Draw Like an Egyptian

Draw Like an Egyptian
Ancient Egyptian Art always uses a style called frontalism. This means that the head of the person is always drawn in profile with one eye drawn in full from a front view. The shoulders and chest are both seen from the front. The legs are turned to the side, in the same direction as the head, with one foot placed in front of the other. The head is facing straight ahead. The face is calm. The person stands or sits with a stiff posture.



To Draw a Picture of an Ancient Egyptian, Just Follow These Five Steps…

1. The Head
Draw the head and the neck from the side view. Add one eye from a front view. Outline it in black. Add an eyebrow that is curved and black. Draw the lips from the side view. Draw a black wig showing the ear.



2. Shoulders & Chest
Draw the shoulders and chest as if you’re looking at them from the front. The arms are drawn according to what the figure is holding.

3. Hips, Legs & Feet
The hips, legs and feet are drawn from the side view.

4. Skin Tone
Color the skin tan.

5. Clothes
Men wore short skirts. Women wore straight dresses that were held in place by two straps. Clothes were mostly white. Men and women often wore brightly colored jeweled collars.


Start here if link below does not work
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/egypt/pyramids.htm

click on inside a tomb
http://www.panoramas.dk/2008/flash/valley-of-the-kings.html



http://www.show.me.uk/topicpage/parents/pAncient-Civilisations.html

Then click
Egyptian mummy to play game

Or

Egyptian Tomb Adventure
Hieroglyphs means "sacred drawings" in Greek, and that's pretty much what hieroglyphs are. The Egyptians used them to write with from the beginning of anybody being able to write, around 3000 BC, down to about 300 AD. Between about 3000 BC and 300 BC, the Egyptians used hieroglyphics for all different kinds of writing. But after the Greeks conquered Egypt under Alexander the Great, people began to use the Greek alphabet to write the Egyptian language. Then hieroglyphs were only used for religious things (ta hiera in Greek), things that were too holy for the ordinary Greek alphabet, which is why they are called "sacred-drawings." By 300 AD, as people converted to Christianity, there was no longer any religious use for hieroglyphs, and they went out of use altogether.

Hieroglyphs are basically drawings of familiar objects, simplified to make them easier to draw. At first people just drew a dog or a house or a sheep; for example some early writing is just a picture of a sheep with five lines by it to mean "five sheep." Then people began to combine pictures, so that a picture of a sheep means the sound "sh"and can be combined with a picture of an owl "hoot" to mean the word "shoot," for example (only in Egyptian of course, not in English really!).