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.

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.

Survivor Series 2008 custom cover

This was maybe my 3rd WWE custom cover for WCF, at the time I thought the concept was great, but it didn't turn out so great now. It has some cool old school traits to it.

WIP: The Bash 2009 custom

As I said I would show off my Bash custom cover here first.

SO anyway just started on this late last night, one day before the PPV, unless I work real hard on it tonight, and I don't think I will, it just wont get done until some time next week, I'd like to say well before the weekend, but who knows. Check back for many more previews for this cover.

WIP: Summerslam 1989 Custom

Sorry for the lack of posting, but had alot going on. Anyway as if no one knew it, this cover will take a while to finish. One reason being I'm cutting everything that will go on the cover, unlike some or most others that have psd's that already been cut.

So in this update I've got Savage/Zeus/Sherri added, but where their at on the cover doesn't mean thats where they will be at.

WIP: Summerslam 1989 Custom

Here is my latest project Summerslam 1989..Custom.

This will be my first of many classic covers I do custom's of turning them in to modern looking graphic covers, rather then in the past just being a convert, or custom being just to keep it looking original. In the past the closest I have came to doing custom classic covers are my WM9 and RR90 covers, both still had major intent to look basic and a little original, the RR90 cover was still meant to look like a 1990 cover, rather then this Summerslam 1989 cover that I hope looks like something from 2009.

Full Cover: WCW Superbrawl 4 custom

This was a cover I made well before my WCF days, and before I knew much about cover making, but its still way better then my older covers. This IMO could be a good looking cover is the right font, and the front was cut well. but instead the font is terrible, and the front is just a poster that doesn't match in colors (see the white).

Event Info: via Wikipedia
WCW Superbrawl

WIP: Royal Rumble 1990

I changed up my idea for this a little, I was looking up some ideas on King of the Ring covers, and I seen Ben's KOTR 2008 cover and I thought that leather book background would look good, and make it look more official like, so I'm now playing around with that. Found the good background on DeviantART and it wasn't too hard to find.

Here is the early progress of it:
Preview 1
Preview 2

Early work: Royal Rumble 1991

This is one of my most early custom covers, made some time around 2005 - early 2006, well before I knew anything about what it takes to make a cover. This was nothing more then a simple cut and paste type cover, with some cheesy effects, but I was really happy with it back then.


As for the cover and everything, I used some template I found on the net, it was crap then, and still is, someone would be nice to make a custom looking like this, just way more flashy and HQ. The idea with the cover is it was meant to look like the Royal Rumble 1990 cover. lol and a better template, like one of my own. lol

Start to finish: Backlash 2009

Here I'm going to show from the early stages to the finished product of my WWE Backlash 2009 custom cover.

This wasn't the 1st part of the cover of course, I started with my template, but this is the 1st preview, and where I started.



In preview 2 the only part I added was the gray part on the back, now I'm no wizard at photoshop quite yet, but first off the whole red part is suppose to look something like a closeup of the WWE stage used for the event, and the gray part is the round part of the stage, which was a prop.



Then I added the match card/listing



After that to make it look a little more flashy, or at least to mix it up from looking too red I added a text to it..



Once I made it look more "flashy" I added a few pics, with some borders. Of course there's Edge PSD on the front, there was no intention to put anyone on the front besides Orton, he's just there because he was to be used on the back.



After that I add some PSD's to the back above the pics just to fill in some empty spaces. Plus I put a little effects on the pics to make them flow more with the cover.



And here it is the finished product I added a few more PSD's, and touched up everything a little. Its not my best cover, nor is it my worst, but here is my Backlash 2009 custom cover finished.

WIP cover #2

Here we have Cyber Sunday 2008, I don't know for sure if I ever showed this or not, but it was a early WIP cover that I ended up not even going with, maybe I should of because I still think it looked better then what I had when I finished.

Looking back vol.1 My first WCF cover preview

The cover here below is the first cover I previewed, or showed off, when I first joined the WCF though since then the site has moved on to its new forum, which is where the link goes to.

So anyway the cover:



A custom cover of Wrestlemania 3, it was finished later on, and will be posted here in the near future, but also it is a cover that I made well before I had any photoshop skills, in fact the cover was made using paintshop 8, a program I used to make all my covers before joining the WCF.

