I will be at the New York Comic-Con October 8-10 booth # 348. Stop on by if you happen to be there.

Sketchbook

I wanted to share with you that my latest book "Stephen Silver's Sketchbook volume 2" is coming out next month. Within the pages are notes that I wrote to myself during the process, they became a constant reminder to me of what it is I needed to think about as I developed my skills. It is spiral bound to make it look like a sketchbook. If you would like to PREORDER you will receive FREE shipping anywhere in the U.S http://www.silvertoons.com/store.html

west hollywood book fair

West hollywood has a great book fair each year,I will have a table in the "Indie Comics Creators section" booth D13-16, Table K Sunday september 26th. Stop on by if your live nearby.

I just wanted to share a great e-mail I just received from one of my online students.

Dear Stephen,
I new when signing up for this online character design course that there was no way I would regret it. I new this because of the amount of passion I witness during your Live Art Casts and your inspirational sayings to everyone via Facebook. But I honestly was not expecting the class to be this helpful and this full of information, it was so much more then I could have asked for. You made the steps for a person to become successful in this industry understandable and clear. I can honestly say that you covered everything and more with full detail and life experience. This is the class people need to take in order to be on the right track to getting into the art industry and to learn how to grow as an artist. It blows my mind how much I've improved since the day I've started this class to now. In such a short period of time I can finally feel proud of my work and feel more confident in succeeding. Your videos were jam packed with the right steps, perfect advice, your own life experience and they really helped me so much I cannot even express it. This class was better then any art class I've ever taken and any art book I've ever read. It was just perfect so once again, I can't thank you enough for clearly putting so much effort into helping your students make their dreams come true. Your advice throughout the lessons will come in handy throughout the rest of my life. It has been an honor and a pleasure being your student. -Lauren Lorenzo

Art book summer sale

Summer sale on my passion for life book. by clicking the link below will take you to the site.
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Character design course

I wanted to share with you one of my students, Klaus-Martin Gareis's final assignments from my last semester online character design course on schoolism.com. He amongst others had made huge improvements in just nine weeks. The drawing on the left was the first assignment based on a character description I gave with no teaching yet. The pic on the right is the final assignment to draw this character again with their new found knowledge. My June 21st semester is all filled up and my next on which starts on September 6th has already started to fill up, so reserve your seat today.

self publishing

wanted to share a book that Steve Harpster who took my self publishing lesson on schoolism.com did. very exciting.

CHARACTER DESIGN PANEL

I wanted to invite you to a character design panel I am on tomorrow night June 17,2010 between 6:30 and 9:30 pm. that will take place at The Animation Guild in Burbank. if you are a non member it is $10 and member $5. It should be fun. I will also be selling super discounted books.
Myself, Bob Singer, Bill Schwab who did the "MUSINEX" commercial characters,Jamie Mitchell who did SPECIAL AGENT OSO, Bonita Varish who did the Klasky-Csupo characters like RUGRATS and Linda Miller will be speaking on Hanna-Barbera and possibly Don Bluth characters.

One of my favorite movies.

"A Mute of Hounds" art show

I am in a group gallery show coming up June 12th Meltdown comics. That is a tiny snippet from my piece. Stop on by, check it out and say ello, ello!

Napoleon dynamite

Just heard they were doing an animated napoleon dynamite, one of my favorite movies, I did these designs a while back hoping they would do it. so I am posting them again and putting it out there that they will contact me to do it. positive thinking right?

Greeting Cards

Design a personalized gift at Zazzle.

I just created a site full of over 60 greeting cards you can order and even write what you want on the inside. They get mailed out with envelopes and can be ordered in bulk too. check it out.

I just recently returned home from A USO tour in Germany with a group of great cartoonist.Our mission was to draw cartoons and caricatures for the wounded troops.I posted more about my experience on my Passion blog Here is a little slideshow, sorry for the repetition of music.

Summer sale at schoolism.com

L.A Times book fair

I will be selling and signing my books at the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books which will be held this Saturday & Sunday, April 24-25, 2010 at UCLA. My location is Zone G booth 751. Stop on by if you happen to be going. If you live in another state, well have a great weekend. here is a link to the site for more info

LAST FACEBOOK POST!!!!

Dear Passion for life group members.

I wanted to let you know that due to some hacking concerns I am moving my passion for life group to a new improved site, where i can post pics and videos. If you wish to still recieve monday morning words of encouragement you can now join this site
and hit the "Subscribe to Passion For Life by Email" link on the right side and you will get the weekly updates.
Thanks for being a part of my group and I hope to see you there.
I posted one there this morning.
Silver

Dan DeCarlo's Jetta

Being a big fan of Dan Decarlo, I wanted to share with you a great new book that is coming to bookstores near you on April 14th. It is a book titled Dan DeCarlo's JETTA. Craig Yoe put this whole thing together and asked a bunch of artists including myself to do a pin-up. here is what i did along with the cover of the book you can purchase it online at
amazon

This is a little teaser of something i'm working on. I will post the finish soon.

WONDERCON THIS WEEKEND

I received this from a guy named jason who watched my online video on how to self publish. You can purchase his book here on amazon this is what he wrote.

Sephen
I watched your presentation on book making on schoolism.com and I made a book. I'm starting small with black and white print-on-demand.
Thank you for the inspiration and the information

Jason Pruett