Racecar Driver Anime Shirt Design

I’m a shitty older brother who never gets his little brother custom stuff, but the guy gets me tons of stuff constantly. He’s started upping his game to the point that I ONLY really am getting pure, UK custom McLaren crap since that’s my favorite F1 team. I know he’s shelling out his labor money as an electrician for this, so I need to combat him at least somehow, here.

His favorite team is Oracle Red Bull, and his driver is little Yuki Tsunoda :3. I want to make a custom, super comfy, themed, humorous hoodie for him, and I believe I’m here to get some help with two of the images needed for the front and back. I’m also willing to take constructive suggestions about the art and ideas involved.

I’ve learned that whatever images I send to the DTG printer need to be CMYK images, as that’s how the ink/color must work, etc., with DTG stuff.

The two cartoon images are pretty junky, AI type renderings of what I want. The two photos are the inspirations I’m using for the images I’ve mocked up. I want someone to do the following for both front and rear images: I would like the human touch to add higher quality, as my brother is a good sibling and deserves it.

Some final thoughts I’ve had:

Do I need help with making the sleeve images (Japanese flag and Red Bull logo) or the chest image of the actual Oracle Red Bull Racing team logo CMYK files? I assume so?

The hoodie I’m getting him won’t have a front pocket and is a pullover style.

I’m trying to capture Yuki’s desperate, weirdly nervous look in the thumbs-up picture. If you can add a little spirit of the Hide the Pain Harold meme to the look, as well, that’d be awesome.

[adult version image]
AI wasn’t having a good time with this one, but I think you get what I’d like you to do with this (combine this, basically, with Hide the Pain Harold and touch it up to make it match the reference a tiny bit better. I like the comic book inspired background look, so if you’d keep that I appreciate it.

[child version image]
So this is the front. Combined with the back image, I think the theme/idea is pretty funny. My brother gets road rage, but in competitive video games instead, and also swears too much. I’m just looking for the little middle image to be done more to mimic the reference/source image I have.

[Adult Photo]
lol I have no idea why he looks so horrified except that he was driving a hard drive at the time. Again, this screams “Hide the Pain Harold,” to me.

[Child Photo]
I’m looking for a little anime-style version of young Yuki to accompany his “English-from-gaming” quote. This is the reference/source for the front image.