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  • Advanced Figure Painting: Solomon J. Solomon

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Advanced Figure Painting: Solomon J. Solomon - $49.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    10 Lessonsin ,

    This course will be an in depth painting and analysis of Solomon J. Solomon’s painting Samson. This will be an advanced painting phase with focused placed on high end rendering techniques in paint. Be prepared to spend a long time finessing each of the figures in this painting. This particular demo takes a crop of… Continue reading →

  • Anatomy Intensives - Arms and Legs

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Anatomy Intensives - Arms and Legs, with Erik Gist - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Erik Gist
    13 Lessonsin

    In this phase we will be exploring one of the most important aspects of figure drawing, anatomy.  We will be taking an in depth look at the arms and legs, starting with the skeleton and working our way up to the surface morphology.  Along the way we will be examining the form and functionality of… Continue reading →

  • Anatomy Intensives- The Torso

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Anatomy Intensives - Torso and Back - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Erik Gist
    14 Lessonsin

    An in-depth understanding of anatomy is key to become a successful figure artist.  In this course, Erik Gist will teach you the skeletal structure, muscle groups, attachments and muscular insertion points of the torso.  This detailed knowledge is then put to practice, as you logically apply the exercises to rendered drawings, solidifying your understanding of… Continue reading →

  • Bridgman Anatomy Phase I: Torso Front and Back

    • 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
    • Bridgman Anatomy Phase I: Torso Front and Back - $49.00 / month
    • Bridgman Anatomy Phase II: Arms and Legs - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Jeffrey Watts
    18 Lessonsin ,

    Join Jeff as we delve into Bridgman Anatomy! This first phase will encompass the torso, front and back. We will be using a variety of techniques in this phase to accomplish the task of cleaning up and understanding Bridgman's Drawings, interpreting his design into photos and then embellishing our own drawings by doing master studies from Frazetta. Make sure to pick up the companion book to this course, Watts On Bridgman Volume 1: Torso Front and Back.

  • Composition and Staging

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Composition and Staging, with Robert Watts - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Robert Watts
    14 Lessonsin

    The goal of this class is to simplify the elements and procedures that produce excellent compositions…from motifs, overlap, linking and the monster power of shadows to the concept of contrasts and that mysterious thing called mood.

  • Costumed Figure Painting

    by Watts Instructors
    16 Lessonsin , ,

    In this phase Jeff Watts, Erik Gist and Meadow Gist will guide you in the process of painting a draped figure. Jeff will start with 5 different costumed figure comprehensive sketches in gouache, with Erik and Meadow taking you through several figure paintings in oil.

  • Creating Environments

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Creating Environments - $49.00 / month
    by Robert Watts
    16 Lessonsin ,

    In this course we will discover what makes environments and images feel the way they do. This is essential for the storyboard and environmental design, Illustrators and fine artists. We will cover the four main types of images: hostile, mysterious, romanticized and tranquil.

  • Dragon Design

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

    This course will teach you some of the background and techniques that go into painting dragons for illustration. You will be walked through a process of designing a dragon with personality and weight in order to achieve a highly inspirational and believable design. You will learn to mannequin a dragon so you are able to visualize and draw a dragon from many angles. Lastly the course will take you through a process of staging a dragon for an illustration.

  • Drapery 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
    • Drapery, with Erik Gist - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Erik Gist
    19 Lessonsin ,

    The goal of this class is to familiarize you with each of the seven key folds, as well as their function and usage in the process of drawing and painting. Through diligent practice of these principals you will eventually gain a mastery of drapery that will open you up to explore your creative and artistic potential.

  • Drapery 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 Watts Instructors
    8 Lessonsin , ,

    In this phase, Ben M. Young and Erik Gist will get you more familiar with the process of drawing the clothed figure. We will work past drawing clinical academic drawings of drapery, and see more specifically how these 7 key folds present themselves on the figure. As you practice drawing the draped figure, you will… Continue reading →

  • Drapery 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
    11 Lessonsin , ,

    In the final Phase of Drapery, Jeff Watts and Ben M. Young will take you through long graphite renderings of the figure. The drawings produced here will be “finishes”, reinforcing a solid understanding the key folds to the highest level. In this phase, we can delve much more into the realm of finessed design, edge… Continue reading →

