Courtroom sketches

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An underappreciated artform. Prompted by this from the Madoff trial today:

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-06/47774910.jpg

Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link

omg yes

surm, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link

there was some show i would watch as a kid, where they would draw everything as someone narrated a story, and courtrooms were involved

surm, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link

The dude on the far left is my favorite in that one.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, so much pathos!

Orin Boyd (jel --), Monday, 29 June 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link

that 1 woman's suit jacket is kinda nuts

surm, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link

lovin the chick dead center with the curly brown mop

surm, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Haha wow

Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link

But why is Spiderman villain Hammerhead standing at the back?

Orin Boyd (jel --), Monday, 29 June 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link

there was some show i would watch as a kid, where they would draw everything as someone narrated a story, and courtrooms were involved

― surm, Monday, June 29, 2009 12:29 PM Bookmark

omg, I don't know if we're thinking of the same show, but I used to watch one like that too in elementary school. It would start off with this brown paper and as the off-screen narrator told the story, you'd watch the artist's hands draw the characters with pastels.

Can't wait for my daughter to get a little older so I can tell her how back in my day, our cartoons were drawn as the story was told and we didn't have this mumbly-jumbly 3D art in our shows.

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link

One of my favorites: Courtney in the Courtroom.

http://5.media.tumblr.com/YgxT8YztQ6aqe45pPg4U6VcB_500.jpg

Daniel, Esq., Monday, 29 June 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link

PP, YES! i've always had those images burned in my brain

surm, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link

http://i40.tinypic.com/1gnczn.jpg

StanM, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link

vice magazine of all things had an interesting interview with a courtroom sketch artist last year, accompanied with some of her work -- should be easy enough to find on the site

giovanni & ribsy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 29 June 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link

xposts
http://i43.tinypic.com/ziwvih.jpg

Kerm, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link

x-x-post -- What is that even about?

Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link

YES, Kerm. What was his name?

haha, surm. Now we have to find out what that show was called.

http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040122/040122_michael_judge_hmed12p.hmedium.jpg

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.committeeforlegislativeaction.org/blago3.jpg

velko, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link

lol montage

http://www.si-la.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/montage_manson_1.jpg

velko, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Hahah oh man that Blago one.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link

http://lifeinlegacy.com/2002/1207/StewartWaltDrawing.jpg

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link

http://5.media.tumblr.com/YgxT8YztQ6aqe45pPg4U6VcB_500.jpg

Is ILX participating in a "Write the Caption" contest for Playboy as well?

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link

UK weighs in with a classic (bit small, sorry) (BTW this is 'Soham liar' Maxine Carr)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40136000/jpg/_40136877_videolink203.jpg

YOULL BE BAND FROM THE WEB FOR BEING OLD BITCHES!!!! (DJ Mencap), Monday, 29 June 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/images/2008/03/19/reisercarseatdemo.jpg
At the prosecution’s request on March 19, Hans Reiser demonstrates to the jury how he disposed of the passenger seat from his Honda CRX.
Courtroom sketch: Wired.com / Norman Quebedeau

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link

PP: "Cover to Cover with John Robbins"

here I have found an article about him from the MINIPAGE of course:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=860&dat=19781111&id=c98PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KY8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5469,2917204

Kerm, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.santamonicapress.com/images/book/captured_oj.jpg

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link

GATHER AROUND, wow. thanks, Kerm.

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 29 June 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link

David Hicks:

http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/images/hicks-drawing400.jpg

StanM, Monday, 29 June 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link

Paris Hilton, believe it or not.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/01GO5LI9Mv3Zk/610x.jpg

StanM, Monday, 29 June 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link

Abbie Hoffman:

http://www.petelit.com/images/2007/09/18/hoffman.jpg

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 29 June 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Tim Russert:

http://www.courtartist.com/images/2008/06/13/blibby0208_russert_libby_copy.jpg

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 29 June 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah i've seen the paris one. the brit one is hot!

surm, Monday, 29 June 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.committeeforlegislativeaction.org/blago3.jpg

Is this ILX's own N/A?

Tuomas, Monday, 29 June 2009 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link

http://i40.tinypic.com/1gnczn.jpg

Why is Lisa Kudrow pouring water on a priest? Is that Paul MacCartney next to her?

