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.

Template

Non wrestling cover related...As you can see theres a new template. Over the next few weeks I'll probily be going through alot of different templates until I find just the right one. Feedback is welcomed.

Here is the current template I'm using http://btemplates.com/2008/12/31/color-paper/

Old WIP: Royal Rumble 2009

I never shown this off before, it was one of my first ideas on the Rumble 09 cover to put 8 wrestlers on the front and I was going to have some city like background or something weird. I dunno but I never went past this on this cover, my ideas changed not long after I made this.

The Bash 09: start to finish

Here I'll show what I started with all the way to the finished cover for my Bash 09 retro style cover.

Here is the original Bash 88 cover that this cover is based on:


Now I didn't follow suit and use the same logo, so I edited another classic logo one in which was used for this Bash 86' cover:


I didn't create my own logo or anything, went with this one from psdprotolcol



Then I started...


My first idea was to have Rey on the front, because it looked best in terms of how the original looked, because I wanted a pic with ropes and what not like the original.

But that to me just did look right, so I went with this..


So after adding Orton and HHH (psd came from again psdprotolcol) I had to get the font looking right, that wasn't to easy.

From there it was on to the spine, and getting it to look like the real thing, color wise anyway.


Then I added another PSD to the back, I did that cut my self.


Now the real back bone IMO to making this cover look good at all is the overlay I used, in other words the texture. You can find it here at deviantART CLICK HERE for the texture.

After all that it was on to adding the match card, doing thats never fun, like getting it all lined up and looking good. And placement, its never fun.


Not much done here just some small tweaks..



And here it is the finished cover in all its glory, you can find a link to the full cover on the WCF forums.