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.
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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.
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! and start reading. A copy of The EC Archives: Weird Fantasy Volume 1 will get you on the right track as well.
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!”
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 this is a fantastic Batman Story with amazing visuals. I prefer the unwrapped edition because you can study Greg’s raw pencils. Aside from his acclaimed work on Batman He’s also known for having drawn the longest runs on Spawn which I believe spans over 70+ issues.
It’s also well worth listening to these fantastic Fatman on Batman interviews with Greg;
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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. David continues to pass on his knowledge and approach to Gestural Drawing through regular classes at the Center Stage Gallery in Burbank California.
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…
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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.
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Posted by Sam Kressin in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Catch Wrestling, San Diego Martial Arts Seminars
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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!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing, Training Journal
Posted by Sam Kressin in Drawing and Illustration, Inked Drawings, Worlds Deadliest
I penciled this illustration yesterday and was able to ink it today. I’ll probably make one more revision of this drawing later on stay tuned to see what becomes of this guy.
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!
Posted by Sam Kressin in Martial Arts
We trained for nearly three hours today it was an awesome introduction to Jerry’s Red Zone Knife Defense material. In this workshop we went over unarmed verse the knife and dealt with someone trying to shank you. Prior to this workshop I had already trained knife defense in the Traditional Arts of Tang Soo Do and Aikido but I had done the most extensive amount of training in unarmed verse knife with Trent Suzuki a 4th degree black belt in the Filipino martial arts and at the time I was training with him a named expert in Hock Hockiem’s system in fact I even dug out my old Congress of American Knife Fighters training blade for this workshop. I still highly value the training I did with Trent and in the traditional arts and fell there was much value gained through those training experiences. The material Jerry presented and taught us today is however in my opinion the best knife training I’ve done to date. For those of you who missed out on this workshop we’ll be having Jerry back again soon stay tuned and don’t miss out on the next one.
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Having trained extensively in Korean martial arts I found this article of intrest. Although through my own research I don’t agree with everything stated in this article the author does remain relatively objective clearing up many commonly believed myths created about Tae Kwon Do’s orgins. This was originally published in the book: Thomas A. Green, and Joseph R. Svinth (EDs.), Martial Arts in the Modern World. Westport: Praeger, 2003.
Posted by Sam Kressin in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Training Journal
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing, Training Journal
I want these guys to acquire a little more skill and a number of ways to set up this combination then in a few weeks I will be teaching them the counter. Keep checking in to follow our progress.
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Posted by Sam Kressin in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Comic Books, Drawing and Illustration
Another art piece by myself and Chris Haueter for a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Graphic Novel we have been working on for a long time.
Posted by Sam Kressin in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Comic Books
Art work by myself and 5th degree Rigan Machado Black Belt and Metamoris refree Chris Haueter for our upcoming Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Graphic Novel.
Posted by Sam Kressin in Martial Arts, San Diego Martial Arts Seminars
Brian Cowell and myself are hosting a Red Zone Knife Defense workshop instructed by Jerry Wetzel on Saturday May 2nd at Swift Kick Martial Arts in Rancho Bernardo from 10:30 am – 12:30 all are welcome to attend cost is $40.00 show up and pay at the door. Who’s Jerry Wetzel? Some of you may have seen this video ripped and uploaded to facebook by bjj girl. It’s had over 3 million views. He’s the guy that made that video, He’s spent over a decade developing a practical solution and system for an unarmed person to defend themselves against an edged weapon and his program comes recommended by numerous Law Enforcement Officers who have had to deal with knifes in real life situations. Jerry has taught his system all over the world including Austrialia, Germany the Czech Republic and more this will be Jerry’s first time teaching the program in San Diego don’t miss this opportunity it will be an eye opening workshop and a lot of fun.
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
Short Jab, Cross step to the angle Shovel Upper Cut followed by two short hook punches to the head. I learned the set up from Rodney King of the Crazy Monkey Defense Program. I put this drill together on my own there are an infinated number of drills found in boxing similar to this one.
Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing, Catch Wrestling
Filmed from my private studio in San Diego. This is a classic Catch Wrestling throw I learned from Billy Robinson when your opponent tries to escape your over hook with a limp arm. This needs a lot more work but they’re starting to get the idea stay tuned for future updates as progress is made.
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.
Posted by Sam Kressin in Personal Journal
Now that I’ve been to this I’d probably never go again. However I am glad I went who knows when it will be return to the United States and be so close to my home. Next year it is going to be in London.
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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.
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.
Posted by Sam Kressin in Design Work
Another design piece I finished over the weekend. I based this design on the Duke Kahanamoku Vintage Circa 1960s Long Boards. You can downlaod and read my Catch Wrestling Comic book for FREE here!
TRANSCRIPTION:
The Authentic Catch Wrestling Comic Book.
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Posted by Sam Kressin in Martial Arts, Personal Journal
From earlier today with some of my good friends, Scott Waker, Jerry Wetzel and Brian Cowell at Swift Kick Martial Arts. Helping to evaluate some of Brian’s advanced students. I was very impressed by skill level and abilities of everyone on the mat today!
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.
TRANSCRIPTION
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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Posted by Sam Kressin in Boxing
Continuing to train the single handed neck tie. We were working on this last week as well. Here…
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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 album. Danzig’s original font is based on 1959’s The Giant Gila 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 splash pages.
Posted by Sam Kressin in Comic Books, Design Work, Vlog