Life-Size Sticker on the Metro

Create one vertical 9:16 image: a real photograph taken inside a moving metro carriage in the evening, and standing in it is the man in the attached photo rendered as a flat vector illustration with a thick white die-cut sticker border around his whole body, as if a life-size sticker were standing among real people. Everything else in the picture is photographic: the brushed steel poles, the scratched blue seats, the window with city lights smeared by motion, two commuters further down the carriage out of focus and turned away.

He is seen from the thighs up, standing by the door, right hand raised holding the overhead strap, left hand in the pocket of an olive bomber jacket worn over a plain white tee, dark straight-leg jeans, one wireless earbud in. Hair as in the photo, pushed back off the forehead. Head turned toward the window on his right, chin slightly up, eyes on the passing lights outside, not into the lens, mouth relaxed and neutral, a tired, easy end-of-day look. The illustration uses flat colour and simple two-tone cel shading, and his exact facial features, proportions, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, jaw, skin tone and any marks are carried into the vector style so he is instantly recognisable; the medium changes the rendering, never the face.

He is lit in his flat way by the carriage's cool white ceiling light, with the shading on his face and jacket on the same side as the real shadows around him, and his sticker feet cast a real soft shadow on the carriage floor where they stand, so he belongs in the space. Slight camera grain, and gentle motion blur on the window only. No text, logo or watermark anywhere.