Whenever there is a big trial in the Minneapolis area I am hired by local media to do courtroom sketches. I’ve drawn trials involving the death of George Floyd, the NFL, ISIS recruitment, the late rock star Prince, an associate of Donald Trump (the Florida confidential documents case), as well as mass shootings, police shootings, kidnapping, white collar crime, drug...
Although most of my work is cartoony, I also do courtroom sketching whenever a big trial happens here in the Minneapolis area. ABC News saw my work and hired me to illustrate a courtroom sketch-style portrait for their new podcast about disgraced tech billionaire Elizabeth Holmes, who's trial begins later this month. Thanks to the "record" feature in Procreate...
Yesterday (June 29, 2020) I was in a Minneapolis courtroom drawing sketches for brief hearings in the death of George Floyd. Four officers are being charged and each one got a separate hearing before the judge. These were short preliminary hearings lasting about ten minutes each, back to back. So I had to draw very quickly, roughing in poses and...
Most of my work is very cartoony but once or twice a year I get hired to do courtroom sketches for a big trial in Minnesota. Last month I was hired to sketch the police shooting trial of Mohamed Noor, who shot and killed unarmed civilian Justine Damond. After a month-long trial Noor became the first Minnesota police officer in...
During my "day job" as a freelance illustrator I sometimes get hired to work as a courtroom sketch artist. I've been at it for about fifteen years and have sketched for some of Minnesota's highest profile trials during that time including a school shooting, an attempted ISIS recruitment, the kidnapping/death of Jacob Wetterling, and the fight over Prince's estate, and...
Usually going to court and having the newspaper write about it is a bad thing. This is a rare exception. Whenever a big trial goes down in Minnesota (about once or twice a year), I usually get a call to do some courtroom sketching for KSTP-TV. That may change someday since Minnesota has opened the door just a bit on allowing cameras...
