Corel Painter tutorial videos

Three ancestries

Corel has released the series of tutorials I made for them that illustrates some methods that I use when drawing digitally. There are four videos:  Age progression and muscles of the head (muscles of expression and mastication) Drawing a composite The differences in the skulls for specific ancestry and sex How to learn to draw […]

Unidentified remains homicide case from 1979 is one step closer to resolution

In April 2019, I joined the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit in Georgetown TX. Initially I had just offered to do forensic art for them but because I am a former police officer, they asked if I would also be interested in doing investigations. They assigned me to their 3 unidentified remains cases. […]

Williamson County Cold Case Unit

In April, I started working with the Williamson County Cold Case Unit here in Georgetown TX as an investigator and forensic artist. I’ll be working on the three unidentified remains cases here: Orange Socks, Corona Girl, and Rebel Ray. To start with, I drew new versions of all three cases. Mostly this was to get […]

Snohomish County Unidentified Remains cases

I’ve recently finished 3 cases for Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office in Washington. This is the information on the cases. The first victim was found in Yost Park Edmonds in November 2018. This surveillance photo was taken of him a couple of weeks before he was found, but was insufficient for identification. He was a […]

Skagit County Unidentified

I recently completed a 2D reconstruction from unidentified remains for this Skagit County case. The victim was found in 1998 about 14 miles north of Burlington WA off Highway 11. He was wearing this jacket and similar sunglasses. He was also wearing a red, blue, and gray plaid shirt and Levi’s. He was about 5’04” […]

Possible Identification on Snohomish County Case

The Everett Herald posted an article on Sunday about this case that I reconstructed in September. The photos of the possible victim are a good match with proportions, the nose, the mouth, the chin and face shape. The hair color and style were just a lucky happenstance, I’m afraid. Snohomish County is attempting to get medical records […]