You could always put opaque images of Zero and Megaman in the grey area.
Personally, I would shorten the Capcom logo. It’s too big and is just asking to be the star of the show.
yea i would defiantly go with some other color in there gray just seems out of place with all the red and blue maby some ghosted screen shots from any of the Megaman x games or maby just a black filling
I second wat Drop One bout getting rid of the text or just try making it shorter than wat u have there now, and the right side i would just leave as is and go for the clean look too.
BoneSaw You’re a GENIUS! Screenshot collage ftw
Thank you all for your constructive advice and opinions. They help a lot.
Hows This?
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/827/madcatzfightsticktepane.png
Looks good. I guess you could put your friend’s name somewhere with a different font. Just a thought.
hey, a black and white photo. look how artsy and deep i am. did the sig myself, since i couldnt find a good enough quality one. i dont know enough about wrestling to know if this is the right belt or not for this image, but whatever. as long as its wwf i dont care.
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/552812_3716662358923_1346663349_3396790_1376234351_n.jpg
Seconded, leave it grey and possibly take the text out or make it clear and not interfering with Zero’s face. I love that source art, where did you get it?
should probably make both characters smaller too, zero is cramped.
That IS the wrong belt. Hogan had already left WWF when they were using that design of the WWF Championship. That pic of Hogan seems to work well with an nWo template. He was the leader of the nWo while wrestling in WCW. Their belt looks similar to this…
http://royalrumbler.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/world-heavyweight-championship.jpg
The belt on your template would be more appropriate for a template of The Rock or Stone Cold.
Not bad… I still prefer the cleaner look myself… but that’s just me. Another weird suggestion… you have strong Red and Blue accents on the stick. I would change Zero’s blade to the original strong Green color, this would bring a strong third color into the the mix (not to mention add an “RGB” element, which is very “computer-y” and thus “Mega Man-y”). I’ll bet even making this change would have satisfied your eye which originally saw the Grey area as “missing something.” I would do this over the collage. Or, I would grey out the collage to suck out the color and draw your focus away from it and maybe add some sort of filter to push it back a bit.
Just finished this:
Front:
Back:
Working on a replacement art for my Hori SCV stick. Have a look see, and let me know what you think.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6941388312_5f2a8100de.jpg
Not bad, looks stock/1st party, so if that’s what you were going for then you nailed it. Why you’d replace SC with Tekken is a conversation for another thread 
In all seriousness… it’s pretty minimalist. Definitely looks like something you’d see on a retail stick. That dustwasher is going to cover quit a bit of Kazuya’s chest though… so be prepared for that
WHAT PART OF I DONT CA- actually, i had a feeling the attitude era was alittle too late for hogan, but i want to completely disregard everything related to wrestling outside of 90’s hulkamania, so i intentionally avoided hollywood/nwo themes for this.
here’s the revised image.
Where’s the red/gold man? You say you wanna avoid NWO, but the whole thing is black/white. Bring out the OG colors!
Yeah, that’s not a big deal at all. I was going for a stock look anyway, and the dust washer covers up half of Patroklos’s chest and Ivy’s arm. I can live without parading Kazuya’s man nipples.
No real reason for the swap other than I wanted something different from stock. I like Soulcalibur, but I thought Tekken would look better on a Noir-based stick.
no sunglasses = no hollywood.
I know you don’t care, but just for reference sake:
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/_cb20100121135338/prowrestling/images/a/a8/WWF_Championship(Winged_Eagle).jpg
Is the belt of the 80s from Hogan’s prime. Referenced as the “Eagle” belt. You’ll also see the WWF logo at the top instead of the WWE logo to further reference.
I do find it hilarious we thought of the same place for the belt in each of our stick art, i just modified it to include the wrestler’s name onto the belt:
i actually saw that design somewhere and it was the one i had in mind when making this one, but i thought i remembered seeing the belt on the left side instead of the right. well, since this isnt a commission, and ive already posted it twice, ill let you guys use your imagination about what it would have looked like with the other belt.
Ahh?? you do know black and white is the NWO/Hollywood era thing right? if you want to go 90 hogan you need the red and yellow and and a more active hogan this seems more like an nwo hogan photography class thing not to mention you also need the original the 90s belt.
you have to remember in the 90s Hulkamania ran Wild!! this is more like Hulkamania running Mild