Reading the Skull

ISBN-13: 9781032259109 / Twarda / 2023 / 168 str.

Natalie Murry

Opis

The book provides advanced instruction on how to identify key facial features, as well as indicators and anomalies in bone structures, to help better identify and decipher distinguishing characteristics—aiding artists to help in illustrating specific and unique details in facial structure and features.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Photographing the skull  3. The face and ears  4. Casework  5. The eye and brow  6. The nose  7. The mouth  8. Facial reconstruction in the UK  9. Traumatic injury and anomalies  10. Facial comparison

O autorze

Natalie Murry is a freelance forensic artist currently based in Austin, Texas. She began her forensic art career while working as a police officer in Kent Washington. She does reconstructions and postmortem drawings for the King County Medical Examiner’s Office in Seattle Washington, and the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office in Everett Washington. She has taught forensic artists to draw digitally at workshops at police departments from Washington to New Jersey as well as at Scottsdale Artists School and at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University. Natalie is on the forensic art subcommittee for the International Association for Identification, and is an IAI certified forensic artist. She has had two articles published in the Journal of Forensic Identification: in September/ October 2015 entitled “Rotating the Anterior View of a Skull into the Frankfort Horizontal Plane for Postmortem Drawings” and in April/ June 2021 entitled “Skull to Photo Comparison for Identification Purposes.” She has been a beta tester for Corel Painter since the 2016 build. Her work can be seen on her website, www.natal iemu rry.com, on Instagram as @NatalieMurryForensicArt, and on Facebook as NatalieMurryForensicArt.