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.