Love the shading under the bangs but the eye, more importantly the iris, looks like it is working badly with the negative space.

 Edited his facial features a bit.

http://i.imgur.com/ymMkl.png

Lmao. He was originally suppose to be happy. A little too happy for his own good.

I also like the smaller version, but that is probably because the up-scale version looks super happy in comparison :)

Sometimes less is more but not to the point where it feels empty.

I tried to keep the proportions the same so it gives off the same feel.

I did spend more time on the smaller one. Though, I pushed myself to do someting I don't normally do with the larger one/

lol I don't hink sky blue would be his colors.

I agree with Smilecythe, sometimes less is more, but this is very amazing, i really like it.

I like the smaller one better, sometimes less can be more.

I think scaling it up without changing the proportions (mostly on the head and face) made it a little odd, but the rendering is nice. Generally you want to exaggerate more on a smaller sprite than on a larger one. The small one is great, though.

Not too sure about the upscaled version, but I really love the lower res sprite of your character, very nice.

at first I thought it was a 'punk' version of Crono :P