Lisa Cosenza, our advertising director, was, by far, the hardest portrait I did last week. I worked the longest on it, and it is probably the least accurate and successful. I really bungled the eyes, which I never do. The proportions are way off. I stopped and started this drawing probably half a dozen times.

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I’m a little jealous. But not too much. Greer Wylder, who writes the “Best Buys” column for us on Fridays,  scored an interview with Frank Black and his wife Violet Clark, who have their own band, Grand Duchy.

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Here’s the second sketch from my failed project. It’s of Brady Rhoades, our editor. This time I was drawing from one of my own photographs, which I prefer to do. It’s much easier to work from an original photograph than it is from someone else’s image. I learned this lesson many years ago when I offered to do a wedding portrait of some friends. I used one of their wedding shots as the primary source and it took me months to do. It never turned out right either, but I gave it to them anyway.

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