Gift: Rico pen sketch

I shouldn’t be doing this (using the time I should be finishing on folios and what-not lol) but you drew a couple of things for me in the past which I did not return the favour for…so…
Birthday gift to ~AzureCloud; 17 tomorrow, that’s only one year away from being legal xD

I’ve been using pen lately for my art major (too big and too many trees ), and throughout my folio as well, so I decided, why not use the same media for this?
I’m not sure if I was trying to achieve realism or anything here…but it's under manga category anyway :/
I just wanted to shade it, and I think that might have made him not look like Rico, I dunno…sorry if it doesn’t though;;;
But anyway I’m kinda happy with it because I usually fail hard-out on symmetrical/front-ons, and I’m glad that the lowly ballpoint pen I was using didn’t screw up the flow in the hair.

Anyway, I tried my best.
I, uh, hope it’s relatively accurate…? xP he might um look too old and ‘Dante-ish’. (I was tempted to add a stubble on him)
I tried to imply his monster side with a bulging eye there. Yeah that’s uhh supposed to be veins around his face…looks like cracks bah. Oh, and I added a dog tag 8)
DL if you wanna see the detail...but it kinda looks rough-ish.

sorry my gift isn’t anything material like last time or whatever (let alone an Xbox rofl) I originally planned several times to send you something again, a sketchbook with some stationary or something, but I’m really broke atm…
I’m gonna get a job once my exams are over…-sigh-

Happy 17th though, twinnie~
Have heaps of candies! …and then chuck them all up in one sweet mess of bubbly saliva 8) ….because that wasn’t anything randomly disturbing.. 8)

<3 S-N

_{ps:…I just cut my fingers deep with a big knife by accident and stepped on my usb…well fuck me –rage-}