Distressed Investor 2023 Conference in New York City.
Artwork by Courtroom Artist Elizabeth Williams
Illustrations below by various presenters
Sunday, December 24, 2023
THE GUARDIAN Tough mouths, tears and ‘accordion hands’: a courtroom sketch artist’s banner year
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/23/courtroom-sketch-artist-donald-trump-sam-bankman-fried
Donald Trump, who has a ‘challenging face’ Artwork by Elizabeth WilliamsElizabeth Williams has been sketching since the 1980s – but with Trump, De Niro, Sheeran and Trump again, nothing quite compares to 2023
In 2022, Elizabeth Williams only worked 11 days as a courtroom sketch artist, relying on her other job as an illustrator to pay the bills. This year, work exploded.
Williams has covered these cases since the 1980s, providing sketches for outlets such as the Associated Press and CNN as countless celebrities made their way through New York City’s court system. Just when she thought she’d seen it all, the scene outside Manhattan courts started to resemble a red carpet, with news cameras and paparazzi jostling to get their photo of the many famous faces who stopped by in 2023. Whether it was one of Donald Trump’s numerous appearances or Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto trial, sketch artists like Williams had no shortage of inspiration as they gave the public a peek at proceedings inside the cameras weren’t privy to.
Robert De Niro, Ed Sheeran and the Real Housewife Jen Shah all passed through New York courts in 2023 – sometimes, two on the same day, which meant that Williams skipped lunch to cover both of them. As the year ends, she’s swimming in sketches. “I might put together a calendar of all these people,” she said. “I’ve got enough Trump sketches to do just a calendar of him in court.”
A lot goes into Williams’s sketches, even if, in some cases, she only has mere minutes to complete them. After all, she’s sketching a first draft of history’s crooks, alleged perps and vindicated VIPs.
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