This is the portrait of Akhenaten that I created for
my Akhenaten Biography page. It was based on a partial bust recovered from
the ruins of Thutmose's workshop at Akhetaten. The medium is pencil.
This is Akhenaten and Nefertiti's third daughter, Ankhesenpaaten,
eventually to become the wife of Pharaoh Tutankhaten/amun. I drew Ankhesenpaaten
in dark conte crayon.
This is a portrait of Lord Ay, probably the brother of
Queen Tiye and father of Queen Nefertiti. The medium is charcoal. This
portrait is based on a plaster bust from the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose.
This is my attempt at a portrait in colored pencil. I
am still learning the medium, but hopefully I will have it under control
soon. This is a portrait of Akhenaten, wearing a bag wig and a beaded broad
collar.
This is a drawing of a dinner in the royal palace. This
is a more complex scene than most of my drawings, and I am still worrying
out the perspective in this one. An improved, flashier version is soon
to come . . .
This is one of my few portraits of Nefertiti. I often
get frustrated trying to draw her, and still have not really managed to
produce a really satisfying portrait of her. The medium is pencil.
This is a sketch of young prince Amenhotep IV (later Akhenaten).
I made this drawing by tracing the skull of the mummy
from tomb KV55 and then adding flesh to the outline of the skull, so hopefully
this is a fairly accurate rendering of what the person would have looked
like in life. The identity of this mummy is still disputed. Some believe
it to be Akhenaten himself, and others believe it to be his youger co-regent,
Smenkhkare. In any case, this young man has a classic Amarna family profile.
The medium is pencil on tracing paper.
This is Queen Tiye, the mother of Akhenaten. This portrait
is based on the famous miniature wooden bust of Tiye. The medium is charcoal.
This drawing of three of Akhenaten's daughters loosely
approximates the Amarna style of art. The drawing is in pencil and ink.
This image of Akhenaten and Nefertiti dancing is a sketch
for what ended up being a much simpler design for the lesson on symmetry
in the basic design course I took several years ago. The medium is pencil.
Below is the final version of the design. (My professor kept telling me
"Simpler is better!" He liked my final drawing.)
This is a drawing I did for my basic design course a
few years ago. It was intended to show motion. I discovered that I could
create an interesting effect by filling in the outlines of the figures
in ink, but doing the shadowing and many of the details in pencil.
This drawing was based on a photograph of a young Motu
girl rowing a small canoe down a river, and the image seemed remarkably
similar to some that came out of Ancient Egypt. I altered the girl's costume
very slightly to make her look more Egyptian. The medium is pencil.
I drew this one several years ago. The model for Akhenaten
in this picture was actually a photograph of a woman. She was the best
I could do for the angle I wanted at the time.
I drew this one when I was about 10 years old, when I
had only recently learned about the Amarna period. I had a dream about
seeing a carving of Akhenaten in a small boat on the nile, and when I woke
up, I sketched it. This was the result.
This was an early reconstruction of the KV55 mummy, which
I did when I was about 12 or 13. I did not actually trace the skull, so
the result is pretty different from what I got later (see above).
This drawing of two of Akhenaten's daughters is one of
my favorites.
This drawing of Akhenaten dancing was another sketch
I did when I was 11 or 12. I had just visited Malaysia, and was inspired
by the traditional dances that I saw there. I began sketching this picture
in the airport, just before the flight home. An old Malaysian fellow was
sitting next to me, and he recognized the inspiration for the drawing and
became very interested. He even told me the name of the dance that Akhenaten
was doing, and also was able to correlate Akhenaten's costume with a traditional
type of dance costume!
