Pencils for an Illustration I am doing to make some T-Shirts my brother and I are going to make to wear to the upcoming Star Wars Celebration. I’m really tempted to post this around the internet with the caption; “Just in new production art leaked with Hayden Christensen to star as Indiana Jones in next film!” Image the mass hysteria that would ensue!
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Hayden Christensen is Indiana Jones!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Drawing and Illustration
Posted by Sam Kressin in Catch Wrestling
Professional Wrestling Comics
Posted by Sam Kressin in Catch Wrestling, Comic Books, Design Work
Another design piece I finished this weekend. Inspired by AWAs bi-weekly All Star Wrestling Publications circa the 1970s. Like I’ve said before and in other posts I don’t really enjoy doing design work like this but if you want to make comic books and be in buisness for yourself it’s a necessity.
Ten Rounds Sparring Saturday
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
My Uncle Laying Drums Down for Me Circa 2014
Posted by Sam Kressin in Personal Journal
I Drew This Today 3-27-15
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration
Billy Robinson in Italy Circa 2013
Posted by Sam Kressin in Catch Wrestling
W/ Billy Robinson Circa 2013 in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy after assisting Billy with his four hour training clinic on the Catch Wrestling Double Wrist Lock. Checkout a complete detailed write plus view more pictures from my trip to Italy with Billy Robinson at; http://embodiedstrength.com/2014/09/18/billy-robinson-in-italy-2013/
Naked Alien Blasting Stuff!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration
I drew this quick sketch on a white board in 2009 then snapped a photo of it. All I’m going to say is I may or may not have a comic book coming out soon with a naked Alien running around blasting stuff!
Training Journal 3-25-15
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
Martial Arts Web Comic
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Design Work
Finished up this art today. I don’t really like doing design work like this. I’d prefer to draw, ink and illustrate stories but it was work I had to complete for another currently top secret project. Other than the font everything in the piece was done by me.
Jim Aparo’s Batman
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Personal Journal
The Batman I was introduced to and fell in love with as a kid was Jim Aparo’s Batman. This is a Batman that wasn’t created by Bill Finger or Bob Kane. This Batmans was the result of a collective mind. It was a character shaped by the hundreds of artists and writers that had worked on him before Aparo.
Aparo’s Batman is what I consider to be the Classic Bronze Age Batman. His costume looks like cloth and his cape is far longer than his Silver or Golden age ancestors. He has more exaggerated ears and he dawns the bright yellow target across his chest. Aparo’s Batman is muscular but not bulky. He doesn’t have boots with huge treads or a cowl that looks like a helmet. His design sleek with an elegant streamlined shape.
I should note that while Aparo didn’t draw the first Batman comic I ever picked up he was the artist doing the majority of the Batman books I was reading at the time. It wasn’t long after I started reading when Batman: A Death in the Family
Although I enjoy all versions of the character because Aparo’s Batman was the Batman I was introduced to it’s always the first Batman I think of when someone mentions the character.
Martial Arts Comic Book
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Design Work
This is some art I worked on today. As was the case with this piece a lot of times just putting together a design like this can take far more time than it takes to draw or color the actual art work. This piece was penciled, designed and colored by me inked by Josef Rubinstein. I can’t say much more about what this is banner is going to be used for or what it is going to be apart of yet but stay tuned as soon enough all will be revealed!
Training Journal 3-21-15
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
Sorry about the blur the camera does come into focus after about 30 seconds.
Today Was Another Great Day!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Personal Journal
I had a great day today. Spent the morning filming Catch Wrestling technqiues with Brian Cowell of Swift Kick Martial Arts. After working through the morning I talked to comic book ventran Mike Witherby on the phone for bit about inking comics and some of the challenges of inking backgrounds vs inking organic figures and characters. We also discussed Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix and a bunch of other stuff. The set of Prismacolor Verithin Colored Pencils
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books
Freaks of the Gym Propeller Head
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration
Illustrated and written by me circa 2004. This is part of a series I did titled “Freaks of the Gym.” It was inspired by real people and heavily influenced by Mad Magazine. Check out my other Freaks of the Gym posts here; Moses.
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When you do those step-ups hmmm… make sure you don’t laterally rotate your hip, keep your gody perpendicular to a special right triangle and sustain the contraction of the rectus femurs, vastus lateralis and intermedius musculature at the concentric phase of the isotonic…
COMMONLY HEARD BLURBING OUT Strange scientifically worder tidbits of advice nobody understands.
