Ok, so I guess that this is my thread for placing all my pictures that I think someone might like to take a moment out of their day to look at (even if that is truer in concept than practice), so I figured I’d start by posting a control stick image design that I made, since I’m planning to make custom arcade sticks for my two brothers as birthday gifts, and I just finished the design for one of them. Since there’s about a 1% chance that my brother is browsing this board, I’m not terribly worried about the surprise being spoiled.
First, a bit of background-- my older brother is a HUGE fan of the Scott Pilgrim comic series, and he also loves Street Fighter. So I figured, why not combine the two for a wonderful mish-mash of video-game / comic-book goodness? I wanted to stay faithful to the comic character design (although that’s tricky, since it’s gone through some changes over time), but I also wanted to incorporate some of the style seen in Udon’s Street Fighter art, since this is a Street Fighter themed Scott Pilgrim image. I also stuck the Japanese Kanjis “Su Kou To” (Scott) and “Pilgrim” in the corner. My calligraphy skills probably look comparable to those of a 6 year old to someone fluent in Japanese, but hopefully it looks decent to the untrained eye. The overall idea was that this would be sort of a parody of the images that are frequently found on custom fighting sticks. It took about 5 hours to make in Photoshop.
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/5853/scottpilgrim2copylh5.jpg
Here’s a picture of Scott Pilgrim from the comics, for those of you who may be unfamiliar with the series (if that’s you, then check it out, it’s awesome!).
http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/355/5176849270f1b1b08abot1.jpg
The CPO for my younger brother’s stick will probably feature Nightmare and Siegfried from Soul Calibur since they’re two of his favorite characters, but I haven’t really set anything in stone just yet.