Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School Detroit

Being an artist can be tough. You sit at home, doodling in your notebook, pecking at your ramen noodles and wondering why art is such a lonely pursuit. Enter the saucy gals of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. Started in 2005 by artist Molly Crabapple as a way to make life-drawing classes sexy, aspiring and accomplished artists alike show up at these events — usually at bars or coffeehouses — to sketch beautiful burlesque dancers, circus freaks and ripped hunks for several hours. The drawing is broken up with bits of fun performance like stripping or comedy, and the evening is enlivened with prizes and contests. Our local Dr. Sketchy group rings in the new year with posing by Dee Luxxx, creator and leader of the Honey Bunny Burlesque and Variety Troupe.