Sometimes it can be pretty hard to decide on an image of a person or character to draw. It’s one thing to see an image and think “I want to try drawing that!” and another to know who or what […]
Portraits
After seeing “Edge of Tomorrow,” I was inspired to draw Miss Emily Blunt. I actually attempted reproducing an image from a movie poster she’s on for the movie but I couldn’t quite get her profile just right. So, a few […]
After getting addicted to the TV show “Chuck” this year and binge-watching all 5 seasons on NetFlix, I knew I wanted to draw Chuck, and not just Chuck, but Chuck with Sarah. It’s always a challenge to freehand draw two […]
Following Star-Lord and Rocket & Groot, I got a few requests for Gamora and decided to oblige. This is about half and half graphite and colored pencil. Purchase link for prints: https://johndibiaseart.com/drawing-print-of-zoe-saldana-as-gamora-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy
My dad’s a huge Godzilla fan. I decided to do this piece in secret for his birthday this year and found the scales to be especially challenging. I then decided to dare to change it a bit by adding in […]
Inspired no doubt by finishing Scrat, I decided to take a still photo from The LEGO Movie and draw Emmet in the comfort of his own home… Purchase link for prints: https://johndibiaseart.com/full-color-drawing-print-of-emmet-brickowski-from-the-lego-movie Purchase link for the original drawing: https://johndibiaseart.com/emmet-brickowski-from-the-lego-movie-original-colored-pencil-drawing-not-a-print
When going through some old papers, I found an unfinished drawing of Scrat from the first Ice Age film (so you know it’s OLD!). I decided, while on this colored pencil kick, to finish it. Above is the finished, below […]
Continuing to practice more with colored pencil, I decided to work on Yoda from my second favorite film of all time, The Empire Strikes Back. This one was certainly a challenge, but a rewarding experience regardless. I used all Prismacolor […]
It’s time for me to part with some more of my original works. I store them in my portfolios and I realize they’re just being “wasted” hidden in between pages of other hidden works — when people can be enjoying […]
Truth be told, colored pencil is outside my comfort zone. However, I see other artists do INCREDIBLE things with it all the time, and it makes me want to push myself to get better at it. I decided I want […]
Since 1997, I’ve been an avid listener and fan of Plumb and her music (in other words, since “Plumb” was a band, not just Tiffany’s performing alias). As a follow-up to Yvonne as a proverbial artistic reset button, I decided […]
Doing just straight-up pencil drawings is kind of a palette cleanser for me. So after (or sometimes during) working on something that detail and/or color intensive, I’ll just start a drawing like this one for fun and further practice. After […]
After drawing Chris Pratt as Star Lord –and heeding requests from some folks– I decided to attack a Rocket and Groot drawing. I approached it with mostly graphite pencil and then added in colored pencil for some of Rocket’s fur, […]
I wasn’t sure what to make of Guardians of the Galaxy upon seeing the first trailers, but I knew I should give it a shot. Before seeing the movie, I caught up on seasons 2 thru 6 of Parks and […]
After having binge-watched 8 seasons of 24 to catch up to the new season and watch half of it as it aired, I was bit pretty hard by the “24” bug. A friend suggested I draw the promo art for […]
Deciding to go for another Ghostbusters piece, I realized I’ve never drawn Louis! And I thought this portrait summed him up pretty nicely. The colander was pretty challenging with all the detail and various colors, but I was mostly happy […]
Exhibit A. (See previous post about Audrey Hepburn) This was a challenge for sure. I really enjoy doing Ghostbusters themed pieces and I was surprised, while looking for inspiring images online, to have never seen the source photo for this […]
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’m seldom happy with the end results of my drawings. We’ve come to hang a few of my works around the house to decorate the walls a bit, and our living room […]
Close to finishing Optimus, I wanted to start a new drawing just for pure kicks. I tend to troll the web for inspiring photos to attempt to draw and I had this one on my iPad for months (probably when […]
After Roger & Eddie, I decided to attempt something I felt very uncomfortable with. I grew up with Transformers and I love Optimus Prime, but the detail in Michael Bay’s take on Transformers is just… overwhelming! So I decided to […]
I hit an inspiration wall after finishing Slimer. But while looking for new subject matter, I stumbled upon a wonderful photo of Roger standing on a car next to Bob Hoskins as Eddie in a promo photo for Who Framed […]
Keeping with the fact that Ghostbusters is my favorite film, and wanting to work with colored pencils some more, I decided to take a stab at Slimer in Ghostbusters. I found it a bit more challenging than I expected. For […]
After watching the entire series “LOST” for the first time back in 2012, I immediately tried entering into the world of another series I had missed when it aired, “24.” But sadly, the pilot was everything I didn’t want in […]
Almost ever since I walked by a magazine rack in 2000 displaying an Entertainment Weekly cover photo of Jim Carrey holding a rose with a lovey dovey look on his face and blood dripping down his fingers, I knew it’d […]
After having previously done a drawing of Bruce Banner / Hulk and Bruce Wayne / Batman, I decided to do a Peter Parker / The Amazing Spider-Man mash-up. Since I draw freehand, I just try to guess where on the […]
When I was pretty young, my grandfather introduced some great classic movies and actors to me. My parents did as well, but I have vivid memories of my grandfather frequently quoting and talking about Eddie Cantor. Eddie was huge in […]
Welp, I thought Captain America needs his Peggy, so I decided to do a graphite pencil of Hayley Atwell as Peggy from the first Cap movie and decided to color her eyes and lips, however, with Prismacolor pencils. I also […]
Typically, when I work on a drawing, I do one at a time, but after starting a couple commissions at once, I also wanted to do a side project or two just for fun so that I wasn’t spending all […]
After finally seeing Steve Taylor in concert, fulfilling a longtime dream, I impulsively decided to draw one of the photos I took at a May 4th, 2014 concert in Manheim, PA. For the concert’s encore, Steve came out wearing his […]
After the recent Captian America drawing, I received a couple requests for The Winter Soldier. And after seeing and liking the film myself, I loved the idea of attempting it. This one was certainly a challenge, but I loved adding […]