The Watts Artist Type Quizzes were created by 50x Platinum Songwriter, Producer, Multi-Medium Artist, Author, and Educator, Adam Watts.

With a deep interest in interpersonal dynamics and an appreciation for personality assessments like The Enneagram and The Big 5 Aspects Test, Watts began to develop a similar assessment designed specifically for those wonderfully idiosyncratic human beings we call Artists.

Fascinated by how people’s unique gifting combines with their personalities, eccentricities, and quirks to form a unique creative identity, Watts pulled from his own experiences as well as observations of artists throughout history, and created two interrelated quizzes that organize these identities into distinct Primary Artist Types;

• The Watts Artist Type Quiz (of which there are 10 types)

• The Watts Creative Work Type Quiz (of which there are 7 types)

After more than two decades working behind the scenes in the entertainment business (in the music, film, tv, fine art worlds and beyond), Watts began to notice profoundly distinct personality traits in the wide variety of creatives he worked with and observed. These include global super stars like Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus and Julia Michaels,  Christian Artists like Jeremy Camp and Colton Dixon, Director/Choreographer Kenny Ortega and countless independent artists in music, fine art, and photography. It was as if artists fell into unique categories. Almost like different species. They each interacted in ways that were consistent and surprisingly predictable (even in their unpredictability).

In his words, “I began to realize that artists are like their own species! I noticed that within that species, it’s as if there are different breeds. Each with their own distinct traits. I realized that it would be extremely useful and fun to see if I could identify a small number of distinct artist types that I’d seen not only in my own experience but out in the world, beyond my own experiences. I felt that if I could accurately name and define these distinct types then it could be imminently useful in similar ways that The Enneagram and Big 5 Aspects Tests have been for people to understand themselves and how they interact with others.

The goal was that every artist who’s ever lived and who will ever live could fit snuggly into a primary type. So after considerable thought, research, and development I’m very excited about the resulting two quizzes; The Artist Type Quiz and The Creative Work Type Quiz. The results of each, when combined, form a complete picture of how the artist tends to function creatively as well as in the context of a career in the arts.

As I began to share the quizzes, the feedback from artists has been incredible with the overwhelming majority expressing that their results were extremely accurate. My goals has never been to pigeonhole artists or narrowly define them, but rather to give them a bit of a mirror and magnifying glass to look into to further understand their uniqueness relative to others so that they could have a sense of orientation and relativity not only in their inner-worlds of creativity, but also in the context of collaborations, and in business situations.”