Digital Forensic Art Techniques
I continue to get questions through this website from forensic artists who want to know where they can learn to use digital tools in their work. I found there are still no other artists teaching this subject, and no books about it. I expanded my original workshop handout that I’d written for my Digital Composite […]
A Different Way to Use Forensic Art Skills
This past summer I was asked to use my forensic art knowledge and skills in a new way. It was not a reconstruction from a skull of a deceased person, but a reconstruction of a living person. I was contacted by a young man who was planning on extensive cosmetic surgery to change his appearance, […]
Seattle PD Reconstruction
This is the last reconstruction case I prepared and photographed in December at the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. This victim was found at a homeless camp on Capital Hill. He’s a white male 30 to 60 years of age, but probably toward the lower end of that range. There was no mandible with these […]
4th Reconstruction: Kitsap County
This is the fourth reconstruction from the group I prepped in December at the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. It’s a Kitsap County case. A white male 40 to 65 years of age. He’s got a lot of antemortem tooth loss with re-absorption indicating the teeth have been gone for some time. In that case, […]
Wahkiakum County Reconstruction
Medical Examiner’s Office in December. Wahkiakum County Prosecutor/Coroner Dan Bigelow sent out the following press release: News Release: Facial Reconstruction of Wahkiakum County Unidentified Remains – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Wahkiakum County Coroner’s Office has released new information about the unidentified human remains discovered on the shore of the Columbia River last June, including a […]
Pend Oreille County Case
The second case from King County Medical Examiner’s Office that I finished was one from the Northeastern-most county in Washington, Pend Oreille. This was an interesting case as the cranium was unusually misshapen. Dr. Taylor advised the victim was a white male possibly in his 50s who had been found in a sleeping bag under […]