wall of text go
It looks pretty cool, it could go for a permanent set. Something original and unique, not another basic tribal or robotic set. Those are fine if they have distinct features. I'm not a fan of headphones, but at least its not a headphone/emo head combo. Go ahead and use a leather brush, just blend it in and make sure it looks good. You have all the time in the world to edit and get feedback from it. I like the shadow in the mouth, you need something like that applied to the face. Where the face area is lighter, and everywhere else is darker. I don't see it resembling deadmau5 at all. He just says that because there are Xs in the eyes, which are just for watermarks ( I hope
). I don't see a thing that resembles deadmau5. There isn't much to CnC on because there isn't much complete yet. I like the color though, its a nice shade of blue. I don't like the purple color of the headphones though.
Good luck, hope to see more, etc.
tldr; Keep working on it, it looks nice.