Rheto the Radio Boy

So first of all... oh my god!  I copy-merged every layer and suddenly the lighting became amazing!  Also, I figured out the shadows thing, none of my drawings will have accidental vampires anymore.

Anyway, this piece was a throwaway piece actually.  I had lots of doubts starting this because the sketch was plain, and the lineart was terrible.  When I blocked it, I just didn't see a good picture that could come out of it.  But I kept going anyway because I want to move on.  I was surprised that it turned out this well.

A bit of info, this is Rheto.  Among all of my OCs, he's the most recent major character I've created.  And by recent, I mean 2013.  As usually the case with me and recent characters, his design hasn't been set in stone yet.  He's not even a character in my novel-in-progress, although he was the centrepoint in my failed 2015 Nanowrimo novel set in parallel with the events of my novel-in-progress.  All I know is that he's a 90's kid (2090's that is, no relation to the 1990's) and he's always tinkering with this ancient technology called 'the Radio'.  Other details include that his dad is a cop and he does everything that would make cops annoyed (except outright crime).  Think more like James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause.

This design is blatantly a shoutout to Ness/Ninten from Earthbound.  Just remember, that hat bill is black!  No, the X isn't from OFF... okay, maybe it is a little because I have a shirt just like it.  Though, the real inspiration for the X comes from this Japanese t-shirt book I bought a couple years ago.  The design was white tees with a black X.  Whatever, it's edgy and 90's.

Overall, the moral of the story is, don't give up on your drawings just yet!  Sometimes, there's a good drawing waiting to be free!  Of course, I... might be giving up on this one because I want to move on.  But I might pick it up again later for backgrounds or a redraw.  What I want to add to this drawing is a jacket but this will do for now.