The way I generally would work is something like that and then, you know, quickly throw in some base color.

And then, you know, it would highlights.

Bill Hennessy is a courtroom artist.

In many jurisdictions, cameras are not permitted in courtrooms.

The Supreme Court, for example.

So news media often rely on sketch artists like Hennessy to illustrate the courtroom proceedings.

Hennessy uses a mixed medium of colored pencil pastel and watercolor.

And he says Chief Justice John Roberts isn't an easy assignment.

Well, I mean, he's a tough one too.

You know, he's kind of that handsome guy.

You know, you've got to get it right.

You're trying to capture that

moment and that expression and that exchange, but you also got to get their likeness.

Details matter and change over time, like whether to draw Justice Neil Gorsuch wearing a pair of glasses

or not. When Gorsuch first started, he put him on very briefly to do something, and he took them off.

That's pretty common when people first get bifocals.

They'll put them on enough to make an order, you know, look at the document and they'll take them back off.

And now they're all pretty much wearing bifocals.

Justice Samuel Alito.

Alito, you know, he is such a serious guy, and lots of times comes across this sort of scowling.

Justice Amy Coney-Barritt.

She has this interesting way she tilts her head when she's listening.

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