The second character of my 10 year challenge pieces is Richard Armitage as John Thornton.
Although subtle, recreating this in colour has certainly given this picture a whole new depth. I really enjoyed the grey-blues in the background and messing around with the various skin tones in his face. Something new which I did not include in the first drawing I did of him (perhaps due to lack of patience) was all the little out of focus bits of cotton floating around which helps place him in his environment and gives a good sense of a moment captured.
Love this adaptation of Gaskell’s book so much! Richard did a brilliant job of portraying the new Darcy. This adaptation takes me back to the days when I started getting into these miniseries as a young girl, one of the first being another work of Gaskell’s (which is also my personal favourite), Wives and Daughters, and then this story of a woman named Margaret Hale who is uprooted from the sunny, English south to begin a new life with her family in the industrious north and makes the acquaintance of a cotton mill owner, John Thornton.
