>>372236Yeah, I think when people change him from red to brown, they're misidentifying the problem. Sure, there's a case to be made that the red makes him blend into the backgrounds too much, but the real problem is that he doesn't look like he's from the time period he died in. I'm too lazy to look it up, but iirc he died in the 40s, right? He shouldn't have tinted glasses or a scene kid haircut if that's the period he's from. I think if the design in your picrel was changed back to red (or maybe have a mix of brown and red) it would be pretty good.
And I know people like the deer motif, but it has fuckall to do with his character traits and seems like an arbitrary decision. Like, maybe instead of having him be a deer, they can have him be a human(oid?) with a speaker for a mouth, and maybe tuning displays for eyes. Also this is neither here nor there, but I feel like it would have been slightly more appropriate to have him be from the early 60s (right before the AM/FM split) when radio experienced a sort of "peak."
Picrel is an edit of an old drawing I did attempting to redesign him. There are other anons who could probably do this concept way more justice, pls no booly.