All photos shown by the lovely Ng Meizhi. Make sure to holla at her (credit her appropriately) if you use these.

With a full arsenal of astounding prizes from our sponsors at Colorbox Arts, Uptown Records, Sip 'n' Paint, Simply China, and Basement 6 Collective, we quickly got down to business, rounding out art and hanging out free prizes to some and laughs for all.

The lucky prize winners are shown strutting their stuff.

Note that the wonderful human being shown above is the Ng Meizhi of legend. Isn't she lovely?

Not to mention, look at all the sexy artists caught in the act.

Below: our fabulous emcees, M.M. Plumm (left) and Elaine Chow (right), hard at work. M.M.'s really big hair was done courtesy of Pearl Fauxnoir - our fabulous model from DragLove.

Of course, more of the model herself (we know that's what you're here to see)

If you haven't checked out her website yet, do it! Anna is one of the world's best in burlesque, holding winning titles in competitions such as the Burlesque Top 50, the Milan Burlesque Awards, and the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. You can like her Facebook page here.

That's all folks! Check out our photo gallery here, and stay tuned for the next Dr. Sketchy's Show "Filthy/Gorgeous" starring Booty Calypso on June 14 and 15 at 390!

How to stay updated? Easy - check us out at any/all of the following:

• Dr. Sketchy's Shanghai homepage (English)
• Tumblr (English)
• Facebook (English)
• Dr. Sketchy's Shanghai on Douban (Chinese)
• Dr. Sketchy's Shanghai on Weibo (@DrSketchysSH). (Chinese)

Armed with enticing prizes from our sponsors at Colorbox Arts, Uptown Records, Sip 'n' Paint, Simply China, and Basement 6 Collective, we brought in over 120 artists and with 390's generous help raised an astonishing 4300 RMB for ShanghaiPRIDE!

(By the way, from here on out, all photos are by Rachel Gouk, unless otherwise noted. If you share, credit accordingly!)

The lady of the evenings works a day job as the creative director of one of the top hair salons in Shanghai (and around the world, we might add), and wasn't taking her modeling responsibilities lying down. Over the course of two nights, she devised a total of fourteen unique looks, all from INCREDIBLE costumes and wigs she had made herself!

(Above photo by Ng Meizhi.)

Our motley crew came dressed to the nines (the nines?) for the occasion.

Lam's Chairman Mao, Dr. Sketchy's Shanghai mascot, even came to get in on the action!

(Above photo by Ng Meizhi)

And full rooms full of high-spirited humans came out to do what all Dr. Sketchy's participants do best.

Check out our sexy winners!

(All the rest of the photos are by Ng Meizhi.)

Click here for a huge amount of the work we collected from our participants during both nights of DragLove! All pieces of art that were submitted are currently being considered for exhibition in ShanghaiPRIDE's Pride Week gallery on Moganshan Lu from June 13-21st, 2014.

And that's about it! Stay tuned exciting announcements regarding our next event, "Pinned," on April 18-19th! We love you!

(Photo by Ng Meizhi.)

Does Valentine's Day leave you drained of inspiration? Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School is here for you. On February 15th and 16th, the world's premiere life-model drawing event heads to 390 for DragLove for a 3-hour sketch fest featuring November's drag competition winner Pearl Fauxnoir.

Both nights begin at 6:00 p.m. (doors will open at 5:30), and as usual, participants are expected to bring their own art supplies. Presale tickets are 50 RMB (100 at the door), and can be purchased at 390 starting on January 24th or by writing to drsketchysshanghai@gmail.com. (Subject line: "Tickets." Please include your full name, phone number, night you want to attend, and number of tickets you would like to reserve. Presale tickets must be picked up on or before February 14th.)

But that's not all! Join us after the show on Saturday, February 15th for the DragLove Masquerade. A portion of proceeds goes to benefit ShanghaiPRIDE. Entrance is free to those who dress in drag and/or attend the Dr. Sketchy's on Saturday night. (For all others, entrance is 60 RMB.) Free masks for the first 100 winners through the door. 10:00 p.m until late.

After the overwhelming (in more ways than one) success of our September 29th launch, November 16-17 marked the 2nd Dr. Sketchy's Shanghai event, BARE BONES, presented with the help of our amazing production partners, Basement 6 Collective.

ALL PHOTOS BY RACHEL GOUK, THE WORLD'S MOST EXTREME PHOTOSOLDIER.

