Courtroom sketches

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

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

omg yes

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

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

yeah, so much pathos!

that 1 woman's suit jacket is kinda nuts

lovin the chick dead center with the curly brown mop

A classic from '81:

http://www.plasmatics.com/WOWPlasMySpace/DrawingCourt.jpg

Haha wow

But why is Spiderman villain Hammerhead standing at the back?

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.

One of my favorites: Courtney in the Courtroom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-537330/Heather-reports-Macca-lawyer-threw-water--insulting-HER.html

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lol montage

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

Hahah oh man that Blago one.

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

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

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

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

http://www.monkeybusinessblog.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/21/alg_courtsketch.jpg

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

http://streetknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/micheal-vick-dogs.jpg

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

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

GATHER AROUND, wow. thanks, Kerm.

David Hicks:

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

Paris Hilton, believe it or not.

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

Britney

http://www.etonline.com/media/photo/2007/10/33917/400_bspears_metaldetector_msedwards_071026.jpg

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00795/SNN0411DAD-280_795631a.jpg

Abbie Hoffman:

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

Tim Russert:

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

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

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

Is this ILX's own N/A?

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

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

Next to the priest, I mean.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Huh! Maybe I could just do it for fun.

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."

Goddamm, did the artist get to court only to realize he had grabbed his daughter's neon sidewalk pastels by mistake?

The flag is melting, the jurors' faces are literally melting and that big computer thing from TRON has opened up under the judge's bench. I'd be looking like John E. too.

Throbbing. The flag is throbbing.

haha, yeah. More here: http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/image_gallery/11124134/

I kinda dig she did this radioactive color crazy like fauve thing— like breasts-face juror here:

http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/local/politics/2012/05/30/11154950/DSCN2980-720x540.jpg

I don't know if I've been watching too much Better Call Saul or not, but his resemblance to Michael McKean is becoming more apparent.

http://i.imgur.com/tDDQZAD.jpg

the one with the psychedelic flag is amazing

All three of these are from the Whitey Bulger trial.

http://i.imgur.com/9jg5D6t.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0Bs2JMa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/yNZcAQJ.jpg

These three are not:

http://i.imgur.com/oePxU5p.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/VphG6Ci.jpg

^ Fargo Meth Trial, in case it wasn't obvious.

http://i.imgur.com/DhCYiAw.jpg

^ I'm a big fan of that one juror.

is that blagojevich on the synthesizer

(massive xpost)

Oh great, now Robin Thicke has to pay royalties to that guy too.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48305000/jpg/_48305054_009769542-1.jpg

http://media.nbcsandiego.com/images/AzanoSketch.jpg

http://www.courtsketches.com/HuieFrancis6X2.JPG

http://i.imgur.com/udb1lJem.jpg

Hate it when people come in after the movie's already started.

ha marla and her shoes

http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/6aa22484-2f70-11e0-834f-00144feabdc0.img
Woody and Mia

2008:
Heather Mills doused Paul McCartney’s lawyer, Fiona Shackleton — or so it would seem. The press, including the artist, was barred and could not see it.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/24/business/24heather.600.jpg

PS Nice comparison of the 3 Whitey Bulger sketches.

Gotta say my favorite's the last (again, by Christine Cornell)-- it's not just the psychedelic colors, but those expressive faces! Conveying character & drama.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/04/Supreme_Court_Gay_Marriage-0c44f.jpg&w=1484

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMOYcQ4WoAA2MT-.jpg

Got a new winner, everyone. Martin Shkreli:

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/12/22/business/db-whitecollar-web1/db-whitecollar-web1-master675.jpg

Via http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/business/dealbook/in-shkreli-case-a-company-lawyer-may-have-crossed-the-line.html

http://i.imgur.com/ZjQo0Ym.jpg

http://static.deathandtaxesmag.com/uploads/2017/06/pharma_bro_145903290-copy-1498607052-640x400.jpg

Same sketch artist who did Tom Brady.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/08/13/sports/13sketch-web-2/13sketch-web-2-facebookJumbo-v2.jpg

https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/14DBE/production/_91083458_mediaitem91083457.jpg

lonely defendants just thinkin baout things

2nd left looks whimsically happy

Illustration from the new YA mystery novel, Taylor Swift and the Ghost Attorney

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--5lzthp8e--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/exmrenanlu05oag8wczm.jpg

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170810135600-01-taylor-swift-courtroom-sketch-0810-super-169.jpg
http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170809071027-01-taylor-swift-courtroom-drawing-0808-super-169.jpg

http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article165544847.html

Martin Shkreli's court room sketch is me when the microwave beeps and the hot pockets are ready pic.twitter.com/2bckcCWznw

— Bob Bryan (@RobertBryan4) August 4, 2017

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

https://i.imgur.com/Pv0asa2.jpg

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

https://i.imgur.com/uq9dNKH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/RgURDkb.png

https://i.imgur.com/d7EIDzu.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/qb81cgN.jpg

something tells me that the Brooklyn courtroom sketch artist assigned to Smallville actress Allison Mack's Nxivm-related sex slavery trial is not a big fan of Allison Mack pic.twitter.com/DZx3pbzcHK

— audible gasp (@morninggloria) April 25, 2018

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

— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 25, 2018

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.

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

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

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

🗣🎙 pic.twitter.com/Vlvyq6qOAE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

https://cdn.greatlifepublishing.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/01150952/jsus-2-728x409.jpg

Did glem gormwald sell him out too

https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/17A1/production/_128394060_elonmuskdrawing.png

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

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