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  • Figure Phase III

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Drawing Program - $99.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Watts Instructors
    14 Lessonsin , ,

    At Watts Atelier we employ a three-tiered learning system for drawing: Head, Figure and Quicksketch. Each area has the fundamental concepts that it helps you learn, and quicksketch is no exception. Embodied in this discipline you will find gesture, rhythm, balance, structure, design and intuitive measurement. With enough practice these skill sets will become an… Continue reading →

  • Figure Phase IV

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Drawing Program - $99.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Watts Instructors
    19 Lessonsin

    In this phase Jeff will be joined by two other Watts Atelier artists, Erik Gist and Lucas Graciano. Each will demonstrate their use of the concepts taught in the first 3 figure phases as they execute 2 drawings each at a 3 hour duration.. This mirrors the standard class taught at the Watts Atelier and is one of the cornerstones to proficient portrait drawing and ultimately painting. Sit back and enjoy because then it is your turn to give it a try

  • Figure Phase V

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Drawing Program - $99.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Watts Instructors
    19 Lessonsin

    Join Watts Atelier founder Jeff Watts and Atelier instructor Jim Hahn for the fifth phase in our figure drawing lessons.  In this Phase, Jim and Jeff will show the student how to approach a finished, polished, and fully rendered figure drawing.  This phase will build off of the solid concepts learned in earlier phases, and help the student learn the nuances of high-level rendering and shape design.  Working on a durable, archival surface with graphite, the process presented in these lessons is relaxing and leisurely, allowing the student to take their time and enjoy the journey as they render a complete figure in graphite. 

  • Fundamentals of Character Design

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Character Design, with Lucas Graciano - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Watts Instructors
    18 Lessonsin

    This course will cover the fundamental aspects of Character design for work in Conceptual Design. Here you will learn various methods for maximizing a high creative potential. There is introduction and demonstration of mediums commonly used in the industry. The course covers fundamental aspects of design and how to add personality to your characters. You will also be walked from sketch to completion through a common way industry professionals achieve their results.

  • Gouache Phase I

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    19 Lessonsin

    In this phase Jeff Watts introduces you to his second favorite medium after oil: gouache. He will demonstrate this medium using a traditional approach that is rarely taught in contemporary art schools. It will be instrumental to your future growth. Jeff refers to this technique as “tiling”, but you can think of it as shape… Continue reading →

  • Gouache Phase II

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    21 Lessonsin

    Now that you have successfully completed the Phase I gouache you can open up your palette some more, to a warm/cool palette. This will allow for a full treatment of color. We will again be working up our paintings through the chain of values, but now we will have a greater opportunity to use a… Continue reading →

  • Gouache Phase III

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    18 Lessonsin

    Painting from the master’s was an instrumental learning tool for Jeff as a student and still plays an important role in his current training regimen. In this phase Jeff picked a few of his favorite illustrators to emulate. Each one possess certain qualities that he feels will help cultivate your design skills, color harmonies, edge manipulation and much more.

  • Head Drawing Fundamentals

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Drawing Program - $99.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Watts Instructors
    20 Lessonsin ,

    Join Brian Knox, as he breaks down and then builds up the process of constructing the human head.  This course will instill a solid knowledge of the underlying structure of the human head.  Using a combination of constructive and rhythmical approaches, students will learn how to first block in major forms, then break down the features and planes of the face, adding more information in a structured way,  working ultimately towards a full value drawing.

  • Head Phase I

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Drawing Program - $99.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    14 Lessonsin

    In this phase you will explore basic head construction, and learn how to simplify the complex forms of the head through various measuring techniques. You will then move on to studying the skull, the Asaro head (both simple and complex), and the rhythmical head abstraction. Each section will look at straight on, three-quarter, and profile head… Continue reading →

  • Head Phase II

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Drawing Program - $99.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    8 Lessonsin

    Now that you have started to become familiar with navigating the human head from various angles, and using a variety of techniques, it is time to put that knowledge to work.  In this phase you will be called upon to take the aforementioned techniques and apply them to drawing from photos of plaster casts. We… Continue reading →

  • Head Phase III

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Drawing Program - $99.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    31 Lessonsin

    In this phase Jeff will introduce you to the art of head quick sketch.  You will watch Jeff tackle indicating heads ranging from 15 second to 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes and up to one hour.  It is in these lesson’s you start to see the true value of all the hard work you… Continue reading →

  • Head Phase IV

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Drawing Program - $99.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Watts Instructors
    19 Lessonsin

