Art Careers - Forensic Artist
Saturday February 21, 2009
Popular TV shows like Law and Order, Numb3rs, CSI and 'Without a Trace' have renewed interest the creative aspects of fighting crime. Police forensic artists, or sketch artists, work with old-fashioned paper and pencil as well as state-of-the-art computer graphics. Find out more from this article on Forensic Sketch Artist careers, including related links to forensic artist sites and articles. If you're interested in police work as well as using your creative skills, why not ask your careers adviser or local job center about your suitability for a career in forensic art?
Comments
One of my new favorite shows is a series called “Bones” about a forensic anthropologist. One of the main characters is an artist who draws portraits of murder victims as they would have looked like when they were alive.
It’s really interesting, because they take the skull of a victim, add tissue markers, then draw what the face would have looked like. It’s a really interesting job that I imagine takes a lot of skill.
Great article, and thanks for pulling the information together. I’m really jealous of people in those jobs!