A festive crowd of art monkeys joined us in December for our STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL! We had funny Star Wars songs, wookiee cookies, drinks, drawing, a cameo by Han Solo and TWO Princess Leias!

San Francisco/San Diego burlesque beauty Mynx D’Meanor started things off as “classic” Leia.

Cosplay cutie and San Diego Star Wars Society member Trista was up next as “slave Leia”, every 70s born boy’s wet dream!

Many worthy art monkey entered our “Draw Trista as a Wookiee” contest, hoping to win a coveted slave Leia Hallmark Keepsake ornament.

The grrrr-tastic winner…

Even galactic princesses need a ciggie break!

Entries in the “Santa Jabba” contest…

The winner!

Han Solo joined his princess onstage for the last pose.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Festivus and all that good stuff! We’ll see you in 2010! Remember to upload scans of your sketches to our FLICKR pool!

Hello lovely and cultured art monkeys! In November we hosted our first ART STAR session, focusing on the work of a local artist. We were honored to have David Russell Talbott showing his art and meeting our sketchers while the gorgeous Jolie Goodnight of Hell on Heels Burlesque struck poses inspired by his paintings (Check out the songs used at this session on our Playlists page). Here’s David, looking very arty…

David’s work is inspired by film stars of the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s and images of Americana and consumerism of the 50s. First, Jolie posed as the ultimate 50s icon Marilyn Monroe from David’s painting “Hollywood Eats It’s Own”.

We judge the pre-Thanksgiving “Draw Jolie with a turkey” contest

Jolie gives us a hand and judges the “Draw Jolie as Overdosed Marilyn” contest

Happy Birthday Mr. President!!

Next, Jolie posed as this sexy and dangerous dame from David’s painting “Wake Up and Die”.

Goodbye cruel world!

Thanks to all our beautiful art monkeys, Jolie Goodnight, the Ruby Room and David Russell Talbott! Below is a kick-ass drawing from David presented to your sketchy hosts Lily and Matt, plus some other fruits of this session. Don’t forget to upload scans of your sketches to our FLICKR group HERE!

The Renegade Rollergirls of San Diego put on the ritz Halloween style for our October session, a Monster Mash on Wheels!

First up where Cherry Jukealeily as a werewolf

Kat A. Strophic as a zombie

And Brat Fink as a mummy.

Art monkeys enter the “Draw one of the models eating your brains” contest.

Next up are La Quete as Vampira

Lady Dee Vious as Medusa

And Muffin as an alien.

The gorgeous ghouls judge the “Best Depiction of the models as a horror movie poster” contest.

The final group of scary lovelies includes Peaches N’ Mean as the Bride of Frankenstein

Darth Brawl as a zombie

And The Trooper as Godzilla.

The winner of the “Best depiction of model rampaging through San Diego” contest.

Other worthy entrants…

Thanks to the Renegade Rollergirls, all our art monkeys, and the Ruby Room! Happy Halloween everyone!

Some amazing sketches from our Flickr stream. Check out more here.

ROB modeled three sexy looks for the elite group of art monkeys who joined us at the Ruby Room for our September session. The first look out of shoot was COWBOY…and what a fabulous cowboy he makes!

Art monkeys grab the raw materials for the “Draw Rob on a Balloon” contest

Rob transforms into a man from the dawn of time for our next set.

Rob strikes a pose for the “Draw Rob fighting a sabertoothed tiger” contest

Ron gets hell bent for leather for his last look.

Final contest – “Draw Rob in leather and feathers”

We had some cool artifacts from this session in the end (unfortunately they all deflated)!

Some awesome sketchy ness from our Flickr stream…

In August, Dr. Sketchy’s San Diego was honored to be a part of TIKI OASIS, the largest gathering on Earth devoted to all things tiki!

Our models were the gorgeous Ophelia Handful and Mama Bodessa of Sultry Savage Burlesque. Ophelia Handful got the party started.

Two brave art monkeys stepped up to participate in the “Chug a mai tai then draw with your non-dominant hand” contest!

Mama Bodessa takes the stage

Ophelia poses for the “Draw the model being sacrificed to a volcano god” contest.

Ophelia judges depictions of her sacrificial volcano demise

A particularly awesome runner-up

Art monkeys take a booze break and check out the Tiki Oasis classic car show outside

Sugar from a bit o’ burlesque makes a cameo.

Is that Mimi LeMeaux?!

Contestant draw in the “best depiction of the model with a tiki idol head” contest

Some notable entrants

Goodbye Tiki Oasis! Special thanks to Tiki Oasis coordinator Baby Doe and all of her kick ass volunteers! Check out some sketches from our Flickr Sketchy Stream group from Jeff Amante.

