I hate that when I find an older drawing that could use some touching up, I tend to be reminded of how George Lucas has never been satisfied with his Star Wars work and continues to edit them time and time again. While no work of mine can be compared […]
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Chris Evans in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Freehand Graphite and Colored Pencil Pencil Drawing
With the release of a new Captain America movie, I felt inspired to do a new Captain America drawing. I like the other two I did, but I liked that this poster art (the source photo I used to draw this) had Chris’s face in full. And, again, I used […]
Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey in “The Hobbit” Lord of the Rings Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
After drawing Tauriel, I decided it’d be cool to do a Gandalf drawing. However, I didn’t quite realize the horror of trying to draw his dang beard until I tried to. Needless to say, I ended up having to take several breaks while working on it, and only work on […]
Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel in “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Freehand Graphite Drawing
Ever since “discovering” and becoming a hopeless LOST fan in 2012, I’ve enjoyed Evangeline Lilly’s work. I was pretty stoked to learn she was joining the world of The Hobbit and, recently after revisiting The Lord of the Rings film, I just felt inspired to draw Tauriel from the second […]
Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters Freehand Graphite Pencil and Prismacolor Drawing
It’s no secret I’m a big Ghostbusters fan. The movie came out when I was very little and I actually remember going to see it in the theaters a couple of times. With the news last month that Harold Ramis, who played Egon Spengler, had passed away, I was pretty […]
Eva Green and Daniel Craig in “Casino Royale” Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
I decided to then return to screen shots and chose this favorite from Casino Royale. While it’s not exactly the happiest scene, I loved the emotion in it and the fact that the hard-hearted, coldblooded killing British spy lets down his guard for a woman he’s literally falling in love […]
Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona Glenanne in Burn Notice Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
After having drawn both Sam Axe and Michael Westen, at the suggestion of a friend of mine, I decided to draw Mike’s Fiona Glenanne. It was a little weird going back to promo photos after having done two screen shots in a row, but it felt good to have a […]
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Freehand Colored Pencil and Graphite Pencil Drawing
After working on the screenshot from Back To The Future and enjoying it so much, I decided to try my hand at another favorite movie scene. This time I took a screenshot from The Empire Strikes Back, the fifth (or second, depending how you look at it) Star Wars film. […]
Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly with Crispin Glover as George McFly Freehand Graphite and Colored Pencil Drawing
While looking for a good photo of Christopher Lloyd online to draw, I ended up taking a screenshot of one of my favorite scenes in Back To The Future to consider drawing later on. I decided to make it my next project and also decided to return to the graphite […]
Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in “Back To The Future” Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
As an avid Back to the Future fan, I’m surprised I haven’t thought of drawing Doc sooner. And good pics of him are hard to find online. However, I thought this one was out of the ordinary and captured the character well enough to attempt. I’m pretty happy with the […]
Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in Star Wars Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
I’ve been on a Star Wars kick lately and I realized, while I’ve drawn Luke and Han a couple times, I’ve never drawn Leia. So this was an attempt to draw Leia but not using one of the typical iconic pictures of her. Empire Strikes Back is still my favorite […]
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
After watching Sherlock series 3 and just feeling discontented with my previous Sherlock/Benedict Cumberbatch drawing, I decided to take a stab at a new one. Hopefully this one is better. I worked on it in January 2014 and it’s full graphite pencil. I also brought back the DESIGN Ebony Jet […]
Tom Cruise as Jack Harper in “Oblivion” Freehand Graphite and Colored Pencil Drawing
After watching it for the first time on Blu-Ray after having seen it while it was in theaters, I decided to work on a pencil drawing of Tom Cruise as Jack Harper in the movie “Oblivion.” I love good sci-fi and action and this movie just had a little of […]
Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute in “The Office” Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
Speaking of TV shows… I love America’s take on The Office! And I miss it terribly since it went off the air. I decided Dwight Schrute needed to join my drawings of Pam and Jim, and this ended up being a pretty fun one to do… Purchase link for prints: […]
Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes in TV’s “Elementary” Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
Between Robert Downey Jr and Benedict Cumberbatch, everyone wondered if the world really needed ANOTHER Sherlock Holmes. Once the modern update, “Elementary” hit TV, I decided it wasn’t worth subscribing to and didn’t watch it. I heard through the grape vine that it was pretty good, so I decided to […]
Dan Aykroyd as Ray Stantz in Ghostbusters Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
As you’ve noticed by now, I’m a huge fan of Ghostbusters. Always have been. I did a drawing of Ray Stantz right out of college and I’m not a huge fan of it, but it sells a lot in my online store (surprisingly to me). So I decided to work […]
Drawing of Justin Cox from Fireflight
Here’s another drawing I did, entirely in pencil, of a concert photo I took of guitarist Justin Cox from the rock band Fireflight. This photo was from, I think, Uprise Festival 2012 and the drawing was made in December 2013.
