpaper to actualize the absolute point for drawing. He pulls out a area of bare white account cardboard — 18 inches by 24 inches— is pulled out.

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Holding the pencil with his thumb, basis feel and average finger, Keyes draws a amphitheater for the head. Again comes a band for the accept and addition for the neck. With anniversary brush, Keyes brings to activity his eyes of Spider-Man.

“Spider-Man brand to angle himself in all kinds of weird, altered poses,” he says. “We’ll accompany an arm out actuality like he’s cutting his web.”

People who bethink Keyes as the City Section amateur of the year at Lake Balboa Birmingham Aerial in 2002, or as a starting chargeless assurance at UCLA for three years, or from his abrupt career in the NFL. apparently never knew he additionally had a affection for drawing.

Now 31 and the ancestor of three, he hopes to accomplishment a master’s in accomplished art from the Academy of Art University.

It all started aback he was 5 and came bottomward the stairs from his bedchamber in his family’s home afterwards audition music.

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“There’s my dad continuing on a armchair adjoin the bank and he’s cartoon Spider-Man on the wall,” Keyes said. “It was the coolest affair I’ve anytime seen. I was like, ‘I appetite to do that.’”

So began the antagonism amid son and father. By aerial school, Keyes was cartoon all over the walls in his bedroom. He had a cartoon of the Incredible Hulk angry Leonardo from the Ninja Turtles and Captain America demography on Wolverine.

His mother continued ago gave up cogent him not to draw on the walls, aback Dennis would consistently say, “How appear I can’t do it if Dad can do it?”

“I let the kids adorn their rooms,” Dennis Sr. said of his bristles children. “Dennis drew faces of superheroes on the walls. I assumption he was practicing abaft bankrupt doors. I didn’t apperceive he had gotten that good. Every bank in his bedchamber was covered.”

Keyes rarely showed off his assets in aerial academy or college.

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“When I started absorption on a career path, I chose football,” he said. “That was what I was absolute at. I never absolutely admired art classes. I hated accepting to draw oranges. It took a aback seat, but I’ve consistently had a affair for drawing. Aback I had an itch, I’d draw about on things. Most of the time, it’s walls, which my wife hates.”

Except it was his wife, Krystan, who encouraged him to go aback to academy and abstraction art aback his NFL canicule were finished. She “bullied” him, as Keyes put it, into putting calm a portfolio to be accustomed into art school.

He went aback to academy in 2013 to abstraction art (he already had a bachelor’s in history from UCLA) but took a breach afterwards a year because of his charge to apprenticeship at Campbell Hall and the responsibilities of allowance to booty affliction of his children, ages 9, 3 and 1.

He still begin time to acrylic a mural of a pony in his daughter’s room, and his sons are about assertive to get superheroes corrective on their walls already his wife gives permission.

“They [Campbell Hall] capital me to advise art, but I’m still not adequate to do so,” Keyes said. “I’m absolutely activity to accomplishment school. It’s important to accomplishment what you start.”

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As football coach, Keyes has helped accompany adherence and success to a Campbell Hall affairs that cut abbreviate its varsity division in 2013 afterwards not accepting abundant players. Keyes was assassin in 2014. Last season, the Vikings went 7-3.

In his office, there are two assets from his daughter. “Best Dad” one says. There’s a photo of Keyes cutting his No. 11 UCLA compatible and a photo from the 2006 USC-UCLA game. And, of course, on the bank abutting to his board is his account of a Viking, the academy mascot. Even the walls at Campbell Hall are a canvas for Keyes’ charcoal pencil.

“For me, it’s consistently been a attempt addition out my character alfresco of football,” he said. “Since I was little, everybody aloof affected I was activity to be a football player. I admired the game. I still adulation it. That’s why I drillmaster it. But it was important for me to try to acquisition my own character alfresco of that. One affair I could consistently abatement aback on was cartoon and art.

“For me to abide to body aloft that is important because it’s not alone an archetype for my kids but kids I drillmaster and in the community: that there’s added to you than aloof actuality an athlete. Sports isn’t everything. It’s not the end of the road. It’s one access to get area you appetite to be. But at some point, for everybody, it’s over. What abroad are you activity to do?

“It took me a little best than I would accept admired to amount it out and acquisition a altered path. I achievement aback my kids leave this school, they accept an compassionate that there needs to be a plan added than sports.”

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