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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Michael Emerson as Ben Linus from LOST Freehand Graphite Drawing
On July 1st I started this one of Ben Linus to add another character to the lot of LOST drawings. Well… I hit the background and shirt and found it very tedious and laborious, so I kept starting (and finishing) new drawings while taking breaks from this one. By the […]
Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy in “Anchorman” Freehand Graphite Drawing
I hate drawing backgrounds. However, I realize drawing backgrounds is a good practice and usually makes drawings look more complete. I’ve been drawing a portrait since July 1st that I keep putting aside because really all that’s left is a striped shirt and a leafy background. Yeah, this isn’t that […]
Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler in “Ghostbusters II” Freehand Graphite Drawing
I love drawing stuff related to my favorite film, Ghostbusters, so when it came time to find a photo to use as a source for Egon, the best I could find was a still from Ghostbusters 2 in the courtroom. But I love the shot and I love the expression […]
Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas in “Dumb and Dumber” Freehand Graphite Drawing
A classic film that I’ve known needed treatment for a while is Dumb and Dumber. However, given the age of the movie, it’s tough to find stills from the movie to draw from. Still, when I found the source photo that I would use for the above drawing, I thought […]
Martin Freeman as John Watson in BBC’s Sherlock Freehand Graphite Drawing
Somehow I missed posting this one, but I did really enjoy working on Sherlock’s Watson. I love Martin Freeman as an actor and I originally hadn’t planned on drawing him as Watson, but after watching the show–and then drawing Benedict — I felt I needed to add Watson. For this […]
Rachel Weisz Freehand Graphite Pencil Portrait Drawing
In late June, 2013, I decided to follow Superman with a portrait of Rachel Weisz, an actress I’ve enjoyed the work of since I first saw her in Chain Reaction and then The Mummy. For this one, I really tried to push detail again and use various grades of pencils. […]
Henry Cavill as Superman in Man of Steel Freehand Colored Pencil/Graphite Drawing
Here’s the final scan of the aforementioned Superman portrait. After seeing the film “Man of Steel” at midnight on 6/14/13, I started work on this drawing later that morning. I finished it three days later (but “four” sessions: 6/14, 15, 16, 17) in the AM… I used mostly Prismacolor Premiere […]
Leonard Nimoy as Spock in Star Trek Freehand Graphite and Colored Pencil Drawing
With all the hype surrounding the release of Star Trek Into Darkness, and with the recent completion of my drawing of “Shatner” Kirk, I decided it was a good time to add Spock to the mix. For this one, like the Kirk drawing, I did all of his skin in […]
Sean Connery as James Bond Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
After finishing the Indiana Jones drawing, I decided to return to drawing something from scratch and worked on this image of Sean Connery as James Bond. I’d wanted to draw him, but didn’t want to draw one of the most commonly seen iconic images; there were enough drawings of those. […]
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Freehand Graphite Drawing
This drawing has kind of an interesting story. I started it on February 5, 2009 and worked on it for a total of five different times during that month before abandoning it. I really didn’t like how it looked and I didn’t like feeling like I was wasting time on […]
Drawing of Tom Cruise in Minority Report
(finished product, April 27, 2013) This drawing has an interesting story to me… I started it in my sketchbook on December 30, 2002 and apparently only worked on it the following day before never coming back to it. (Although I remember working on it on a break at my job […]
Jim Caviezel as John Reese in Person of Interest Freehand Graphite Pencil Drawing
This is a pencil portrait I did of Jim Caviezel as John Reese in the TV show Person of Interest. This is actually my second attempt at Caviezel in a row. I started working on one drawing and was super unhappy with it, so I abandoned it and started this […]
Bob Hope Freehand Graphite Pencil Portrait Drawing
After finishing the Luke sketch, I again wasn’t sure where to go next, and loved this pose when I stumbled upon it, so I found this to be the fun next entry into my collection of portraits. This drawing of Bob Hope was done entirely in pencil during September, 2012. […]
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker Freehand Graphite Pencil Portrait Drawing
After I finished the Mac drawing, I wasn’t sure what to work on next. I came to decide that I’ve never drawn Luke Skywalker and that needed to be remedied. This is a drawing of a promo shot of Luke / Mark Hamill for Empire Strikes Back. All of it […]
Christian Bale as Batman Freehand Graphite Pencil Portrait Drawing
In July, 2012, I felt inspired by the new film The Dark Knight Rises to work on a Batman portrait. I’d actually worked on this before seeing it, and revisited the previous two films in the process. While working on it, I knew I’d wanted to have Batman and Bruce […]
Leigh Nash Drawing Portrait
In July, 2012, I felt inspired by listening to the latest Sixpence None The Richer album, Lost In Translation, to work on a new portrait of Leigh Nash. I’d drawn Leigh years ago in college for my sister-in-law Mim (who’s a huge fan) and then did another one just for […]
Tom Hiddleston “Loki” Freehand Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing
As part of my Avengers series, I answered a few requests by working on this drawing of Tom Hiddleston as Loki over the summer. Like the other Avengers sketches, it was created using mostly regular graphite pencils with some colored pencil for his cape. Purchase link for prints: https://johndibiaseart.com/drawing-of-loki-tom-hiddleston-from-marvels-avengers