From Pencil to Photoshop: Creating a Hypothetical Version of Tomb KV 63’s Damaged Coffin C

In 2006, Dr. Ray Johnson, the director of the Epigraphic Survey in Luxor, contributed to the Amenmesse Project/KV 10⎼KV 63 by lending me and my artistic skills to draw the coffins found by Dr. Otto Schaden † and his team in the Valley of the Kings.

Aesthetics and Objectivity in the Visual Representation of Artifacts (Part 1) – Traditional Object Documentation

Any kind of visual interpretation, either being a color rendering of a wall painting or a modeled three-dimensional view of an object, must be tailored to the audience and to the purpose of the actual drawing, whatever the range of technological aids available at the moment.

Abydos Settlement Site - drawing a late period ibis jar

Pencil texturing on photo enlargement documenting late-Roman murals at Luxor Temple

Object drawing work environment at the Abydos Settlement Site project

Clay "paddle doll" figurine from Abydos South drawn freehand by using pencil on matte acetate

Makeshift studio on a scaffolding for documenting painted remains at Medinet Habu

Wooden funerary mask from TT 65, represented on mylar using pencil

Penciling on photo enlargement at Medinet Habu using the traditional Chicago House Method

Pencil representation of a faience shabti from the mortuary complex of Senwosret III

Pencil drawing of a painted ceramic horse head from the Abydos Settlement Site

Creating the special “lifting-up” effect in Photoshop for the cover photo of the Survey’s digital penciling case study

Penciling the Achoris columns on Wacom's Companion tablet PC in the Small Amun Temple at Medinet Habu

Tracing painted hieroglyphs on one of the architraves in TT 65 using transparent paper sheets and graphite pencil

Life-size, fully modelled and shaded representation of a small clay figurine head from South Abydos

Severely damaged wooden coffins and jars, filled with ceramics, textiles and natron in KV 63

Facsimile Penciling on Mylar in Theban Tomb 179

Traditional Penciling on Photo Enlargements in Order to Document the Faded Late Roman Murals at Luxor Temple