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Annotated Bibliography on Forensic Artists Kayla Blankenship Chapin High School

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Annotated Bibliography on Forensic Artists A forensic artist is an artist whom creates a sketch, 3D model, or a photo shopped photograph depicting a criminal. They do this so that their works can be distributed to help the police in different areas find the criminals and arrest them. For the 2D sketch artist, they make these sketches from descriptions of the felon. The 3D artist creates a 3D model of the persons

head/body on a computer by looking at the skeleton and clothes of the dead victim. A photo shop artist creates photos of people who have been missing for many years. They take the most recent photo of the missing person and take family members photos, using all of these to enhance the age of the missing person to the age they would be. Works Cited Bresnahan, A. (2002). SAVING FACES. People, 58(22), 70. The article talks of the type of forensic artist that uses the aid of a computer to construct a face. In the article it discusses the case of Jonathan Ortiz, a kid who was kidnapped by his mother and was missing for eight years. With the use of photo shop, forensic scientist Glen Miller, created a portrait of Jonathan that was aged progressed. The process contains the study of the childs most recent photo and family members photos. This source is credible because I found it on the reliable source of DISCUS. Fernandez, S. M. (2001). Drawing from Elusive Memory. Time, 157(11), 56. This article is about the memory science behind forensic artistry. Jeanne Boylan talks about her break through technique in forensic artistry and how she does things differently. Most of the other artists show the witnesses photos or sketches to jog the witnesss memories. This is bad because by doing so, this implants the image into the witnesses head and makes them think its their own. Boylan on the other hand talks of

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the whole experience and rarely mentions the sketch pad. This source is reliable because it is found on the trusted cite DISCUS. Levy, D. (2003). Con Artist. People, 60(21), 89-90. The source, DISCUS, that was used to find this article is reliable because it was deemed trustworthy by the administrator of the project. The article is about Lois Gibson, a forensic artist, that has aided in the capture of 135 criminals. It talks about her career as a forensic artist and how she sketches drawings of criminals to send out. These drawings help the police to identify a criminal to bring them in and get them sentenced. Moore, C. (2007). Scientific SLEUTHS. Career World, 35(5), 16-19. This article is about the different jobs you can have under the category of forensic science. The first it talks about is a forensic artist. The forensic artist it talks about is a sculpting artist. This artist, instead of using paper and pencil, uses a computer and creates a persons face based of a skeleton/skull they are given. Then the article talks about an anthropologist whom helps recover human remains. The other two jobs mentioned were and entomologist and a document examiner. The entomologist studies the insects found on decomposing bodies and the document examiner studies documents for forged signatures. The source I used was DISCUS and it is reliable because it was deemed trustworthy by our instructor. Reclaiming Two Lost Lives. (1994). People, 42(26), 135. This source is reliable because I found it on the trusted cite of DISCUS. The article is about the forensic artist, Jeanne Boylan, in action. It talks about her working on a project for Debra Fisher. Debra Fisher had lost both of her grandparents in the holocaust and had wanted to see them. In order to do this, she had found a family friend that had known her

grandparents, and set up a meeting with Jeanne Boylan. By the end of the family friends description, Boylan drew up the portraits and had successfully portrayed Fishers grandparents.