{"id":3895,"date":"2012-01-24T21:32:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T02:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2012-01-24T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:12:17","slug":"portrait-night-124-ben-towle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3895","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 1\/24 (Ben Towle)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that’s all folks. It was one year ago<\/a> that I set out to draw a portrait every Tuesday night for a full year. I thought it would be appropriate for my final entry to attempt a self-portrait, something I don’t think I’ve done since I was a college sophomore in the late 80s. I really don’t recommend it–I really don’t need to be this intimately reminded of all my weird moles, gradually receding hairline, etc.<\/p>\n

Later this week, I’ll work up a more extensive “project summary” blog post with some post-completion reflections\/observations and full a gallery of all the portraits, but here’s the final #PortraitNight subject: me.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I look super-cranky here, but I’m a nice guy, I promise! I was just irritated because I was having a hard time successfully taking a picture of myself in the bathroom mirror. How do those “duckface” women do it so successfully?<\/p>\n

Here’s me in real life. Sorry about the scan-of-a-printout-of-pictures. I printed my photo reference and then deleted the pics from my camera.<\/p>\n

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Well, that’s all folks. It was one year ago that I set out to draw a portrait every Tuesday night for a full year. I thought it would be appropriate for my final entry to attempt a self-portrait, something I don’t think I’ve done since I was a college sophomore in the late 80s. I … <\/p>\n

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