Schoolism: Character Design Class Blog

Sketchbook

2010-09-20T10:57:00.000-07:00

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

keeping it alive;

2010-04-30T06:33:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone :) Noticed there ant been any posts in a while so I thought I'd do the honors. Heres some quick memory sketches I done a while back when I lived in Sydney.

Hope to see more from everyone soon :)
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Great Resources

2009-07-28T14:02:00.000-07:00

over at Pixar animator Carlos Baena's website he's posted a whole bunch of great free resources:

Laughing Matters a documentary on comedic acting, with lots of cools poses, great to draw from:
http://www.carlosbaena.com/resource/anim_funnybusiness.html

A whole section on animation tips
http://www.shaunfreeman.com/animating_tips

There's ALOT of other great stuff
so poke around and check it out!

http://www.carlosbaena.com/resource/resource_tips.html

for some reason my links wouldn't appear so you'll have to copy & paste

enjoy!

Ola Ice Time

2009-05-19T10:57:00.001-07:00

He boys and girls. I wanted to show a project that I have been working on for the last weeks. There is more on my blog if you're interested. But I wanted to post the character design here.

I also did all the artwork and animations for the website (it's in dutch). www.olaijstijd.nl

anyway...whadoyathink?
cheers Freek

Memory Sketch

2009-03-04T16:45:00.000-08:00

Hey gang! Hope everyones doing well... I've been crazy busy of late, but its all been fun, heres a little memory sketch I done in the not so distant past.

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Bag Lady

2009-01-12T17:42:00.000-08:00

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I hope everyones having a great start to the new year, and keepin up the drawing. I've nabbed myself a job designing characters - so much fun! All the same, I still do my own thing: as Stephen suggested, usually in the mornings or after lunch, to loosen up I do some memory sketches. I can only wish this was a memory sketch... Its freezing here! I just doodled this to pretend I was somewhere warm for ten minutes :) Hope you Enjoy...

Fat Joe Revised

2008-12-05T20:30:00.000-08:00

Hey - Hope everyones doin good, and been drawing lots! I've been a very busy of recently, so this is a little late... but I finally got around to fixing up my Last assignment. 'Ere he is... Still not %100 happy, I don't like the chain on the watch, but its hard to make it work as an actual chain. Well, I'll hand it over to you guys, it'd be great to hear what you think. Cheers!

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Fat Joe revisited

2008-11-19T19:44:00.001-08:00

Hey guys, I'm kinda sad this is the last lesson for the course, but it's been a blast! I've learned so much here and I really will be applying everything I've learned to my drawing from here on. Welp, here is the new version of my Fat Joe. The old one is on the left, and the new one on the right. Any critiques are welcome!

My Jack character and the Fat Joe result

2008-11-17T11:01:00.000-08:00

He Stephan,

Thanx again for the lessons. They've been really inspirational. It's too bad you don't give more courses :-) Here is my Fat Joe. And some pics from the Jack & Hyde lesson. For more stuff you can check out my blog at:
http://freekyfingers.blogspot.com/

Yeah,..it's a weird name. But Freek just means "Fred" in dutch.

Cheers Freek

Hyde revisited

2008-11-09T15:22:00.000-08:00

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This was the runner up character when we where picking which one we’d take through to the finial. So With everything I’ve learned, I went back to him, and reworked him. Over the next while, I’ll post some of the other characters that had potential but never quite made it :)

Latest assignment

2008-10-29T11:19:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, just sharing my latest assignment here. I've certainly been learning a lot from this class. There's been a lot of invaluable tips and advice from Stephen that affects how I've been drawing. Welp, here's my Jekyll! It's been hard tackling this character, because I think I tend to mix some graphic cartoon elements with more traditional style.... So part of it will look kind of flat, and another part will look like its got more form and dimension. Welp, gotta keep on learning!

- Dave

Now & Then:

2008-10-28T12:47:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone - So I've had so much fun over the last few weeks, which I'm sure we all have. Recently I've taken a look back over my work from previous assignments, and I'm so delighted with the changes, I thought I'd post them here. The top one is the most recent design, after Stephen's insights, and the one below was my first concept of our Jekyll character. I'd love to hear what you think, don’t be shy with the critiques :)

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