Digital Forensic Art Techniques

Drawing Faces for Beginners
Forensic artist Natalie Murry shows you how to import mugshots or other photos into Painter and draw directly on top of them to hone your skills.

Portraying Ancestry in Forensic Art
In this tutorial, forensic artist Natalie Murry teaches you how to accurately portray a subject’s ancestry when creating a composite sketch.

Creating a Composite Sketch
Learn how to use reference images of individual features from different mugshots and knit them together into a cohesive and believable face.

Drawing Muscles and Aging a Face
This tutorial offers insight into how facial muscles work and change during the aging process, and how to portray this in your forensic art.

Webinar – Forensic Art
In this Painter webinar you’ll witness the real-life forensic art of reconstructing a face from a skull, demonstrated by top forensic artist Natalie Murry.
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