Update: Coming Soon...

Some time early in the new year I plan on starting a second blog that will feature movie covers, scans and posters.

Also I will have a third blog for video game covers, scans and everything. With 100s of video game magazines I know I have quite alot to offer.

Plus on top of that I might do some other blog or two, but not for sure. I hope to get all of these off the ground and running in early 2010, hopefully in January. I'll keep this blog updated for when they will be up and going.

Survivor Series 1989 WIP

Wasn't really a priority to get this cover done, so thus it was never finished. It was meant to be a higher quality version of my program covers I made a while ago which were all small.

Bragging Rights 2009 WIP

This was during the very early stages of my Bragging Rights cover. More WIP's of it will be posted.

Survivor Series 1987 WIP

This was the original idea for the front, but the images were a little tricky so I didn't go with it. Maybe some day I might though.

Survivor Series 2009 WIP

This was one of the few covers I planned to do for the 2009 Survivor Series, but due to time I just couldn't finish it. I know one day I will finish this one. You can sort of tell I was going for that Survivor Series 1990 look.

WCW Halloween Havoc 1991 WIP

Heres a way early look of a cover that never did get finish, some day I do plan on doing this cover just because I think that poster is sweet.

Wrestlemania 7 custom

Another one of my favorite covers. Its a full blown Wrestlemania 7 custom cover.

TLC 2009 WIP

This was the first preview I did up for the TLC cover, so you can kind of see where I started.

TLC 2009 WIP

Another TLC WIP with the back part a little more finished.

TLC 2009 WIP

As you can see I was going for some what of a comic book look, but at the last second changed my mind. lol i did end up doing the whole cover over again just about.

And sorry for this being my first WIP in a few months I think.

Survivor Series 1987 custom

This is another favorite of mine. Took me a long time to finally make one and I wanted to do a Survivor Series 87 custom every since I started with covers. So anyway you can get the full at the WCF site. WIP's will be shown here soon.

Jeff Hardy vs Cm Punk 2009

This was a cover someone requested and I just happened to do it, along with the help of my friend Crumble. He made a 2nd version. Both can be found on the WCF site.

Bragging Rights 2009

Ok this might be my second favorite custom I've made. I'm just so happy with how this cover turned out. I will in the next few days post some WIP's of it.

Wrestlemaina 9

I touched this one up a little bit. Its the custom Wrestlemania 9 cover I had made back about 8 months ago. I consider it my favorite cover I made.

Full cover can be found on the WCF site. http://wrestlingcoverforum.com

Wrestlemania 2 custom

I redid this cover not to long ago, as you can see the Hogan?bundy come from the Legends of Wrestlemania. Other then that its all original from the CHV cover.

WWE TLC 2009

My new finished custom cover TLC Tables Ladders & Chairs 2009. The full cover has not yet been posted, when it is you"ll find it on the WCF site.

Update

An update here, some WIP's are coming soon.

Great News...

Some good news, I have finally got a new scanner, will be uploading many scans and doing some psd's. And of course will finally have whats needed scanned for the covers I've been wanting to do.

So look forward to some covers in the near future.

My new cover: WWE Bragging Rights 2009

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE COVER

I did the cover in only 1 day, working like non stop on it. Anyway was meant to look like a classic 70s/80s wrestling poster (match card poster).

I think it might be one of my best covers to date. And I hope they only get better.

The full cover can be found on the WCF site. Click here to go to the WCF site Click Here


WIP's of this cover will be posted at a later date.

Current projects..

Working on a CM Punk vs Jeff Hardy cover that someone requested, and will be working on a Royal Rumble 88 cover very soon.

Update

Looks like I might end up not doing a HIAC cover due to still not being able to get photoshop to work. So hopefully some time next week I'll reformatt my pc and get photoshop up and going, and be back to making some covers.

Happy Birthday to me

Turned 26 today, lol getting old...But got my best gifts ever, NBA2k10, a new 360 & a new laptop as my 3 birthday gifts....Now if I could just get photoshop to work I'd be all set lol.

Update: Starrcade

Yep thats right coming soon, Starrcade.

