I didn’t know Michelangelo had a sculpture at The Met. How cool is that? This Cupid might have been one of the first— if not the first— marble sculptures that Michelangelo made, in a school run by the Medici family, when he was still in his teens. What a titan.

Do you want to know what kind of art I was making in my teens? No, you don’t, and you’ll never see it.

I think Rubens got into painting because he was an incredibly horny dude and he just wanted to paint naked women. Specifically his wife. Just painted his naked wife all day long. On top of that, he was so good at painting his naked wife that he was sent as a spy to foreign courts to paint for them and report back. That’s like, two dream jobs in one guy. Rubens is my favorite.

Here are some Greek sculptures. The Greeks basically invented visual tropes, and the poses you see in Greek sculpture echo throughout art history. Power, sexuality, masculinity, femininity, death, agony, are all conveyed using conventions that the Greeks invented. They crafted marble masterpieces to capture shared human experiences.

Whenever I draw Greek sculptures, it gets me thinking about our own culture of visual language and how we communicate shared experiences of the modern world through stupid-ass memes and how I’m just walking through a hallways of stupid-ass Greek memes.

My favorite part of the Roman Sculptures is the Bearded Hercules on one side and the Young Hercules on the other. I grew up watching a lotta Dragon Ball Z so he’s kinda right up my alley.

I love drawing Rodin sculptures because he gives everyone huge hands and feet and I draw really tiny hands and feet. It’s like a little joke I play every time I draw Rodin. His sculptures are so reliant on massive, expressive, hands and I just totally ignore them. Ha ha ha.

I always feel better after a few hours of drawing at the Met.