--- title: Tom Brady Sketch Artist Gets Another Shot at Court Drawing description: "It was a nightmare," she said after her first portrait got the Internet's attention canonical: https://time.com/4017620/tom-brady-sketch-artist-court-drawing/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-31T18:28:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:04.178Z og:title: Viral Tom Brady Sketch Artist Gets Another Shot at Portrait og:description: "It was a nightmare," she said og:url: https://time.com/4017620/tom-brady-sketch-artist-court-drawing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc773d04037abba80/698861b8524fc04bfddf4512/jane-rosenberg-tom-brady.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3606 og:image:height: 2028 og:image:alt: Tom Brady Portrait by Jane Rosenberg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Viral Tom Brady Sketch Artist Gets Another Shot at Portrait twitter:description: "It was a nightmare," she said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc773d04037abba80/698861b8524fc04bfddf4512/jane-rosenberg-tom-brady.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Viral Tom Brady Sketch Artist Gets Another Shot at Court Drawing > Sponsored content. 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Courtroom artist Jane Rosenberg with a more pleasant sketch of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.NY Daily News/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Aug 31, 2015 6:28 PM UTC The last time sketch artist Jane Rosenberg had to draw a portrait of Tom Brady in court, the results weren’t so pretty—her work was derided by fans for depicting a version of the New England Patriots quarterback that [some likened to Lurch from _The Addams Family_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tom-brady-nfl-hearing-second-chance-sketch-artist-n418746). Rosenberg got another chance on Monday when Brady made another appearance in court [over the Deflategate scandal](http://time.com/3975905/tom-brady-deflategate-ruling/), _Sports Illustrated_ reports, and she fared much better this time. The NFL star is a lot more recognizable in this drawing compared to the last one, not that Rosenberg enjoyed the process any more. “It was a nightmare,” she said. > [](https://twitter.com/PPVSRB/status/638390722689925121) Rosenberg, who has 35 years of experience, says she finds Brady “very hard to draw.” “Something subtle goes on with his eyes,” [she told the _New York Daily News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-artist-jane-rosenberg-draws-new-tom-brady-sketch-article-1.2342572?utm%5Fcontent=buffera07d2&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fcampaign=NYDailyNewsTw). “He has a big chin with a cleft in it.” \[[_SI_](http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/08/31/tom-brady-courtroom-sketch-drawing?xid=IFT-Trending)\] ### See the 16 Most Bizarre Courtroom Sketches  Tom Brady appears in United States District Court on Aug. 12, 2015. NY District Court  Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos holds a gun during his final summation to the jury in the trial of Sean "Puffy" Combs on March 13, 2001 in New York. Combs was was acquitted of weapon possession and attempted bribery charges in a case stemming from a 1999 shooting at a New York dance club. Jane Rosenberg—AP  Michael Jackson and his ex-wife Debbie Rowe seated in court inside the Santa Barbara County courthouse on April 27, 2005, in Santa Maria, Calif., where Jackson was on trial for child molestation. The jury found Jackson not guilty on all charges. Bill Robles—AP  James "Whitey" Bulger sits at his sentencing hearing in federal court in Boston on Nov. 13, 2013\. He was found guilty on 31 counts, including both racketeering charges, and was found to have been involved in 11 murders. Jane Flavell Collins—AP  O.J. Simpson is questioned by plaintiff's attorney Daniel Petrocelli (right) about Simpson's missing bag as defense attorney Robert Baker objects in Los Angeles County Superior court in Santa Monica, Calif., on Nov. 25, 1996\. Simpson was acquitted after a trial that lasted more than eight months. Rosalie Ritz—AP  Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sits in federal court in Boston on Dec. 18, 2014, for a final hearing before the beginning of his trial in January. Tsarnaev was convicted and sentenced to death. Jane Flavell Collins—AP  Don King in court on Oct. 7, 1985 in New York for allegedly trying to evade thousands of dollars in federal income taxes. King was acquitted. Ida Libby Dengrove—AP  American Poet Allen Ginsberg testifies during the trial of the Chicago Eight in Chicago in 1969\. After a trial resulting in both acquittals and convictions, followed by appeals, reversals, and retrials, there were some final convictions of the other seven, but none of them were ultimately sentenced to jail or fines. Chicago History Museum/Getty Images  R. Kelly watches in court as prosecutors played the sex tape at the center of his child pornography trial in open court in Chicago on May 20, 2008\. Kelly was found not guilty of all counts. Lou Chukman—AP  Jude Law in the witness box at the Old Bailey in London during the News of the World phone-hacking trial on Jan. 27, 2014\. The scandal forced media mogul Rupert Murdoch to shutter the 168-year-old publication in 2011\. Law was awarded £130,000 in claims. Elizabeth Cook—PA Wire/Press Association Images  Canadian-born accused terrorist Omar Khadr attends a pre-trial session in Camp Justice on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay on Dec. 12, 2008\. Khadr, the youngest prisoner held in Guantanamo Bay at the time at age 15, accepted an eight-year sentence. Janet Hamlin—AP  Ali Hamza al Bahlul, a former personal assistant to Osama bin Laden, appears before a military commission at Guantanamo Naval Base on Aug. 26, 2004\. Bahlul was sentenced to life in prison on November 3, 2008. Art Lien—AP  Robert Blake in a Burbank, Calif., courthouse as the verdicts in his civil trial are read on Nov. 18, 2005\. The jury acquitted the actor of the 2001 murder of his wife. Mona Shafer Edwards—AP  Unabomber Ted Kaczynski appears in Federal Court with a red mark on his neck in Sacramento, Calif., on Jan. 9, 1998\. Authorities said Kaczynski attempted to hang himself in his jail cell the day before. Kaczynski was sentenced to eight consecutive life sentences. AP  From left: Anthony Quinn, John Gotti, U.S. District Judge I. Leo Glasser; witness Anthony Gurino and assistant U.S. attorney John Gleeson on March 21, 1992\. The judge threatened to send Gotti to a court house hold after he was caught making mocking gestures at a prosecuting attorney. Gotti was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Marilyn Church—AP  Robert C. Mardian covers his head with his hands immediately after it was announced that he had been found guilty in the Watergate cover-up trial in Washington on Jan. 1, 1975\. He was sentenced to 10 months to three years on the charge of conspiracy. President Nixon resigned as a result of the Watergate Scandal. 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