The Expressive Drawing Bundle
Master the art of creating expressive characters rich in personality and emotion. Learn to draft dynamic, natural poses that bring your artwork to life through 80+ videos lessons, 13+ hours of instruction, and practical demonstrations.Â
Why drawing characters feels difficult
You can understand anatomy, draw every feature, and still end up with a character that doesn’t quite feel alive.
The pose might be technically correct and the face might be well constructed, yet the result feels stiff, generic, or simply doesn’t communicate what you intended. Often, the problem isn’t talent. It’s understanding how everything works together. Â
Without a clear foundation in gesture, structure, head construction, facial features, and expression, it’s easy to start guessing or adding more detail to fix the drawing, but expressive characters aren’t about adding more detail. They’re about understanding the structure beneath the drawing and how small changes in a pose or a feature can completely change what a character is communicating.
Once you understand those relationships, you can approach both poses and faces with more clarity and create characters that feel expressive, believable, and alive.
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Hi, my name is Alan!
I am a Canadian-based character designer and educator with over 20 years of experience helping bring animated stories to life. My career has taken me to studios such as Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, and Sony Animation, where I have worked across the entire character design pipeline, from early concept exploration to model sheets, turnarounds, and expressive posing.
Throughout my time in the industry, I have learned from an incredible range of directors, artists, and designers, gaining practical techniques and workflows used in real production environments. I have also spent many years teaching character design and life drawing at the college level, helping artists develop strong fundamentals, clear design thinking, and the confidence to create characters that feel alive and authentic.
Today, my goal is to make that knowledge accessible to artists who want to grow both technically and creatively.
Worked with leading animation studios including
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Imagine Drawing Characters With Clarity
Imagine sitting down to draw and understanding the pose and the structure of the head before adding details.
Instead of guessing, you understand how gesture, construction, features, and expression work together.
Small adjustments begin to make sense: a shift in the line of action, or a change in the eyes, brows, or mouth, can completely change what your character is communicating.
In these courses, you’ll learn how to build poses, faces, and expressions step by step, so your characters feel more natural, expressive, and alive.
Over time, drawing characters becomes something you can approach with more clarity and confidence.
SIGN UP NOWWhat You'll Unlock Through the Course:
Build a strong foundation first
Start every pose with a clear line of action, simple skeleton, and strong structure. Construct the head with simple forms before adding features or expression.
Simplify the figure and the face.
Break the body into tubes and basic shapes, and understand how each facial feature is constructed and how they work together.
Create Expressive Characters
Combine gesture, structure, and simplified anatomy and features to communicate emotion, personality, and intention, so characters feel alive, believable, and full of personality.
Course Content
These courses are organized into six main parts. Expressive Posing covers Method, Application, and Practice, and Faces & Expressions covers Head Anatomy & Construction, Facial Features, and Expressions. Bonus content adds extra studies, exercises, and slower, more detailed drawing demonstrations.
Across more than 13 hours of lessons and demonstrations, I’ll guide you from understanding the structure of a pose and the structure of the head to creating characters that communicate emotion, personality, and intention.
In each course, every part builds on the one before it, giving you a clear, step by step approach you can apply to your own character drawings.
What You’ll Learn Inside the Courses
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All lessons are recorded in full HD and include clear drawing demonstrations and visual references to help you follow each concept as I explain it.
You’ll be able to see how I approach each drawing, from the initial construction to the decisions that shape the final expression.
The course is practical and drawing-focused, so you can see each principle in action and apply what you learn directly to your own characters and projects.
What’s Included in the Courses
Foundations & Structure
We’ll begin with the foundations of head construction and facial structure, using simplified forms to help you understand the face before adding details.
Practical Exercises
You’ll find exercises designed to help you apply each concept directly in your own drawings. The goal is to develop observation and control through consistent practice.
Lifetime Access
Once you enroll, you’ll have lifetime access to the course. You can revisit the lessons whenever you like and progress at your own pace as your skills continue to develop.
Flexible Learning
All lessons are available online and can be watched on any device. You can pause, replay, and return to the videos whenever you need, making it easy to fit the course into your routine.
Community of Artists
When you join the course, you’ll also become part of a community of artists who are learning and practicing together. It’s a place to share ideas, ask questions, and stay motivated.
My Dedicated Support
I’ll guide you step by step as you explore head construction, facial features, and expression. My goal is to give you the foundation you need to draw faces with more clarity and confidence.
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Additional studies to deepen your understanding.
 Acting Pose Film Study
I include extra exercises designed to help you continue practicing gesture, structure, and expressive posing beyond the main lessons.
$67Â - FREE
Balance, Weight & Tension
A focused lesson on how weight, balance, and tension affect a pose, helping you create characters that feel grounded, stable, and more believable.
$57Â - FREE
Additional Practice Exercises
I include extra exercises designed to help you continue practicing gesture, structure, and expressive posing beyond the main lessons.
$67Â - FREE
Slow Drawing & Construction
5 additional follow-along lessons where I slow down my process and show the construction more clearly.Â
$57Â - FREE
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Black Friday Special - 8 Monthly Payments
The total value of the two courses would normally be $594. Instead, by taking them NOW with the 50% SPECIAL BLACK FRIDAY INSTALLMENTS OFFER, you can split the cost and join through eight monthly payments!
The courses content is exactly the same, this simply allows you to spread the investment over time in a way that feels more comfortable for you.
The price displayed below is in US dollars, but you can pay with ANY currency.
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Learn to create expressive faces that make your characters feel alive!
My Promise to You
If the course isn’t the right fit for you, you can request a full refund within the first 14 days of purchase. My goal is for every student to feel confident about joining the course, so you can explore the lessons and see if the approach works for you.
