AS DEEP AS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA Likewise, readers of Eiction are often irritated by the cover art on a book because, invariably, the scene that's being depicted on the cover doesn't accurately portray the scene as it was written by the author. There are always some details that are inaccurate. Undoubtedly, this is a business decision. They're probably doing what they know will sell more books for the least amount of money, but it's frustrating when the main character of the book is supposed to have blue eyes but the model's eyes on the cover are clearly green. If only the artist had read it, he/she would know that the main character had blue eyes as deep as the Mediterranean Sea; chiseled features with a strong chin; a patrician nose with its perfection only marred by a slight crook; a little‐too‐long wavy hair with a wayward lock that hung rebelliously over a broad forehead; a day's worth of stubble on his face; and a small, thin scar on his right temple that he received when he fell from a tree when he was eight years old.
ARE YOU A SKETCH ARTIST?
This is exactly what police sketch artists count on.
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They take an eyewitness' description of an alleged suspect and sketch the face based on those descriptions with the results being strikingly similar to the suspect. All without the police sketch artist ever seeing the suspect. In essence, isn't this what we, as genealogists and family historians, do? Take details of an ancestor and put them all together in hopes that the resulting “sketch” bears some resemblance to your ancestor? However, is it possible to make an actual sketch
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