Courtesy Jane Rosenberg 
 
 While a federal court takes the next step in resolving Deflategate, a courtroom sketch emerged Wednesday of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, and the duo's assorted legal counsel. 
 
 The sketch, by artist Jane Rosenberg, lit up the Internet for its rough and approximate portrayal of Brady. 
 
 It features, from left, Jeff Pash, NFL executive vice president and general counsel; Goodell; Gregg Levy, NFL counsel; Adolpho Birch, NFL executive VP; Don Yee, Brady's agent; and Brady. 
 
 To be fair, Brady's face is one of the most recognizable in sports. Anything but pure photorealism would have provoked comments. And a courtroom artist's job is to capture the scene quickly. They aren't intending to emulate the Dutch masters. 
 
 But social media doesn't care about that. It cares about memes. 
 
 Brady Krueger. DON'T GO TO SLEEP. pic.twitter.com/ChF4C1jtYA — Complex Sports (@Complex_Sports) August 12, 2015 
 
 their tinder pic vs real life pic.twitter.com/ob78RrWaBE — samir mezrahi (@samir) August 12, 2015 
 
 For the record, I have been working on LSU football all day so this is not me but an imposter at Tom Brady hearing. pic.twitter.com/xYpWKYa95Q — Les Miles (@LSUCoachMiles) August 12, 2015 
 
 Here's how Brady actually looked today, soaking up cheers as he entered the federal courthouse. 
 
 Crowds cheered Tom Brady (and booed Roger Goodell) as he arrived in New York for his hearing. [Credit: Mary Altaffer/AP] A photo posted by espn (@espn) on Aug 12, 2015 at 7:52am PDT 
 
 As of Wednesday afternoon, there was no settlement in the case. 

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 “This courtroom sketch of Tom Brady will haunt your dreams,” Fusion declared. 
 
 “Tom Brady’s face melted at the DeflateGate hearing, according to this courtroom sketch,” SB Nation surmised. 
 
 “It looks like Brady’s face was put in one of those machines that crushes cars,” USA Today said. 
 
 These were among the headlines and observations overshadowing the New England quarterback’s hearing in federal court on Wednesday, at least as far as the response on social media is concerned. Brady is appealing a four-game suspension for his role in the deflation of footballs used in the AFC championship game in January. 
 
 This is the sketch, by the New York artist Jane Rosenberg, that prompted the backlash: 
 
 In 2011, The New York Times noted that Ms. Rosenberg’s likeness of Robert De Niro during a court appearance in Manhattan was “remarkably accurate.” She has been a sketch artist for 35 years, depicting a litany of public figures including Woody Allen, Martha Stewart, Bill Cosby and John Gotti. 
 
 In a telephone interview, Ms. Rosenberg said drawing celebrities is her most difficult task, as people already have an image of how the person is supposed to look. She was hired by several media clients to attend Brady’s hearing, and was “under a lot of pressure to work very quickly and do the best I can on the short deadline I’m on.” 
 
 “I’m getting bad criticism that I made him look like Lurch,” she said, referring to the Addams Family character. “And obviously I apologize to Tom Brady for not making him as good-looking as he is.” 
 
 In response, Twitter users deployed their best photo-editing skills. 
 
 As of Wednesday evening, Ms. Rosenberg said she was not bothered by the response, partly because she didn’t understand it. She doesn’t use social media, though some people had shown her some of the tweets on their phones. She also doesn’t watch the N.F.L. 
 
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 “I don’t know what the big deal is,” she said. “I’m a background person. There’s a whole new world of social media, and I’m not with it.” 
 
 There were other sketch artists in the courtroom, though the others drew Brady quite differently and, as a result, didn’t receive as much attention. Andrea Shepard and her mother, Shirley, approached Brady after the hearing and asked him to sign a couple of their sketches, which he did without a fuss. 
 
 Asked later if they tried to get Brady to buy a sketch, Andrea Shepard said: “I think they were all upset because they were together,” referring to Brady and Commissioner Roger Goodell. No, she didn’t get a sale. 

 "Tell Tom Brady I'm Sorry." Q&A; With the DeflateGate Courtroom Sketch Artist 
 
 Jane Rosenberg has been a courtroom sketch artist for decades, having drawn scenes from high profile cases such as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, as well as others involving celebrities such as Woody Allen, Martha Stewart, and John Gotti. 
 
 On Wednesday, she was tasked to do courtroom sketches for Wednesday's settlement hearing in the ongoing #deflategate saga. Her sketch of Tom Brady in the courtroom went viral almost instantly, and not all of the attention was flattering. Many people on social media criticized her depiction of the quarterback. VICE Sports spoke to her over the phone as she was leaving the courthouse and first experiencing the bizarre whirlwind of everything that comes with her painstaking work being turned into a viral meme. It was yet another bit of nonsense from a whole case full of nonsense. Rosenberg was just doing her job and certainly wasn't looking for the attention. 
 
 Rosenberg seemed a bit flustered on the phone as she was dealing with having unexpectedly become part of the day's news. 
 
 What kind of response have you seen to the sketch so far? 
 
 Well I haven't seen any. People are emailing me and calling me and trying to interview me. I don't do Twitter or Facebook so social media is not my thing. But obviously it's gone viral. Some people are like sending me snippets though––things, complaints, that I made him look like Lurch or whatever. Tell Tom Brady, I'm sorry. He's a very good looking guy and if I didn't make him look good enough, I'll try harder next time. 
 
