Gomez from Fez was the first thing to pop into my mind. I like it!
Thanks for the super warm welcome!
I will definitely look into animating these as I'm thinking of potentially using them for a little game project.
Welcome! Nice job =)
Resized a bit before submission to keep it sharp: if you mean the blurry zoom, it's not blurry in Firefox, and there are fixes for other browsers.
this is a really excellent character design, but the darker part at the left could be fixed. i'd say either increase the contrast of the darker shades to make them pop out more, or even just go without them at all.
regardless, good job 
Simple and elegant.