Not going to say which one will be made first or when I'll be starting, but that in the near future I will be doing Starrcade custom covers from 1983-1987 at least.


*******UPDATE*********

I still plan on doing some Starrcade covers, just to update I will be releasing at least one this fall, I'd like to say in December around the Starrcade time of the year.


******NEW UPDATE 12/30/2009********

These are being put on hold, but yes I will still do these covers, they are on hold right now because of lack of content to make the covers.

Update: OK some better news...

Well I was planning on taking a break, but I think I've changed my mind. I did have my PC crash the other day and had to have everything recovered, thus photoshop wont work, have already uninstalled it and reinstalled it and it still wont work right, so I'll keep playing around with that, if it wont work at all I'll have to reformatt my pc. That of course sucks but I'll just need to save a few things to dvd and it wont be much of a problem, PC needs it anyway.

So I do plan on doing a HIAC cover, and plan on doing a Bragging Rights cover, along with a couple of Survivor Series covers.

And I do still have alot of wip's to show off, they will all be shown in due time.

Update: taking a break

Just letting people know I am taking a break from cover making for the rest of the month, and will get back to making covers in November, when I make a couple Survivor Series covers.

My first award winning cover: Summerslam 2009

I finally won my first WCF award, the EOTM for most official cover for Summerslam 2009. Topping that off I was the first ever co-winner along side Rated R. Hopefully I can only get better on route to finally winning a COTM award.

You can check out my cover and the other winners here WCF cover of the month winners

New cover finished

Just finished my Breaking Point custom cover, its been released on the WCF site. I will in the future be showing WIP's of it as I have many to show. But until then the cover will only be shown on the WCF site.

Summerslam 09 WIP's

Heres quite a few WIP's of one of my Summerslam 09 retros

Another update

As said about a week ago, I was going to be showing off a bunch of Summerslam WIP's. Well that is still going to happen, I just had a set back, due to losing internet for about a week.

Some good news is during that time I would say I added about 25+ WIP's to the already 25+ WIP's I already had. So look forward to many previews coming soon.

Also, I made some videos as well, which I'll be uploading to youtube soon, and I'll post those here.

WWE Summerslam 2009 custom cover

Just finished this cover late last night. it is the only custom cover for Summerslam i am going to be releasing, on top of the 5 retro's I have already finished and released, on the WCF site.

Lots of Summerslam WIP's coming soon

An update, I have finished 2 of my Summerslam 09 retro covers, both are shown on the WCF site, fulls have yet to be released but they are coming very soon. Plus more Retros are coming soon as well. So anyway back to the topic at hand, I have alot of WIP's to show off for the retros and the custom I've been working on (thats not finished). Don't know if I'll show the WIP's today or tomorrow. Anyway in the least I have about 20+ WIP's to show.

WIP: Summerslam 09 v?

These are all somewhat throw away WIP's just because they look nothing like what the final cover will look like, it was just ideas put on as a "rough draft" to see how the cover might look. Without putting alot of work into the cover.

WIP: Summerslam 09 v2 retro

Here the cover is almost completed, I added all the wrestlers to the back, so no more psd's are needed, just the font for the match ups and thats about it.

WIP: Summerslam 09 v2 retro

For this preview, pretty much all that was added is the boxes on the back along with Cena

WIP: Summerslam 09 v2 retro

On this preview over the last one I added DX and that was about it. Wasn;t that easy finding the right psd to use for DX, I think this one though is a new one from the psd-dreams site.

WIP: Summerslam 09 v2 retro

From the last preview, I added Legacy, and the font on the back.

Update

Just wanted to say that today I'll be uploading ALOT of WIP previews of the Summerslam covers I've been working on. As I said Summerslam 09 would be my most shown off cover here WIP wise.

WCF 2.0 up and running

WCF 2.0 forums

Check out the forums for all the best custom wrestling covers and more.

Wrestlemania 13 custom full cover

Finally for download a high res of my Wrestlemania 13 custom cover.

