Combining elements of a burlesque show with a life-drawing class, Toronto’s Keyhole sessions offer a new kind of artistic educational entertainment. This drawing class uses edgy, (sometimes) costumed models to bring an element of debauchery to practicing art skills.
They explain:
Tired of the stuffy standard fare that is the traditional life drawing class? Come look through the keyhole, and you’ll see that’s not the case here. Our models are often partly costumed and come with attitude. Think angel wings and tutus, burlesque corsets and riding crops, army boots and steam punk goggles, all wrapped around models who are there to have [...]

German artist Simon Schebert creates amazing 2D artwork by simply folding paper. His detailed “drawings” are on display at Upstairs Berlin till June 27th.
[colectiva via Design You Trust]

Paper Beats Internet is an “analog” social networking site that uses hand-rendered drawings as communications tools. Users post an initial drawing on the Paper Beats Internet website, and others create comment and response drawings that work off of the first drawing’s theme. Besides being aesthetically pleasing, the time and care that goes into doing a drawing adds a sense of thought, warmth and depth to the usually quick, off-the-cuff world of social media. The project is a collaboration between the New Directions in Pictoral Design class at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and a group of invited collaborators.
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Natasha Law is well known for her evocative line drawings. The UK Times describes them her style as “inky line drawings of languid females in knickers and high heels. Her…