Life Drawing at Dr. Sketchy Vancouver

Here's a couple sketches I did Sunday night at Dr. Sketchy Vancouver.

For anyone not familiar with Dr. Sketchy, it's life drawing mixed with burlesque dancers, acrobats, or costumed performers. It runs twice a month in Vancouver, and is definitely worth checking out. Artists and non-artists are all welcome!

Life Drawings

Some more life drawings done recently.

Life Drawings

Here are some more drawings done in the last little while.

Dr. Sketchy Vancouver

Here's a couple drawings done at the Vancouver Dr. Sketchy. The model for the evening was Yum Yum Doll.

Life Drawings

A few drawings done at tonight's life drawing session.

Life Drawings

Here's a couple drawings from tonight's life drawing session at work.

 

Life Drawings

Finally got a chance to go to life drawing at work. Here's a few of my sketches from tonight's life drawing session.

Goodbye Dr. Sketchy Toronto

Today I discovered to much sorrow that the Dr. Sketchy life drawing in Toronto is no longer going on. There was something absolutely fantastic about having life drawing sessions in a bar with models being dressed in everything from burlesque to Heman and Skeletor. I will definitely miss the drawing sessions.

Here's a few drawings I never got around to posting from the last couple times I went to Dr. Sketchy's. I would spend the first 15 - 30 seconds of a pose roughing out the gesture with a pale marker --usually a 5% grey marker or light blue-- so that the pose was there, but barely visible. Then I'd do the rest of the drawing in pencil.

Burlesque dancers, cop & robber



The next model was a little bit more provocative with her costumes and poses. She had a crazy 1980s X-Men Storm styled white mohawk, ripped stockings, corset, pasties and the most ruffled skirt I had ever seen. One of her other costumes can only be described as a ninja-snake-not-sure-what-she's-supposed-to-be, but it looked cool. And yes, that is a swimming inner tube used at the bottom of her dress.

Life Drawing

We'll, it's been way longer than I'd like to admit since the last time I've gone life drawing, so when I heard that'd there would be life drawing offered at work tonight, I couldn't resist. I was more than a little rusty, and most of my drawings didn't turn out but it felt fantastic to get back into it again. I going to try to make it to every life drawing session offered at work for now on.

New Year

Happy New Year! This year instead of focusing on trying to get a lot of artwork onto this site as often as possible, I'm going to focus instead on trying to improve my skills as an artist. As a result, there will probably be a lot less artwork showing up here, but I'm hoping that it'll be of better quality than what it's been so far.

In the spirit of trying to get back into life drawing, I've drawn a self-portrait, which is something I haven't done in a very long time.

Halo Night

Yesterday Marc and I were carving pumpkins and playing Halo at our friend Marie-Eve's place. It was a ton of fun and I was glad to have the chance to do a bit of sketching there. The guys made fantastic drawing models; they barely moved at all while they played until someone killed someone else :)