The Met Open Access Has Amazing Images!

So this is the problem with social media: sometimes, you do find something useful on it! There has been a trend of creators sharing free resources for artists on their walls, and in one, there was a slide that mentioned that museums were offering free photos of the art in their collections.

So I checked out one, The Met, with their The Met Open Access initiative , and I fell into a rabbit hole. They share more than 400,000 photos! They have photos from multiple angles of their statues! That's perfect for the Practice Drawing This website! They offer these amazing, high-quality photos for free; they placed them in the public domain. You can do whatever you want with these photos. On top of that, they offer a web API that makes it easier to get the images you want.

So I spent almost two days and captured 79 objects in 284 photos for the website. You can find them here.

The Met Open Access Images

(You won't see them all if you have 18+ disabled.)

I'll be using these to draw in the coming few days! Gorgeous images.

So that's the problem with social media: occasionally, very occasionally, there is a true gem hidden in all that content, and that gem makes it all worth your while again. Do away with social media, and unfortunately, lose exposure to these as well.

Click on image to open.

Yours sincerely,