Like so many of Adam's expressions when facing the public, even almost a decade ago, this one has layers. Sure, there's the serious, I'm thinking carefully about your question, exterior. But scratch the surface just a little and you see his eyes just beginning to crinkle, and that his hand is actually there to hide the amusement curving his lips, though two fingers aren't enough to hide the curl of the corners of his mouth, or those dimples that are just ever so barely showing themselves.
This is the earliest photo of him I've painted yet, dated 10 Aug 2011; only 27 years old, he's at the press call for "Man and Boy" with Frank Langella, that ring finger is bare because he won't be married for another 2 years, and the first season of Girls just finished filming. He's made his big break, but doesn't know it yet. He's going to get a lot of chances to practice his Serious Actor Face in the next nine years, lol.


This is the earliest photo of him I've painted yet, dated 10 Aug 2011; only 27 years old, he's at the press call for "Man and Boy" with Frank Langella, that ring finger is bare because he won't be married for another 2 years, and the first season of Girls just finished filming. He's made his big break, but doesn't know it yet. He's going to get a lot of chances to practice his Serious Actor Face in the next nine years, lol.