CLICK HERE FOR FULL

*You will need to search the custom cover section*

WCF 2.0 returning

Quoted from the WCF site

Alright everybody, after a few hours of tinkering around and getting some things straight, the forum is back up and running and EVERYTHING is restored from the moment we went down.

I've turned off the forum as Ben and I have just a few changes to make before we are opening her up again.

I would like to say though that Steve -- if you were going to lie to us and say that it was all about your lack of money, you really shouldn't have posted that stuff you did in the shoutbox. Probably not your brightest move. tongue.gif

But I digress because the relevance of those petty arguments has dwindled increasingly since we went down. THIS TIME it's about building OUR WCF back up. dribble.gif

We will once again be THE forum on the internet where everyone wants to come. To those who say nay - fuck you. To those who support us - we are with you all the way and look forward to joining you on the new WCF with new features, new members, new COVERS, and everything else we've grown to love.

WCF 2.0 IS COMING!!!!!!!!

So whats that mean for here? It means in the mean time I'm going to be getting covers ready, and I'll be getting covers reposted for the new site, due to that most full covers I had posted on some sites, well are kind of hard to see due to the site being shit, like picpanda. Place never works. So look for some fulls to be posted soon.

Textures 2

Some more good textures to use on covers:

Texture 8

Brick road 2

Gravel texture

Texture 10

Smoke stock 2

Grunge 15

Orange grunge

Clean up & tags

As you can see I added "tags" to the right side, to make it easy for finding what you want, but not only that, but I cleaned alot of the useless tags up, such as removing tags like "hulk hogan" "ultimate warrior" "dvd" and "custom covers" and about 25+ other useless tags.

Also along with the I will be trying to improve some of the content, such as just making the "tags" part look a little better, in that instead of seeing some tag like "SNME" with a 1 next to it, I'll try to add a few more SNME covers, just to widen the range of content and fill in the gaps of whats lacking. I know its all meaningless just about, but whats the point of even having a SNME tag, if I'm only going to show off 1 SNME cover? I know I'd want to see more.

If anyone has tips or anything they would like to see here on the blog you can always leave a comment on any post, or contact me on MSN at joekim00@live.com

Update on being "delayed"

Yes I am somewhat still "delayed" making covers, because of the fact that PSDprotocol is still lacking alot of its PSD's, but they are working hard, so hopefully in due time the needed PSD's will be on their site for use.

But in the mean time I'm some what working on the building stages or like templates of the Summerslam covers, hence why all thats shown is the background/font/logo thats about it.

So its not that I cant work on covers, its just that I need to work around and build around the PSD's that wont be there for a while.

WIP: Summerslam 09 v2 retro

Updated showing off the logos.

WIP: Summerslam 09 v3 retro

And another updated look, now as you can see the background has been added, wasn't all as easy at it looks.

Also a little something, is this WIP of the v3 Summerslam 09 cover will only be shown off here, of course until its finished, then it will be shown on the WCF.

WIP: Summerslam 09 v3 retro

An updated looked of the v3 cover.

WIP: Summerslam 09 v3 retro

Summerslam 2009 custom retro based on the Summerslam 1988 cover.

WIP: Summerslam 09 v2 retro

In case you don't know this is the early stages of my Summerslam 2009 custom retro, based on the Summerslam 1990 cover.

A question about getting my full covers? And making your own cover

Someone asked how to get some of my full covers, or how to make covers like mine.

The answer is simple, you can get fulls to most of all my covers, just not here. You can get my covers at the WCF forums, by looking up my name or looking up a cover you want. But the new WCF 2.0 site was shut down, but its in the process of returning soon. And also a few of my covers can be found at the older WCF site. Links to the WCF forums can be found on the right side under favorite links.

Now as for making covers your self. None of its easy when starting out if you don't know much about graphic design. But some tips on getting started, you need photoshop, or a program like it thats good, then you might need a dvd cover template which can be found at the WCF forums, then you will need some wrestler psd's (a file type for photoshop) those can be found at the psdprotolco site (link can be found by the WCF links) after that the best tip is if you don't know how to work photoshop, then look up some tips and tutorials on making simple stuff, and in no time you will know how to make something simple cover wise.

