How to create depth and texture with contour lines | Drop-in Drawing

Drop in anytime for a virtual session of our popular art-making series and experience The Met collection through creative challenges. This week, discover how lines and other forms of mark making create depth and texture in an Assyrian relief panel of a supernatural figure. Check out the inspiration image below, grab a pencil and paper, and get started whenever you're ready. Please note: This event is prerecorded.
Featured artwork:
Relief panel. Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian period (ca. 883-859 B.C.). Gypsum alabaster, 93 x 70 x 4 1/4 in. (236.2 x 177.8 x 10.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1932 (32.143.7)
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This program is made possible by Bonnie J. Sacerdote.
Captioning is made possible by the Ruth Lapham Lloyd Trust.
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[@tis_the_other_thing]

Can we pleaseeee make a playlist of all the ‘drop-in drawing’ sessions? Just to help people to locate this wonderful series easier!

[@dennismanning3964]

thank you! more please

[@rosafrancisca]

Very interesting and engaging. Thanks!

[@zxipex123]

Wonderful video - thank you- makes me want to get out there and draw!

[@liberispuritatem]

I don't think she has enough experience or knowledge on drawing for a "How to" video. Maybe a "drawing experience" video.

[@kitt3813]

Totally agree.