{"id":3034,"date":"2011-05-03T22:05:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T02:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2011-04-28T13:37:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:37:50","slug":"portrait-night-53-grant-achatz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3034","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 5\/3 (Grant Achatz)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight\u2019s #PortraitNight subject is chef and restaurateur Grant Ashatz<\/a>.\u00a0 This is actually one of my favorite\u00a0 portraits so far, I think because it’s so stripped-down, cartoony, and not over-rendered as some of my past ones have been. It also looks like a character design that I’d actually do for one of my comics. I wonder if unconsciously–because I was drawing a chef–I made him look like one of the characters from my culinary-themed graphic novel in-progress, In the Weeds<\/a>?<\/p>\n

This turned out well enough that I got to thinking: if I did enough drawings like these, I could print up some setts of “Famous Chefs Trading Cards.” I did some cursory digging, though, and there don’t seem to be a lot of folks out there who print trading cards anymore. I’ll keep it in mind and maybe do a few more chefs as subjects for my portrait night before the year’s up. Anyway…\"\"\"\"<\/a>If you\u2019d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight\u2019s #PortraitNight subject is chef and restaurateur Grant Ashatz.\u00a0 This is actually one of my favorite\u00a0 portraits so far, I think because it’s so stripped-down, cartoony, and not over-rendered as some of my past ones have been. It also looks like a character design that I’d actually do for one of my comics. I wonder … <\/p>\n

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