mmmhhmm... what i can say. but basically... maybe take the pen, focus on the idea of what you want and just start drawing, no?
i mean i would be HAPPY to see something maybe ot so much finished off but more
alive idk how to put it.. but now there are technically amazing busts and halfbodies, colorfull and next to flawless, comming one after another. i know that you HAVE to make them and someone for whom those are made are happy... but for me they are not any touching emotionally. i want back that 'WOW! *C*' i had seeing every your picture feeling like it was a part of my own life and experiences, making me feel for the character in the picture.
so... maybe other poses than half-boody looking into the 'lens'. maybe 2 charas togehter.