Court Artist Apologises Over Tom Brady Sketch

A courtroom sketch artist has apologised after her drawing of Tom Brady at a "Deflategate" civil hearing in Manhattan went viral because it looked so bad.

Jane Rosenberg's drawing of the New England Patriots quarterback was picked up online with people circulating internet memes of his badly drawn face.

Among some of them were comparisons to the character Lurch in The Addams Family and to the figure in Edvard Munch's painting The Scream.

Ms Rosenberg said she was unaware of the furore around her sketch until after she had left the court.

She told CBS News: "When I came out I'd just done my sketches, I didn't know I broke the internet til after I fed my sketches in.

"Suddenly I'm getting a million phone calls, emails, texts, people coming up to me and trying to interview me.

"I'm very self-critical of my own artwork, I feel really bad when I do a bad sketch and I don't like being criticised.

"I apologise for not making him look pretty enough to the world and all those fans of Tom Brady, he's a very good looking guy.

"But I did a wide shot with a lot of people in it, and it was a big composition and Tom Brady was a tiny little head in that composition."

Ms Rosenberg added: "I did the best I can, I'm under tremendous deadline pressure, I work very fast, I do it right then and there."

Brady, 38, is appealing against a four-game suspension for his role in the deflation of footballs used in the AFC Championship game between the Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts in January.