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  HeavyMetalKiss January 29, 2009 at 8:18pm

  Sup? thanks for friending....looking forward to seeing you 'round CCAS.
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  Marc Moran January 12, 2009 at 3:52pm

  Hey Nate,
  I see you've added some more cool Pics. I like that one of the guys fighting out of the window the best. I see you've got an eye for action. And I see that your anatomy is getting better. Keep up the good work!
  God Bless
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  Demetrius Veasy January 12, 2009 at 12:55pm

  happy new year my friend. it's gods time to shine in 2009. so make sure you do it big for the master and put your foot to the plow.
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  Lisa Hutchinson January 11, 2009 at 1:26pm

  Hi Nate! Pick out the comics you like to read the most and figure out what particular elements draw you to them; then you can begin to incorporate that into your own personal style. It does take practice but you're coming along great.
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  Nathaniel Burrell January 10, 2009 at 8:53pm

  The only thing i can recommend is to study whats around you. learn to draw from life, instead of other comics, and you will begin to put believablitly into all your work. But i do like your stuff, you are headed in a good direction. God bless
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  marcus hayden January 10, 2009 at 5:38am

  Hi Nate, thanks for the welcome. About becoming a great artist; I remember when I was a little kid I had a friend who was the same age and right into sports, I was into drawing and had athsma as a kid so I was no good at sports. At a family dinner one of my older uncles was praising my friend's little muscles because he was a little athlete. I rememeber joining in the conversation and wanting the approval of my uncle and I started flexing my little muscles (I was probably 7 y.o.) I remember how disappointed I was at being dismissed as tho having muscles was somehow genetic and I would never develop! It's funny how those memories burn into your mind forever and I kind of believed that I would never be good at sports. but when I looked back on it now I'm grown up I realised that my Uncle should have encouraged me that I was so little and I can grow up to do what ever I put my hand at and keep working at. I've seen myself be able to improve dramatically with all kinds of things like playing pool, playing guitar, playing tennis. I'm trying to encourage you that when you see your art heros and their lines are so smooth etc- they have a lot of years up on you, but if you really want to put your time into that particular dream you'll get up there one day :) you're a human being created in God's Image just the same as they are. You could probably look like Arnold Swarzaneggar if you really want to :) btw. good advice from Cheryl, everything you study artistically will go into a 'catalogue' in your mind that you can draw from for the rest of your life. it's basically everything you look at. and it never stops. I guess that's what Art is. Interpreting reality from our unique perspective.
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  Cheryl Ellicott January 9, 2009 at 7:04pm

  great progress. Keep up the good work. I recommend studying anatomy, as in bones, muscles etc. - and especially the muscles of the face....... Once you have the skeleton and the muscles established in your mind, it becomes easier to draw natural looking people.
  Look in used book stores or ebay..... i have a really great OLD book that helped and cost only a dollar or so used.... called Dynamic Anatomy...I'm sure there are a ton of others just as good for the artist, but this is my fav.... and when they're old, they're more affordable...
  For facial expressions, the book "Facial Expressions" by Faigin is awesome.
  c
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  Dan Lawlis December 21, 2008 at 9:26am

  
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  Keith J Betancourt December 9, 2008 at 7:45pm

  thanks for the positive feedback.
  
  My Dad was the one who got me into the whole drawing thing... As for comics? The one artist that influenced me the most was and still is JIM LEE! Now, as I've gotten older I've come to enjoy the art of Steve McNiven, John Cassidy, John Romita Jr., Travis Charest, Bryan Hitch, J.G Jones, Ed McGuinness, and Alex Ross.
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  Scott A. Shuford November 27, 2008 at 11:38am

  HI Nate,
  
  Happy Thanksgiving! I'm Scott A. Shuford, one of the new Board members. I wanted to stop in and say thanks for being involved with CCAS! If you have any input or would like to be involved with anything in particular, please let me and Eric Jansen (Membership Coordinator for CCAS) know by contacting us both through the site. We'll be making several announcements in the coming weeks, so stay tuned. To see a bit more about me, check out my profile here on the site. I'm looking forward to getting to know you better.
  
  
  At Your Service,
  
  Scott A. Shuford
  www.frontgatemedia.com
  CCAS Board Member 2008-2010
  
  
  Consider the words of C.S. Lewis:
  "If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and to earnestly hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I suggest that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are far too easily pleased."