I think you just need to blend it more, the background is fine, but when you work with black backgrounds, from experience anything not dark is gonna stick out like a sore thumb. Maybe thats what you are going for but ya… Just some blending. Perhaps a better rendered picture of that yellow fellow ?
A old piece I just re-did. The last version was horrible, I wonder if this one is any different ? 
my template that my cousin did for me from scratch
typography is a font placement technique used in ads, magazines, or any heavy type based art piece. band flyers utilize this the best.
example:
http://noupe.com/img/typography11.jpg
your paragraph can become part of the art instead of just an quote. Typography is an interesting aspects to art. it takes boring letters and makes them more engaging and fun to look at
Sure the winged creature is part of your theme but find a image that best suits the background. There are many better choices than that one there. such as:
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/image.axd?picture=2009%2F1%2FAngel_of_Death.jpg
http://www.shadow13.com/images/hades_shadow13_lowres.jpg
if you don’t understand i will step aside and let someone else give a go. i hope some of this helps
hmm. i guess resizing the image in the post doesn’t actually do so. sorry for the large images
Not to be obstinate, but the winged creature is a representation of the King in Yellow (the theme) that was on the first edition cover of the book by the same name. I would rather ditch the background than replace him. I do understand and appreciate what you are saying though. I’ll see about heavily blending him into the background; he doesn’t need to be a focal point. Thanks.
Nice. I would only change one thing, though… You don’t need a LK button, do you?
Btw, is it better to save the template as a .png or a .jpeg for printing?
IN honor of 3so and urien being one of my favorite character heres a temp in honor of him!
Not much of an improvement.
Move Lars to the left so that he’s not covered by the dustwasher. Move the Tekken logo down so it’s not covered by the buttons.
Seems pretty good, PM me the file please?
To anyone just starting out: get yourself some guides and teach yourself. Some people learn well this way, some don’t, but you won’t know until you try, and this is the least expensive learning path. Run yourself through a couple of the tutorials on a site like TutsPlus and pay attention to the methods you’re using to complete your work; you’ll find they are usually ones you can begin applying to your own creations.
I wish I had the wealth of resources you guys have available to you when I was first learning. There wasn’t much of a web to find tutorials on back in 1998 with Photoshop 5. 
I learned via one random tutorial on shading and a (ex)girlfriend.
I can understand the lars being moved to the left. But I believe I said this before to you. “See through buttons!”
Ergo, Its has improved
I cant, its for a paying customer !
Even if you’re using see through buttons, the logo just looks awkward there. Also, if you’re putting stuff in the way of the buttons, then it’s best to have those things frame the buttons and not the other way around.
I can see where you would say its awkward to put the logo there. See I would frame the buttons but its see through. Ive seen the see through buttons over my art on like three different sticks I have helped people make. It looks fine, it looks perfectly normal. Yea the placement of my stuff may be weird to you, but I know my friend will go apeshits crazy over it. At the end of the day its all about the client being happy
Anybody know where I can find a decently sized BB:CS2 logo?
I got a template two years ago back when I was playing CT, and now that I’m finally able to get around to getting art done, I wanna update the logo.
I’m looking for a one piece full panel temp. I’ve tried doing it myself but it really just never came together. if someone is willing to help me out I would be forever thankful.
I taught myself with no tutorials. I kinda just messed around and I have only used photoshop for about a week, but I seem to be “decent”. In fact so decent i wrote a guide about it. CHECK IT OUT
Here’s one for the bb fans. I tried to recreate the original madcatz te bb temp but as yall can see i failed my symbols in the back are different and i took noel out of the picture and added hazama. Let me know what yall think.
ps. any one know where i can get some high res mk9 stocks i’ve tried google and cant find any? 
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/shadowknight24/blazbluepreview.png
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/shadowknight24/Blazblueremake.png