{"id":3866,"date":"2012-01-10T22:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T03:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2012-01-10T22:29:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T03:29:47","slug":"portrait-night-110-pete-townshend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3866","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 1\/10 (Pete Townshend)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this was kind of an accidental #PortraitNight. I&#8217;d selected a picture of Newt Gingrich from the most recent <em>TIME Magazine<\/em> to draw, but before settling down to drawing I decided to put on a record. Near the top of the stack was Pete Townshend &#8216;s<em> Empty Glass&#8211;<\/em>and after putting it on I wound up doodling a pic of Townshend instead of Newt. This drawing really is more a doodle than a finished drawing, but I feel like I&#8217;ve been laboring these portrait drawings more than I should. Anyhoo&#8230; here it is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pete-Townshend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3867\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3867\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pete-Townshend.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1002\" 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=\"Pete-Townshend\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pete-Townshend-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pete-Townshend.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3867\" title=\"Pete-Townshend\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pete-Townshend-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pete-Townshend-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pete-Townshend-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pete-Townshend.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>And here&#8217;s the back cover of the LP I was drawing from:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pete_emptyb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3868\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3868\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pete_emptyb.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,400\" 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=\"pete_emptyb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pete_emptyb-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pete_emptyb.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3868\" title=\"pete_emptyb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pete_emptyb-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pete_emptyb-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pete_emptyb-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pete_emptyb.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>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>Well, this was kind of an accidental #PortraitNight. I&#8217;d selected a picture of Newt Gingrich from the most recent TIME Magazine to draw, but before settling down to drawing I decided to put on a record. Near the top of the stack was Pete Townshend &#8216;s Empty Glass&#8211;and after putting it on I wound up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3866\">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":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_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-10m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866"}],"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=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3870,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}