{"id":1498,"date":"2015-08-31T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T01:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2015-08-31T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T01:37:08","slug":"sketch-artist-draws-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/sketch-artist-draws-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch Artist Draws Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brady-sketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1500\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brady-sketch.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"brady-sketch\" width=\"255\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brady-sketch.jpg 960w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brady-sketch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brady-sketch-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>The courtroom artist who drew the assignment to cover Tom Brady and the deflate-gate trial came up short her first time around&#8230;and social media pounced.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many things that distract us from real life, deflate-gate is the gift that keeps on giving. This time the fiasco was the questionable depiction of the Patriot&#8217;s QB as he sat in the courtroom. Sketch artists are supposed to be impressionists, but this &#8220;sketchy&#8221; rendition attracted more derision than usual.<\/p>\n<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/08\/31\/living\/second-tom-brady-sketch-feat\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">article in CNN<\/a>, the twitter-sphere lit up with people piling <a href=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jane-rosenberg-tom-brady.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1503 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jane-rosenberg-tom-brady.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Courtroom artist Jane Rosenberg with a more pleasant sketch of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brad. Rosenberg's sketch of Brady during his first appearance in Manhattan Federal Court broke the internet and lit up the Twitter-sphere after overwhelming reaction to Brady's glum look. (Photo By: Jefferson Siegel\/NY Daily News via Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jane-rosenberg-tom-brady.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jane-rosenberg-tom-brady-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>on\u00a0courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg. But just to show the world that she really can draw, Rosenberg later offered up a more careful sketch that\u00a0captured the essence of the handsome and debonair defendant.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo By: Jefferson Siegel\/NY Daily News via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One twitterer decided to\u00a0&#8220;fix&#8221; Rosenberg&#8217;s ill-conceived artwork.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brady-fix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1501 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brady-fix.jpg?w=294\" alt=\"Brady-fix\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brady-fix.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/brady-fix-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just\u00a0in case you don&#8217;t get the joke, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/art\/9491391\/Elderly-woman-destroys-19th-century-fresco-with-DIY-restoration.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of this just serves to prove that the internet, and social media, can be a mean and unforgiving place for screw-ups. Thick skin comes in handy, and not just for celebrities. When they tell you that they&#8217;re laughing <em>with<\/em> you&#8230;don&#8217;t be so sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The courtroom artist who drew the assignment to cover Tom Brady and the deflate-gate trial came up short her first time around&#8230;and social media pounced. Like so many things that distract us from real life, deflate-gate is the gift that keeps on giving. This time the fiasco was the questionable depiction of the Patriot&#8217;s QB &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/sketch-artist-draws-criticism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sketch Artist Draws Criticism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactive-media","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}