Inking Tips: Weight, Wrapping Details Around Forms

I am finding that a lot of artists who want to assist and ink for me are struggling with the same problems. So rather than me giving the same notes to every artist, It would save a lot of time and trouble for me to just give the notes to everyone.
Here is an ink that on the surface looks clean. However it is also too flat - for me. The drawing has been inked line by line - as if the lines exist by themselves and this makes the characters look cold and stiff.
WEIGHT:

Here are some tips. Let's start with giving forms some weight - by putting a heavier line underneath each form.
WRAP the LINES, DON'T CUT THROUGH FORMS

Then give the lines FORM by wrapping the lines around the construction.

CONNECTIONS:

Be careful where one form connects to another as well - like where the legs and arms connect to the torso. They

Tips For Constructing Faces

The head is made up of 2 major parts:

1) the Cranium - which is generally solid (except in exaggerated instances of cartoon license)

2) the Jaw Area- is more movable and can squash and stretch

CONNECTING THE CRANIUM and LOWER FACE PARTS

The upper and lower parts of the head are connected by MEAT:

cheeks, and upper lip.

The rest of the features have to conform to what positions the cranium, jaw and cheeks are in.

Eyes sit in the cranium but are affected by the mouth and cheeks.

Eyebrows both affect and are affected by the eyeballs.

The mouth is affected by 2 things:

1) Whether the jaw is open or closed.

2) The shape of the lips.

John K Stuff: Lips and Mouth Accessories

Every part of the anatomy affects the others.

If you change the shape of one thing, the other parts have to change (to a lesser extent with it).

The farther away from whichever muscle is moving, the less affected the other parts are.

John K Stuff: Hierarchy 2 - The Facial Expression in broad strokes