Design a Drippy Skate Snack Shack Menu

Skate graphics borrow from the shop wall:

• grip-tape grain and Vans-style checkerboards
• loud title lettering with hard offset shadows
• flames on the deck
• stickers slapped on at an angle

In this tutorial you'll build a 1024 × 1408 menu for Mango Kickflip, a snack shack at the skatepark. Along the way you'll use:

• Add Noise, Halftone, Clouds and Threshold
• copy and paste on a snapping grid
• a tapered brush with Radial Symmetry
• Google fonts, point text and right-aligned area text
• the Move tool's scale and rotate handles
• Stroke, Drop Shadow, Outer Glow and Color Overlay effects
• the Spray tool, a Gradient clipped by the Magic Wand, and a layer group

The palette is grip black #171717, mango #FFB321, checker orange #FFA51F, hot pink #FF2E88, teal #1FD6C1 and cream #FFF6E6.

Open Lopsy. In New Document, set Width 1024 and Height 1408, then click Create.

Rename Layer 1 to Grip Tape. Set the foreground to #171717 and choose Edit → Fill. Then choose Filter → Add Noise, pick Mono and Gaussian, set Amount to 45 and click Apply. You get the fine sandpaper grain of grip tape.

Choose View → Show Grid and drag the Grid slider in the options bar to 32px. Snap switches on with the grid.

Add a layer named Checker:

1. Marquee the strip from 0,0 to 1024,64 and fill it with #FFA51F.
2. Fill two black #111111 squares: 0,0 to 32,32 and 32,32 to 64,64. That's a 64 × 64 tile.
3. Marquee the tile, press Cmd+C then Cmd+V, and drag the paste 64 px to the right with the Move tool (V). The grid snaps it into place.
4. Press Cmd+D and Cmd+E to merge it down.

Repeat with a 128, 256 and 512 px wide marquee. Four doublings fill the row.

Click Duplicate Layer in the Layers panel, then click the copy's row. With the Move tool, drag it down until it snaps to the bottom edge (y = 1344). Rename it Checker Bottom.

Select Grip Tape and add a layer named Rays. Choose the Brush (B):

• Size 150, Hardness 100
• in the Brushes modal, Taper 950 and Spacing 5

Click Radial Symmetry in the options bar and set Segments to 18. Cmd-click the canvas at about 512,260 to move the symmetry centre there.

Set the foreground to #FF2E88. Drag one stroke from near the bottom of the canvas straight up to the centre. The taper narrows each ray to a point.

Turn Radial Symmetry off, then set the Rays layer's opacity to 28%.

Add a layer named Halftone Glow. Draw an Elliptical Marquee from about 212,70 to 812,510, fill it with #FFB321 and deselect.

Apply Filter → Gaussian Blur at Radius 70. Then apply Filter → Halftone with:

• Dot Size 16
• Density 1
• Angle 45
• Softness 1

The blurred edge turns into dots that shrink as they fade.

Choose the Text tool (T), set Size to 230 and the font to Knewave, and set the foreground to #FFB321. Click near 110,100 and type MANGO. Press Tab to commit, then drag it with Move until it's centred.

Open the layer's effects with the ✦ button on its row:

• Stroke: #111111, Width 12
• Drop Shadow: #FF2E88, Offset X 14, Offset Y 18, Blur 0, Spread 10, Opacity 100

Select a raster layer, add a layer named Kickflip Strip, and fill a marquee from 162,392 to 862,504 with #FF2E88.

Set cream #FFF6E6 Bungee type at 92 and type KICKFLIP in empty space lower down. Click Rasterize Layer at the bottom of the Layers panel.

Marquee the word, switch to Move, and Shift-drag the bottom-right handle out to about 130%. Press Cmd+D to commit the scale.

Drag KICKFLIP onto the centre of the pink strip and press Cmd+E to merge it down. Marquee the whole bar, then drag just outside a corner handle to rotate it about 5° so it rises to the right. Press Cmd+D.

The bar overlaps the bottom of MANGO like a slapped-on sticker.

Give Kickflip Strip these effects:

• Stroke: #111111, Width 7
• Drop Shadow: #1FD6C1, Offset X -10, Offset Y 12, Blur 0, Spread 6

Then type the tagline in Permanent Marker, size 36, colour #1FD6C1: SKATEPARK SNACK SHACK ★ EST. 2026. Paste it with Cmd+V so the ★ comes through. Centre it under the bar at about y = 584.

For each header, add a layer and fill a 250 × 66 marquee at y = 650:

• Header Grinds at x = 64 in #FFB321
• Header Slurps at x = 544 in #1FD6C1

Type the label in black Bungee 46, rasterize it, and drag it onto the tag. Merge it down, then rotate the tag 3°: GRINDS counter-clockwise and SLURPS clockwise.

Open the Text panel from the right-hand toolbar. For each column, drag a text box instead of clicking. That makes area text with a fixed width.

• Names: Permanent Marker 26, Line height 2.3, cream. Drag from 68 to 432 (left) and 548 to 912 (right), then paste four lines.
• Prices: Bungee 26, Line height 2.3, Align right. Use boxes 420–480 and 912–962.

Using the same size and line height keeps every price level with its item.

