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cheers!

Sorry for the delay in posts, it's been pretty hectic. The auction was awsome. I aquired an original drew Struzen and an original Hank ketcham dennis comic strip. these are just a couple sketches, I love drawing those heads.

For over a year now I have been a member of a great organization called CAPS "The Comic Art Professional Society" It is a los angeles based group for cartoonists, artists and writers working in the comic print, animation industry. Meetings are held the second thursday of every month at the Burbank Board of Realtors. For membership info. please contact CapsMembers@aol.com. This auction is open to Industry professionals only. It is going to be a great event, and if you are a fan of art you are going to be in heaven. Hope to see you there.

Some more lunchtime fun, This was drawn with a red col-erase and brushpen.

just a little Mark Twain action, along with the photo reference.

every morning before I start work, I do what I call my morning pages. At least three. On these pages I draw anything, hands, people, animals. whatever comes to mind. I have lots of photo books which often help me get started. This is an excersise I do to help me through my artistic blocks.

Napoleon Dynamite the animated series

Here is my first sketch, Kipp and Pedro coming soon. This isn'nt really going to happen, but why not.

Saw some supermans floating around on some great blogs, so I thought I would give him a whirl. please don't be harsh, it is the first super hero I think I have ever drawn. Christopher reeve was my favorite as a child. for some reason When I am too attached to things it is harder for me to draw, it explains why I have never done a caricature of my favorite band. "The Beatles"

WIZARD CON THIS WEEKEND

I will be at Booth 1317- Artist Alley

please stop by and say hello. I won't have a new book until july, but I will be selling originals and prints of stuff.

WIZARD WORLD LOS ANGELES! March 17-19, 2006
LOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTER SOUTH HALL
1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015

Show Hours Friday March 17, 2006 1:00pm – 7:30pm
Saturday March 18, 2006 9:00am – 6:30pm
Sunday March 19, 2006 10:00am – 5:00pm

an idea that went nowhere.

every year I attend a caricature convention called the national caricaturist network, any one can join. we hold a 4 day convention in different parts of the country and have a blast. there are about 300 caricaturists from all over the world. we set up our easels in a convention room in a hotel and draw, draw draw, we also have competitions and end it with a banquet. the grand prize is called the golden nosey trophy, I won it a few years back and it was quite an honor. Each year we have a guest speaker. Mort drucker, jack davis, al hirschfeld, sebastian kruger, john kascht, Jan Op De Beeck,sergio argones, roberto pirada, just to name a few. along with different seminars. if you would like to join, go to http://www.caricature.org/ .These are some caricatures I did last year of other caricaturists.

Well, it's official, my next book is off to the printers. I will have them just in time for the San Diego Comic-con. This is one of the pages.

one day seminar

NEXT SUNDAY!!!!!! The 12th
I will be teaching a one day seminar On March 12th from 11-5pm at the Entertainment Arts Academy in Pasedena, for more info please vist the website www.enterartacad.com
or call Mike Mattesi 888.824.2456 to book your spot, limited seats available
here is the description written on the site.

Stephen hosts a figure design class that will expose his philosophies on design and drawing from life using a model. Students will have the opportunity to observe Stephen draw from life and be mentored by Stephen as they themselves draw. Students will explore caricature and character through observation.

A little photoshop action, this one was done just using the regular wacom not the cintiq.

Character Design Class

There is one spot available in the March Character
Design Class. The class is 8 weeks and will held on
Wednesday nights from 7-10pm in Simi Valley begining
March 22. If you are interested in taking the class,
please email silvertoons@yahoo.com

Thanks,

Silver

here are some late night after the kids have gone to sleep, little bit of free time cintiq doodles.

some more images

Some photoshop sketches.

Holy Moly, I just got one of those 21 inch wacom cintiq monitors. It is a beautiful thing. This was a real quickie using the brushpen in sketchbook pro. Saving trees here I come.