Please don't agree with me on that cliches in of themselves do not offer information, as I didn't say any such thing. I think any artistic choice carries information. But not all information is equal, there's things that are simply
not worth drawing.
You seem to be confused as to what you wanted to do: do you want to buck the trend of objectifying women in the 'catgirl' cliche, or do you want to enhance it? It seems to me there's nothing that'd buck the trend more than
making her interaction with the viewer feel much more awkward and strained
by making her more humanlike, yet still naked and obviously catgirly. It'd make the viewer think "...gosh, go put on some clothes!" instead of "mmm, sexy catgirl we meet again only we'll never meet in real life".
If you want to support the trend, then you'd need to make her even less human and realistically rendered, sorry.
What is seems to me is that what you are doing is commenting on a community through your art. The information inherent in this piece is *about the Pixel Joint challenge, and those that will enter in it*. In my opinion, there's nothing more vapid and useless than using art as a method to discuss with art peers and the 'scene'. Absolutely worthless, of no lasting value to anyone but select proponents of said scene, and even then, only insofar that you remain part of their scene. The cheapest art there is.
That's my challenge to you, to put your artistic skills into making art with a higher purpose than at least that, not to "draw a realistic mouth if you dare".