Dr. Sketchy’s Baltimore is held once a month, usually on a Thursday or Friday, depending on the venue’s availability. Sessions are from 7 to 10 p.m.
Call time is at 6 p.m., but please arrive earlier if you’ll need more time to get ready on site and go over logistics before we start at 7.
Payment: In exchange for providing the audience with inspiration during the three-hour session, you will be paid $100, in addition to tips given by our generous audience, usually via Venmo or Zelle within 48 hours of the end of the event. If you are interested in performing a quick act during the session for an additional $50, please let us know in advance.
Performances: While it’s not necessary to perform at Sketchy’s, nearly all models do treat our audience to a mid-session act. If you’d like to perform, please choose a short act (around 2–4 minutes long) with a costume that will not take more than 8 minutes to change into. For the best reception from our audience, we recommend lively, upbeat, dramatic, and/or funny acts; performances that are slow and sultry from start to finish tend not to get as much of a reaction.
No nudity will be involved. While we ask that you pose in an interesting costume that shows off your figure, outfits should be no more revealing than pasties and a g-string. Please bring two or three costumes. Two should be enough, if they are complex and layered enough to be stripped down over the course of several poses, but it’s still a good idea to bring a third quick-change outfit just in case, since usually our audience enjoys drawing one more look at the end of the night.
Staging and props: A chair and a draped massage table with pillows will be provided for your comfort, but we encourage you to bring any props and/or portable pieces of furniture that may complement your costumes or make our otherwise very simple stage set-up more visually interesting for the artists and more comfortable for you.
Themes: unlike most Dr. Sketchy’s branches, we do not usually have themed sessions, though we encourage any awesome suggestions for such sessions if you think you’ve already got two or three amazing costumes that would work together as a theme. Quality costumes are more important to us than themes, though, so please don’t feel like you need to make a far-fetched connection between good costumes, throw in a less-interesting costume to round out a theme, or suggest a theme for which you will have to rush to make costumes solely for your session.
Our pose schedule is as follows, with 5- to 10-minute breaks in between each 20-minute set:
- 10 one-minute poses, then 5 two-minute poses (Burlesque performers: you may want to consider saving the reveal for the beginning of the next set.)
- break: just relax and stay in your first costume!
- 4 five-minute poses
- break: change into your 2nd/performance costume
- performance (optional)
- 2 ten-minute poses. If you perform, please plan on staying in your performance costume for at least these two poses.
- break
- one 20-minute pose
- break
- one 20-minute pose
(If, by some miracle, we have ten minutes or more left after this second 20-minute pose, we’ll squeeze in another pose to fill out the three hours.)
Before the start of your session, you’ll also need to sign our model release form, which will be emailed to you once you’ve been booked. By agreeing to model for Dr. Sketchy’s, you agree to allow Dr. Sketchy’s Baltimore, as well as Dr. Sketchy’s HQ, to use any photos, videos, and drawings of you from your session for our online, print, and film promotional purposes.
Photos for promotional flyers: Once you’ve accepted a date, please email us at least one promotional image to use for your flyer as soon as possible, ideally at least 3-4 weeks before your session. Photos should be:
- high-res: at the minimum, 8″ x 10″ at 300 dpi, or 2400 px by 3000 px, but bigger is better.
- a good representation of the model’s appearance: Full-body images are best, but photos should be of you at least from the waist up, and with at least most of your face unobscured.
- without watermarks or credit lines: We will add a credit line in the flyer design process. While you may have the rights to use your photograph for your own promotional purposes, in order for us to use it to promote the session we must receive permission directly from the photographer to avoid any confusion (i.e., we don’t want to get an angry email two days before the event from your photographer, who found the flyer online or on social media and is now demanding we take down the image because they did not grant us permission to use their work—trust us, it’s happened before). If direct permission cannot be obtained by email from a photographer, we will not use the photo and another image from a more responsive photographer will need to be obtained.
If, after you’ve read this page from top to bottom and watched a few of our videos to see what we’re about, you’re still interested in modeling for our Dr. Sketchy’s, please email Alexis and Aaron with detailed information on your experience, including photos and/or links to videos of yourself performing, plus a brief but detailed proposal for your session. So that we’re on the same page, we encourage you to include high quality photos of you in the costumes you intend to wear for the session (we’ve learned that written descriptions can sometimes over- or undersell costumes). Again, themes are not required at our branch, but we will give preference to proposals involving both a solid theme and high-quality costumes.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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