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Adam Driver #103 A-D (Sharp Magazine, Winter 2018)

Adam, long hair shining under a stark light revealing the dramatic depth of the set of his eyes, hollows under the wide wings of his cheekbones, prominence of his nose, and fullness of his bearded mouth.

This is why I love strong lighting on strong features.

Not many photographers have been bold enough to light him this way, but putting Adam under a strongly directional light reveals contours that are usually only hinted at in a traditional portrait with it’s diffuse lighting and flat to frame pose, or a red carpet photo with the light source directly in front of him. What’s remarkable is just how dramatic those contours are, even when he’s nearly expressionless. His eyes are entirely shaded by his brow unless he tips his head up and to one side, and the shadow cast by his nose extends to his throat, even with his head tipped back. Meanwhile, the contours of his cheekbones make him seem positively cadaverous when he tips his chin down a touch, and his mouth and jaw are entirely shadowed by his upper face.

This was mid-2015, when Adam was on the rebound from the trials of filming “Silence.” Based on the fullness of his face and the length of his hair, I’d guess perhaps it was late spring or early summer; by fall he’d cut his hair short for “Paterson” and had lost the roundness of cheek that he’d had while filming s5 of “Girls.” Other photos from this same shoot have him sharing a sweet cherub-cheeked smile, but the angle and intensity of the lighting in these reveal the bones beneath.

I chose to essentially eliminate shading, simplifying the forms down to stark black and white, and I also left out most of the details I’d usually put in, with the exception of his most prominent moles. Adam just isn’t Adam without his moles. It’s interesting to see the patterns they make, how some catch the light in some poses and are hidden or washed out in others. But even as simple as these are, each feels so different from the other because of the gestures he’s making with the angles of his head and eyes. I would love to get to paint him lit like this when he’s emoting; just imagine all the furrows, rumples, and dimples. Photos used for reference were outtakes from a 2015 Esquire UK photoshoot, taken by Simon Emmett in 2015, and used in an article in the 2018 winter edition of Sharp magazine. 

About 8 hours of painting time for all of them together; one of them only took about 90 min, another about 2.5 hrs, and the others were about 2 hours each.

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✨ Women ✨

Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2003) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Zombieland: Double Tap (2017) Black Widow (2021) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) Men in Black: International (2019) The Book of Boba Fett (2021) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) Aliens (1986)

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Current mood

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loving the way time and context has turned dracula into a comedy

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kylo ren doodles with no context

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ffffffffffff

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Hux has a bad back and it's a long haul to medbay with that Bantha in his arms

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Reylo artists, writers, and general fans:

This Saturday, 4/16, will be our monthly hashtag campaign: #FutureBenSolo.

Show or tell what you think will happen to Ben (and maybe Rey) in the future...or what you'd like to see.

Drawings, stories, song lyrics - whatever you want to share.

If you use artwork, it's best to ask the artist ahead of time, or at the least tag them or give them credit.

Hope to see you Saturday on Twitter!

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JOIN THE INTROVERT NATION MOVEMENT

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Ok hear me out. Matt reeves and Rian Johnson made us fall in love with these emo boys. From the first moment they appeared on screen, I've lost it 😩

THESE ARE THE SAME 😵

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😌😌😌😌

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ADAM DRIVER Arriving at the Burberry Autumn/Winter 2022 Runway Show 📷: richardgianorio on instagram

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“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you’ve been doing. It’s a hundred years since we’ve met- it may be another hundred years before we meet again.”

— Edith Wharton // The Age of Innocence

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....When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

(read the whole thing here)