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(17,243 posts)Aristus
(66,481 posts)Perfect marriage of subject and medium.
rsdsharp
(9,219 posts)gordianot
(15,249 posts)meow2u3
(24,774 posts)Jrose
(854 posts)who sat near Djt when he farted and muttered...
It's called 'The Scream'!!
brush
(53,928 posts)as one has to capture reasonable likenesses of several people and their surroundings, while they're moving, talking, concurring with others, and with only scant awareness of, or concern that an artist is trying to capture their image on paper.
I took a figure drawing class once in SF from Howard Brodie, famous for his work in the Gary Gilmore trial. I was pretty good at figure drawing, but the model is right there in front of you, not one obscuring your view, he/she is not moving, shifting weight, talking or doing any of the things that make courtroom sketching difficult.
Instructor Brodie showed us some of his sketches, but from the class, nowhere near the conditions courtroom artists deal with, I learned to really appreciate the difficulty and skill/talent needed to do that job well.