1st Edition
Digital Forensic Art Techniques A Professional’s Guide to Corel Painter
Introduction
1. The Workspace
2. Setting Up Your Workspace for a Composite
3. Composite Drawing
4. Step by Step Composite Case 1
5. Step by Step Composite Case 2
6. Saving Your Work: Filing System, Case Log, and Court
7. Skull and Muscle Anatomy
8. Light on the Face
9. Adding Tone
10. Adding Photographic Elements to a Composite
11. Postmortem Drawing
12. 2D Reconstruction
13. Customizing Painter
14. Conclusion
Biography
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 draws composites remotely online as half of IDFA for Leads Online. All of her forensic art work has been digital since 2011. 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 a certified forensic artist. She had an article 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".
She has been a beta tester for Corel Painter since the 2016 build.
Her work can be seen on her website, www.nataliemurry.com, on Behance, and on Facebook as NatalieMurryForensicArt and IDForensicArt.
"Digital Forensic Art Techniques is an invaluable resource for any digital artist seeking to delve into the world of forensic art. Not only does it make digital art accessible to traditional artists seeking to understand Corel Painter software, it also outlines the necessary workflow for developing forensic art images ranging from composite drawings to postmortem renderings. As both an instructor and a student, I highly recommend this book." - Jorge Molina, Forensic Artist
