NcN convention

For any one interested in caricatures, You should join the national Caricaturists Network. Trust me it's not a cult, It is a great organization that I have been a part of for about 5 years. We have had Mort Drucker, Jack Davis, Al Hirschfeld, Sebastian Kruger to name a few as our guest speakers, they even hang out and draw. The convention is coming up in October. click on the link above to see more.

Show # 6

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This Artcast is about memory sketching.
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My new book is available signed with a sketch at Silvertoons.com

Recovery week

Well, it's all over, Comic-con that is. Boy was it hectic. It was great meeting and talking with alot of people. I always wish that I could walk around more and check out all the cool stuff, but that never seems to happen. This week I will try to do another Artcast. Thanks to all of you that said you like it, I never know. In the meantime here is a recent rough design for an upcoming Danny Phantom episode.

ComicCon is next week and I will be there debuing my new book, hot off the press. It is now available online and shipping if you can't make it to the con. www.silvertoons.com. Stop by my booth at #H-6 . Please feel free to stop by with any questions and a portfolio if you would like to show it. I am also appearing on a panel for Animation Mentor on friday from 12:00-1:30 In room 3 “Designing Appealing Characters” (featuring Me, Dean Yeagle; and animation director Glen McIntosh, Eragon) and “Adventures Behind Animating Summer Blockbusters" at 12:45 (featuring top animators Dave Burgess, Over the Hedge; Charles Alleneck, Pirates of the Caribbean II; Michal Makarewicz and Andy Beall, Cars; and Ethan Hurd, Open Season). I look forward to seeing you!

Silver

These are some designs for an upcoming Danny Phantom show. They are just incidentals and will appear in the background. I will always play around with shape variations and roughs sketches of faces first and that will help me determine body shapes. The clean up was done in illustrator by the great clean up crew on the show as well as the color which is done in photoshop.

I thought since I have'nt had a chance to post much latley, that I would post some early development work I had done for Danny Phantom, over 4 years ago. We just wrapped up our final pitch last week. I believe in all we did 53 shows. It's been a great run.

Show # 5

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This Artcast is about Getting involved in the art community and joining cartooning organizations.
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Here are some rough sketches I have done trying to figure out Pedro and Kipp for Napoleon Dynamite. This is always the toughest stage and the funnest.

SHOW # 4

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This Artcast is about Getting started in the animation industry, what to put into a portfolio.
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Here are some recent life drawing sketches.

SHOW # 3

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This Artcast is about my philosophies on drawing in a sketchbook.
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My third book, "Stephen Silver’s Sketchbook", will be debuting at the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con. I am starting to take pre-orders now so that I will be able to ship books the week of July 17th, before leaving for San Diego.
The book is 11X14, contains 32 pages filled with over 400 sketches and is completely uncut. It is spiral bound to make it look like a replica of my lunchtime sketchbook. You can see more images on my website @ www.silvertoons.com

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I thought I would attempt to try something new. This is the first of many to come. Please leave any questions in the comments for me to answer in the next cast.

Creative Cow

Just last week I was invited to do an interview with Franklin McMahon (Creativecow.net) . Franklin does a podcast show which I find to be greatly inspiring. It is a great show that helps motivate me and I am honored to be a part of it. There is a bit of computer program talk in the beginning, but the rest is the interview. If your interested you can go to this site. http://cowcast.creativecow.net

I am starting the process for my fourth book. My third one will be coming out at the San Diego comic-con. I thought what would be the best way for me to find something I'm looking for besides an internet search. Well it is this, I am hoping to get some personal recommendations. I am looking to find out if anyone out there knows of a studio photographer they can recommend. I live in Los Angeles, so that would be preferable. Thanks for any help you can provide.

I just came across this on my computer looking for some other stuff, It was an old project I was developing. So I figured I would post it since I don't have anything new right now.

Just wanted to let you know I have added a mailing list feature on the right side of my blog. So feel free to put in your e-mail if you would like to receive seminar dates, gallery showings, convention updates and new book information.
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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.