For our Comic Con 2009/2nd anniversary special session, we brought characters from Dr. Sketchy’s founder Molly Crabapple’s first graphic novel, Scarlet Takes Manhattan, to life!

The inimitable Lady Borgia was perfect as the late 1800’s New York bowery orphan turned burlesque fire-eating superstar Scarlett O’Herring.

Molly Crabapple was in town to host this special session.

Scarlett’s (pantomimed) fire-eating skills were on display.

Molly greets legendary Playboy cartoonist Doug Sneyd during a break.

Scarlett is joined on stage by her lover Daniel D’Lovely, portrayed by San Diego Drag King extraordinaire Diego Del Fuego.

Molly adjudicates the “thought balloon” contest.

Looks like Red Sonja wandered into the session. Gotta love Con weekend!

Lady Borgia as Scarlett graced us with a special performance, danced to the Two Man Gentleman Band’s single “Scarlett Takes Manhattan.”

Adieu for another year from Molly Crabapple…til next Con!

This session turned out to be a Dr. Sketchy’s reunion! That’s yours truly Miss Lily in the middle, and from left to right, Bob from Dr. Sketchy’s LA (and our fabulous sponsor, Baby Tattoo Books), Joe from Dr. Sketchy’s Pittsburgh, founder and NYC hostess Molly Crabapple, Aaron and Alexis from Dr. Sketchy’s Baltimore, and Tinky Sparkle from Dr. Sketchy’s San Francisco.

In June, San Diego art monkeys got a double dose of late 1960s sexy sci-fi cheese!

On June 4, Dr. Sketchy’s was invited by the groovy folks at MoPA to hold a mini sketch class during their POP Thursdays Barbarella-themed party. The lovely LEIA posed in MoPA’s lobby, compelling party-goers to grab a pad and capture her intergalactic bodaciousnes.

Lucky monkeys! That’s wasn’t all! Leia reprises her role at our regular session on June 20, with Barbarella playing at the bar, music from the soundtrack playing, and pictures of beautiful blind angel Pygar decorating the stage!

Entries in the “best drawing with your non-dominant hand” contest

The lovely Amelia wins again!

Presto – Barbarella is replaced with the Great Tyrant. “Pretty, pretty, pretty…”

We dragged Ruby Room co-owner Paul onstage to judge the “round robin” contests (teams of 4 art monkeys traded pads every 5 minutes).

Congrats to the winnas! Mmmm…booze.

Farewell art monkeys! We didn’t find Durand Durand, but it was awesome!

Some amazing sketches from our monkeys…Check out more in our flickr pool, and upload yours!

David Lozeau

Jeff Amante

It’s time to roll! The San Diego Derby Starlettes (of the San Diego Roller Derby League) posed in a sporty spice session

In today’s match – Velvet Klaw!

Mosquito Bandito!

Rosy Lee Ristaker!

Red Hot Penni!

and Holly Car Brader!

The girls showed their softer side and got all pinup-y

Photographer Monkey Matt was strong armed, I mean, volunteered to be the “Human Canvas” for one of our wacky contests. One art monkey drew the lovely Holly Car Brader on his back, one on his front, and the winner was chosen by applause-o-meter

The worthy runner-up!

The winnah!!

Va va voom!

Special thanks to the San Diego Roller Derby League lovelies from the San Diego Derby Starlettes!  And to the North Park Craft Mafia for donating some cool prizes!

Some awesome sketches from our art monkeys! Check out more in our Flickr photo pool.

Burlesque beauty and tarot card queen Mija Macabre brought her dark version of Alice in Wonderland to life for our over-capacity crowd of eager art monkeys.

The white rabbit is having a bad day.

Mynx as the “very little hat” mad hatter

The winner of our “Alice with a gothed-out white rabbit” contest

Mija transforms into the Red Queen for the second set.

The Red Queen is eying your neck..

Try sleeping after that fairy tale! Goodnight gentle art monkeys. Until next time.

Dr. Sketchy mingled with the gods in our March session, a Tribute to Indian Divinity.

Ganesh, patron of the arts and sciences, intellect and wisdom, graced us with his ponderous presence.

The winner of our first contest put Ganesh in a scene from Indiana Jones…Snakes, why’d it have to be snakes?!

Next came burlesque cutie Mynx D’Meanor as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, prosperity and generosity.

Sabrina, as divine mother Parvati, delights our art monkeys with a belly dance.

Our gods ended the session with a group pose.

Jake sneaks a photo of the divine…

Then collects tribute for the inspired models.

SPECIAL THANKS to Sabrina, Mynx, Ganesh and JAKE WILSON, who styled the session and designed each god’s look.