Photos from Oct 13th, Sable Sin Cyr!

Last Monday was amazing.  Sable Sin Cyr of Gilded Lily Burlesque was stunning, lots of friendly folks showed up, and I didn’t even fall down once this time.

I’m not joking about the lots of folks by the way.  Look at this.

I ain’t kidding about that whole “come ten minutes early folks.”  It was packed and eventually we had to turn some folks away.  We’re going to remove some more tables this Monday and see if that gives us a little more room…..so be forewarned, tables are first come, first serve.

Anyways, did I say Sable was amazing?

There lots of contests as usual…with prizes of gift cards and Moleskin books provided by Atomic Books (there’s even more stuff on Monday too).

Here’s a photo of the winners of the “Draw with your Off-hand” contest having their celebratory Dirty Girlscouts (it’s a shot).  I censored out their faces, and the guy behind, just in case they want to run for office one day.  That fellow under the yellow arrow….I can tell you right now he ain’t running for anything.  From?  Maybe.  For?  No.

I have no idea what’s going on in the next photo….apparently something was very amusing.  Since I’m not in the shot, I have a sinking suspicion it was me doing something stupid.

For some reason they’d all stopped laughing by the next shot.  Got distracted I suspect.

Special thanks to Sable Sin Cyr, who without, we would have been drawing, well, a big empty yellow couch.   Special thanks to Lynn and Dionysus as well, who without, well, we would have been doing this in the middle of the street and causing no-telling how many fender-benders.   Jeff did an absolutely amazing job with photography, turning in his best set yet, and both Jeff and Bill helped us move all that silly furniture around, which believe me, takes a few minutes.

Our next session is this coming Monday, Oct 27, 7 – 10 pm at Dionysus, featuring Nicolette le Fay with some Halloween goodness.

Halloween at Dr. Sketchy’s, Monday, Oct 27!

Next Dr. Sketchy’s, hosted by Dionysus and sponsored by Atomic Books, is this upcoming Monday, Oct 27th.  Nicolette le Faye is modelling so come get a drink and draw her in her best scary.

Oh, and I should be receiving the photos from last session tonight, so hopefully there’ll be a recap sometime tomorrow.

Oh, oh, and the person who lost their pad got in touch,  so everyone can stop worrying and call off the amber alert or whatever.

Oh, oh, oh……no, just kidding, that was the last ‘oh’.

Missing your sketch pad?

Someone left their sketch pad at Dr. Sketchy’s last night….fire us an email when you read this and we’ll find a way to get back to you.

If you don’t, I’m going to scan all the drawings, post them here, and tell everyone I did them.  Oh yes, I’m that guy.

There’ll be an official update when we get the photos, but goodness, a ton of people showed up last night, so much that we started having to turn people away.  Boy, we hit that point a lot faster than we thought we would.  Next session, we’re going to remove about half the tables and replace them with more chairs so things aren’t quite so packed.  So consider yourself forewarned, if you want a table or a good seat, make sure to show up early.

Sable was amazing by the way….as were the sketches done for the Atomic Books prizes.   We’ll throw up a proper recap when those photos roll in, but, until then, just know that things were pretty amazing.

And yes, the final contest was “How would Sable capture a bike thief?”  Definitely scan and send those in….they deserve a whole post in of themselves.

Next session is Oct 27, Monday, 7 – 10, btw.

Next session this Monday, Oct 13, 7 – 10 pm, Sable Sin Cyr!

Stunning photo by TKExpressions ( www.tkexpressions.com ) and amazing flyer design by Alexis.

Things are getting more and more crowded (I’m not joking), so claim your seat early if you can.

09/22/2008 photos, Maria Bella, and random stuff.

September’s session was our biggest one yet. Maria Bella from Gilded Lily was amazing . . . as is apparently everyone at Gilded Lily, so we’re not really surprised any more. If you notice, we switched the layout of the room this time to a Looking-Glass version ( or Mirror-Universe version if you want to be a geek about it ) of our old layout. Whether we’re the “good” Dr. Sketchy’s or the “evil mirror goatee” Dr. Sketchy’s from this point forward I’ll leave up to you.

