It was B.Y.O.B., so he took several sips of Black Velvet.

He eagerly looked around the room, knowing he was being watched. Pencils were shaking against sketchpads, but this time, he felt comfortable.

This was Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, and Scottie Wheeler, a filmmaker, was the third model to sit in the hot seat.

Calm and collected, he continued to sip his Black Velvet.

The models at Dr. Sketchy’s are not the typical pinup girls seen on the internet. They are voluptuous, confident and permitted to pose however they wish in front of the “art monkeys.”

All models were required to open with a musical or creative performance before beginning to model. That was the first lesson: visual artists and performing artists should all hang out together.

Kady Robbins, lead singer of Heyday Revival, was up first. After singing an upbeat number which portrayed her sultry bellow, she assumed a 25-minute pose representing the southern gothic theme.

Lulu Skidoo followed, first singing an opera in German then assumed the position for her first challenge. Modeling her homemade goat-hoof tambourine, the art monkeys had five minutes to draw her active pose with their non-dominant hand. Skidoo then took on a more challenging pose, her signature “pigeon-toed hooker.”

Finally, it was time for challenge number two – sketching Wheeler while he sat reading a self-written short story about galactic babies who eat faces. The challenge was to portray “Man Discovering Fire” in whichever way chosen.

After the challenge was over, Wheeler hunched over a table and eagerly stared at a lighter for his final pose, giving the sketch artists a different perspective on “creating fire.”

At the end of each pose, the models chose the piece which spoke to them the loudest. The art monkey and model then took a loving picture together.

“I like the idea of just coming in and doing your own thing,” Wheeler said. “I’ve got a comedy writer’s body, but yet I’m still modeling.”

Here, people are invited to do three things: drink, draw, debauchery.

And that is exactly what happened.

Virginia Adams, HBIC and the “Company” part of Paulk and Company, knew she had to have Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School in her building.

“All the projects that I do are all very mixed multimedia,” Adams said. “So, Dr. Sketchy’s was totally up my alley to begin with. It is about bringing art to the community and making it accessible. The talent tonight that performed were Knoxvillians…I hope that one day Dr. Sketchy’s has to be happening at Thompson Boling Arena.”

Dr. Sketchy’s has been expanding cultural divides for about two years, slowly growing and spreading the word about funky, fun art.

Headmistress Nipsy Tussle, couldn’t be happier about this change in Knoxville.

“Knoxville is growing culturally in leaps and bounds,” Nipsy said. “The more weird things we do, the better we are as a city.”

So what lessons can be learned at Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School?

You do not have to be an artist to create art. If you feel like trying something weird, do it. And, above all, life is too short not to name yourself Nipsy Tussle or write a short story about face-eating galactic babies.

“This school is teaching others about the freedom that art has for people,” Caden Montgomery, Bonedust Designs owner and fellow art monkey, said. “I absolutely love it. No doubt, 100 percent, Grade A, thumbs up.”

If you decide to get freaky at Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, come prepared.

Oh, and B.Y.O.B.