> I'd encourage you to continue experimenting with guro -> happy. A slightly deranged-looking smile is still vastly preferable to the usual range of fear and horror. Besides, how do you expect to improve without first reaching beyond your current level of skill?
Okay, if I stumble upon a picture that requires little alteration to make it look happy, and that would also be appealing to me, I'll try to do it. Unfortunatelly most of them requre redrawing all the face which I certainly can't do.
So how do you like my attempts so far? It's kinda hard for to objectively judge one's own work, so an outside perspective would be appreciated.