Bill Murray as Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
I finally bit the bullet and attempted this screenshot from the beginning of the film. I’ve been wanting to draw it for years actually. I worked on this from November 26 thru December 3, 2013. Purchase link for prints: https://johndibiaseart.com/peter-venkman-ghostbusters-bill-murray-drawing-print-b
Chris Hemsworth as Thor in “Thor: The Dark World” Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
I recently did a new drawing of Loki and thought it only fair to do a new one of Thor (with more detail than the first drawing). See, when drawing freehand — for me, at least — I have some problems with laying out exactly how the proportions will go […]
Tom Hiddleston as Loki in “Thor: The Dark World” Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
For the Avengers release last year, I did a series of pencil drawings where I mixed colored pencil and graphite together. I liked the end result, but the truth is that my heart lies with all-pencil drawings. I’m still trying to improve my pencil skills, so I’m continuing to work […]
Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore in “Ghostbusters” Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
It’s not secret that I’m a huge Ghostbusters fan. So far, I’ve drawn Peter a few times, Ray twice and Egon a couple of times (for the first time this year). Where’s Winston? Nothing personal, Ernie, I just never got around to drawing Winston before. I had a really hard […]
Andrew Schwab of Project 86 Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
Still digging the idea of drawing my own original photo work, I took a photo of one of my favorite vocalists, Andrew Schwab of the band Project 86, from Uprise Festival last month, and decided to give it a shot. It’s all pencil (I corrected the shiny background the scanner […]
Skillet’s John Cooper Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
Next I chose a photo I had just recently taken at Uprise Fest in September 2013 and decided to draw John Cooper, frontman of the rock band Skillet. I’ve been a fan of their music since first hearing a sampler BEFORE their debut album came out in 1996. Needless to […]
Family Force 5’s Solomon Olds Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
Continuing a run of artist portrait drawings, I decided to choose Family Force 5’s Solomon Olds, especially after his announcement of retiring from the band. I’ve been a fan of them since first seeing them perform a showcase in Nashville in 2005. I took the original photo at Purple Door […]
TobyMac (in Concert) Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
After drawing the recent Jon Foreman portrait, I really liked the feeling of drawing a photo I took and just really liked the idea of doing more drawings like that. So to start, I decided to work on a photo I took of TobyMac in concert on his Hits Deep […]
Jon Foreman of Switchfoot Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
Truth be told, my first pencil portraits were of CCM artists back in the mid 90s. Artists like DC Talk and PFR were frequent subjects as I tried to figure out my way around drawing faces (they’re quite embarrassing to look at today). Back around 2000 I did a drawing […]
Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen in “Burn Notice” Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
After drawing Bruce Campbell as Sam Axe, I found it only necessary to draw Burn Notice’s central character, Michael Westen. I figured it was timely given the pending demise of the show this month… (And I’m going to miss it!) Purchase link for prints: https://johndibiaseart.com/drawing-print-of-jeffrey-donovan-as-michael-westen-in-burn-notice
Bruce Campbell as Sam Axe in “Burn Notice” Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
I have my new sister-in-law to thank for getting me hooked on Burn Notice last fall. I ended up watching all six seasons in a matter of just a couple weeks. Now with it currently running its final episodes, I felt inspired to draw Bruce Campbell as Sam Axe (definitely […]
Jenna Fischer Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
As being a big fan of the US “The Office” TV show, I had been wanting to draw Steve Carell for a while. In searching for photos of Michael Scott, this lovely picture of Jenna Fischer (Pam on The Office) popped up. So I decided it would make a great […]
Jerry Seinfeld Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
This drawing, which I worked on a few hours a night from July 30 to August 7, was a new challenge. I won’t reveal just why, but let’s just say… it wasn’t the usual draw-a-picture-of-a-picture kind of portrait. I was pretty pleased with how it turned out (although I think […]