Corel Painter 2016 Beta Team
Over the past year, I’ve been honored to participate on the Corel Painter 2016 beta testing team. I use Painter for all of my forensic art work, and I promote it over Adobe Photoshop to other forensic artists. When the 2016 product was released, a few of my images were included. The image at left […]
Two Identifications This Week
I spoke this week with Dr. Kathy Taylor, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office forensic anthropologist . She told me two cases I’d drawn for them resulted in identifications recently. The first case was one I’d drawn back in 2001. I think it was the first reconstruction I did for KCME. The skeletal remains had […]
Journal of Forensic Identification Article
I wrote an article that is being published in the September/October issue of the Journal of Forensic Identification. The JFI is the official publication of the International Association for Identification. I have seen several postmortem drawings of unidentified people published where it is obvious that the artist just traced over the features of a morgue […]
Unidentified Remains in Kent WA
2D Reconstruction A recent case of a female unidentified in the Seattle area. I’m still playing with different methods of adding tone. In this case, the forensic anthropologist was able to show me a hair sample and a shirt that were with the remains. This case was featured on Washington’s Most Wanted in July.
Composite Practice…Black and White and Color
Messing around on the Cintiq this week, drawing a female since I don’t get much practice in that. Did her in black and white earlier this week and then added some color today.
Centennial IAI Conference
At the IAI conference this year, Don Stahl and I are co-hosting a day long workshop on Digital Drawing Techniques. Don will present how to draw eyes with Adobe Photoshop in the morning. In the afternoon, I’ll present how to draw hair with Corel Painter. Wacom will provide the Cintiq tablets for students to work […]