Mindless needs help..... Again.

[Mindless]

So, I'm trying to redesign my podcasts logo because it looks like shit


The text is bad and the ring looks janky as fuck and lost all the 3Dish elements it had in the original image.

So here's my problem. The best and highest res image of a wrestling ring I can find is this:

(Full Size: http://imgur.com/HXypSsN)

This is the same image I used to make the logo above. As you can see I just blacked out the ropes and filled the mat with blue. Here's the problem though. It doesn't look good. At all.

I think I'm probably just terrible at this. All I need is a wrestling ring with a blue apron, white mat, black ring posts and red turnbuckles with Smark Snark circled around the outside of it. I can't even get past the part where I color the pieces because I suck at the lasso tool though and I keep missing pits of white and shit so when I use the color select tool it gets all borked up.

I guess I'm just venting/looking for advice here.


EDIT- This is the color scheme I'm trying to use

[Mindless]

So, I'm trying to redesign my podcasts logo because it looks like shit


The text is bad and the ring looks janky as fuck and lost all the 3Dish elements it had in the original image.

So here's my problem. The best and highest res image of a wrestling ring I can find is this:

(Full Size: http://imgur.com/HXypSsN)

This is the same image I used to make the logo above. As you can see I just blacked out the ropes and filled the mat with blue. Here's the problem though. It doesn't look good. At all.

I think I'm probably just terrible at this. All I need is a wrestling ring with a blue apron, white mat, black ring posts and red turnbuckles with Smark Snark circled around the outside of it. I can't even get past the part where I color the pieces because I suck at the lasso tool though and I keep missing pits of white and shit so when I use the color select tool it gets all borked up.

I guess I'm just venting/looking for advice here.


EDIT- This is the color scheme I'm trying to use