DRAW STRING SWEAT PANTS He stole them from his high school P.E. class in an attemp to show the real jocks that he’s bad.
AIR PUMPS WITH VELCRO A classcic 80s product.
FLAT TOP To hide the nerd in him by trying to look stylish.
UNIVERSITY SWEATSHIRT That he attended and still fantasizes about playing sports for.
HEAVY BOOK Has lifted more books than weights.
SOCKS PULLED UP TO KNEES Same pair his mom gave him twenty three years ago in junior high school.
Double Front Jump Kick
Posted by Sam Kressin in Karate
Executing a double front jump kick circa 1994 testing for my 2nd Dan in the Moo Duk Kwan Style of Tang Soo Do.
What’s On My Desk?
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration
Here’s a list of most of the items on todays desk top.
1. A bunch of windex. This is used to get my ink to flow off my nibs better a little trick I learned from master comic book inker Joe Rubinstein.
2. Behind the windex are several books note books and sketch books. This includes Drawn to Life: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures
3. A small scale replica of the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Which was the flag ship of the pirate known as Black Beard!
4. A Rubber Octopus.
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Wall Drill
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
The wall drill is a great way to develop confidence in your defense for boxing and striking.
Vincent Locke!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books
This is a quick sketch I got from Vincent Locke at the 1992 San Diego Comic Con. Long before the SDCC was “cool,” back in a time when it was attended by actual comic book artists, creators and fans. Depicting a vampire getting ripped apart alive I really like this little sketch because it’s a good sample of the gruesome, expressive and energetic artistic style of Locke. Vincent was best known at the time for his work on Deadworld a truely independant comic book and probably the first zombie comic with any staying power. Deadworld came out well over a decade before the “Walking Days of Our Lives” I mean Walking Dead would come to light. Still in publication today I suggest checking out the classic years which began in 1987 and ran till some time in the mid 90s. Deadworld
Top Secret Character Design
Posted by Sam Kressin in Adventures in the Strike Zone, Drawing and Illustration
Light Sparring
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
From the weekend this is the end of a light warm-up round of sparring.
Billy Robinson Living Legend
Posted by Sam Kressin in Catch Wrestling
Billly Robinson, Leeds, England, 2013 giving his speech and taking questions after receiving his Life Time Achievement / Living Legends Award for his impact and contribution to the sport of Wrestling.
Gi Stockade to Leg Figure Four Head and Arm Choke
Posted by Sam Kressin in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Bare Knuckled Mitt Work
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
A Drill for Distance and Timing
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
From Life 3-10-15
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration
Nice Double Wrist Lock Set Up
Posted by Sam Kressin in Catch Wrestling
Me training with Brandon McSuplex this last February
Me and Joao Morias
Posted by Sam Kressin in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Me and my 1st (long time) Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach Joao Morias circa 2003. I was a brown belt at the time. (I had trained with BJJ Blue Belt Trent Suzuki and BJJ Black Belt Pedro Sauer prior to Joao)
Wrestling Basics, The Arm Roll
Posted by Sam Kressin in Catch Wrestling
These youngsters still have a long way to go.
Judo Leg Vine to Toe Hold
Posted by Sam Kressin in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Here’s a short clip from this morning’s training session.
Wicked Mit Drills
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
I work my hands just about everyday here’s some training from this afternoon. A new drill for me from Scott Walker who has some wicked Mitt drills what you won’t get from just this video is Scott has a very specific concept or skill he’s trying to get across with each one of his drills but you’ll have train with him yourself if you wanna learn that… or ask him he’ll probably tell you.