And other tips that noobs don't follow with covers are, make sure the colors are all right and the tone, meaning dont have some wrestler all dark and one all bright. Have both dark or bright and so on. Then make sure they are all sized up right, meaning don't have Rey Mysterio looking bigger then the Undertaker, unless its suppose to have an effect to look that way. Also make sure you don't stretch your images, and don't take a small low quality pic and make it look all huge on a cover.

Hope some of these tips help. And one last thing, the fulls of my covers are on the WCF forums, to just help in the smallest way to promote that site, its a awesome place, with quite a few very gifted cover makers.

Minor delay...

I would be working on my Summerslam covers, but at the moment for the past few days now the psdprotocol site has been down, and now being rebuilt, so once they get all the needed content back, I'll be back to work on some covers. But I might be working on some template type stuff for the covers, so there may or may not be a WIP preview today or tomorrow, of the other covers besides the v1 cover shown so far.

WIP: Summerslam 09 v1

Here is the first preview I'm showing, its not the first I've made, but many more to come. And yeah its V1 meaning its version 1, I will be making at least a few versions.

Next project I've started...

Yep thats right, I've started on my Summerslam 2009 custom cover. In the coming days & weeks I'll be showing off some WIP/s of it. And I'll be showing the most WIP/s with this cover, then any other I've done, so look forward to alot of looks at this cover in its early stages all the way to when its finished almost a month from now.

DeviantArt

Would just like to let people know about my Deviant page, you can see it here joekim00.deviantart

Video I made..

Taking a break...

OK not really.. But I have sort of been taking a break from making covers after getting the Survivor Series 2001 cover finished. I have though been brain storming about my Night of Champions cover. Still dunno if I'll even do one.

I do have some early NOC wip's made up, but those wont be released any time soon, unless I get a feel of the cover I want to make and so on, they will be released some day though.

WIP: Survivor Series 2001 version 2

This is the version with the more 1989 look to it.

WWF Survivor Series 2001 retro custom

This was a requested cover, and of course if you don't know already its based on Survivor Series 1987. Will be releasing a few more like this in the coming days/weeks.

The full will be released soon on the WCF.

Coming soon....Summerslam the complete...

Thats right. Coming soon this summer I will be releasing Summerslam 1988-2008 all original covers & dvd converts. More info to come.

Update: Summerslam 1989 WIP

Haven't shown any new previews on the Summerslam 89' cover, and with reason I haven't been working on it. But I now have another set back with it. I had thought I saved all the psd/cuts I done from the program, and instead all I have is whats on the cover psd. So to really do anything else with the cover I might need to re cut Hogan/Beefcake, Savage/Zeus/Sherri, and I already had Warrior/Rude done and will need to do those again as well.

There big 600dpi cuts so they take time.

And yes once the cuts get done again....They will be uploaded to psdprotocol.

DeviantArt's best cover textures

This will be the first of many post with links to some of the best textures from many different sites. In this post all textures are from DeviantArt

Grungy paper texture v.5

Grungy paper texture v.9

Grungy paper texture v.6

Grungy paper texture v.1

Grungy paper texture v.5

Grunge Texture 28

SAN07 5 - Texture 20

SAN07 8 - Texture 23

Large Grunge Metal Texture

Grunge Texture 24

Grunge Texture 21

Texture 06

old paper texture

Black and White Grunge Texture

Grunge Texture 1

SAN07 1

grungy texture

texture 15

Grunge Texture 01

Shiny icicles

Gold Brass Foil Leafing Metal

Leather Texture 2

Old leather cover texture

Leather black 3

Brown Leather Texture
Yellow Velvet Fabric Texture

texture - book cover

a brown texture

old book texture

Texture 74

Texture 72

Texture 11

My own Texture II

colorful texture

metal texture 4

lup-stock texture 2213

All credit for these textures go to the people who made them.

Coming soon.... Starrcade..

Yep thats right coming soon, Starrcade.

Not going to say which one will be made first or when I'll be starting, but that in the near future I will be doing Starrcade custom covers from 1983-1987 at least.