Exciting things are happening in the field of Digital Egyptology! A selection of projects: Tomb of Nefertari Experius VR have 3D scanned the tomb of Nefertari, allowing you to virtually walk around in it using a Vive headset. The VR experience can be downloaded from Steam. I don’t own a VR headset myself, but this video…
Enjoying Luxor
Now the sun is finally shining in the Netherlands it’s time to tell you about our trip to Luxor in February. Again we stayed at the Nile Valley Hotel overlooking the Nile, which is both close to the ferry and to the monuments on the West Bank. We inhabited the brand new ‘penthouse’, with its…
Tutorial: Drawing in Inkscape
As an alternative for drawing in Illustrator, there is free, open source software available that allows you to do something similar: Inkscape. After starting up Inkscape, don’t open but import (File > Import) the photo you’re going to use. In the horizontal toolbar, click View Layers (Shift + Ctrl + L). The layer menu appears on…
Tutorial: Inking in Photoshop
After finishing your pencil drawing in Photoshop, the next step would be to print it and collate it at the wall before penciling in corrections. For the purpose of this tutorial, we’ll skip right ahead and start inking! Again, I’m doing this in Photoshop using the Wacom tablet. Add a new layer to your image….
Tutorial: Pencil drawing in Photoshop
After reading the tutorial on Vector drawing in Illustrator, you may be wondering: but where’s the fun in that! So in this tutorial, I will show you how to do pencil drawings in Photoshop, using a Wacom tablet. Although Wacom tablets can be super duper expensive, the nifty thing is it comes with a stylus…
Tutorial: Vector drawing in Illustrator
This tutorial is meant as preparation for a class on Digital Epigraphy I am giving this week and the next. It will explain the basics of vector drawing in Adobe Illustrator. Other tutorials will follow on vector drawing in Inkscape (free! open source!), digital penciling and inking in Photoshop and photogrammetry. Please note that I…