Tuomas, Monday, 29 June 2009 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link

Next to the priest, I mean.

Tuomas, Monday, 29 June 2009 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link

There's a link to the explanation 6 posts later: she's his lawyer and Lisa Kudrow is his ex-wife.

StanM, Monday, 29 June 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Ah, okay. Is the "priest" outfit some sort of traditional British barrister dress?

Tuomas, Monday, 29 June 2009 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link

I don't think it is, but it is quite strange: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_03/McCartney1703_468x849.jpg

StanM, Monday, 29 June 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link

(note the fresh marihuana plant he's always carrying :-) )

StanM, Monday, 29 June 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link

hey, pleasant plains. do you know john kushmaul (sp?)? he was a courtroom sketch artist for a time here for the local tv station he used to work for. forget which one.

andrew m., Monday, 29 June 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link

How can one get a job doing courtroom sketches? I wld be very good at it.

baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Monday, 29 June 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link

I know John well. He was a sketch artist for the Susan McDougal trial. I tried to find one of his, but none of them are online. He was on CNN and everything! There was another trial he sketched for, though I can't remember what it would have been. Something federal here in town.

Abbot, our friend just grabbed a seat in the gallery, drew his sketch and sold it to the networks. He had to show up pretty early, and I don't know what kind of arrangements he went through to get all of his art stuff in there.

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link

Huh! Maybe I could just do it for fun.

baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link

that 1 woman's suit jacket is kinda nuts

― surm, Monday, June 29, 2009 1:32 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I'm pretty sure that was one of the victims who spoke -- she was all "EXCUSE me Judge Chin, I WAS NEXT. It's MY TURN TO SPEAK."

Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Monday, 29 June 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link

It’s the Tom Brady artist, isn’t it? pic.twitter.com/NZ5CoEo2pD

— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 25, 2018

... (Eazy), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link

I just remembered I actually emailed the sketch artist of that Robin Thicke one upthread to ask how much, and I guess it was some high-three-figure number and I never pulled the trigger. One day it will grace my office.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link

xps
not many courtroom artists are Toulouse Lautrec, but that's just taking the piss!

calzino, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link

eleven months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/wT416B4.jpg

pplains, Friday, 12 April 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

http://i64.tinypic.com/2itmwkj.jpg

... (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

🗣🎙 pic.twitter.com/Vlvyq6qOAE

— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) September 17, 2019

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 23:21 (five years ago) link

Peru ex-president denied bail in U.S., wife dragged from court after outburst https://t.co/KBwZ0Dq6BI pic.twitter.com/GRCwQcWZHg

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 13, 2019

The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 08:55 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

Andrew and I have both mentioned upthread (about ten years ago) our local friend, John, who works freelance as a courtroom sketch artist. Yesterday, John worked a case involving *takes a deep breath* an Arizona attorney, who's also the elected Maricopa County assessor, accused of bringing pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to Arkansas and forced/paid them to give up their babies for adoption.

Some of his sketches are featured here. And from John's Instagram account (paintings for sale!), he describes what it's like to keep one toe dipped in this unique profession:

...I showed up early and Judge Wiederman allowed me in the empty courtroom to get a head-start on the backgrounds. It was a gamble that the hearing would last long enough to draw. A group of about six people were brought in ahead of the man we were there for, so I started sketching a defendant that vaguely resembled him out of an abundance of caution.

I ended up with two that were useable, a prosecutor, that defendant I mentioned and that unused start of the background. The most detailed one was the first one I started. In all I was in the court about 5 hours.

https://i.imgur.com/qSQ9iVw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/yZX0gW2.jpg

pplains, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

lmao at the courtroom sketch of Weinstein's nudes pic.twitter.com/Uj7cL04X1m

— Nick “Thunder” Wiger (@nickwiger) February 5, 2020

Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 01:03 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

Is this some kind of niche deviantART fantasy or is Ghislaine Maxwell really obsessively eyefucking a court sketch artist? pic.twitter.com/2GfwWHOW4q

— The Man Who Shot Liberty Mutual (@Decervelage) December 7, 2021

... (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link

our local artist friend John is back at it, this time sketching the josh duggar child porn trial.
https://www.nwahomepage.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2021/12/Josh-Duggar-Trial-2.jpg?w=900

plenty more to see if you gis but here's one with the shithead himself.

andrew m., Wednesday, 8 December 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link

seven months pass...

