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Pencil
Drawings • Oil Paintings
Thank you for finding this page if
you searched Google for “drawing eyes”. Unfortunately, I
don’t show you how to do it. Instead, you may find examples
of my love for drawing them myself. But while you’re here,
please check out my music!
Over
the years I’ve developed my portrait-drawing abilities.
I’ve drawn all my life and I started a little painting in high
school, but I seem to have focused solely on head-shot portraits in
the last years. Many, many, many hours have gone into the
hundred or so drawings of this sort I’ve completed.
Here are some fine samples (the most
recent, anyway) from my
vast portfolio. I have included some of my older paintings as
well, on the next page, since they are somewhat decent, perhaps. And remember folks, everything on this site
is copyrighted by me! (Well, technically, the celebrities
depicted–or their respective managements, at least–are the
owners of their own image, as are the photographers of their own
original photographs from which these may be based; but there is no money to be lost by my
posting of these likenesses, nor am I making money off them.) Enjoy.
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The Artwork of Bri: A Study in Obsession |
 
It has been years! This is the first Tori since something like
1999. This one was completed one night at work, August
2005. And the next one was started immediately after its
completion. |
Oh gosh! An authentic Brian drawing that is not a head
shot? It can’t be. Well, it is. If you don’t
like it, then you can just look at the other ones some more. |
 I wonder if anyone can guess who this is. Two hints: I’ve
drawn her before, and she’s on this page. If you give up,
you can click to see. If you still don’t recognize her,
click HERE to see my
newly launched fan site for her, commemorating the new album.
No, not Tori. |
 One of my new-found loves in life is the ever-adorable Alison
Krauss. She looks especially fine on the Forget About It
album, the cover of which was the inspiration for this quick and
rough sketch. (This one only took me an hour, and I left the
technique simple.) |
 Just because Jewel decided to diva herself into our hearts doesn’t
mean she can’t still be, when it comes down to it, a lovely and
simple girl … living in a mixed-up, digital world … or however
it is the lyrics to that crappy song go. |
 Not until I saw the lame movie 13 Going On 30 did I realize
just how cute Jennifer Garner was! I couldn’t care less for
her skanky, scantily clad character on whatever show it is that’s
paying her bills, but she is my kind of cute when she puts on some
clothes and just smiles. |
 Michelle Branch has a very cute voice, and I love the harmonies on
her recordings. Therefore, she must be insanely gorgeous and
worthy of my graphite. |
 Another fan of eyes, my roommate has a little thing for the young
Ms. Leann Rimes. Well, good for him. This drawing became
a Christmas present … and fittingly so, since this image came from
Leann’s Christmas album. |
 Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors, and not an
attractive, young woman. I’m sorry to disappoint, but I do
draw other kinds of people. My friend Gina owns this drawing
now. |
 Back to the theme of my drawing singer/songwriters, this is Elliott
Smith, taken from an image in the liner notes of his posthumous
album, From A Basement On The Hill. It’s a great
album. |
 I’ve
always thought that Lisa Loeb was insanely cute. And this was
drawn from the gorgeous shot on the back of the Tails album. |
 This is another Lisa Loeb, an image taken from her The Way It
Really Is album liner. There was a bit of a hiatus between
this one and the previous, which I don’t even remember what it
was; but I still got it! |
 I
shamelessly admit that I have drawn Tori Amos over fifty
times. This was from a 1999 batch, and it is one of my
favorites. To see more from this collection, visit my Tori
website, The Other Side
of the Galaxy.
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 Here
is one more Tori for you to enjoy. It’s fun sometimes to do
vast grayscale subtleties in the shading, and sometimes it is fun to
really bring out the contrast. I love drawing eyes, by the
way. |
 This
was actually the second drawing I did of the lovely Alyson Hannigan,
but I like it better. So there. Update:
Thanks to the generosity of James, who has graciously chosen NOT to
demand ransom, I have these drawings back! |
 I’m
not really a Buffy The Vampire Slayer fan; I’ve only ever seen a
couple episodes of the show. But I think this actress, who
plays Willow, is very, very cute. So I drew her. Twice. |
 Kathy
Fisher, a lovely woman and a fantastic singer. I drew this
from an image in her first CD after I saw her perform and met
her. She thanks me in her True North album’s liner notes,
and she now possesses this drawing. |
 This
is an actress named Alicia Witt. Her eyes, as well as the
overall lighting, were very nicely photographed, so of course I had
to recreate it myself, with my trusty, mechanical pencil. |
I have been known to draw people who are not gorgeous women.
Kurt Cobain is, indeed, not a gorgeous woman. This was
actually one of the first drawings of this type that I had done,
mixing pencil techniques with smearing and shading to flesh out the
composition. |
 The
contrast in this drawing of Natalie Portman is very nice, I
think. I love the play of light on a woman’s face when I’m
drawing her. Getting the shading right is one of the fun
parts! |
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©2005 Brian Michael
Weidemann