The Silver Way is a practical and highly visual guide to character design, cartooning, figure drawing, and illustration by professional character designer and art instructor Stephen Silver. Published by Design Studio Press, the book is aimed at both aspiring and professional artists who want to develop stronger character-design skills and create memorable characters in different styles.

Silver breaks character creation into a structured process, covering everything from gesture and construction to heads, faces, cleanup, colour, and designing characters for children and animals. The book combines his professional experience in animation with step-by-step demonstrations and practical drawing exercises.