Hoth needs help de-crapifying this sprite

[Chris2Balls [:B]]

First of all, I'd like to know the gender. :p
I'll assume this is a man's face. Is he frowning, or not?

Anyway, here's what I've done:

I redrew the face, a skull to its scale and a wireframe of the face.
Your main issues are proportions and lighting, and those elements should hopefully help.
No. 3 is breaking the symmetry, to give a more natural feel to the face.

I then have this:

Just to show the relation between a skull and a face, the bits that make it etc.