Jeff Watts is one of the most skilled draftsmen I know and he knows a lot when it comes to line quality. In this bonus lesson, he’ll give us some great insight on how to think about lines in our drawings.
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bonnieblue
1d
Jeff says to set specific goals to keep moving forward. At this stage, what are my goals besides learn to draw or improve? I'm floundering here, i cant find the forrest OR the trees, specific daily/ weekly goals might help. The obvious goal is to draw everyday, but Jeff is talking about something more specific & meaningful. I'd like to know what please.
justzach
5d
Something fun i heard today in my watch though was how Jeff mentioned something about 10 tones. And it made me laugh because our only lesson was with half of that to warm us up.
Philippe Girard
4d
10 is witchcraft wtf
justzach
6d
i've been watching this every day sense it came out and i feel like i keep hearing new things i didnt quite get the first time through. Trying my best to soak up everything Jeff Watts has to say. I keep hearing things that i heard before, but on each consecutive watch though i understand a new thing he said that didnt come across on the previous viewings.
justzach
7d
"Show you a picture that is closer to where your at" Proceeds to show something i'm years away from drawing anything close to that.
Dave Sakamoto
7d
What does Jeff mean when he says his drawing has a tonal feel? Sorry, I'm a novice to artistic terms.

Jeremiah Anglin
6d
It essentially means that the drawing it composed of shapes of relative values that transition into one another with a particular edge (hard,soft,firm,etc.). It mimics more so how light falls on a form in real life than say hatching or crosshatching.
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Dave Sakamoto
7d
Jeff said that his drawing exemplifies a heavy calligraphic style of drawing. What does he mean by calligraphic? Calligraphy is the art of beautiful handwriting. Is he saying that his drawing has a handwriting style? And if so, what is that?

Jeremiah Anglin
6d
A calligraphic style is kind of your own personal signature that makes it recognizable. For instance in observational drawing you could draw what you see while also adding bits of what you would like to see in the picture, adding your own personal style to it.
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VAGABOND
8d
A lot of information and inspiration to keep driving forward. Really good video
julia pace
8d
inspiring
S Beauchamp
8d
That was awesome, really loved the nuanced discussion especially around choosing what kind of edges to use.
S Beauchamp
8d
was there a link to buy a skull cast? did I imagine that?
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Samantha Maggard
8d
Very informative and inspiring!
Philippe Girard
9d
Damn, he really looks like a buff Marshall lol
Great lesson, very insightful.
justzach
5d
This is the funniest comment
J B
9d
Really insightful, thanks Jeff for sharing your knowledge!
Browny Sparks
9d
I'm glad you brought on Jeff to talk about this stuff. I feel like the more exciting things reveal themselves as you move further into art and get deeper into more advanced topics. And I'm not someone who generally looks at other people's art that much and forget why I got into this in the first place, so seeing a master's work and his explanation of some of the more advanced things in a simplified way for beginners is definitely an inspirational boost! :D
Thank you Jeff and Stan! I hope to see more guests in future lessions as well to stoke my inner art fire.
Thank you!
Chris W
9d
God damn...
I guess I will be setting up goals for myself, like Jeff said. I will try to draw more often. Especially with still life drawings, since they are much easier to do, and I can apply fundamentals that I learned here.
That was a great video, I will do more thinking when drawing, and not just doing it by the feeling.
Wolfgang H.G. FELFERNIG
9d
Wow !! I may thank both of you, Jeff and Proko, very much - it is almost unbelievable, every single word is a sentence for its own !!

oluchi
9d
i found this really encouraging and insightful, it picked up my mood quite a bit. Can I see a bit--just a bit of light at the end of this long tunnel.
Tuija Kuismin
9d
Thank you so much for this lesson, Jeff and Stan! It's a gem. In addition to being educational, this was very encouraging and, yes, very inspiring as well.
I feel like the lesson could alternatively be titled as "Jeff Watts Goes Fast & Furious on Line Quality". He says so many things, that feel important to me, just one after another and they keep coming, that I forgot or didn't have time to take notes! I'm going to watch the lesson again, pausing it several times to just stop and think and properly take it all in - what you're teaching us to do when drawing, it occurs to me as I write this :). Anyways, thank you!
Edo Moya
9d
This part hit me in the face...
"Now, most people, they draw and they don't even think they're just drawing and they don't stop and think about anything. And they wonder why the drawing doesn't look all that great because you really have to draw, think, stop, interpret, think, Think about what that is that you're drawing.
Look at what you're seeing. Do I like that thing that I'm seeing or do I want to change it now? This is where it gets really advanced, its part what you see part what you know and part what you wish you saw. Most of you are going to be drawing entirely what you see because you don't know that much yet."
Gold.
9d
Haha, he says it like it is!

samkatz405
10d
"Drawing is part what you see, part what you know and part what you wish you saw." Very well said!

Geert-Jan
10d
thank you Jeff!
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