Ex-CIA coder behind WikiLeaks ‘Vault 7’ cache found guilty of espionage https://t.co/p6n4Cq5Bu7

— Dr. Sherifa Zuhur (@SherifaZuhur) July 14, 2022

deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link

Did glem gormwald sell him out too

Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 14 July 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link

six months pass...

have they stopped teaching life drawing with models in art colleges these days? lol

calzino, Saturday, 4 February 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

Big question to potential jurors in the ComEd corruption trial: Do you have the time for this? https://t.co/FN4LIFrsji via @politico pic.twitter.com/Eet6Q19JsC

— Shia Kapos (@ShiaKapos) March 15, 2023

underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 13:33 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

Donald Trump during his arraignment. Courtroom sketch by 🎨 Jane Rosenberg pic.twitter.com/DdfXkHhnUA

— Reuters Pictures (@reuterspictures) April 4, 2023

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 00:46 (one year ago) link

lol he's like a jaundiced Grinch.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:12 (one year ago) link

aren't there actual photographs of this thing? do they still do the courtroom sketch for fun anyway?

soref, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 12:19 (one year ago) link

Hey I'm having fun

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link

Pretty sure cameras, still or motion, are still not allowed in most courtrooms. Our local courthouse requires you to put your cell phone in a locker.

"The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link

Not allowed in federal courtrooms either, so it'll be all sketches if Trump ever gets that call.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link

They allowed a couple photographers in before the hearing began, but then booted them... so there are some real photos, but not of the arraignment itself

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link

if you were a courtroom sketch artist who couldn't be bothered schlepping all the way to the courthouse, it must have been tempting to just stat at home, wait for the pre-arraignment photographs to appear on twitter and then just base your sketch on them. It's not like anyone's appearance is going to have changed too dramatically in the interim.

soref, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link

Just wait for the AI sketchers

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link

jaymc already on it.

AI-generated courtroom sketch of Trump two weeks ago (via @EliotHiggins) vs. actual sketch today (via @reuterspictures) pic.twitter.com/UdsQhbu32P

— John M. Cunningham (@jmcunning) April 4, 2023

pplains, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link

non-AI is clearly superior

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link

what if you specifically ask the AI to make a courtroom sketch of Trump where he looks like the Grinch, though

soref, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link

it would produce something amusing, but far too literal for that prompt

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link

five months pass...

He seems so happy

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:09 (one year ago) link

starting to think some of these courtroom sketch artists lost money on FTX pic.twitter.com/36hzJkzaqa

— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) October 11, 2023

mark s, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

oh no! not bernie too!

pplains, Monday, 6 November 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link

we have a winner

https://i.imgur.com/RzeHtmr.jpg

lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 08:00 (one year ago) link

Goddamn smirky eyebrow raised Poochie cartoons nowadays

deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link

lol. He does make that face sometimes, although I imagine in the courtroom he has the badass scowl going.

Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link

For real though can I hire this courtroom portrait artist pic.twitter.com/oD4XFeOehu

— Austen (@Austen) October 30, 2023

StanM, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link

four months pass...
three months pass...

Some courtroom sketch artists are good enough to have their own book.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8141x5oyOwL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:20 (four months ago) link

three months pass...

This courtroom sketch artist can take the rest of the day off ... because these are just epic. pic.twitter.com/3eLJ3AoZgs

— Ryan Parker (@TheRyanParker) November 26, 2024

bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 02:52 (three weeks ago) link

Even before clicking I knew it had to be Rudy.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 November 2024 02:56 (three weeks ago) link

The purple background highlighting was an inspired choice.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 03:04 (three weeks ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqf-wLAPK8Q

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 27 November 2024 04:28 (three weeks ago) link

three weeks pass...

While we’re on lunch break in the Madigan case, behold the before and after sketches of Deno Perdiou, the AT&T exec whose testimony was interrupted after he fell down a flight of marble stairs and his his head on a railing.
By the great courtroom artist Lou Chukman pic.twitter.com/qk42b2YvZo

— Jason Meisner (@jmetr22b) December 18, 2024

bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Wednesday, 18 December 2024 19:03 (four days ago) link

love it

Josefa, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 19:06 (four days ago) link


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