Dr. Sketchy Anti-Art School with Ron English

Posted on February 23, 2009 by juggernut3

On Valentine’s Day, Molly Crabapple invited AM to participate in a “life drawing” event called Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. The guest artist for this session was our friend Ron English. Our first thought was… “There’s going to be a bunch of hardcore artist types sitting with their easels circling a ‘neck-ed’ model. Well, we were wrong…” Dr. Sketchy was anything but… So being the “Anti-Art” school, they hosted the event at a burlesque bar crowded with beautiful people excited to socialize and channel their inner artist. The subject was Ron English’s famous “Cow Girl”. Molly apparently kidnapped someone from DreamWorks and transformed the “drawing model” into a stunning real life “Cow Girl”.

Read more, see the amazing pictures, and a little surprise from Ron and Molly for you readers after the jump!

Who doesn't like utters...?

Who does not like utters...?

Dr. Sketchy’s reminded us of Baby Tattooville’s life-drawing (here) session where artists and participants got to down scotches while sketching to their hearts content.  However, instead of once a year, it’s literally every other week. We saw beginners with sketchbooks to pros who brought their watercolor sets, so no matter what artistic level you are, everyone is welcome to tweak their skills.

We also found out that the anti-art school was not only a sketch party with some very attractive peeps hanging out, drinking and sharpening their drawing skills localized to New York.  Dr. Sketchy’s is actually all over the globe.  From London to Melbourne, Tokyo to Scotland, there may be a Dr. Sketchy’s near you. Throw in the fact that every Dr. Sketchy’s in NYC happens to be at a burlesque bar with plenty of “liquid inspiration” flowing to keep the drawing party kicking.  Make sure to visit their website and join in the fun.

Ron and Molly were in a zone...

Ron and Molly were in a zone...

Ron worked on the right utter and now Molly's working on the right.

Ron worked on the right utter and now Molly

How long do you think this took me?

How long do you think this took me?

Only 5 mins...

Only 5 mins...

Good news… We got Ron English and Molly Crabapple to take 5 mins out of their hosting duties to draw for us and they gave us these two gorgeous drawings to give to two lucky readers.

Bad News… Ron loved Molly’s drawing so much that he “won” the drawing. So therefore, we have only Ron’s “Cow Girl” drawing to give away.  Just leave a comment and tell us what you think about the Dr. Sketchy website before Feb 28th, and we’ll select one winner randomly.

Sorry guys I "won" the drawing from Molly... - Ron

Sorry guys I

Discuss Ron English here.

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  • sabotage

    whoa! there’s a dr sketchy in san diego too! thanks for the contest.

  • Ryan

    Great contest and great photos! Thanks a bunch!

  • jeff

    Rad! oh yeah.. and molly crabapple is hot!

  • http://total.eclipse.co.il Shay

    We love Dr. Sketchy!

  • Stevo2000

    Got Milk?

  • http://www.myspace.com/ymonster Tim Kern

    I really wish I could have gone to this! Stupid Italy. The event looks like it was pretty incredible. That cow girl outfit is unbelievable. :)

  • Ian

    That looks like it was great fun. Ron and Molly rule!

  • http://www.artemis.fm kc

    I think the Dr. Sketchy’s website is swell in many respects, though I’m sad the next one in SF is tomorrow, which conflicts with other plans I have. With that said, the videos are a nice touch – more, please! We like to voyeuristically view other Dr. Sketchy events and maybe pick up a few ideas of how to make our local ones even more…sketchy? Oh, that was bad, I know, but what can one do? One takes their opportunities as they come.

    The site has all the prerequisites – and that’s good, because missing one shows lack of forethought and is inconsiderate to your audience. And we wouldn’t want that, now, would we?

    Stylistically – simple and to the point. We enjoy that. I would change only one thing – maybe adding a bit o’ drop shadow or other style to the letters that are on the images for ‘book’, ‘photoblog’, ‘start’, etc. so as to make them slightly more readable. But hey – that’s just me. I’m no authority on this or anything.

    Oh, and Molly – *very* easy on the eyes. You really can’t go wrong with lovely ladies on the site. Nosirreebob.

    Goodbye!

  • Nick G

    great website. didnt know there were so many around the globe!!!! thanks for the heads up and I will have to make it out and tip back a few!

    please pick me for the ENGLISH sketch!!!

  • squidella

    That’s wonderful! I just attended my first Sketchy’s last night!

  • http://optiknerve.bigcartel.com/ Optiknerve

    Love it, please enter me to win the sketch :-)

  • Cory

    Why, Why does nothing good like this happen in Atlanta, DAN you West Coast people, please enter me to win

    thanks

  • RPM4

    Great drawing! Love Ron English and would love to win this.

  • http://www.obamaartreport.com Ken

    Awesome post, keep up with the amazing work!
    (P.S. I’d love to win the Ron English sketch if that’s possible!)

  • chip

    yum yum give me sum

  • Andrew Wong

    Awesome! dig it!

  • katie cowden

    I flew from texas to new york for that event and it was totally worth it.

  • Yourmothersidol

    Very interesting. Bust out the ol’blackbooks.

  • christopher hunt

    holy, that molly she’s purty …

    in for for the drawing, love the dr. sketchy site / concept …

  • http://www.mollycrabapple.com Molly Crabapple

    Thanks so much to Arrested Motion for covering my event. And double thanks to Dani from http://www.thebodyofart.com, the makeup genius who transformed Amber Ray into Ron’s cowgirl. This was one of the most fun Dr. Sketchy’s ever.

    RE Cory: Check out http://www.myspace.com/drsketchysatlanta

  • Tom

    Oh man this is such a cool idea. I’ll have to check it out in LA. I hope I would be able to get to sketch with some of my favorite artists there! Amazing 5 minute sketch by Ron and Molly too. I want it I want it!

  • http://www.myspace.com/carachristopher1 Cara

    Yo, Ron did the LEFT utter!

  • http://www.UnusualLife.com JoDavid

    We love our Dr. Sketchy in Seattle too!
    Thanks Arrested Motion for all of your coverage of the art that matters, and for having fun contests as well.
    Loving it!

  • http://deleted Laz

    I found the site to very moo-ving and down right cool!
    And if I ever meet Molly Crabapple in person, I would love to heif-er.

  • DZEL

    dr sketchy’s rules!
    as always…great coverage AM!!
    ron english is the sh!t.