From time to time, I take commission work and every once in a great while, the subject matter lines up with my interests. 🙂 I love the Captain America movies and the Avengers, so it was fun to get to […]
Portraits
My wife is a HUGE fan of the original Mary Poppins film. She and I are both fans of Emily Blunt, so news of her playing Mary Poppins in an all-new sequel sounded brilliant to us. Thankfully, the sequel ended […]
Actress / model Olga Kurylenko has been one of my most frequent and kind supporters of drawings I’ve done of her. Ironically, she seems to consistently share my works-in-progress on her social media channels, but never them completed. Ha! This […]
With news that actress Ellie Kemper was promoting her new book with a signing at Words Bookstore in Maplewood, NJ, I quickly drew a new portrait of her as quickly as I possibly could – drawing her as Erin Hannon […]
I’ve been a fan of singer Plumb since her debut in 1997. The day after I took my son to see TobyMac in concert in November, 2018, we went to see Plumb in concert as well. I actually gave her […]
I spent the better part of my teen years listening to bands like dc Talk, so when Toby went solo in 2001, it was a no-brainer to follow his solo career. Of course, my son, Will, ended up becoming a […]
This one is easily one of my favorite drawings I did in 2018. In addition to having a beautiful subject (lovely South African model Simone Dawn De Kock), I just found it a fun and challenging image to try to […]
Ever since its release, I’ve been a fan of the movie, The Rocketeer. It was long before superhero movies were all the rage, and it was just a great, fun period action movie. I mainly wanted to draw The Rocketeer […]
From “Unknown” and “X-Men: First Class” is the beautiful January Jones. This was another attempt at something different by mixing colored pencil and graphite for a freehand portrait of January Jones. Purchase link for the original: https://johndibiaseart.com/original-sketch-of-january-jones-not-a-print Purchase link for […]
I definitely fell for Eva Green with her performance as Vesper in Casino Royale. Eva is among a short list of actresses I really enjoy drawing — but also find challenging in trying to properly capture them. This one was […]
Ironically, after being at the Boston Fan Expo where I COULD have met Lea and had her sign a drawing, I finally drew her for the first time. This was done entirely freehand in colored pencil. Now… I just need […]
It’s hard not to fall in love with Pom after her performance in Guardians of the Galaxy as Mantis. I wanted to try to capture her in pencil, but do something a little different by adding color to the background. […]
One actor we hoped to see at the Keystone Comic Con convention who inevitably cancelled is the ever versatile Andy Serkis — known best as Gollum from Lord of the Rings, but also as the voice and performance of Caesar […]
The U.S. version of “The Office” is probably my most favorite TV show of all time, so I jumped at the chance to attend a convention to meet five members of the cast of The Office. I decided to do […]
The U.S. version of “The Office” is probably my most favorite TV show of all time, so I jumped at the chance to attend a convention to meet five members of the cast of The Office. I decided to do […]
Before I worked on the Person of Interest drawing, I actually did a different portrait of Amy Acker. My first attempt was this one, and, while it really isn’t all that bad, I just wasn’t happy with it… which is […]
Upon hearing that some of the cast of The Office, as well as the lovely Amy Acker from one of my favorite shows, “Person of Interest,” were coming to a new convention in Philly, I decided to work on some […]
Let’s be real. It’s hard to imagine anyone else as Han Solo than Harrison Ford. But apparently, Disney could. Alden Ehrenreich did a good job as the character, even if it didn’t feel all that much like the Han we’ve […]
A drawing that started as a sketch and ended up being one I took my time working on on-and-off for months was this one of actress Jaimie Alexander. I loved her in the first two Thor films but really became […]
Late in 2017 and early in 2018, I was working on doing quicker sketches of people as an exercise to cover more, different people and hopefully get faster at drawing realism and portraits. The results weren’t as I’d hoped — […]
As if meeting celebrity heroes like Goldblum, Elwes, Fox and Lilly wasn’t enough, it was just amazing to get to meet the voice talent actors Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche! At age 6, I was immediately a fan of the […]
Can I just say, what a pleasure it was to actually get to meet Billy Dee Williams! It’s hard to imagine that, in one year, I met actors from my two all-time favorite movies! In April, it was meeting Ernie […]
Knowing William Shatner was also appearing at Boston Fan Expo, I started an eleventh hour drawing of Kirk, but I ran out of time to finish it. Also, a friend who attends cons regularly said he’d heard mostly negative experiences […]
I have posted this drawing on here before, but when we made the trip to Boston Fan Expo, I took with me just in case it worked out to meet Michael J. Fox and/or Christopher Lloyd. While we did spring […]
Another draw to attend the Boston Fan Expo was the chance to meet Cary Elwes in the flesh. I’ve been a fan since The Princess Bride, but his appearance in films like Twister, Liar Liar, A Christmas Carol and even […]
For as long as I’ve loved music, I’ve loved making mixtapes, mix CDs and playlists. For several years now, my music website – Jesusfreakhideout.com – has been releasing independent music samplers – completely FREE to download. For the latest one, […]
Some drawings just take time to finish. This is one of those drawings that I started at one point, set aside, and worked on other things. I’d occasionally pick it up again, but it remained unfinished for a long time. […]
If I had to pick one, I think my all-time favorite TV show would be the US version of The Office. At times, it captures office life quite well, but it’s the characters I love coming back to. It’s just […]
One show I absolutely loved while growing up was the comedy, Perfect Strangers. Recently I revisited the entire series, binge-watching it from start to finish, and it inspired me to attempt a portrait of the two cousins. I used a […]
Another selling point for our trek to Boston was to meet actress Evangeline Lilly — who is most famous for her role as Wasp in Ant-Man and the Wasp and as Kate Austen in the show LOST. Evangeline has also […]