Dungeon Master
Posted by Sam Kressin in Personal Journal
I bought this in 1989 when it first came out. The purchase was made for no reason other than the fact that the painting on the cover was one of the most bad ass things I’d ever laid my eyes on. I took it home and what I tried to read was way to complicated for my young brain and I knew the job of Dungeon Master was far beyond my current abilities. I thought that perhaps if I was studious and I worked really hard I could one day be worthy to bear such a title that people would refer to me with the utmost reverence as “Dungeon Master!” Unfortunately I could never figure this damn game out. So I consulted with an older smarter kid at church I knew he had a lot of knowledge in this territory and I inquired to see if perhaps he could groom in the ways of D&D. Instead he introduced me to different game titled MERC by Fantasy Games Unlimited. This game was awesome. It came in a box. You got a manual these sort of classified looking character creation sheets and It was super easy to understand. Sadly I rarely had the opportunity to play it with him much so I did what any kid going through puberty, that was still afraid of girls, and often ostracized by ones piers for still playing with GI Joe’s, watching cartoons and having a love of comic books and all other things awesome would do and I got my grandmother to play it with me. Unfortunately she didn’t want to kill anyone and in this game MERC stands for Mercenary and Killing is the whole point of it. So after playing several non-lethal versions of this game I knew I had to move on. Fortunately it was right at this time I found TMNT and other Strangeness. This published around 1985 this was an older game but it still checked out. This game is loaded with illustrations by Eastman and Laird it had really cool character sheets, you could have Weapons, Weapons Proficiencies, Special Abilities, Scholastic Skills, Combat Skills and everything was an animal mutated towards a human. I spent hours creating the most awesome characters imaginable and there really wasn’t any purpose in rolling dice because I would just re-roll the dice until I got good numbers anyway. Then I’d type my characters up and file them away. The book TMNT and Other Strangeness is only 112 pages and it’s mostly about character creation with not much to go on by way of stories or adventures and so after having created an army of the most bad ass mutant animal characters that could still be comprehended by a human mind I lost interest in role playing games and I never became a “Dungeon Master!”
Documentary on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Southern California
Posted by Sam Kressin in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Great documentary on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Southern California featuring my Jiu-Jitsu Coach Chris Haueter. In my opinion of all the various people interviewed he is by for the most interesting and is largely what holds the entire film together.
Just putting in some work this morning…
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
The Great Billy Robinson
Posted by Sam Kressin in Catch Wrestling
Yesterday last year after the news broke of Billy’s passing I spent 3 days tied to the computer. Just reading everything that was posted about Billy. Reading all the articles and news that broke out around the world about his passing. It seemed like that was all I could to to mourn his loss and deal with his going away. I broke down and cried once and had to coach a kid the next day how to stand up the Billy Robinson way the way Billy taught me to stand up. At that time (and still currently) I was teaching 2-3 martial arts classes and or private lessons a day. For the next week after that every time I showed someone something Billy had taught me my mind would go back to the exact moment in time I had learned it. I could hear Billy’s voice in my mind and remembered how it felt to finally discover the position or movement he was trying to explain to me. For several weeks something would come up in training and I’d say in my mind I’ve got to ask Billy that and then I would be reminded that I can’t. I’ve been a martial artist my entire life. I never identified myself as a Jiu-Jitsu guy I never did just that exclusively I was always working on my Boxing, Karate Kicks, Wrestling and everything else I felt had value that I could pull off in an actual fight or a match. Billy’s stuff was gold to me. If anyone could master Billy’s techniques to the level of perfection he wanted them performed that person would be unstoppable. Billy was the most knowledgeable martial artist I’ve ever met. I wouldn’t say he forgot more than most people ever learn because Billy remembered everything! He knew more about wrestling than anyone else on the planet. He knew about bare knuckled fighting, boxing, street fights, European History, Wrestling History, he’d talk to me about what it was like to Wrestle the highest level Judoka’s in Japan, taking on olympic wrestlers who didn’t believe Catch Wrestling would work. He told me about Viking stories his father read to him as a child containing “beautiful depictions of Saltos and Suplexes” We discussed things such as Battle Axes and Strong Holds, Japanese Comic Books and Cartoons of which he was the subject of, even talked once about how to draw anatomy, the things Billy knew about never ended and everything was some how always brought back to wrestling. I wasn’t just sad that the training was gone but that the person was gone, the conversations and stories the jokes and now even the yelling and swearing.
ME AND BANE!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books
Me and my boy Mike right before the costume compeition at the Long Beach Comic Book Expo this past weekend. Although Mike didn’t win the competition he definatlely brought it. Make sure you check out the short Vlog I made at this years Expo here.
Vlog Long Beach Comic Book Expo 2-28-15
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books
Had a great time at the Long Beach Comic Book Expo this year. Check out the Vlog I shot at the event and I guarentee you will see some cool stuff.
I’m Proud of this Footage…
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
This is a behind the scenes look at a promotional video I was in with Brian Cowell of SwiftKick Martial Arts and Scott Walker Make sure you check it out! I’m proud of this footage because I feel it displays a lot of the martial arts and martial arts techniques I have worked very hard on over a number of years.
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