A Hawke's Bay artist told police photocopies of topless photographs he secretly took of his mother-in-law were freehand drawings.
Aaron John Jenkins, 27, appeared in the Hastings District Court on Monday at a judge-alone trial on three charges of committing an indecent act with the intent to insult and one of making an intimate visual recording.
However, his not-guilty pleas were vacated after police withdrew one of the indecent act charges and guilty pleas were entered to the remaining three.
The Havelock North artist made headlines in 2015 after he drew a lifelike image of the former All Black Jerry Collins who died in a car crash in France and then auctioned it on Trade Me to raise money for Collins' then 4-month-old daughter.
According to the summary of facts the artist's offending began when his mother-in-law moved into his home in 2012.