Yes, I just went there.

Here’s some Maria photos, pop an aspirin if you have a heart condition.

Not only that, this was our first official session founded by Atomic Books in Hampden, who provided a gift card to one of our contest winners. The art was even more amazing this time around….in a few days we’ll put some up in a post.

As usual special thanks to Maria Bella for a knockout posing job and costume selection, thanks to Dionysus and Lynn for providing a great venue and for helping us talk to the police, a new Dr. Sketchy’s attendee (whose name I can’t remember) for helping us make change when we ran short on ones, Alexis for helping me host even though she was sick, and Jeff for not only taking the photos in this post but also helping shove tables and chairs around for an hour or so beforehand.

If I’ve forgotten someone, it’s because you were so special, I couldn’t even, err, think of the words. (I know I’m forgetting someone too.)

Anyways, if you happened to stay for a beer afterward, you even got a SECOND show, when my dumb ass attempted to tackle some twelve-year-old kid who was stealing the back tire of a bicycle belonging to a Dionysus patron. As an aside, neither the national Dr. Sketchy’s nor Dr. Sketchy’s-Baltimore endorses the tackling of twelve-year-olds, no matter what they’re doing, but what you do on your own time after two or three celebratory shots and moving a bunch of tables back in place, well, that’s up to you. Keep in mind though, that after those two or three shots, all that’s likely to happen is your dumb ass power-sliding across four or five feet of asphalt to the tune of ripped up jeans and a bunch of blood. Go Team Sketchy.

When the police showed up, things got even stranger as one drunk patron, having no idea what was going on, then attempted to convince the friendly officers to cuff and arrest her because she had been “very, very bad.” Luckily, Lynn intervened ( no matter how fun handcuffs sound at 11 pm, they aren’t nearly as fun when no one is paying attention to your safe word ), and the officers were able pursue our hardened gang of bike thieves.

Now tell me this isn’t cool……though the police were unable to catch the rear-tire-absconder, they were able to produce several back tires to replace the one that had been stolen. Coolest cops ever. I don’t know their names, but if they’re feeling the urge to do some drawing some time, they’re more than welcome.

Did you read this far? I wouldn’t have. Here’s one last photo for your trouble though…..Maria Bella in a Medusa costume giving the artists a rocky stare. See you on Monday.

Photos from 9/8/08, Luna’s session

Yeah, yeah, I’m running a little late.  This whole twice a month thing can get a little hectic.   In any case, October’s sessions are coming up, so here’s a peek at September’s sessions.  (We’ll post the photos from the second session on Sunday, once the hangovers have cleared.)

Just in case you’re blind and having this post read to you by a text reader, Luna from Gilded Lily was absolutely amazing.  For this particular pose, she started off dressed as a robed old woman with a cane…..each pose change leading to the loss of another element of the costume.  Pretty damn neat.

The costumes kept coming too.

If you can’t tell, attendance is going up and up….if you want a good seat (and the ability to pick it), you might want to show up a little early.  The next session we “flipped” the room, putting the crowd on the opposite side, and that helped, but if things continue, in a session or two we may have to start turning folks away at the door.

Our contest winners, drinking their celebratory Washington apple shots.  I *think* the contest was “best drawing with your off-hand”, but, I was drinking by then so it’s a little blurry.

In any case, as usual, lots of thanks to Lynn who owns Dionysus for helping us do this, Bill for helping us at the door and not making me do shots by myself, Jeff for photos, and to Luna, without whom we’d all be drawing, well, the wall.  The next two sessions are October 13 and 27, Monday, from 7 to 10, at Dionysus.

We’ll post the recap from the 22nd with the lovely Maria Bella, which involves some drama including a foot chase and the police (no joke), some amazing artwork,  drinking, and our first ever Atomic Books sponsored session.

Speaking of artwork, we’ve been getting a lot of amazing stuff…we’ll see if we can put together a post with all that as well.