>Pastel by pastel, courtroom sketch artists capture historic moments involving high-profile defendants, attentive judges and impassioned witnesses from gavel to gavel.
>The aging, shrinking community of quick-thinking artists provides the public its only peek into proceedings that most citizens won't see, working feverishly to finish up to six pieces per day — depending on the number of people or scenes involved.
>"I'm always under pressure," Rosenberg told Newsweek. "It's a high-pressure job.">The prolific sketch started drawing in 1980 and is one of the handful of veteran court documenters in New York, said she's attended "every single iota" of Combs' ongoing case, including pretrial conferences. Her experience with the hip-hop mogul dates back to his 2001 acquittal on gun possession charges linked to a shooting at a Manhattan nightclub two years earlier.
>Cornell, Rosenberg's colleague who has been chronicling courts for 50 years, said she brings home roughly $100,000 per year for her efforts, which are currently featured on CNN. The 70-year-old resident of Weehawken, New Jersey, has drawn countless notable defendants throughout her extensive career, including John Gotti, Bernie Madoff and Donald Trump, among many others. Like Rosenberg, her artistic approach for each remains identical, she said.>"In the same way I approach any trial," Cornell told Newsweek. "To really capture the characters and give them their best representation.">"Well, you know, body language," Cornell said of how she addressed that challenge. "And you have to keep it minimal in terms of lighting that reveals features. But you can show anguish and grief just with angle of the head and, you know, just hit a few spots and throw the rest in shadow. Anybody who's observed life knows that there's an extreme simplification you can take on any human emotion and expression, especially if there's something a little bit awful going on, which frankly has been more common than not in this trial."
>>7711896Boring colors, fucked up anatomy and perspective, literally beg tier. > $100,000 per year With the right connections, you live on easy mode.
>>7711928>With the right connections>RosenbergChecks outBut regardless, this guy mogs 99.9% of /ic/
>>7711928>100k USD annually?Interesting. The fact that it's six pieces a day is fascinating, they must attempt about ten works a day and keep about six of those. You'd have to think that you'd still be studying the defendant's portrait after hours if they were prominent enough. Mostly you'd have to plan out where the backgrounds would be before you entered the courtroom, which means having some foreknowledge of where you would be seated at the trial.Since the trial has lasted nearly 50 days, there must be about 300 pastels associated with the trial, enough for a coffee table book at this point.
>>7711935Actually 300 per artist, so it must be nearer to 900 pastels from three different artists (assuming there are three).
>>7711896> pastelIts very messy by the way, not sure if its really the best medium for a court.
>>7711928>anatomy and perspectiveis it really about that though? it's character drawing, they can introduce more isometric perspective or distorted perspective
>He told the jury he got a call from his dog sitter on January 9, 2012, informing him that his Porsche, sitting in his driveway, was in flames. When he got to his house, he found what was left of a Molotov cocktail on the ground near his car, ash splattered on the red leather driver’s seat, and smoke residue clouding the driver’s seat window. He believed it was “intentional” and told the court that his damaged car could not be repaired.sounds costly to be more talented than Diddy
>>7711928Cope harder retard
You cant mix pastel, do they have a whole box with different chalks? A pack of paper, fixative cans ans shit?
All it takes for one modern artist good or tiktok trend of someone trying to be a sketchroom artist and all of the sudden it becomes popular. Granted I wish someone KGJ tier would do it because it would expose how fraudulent these current court room sketchers are.
I love courtroom sketches sue me
>>7712046mebbe I will.
>"Soften me up a bit, you're making me look like a koala bear," Combs' told court sketch artist Jane Rosenberg.>Earlier this year, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Rosenberg he looked like a dog in his drawing.>In 2023, Donald Trump Jr. asked Rosenberg to make him "look sexy" during a civil fraud case over his family's real estate business.
>>7712088>MAKE ME LOOK SEXY!
>>7712004>He arranged to meet up with Diddy at Soho House the next day because “I knew he had something to do with it,” Mescudi testified.>At the meeting, he recalled Diddy “staring out the window with his hands behind his back like a Marvel supervillain.” Both men came to realize they had been “played” by Ventura, who was dating them both at the same time, he said. When they shook hands at the end of the meeting, Mescudi asked: “What are we going to do about my car?”>“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Diddy replied.
>>7711896seems like good work if you can get it
>>7711992Poignant. Telling. Bold.
>>7711928its a quicksketch moron. you have 30 seconds to capture a moment.
>>7712244> you have 30 seconds to capture a moment.As if, when those really are 30 sec sketches, i would be impressed.
>>7712097That's not junior.
People on /ic who will slave over one character floating in a void drawing for days if not weeks, with endless static references, shitting on people who can produce multiple full color pastel drawings, of multiple figures from actual moving life, with actual backgrounds, per day. Classic.
>>7711896I'm fuckin fodder for cartoonists
Why not just shoot photos?
>>7712547photography has always been considered taboo in courtrooms due to sometimes photos getting copied and leaked to the press, causing sensationalism that damages the ability of the case to continue as planned. Courtroom artists are around specifically so that situations can be documented as singular instances that can be sent out as sections of the case are okay to communicate about.
>>7711990*death reel music plays*
not knowing the context is great
Diddy did nothing wrong. All they got was just an old video of him slapping a bitch, published to make him look bad.
>>7711981That's a nice ass
>>7711993this is sick
>>7711981is this by the same person because I can see some similarities, but everything about this one is superior. The others look more like gesture sketches/roughs meant to capture fleeting moments whereas this one looks like one where they had plenty of time to set up the composition and colors.
>>7714361Might also be one of those cases where when you're expected to shit out a couple handfuls everyday you learn to half ass it with filler in between the ones you actually put effort into. Being a salaried worker is about learning how to balance being lazy with quality work.
