{"id":2862,"date":"2011-03-08T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2011-03-14T15:53:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:53:15","slug":"potrait-night-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2862","title":{"rendered":"Potrait Night 3\/8 (W.H. Auden)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s portrait night subject is <a title=\"W.H. Auden\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._H._Auden\" target=\"_blank\">writer W.H. Auden<\/a>, as suggested by <a title=\"Eric Newsom - Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ericreadscomics\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Newsom via Twitter<\/a>. This isn&#8217;t a bad likeness, but it&#8217;s definitely a lot more literal\/less cartoony than I&#8217;d like. I need to try next week to really, really push things toward a more abstract and less detailed rendering. I should really subject myself to the proverbial &#8220;taste of my own medicine&#8221; and do this <a title=\"Ted Stern carticature exercise\" href=\"http:\/\/teachingcomics.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=69:Intro%20to%20Caricature&amp;catid=35:Exercises&amp;Itemid=55\" target=\"_blank\">great Ted Stern caricature exercise<\/a> that I&#8217;ve occasionally made my students do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/auden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2866\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2866\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/auden.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,845\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"auden\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/auden-266x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/auden.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2866\" title=\"auden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/auden-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/auden-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/auden.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kirby1large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2867\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2867\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kirby1large.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"650,882\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kirby1large\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kirby1large-221x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kirby1large.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2867\" title=\"kirby1large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kirby1large-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kirby1large-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kirby1large.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;d like to suggest a #portraitnight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my<a title=\"Ben Towle - Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ben_towle\" target=\"_blank\"> Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s portrait night subject is writer W.H. Auden, as suggested by Eric Newsom via Twitter. This isn&#8217;t a bad likeness, but it&#8217;s definitely a lot more literal\/less cartoony than I&#8217;d like. I need to try next week to really, really push things toward a more abstract and less detailed rendering. I should really subject myself &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2862\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,31],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-Ka","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}