I wanted to share with you one of the final assignments from one of my SELF-TAUGHT students. Stephen Nedley went through the nine week course that was the un-critiqued version of the course I do. You can sign up at any time with this option. My next instructed class begins June 9th and there are ONLY 5 SPOTS LEFT. Stephen watched the lessons each week at his own pace and had great results as you can see. He was given the assignment in week one to do his very best based on a description I had given and the week nine was to use his new found knowledge and redesign the same character. Right now there is $100 off that course until May 1oth. The course offers Great value to the serious student who wishes to improve their drawing skills. this is my goal for the course, to give you the right tools for you to grow and succeed. for more info visit schoolism

Deniath offers invitation-only access to exclusive, 72-hour flash sales for game enthusiasts and pop-culture fans at up to 70% off. This exclusive private sale will take place on March 27th, 2011 and will include original art, an exclusive WonderCon deal, and much more!
As a fan of Stephen Silver, you can receive a free invite code from Deniath. All you have to do is email community@deniath.com before March. 30th and type, “silver” in the subject line.

huge sale

I have recently been asked to be a part of this cool new site that offers crazy discounts, for a limited time. They are featuring my books and some prints for huge discounts. here is the info.
Deniath offers invitation-only access to exclusive, 72-hour flash sales for game enthusiasts and pop-culture fans at up to 70% off.
As a fan of Stephen Silver, you can receive a free invite code from Deniath. All you have to do is email community@deniath.com before Feb. 3rd and type, “silvertoons” in the subject line.

Here is one of my latest students final assignment. My students are given a first assignment before I teach them anything and by week nine they are to redesign that same character based on what they have learned. Here is what Jimena Sanchez had to say.
"I took this course because I wanted to polish my work, specially my characters. From the beginig, Stephen helped my understand the areas of my work were I could improve and throught the lessons he was able to provide the tools to do it. What I have learned on this class will help me keep growing as an artist for years to come."
My next semester starts on January 3rd 2011 and for 18 more days there is $100 off the self taught classes.

If you live locally and have nothing to do for a few hours, come on down to a real fun event. Van Eaton Galleries has just about every cool piece of vintage and current animation art you will find anywhere. There will be lots of art to look at. I will be there and will have a few original pieces, prints and books of mine there to. There are drinks and food and good times, It is an annual thing and there is always a great turn out. And best of all, it is FREE to attend.

The one and only Stan Goldeberg video is now available here
Stan is best known for his work with Archie Comics, which he has drawn across all titles for over four decades. He has been Archie's flagship artist for more than fifteen years. Stan will talk about his early career in the Golden and Silver Age of Comics, what helped him achieve his goals, and stories of how his career unfolded. You will learn about the mediums he uses, his techniques, and much more!

I will be at The CTN EXPO this week in Burbank. I have a bunch of fun stuff including my latest book and a great giveaway!
My Booth # is T-18.
Feel free to ask me whatever you like, I am there for you.
Silver

Here are a few recent works for a gallery exhibition I will be doing next year.

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.