Mm-hm Emote

You get to be my guinea pig for testing this critique thingy. <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/l/l…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title="LOL" /> Anyway, I love how smoothly it flows, and that I can pretty clearly see the emotion expressed by the lil' blue dude. <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/b…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Big Grin)" /> It's the proper size and shape for an emote, I think, and the shading (something that I imagine would be problematic in a lot of cases with something as small as this, haha) is nice as well. The only things I see that could be improved upon include the following: Maybe it's just me, but the eyes and mouth seem a bit close together. Again, an emote doesn't have to follow any strict rules for that sort of thing - and this is different from dA's 'official' emotes anyway - but I think it would be a little more effective a couple pixels more apart. Also, while the shading is really nice, I think perhaps it would look more effective if the shading was a little off-center, like the lighting was coming slightly from the side rather than straight in front of the lil blue dude. <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Smile)" /> This would also help the visibility of the face. Also perhaps it might look better with a slightly lighter shade of blue, since the current color makes the eyes and mouth a liiitle hard to see. But even so, overall, this is an exceptional first attempt, and worlds better than I could ever hope to do! <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/b…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Big Grin)" /> I eagerly await MOAR emotes from ye 8D