Our evening(s) began with co-hosts M.M. Plumm (left) and Elaine Chow (right) introducing our Dr. Sketchy's Shanghai mascot, Lam's Chairman Mao. Mao was a gift from our good friend Lam, a bartender at our first venue, who took a scrap piece from our foamboard props and made us the coolest silhouette cut-out of the Chairman we've ever seen.

Basement 6's Katy Roseland, Anneliese Charek, Arlene Fiddes, and Megan Dodd outdid the hell out of themselves by turning the main dining room of Bloc Shanghai into our 3-stage Boneyard for a two-night stretch.

Thanks are due to Pete Jackson of Shanghai247.net, who put together the evening's playlist, three hours of pencil-pulsing music sourced exclusively from Shanghai- and China-based bands. Which bands, you ask? Well, how about bands like...

-Ren Min Beats (whose song "Let's Get It On (Collective Souljah Mashup)" is featured on the BARE BONES video that you should definitely check out right now)
-AM444
-Reykjavictim
-Chacha + Wordysoulspeak
-Laura Ingalls
-Death to Ponies
-Friend or Foe
-Wanderlust
-Caliph8
-Threshold of Forest

...how about that? (Go visit their websites and download their music. It's good.)

Our project manager/costume designer, Arlene Fiddes of Basement 6, bedecked our star skeletons with custom-made cloaks and animal-inspired costumery for the first half of the show.

The magnificent Ms. Apphia Campbell served as our sultry snake.

The striking Silent Lion turned heads as the falcon...

...and when a miscommunication required a temporary substitute for the first half of night two, Katy Roseland was a heroic stand-in.

Superstar Sketchy's production assistant Shayla Alfonzo pulled overtime, helping in all aspects of organization as well as posing as our fiesty fox.

You can trust us. We're professionals.

During intermission, Basement 6 Collective grabbed our party animals and transformed them into the skeletons we had promised.

One hero even pulled up a spare stool and tried out a 10-minute pose for herself, which everyone admitted was pretty much outstanding.

Over the course of two nights, 120 artists produced over 800 pieces of art that were judged by a rotating selection of people we had working for us. Not quite sure who judged what. It was pretty chaotic.

What we do know is that lots of neat people won fabulous prizes from our sponsors Twin Horizon, Colorbox Arts, Factory 5, Simply China, Play the Spotlight Theatre, and Expat Cucina. We asked the lucky winners to stop by the photobooth for some excellent mugging of their own.

All in all, good times and fun art were experienced by all...

...even the butler. (Thanks, Mike.)

And that's what happened.

BIG BIG SHOUTOUTS to Rachel Gouk, who isn't in any of these photos because she took them, and Leia Luo, who translated everything into Chinese and then got so sick that she was in the hospital for two weeks. Thanks also to Ryan at Bloc, Basement 6 Collective, Christoph the Art Monkey, Mike Corayer, John Shea, Katy/Arlene/Megan/Anneliese/Rebecca of Basement 6, all our generous, sexy sponsors, the bagilions of artists who came to the event, and everyone else who's been blessedly patient for this blog to come out. You guys are tops.

See you on February 15-16 at 390 Shanghai for our next event, DragLove! PLUMMOUT.

With all my exhausted hugs and kisses,

M.M. Plumm

THE BIG SHOW IS JUST FOUR DAYS AWAY! (For 100 RMB presale tickets, drsketchysshanghai@gmail.comdrsketchysshanghai@gmail.com and then pick them up on or before Friday, November 15 at Bloc!) In honor of this weekend's upcoming 2-fer sketchstravaganza, Bare Bones, we'd like to give you some information about our beautiful sponsors, interspersed with our sexy teaser images. Oh look! Here's one now!

Here we go.

First off, we'd like to thank Basement 6 Collective for partnering with us in producing this event and being insanely beautiful, hard-working artists in general. Thanks to them, Bloc will be transformed into a full-on pseudogothic wonderland where our models will strut for the artistic appreciation of all. Special thanks to Katy Roseland for getting so many folks on board with her outlandish enthusiasm, as well as making our promotional poster, our pasties, and the graveyard backdrop for our teaser photos; to Arlene Fiddes for MAKING ALL THE COSTUMES FOR THE EVENT BY HAND (!?!?!?!) and project managing this 'ness like a motherffffer; and to Anneleise Charek for lending a huge helping hand with the bodypainting and handling loads and loads of deliveries of cardboard and other assorted insane materials. (And potentially for videography. Fingers are crossed.) Other special thank-yous go to our photographers, Rachel Gouk, Dave Santiano, and Ng Meizhi, who wasn't in the group shot below as she was taking the picture. The image has been adjusted accordingly.

