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19 May

Posted at 10:27h in Character Design
Lately I just can’t seem to get out of the courtroom. No, I’m not in any legal trouble. But around the same time I was working as a courtroom sketch artist for the Amy Senser hit-and-run trial, one of my regular clients hired me to do some animation that was, coincidentally, set in a courtroom. I can’t reveal much about...

30 Apr

Posted at 23:38h in Courtroom Sketches
Today Amy Senser finally took that stand and got a chance to tell her side of the story. A very emotional day, and everyone in the courtroom seemed riveted as she spoke. Everything should wrap up tomorrow and then I’ll start getting busy catching up on other client work.

27 Apr

Posted at 23:12h in Courtroom Sketches
Today the prosecution wrapped up their case against Amy Senser in her hit-and-run trial. All along Mrs. Senser has insisted she thought she had struck a construction barrel with her car instead of a human being. The state is attempting to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she must have known she had hit someone instead of something. To do...

25 Apr

Posted at 00:52h in Courtroom Sketches
Today was Day 2 of the Amy Senser hit-and-run trial, and once again I was hired by local station KSTP-5 to do some courtroom sketches. Several witnesses took the stand so I was drawing fast and furious. Courtroom sketching is always a balancing act. Do I focus on quantity or quality? A couple of really good sketches or several hurried...

23 Apr

Posted at 17:21h in Courtroom Sketches
A couple of times a year I’m hired by local TV station KSTP-5 to do courtroom sketches for trials that are deemed “big news” to Minnesotans, or on rare occasions, even nationally. Today was the start of a hit-and-run homicide trial with ties to a local celebrity. The defendant, Amy Senser, is the wife of Joe Senser, a former Minnesota...

10 Apr

Posted at 14:39h in Just for Fun
Some misc. tidbits from around the web… • Former Disney animator Tom Bancroft is following up his terrific how-to book on character design, “Creating Characters with Personality”, with a new book, “Character Mentor”, and it’s coming out very soon. You can pre-order from Amazon. Full disclosure: if you click the links and then buy, Amazon will drop a few coins...