I've been sitting on this drawing for
three years and only just got around to putting some shading on it to make it readable. The intent was just to throw down some rough values but it turned into a two-day painting project ... I suppose it's earned it, waiting so long, and I'm still proud of the drawing, which I can't say for much I did that long ago.
Click for to make biggar!
This is based on the deliciously tense/flirty reading of this scene in the Arkangel recording of
Othello, which I will be posting to Tumblr tomorrow morning, but it is personal policy to give my handful of DW/LJ readers first crack at the art.
Longtime readers of this blog will know I'm really not into romantic stuff and certainly not shipping of any stripe, but this scene (and this reading of it) give these already interesting characters a very interesting – and very real – relationship, which makes them
even more interesting, which kind of isn't fair because they have so much already but I don't care I will eat it all up.
In other news, thanks to my mum's encyclopedic memory for names (a trait which, sadly, I have not inherited), I now know who the actor was whose Iago seared itself so strongly on my visual memory that I could recall him, to some degree, ten years later: meet
Alexis Baigue. Mr Baigue, if you've come here to find why your video suddenly had a spike in traffic, thank you for being so awesome in
Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, and I hope you're not too weirded out by being immortalised as the personification of evil. Nothing personal, I promise.
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