 When you are doing the sketches, how realistic do you try to make it look? And how much are you just trying to capture a mood? 
 
 I'm working very quickly. Obviously I have a lot of pressure on me, and it's time pressure. It's lucky if I have a few minutes. So I'm just trying to grab onto something, just as quick as I can. Now, this Tom Brady thing, I did this whole wide shot with a million people in it. And everybody's focusing on that one little fraction of the whole picture, of Tom Brady. But it's really a big wide composition. There's a lot of people and the whole courtroom in it. 
 
 When you have a case like this with a highly recognizable person, do you feel any more pressure? 
 
 Yes, I do. I do feel more pressure. It's horrible. You hate that. Especially when they're good looking, that's the worst. I'd rather do famous terrorists or something. 
 
 Do you plan on looking up any of the reaction when you get home? 
 
 I don't know. I don't do Twitter. I don't even know if I could. I don't know how I'm going to see it all. I'm sure it's horrible. Maybe I'll be depressed tomorrow, who knows? Right now I'm not reacting. 
 
 Does it bother you if people are making fun of it or anything like that? 
 
 Does it bother me, people making fun of me? I don't know. It hasn't sunk in yet. I might be very depressed. I'm my biggest critic, myself. So I feel terrible when I do a bad sketch. So when the whole world is criticizing me, I might just kill myself. Or I might just laugh it off. Who knows? 

 Today, legendary New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady went to federal court to participate in a hearing as a part of the ongoing drama surrounding the Deflategate controversy. 
 
 That’s not what’s important, however—what’s important is that there’s a courtroom sketch of Brady, and the results are… uh… nightmare-inducing. 
 
 This is no doubt the worst sketch of Tom Brady ever created pic.twitter.com/mFuHjfF3kS — Jeff Israel (@jeffisrael25) August 12, 2015 
 
 That… looks nothing like Tom Brady. That looks like an old, sad man, not a four-time Super Bowl champion and friend of Ben Affleck. 
 
 Predictably, folks had some fun on Twitter with the sketch. 
 
 this is the real tom brady sketch, unedited. thanks pic.twitter.com/vpv1vPMk7w — Lanny Beavis (@crushingbort) August 12, 2015 
 
 Here's a story Bout a QB named brady who was busy letting air out of his balls pic.twitter.com/43QAXYqJqS — Dave Rappoccio (@DrawPlayDave) August 12, 2015 
 
 Wow Tom Brady has never looked better imo pic.twitter.com/eKxeRc3UFT — Donald Krump (@Jay_Sanin) August 12, 2015 
 
 Wow the courtroom sketch artist at the Tom Brady hearing is incredible. pic.twitter.com/RJknakKl1P — Donald Krump (@Jay_Sanin) August 12, 2015 
 
 Thanks to Tom Brady, we've discovered the Van Gogh of courtroom sketch artists. pic.twitter.com/HodLwhzmaB — Jody Genessy (@DJJazzyJody) August 12, 2015 
 
 Wait, I knew I've seen that Tom Brady sad face before pic.twitter.com/a7cd0nE3hQ — Dave Rappoccio (@DrawPlayDave) August 12, 2015 
 
 DeflateGate is turning into a real thriller pic.twitter.com/KmY3Xv2Bej — Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) August 12, 2015 
 
 Tom Brady the chosen one pic.twitter.com/9Jtc7VQDVw — Dave Rappoccio (@DrawPlayDave) August 12, 2015 
 
 Cheater with a Pearl Earring pic.twitter.com/meeDE45tBO — Dave Rappoccio (@DrawPlayDave) August 12, 2015 
 
 That Tom Brady Drawing…. pic.twitter.com/eYXltI7S2T — Vinny DiStefano (@VDizzle12) August 12, 2015 
 
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– Jane Rosenberg is a New York-based artist who's whipped up courtroom sketches of some of the city's most high-profile cases—including the Woody Allen/Mia Farrow custody hearing and the John Gotti trial—but it's her latest doodle of Tom Brady that has thrown social media into a giggle fit. Her drawing of yesterday's courtroom drama in the Deflategate scandal depicted Tom Brady in what ESPN calls a "rough and approximate portrayal" of the suspended Patriots quarterback. Others weren't as charitable in their description of the sketch, with headlines such as "This courtroom sketch of Tom Brady will haunt your dreams," comparisons to the Lord of the Rings' Gollum and Lurch from The Addams Family, and (of course) plenty of memes on Twitter. There's even a @TomBradySketch Twitter handle that's already popped up to cull the cream of the crop. Rosenberg defends her likeness of Brady by explaining that "I try to capture somebody's essence quickly, so it's not going to be perfect," per CBS New York. She adds to the Boston Globe, "I don't tend to flatter people and make them look beautiful" and notes that Brady made it more challenging for her because he barely looked up from checking his cellphone for most of the hearing. Rosenberg tells Vice she probably won't be scanning the memes on Twitter—"I'm sure it's horrible"—but she does say she's sorry, via the New York Times: "Obviously I apologize to Tom Brady for not making him as good-looking as he is." Behold below: some of our favorite memes (including this amazing GIF).