Skills / Techniques for a Police Sketch Artist

[Gollum]

Originally Posted by cosmicfish

Someone with Portraiture (Artist (Drawing)) is more versatile and can draw anything... but they do portraits better.

I suppose that this is how these drawers were recruited*. They had to be good at drawing portraits and, then, were trained to draw the different types of eyes, noses, ears, etc., on request. But I'm not sure at all. I never worked for the police...

Never mind. It may be both a specialization and a technique.

And what is wonderful with GURPS is that it can be handled as the player and the GM want. After all, there may be different career path to do this job! Two Sketch Artists don't necessary have followed exactly the same training. One may be a good drawer in general who didn't find any other job and, so, just learn the technique, while the other one may have been recruited because he was really good at drawing portraits... Everything is possible.

And GURPS can handle all these different possibilities differently. That's just amazing.

So, my hint: it all depends on the character story!

*I use the past because these portraits are drawn by computers now.