Forensic artist

✦ 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗳 on Instagram: "Lois Gibson holds the record for the most identifications by a forensic artist. She has been working as a forensic artist for the Houston Police Department since 1989 and as of 2012, her work had helped solve 1,266 crimes. She retired in 2021 and is widely recognized as the world’s most prolific and successful forensic sketch artist."

Forensic artist and sculptor Lisa Bailey talks to us about what it takes to do her job, from reconstructing a lost person from just a skull to helping traumatized crime victims remember visual details.

As a Forensic artist for the Houston Police Department in Texas, Lois Gibson's visionary talent has helped to positively identify 751 criminals and secure over 1,000 convictions.

Are you a true crime and CSI fanatic? Do you have artistic talent? Combine them into an interesting, challenging, and honorable career as a forensic artist.

How One Forensic Artist Brings the Dead to Life

Lois Gibson is recorded in The Guinness Book of World Records as The World's Most Successful Forensic Artist. Her sketches have helped law enforcement identify more than 751 criminals.

With her detailed reconstructions of missing persons and murder victims, Gatliff helped give identities to the nameless dead

Hand Drawn and Computer Enhanced Facial Approximation Techniques

The document of Emilie Floge’s portrait authentication has been issued by the World Leading Forensic Art subject matter expert Ms. Lois Gibson (USA), Head of Forensic Art Institute. Ms. Lois Gibson is in the Guinness Book of Records for her achievements in the forensic Art and identification of people..

Digital forensic art created on a cintiq

Covers 3D (three dimensional) Facial Approximation Techniques

A forensic artist, also commonly referred to as a sketch artist, is a graphic artist that renders free-hand or computerized drawings, enhancements, and reconstructions. Forensic art is defined as an artistic technique used for identification, apprehension or conviction purposes. Forensic artists work closely with law enforcement officers to identify criminal suspects and victims through facial

Facial reconstruction is a method used in the forensic field when a crime involves unidentified remains. Facial reconstruction is usually performed by a sculptor who is an expert in facial anatomy. This sculptor could be a forensic artist but it’s not a requirement. Either way, the sculptor will work with forensic anthropologists to interpret the…

Jeanne Boylan, the gifted forensic artist, whose beauty and compassion make her one of the most fascinating crusaders in the war against crime, tells her own riveting and deeply personal story. In thousands of national cases, Jeanne Boylan has pieced together portraits of crime suspects from the pained and fragmented descriptions drawn out from crime victims and eyewitnesses; time after time, her uncannily accurate renderings have helped close the most baffling of cases.

Dedicated to the practicing Forensic Artist sketching unidentified suspects from surveillance videos.