“He redid the portraits probably fifteen times or some crazy amount like that,” said Amber Hageman. “Of course now in retrospect I can see that his art was improving a lot and it was totally worth it. . . . But at the time, he would be sitting and fiddling and changing one person for days and days and days, and I was like, ‘Come on, it looks great, you don’t have to worry about it.’ He’s kind of a perfectionist, and if he didn’t get the right feeling about it, he would want to keep doing it.”
