
You can also google his drawings, they will blow you away. You may not want to be a painter, but you can be confident that you are learning from a master. To give context, here is some of Jeff Watts work. The tutorials online are fun, but don't have that structure.Ģ.) The teachers are world class artists.


The course is designed to take you from beginner to master. Learning online gives you random bits of information which are helpful, but you can't contextualize them. The difference between Watts and other free tutorials online is 1.) professionalism and structure: The course is taught by the founder of the atelier Jeff Watts, and it is structured like a true academic art class. But yeah, Watts Atelier will definitely help. Eventually you can visualize where everything goes and place it on the page in the right spot. It has to do with proportions and measuring, which is a skill that takes time and practice to get a handle on. On the issue of sizing, that is a problem that will solve itself naturally over time. If you are interested in painting, you can continue the course to portrait and figure painting, along with other specialized classes (landscape, drapery, composition, etc.) Next you move into portrait drawing fundamentals, then figure. Then drawing fundamentals is finished with still life drawing. Then you will start drawing other simple geometric forms applying the same principles. To give you a rough breakdown of how the course works, you start by drawing simple shapes (spheres, cylinders, boxes, cones) focusing on form and value. It will still be a good idea to learn anatomy while you continue through the program - I'll link you to some great anatomy resources. It is beginner friendly - anatomy knowledge helps, but you wont be drawing the figure immediately.
