These types of characters remind me how much I actually liked and miss the 90's "CalArts" style (the term supposedly first came from the mouth of Ren and Stimpy's disgraced co-creator, Jon Kricfalusi, and he was referring to this "look" as the "CalArts" style of the day). As far as "overdone" cartoon styles go, you could do a lot worse than this expressive style!