The cover its self is based on the Wrestlemania 6,7 & 8 back style of showing stock photo pics of the wrestlers.

It turned out to be one the covers of mine most people like, I've never really heard anything bad about it.

Unreleased custom cover #4 Wrestlemania 12

Here is a cover I never released, nor previewed. It is WWF Wrestlemania 12, a little of it is based on the official cover, and the magazine ad.

Event Info: via Wikipedia

Unreleased-unfinished custom cover #2

This is a custom of Royal Rumble 1989, it like the topic says is unfinished and has never been seen by anyone, its part of my Royal Rumble project.

WWF WWE Wrestlemania 4 Magazine style

This does have a bit of custom work done on the back for the logo and match card, because on the program there is no match card like this.

This cover is made from the official WWF Wrestlemania 4 Program

Event Info: via Wikipedia
WrestleMania IV was the fourth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on March 27, 1988 at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The main event was the finals of a 14-man tournament for the WWF Championship where Randy Savage defeated Ted DiBiase to win the vacant title. The main matches on the undercard were a 20-man battle royal won by Bad News Brown, Demolition (Ax and Smash) versus Strike Force (Tito Santana and Rick Martel) for the WWF Tag Team Championship, Brutus Beefcake versus The Honky Tonk Man for the WWF Intercontinental Championship and a 14-man tournament for the vacated WWF Championship.

WWF WWE Survivor Series 1987 magazine style

I have many like this, I'll be posting those later. Anyway what this is, is a cover based on the official program and official program match card, there wasn't much work done with this, plus it has a simple spine with it.

The Magazine it came from is the official WWF Survivor Series 1987 Program

Event Info: via Wikipedia
Survivor Series (1987) was the first Survivor Series pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1987 at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio.

The main event was a Survivor Series match where André the Giant's team defeated Hulk Hogan's team when André eliminated Hogan's team member Bam Bam Bigelow. The entire undercard featured Survivor Series matches which included Randy Savage's team defeating The Honky Tonk Man's team, The Fabulous Moolah's team defeating Sensational Sherri's team and Strike Force with 4 other tag teams defeating The Hart Foundation and 4 other tag teams.

WWF WWE Summerslam 1988 custom cover

This might be my first custom "convert" I redid the whole thing, the official convert will be posted later. The only thing custom about this is that it features the Ultimate Warrior on it, and has the Ultimate Warrior wrote in on the IC title match with Honky Tonk Man, in the official its suppose to be Beefcake.

Event Info: via Wikipedia
SummerSlam (1988) was the first annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event. It was produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and took place on August 29, 1988 in Madison Square Garden, located in New York, New York. The pay-per-view was created to help the company compete against rival promotion World Championship Wrestling (formally Jim Crockett Promotions). It was one of the first four annual pay-per-view events produced by the WWF, along with WrestleMania, the Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series. Reviews for the event were mixed.

Ten professional wrestling matches, performances with pre-determined outcomes between wrestlers with fictional personalities that are portrayed as real, were featured. The main match of the preliminary bouts was the WWF Intercontinental Championship match between The Ultimate Warrior and the reigning champion The Honky Tonk Man. The Ultimate Warrior won the match in approximately thirty seconds to end the longest Intercontinental Championship reign up to that point. The main event was a match pitting The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage) against their long-time rivals, The Mega Bucks (Ted DiBiase and André the Giant). Hogan and Savage won the match after Miss Elizabeth, Savage's wife and manager, distracted the referee by removing her skirt to reveal her underwear. After SummerSlam, Hogan and Savage were scripted to begin an on-screen feud, culminating at WrestleMania V, where Hogan won the WWF Championship from Savage

WWF WWE Survivor Series 1990 custom cover

This is a cover many people have liked or wanted, because of it having the Undertaker, even most have just wanted the other I have which still has the question mark, that will be posted later.

WWF WWE Survivor Series 1989 custom cover

This was one I made a while ago, before I had owned the VHS box, and before I had a good working scanner, so main reason for everything looking as weird as it does is because everything was done from taking photos with my camera of pages of the December 1989 WWF Magazine. Of course I already had the main layout.

In the future I plan on making another Survivor Series 89 custom featuring the match pics from the magazine, like this one, but scanned at 600dpi, making it look alot better.