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Adam Driver #69 (Cannes 2016) {art}
Sorry/not sorry, despite this being portrait #69, this probably Not The Porn You Were Expecting, but it IS the most frank appreciation I've ever painted of his sinfully beautiful hands, so there's that.
I wonder if he ever played any Rachmaninoff as a kid when he was in piano lessons; he has the kind of hands that composer DREAMED of.
They're large, and I don't just mean that he's a large man, with hands that match. Adam's hands are unusually large, even for someone as tall as he is. There are a couple of tricks that artists use to make sure we're making hands proportional, and by both measures Adam's hands are extraordinary. Hold your hand up with your fingers over your mouth, just under your nose; the height of your face from under your nose to your chin should be the same as the width of your 4 fingers. If you measure the width of his fingers, only 3 of Adam's fingers fit, his pinky would be BELOW his chin. Now hold your hand with the heel at your chin, with your fingers pointed up toward your hairline; they should extend to just above your eyebrows. I have long fingers, mine reach to the middle of my forehead, but Adam's would extend all the way into his hair!
There was a lot to love about Adam's imposing physicality in 2016, and that extends to his hands. Look at how thick his fingers are! His wedding ring, normally so loose on his finger that there's actual daylight visible (to prevent it leaving an indentation that might show up on camera, I'm assuming), is snug up against his knuckle. And we can still see the patterns his veins make, but they're not as prominent as they are when he's extremely lean, like he was in fall 2019. He's working hard to train for those grueling fight scenes in TLJ and it shows.
I'll admit to being pretty amused that he was at Cannes promoting Paterson, a movie in which he plays a somewhat slender mild-mannered poet, while built like a brick shit-house.
Photo used for reference was taken at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival by Anne-Christine Poujoulat.
About 13 hours of drawing time, which seems bonkers, but I figure at least 2 of them were the watch. And hands are COMPLICATED.
I wonder if he ever played any Rachmaninoff as a kid when he was in piano lessons; he has the kind of hands that composer DREAMED of.
They're large, and I don't just mean that he's a large man, with hands that match. Adam's hands are unusually large, even for someone as tall as he is. There are a couple of tricks that artists use to make sure we're making hands proportional, and by both measures Adam's hands are extraordinary. Hold your hand up with your fingers over your mouth, just under your nose; the height of your face from under your nose to your chin should be the same as the width of your 4 fingers. If you measure the width of his fingers, only 3 of Adam's fingers fit, his pinky would be BELOW his chin. Now hold your hand with the heel at your chin, with your fingers pointed up toward your hairline; they should extend to just above your eyebrows. I have long fingers, mine reach to the middle of my forehead, but Adam's would extend all the way into his hair!
There was a lot to love about Adam's imposing physicality in 2016, and that extends to his hands. Look at how thick his fingers are! His wedding ring, normally so loose on his finger that there's actual daylight visible (to prevent it leaving an indentation that might show up on camera, I'm assuming), is snug up against his knuckle. And we can still see the patterns his veins make, but they're not as prominent as they are when he's extremely lean, like he was in fall 2019. He's working hard to train for those grueling fight scenes in TLJ and it shows.
I'll admit to being pretty amused that he was at Cannes promoting Paterson, a movie in which he plays a somewhat slender mild-mannered poet, while built like a brick shit-house.
Photo used for reference was taken at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival by Anne-Christine Poujoulat.
About 13 hours of drawing time, which seems bonkers, but I figure at least 2 of them were the watch. And hands are COMPLICATED.
