Aaron thanks you for selecting this course and explains the general concept you’ll review.
Drawing Clear Expressions with Aaron Blaise
Learn to draw expressive faces with clarity, structure, and personality.
Join Aaron Blaise for a focused course on drawing faces and expressions.
You’ll learn how to build believable facial structure, push emotions, simplify features, and create clear expressions that communicate character and story.
Expressions
Character Drawing
With Aaron Blaise
What You’ll Learn
Study facial structure, features, expression, emotion, and the drawing choices that make characters feel clear and believable.
Face Drawing Fundamentals
Explore construction, proportion, shape design, eyes, mouths, brows, and how small changes can dramatically shift expression.
Course Journey
Move from foundational face construction into expressive character drawings that communicate mood, attitude, and personality.
Meet Aaron Blaise
Learn from the Oscar-nominated director of Brother Bear and veteran Disney animator with decades of feature animation experience.
Lessons
02 Skull Structure
Start with a comprehensive studie of the skull and proportions.
03 Basic Facial Expressions
Exercise the features of the face and use a face icon as a reference.
04 Happy
Explore the different degrees of expression and identify the characteristic shapes and anchor points in a happy face.
05 Sad
Translate the icon’s sad face into your character, and achieve gradually sad levels of expression.
06 Anger
Study the changes in the angry face and how the anchor points impact the expression.
07 Surprise
Observe the displacement of the muscles and skin on the face when expressing surprise.
08 Contempt
Meet the challenge of communicating this expression with slight changes to the face.
09 Fear
Notice how the facial expressions open when your character expresses fear.
10 Disgust
Define the characteristic gestures that express disgust.
11 Extra Expressions
Aaron guides you to explore other emotions in your characters.
12 Body Language
Study the non-verbal communication in the body, according to the emotion in your character.
13 In Conclusion
Last tip to keep in mind when you’re working on your expressions. Share your artwork with #CreatureArtTeacher