We'd also love to thank Bloc, our amazing venue for the night. Situated on Changle Lu (139-19 Changle Lu, near Ruijin Yi Lu to be exact), Bloc serves a selection of eastern European fusion fare and does an especially great job at catering to bespoke events needs. (And I speak from experience here--I organize an open-mic comedy night held there every Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. and y'all should come out to that I'm just saying.)

Silent Lion

Shayla Alfonzo

Apphia Campbell

Another HUGE, GIGANTIC THANKS belongs to the models of Bare Bones, Apphia Campbell (of Play the Spotlight Theatre), Shayla Alfonzo, and Silent Lion, who have been incredible in making this show what it is with their ridiculous professionalism, energy, and chemistry. Just look at the crazy shit that happened. This was their idea. They are ALL SO GREAT:

Next up, we want to throw a HUGE shoutout to one of our corporate sponsors, Colorbox Creative Arts Center. A cozy studio school hidden down one of Shanghai’s small alleyways, Colorbox Creative Arts Center is home to an educational program focused on enriching the lives of children and adults through art. Emphasizing hands-on instruction in a creative and supportive environment, Colorbox is a place for students of all levels and ages to come express themselves, receive artistic guidance and encouragement.

(Photo by Rachel Gouk Photography)

Another big shoutout here needs to go to my boss, Jordan Neufeld, founder of New Horizons, whose generous donation went a very long way in making this show happen without us having to go totally broke. He's a good guy with a good test prep company. Thanks, bruh.

Twin Horizon was our very first sponsor and we're so happy to welcome them back as in support of our new show. Twin Horizon is a streetwear label specializing in hand-printed T-shirts and cut-and-sew apparel. Their first T-shirt line, called "Shanghai DIY," was released last year and featured designs inspired by five local independent bands. The designs in their new line, called 成语 (chengyu), draw from linguistic tradition of idiomatic expressions thousands of years old.

Photo by Rachel Gouk

SimplyChina is a young and smart Italian company based in Shanghai, which promotes Italian products and life-style in China. Beyond fine wines and traditional food, SimplyChina also offers consulting services to foreign companies aiming to interact with the Chinese market.

Factory Five is Shanghai‘s fixed gear boutique. They create custom track bikes, recondition Chinese classics, and present limited runs from brands that we love to roll.

Expat Cucina is an Italian cooking blog produced by locally-based chef, cooking instructor, author, and restauranteur Daniela Ingrosso. Daniela focuses on amazing foods you can create using locally-sourced ingredients and equipment found in the typical Chinese kitchen. And now you don't even need to cook in order to try her amazing recipes--just head over to Sale e Pepe and try it for yourself!

Last, but not least, we are happy to have the sponsorship of Play the Spotlight Theatre, Apphia Campbell's theatre company responsible for the recent production of Black Is the Color of My Voice. Come and draw her this weekend, and then see her upcoming play, Holiday Hitch, before she wins an Oscar and we all have to pay a bazillion dollars to see her perform.

And that's that. We hope you enjoy our weird hottness, and we'll see you at the show!

Sincerely,

M.M. Plumm

Branch Director/Producer/Overlord

Dr. Sketchy's Shanghai

This past Sunday, September 29th marked the launch of China's first and only Anti-Art School, Dr. Sketchy's Shanghai, in an event called World Over. We packed the house (Yayyyy!!!) with honored participants as our Wayward Travelers, Meredith and Aliang, spent 3+ hours getting into a world of mischief at YYs for the betterment of fine motor skills everywhere, or at least the ones that were in the room at the time.

mkyarbrough@gmail.com is a locally-based model/actress/choreographer/director/producer, but we settled for "Lady of the Performing Arts" on her business card and "co-director" on the program, because she directed the crap out of the first half of the show. Joining her onstage was her boyfriend and former model Aliang, who is just so cute I can hardly stand it. Just look at them together.

Like sexy baby giraffes, these two.

Floor projector and at least three taxis full of foamboard props at the ready, the two of them embarked on their evening's worldwide itinerary in Paris with our first 20-minute section of poses entitled "The Tour Eiffel." (Get it?)

With very little coaxing, our participants were off!

Our stage manager/makeup artist Shayla took a photo of the couple and set the mood for the rest of the evening.

Aliang should've known better than to check out other women.

In the end, she forgave him.

Section 2 took us to the Americas for Strangers on a Train. (Which Americas exactly? The world may never know.) Badass silkscreen/art/t-shirt company Twin Horizon offered up an original print and a T-shirt for the ghastliest drawing in this section, but we didn't get pictures of those things because we're not that organized yet. (Cut us some slack. We had a lot on our minds.)

