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this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2025
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To my knowledge, it's rather an interviewing skill than a drawing skill. The victim might not be able to name details, such as narrow, small eyes when they recount it themselves (nor if you gave them all of the design freedom of a 3D modeling software), but if you specifically ask them whether the eyes were big or small, wide or narrow, then they can often give an answer to that, with some amount of uncertainty. Gauging that uncertainty is also part of the interviewing skill.
I also imagine a sketch where the uncertain details are left out is more helpful for actually finding the person than a highly detailed model where everything has to be modeled realistically, no matter how unsure you feel about it.
I'm somewhat blind to faces, and I've always imagined how hard a situation like that would be with someone like me. I could not describe the face of a person I saw at glance, no matter what details you asked, and if I had to recognize someone they caught or showed me a photo of, I couldn't. Even if you gave me a photo of someone and asked me to pick them out of bunch of people, I likely wouldn't be able to. Facial blindness makes you the worst possible eyewitness! Or best I guess, if you're a criminal.
*Edit, wrong word.
That's fair. However I'd like to see a study where subjects were shown a 5 second clip of a crime and half were sent to a police sketch artist, and the other half given that Tiger Woods game and see who comes up with a better depiction