In Theory and Practice we were all approached with a lesson that drew inspiration from police forensic sketch artists. I found the lesson to be quite a challenge in a way that I never had really thought of before. Drawing something based on the verbal description of another was much harder than I had anticipated it to be. I don't really know what I expected to be honest, but my final product was not really something that I would ever look at it and be like, now that is a good piece of art. The lesson itself cold have used this aspect in the sense that it may have been nice for the product that we produced in class to have been our rough sketch and then to move onto a more final work from there.
But back to the idea of drawing from a verbal description. It's just plain hard. The whole thing made me wonder what the actual requirements were to become a sketch artist. Before I started looking into it, I wondered what kind of degree you would need. I mean, you're a police officer technically... but you're also a full time artist in a way. So do you go for an art degree or a criminology degree? Or maybe even something in between. I found out that you need a combination of all of the above. A certain amount of hours was required under an approved art school on top of the requirements to get into law enforcement.
I found an interesting video about sketch artists, well one in particular, and I've posted it right below.
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