    In this phase Jeff will be joined by two other two other Watts Atelier artists, Erik Gist and Lucas Graciano.   Each will demonstrate their use of the concepts taught in the first 3 phases as they execute 2 drawings each at a 3 hour duration..  This mirrors the standard class taught at Watts Atelier… Continue reading →

  • Head Phase V

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Drawing Program - $99.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Watts Instructors
    26 Lessonsin ,

    Join Watts Atelier founder Jeff Watts and Atelier instructor Jim Hahn for the fifth phase in our head drawing lessons.  In this Phase, Jim and Jeff will show the student how to approach a finished, polished, and fully rendered head drawing, paying special attention to features, likeness and design.  This phase will build off of… Continue reading →

  • Illustrating a Fantasy Scene

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Illustrating a Fantasy Scene, with Lucas Graciano - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Watts Instructors
    12 Lessonsin

    This course will teach you some of the background and techniques that go into painting an illustration for card art. You will be walked through each phase of the illustration process that I use, starting with receiving the assignment all the way through the final painting. We will also talk about common ways to go about getting your first job and some of the best ways to increase your chances of getting work in the increasingly competitive job market.

  • Illustration - Painted Comic Cover

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Illustration - Painted Comic Cover, with Erik Gist - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Erik Gist
    15 Lessonsin

    When painting a cover for a comic book, less emphasis is put on narrative and more on creating an iconic image that jumps off the rack.  In this series of lessons we will be going over the process often used in the generation and refinement of concepts.  We will then continue, and spend a majority… Continue reading →

  • Inking Phase I

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Inking Phase I - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Watts Instructors
    23 Lessonsin ,

    Join Jeff Watts and Doug Stambaugh in this long anticipated phase as we start to understand the basics of inking to help cultivate superior dexterity, foresight and design. This phase of inking will start with introductions to inking through the use of ball point, technical and brush pens. Next, we will start to break down the basics of quill and brush inking through technical exercises to learn concepts such as cross hatching, line weight, tone building and rendering.

  • Inking Phase II

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Inking Phase II - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Watts Instructors
    25 Lessonsin ,

    In this second phase of Inking, Doug will be walking you through inking with a brush. In this course he will cover landscape with a forest scene, architecture with a Gothic building, a master study from Joseph Clement Coll and lastly a variety of animals utilizing various techniques for textural indications and style.

  • Inking Phase III

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Inking Phase III - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    16 Lessonsin ,

    In this last phase of inking Jeff will take your through various master studies and photo reference interpretations in ink. Utilizing brush and quill, he will be focusing mainly on heads and figures. In the middle of this phase, Jeff will be tackling an ink of Solomon J. Solomon's Samson, based on the biblical story of Samson and Delilah. This is more than just a one dimensional master study. It requires a heavy amount of interpretation to translate Solomon's highly rendered painting into ink, meaning that you have to unpack several layers of learning to understand the technical decisions being made. Strap in and get ready for this fantastic phase!

  • Landscape Phase I

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    30 Lessonsin

    The goal of this phase is to introduce you to the fundamentals of landscape composition.  Jeff will go over 13 different compositional “stems” used throughout history by some of the great landscape painters.  He will then use black and white gouache to do several small thumbnail paintings of each compositional stem, while explaining each one… Continue reading →

  • Landscape Phase II

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    19 Lessonsin

    Now that you have begun to understand the basics of landscape composition, let’s break apart various concepts within landscape and learn to tackle them. In this phase Jeff Watts will be introducing you to a fabulous limited palette–similar to the Zorn palette–but more ideally suited to the landscape painter. It features four colors: cadmium yellow,… Continue reading →

  • Landscape Phase III

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    18 Lessonsin

    In this class Jeff Will walk you through breaking down Landscape paintings from some of his favorite painters. Emphasis will be on picking up the chosen artist’s brushmanship, color harmonies, compositional choices, and shape design. Jeff will work from 4 artists; noted seascape painter Frederick Judd Waugh, Northern Californian impressionist painter Percy Gray, California Impressionist Edgar Payne, and lastly Russian impressionist Isaac Levitan. This Phase is a must do for aspiring landscape painters, conceptual designers and illustrator’s.

  • Mastering Quicksketch

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Mastering Quicksketch - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    27 Lessonsin

    In this phase we will be exploring one of my favorite subjects, the figure quick sketch.  It is an amazing skill to execute these to their highest level, and takes years of diligent practice to really feel comfortable navigating the human form in such a short period of time.  I have done this exercise consistently… Continue reading →