Advanced_Photoshop_Issue_136_-_2015_UK_.

ALTERNATE ENDING

MATHEUS LOPES

B

razilianartist, illustrator and art director

Matheus Lopes (www.mathiole.com)

created this award-winning design for a

competition on Threadless. He’s been

interested in design for a while – “I’ve been working

[on] and learning design and illustration since I was 14,

when I entered a comic drawing course. I quickly fell in

HOW I MADE TECHNIQUES

03

ADD SOME COLOUR

With the lines done, it’s time to colour the

shapes formed by the lines. Select all, hit K for the

Live Paint tool, and simply click on the areas. I don’t

worry about the combination of colours now, I’ll be

able to change this later in Photoshop.

DISCOVER THE PROCESSBEHINDTHISBRIGHT,BOLDILLUSTRATIONPROJECT

02

DRAW THE LINES

I imported the sketch to Illustrator,

changed its Opacity to 30%, locked the layer and

started drawing the lines using both the Pen tool

and the Brush tool.

love with the art industry and decided to bet all my

coins into it. When I was at college, graduating as a

graphic designer, I started developing t-shirt

designs for many companies. It worked so well for

me that I’ve been in this field ever since.”

The idea behind Alternate Ending was “how

different the world – and especially Japan –

When I was at college... I started developing t-shirt

designs for many companies. It worked so well for me

that I’ve been in this field ever since

would be if the Hiroshima bomb had never fell upon

them, or if the bomb was simply an explosion of

colours, that brings joy instead of destruction”.

To create this colourful image, Lopes combined

Illustrator with Photoshop, and used clipping masks

to add the hand-drawn look that characterises much

of his work.

01

CONCEPT SKETCH

I made a basic sketch in Photoshop using

the Hard brush, to get a glimpse of the composition

and to know where to trace the lines in Illustrator.