Stick art opinion

still messing with different art (yeah all of it is kind of similar, but i suck with photoshop).

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/157/kenlayoutcolor2qy9.jpg

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3811/kenlayoutburst2wt2.jpg

thought that one was a tad boring so I did this, but this won’t print decent with the gradient higher than this…which is too low. Any ideas of what I can do to the stripe in the middle so it doesn’t detract from Ken and Makoto?

edit: no idea why but the blues all look lighter than they do printed or in photoshop…