Making Your Stick Pretty: A Custom Stick Art Guide/Tutorial

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So with the Hori Vx Sa template, what size do I tell the Kinkoā€™s guy to print it? Had an issue yesterday where the template isnā€™t sized right to print, I need to re size it or something Any guidance will help haha

Soā€¦ Iā€™m gonna mod my HRAP3 with sanwa (or maybe seimitsuā€¦ havenā€™t decided yetā€¦) buttons and I need some artworkā€¦ So can anyone either give me a HRAP3 template or does anyone maybe have some cool designs? Touhou, Blazblue and MVC3 designs interest me the most but if anyone has a HRAP3 design with any other anime, manga, light novel, visual novel or Japanese video game then Iā€™d appreciate those, too.

Please use Image Mishmash for art requests.

Sorry, but would a template request still go here?

As stated, use Image Mishmash or the Art Thread.

This is more for learning how to make your own top panel art.

Any tips for my prior question above, really need some guidance :slight_smile:

Iā€™ve been tinkering with this Okami design for the last few days and after *a lot *of google searching I found some brush effects that were able to accomplish the general idea of what I was looking for. Despite that though Iā€™m not completely satisfied with it, but Iā€™m not really sure what do at this point to improve it. Any ideas?

It feels like thereā€™s too much whitespace. Needs to be ā€œdirtierā€ if you get my drift. Either more splatter or have a semi-transparent Ammy image in the background.

I actually cleaned up some of the ā€œdirtierā€ edges of the brushstrokes since I didnā€™t think it looked very good, but I think I know what you mean. I suppose I can experiment with it a bit more, though Iā€™m not quite sure how to go about it. With the paint splatter effects it makes sense to have some random paint splatter here and there, but Iā€™m not sure if that concept would work with what is supposed to represent a more precise calligraphy brush.

I have hard time seeing how a background image would work though. Thereā€™s whitespace, but most of it is in awkward positions where a background image wouldnā€™t really show through very well. Also I like the relative simplicity of the design, I feel like a background image would make it too busy. Iā€™ll try it out anyway though.

So as I was experimenting I had the potentially good idea of using a scroll texture as the background image. I kind of like it, but something also feels a little ā€œoffā€. I think part of it might be that the graphic I was using doesnā€™t quite mesh with the scroll look. I tried switching it with my old graphic (which I kind of like better anyway) which I think does mesh better with the background, but then ends up conflicting with the space used by the ink. :confused:

Zeik56, are you rendering the stick before doing it? If so, Iā€™m interested in that.

I made some stick artwork and now Iā€™ve got some questionsā€¦ what material should I print on? And how to cut the holes etc.? (hereā€™s the album with the artworks, I wanna know if Iā€™m doing it rightā€¦: http://photobucket.com/animuvidyamango )

here is a spiderman i drew for a blog using your material as reference.

Do you mean a template render? Or something else?

A 3d render (with blender for example), but maybe youā€™re using photoshop. :slight_smile:

Yeah, I am.

Iā€™ve read through all the comments on this thread and a few people have asked if you need to stick the art onto the metal casing using glue if you are going to have plexi over top of it, and I havenā€™t really seen a definitive answer. The art will be between the metal plate and the plexi. Should I still get some adhesive spray to keep the art down or will the fact that it is sandwiched between the 2 covers be all that is needed?

No need for adhesive when itā€™s under plexi.

Iā€™m cant figure out how to make this look right. It feels like its missing something soo Iā€™m asking for help. I though about adding that ink splats around the right character(like in sf4) but I donā€™t know how to do that.