How to draw a self-portrait | Drop-in Drawing

Drop in anytime for a virtual session of our popular series and experience The Met collection through creative drawing challenges. Learn the fundamentals of capturing facial features in this lesson focused on drawing portraits and self-portraits. Check out the source images below, grab your drawing materials and paper, and get started whenever you're ready. Please note: This event is prerecorded.

Featured Artworks:

Umberto Boccioni (Italian, 1882–1916). The Artist’s Mother, 1915. Graphite and watercolor washes on paper. 25 5/8 x 20 7/8 in. (65.1 x 53 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989 (1990.38.31)

metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/485542

Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. (American, 1907–1994), Self-Portrait, ca. 1941. Watercolor, charcoal, and graphite on paper. 20 1/4 x 15 3/8 in. (51.4 x 39.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Pennsylvania W. P. A., 1943 (43.46.4)

metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488109

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