Police sketches: How sketch artists make composite drawings

A good police sketch or composite drawing can help investigators solve a crime. Here's how sketch artists make composite drawings.
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[@MrXavierRose]

Composite sketches are so creepy, they're not made to look identical. They're made to show certain characteristics so people know when looking for suspects, you're not looking for a match, you looking for facial traits

[@Gaxtry]

why not just give them a nintendo switch an have them make a mii. boom ez no problemo

[@allanalmendros803]

you are problably joking but they do have a mii like creator too

[@Acordionista509]

Canadians are real?

[@vahidm6119]

Who cares? AI is going to take that job out too!

[@mothra727]

what do you think the world will look like once we achieve this level of automation?

[@dawn-blade]

A whole lot of nothing. And we are only a few decades away.

[@melvinlabrador941]

are ready to be called trash bec. of your AI?

[@PyroGothNerd]

Probably not. AI can't handle creative tasks, and art requires creativity, even when just recreating someone else's description.
I mean, have you seen AI-generated art? It's just bad attempts to recreate famous art pieces, and requires an image

[@sunflowers2469]

funny how he didn’t put dimples and the first thing she said was pronounced dimples

[@AvitalShtap]

He did on either side!

[@datgurl12121]

It's hard to show dimples when you have to draw the face in a neutral expression

[@ugonnaumeike1563]

😂

[@ammoniawilder4451]

How dare thee, peasant. Off with his head!

[@kevinhaid6211]

He didn't make her face thin either 😂, he gave her pronounced cheek bones instead of dimples. He also forgot the "thick, thick lipstick".

[@richirozan7272]

police sketches = pcycologhy + artist

[@aftpunker88]

She probably has a good memory cause the average person wouldn’t know how to describe there suspect

[@mustardbiscuits9750]

Wait, can people normally remember other peoples faces to this level of detail?

[@mapofthesoultagme7143]

I can't

[@Ceejaybtx]

Likely not but seeing other faces helps and if they can remember any distinct facial features

[@jimbanda]

Wow , I often wondered how this happened. I have often heard people give totally different descriptions of a driver or a mugger and wondered how police settled on a portrait.

[@jprevatt]

I once used 3D animation software that was close to these methods. Something like Adobe Illustrator or 3D Max Blender is good, almost spot on, but can be time consuming. If those could be scaled down a few steps in the coding, that would work better!
(Not a sketch artist myself, was using these tools to try & make a video game from a favorite TV show years ago)

[@TheJoker-yh1ce]

I always thought that they just drew and problem solved

[@markheying2830]

If I remember, Composite Sketches could be of any of the following 5.
1: Arsonist
2: Murderer
3: Prison Escapee
4: Robber
5: Kidnapper

[@lotanowo]

i feel like women probably give better descriptions than men. We are terrible at recognizing unique facial features. Don't ask me about hair color or nothing.

[@known_unknown284]

Can anyone please name the two reference books the artist is working with? Thanks.

[@jorgecampos868]

wow really close if he would have make her jaws less pronounced it would have been even closer, ahd he forgot the dimples.

[@johnrupesh4535]

Very informative. Great video. Thanks.

[@nickel2442]

wow it's pretty good

[@mohabuleenhaneen8315]

This is amazing video to watch

[@joerizalsanchez]

Now I know how Police Sketch work

[@TurinTurambarTolkien]

That shit's way off.

[@angrybirdz9287]

I like it

[@DarkLight-sz1vp]

0:00 ITS AN ALEIN!!!

[@canival317isback]

I feel like this is how God & Mother Nature came to create lol

[@retiredshitposter1062]

0:50 "Xer, tell me what the man who made microaggressions looks like"