Slowly but surely...

I have to quit looking at other versions of this figure until I'm done, it's really not helping... I look at them and I know how I want this to look but it's not quite happening.

I guess the problem with this figure is that painting it technically well isn't enough, if you can't get a definite expression happening you've failed. That's what I'm battling with at the moment. I think I've almost got impassive down - not really what I'm after...