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 (four years ago) link
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.
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 (four years ago) link
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
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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
https://cdn.greatlifepublishing.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/01150952/jsus-2-728x409.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
Did glem gormwald sell him out too
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 14 July 2022 22:58 (one year ago) link
https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/17A1/production/_128394060_elonmuskdrawing.png
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 February 2023 11:23 (one year ago) link
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
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
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
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1b3e30d8d4875e55181713b8fbeab637f1a6f4d3/0_273_3024_1814/master/3024.jpg?width=620&dpr=2&s=none
"Sam Bankman-Fried, with his short hair"
― behold the thump (ledge), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 11:26 (six months ago) link
He seems so happy
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:09 (six months 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 (six months ago) link
Lookin' suave:
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreianwbswqdc2256qbdrhoxktvvvsgqcz4tdshklab4xx6ftqjzn7da@jpeg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 November 2023 19:22 (five months ago) link
Lookin' suave:🖼
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 6 November 2023 20:23 (five months ago) link
oh no! not bernie too!
― pplains, Monday, 6 November 2023 20:31 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okoYy6Glazw
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 6 November 2023 20:37 (five months ago) link
An alternate approach
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:v4ohdv3xxwoqbitlvaifelue/bafkreia6jpbkchqwkeovg5f2feevo7feng25ttmftebf537j7ef73z5k3i@jpeg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:08 (five months ago) link
we have a winner
https://i.imgur.com/RzeHtmr.jpg
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 08:00 (five months ago) link
Goddamn smirky eyebrow raised Poochie cartoons nowadays
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 13:10 (five months 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 (five months 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 (five months ago) link
Italy has the bug!
https://andreaspinelliart.it/courtroom-sketching-arrives-in-italy/
This one is pretty great, honestly:
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreiadurkgsewblowpvf6547ikkkerop23wyoywvta36tbt3xmwwo3di@jpeg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 April 2024 02:36 (two weeks ago) link