Friday Night Live: Sketch Night, with Jeff Watts

this event has been rescheduled for this Sunday the 11th, at 7pm PST
Join Watts Atelier founder Jeffrey Watts as he tackles some sketches and shows various techniques Join in the fun, ask questions, and utilize the shared reference to draw along at home as you watch Free Trial of Watts Atelier Online:
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[@rolandboo123]

the more content I watch the more I start to realize Jeff is one of the greatest draftsmen ever! Such a treat to see him work

[@solortus]

Hey Jeff, I'd really love to see more inking videos of yours especially the anatomical ones. It's so rare to see someone with your skill be able to execute it while talking with the camera on, it's really amazing.

[@vllad74]

Inspirational as usual! Thanks Jeff!

[@sketchandprosper44]

Thank you Mr. Watts. Greetings from Poland :). All of the Friday Night Live's videos are wonderful source of knowledge and inspiration to me. I watch them over and over again, they have become very important in my daily practice. "If in doubt, watch Friday Night Live" is my motto ;). This Sketch Night caused me to grab a ballpen (I almost never used it for drawing) and sketch almost exclusively with it for a couple weeks. I found it to be more effective training for me than say pencil or charcoal. Something like going to the gym and lifting serious weights in a systhematic way compared to couple pushups in the morning ;). Thanks to this type of sketching (ballpen without underdrawing) I rooted out bad habit of excessive erasing which was bugging me. My ability to predict strokes and dexterity in general improved (for every drawing tool not just ballpen). My lines are more elegant and interesting. Most importantly when i have a good day and lots of energy I can actually "draw what I wish I saw" as You say it ;). That is a new skill for me, practically non-existent just a month ago and now it's starting to grow ;). Thank you very much.

[@zahidbailey5049]

thanks so much for posting these!!!

[@KariPurpleField]

I'll find a way to train with u Jeff Watts .. u r all that I need

[@juvenayudtud7500]

thank you so much for sharing your work!

[@DavidWoodArtist]

Thanks for doing it, learnt a lot from your technique.

[@chadpfister833]

Some great advice! Thanks.

[@ianjackson5834]

a great tutorial thank you

[@thepimpartist]

Thank you so much for doing these, Jeff! Maybe you'll do one or two at noon PST? I know you did one once during the day and I caught it live. I live in Europe and this one started at 5am here, so I couln't really catch it live :(..

[@oldmalayawatercolor849]

Thank you

[@samankucher5117]

Great job

[@ArtMurmurs]

You mentioned politics in one or two segments of your classes online I enjoyed. I'm hoping to glean more of that and your approach to local politics as an artist. Rubbing elbows when you need to and maybe enjoy it. I come from the grind of comics, I'm moving to Massachusetts soon. The community is trying to lift itself by promoting arts. Galleries, murals and fairs. I'm used to my four walls and I would like to acclimate (aspire) myself to the community and possible higher budgets than what I deal with in comics. Online classes are good to focus me - welcomed alignment thanks.

[@dirkshearer872]

I could be wrong, but I think when he mentions politics, he's referring to the difficulty of getting one's work into galleries due to various factors like who you know, where the favors lie, the resume, etc.

[@jay48091]

Hey Jeff! Will 'Bridgman Unabridged' be a reworking of Bridgman's 'Constructive Anatomy', or a combination of bits from all the books? Also, will it feature some of the Watts-Reilly method injected into it? Loving the online course, regards, Jay Gordon, South Africa

[@chrisweiher5314]

Wow this is amazing. Crazy that you got it all done in one night. Will you color it as well?

[@itsmeagain7246]

is there a date for the next live session? could not find it on the watts homepage. thx

[@alansartlog]

Really interesting line/shading style. Also interesting subject. As someone else already asked, you mentioned there was a reference available but I don't see a link or anything.

[@wattsatelier1391]

thanks for asking! we shared the reference link during the live stream. You can find it on our site, at www.wattsatelier.com/friday-night-live-workshop/

[@wildandfreeman94]

How do you guys call this table Jeff is specifically using for drawing? I saw that Erik is using one too, but what's the specific name for it? Thanks in advance a ton!

[@pdxeddie1111]

I think Mary Cassat said that copying the masters was a great education that couldn't be taught in school only by breaking down what they did and doing them gave you insight into their methods. Or something along those lines. I forget the exact quote but why you do it is for your own enrichment as an artist. I've more or less studied Van Gogh and that's really where I realized the dude was out of his tree. He was a genius no doubt but he was bonkers.

[@roselinogueira8163]

can you analyze kim jung gi ?

[@perryclayton3987]

Jeff, I love your work. You mentioned reference for horse and rider piece. Where is this available?

[@wattsatelier1391]

Thanks for asking! we shared the reference link during the live stream. You can find it on our site, at www.wattsatelier.com/friday-night-live-workshop/

[@tiktokloe]

How did I miss this :(

[@homosapien7217]

Top head looked a little like Mark Hamil + JCVD

[@manuelcastanonguerrero3216]

I really really wanted to grab my stuff and fly to encinitas to train in the Watts atterlier... until I looked up the rent costs up there, holy crap don't really want another online course either, however great it may be, I just want to live the attelier experience :C

[@gopherlee9427]

Manuel Castañón Guerrero What's wrong with the online classes?

[@manuelcastanonguerrero3216]

I have 5 years of online instruction and freelance illustration work stuck in my room, nothing wrong with them , I just want to be around like minded people and there aren't many where I live. But gonna fix that! moving to Berlin next year, lots of cool studios and got some artists friends living there :)

[@Outofthesnare]

What is the name of the pen is Jeff using?

[@bennyvermeulen7255]

a Pilot high tec c 04 pen

[@dougg1075]

Can you guys do a feature on the art horses you use?

[@MONEYVAL9]

You should post links to those references .

[@arteambar]

Frank Frazetta.

[@MONEYVAL9]

Line Decka ?

[@jay48091]

J.C Leyendecker...I think :)

[@kay486]

why is a video in 2016 interlaced?

[@andrewl.r7023]

kim jun gin is the number one

[@thepineapple4282]

kim jung gi**