Character Critique

[Amit Dutta]

The absolute best way to get specific realism for one illustration, is to mock up the scene in real life as much as possible and take a few photos to refer to. Setup the lighting, dress up in as close to the desired costume as possible, use any props you need, then have someone take the photos. Hands down the best way of doing it. It's hard to find specific reference for every combination of lighting situation and objects off the web, so shoot your own ref, if you really want to help yourself out here.

Having said that, fix the perspective of the rear tubes to match the scene if you're going for realistic...getting that wrong won't help no matter how awesomely rendered this ends up being.