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

color.

And then you know, it would highlight.

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 got to get it right.

He's trying to capture that moment and that expression and that exchange, but you also

got to get their lightness in it.

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 them on very briefly to do something.

He took them off and that's pretty common when people first get bifogals.

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

them back off and now they're all pretty much wearing bifogals.

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 Barrett.

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