04-06-2014, 10:17 PM
Don't think you can hit realism when everything needs to be outlined in black, unless you go front lighting like flash photography I think it would be pretty hard to achieve. Your other stuff is looking killer though! Watch the values on that ferri study though, the background gradient up top adds more to atmosphere of the piece than you might think, and you got some rim light on the bottom! I'm sure you're just getting round to those things, but at least the background; you always wanna establish that somewhat doing your studies, even if it doesn't look like anything :p.