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Dr Sketchy Session #13 Results

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:05:52 +0000

My first Dr Sketchy Session. Just what is Dr Sketchy: Read more here. If you are too lazy to surf the Net, here’s an excerpt – “Dr. Sketchy’s is the little Brooklyn event that became a movement. Founded in 2005 by artist Molly Crabapple, Dr. Sketchy’s asked a simple question. Why can’t drawing naked people be sexy?” Dr Sketchy is life drawing but more than just nude models and serious sketching. Models are usually beautiful burlesque performers, and including bizarre circus acts, and rippling hunks of man-flesh. They are then let loose on stage to release the artist in the artists! In between each round of sketching our larger-than-life models you get a chance to grab a drink get comfortable and take in some of the finest burlesque, comedy, music, poetry and quirky cabaret performances the big smoke has to offer.

Dr Sketchy isn’t about being an amazing artist, as long as you can put pencil to paper and move it around that’s good enough for us and you never know you might just unleash that artist inside.

It’s what art classes would be if the class was let loose in the Moulin Rouge.

Hopefully this is okay to appear on Facebook. Anyway I did some similar life drawing sessions but not Dr Sketchy when I was living in Glendale. Dr Sketchy was held in LA but it is a 40 mins drive to town whereas the one I went was organized by Pasadena Art Center’s professor for the working artists living in the Burbank and Glendale area. Models are clothed too. You can see the events here – Glendale Drawing Club. When I was heading back home last year, I wished there is something like this, but little did I know that there is already Dr Sketchy in Singapore. Well this is the result of a 3-hour life drawing session.

Lara Croft Life Drawing Workshop

admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:05:10 +0000

Another life drawing session with Glendale Drawing Club. 20 bucks but it is all worth it!!

15 minutes pose

10 Minutes Poses

10 minutes poses

15 minutes poses

Life Drawing – Poison Ivy (Drawing Club Glendale)

admin — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:17:38 +0000

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Poison Ivy

Life Drawing Session – Poison Ivy Themed

To read more, click the following link: Poison Ivy

The life drawing session is conducted every Thursday and Sunday. Short poses (10-15mins) on Thursday and Long Poses on Sunday. Everyone has to pay $20 for the session, while the sessions are organized by Bob Kato as an activity of the Drawing Club at Glendale.

This was my first session after a long long while, also my first paid life drawing. I got to know some artists too; one actually graduated from Savannah College of Art & Design 2 years ago and is a professional comic artist for TokyoPop. And most have been drawing and painting for years. Though the drawing session was fun, it was even more rewarding to see so many like minded artists who share the passion of sketching and drawing, sketching and drawing together.

I have been really encouraged. I will find time (or money) to go again.