Designing some sort of CD cover

Now I was more confident in using photoshop and illustrator, I decided to try my hand at creating a CD cover, but only the front cover.

This was a long and drawn out process.

For some reason, and I'm not too sure, I really wanted to have a "cartoon" bear featured on the cover. So, thats where I started.

I made this bear using Illustrator. The whole design is just made our of circles that I combined together to make the shape of the bear - sort of like a teddy bear. I coloured the circles blue so when I put the design into photoshop, I was able to use the magic eraser to delete all the blue, leaving a transparent hole from where the bear used to be. Now I had this space, I was able to give the bear a texture.

I decided to put a bright coloured galaxy in this empty space. This is party because I love space and as soon as I found a nice space background and combined the design, I fell in-love and thought it was perfect! All I needed now was a background.

I decided to go with a solid black background, to bring out the bright coloured space bear, and to also give the effect of a galaxy. I added some light grain/scratches over the top so it looked grainy, and gave the effect of distance stars, which stand out against the black.

I also decided to add some text since I was creating this to be a CD cover, and thats a classic convention. I decided to give it a literal name "head full of space" as it reflects what's on the album cover.

This is where the design ended. I gave up on this idea as I had a change of idea halfway through, and never got round to finishing this design. But that doesn't mean it doesn't deserve to be shown off!