Need help with artwork design

[nickbuol]

I have my joysticks and buttons coming this week.

[nickbuol]

30 people have viewed this, and still no ideas?

I know folks around here are creative, but maybe I'll have to resell my buttons and joysticks (that I ordered from ponyboy here) that I haven't received yet and rebuy some black ones...

[nickbuol]

Wow, 64 views of this thread, and STILL nothing.

I am trading my colored buttons and joysticks in for black and doing to ever popular, al beit a little over done, Black/Blue combination.

With all of the views of this thread, maybe there are others that have the same color problem and someone could capitalize on it...

[Darkstalker]

Sorry for the late reply, but you could always do some sort of a border around the controls.  That would help separate the background from the buttons....

[Navmaxlp]

I agree, put some border stuff around the controls.

To break up the pattern a bit. If the trackball is going in the center of the CP, I'd put something interesting around that as well. Make it the focal point of the CP. Since you are going with that specific side art design maybe around the trackball you could put the atoms circling it but in a different color to break up the blue a little then have the same color border around the buttons. Also, around the joysticks you could put directional arrows in the same color. Then put the Mame logo somewhere on it as well. Try to incorporate the joystick colors into the design if possible so the joysticks don't look out of place when looking at it. The graph design is so linear, I'd use as many curves as you can to keep it from looking blocky. Plus, it will look natural with the graphic curve to the CP background.

Just my opinion (I'm not very artistic but I figured I'd give it a shot)