Rad Rhino - Finished art (please critique)

I finished my drawing of Rad Rhino. Please critique, I'm new at this stuff so I could use pointers on what to make better next time.

Oh and I threw the background in last minute, didn't want to spend another hour to put one together, was focusing on Rhino hisself.

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Liberty
My 50s:
Hero: Armor Assassin (scrapper), Cross Dresser (scrapper), Surly Seaman (blaster), Defensive End (Tank), Rad Rhino (Cont)
Villain: Beast Infection (Corr), Sweet Zombie Jesus (MM), Milk Weasel (Stalker), Orgullo (MM), Agent Eris (Crab)

nothing?

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Liberty
My 50s:
Hero: Armor Assassin (scrapper), Cross Dresser (scrapper), Surly Seaman (blaster), Defensive End (Tank), Rad Rhino (Cont)
Villain: Beast Infection (Corr), Sweet Zombie Jesus (MM), Milk Weasel (Stalker), Orgullo (MM), Agent Eris (Crab)

Nice piece. I always loved the art on a screenshot backround stuff.

I agree with the comments of Larissa and company on Deviantart, especially the part about the cape and the leg.

Overall pretty good job, I really like the energy effects on the hands.

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oh yeah, ill/rad controller, which is why i went with blind and radiation going on

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Liberty
My 50s:
Hero: Armor Assassin (scrapper), Cross Dresser (scrapper), Surly Seaman (blaster), Defensive End (Tank), Rad Rhino (Cont)
Villain: Beast Infection (Corr), Sweet Zombie Jesus (MM), Milk Weasel (Stalker), Orgullo (MM), Agent Eris (Crab)

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I finished my drawing of Rad Rhino. Please critique, I'm new at this stuff so I could use pointers on what to make better next time.


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Off the top of my head:

The prominent (left) bicep is a bit larger than what might seem proportional to the rest of the body. You might want to strike a flex pose in the mirror and observe how the bicep might taper off a bit more towards the crook of the elbow. On the other hand, a larger bicep isn't totally out of place for slightly pudgier musclemen.

The head size seems a bit small as well, usually the male head size is commonly relatable to the size of the pec, and the face size is usually relatable to the size of the hand. Unless you're going for some sort of disproportionate model like the Huge model.

Using a uniformly thin ink line (for example for the pec muscle contours) tends to undermine realism. It's more of an amateur stylism, especially when it's not really trying to mesh with a strong color palette. You can probably get away with either replacing the ink lines with observant color shading and color texturing, or practicing varying your inking technique (fat lines vs. thin lines vs. feathering vs. etching or hatching etc.). This kind of skill comes in real handy with abdominals especially.

Unfortunately I don't have a reference link to offer, but hopefully there are some decent inking technique tutorials easily googlable.

I like the effect of your use of the blue-to-green blending on the shoulder horns. And the way you implemented the visual effect of the rad powers on the hands translates well. I also like how you're trying to portray some emotional action into the face. If you could make the general pose a little more complimentary to that emotion and not as stiff you'd probably go a long way towards a more complete piece.

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