Illustration: Jianan Liu/HuffPost; Photo: Getty Images, AP Courtroom artists revealed the fascinating details of their jobs — and the moments we rarely see. For Elizabeth Williams , one of the three courtroom artists inside the Manhattan courtroom for former President Donald Trump ’s trial, every day is a new challenge. Take last Tuesday, when defense attorney Todd Blanche cross-examined Trump’s fixer-turned-enemy Michael Cohen on the witness stand.
She nailed the former president’s facial expression. “He tends to purse his lips forward when he gets really pissed off. And he was doing that,” Williams told HuffPost on Sunday.
Advertisement But on that particular drawing , she was less satisfied with how Cohen turned out, even though she felt she got his energy down. “Did I get a really great likeness of him? No, but that’s what the back-and-forth [between Blanche and Cohen] looked like.” That’s the daily challenge of a courtroom artist.
“It’s not like you can say, ‘I’ve been doing this for so long. It’s just so easy now.’ That’s just unfortunately not true,” Williams said, noting that she goes through “a lot of paper.
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