Well.... You could go this route - http://www.worldofballpythons.com/mo...-yellow-belly/

That thing is pretty sick. If you don't have the pastel yet, they're not that hard to come across. I don't know what one without pastel would look like.

Here's one of your thoughts in picture form - http://www.worldofballpythons.com/mo...enetic-stripe/

Personally, I like the first one.