Disc Label

I have been playing around with illustrator for my disc label to achieve the minimum. I wanted it to look fairly professional but it still looks fairly "newbie".

I imported my logo onto it so it can be recognisable to the audience. I used the text wrap to create the legal info round a circle like any game disc would. I played around with many background ideas including several fantasy style images and chose a plain background to keep it simple, as my case was a complicated design. I then proceeded to find a spooky type image to create a clipping mask for it, keeping with a "mystical" theme. I chose to use a star as my clipping mask as my logo features one in between the text.

I am in fact a little disappointed with the disc label as I expected it to look much more professional and achieve a "wow" factor. However, I didn't get on very well with illustrator as I did with photoshop. I found the pen tool incredibly fiddly to use, I had to practice over and over to achieve a nice even star. I found making the template in illustrator much harder than in photoshop so I felt my experience with the program let me down with quality. I hadn't worked with vector based images before and it became difficult to not use bitmaps on the label.

In future should I need to use illustrator again, I would familiarise myself with the tools much more before attempting a task such as this.