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Facial Approximation

FACIAL APPROXIMATIONS are drawings and sculptures created from an unidentified human skull. These are the coldest of all cold cases. By the time a skull makes it to a forensic ...

Gloria Nusse: “Putting a Living Face on the Nameless Dead”

  A nicely done article about the work of one of the best forensic artists out there, Gloria Nusse. It was originally in the Bay Citizen News, but was also picked up ...

Careers in Facial Approximation

Q: I am interested in a career doing facial reconstruction. It seems that all the jobs go to those in law enforcement. I really want to help victims and families, ...

New facial reconstruction course

Facial Reconstruction – Mystery Solved! Art League of Virginia http://school.theartleague.org/course_desc.php?class_id=14072 Ever wondered how experts recreate a face when the subject may have been dead for thousands of years? By utilizing ...

Facial reconstruction case study – Wes Neville

This is a facial reconstruction that Wes did when he worked at the Florence County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina in 2004. This is an interesting case, which highlights the  ...

New facial reconstruction workshop

For anyone interested in learning more about facial reconstruction, but either 1) can’t make it to New York for Joe’s class, or 2)  took Joes’ class, loved it, and now wants ...

Terrific forensic artist website

It goes without saying, that this site is a work in progress. I’ve been off-line for almost a week due to work and agonizingly slow internet access. Anyway, this post ...