I had a chance to stop out to Future Tenant tonight for Dr. Sketchy Pittsburgh. Its headed up by Joe Wos curator of the Toonseum and this local installment is a part of the greater Dr. Sketchy Anti-Art School.

It was a pretty great time, really my first time figure drawing since… High School (Which accounted to all of 2 sketches). While I have drawn for quite a few years, I have mainly drawn from imagination or nature, lots of trees… birds, bees, that sort of thing. While drawing males without reference or monsters comes naturally to me, the female form is less tangible. In the past I have found myself turning every reference picture into a form of androgyny. I let it rest at that for many years, but I feel it is time to conquer my inept scribblings of the opposite sex…

Featuring the fashion stylings of Vontinka, here are a few of my renderings from the evening…

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