Facial Expression Sheet ~ Preliminary Roughs

I have to act this guy, so I'm drawing some expressions to see what I can get out of him. When I tried this before I was drawing him all cartoony and he just ended up looking grotesque. So this time I drew him without any squash and stretch to his skull. All the expressions are purely from the eyes and mouth. Next, I want to try to push the expressions more by allowing a little squash and stretch. We'll see how far I can push it and still have it look like his 'ol happy self.

Davelyman out!

Skullz!

Taking a Character Design class at The Animation Academy in Burbank, I was trying to come up with a skull character:

One of these do?

Davelyman out!