A Cool Pic of the Illustration I did for the Arm Bar Soap Company. You can order a Bar of this AntiFungal Antibacterial soap here; (It comes in the box I illustrated); https://armbarsoap.com/collections/soap/products/the-absolute-batch
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We Are At The Printer!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Strength Monsters
New art work I did for my Kickstarter Funded Strength Monsters Comic Book! The next two Strength Monsters Books have been sent to the Printer!
Source: We Are At The Printer!
Chris Haueter 5 Degree Artist
Posted by Sam Kressin in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Comic Books
This is a really well done video featuring my BJJ coach Chris Haueter a lot of the art you see on the computer in it is stuff I did in collaboration with him. Some of it from years ago. Check it out!
Drawing Pretty Girls Day 13
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration, Drawing Pretty Girls, Pencil Drawings, Sketch Book
My drawing for today out of the Famous Artist Cartoon Course is the girl with the round head shape.
Cover to Ultra Mayhem Colored!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Strength Monsters, Uncategorized
Thanks to everyone who backed my Kickstarter the cover to Strength Monsters in “Ultra-Mayhem” has been colored by the great Lisa Moore!
Source: Cover to Ultra-Mayhem Colored!
Kickstarter Success! Strength Monsters is Funded!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Strength Monsters, Uncategorized
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE! There are literally only 3 days left I was seriously worried! I was thinking, “man this is going to come down to the last minute,” and then… This morning I get up check my email and find out. It made it! IT MADE IT! I’m jumping off the walls right not. Thank you everyone who’s back this project, liked or shared any of my posts and believed in this! I won’t let you guys down! There are still 3 days left if anyone else wants to jump in and pick up one of the rewards heres the link; http://kck.st/1O4Ersu
Making A Sketch Card
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Drawing and Illustration, Strength Monsters, Uncategorized
Get a Sketch Card like this one from me here; http://kck.st/1O4Ersu
The Cover Evolution to Strength Monsters in Ultra-Mayhem!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Strength Monsters
The evolution of the Cover Art to the Comic Book Strength Monsters in “Ultra-Mayhem” Get behind this comic book and help me get this cover colored here is the link; http://kck.st/1O4Ersu
Source: Evolution of a Comic Book Cover Strength Monsters in “Ultra-Mayhem”
Unboxing Evil Robot Vs Pro Wrestling Santa
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Strength Monsters
Check out my Kickstarter here; http://kck.st/1O4Ersu
Santa’s Watching (Panel I Penciled For Strength Monsters In Christmas Tree Delivery)
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Strength Monsters
Santa Claus watching his Elves take on a couple of Pro-Wrestlers in the Ring from the Comic Book Strength Monsters in Christmas Tree Delivery. This comic is currently on Kickstarter and needs help to finish it. I’ve put together a lot of cool reward packages check them out here; http://kck.st/1O4E
Source: Santa’s Watching
Posted by Sam Kressin in Strength Monsters
Revised Sequence From First Story Board Assignment
Posted by Sam Kressin in Animation, Story Boards
This is the same sequence I posted yesterday here revised. Stay tuned in the few day or so I will post the entire scene.
Cut Sequence From First Story Boarding Assignment
Posted by Sam Kressin in Animation, Story Boards
I’m currently learning how to do story boarding for animation. This is a scene from my first assignment that was cut due the fact that I needed to show the entire action in one take. Stay tuned as I will post this same scene re-done tomorrow.
Posted by Sam Kressin in Strength Monsters
Tom Raney Batman Sketch Circa 1991
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Drawing and Illustration, Pencil Drawings
I got this Batman Sketch from comic book artist Tom Raney at the San Diego Comic Con Circa 1991. Raney was an unknown artist at the time trying to break into comics. I thought this batman sketch was one of the most awesome kick ass depictions I’d ever scene of my favorite superhero. This sketch hung on my wall and sat next to my drawing board for years.
Today I look back on this sketch and it drives me crazy how batman’s bicep is drawn because a bicep does not tie into the deltoid like that. Batman’s abdominals and triceps are completely incorrect as well as the rest of the his anatomy. The head is too small in proprtion to the rest of Batman’s body. Yet even with all these errors it still looks cool. Perhaps some day I will ink this sketch myself and correct it.
Megagalactic Episode 2
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration, Megagalactic
Check out my Monthly Megagalactic Blog here Chronicling all the content I publish / put out each month. There will be a new Megagalactic illustration with each monthly post.
