Steve Nelson of Forever 16

A birthday present for jbwarner86 ([link]). It's his character Steve Nelson from his strip Forever 16.

Since most of Forever 16's history is rooted in the 90s, that's what I was trying to invoke with the Street Fighter 2 cabinet, the rotted posters for Crystal Pepsi and various albums from that time , and the crack on the No Fear clothing brand(Real talk, I used to have a No Fear backpack in 4th grade). Steve also kind of reminded me of the type of guys you would see hanging around malls and/or arcades on Friday nights back in that time period.

Finally, I was trying to make the arcade look like the type of place that parents wouldn't let there kids go to. I tried to make some cracks in the walls via GIMP(Originally it looked a little too clean hence that addition). Also I had to put cigarettes on the floor because I remember a frequent arcade I went to up to in State College, Playland was known to have a lot smokers(Seriously, to this day I've never seen a place that was filled with that much smoke). I' am not implying Steve smokes, but I'd figure a place with cigarettes on the floor would drive parents berserk.