  • Drawing Fundamentals 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
    11 Lessonsin ,

    The goal of this phase is to provide you with a working understanding of the essential building blocks of all drawing, and ultimately painting, in the Watts method.  You will be introduced to concepts such as value scales, essential geometric shapes used to breakdown the complex forms of the head and figure, the four essential… Continue reading →

  • Drawing Fundamentals 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
    7 Lessonsin

    In this phase you will start using freehand perspective to construct lay-ins of solid 3D objects. We will build from simple, single objects to more complex multiple object scenarios. This phase will expand on, and reaffirm, the earlier concepts emphasized in Phase I. These exercises will prove instrumental as you move into the figure and… Continue reading →

  • Essentials of Tech

    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Essentials of Tech, with Robert Watts - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Robert Watts
    16 Lessonsin

    These videos are a collection of useful tips and approaches for both design and the necessary tasks of perspective and shadowing for all 'Tech' genres. The solutions range from the rather involved, but carefully explained... to the very simple. Unlike previous courses, the workbook will actually expand upon what you see in the video with clear, defined steps and diagrams plus much new material and additional concepts along the way.

  • Features and Facial Expressions

    • Features and Facial Expressions, with Lucas Graciano - $49.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    by Watts Instructors
    12 Lessonsin

    This Course will cover the fundamentals of drawing features and facial expressions. Construction of each feature will be the focus of the first portion of the course. Facial anatomy will then be taught as a transition into drawing facial expressions. Students will then move on to cover the seven main facial expressions.

  • Figure 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
    21 Lessonsin , , ,

    Figure Drawing is essential. It is a core foundation of being a great representative artist. Through figure drawing you will learn so much about the various techniques that we employ at the school, such as angle measurements, comparative measurement and plumb lines, anatomy and more. In this introductory figure drawing phase, get ready for the basics of navigating the human form. Brian will take you through the  gesture, structure and mass as is relates to the figure, while introducing you to the Reilly method of figure drawing, showing how to utilize different rhythm lines and where to utilize them. Next, you will start to add structure to your figures, taking that initial gesture and making it three dimensional. The next series of demos will be adding light and shadow to the three dimensional forms, and at the end of this course Brian will delve into what it takes to bring a figure drawing to a finish with two rendered demos. 

  • Figure Painting 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
    17 Lessonsin

    In this phase we will again be placing the emphasis on limited palettes. We will start almost all first phases in painting this way.  The goal will be to familiarize yourself with value control, shape recognition, and edge control. Students will work from photos of the male and female casts, both front and back, as… Continue reading →

  • Figure Painting 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

    Having gotten familiar with navigating the human form from the major angles, and using controlled palettes, you are now ready to open the range a bit. In this phase you will again be working from photos of the male and female figures taken from the major angles. However, now you will be using the Burnt… Continue reading →

  • Figure Painting 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
    31 Lessonsin ,

    This course will expand upon your figure painting foundational skills, and introduce you to the loose style and expressive edge work of gesture figure painting. These lessons will help you understand color and color mixing in a more instinctual way, as well as help hone your understanding of edge work and your ability to push and design from your reference. This charismatic approach to figure painting is a wonderful way to "loosen up" your painting approach and work on expressive brushmanship.

  • Figure Painting Phase IV

    • 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
    17 Lessonsin , ,

    In this course will feature Jeff painting from various masters and demonstrating how they approached rendering the figure in oil.  These lessons will help you focus on your observational painting, applying your knowledge of anatomy, and sharpen your sense of design by differing to the masters.  It will cover a wide range of stylistic interpretations, drawing upon the work of William Adolphe Bouguereau, Diego Velasquez, Solomon J. Solomon and Anders Zorn.

  • Figure 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
    11 Lessonsin

    In this phase you will learn to break the figure down into various “mannequins” and to understand the canons of measurement and proportion. You will also be introduced to the male and female planes, and how to unify your figures using the basic figure abstraction. Terms defined in this phase will become critical for studying… Continue reading →

  • Figure 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
    24 Lessonsin

    Now that you have started to digest the basic foundational components of the Watts method, you can begin to apply what you’ve learned. This phase will introduce you to studying the male and female forms through photo work. Jeff will demonstrate how to bring out the basic abstraction rhythms, as well as walk you through… Continue reading →