Why is he so unimpressed?

A small blue unimpressed character on a kitchen shelf

Same body. Different mood. Two eyelids did all the work.

Mood character, content

Close the eyes, lift the mouth: content.

Mood character, unimpressed

Lower the lids: unimpressed.

Mood character, suspicious side-eye

Slide the pupils to one side: suspicious. The silhouette never moves.

Less, on purpose

No clothes, no pose, no texture to hide behind. Just the relationship between a few small features. Character usually comes from that, not from adding more.

Off the screen

Airbrushing a mood character

A print asks the real question: do soft eyelids still read at actual size, in kitchen light, without a render to help?

The painted character on a kitchen shelf

Judging by his face, the answer is yes. He's still not impressed.