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Artist Apologizes for Tom Brady Courtroom Sketch After It Goes Viral

The Internet has a blast after Deflagate hearing

Aug 13, 2015 12:07 GMT  ·  By
You'd probably not know it, but that's Tom Brady in a Deflagate courtroom sketch
   You'd probably not know it, but that's Tom Brady in a Deflagate courtroom sketch

Tom Brady is one of the most famous men in showbiz and arguably one of the most handsome gents as well. You wouldn’t be able to tell based on his most recent courtroom sketch, which has now gone viral.

Brady was in federal court in Manhattan some hours ago, as part of the Deflagate lawsuit. A courtroom sketch with the New England Patriots quarterback was released to the media as is customary, and spread like wild fire on Twitter.

A new meme was born.

The sketch is bad, the Internet has a blast

No one expects courtroom sketches to be as good as paparazzi photos or selfies, but the least you expect from them is to bear some resemblance to the real person they’re supposed to show.

This doesn’t happen in this Tom Brady sketch, as drawn by artist Jane Rosenberg. Clearly, she is talented and the drawing isn’t bad per se, but the man she drew for Brady has nothing in common with real-life Brady.

As these things go, the moment the sketch made its way online, it had gone viral. People are still having a laugh over it on social media, especially on Twitter.

Some compare it to classical works, while others to cartoon characters; even more have put whatever image editing skills they have to create a new meme, one where the face on Brady’s sketch pops up in the most unexpected places.

You can see a sample of the things people are tweeting about it below.

Courtroom artist is sorry, but we’re missing the bigger picture

Obviously, courtroom artist Jane Rosenberg isn’t exactly thrilled that the entire world is laughing at her work. Speaking to Vice, she apologizes for not doing justice to Brady’s good looks, but she stresses that we’re still not right to mock her work.

“I’m working very quickly. Obviously I have a lot of pressure on me, and it’s time pressure. It’s lucky if I have a few minutes,” she says of the sketch. “So I’m just trying to grab onto something, just as quick as I can. Now, this Tom Brady thing, I did this whole wide shot with a million people in it. And everybody’s focusing on that one little fraction of the whole picture, of Tom Brady. But it’s really a big wide composition. There’s a lot of people and the whole courtroom in it.”

She would probably prefer if we looked at the bigger picture (quite literally so), but based on the tweets below, we can probably agree it’s not going to happen right now.