Check Out This Full Page From My Inaugural Issue of Strength Monsters!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Strength Monsters
You can download the complete comic book Strength Monsters in “Eat A Burrito” for FREE here just put your name an email in the box below and I’ll send you a copy.
Joe Weider Destructive Self Defense Ad
Posted by Sam Kressin in Worlds Deadliest
This classic advertisement for Joe Weider’s Destructive Self Defense mail order martial arts course once ran in comic books and mens magazines all across the country. Make sure you check out the illustration I did with comic book inking legend Joe Rubinstein back in 2012 inspired by this classic Martial Arts Mail Order Course here.
Sun Si Miao Illustration by Kiyoshi Nakazawa
Posted by Sam Kressin in Acupuncture, Worlds Deadliest
Artist Kiyoshi Nakazawa did this awesome Sun Si Miao illustration to go along with an article I wrote earlier this year for Worlds Deadliest titled: Demonic acupuncture And The Thirteen Ghost Points.
Check Out Martial Arts Comic Book Veteran Stan Sakai’s Illustration Process
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books
Stan Sakai writes and illustrates Usagi Yojimbo one of the great martial arts comic books about a Samurai Rabbit. This is an awesome video showcasing his illustration process.
Me and David Pimental
Posted by Sam Kressin in Gestural Drawing
New Strength Monsters Banner!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Design Work, Strength Monsters
Here’s a look at the new Strength Monsters Banner I had made for conventions, special appearances and other stuff. The title is completely hand lettered you can check out my process here.
You can download a digital copy of the first issue of this comic book for Free. Just enter your name and email below and I will send you a link to download the book.
Check out some of the details and special feature I put into this;
New Mystery in Space Inspired Design Work
Posted by Sam Kressin in Design Work
New Design Work I did. This is hand lettering I based on DC Comics 1950s Mystery in Space Science Fiction Comic Book Series. I often choose to letter designs and logos by hand because it gives the piece more personality and avoids the sterility of what you get working 100% in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Most people have no clue how labor intensive it is to do a job like this.
I get asked often by people if I can help redesign a logo or letter something and most of the time I have to say no because of the amount of work that goes into it. Of course everyone has a price and if offered enough money or a fair trade I would be happy to do the work. With that said the amount of work I do is nothing compared to some of the top of the food chain graphic designers. Although I do a lot of work I’ve been to the Dual Forces studio in Los Angles many times. Not only will they extensively research an idea for weeks and longer once they have a basic design they will turn out nearly 100 different iterations of that one idea. That’s one of the many reasons why they are the best and work with the all the biggest brands on the planet.
For this job I started out researching a lot of old science fiction pulp magazines and comic books I will do this until I come across something that inspires me or triggers my imagination. Once I had an idea of what I wanted to create I got started by drawing several boxes in perspective laying out where I want things to go.
Next I used a non-photo blue lead pencil to roughly sketch in all the letters.
After that I scanned in my sketch and created a grid in Adobe illustrator. This is to make sure all my lines match up to the correct vanishing points. I couldn’t do this part traditionally because the vanishing points for this design are so far away I would need a ruler the length of my living room. If you don’t know any thing about vanishing points there are lots of good books you can research to learn. I would recommend Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up
Once I had my grid built I printed everything out and tightened it down with my pencil and ruler making adjustments to my design.
I will continue to build up the design with my pencil and ruler until I’m confident enough to move onto inking.
The final step for this one was to scan in the final inked drawing and color digitally.
Feldstein Inspired Spaceman Final Pencils
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Drawing and Illustration, Pencil Drawings
I posted my rough sketch of this Al Feldstein Weird Fantasy inspired Spaceman yesterday for Your Web Designer. Today I was able to get the pencils finished and tied down for the illustration. I will be inking tomorrow.
Quick Sketch Feldstein Inspired Space Man
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Drawing and Illustration, Pencil Drawings, Sketch Book
Work in progress for Your Web Designer I’ll tight this guy up and tie him down tomorrow. This the quick sketch I did today inspired by an Al Feldstein Weird Fantasy Cover. If you don’t know who Feldstein is I suggest you learn! My recommendation is to pick up a copy of FELDSTEIN: The Mad Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein!
Adventures in the Strike Zone Character Design by Sam Kressin
Posted by Sam Kressin in Adventures in the Strike Zone, Comic Books, Drawing and Illustration
From my Sketch Book. You can see my other character design for this series here.
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books
Our Next Panel sequence part of my forth coming Strength Monsters Comic Book; “Ultra Mayhem!”