Select Halftone Glow so the new layer lands beneath the type, and add a layer named Menu Board. Fill a marquee from 40,624 to 984,1014 with #0C0C0C. Give it an orange #FFB321 Stroke set to inside.

Add a layer named Leaders above the board. Choose the Brush with Size 5 and Hardness 100. In the Brushes modal, set Taper to 0 and Spacing to 300, which spaces the dabs out into dots.

For each row, click just after the item name, then Shift-click just before the price. Each pair of clicks makes one straight dotted line. Set the layer to 75% opacity.

The rays showing through hurt legibility. Raise Menu Board to 93%, set its Stroke Width to 6, and add a Drop Shadow of #FF2E88 at offset 9,9 with Blur 0.

Marquee the board and rotate it about 1° counter-clockwise. That's just enough to look pasted on.

Type each column's descriptions as area text in Space Mono 15, colour #F5EBDC. Set Line height to 3.9867, which is 59.8 ÷ 15, so each line lands under its item. Move each block 7 px below the first item. Use ArrowUp / ArrowDown for 1 px nudges. Set both layers to 70% opacity.

Give the pink price column a Color Overlay of #FFB321, so every price reads as the same kind of information.

Select MANGO, click Rasterize Layer, and marquee the lettering. Shift-drag the bottom-right handle out by about 7%, then press Cmd+D and drag it back to centre. The Stroke and Drop Shadow effects stay live on the raster layer.

With MANGO still selected, choose the Brush with Hardness 100 and the foreground #FFB321. Under the feet of the M, A and N:

1. Drag a short vertical stroke, 20 to 70 px long, at Size 13–18.
2. Click a dab 9 px wider at the bottom for the drop.
3. Brush a wider, shorter stroke at the top so the drip flares into the letter.

Because the drips are painted on the title layer itself, its black stroke and pink shadow wrap around them.

Select MANGO and add a layer named Spray Paint, which lands just under the bar. Choose Spray (J) with Size 110, Density 100 and Opacity 95. Spray a small pink #FF2E88 burst behind the bar's left end, and a teal #1FD6C1 one behind its right end.

Select Checker Bottom and add a layer named Deck. Build the pill shape with three fills:

• a rectangle from 271,1100 to 841,1270
• 170 px circles at each end, 186,1100 and 756,1100

Click it with the Magic Wand (W) to select the whole shape. Choose the Gradient tool and click Advanced…. Set the stops to #FF2E88 and #FFB321 with the hue strip and colour square, then drag across the deck from end to end.

Keep the selection active. It stops the brush from painting outside the deck. Choose the Brush: Size 50, Taper 170, colour #141414.

Drag ten slightly curving strokes from below the deck's bottom edge upward. Alternate their lengths between about 120 and 175 px. The taper turns each stroke into a flame tip.

Deselect, then add these effects to Deck:

• Stroke: #111111, Width 6
• Drop Shadow: #1FD6C1, offset 10,10, Blur 0, Spread 4

Add a layer named Hardware. For trucks centred at x = 306 and x = 806:

• a #9AA1A8 baseplate, 72 × 92
• a #C9CED3 hanger bar, 24 × 212
• four #5E656B bolt dots on the baseplate
• 66 × 48 teal ellipse wheels past each edge of the deck
• a cream hub dot on each wheel

Give Hardware a black Stroke of 3 and a Drop Shadow of black at offset 5,7, Blur 4, 75%. The shadow makes the trucks sit on the graphic instead of cutting through it.

Press Cmd+E to merge Hardware into Deck. Merge Down bakes both layers' effects into the pixels, so the composite doesn't change.

Marquee the board, rotate it about 6° clockwise, and press Cmd+D. Add an Outer Glow of #FF8A1F (Size 36, Spread 8, Opacity 45) for heat.

Add a layer named Sticker Fresh. Draw a 14-point star with the Lasso (outer radius 100, inner radius 80) around 898,138. Fill it with #1FD6C1.

Type FRESH! in black Titan One 38 in empty space, rasterize it, drag it onto the star and merge it down. Add a cream Stroke of 7 for the die-cut edge and a soft black Drop Shadow, then rotate the sticker 14°.

On a new layer, fill three concentric circles:

• cream, 160 px
• pink, 136 px
• cream, 122 px

Merge in 100% in black Bungee 34 and MANGO in pink Permanent Marker 26. Add a drop shadow, rotate the badge -14°, and park it in the bottom-left corner.

Stickers look best stuck over edges:

• a cream NO SKATING label in Bungee 20, struck through with a pink Shift-click brush line and tilted -7° over the board's bottom-left edge
• a small five-point teal star with a cream stroke on the board's top-right corner

Add a layer named Grunge at the top of the stack. Apply these filters in order:

1. Filter → Clouds at Scale 10
2. Filter → Add Noise: Mono, Uniform, Amount 70
3. Filter → Threshold at Level 175

You get speckled white blotches.

Open the ✦ drawer on Grunge, set Blend to Screen, and drop its opacity to 9%. It fades the ink in patches, like a worn screen print.

Click Sticker Fresh, Shift-click the other stickers, and choose Layer → Group Layers. Rename the group Stickers. Now you can move all the stickers at once, or hide them to check the layout underneath.

Hide the grid and guides, then export with File → Quick Export PNG and save a .lopsy project so you can reprint the menu when the prices change.