With a client list that boasts some of the top athletes and teams of our time including Terrell Owens, Hines Ward, Brad Boyes, Mel Blount, Jason Gore, Jerome Bettis, and Charlie Ward, sports artist Kevin-John Jobczynski is THE one that today's super stars look to when they desire the highest quality action portraiture.

Kevin-John's artwork has been showcased on ESPN, Spike TV,
NBC at Super Bowl XXXIX, XL and the PGA 84 Lumber Golf Classic.

This Erie, Pennsylvania native began his professional career
nearly twenty years ago
by creating illustrations of historical points of interest
of his hometown while still in high school.

Since then he has risen to national prominence by
creating action portraits for
professional sports teams, marquee sporting events and pro athletes
throughout the country.

At first glance, Kevin-John's graphite, full action portraits take on an almost photographic quality. No detail is spared, from the battle scars on an NFL helmet, to the five o'clock shadow on the face of an NHL star. A viewer can literally spend hours exploring the intricacies of a portrait, only to stand back and fully grasp the look and feel of standing on the field next to the
modern-day gladiators he has depicted.

KJ does not hide behind brilliant color or graphic design, his work is a raw black and white image that borders on an obsession with accuracy and detail. The artist's portraits are composed over the course of
hundreds of hours of meticulous work flowing from his talented hands, a measure that he refuses to spare.

This man’s testimony.

I grew up knowing Jesus, although I was a “casual Christian”, I did not take my relationship with the Lord seriously. I went to Church on Sundays but did not do much more than that to cultivate my faith. As I reached my young adult hood, I began drifting away from any relationship that I had with Jesus. I took for granted all of the blessings that he had bestowed upon me including my talents as an artist. In my early twenties I set out on a path of spiritual destruction that would continue for ten years.

Those years were dark times. I had fallen away from the Church that I knew in my youth, partly due to confusion about my faith and the inappropriate advances of a priest that I knew. Jesus was not a concern to me as I went about my life of sin; it was easier to except my lifestyle if I shut him out. Inside I was empty and tried to fill the void with the pursuit of women, cars, money and other things of this world, all the while overlooking the only true source of peace and happiness, our Lord, Jesus Christ.

I was 30 years old and looked back at my life. What had I left in my wake? A life of turmoil. Over the course of a decade I had become a bitter, broken man. I had continued to run from the talents God gave me for fear of failure. In truth, any failure that occurred was due to the fact that I believed that I was responsible for the art that I created, not Him. I never gave our Lord the Glory for the gifts that He granted me. Emptiness, constant searching, longing and failure besieged my life. All the while, he was just outside my spiritual door, knocking. When would I just let him in?

By the time I was 30, I had given up, but our Lord had not given up on me. Christian people began being strategically placed in my life. From the guy who cleaned my office at my job, who left scripture messages on my desk, to my future Pastor who had season tickets behind mine for our local Indoor Football Team. Everywhere I looked, there were examples of good people, living their lives for Jesus. My curiosity and spiritual hunger strengthened, the door was opened, and my Lord Jesus Christ rushed through it like a linebacker on a blitz. I was the quarterback.

I never looked back. I got into the Word, read the Bible. Got myself to Church. I realized that the only way to have true peace and success in my marriage, career and with my life, was to live my life as Christ had. I was saved. Praise Jesus!

Every time I lay pencil to paper, it is to glorify Him. Every time I sign my completed art, it is to glorify Him. Every time that my art is shown, it glorifies Him, for without Him none of it would be possible. I once ran from my talents, now I use them to testify and minister to those who do not know. God is good. I was drawn to Him, now I draw for Him. And the Blessings came.

Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” Luke 19:9