{"id":3507,"date":"2011-09-06T22:14:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T02:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2011-09-06T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T19:44:15","slug":"portrait-night-96-kim-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3507","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 9\/6 (Kim Gordon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not 100% happy with this drawing, but it&#8217;s sure a heck of a lot better than the first pass I made at a Kim Gordon drawing. I think the root of the generally diminishing quality of my <em>Our Band Could Be Your Life<\/em> #PortraitNight is that I&#8217;ve run out of the &#8220;low-hanging fruit&#8221; in terms of the bands I really like and\/or people who are easier to draw. (Mission of Burma is an exception here; I really, really dig them&#8211;I just can&#8217;t find any decent pics of the band members). I considered just re-posting this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1668\">old sketchbook drawing of Thurston Moore<\/a>, but that&#8217;d be cheating, wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kim_gordon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3508\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3508\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kim_gordon.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1206\" 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=\"kim_gordon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kim_gordon-248x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kim_gordon-849x1024.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3508\" title=\"kim_gordon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kim_gordon-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kim_gordon-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kim_gordon-849x1024.jpg 849w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kim_gordon.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d 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\/#%21\/ben_towle\" target=\"_blank\"> Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not 100% happy with this drawing, but it&#8217;s sure a heck of a lot better than the first pass I made at a Kim Gordon drawing. I think the root of the generally diminishing quality of my Our Band Could Be Your Life #PortraitNight is that I&#8217;ve run out of the &#8220;low-hanging fruit&#8221; in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3507\">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":[9,31],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-Uz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507"}],"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=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}