Frank Frazetta Recreation
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration, Pencil Drawings
I finish this today pencils for a recreation I’m doing of a classic Frank Frazetta piece. I will being inking tomorrow. My proporations are not exactly the same as the original as I freehanded the entire piece (no tracing). This is an exersice to improve my skill to pay attention to Frazetta’s lines and feel how his drawing was put together.
Greg Capullo’s Bane Inked By Sam Kressin
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Drawing and Illustration, Inked Drawings
I recently finished inking this Bane Penciled by Greg Capullo. I usually spend 25-30 minutes everyday inking over some else’s work I respect and admire. I do this as an exerices to improve my own skills in Drawing and in using my brush. This piece was 100% inked with a #3 Windsor Newton Series Seven Brush. Check out Greg’s original pencils below. 
If you are unfamilar with Capullo’s work I strongly recommend checking out;Batman: The Court of Owls
It’s also well worth listening to these fantastic Fatman on Batman interviews with Greg;
Hulk Style Lettering
Posted by Sam Kressin in Design Work, Drawing and Illustration
Earlier This Year Studying Walt Stanchfield Method of Gestural Drawing With David Pimental
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration
David Pimentel is a Story Artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation and a disciple of the late Walt Stanchfield
Here are a few of my drawings from one of the sessions I did in Pimental’s class hover over the photo to click through to the next slide…
Strength Monsters Pro Wrestling Comics
Posted by Sam Kressin in Design Work, Strength Monsters
The final lettering… Not too long ago I posted this video here of myself finishing up the old school hand drawn and inking portion of this lettering I did based on 1940s Marvel Stories Fiction Pulp Magazine titles.
Now Flush!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration, Pencil Drawings, Worlds Deadliest
I drew this single arm hand stand over a toilet today. Worlds Deadliest will be back soon and with a VENGANCE!
I Will Kick You In The Face! (Pencils)
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Drawing and Illustration, Pencil Drawings
I penciled this illustration today. Why did I draw this? What will become of it? Stay tuned and keep stopping back in to find out!
Catch Wrestling Comics
Posted by Sam Kressin in Catch Wrestling, Design Work
Here is a new design piece I did again based on the old American Wrestling Association News Edition of Wrestling Illustrated Circa the 1970s.
Hayden Christensen is Indiana Jones! FULL COLOR!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration
Yesterday day I posted Joe Rubinstein’s masterful inks over my pencils of the Hayden Christensen as Indiana Jones Illustration. Today I was able squeeze in enough time to finish the coloring lettering and everything else for the Hayden Christensen as Indiana Jones art. Stay tuned to see what comes of this art work! Join me and together we can single handedly dismantle the entire Indiana Jones Franchise BEFORE Disney and Lucas do! VOTE for Hayden Christensen to play Indiana Jones and show your support by liking and sharing this Illustration.
Hayden Christensen is Indiana Jones! INKED!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Drawing and Illustration
You may or may not recall a few weeks ago I published this Pencil Illustration I did of Hayden Christensen as Indiana Jones. Today the inked version is finished. I was real lucky to get my teacher Joe Rubinstein to commit to inking this piece for me and just in time before he got real busy with a bunch of Justice League of America pages for DC comics. Stay tunes as you will see more about this piece of art work soon.
Freaks of the Gym: Checkered Shorts Guy
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, Propeller Head.
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Checkered Shorts Guy: a trustee side kick to Moses, attracts the smaller, genetically weaker, intellectual individuals who are fearful and apprehensive about training with the actual Moses. Checkered Shorts Guy hopes that somehow he will be able to obtain the freakish strength and esoteric knowledge Moses has.
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New “Total Dim Mak” Design Work
Posted by Sam Kressin in Design Work, Dim Mak
Another design piece I finished today. The skulls came from my original copy of The Human Body A Text Book of Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene by H. Newell Martin published in 1900. The font is known as Danzig 4p by Rob Villareal based on Danzig’s Danzig 4p
Monster movie poster. The characters under “Total Dim Mak” read, “The Death Touch” according to Danzig these characters are Vehmic Runes from a secret majical alaphabet of Germanic origin. The “Caution” area is Futura a common font used for caution signs and notices. The red excitement box and yellow backgrounds are inspired by numerious 1960s Jack Kirby, Artie Simek, Fantastic Four
Finishing Up Some Design Work For Strength Monsters
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Design Work, Vlog
Hayden Christensen is Indiana Jones!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Drawing and Illustration
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!
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.
I Drew This Today 3-27-15
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration
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!
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.
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