How about this, based on pistachio's? there is room for an extra vertical line in the head:
Too bad we cant show how grumpy he is. This scale is difficult to work with line based art! Aragones isn't french but groo is pretty much ligne-claire style, and you cannot round things with shading or aa and keep it ligne-claire. And I feel you, it takes a lot to make me go over imaginary tile boundaries with sprites.
