DC Prelim #2

I finished the record.  It was created first in Ai with the Elliptical tool.  This gave me a very basic black disc shape that I would use as the base of the record.

I added hundreds of 1 pt stroke ellipses to add the grooves in various purple, grey and black shades.  I also used the perspective circle grid at the very end to give it some structure.

I added lighting effects in Ps, placed the map of Africa on the album and started to decide on my text.  I have gone back an forth about this a lot and tried maybe 5 techniques so far.  I thought I wanted to do something with smoke text but decided to just add some smoke with a smoke brush and do a freeform Neon text.  I am very happy with the rough draft and I think it will be perfect after I add the value it needs to look like a glass neon tube.