The Stranger meets her mark.

GASP! He's an undercover FBI agent! However shall she get out of this one?!

Disarmed, buddy.

Like Meredith, our tiny stage tastefully left little to the imagination.

Every once and a while, Elaine (right) and I would get up and say stuff and be generally amicable in English and Chinese.

Generally.

Just check out how sane and trustworthy we look. That right there is some quality hosting.

Moving on.

For section 3, upscale lifestyle site Shanghai Wow! sponsored a comic strip contest for the Wayward Travelers as they continued on to the South Pacific. Trouble ensued.

Okay so I don't know how else to say this, you guys: Meredith got murdered by a dinosaur. Straight up, right in front of everyone.

A well-deserved intermission found the Travelers revived, rejuvenated, and repositioned for the long hauls.

Strictly Cookies, a local cookie company that the Internet's Megan Amram Tweeted about once (honestly), sponsored our "Creation of Aliang" contest, in which participants incorporated dessert items into the following scene:

Moving into the Middle East, our Travelers found themselves sitting in for Shahryar and Scheherazade in 1001 Arabian Nights and a Night. Tying into the theme of spinning yarns, Infinite Twist, a locally-based handmade yarn, knitting kit, and fiber company sponsored the "best unbroken line drawing" contest for this one.

Then, with two more sections to go, the couple rushed to Egypt to steal the places of Isis and Osiris in the hieroglyphs like two nearly naked Carmen Sandiegos. Sweet Liquor Ghost (available at the Infinite Twist booth at Jiashan Market), a handcrafted bitters/liquor company, offered a 400RMB gift certificate to the best propaganda poster to come out of this section.

Our happy contest winner!

Returning to Shanghai, our Travelers revealed their true identities, saying goodbye and blasting off among (or at least in front of) a bevy of paper lantern UFOs in our final section, Extraterrestrial. Encouraging our participants through the final stretch was the promise of a pint of malt whiskey ice cream for the winner of the final contest, "best replacement of our models as a famous duo," sponsored by all-natural ice cream company, Snow Maple Desserts.

Here's Chris, one of our delightful and bebowtied Art Monkeys.

Special thanks to my Bloc comedy open-mic night co-founder and bff Mike Corayer (pictured) for running Valentin Cortez's outstanding playlist according to Meredith's music cues because she's a theatre director who knows what the effword she's doing.

De-makeuped and re-frocked, Meredith and Aliang returned to the land of participants to share in the very special memories they had helped create.

Before I sign off, I need to issue some doubletroublesuperthanks to the following people for making World Over happen:

VALENTIN CORTEZ for his hours of work and consideration into our evening: If you ever find yourself in Yangshuo, China, hit him up on WeChat (fiesta-gnome-1) for the best bespoke gourmet dinner of your/your small party's life.

LEIA LUO for her hours of work helping me translate things, getting the site up on Douban, and spending days making props and making Taobao happen as my brain melted into all the press emails I needed to send. (She's also a very funny stand-up comedian who co-hosts and edits our periodically released online video nerd series, The Cultural Exchange.)

SHAYLA ALFONZO for her incredible capacity for stage management, talent at many different makeup changes under pressure, and enthusiasm for being the first butt we saw that evening.

RACHEL GOUK for sick photography constantly. Just beautiful stuff.

EMILY KING for floor managing like a boss and keeping my brain from exploding like 8 times.

KATY ROSELAND of Basement 6 Collective (home of Shanghai's branch of No Lights No Lycra) WHERE WE WILL HAVE OUR NOVEMBER SHOW for making the pasties and being a DIY goddess to level worlds.

KENNY and the YY's STAFF for giving us the bar and being the sweetest people in the world about it.

ELAINE CHOW for being my Chinese-language co-host and dealing with the fact that I was constantly forgetting to shut the hell up.

MILLA YANG for assembling the pieces of the Chinese-language poster.

JOHN, YVONNE, and MICHAEL for holding it down backstage.

GINA, CHRIS, YIJIA, YING, and ASHLEY for being the best Art Monkeys China has ever seen!

SHANGHAI247.NET for sharing the story.

CHELSEA, APPHIA, and MIKE C. for writing me the recommendation letters I needed to get in the door.

MOLLY CRABAPPLE and MELISSA DOWELL for founding and managing this beautiful monster (and dealing with me, like, all the time).

...And finally, to ALL THE PARTICIPANTS who were magically amazing and talented and great sports and made this evening a reality.

NEXT STOP: Basement 6, November 16-17

Stay Tuned.