I'm trying to find a reference book that has photographs of facial features in it. I could find visual reference books for artists that have facial expressions, but there are few models and those models are demonstrating different moods and expressions. What I need is a book full of noses, mouths, eyes, chins, etc in their normal state.
I can't find what I want, so I might have to start drawing it myself. I can imagine many different eye shapes, nose shapes, and mouths. I would like to have a book that victims can flip through to identify, for instance, "his nose looked like THAT." Something like this would make it much easier. I can also use it to practice - because I could pick out different features randomly and create composites.
I think I will draw the features on baseball card sized pieces of cardstock and store them in baseball card collector sleeves. That way I can move them around, and I can organize them in a 3-ring binder with dividers to separate them by feature type. It will take some time, but it will be good practice.
I think I'll start with noses. It would be fun to leave it on the table and let people wonder why I have a book full of noses. :)
I wonder how many different looking noses there are in the world, anyway? This could be a very big binder. Maybe I'll need a different 3-ring binder for each feature. I don't think this is a project that would ever end. Even once I think I have every feature, I'm sure I would find (or see) a different type of nose on someone on TV. It boggles the mind...they could even be sorted by ethnic groups, because of the different features of different ethnic backgrounds.
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