A self initiated portrait illustration of the TV show version of Hannibal Lecter.  Pencil and ink on paper, with digital compositional elements and color using Photoshop.

I never work from a single photo when drawing a celebrity portrait. I feel like that would be stealing from the photographer who took the picture. Also, I can rarely find the exact lighting, facial expression, and angle I want in a single photo, so I combine elements from a group - and then make up the rest.

Case in point, Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal.

Adding a couple of reference pics I took of myself. 

With nearly all of the pencil work finished, I'll do most everything else (in this case primarily the plaid/tartan suit pattern) in ink, before assembling it all to be colored in Photoshop. 

The gory detail:

Fine art Giclee and Canvas prints now avaialble in my Society6 Art Shop