Playful Expressions
Let the eyes, brows, and mouth tell a tiny story.
Self-Paced Online Art Class
Whimsical Faces
Learn a playful, stress-free approach to drawing expressive faces filled with personality—without trying to make them perfect or realistic.
Join the Class for $19
Step-by-step video lessons • 7 art projects • Unlimited access
Take a peek inside
See what we create in Whimsical Faces
Watch the class preview to see the faces, techniques, and playful projects waiting for you inside.
Faces with feeling and personality
Stop worrying about drawing faces “correctly.”
This class gives you a simple foundation for drawing faces, then shows you how to bend the rules, exaggerate the details, and let your own playful style take over.
You’ll learn how small changes to the eyes, nose, lips, face shape, hair, and proportions can create entirely different expressions, ages, moods, and personalities.
Learn the Map
Start with an easy face map that gives you a helpful structure without making your work feel rigid.
Change the Details
Explore expressions, ages, turned faces, face shapes, features, and wonderfully whimsical hair.
Find Your Style
Use watercolor, pen, colored pencil, and quick exercises to create faces that feel like yours.
Meet the faces
One simple foundation. So many personalities.
These faces all begin with the same approachable ideas, but each becomes its own character through expression, shape, color, hair, and playful detail.
The goal is not to copy my faces. It is to understand how they are built, then make choices that lead you toward your own visual language.
Build confidence through play
Create expressive faces without the pressure.
This is not a realistic portrait class. It is an invitation to loosen up, experiment, and discover how much personality can live in a few simple lines and painted shapes.
We begin with the basics, then apply what you’ve learned to quick sketches, loose watercolor faces, mixed media characters, and art journal projects.
Learn clear, repeatable face-building techniques
Create different expressions, ages, and personalities
Draw from imagination and photo references
Use finished faces in journals, collage, gifts, and art
A closer look
Change a few details and meet someone new
A different eye shape, a longer face, an exaggerated mouth, unexpected hair, or a bold wash of color can completely change the personality of your character.
Unexpected Details
Add pattern, scribble, color, flowers, and imaginative hair.
Your Own Style
Use the lessons as a starting point—not a formula to copy.
Loose Watercolor
Let watercolor shapes and happy accidents guide the character.
Quick Sketches
Practice creating personality in just a few minutes.
Mixed Media Characters
Combine watercolor, pen, pencil, and collage-like marks.
The heart of the class
What does “whimsy” actually mean?
Whimsy is not about adding random decorations or trying to make everything cute. For me, it is about curiosity, exaggeration, personality, and giving yourself permission to make choices that feel playful and unexpected.
Inside the course
A substantial library of step-by-step lessons
The course combines detailed skill-building lessons with loose, quick exercises so you can understand the structure and then stop overthinking it.
1
Face Foundations
Face maps, proportions, expressions, ages, and turned faces.
2
Features & Hair
Eyes, noses, lips, face shapes, and wonderfully whimsical hair.
3
Quick Practice
Loose 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, and 20-minute drawing exercises.
4
Finished Projects
Watercolor, acrylic, collage fodder, and art journal applications.
This class is so much fun
“I'm enjoying drawing these faces in my art journal. Thank you so much for all the inspiration and creativity you share. I am grateful.”
— @bonnies_creative_zen_
Bonus inspiration
Turn your faces into finished art
You will also see ways to move beyond practice pages and use the characters you create in your larger creative work.
Create on your schedule
A relaxed, self-paced art class
Once you enroll, you can return to the lessons whenever you want to practice, experiment, or create another cast of characters.
Unlimited Access
Revisit every demonstration whenever inspiration strikes.
Work at Your Pace
Pause, replay, skip around, and create on your own schedule.
All Experience Levels
Helpful for beginners and freeing for experienced artists who want to loosen up.
Enroll today
Join Whimsical Faces
Learn the building blocks of an expressive face, loosen up through quick creative exercises, and discover a playful way to create characters that feel completely your own.
$19
One-time payment
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