Description: This drawing workshop offers training in traditional police composite imaging with an eye toward the transition to digital forensic art. Included will be lectures and discussions of biological differences in sex, race, and age, the importance of proportion, issues of memory and trauma, interviewing techniques, courtroom testimony, and the use of reference materials. Attendees will have hands-on practice in composite drawing methodology while also learning which artistic styles and techniques are most conducive to potentially transitioning to digital composites. The class will focus on the fundamentals of the composite process, in which a victim directs the artist to develop the face of a criminal suspect for investigative purposes. Reference photos are employed to assist the victim to describe individual features as the artist builds a face incorporating the disparate features into a cohesive whole. Emerging technologies in forensic art will be addressed. The instructor will demonstrate the composite process of a digital sketch on the Cintiq drawing tablet with Photoshop or Painter. Advantages and disadvantages of pencil and digital methods will be discussed. The practice of completing the interview and composite remotely will also be demonstrated.

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Description: This drawing and composition workshop will be a lively exploration of the power of composition and the usefulness of drawing in making a painting successful. We’ll take a look at some great paintings of the masters, we’ll go over simple yet invaluable tools for accurate rendering, and talk about how sketching for 20 minutes a day transforms 97-pound-weaklings into veritable Charles Atlases of art... We’ll sketch, draw and paint, and, for those who wish, Charlie will expound and instruct about the limited palette he uses. We’ll learn and laugh a lot while staying true to the credo of have big fun; make big mess.

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Description: This drawing workshop offers training in traditional police composite imaging with an eye toward the transition to digital forensic art. Included will be lectures and discussions of biological differences in sex, race, and age, the importance of proportion, issues of memory and trauma, interviewing techniques, courtroom testimony, and the use of reference materials. Attendees will have hands-on practice in composite drawing methodology while also learning which artistic styles and techniques are most conducive to potentially transitioning to digital composites. The class will focus on the fundamentals of the composite process, in which a victim directs the artist to develop the face of a criminal suspect for investigative purposes. Reference photos are employed to assist the victim to describe individual features as the artist builds a face incorporating the disparate features into a cohesive whole. Emerging technologies in forensic art will be addressed. The instructor will demonstrate the composite process of a digital sketch on the Cintiq drawing tablet with Photoshop or Painter. Advantages and disadvantages of pencil and digital methods will be discussed. The practice of completing the interview and composite remotely will also be demonstrated.

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