A veteran courtroom sketch artist apologized Wednesday for an unrecognizable rendering of football star Tom Brady that went viral as critics savaged the poorly drawn portrait.
“I want to apologize to Tom Brady for not making him as handsome as he really is,” Jane Rosenberg said. “It’s hard to capture that in a short amount of time.”
“I guess I’m not good enough to satisfy these NFL fans,” she added.
Twitter users posted side-by-side pictures comparing Rosenberg’s version of Brady to the skeletal host of the 1990’s HBO series “Tales from the Crypt” and Gollum from “Lord of the Rings.”
“Courtroom sketch artist apparently thinks Tom Brady is the skinny Hunchback of Notre Dame. Might need a new job,” the pop band OneRepublic tweeted.
“Did Jane Rosenberg draw with her eyes closed? Anyone?” wrote Twitter user @nickgrodo.
Others slapped Brady’s mangled mug onto everything from a Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait and Edvard Munch’s iconic “The Scream” to the Freddie Kreuger character from “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and the alien from “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”
“We should do a Kickstarter to pay court artist Jane Rosenberg to draw other NFL stars. Peyton Manning would be epic,” tweeted Bleacher Report writer Dan Levy.
Brady was in Manhattan federal court Wednesday for a hearing and settlement talks in his suit challenging the NFL’s decision to suspend him for four games over the “Deflategate” scandal.
Rosenberg’s Web site says she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine art and continued her training at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Art.
She specializes in outdoor oil paintings, but has also worked as courtroom sketch artist for decades, with past work including drawings of the late mob boss John Gotti, domestic diva Martha
Stewart and “blind sheikh” terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman.
“I’m working very quickly. Obviously I have a lot of pressure on me, and it’s time pressure,” she told Vice.
“It’s lucky if I have a few minutes. 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,” she added.
“But it’s really a big wide composition. There’s a lot of people and the whole courtroom in it.”
“I’m probably going to go home and feel terrible,” she told ABC News.
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