My second week with Silver was to design a Dr J & H of your own. I chose to create a 1960 Ivy League Student that transforms into a slovenly obese ale lover!

I actually learned something new this week with Silver’s 2nd assignment and received my personal critique on my Fat Joe design from Steve. The critique that I received was exactly what I expected of my work, too.

Even though criticism is hard to take for some, doesn’t it make one try so much harder? It does me!

I am only finished with my second week with Silver at Schoolism and I highly recommend anyone willing to learn character design to take this course. It is really worth it!

I am now in my second week course with the famous cartoonist, Steven Silver’s Character Design Class(again, a LOVELY gift from my husband) and I am really excited and anticipate his weekly assignments, and video classes.
I am a huge, HUGE fan of his style, technique and great character design skills.

If interested, click on the word Schoolism to the right of this blog to see more.

Above is a few rough samples of my character layout of Fat Joe from first week course.

Update: I added my final color Joe. We did not have to finish him in color, but I did.

Sigh! My husband loves his pastries that he is turning into one.
He goes nuts for donuts!
I’ve GOT to get him to the gym!

I created my own monkey for a small fun project.

Woo hoo! My class starts today!
The best Christmas present my husband could have ever given me!

Wow! I just returned from my trip to the Netherlands, spending much time drawing with many of European’s finest artists. I attended a minicon, called CU 2008 in the town of Oosterbeeck and later traveled to Amsterdam where I stayed for a tour on my last day.

I surprisingly won 3rd place for Best Cartoon Style. There were so many great and talented artists and I learned very much by watching, listening, and practice, practice, practice! Since I tend to be more of a digital artist, I feel I need to take the time to practice with my live “color” media, so I decided to take a step and start producing more live studio drawings (on paper) within my future.

My wall (window) of art was designed with color copics/colored pitt pens and colored pencils.

Here are many photos of many friends, my art display and drawings. Also, I finally had the pleasure of meeting Marion at the Hotel Dreyeroord, when she stopped by for a visit with her son and daughter! She is an amazingly talented artist!

Mick did a fantastic Photoshop rendition of me! Thanks Mick!

What a great and adventurous experience! I had so much fun and laughter with EVERYONE!
I will post more photos, hopefully closer and clear photos, later this evening!

I took a drawing that I created earlier for my son, and altered my art
into a small gift for our 2 engineers in office’! I made T-shirts and mouse pads for them, along with other gifts that our office chipped in to buy as Christmas gifts.
Our party is tomorrow and I am looking forward to a break from working so hard, during one of my busiest months!

Rick has a mustache but always shaves it most of the year, so I drew him without!

I happen to design this character over the winter months, just fooling around in painter. I call her Eva, for now.