Courtroom sketch artist apologizes for making Tom Brady look like E.T.

It looks like testicle puns weren't the funniest thing to come out of Twitter's Deflategate obsession after all.

A courtroom sketch of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, released Wednesday from the first hearing in a civil case over his four-game NFL suspension, is currently setting the internet on fire — with jokes about how Brady looks like he'd been set on fire.

The "melty" (and now viral) rendition of Brady seen above was drawn by veteran courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg during the hearing at a federal court in Manhattan, and then published on Twitter by WBZ Boston reporter Jim Armstrong. 

​While Rosenberg has received plenty of praise for her accurate portrayals of public figures like Woody Allen, Martha Stewart and Bill Cosby over the past 35 years, many online felt that her Brady sketch looked a bit … off.

"This sketch of Tom Brady made one of sports' most symmetrical, handsome faces look like Sloth got left out in the sun too long," wrote the popular sports blog SB Nation of the sketch.

A South Carolina NBC affiliate wrote that that it made Brady look like "a melted Picasso or Steve Buscemi after getting his face rearranged by IK Enemkpali."

The Photoshop wizards of Twitter used images to express their thoughts on what Brady looked like in the sketch, and needless to say, it wasn't the four-time Super Bowl champion who married Gisele Bundchen and made People's "sexiest men alive" list in 2012. 

Many compared Brady's courtroom sketch image to characters from the worlds of music, television and film.

Some incorporated Brady (and others) into existing works of art.

And, just like the famous Ecce Homo restoration of 2012, the Tom Brady courtroom sketch "fail" was genuinely enjoyed by the online masses.

Less than 24 hours after the sketch went viral, the artist herself began speaking out about the web's reaction to it.

"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," said Rosenberg to Vice Sports. "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.

She also explained that courtroom sketch artists work quickly and under pressure.

"This Tom Brady thing, I did this whole wide shot with a million people in it," she continued. "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 asked if she was bothered by the meme, she had this to say:

"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?"