When We Tend To Think Of Art,

many think that it should be beautiful,  

 or pleasing to the eye, but not so the work of Lois Gibson who is a forensic artist at the Houston Police Department in Texas, USA, Lois has helped the police identify more than 500 criminals with her composite sketches, even though almost all the victims that she interviews claim not to have seen the attacker’s face, Her two best resources are a book filled with sketches of 200 different noses, eyes, eyebrows and lips, and the question, “What expression did the man have when he did this?” After about an hour of patiently going through various facial features with the victim, she usually manages to coax out enough information to create an accurate portrait of the criminal, according to Gibson, her drawings have an unusually high success rate: about a third lead to arrests, “My art is the only kind that does not need to be beautiful,” she says. “It’s ugly and sloppy and sketchy – but if it saves lives, it becomes beautiful and perfect.” below some of her sketches,

the witness was intoxicated when he saw this woman, and the sketch was done two weeks after the incident,

a woman accused of kidnapping a 10-hour-old baby from its mother’s hospital room,

sketch made from a description given by a victim who was robbed at a gas station with an assault rifle, and who claimed never to have seen her attacker, to see more of her work have a look here, it is amazing how accurate her sketches are, what an amazing talent she has!