PENCIL RIOT!

I've always said I never know if I've drawn anything worthwhile at Dr. Sketchy events until the next morning when I've sobered up. 

Which is the best way I can recount my night on the PENCIL RIOT! A bar crawl with all the sketchy kids through the w.25th area.

 

The night started at the Market Avenue Wine bar, which is where we have Sunday Art Club.  Their back room has the same feel as an old timey hunters lounge, and it was full of art reprobates.  It was awesome.

For some reason I decided to start a bar crawl drunk, so the drawings started out fast, furious, and loose.

 

Next to the Flying Fig where Danielle, Thor, and Tess mounted the booths and bars for some dynamite poses.  Ron and I bombed the menus with PENCIL RIOT propaganda in case unsuspecting patrons weren't baffled enough by this nonsense.

 I gave up on any pencil under drawings once we hit the Speakeasy under the Bier Market.  Maybe it's how much Jim Mahfood I've been looking at lately, or maybe it was the booze, but drawing this loose was a real blast and I plan on doing more of it soon.

  Being a Saturday night, it was hard for the models to do their thing, so I nabbed a portrait of an innocent bystander.

 Off to the ABC for Celeste posing on the upper railings. The crowd at ABC was probably my favorite.  The sort of guys that would make fun of art types in any other situation, but because we brought a gang of pretty girls with us, they were super interested in what we were doing. 

I wish I would have cataloged the conversation next to the drawings.

 

More Celeste on some tables, and my favorite drawing of the night.  I've got to work on capturing this sort of looseness without drinking my weight in beer. 

 Quick doodle of Dr. Jason before leaving the ABC.  I ended up killing my brand new Copic that night.  Blew out a marker alongside my liver.

 Final drawing of the night at The Old Angle, where I didn't get another beer. 

I've done a few things in my sketchbook over the years that aren't about the drawings but capturing the moment instead.  Line is a better camera when it comes to capturing the artists mood.

These drawings may be loose and rough, but they're a great catalog of an amazing night. 

Also, check out Craig's stuff from the riot:  Sketch Of The Day 

And Erin's: Pencil Riot!

And Jim's: Sketchery

Hopefully we can catalog all of these together online somewhere.  If nothing else for the court testimony.