All this talk tonight about him not being local because nobody seems to have recognized him has made me think again - scary thought as always! As realistic as the sketch is, I think it may be missing something that would make him easily identifiable. One thing I've learned in the years I've painted/sketched portraits for people is that almost everybody has some specific feature that makes them easily recognized in drawings/photos. I've known some that had distinctive eyebrows, a crooked lip, unusual shape/color/slant to the eye/s, unusually shaped ears, moles, warts, scars, etc. If an artist gets that aspect of the picture right (or it's showing in a photo), it seems that it's obvious to most people who it is. If this guy has something like that, people may not recognize him if it wasn't included in the sketch. It could be that his eyebrows are wrong, that one eye should be higher, lower, smaller, larger, or whatever. It could be that his nose is shaped differently, and his nose is something that people recognize first. It could be many things (even his hairstyle, which nobody seems to have seen).
Just because people don't recognize him from the sketch, that doesn't mean that nobody knows him. It could be something as simple as normally having a "unibrow" and distinctive curls, and shaving between his eyes and putting on a hat. I have no idea what feature it might be, or what good it would do to know that something was missing from the sketch, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway. I'd really like him to be local rather than travelling across the country doing the same thing to other young girls. MOO
